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QUOTE (Balta1701 @ May 25, 2010 -> 12:02 PM) Don't you have to start out with something before you can lose it? You mean like the little bit of food and energy they actually have?

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ May 25, 2010 -> 11:47 AM) I'd actually suggest that the people of NK have a lot to gain - its the NK leadership that has a lot to lose. Eh, right now NK pretty much is their leadership. Maybe this is the break that changes all of that.

Somehow I think NK has more to lose than SK in all of this...

The process is still going on, which is amazing. Wait until he builds his arm strength up and gets some innings under him.

QUOTE (docsox24 @ May 25, 2010 -> 09:39 AM) I disagree. I think that Mark has a chance. He has to do some spectacular things at some point in his career. Individually he hasn't had any amazing stand out seasons. He's never won 20 games. He's never placed higher than 5th in a Cy Young voting. He's never had an era of less than 3.12. It could still happen, but at this point, I would have to say he isn't even close to a HOF guy.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ May 25, 2010 -> 09:29 AM) Euro debt crisis sinking in for Spain now, fears getting bigger, plus North Korea acting childish. Today is definitely event-driven. This debt crisis should have us looking in the mirror.

Good. Now get it done.

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ May 25, 2010 -> 07:44 AM) seeing approximately 12 fans in that stadium last night was pretty sad after remembering that sellout streak in the 90's. Cleveland fans are teh biggest bandwagoners in all of pro spots IMO

QUOTE (MurcieOne @ May 24, 2010 -> 10:29 PM) Doesn't that seem like such a Phil Jackson move? I still have my doubts that it will happen (especially if Paxon can't gaurantee that Lebron will sign), but it makes sense that he would jump ship after having some disagreements with management and come to a team ripe for a prolonged title run (again, assuming that LBJ signs here). If Jackson signs here, it tells me pretty clearly that Wade or James is on their way at least.

Dow is down another 200 at the open, under the big 10,000 level.

QUOTE (MurcieOne @ May 24, 2010 -> 09:16 PM) According to SportsCenter . . . Chris Broussard reports that Bulls have reached out to Phil Jackson. Wow. That would be something else.

Thank god no more 9pm games.

QUOTE (fathom @ May 24, 2010 -> 05:21 PM) Everyone is awarded 2 bases if it bounces over the fence. I've never seen it called otherwise. When it's fan inteference, that's a whole different story. Where is the rule that it is always two bases, and why would that be different than when it is fan interference?

QUOTE (JorgeFabregas @ May 24, 2010 -> 04:56 PM) I'm trying to figure out how I can pin this on Dubya. So how is life in the White House?

QUOTE (fathom @ May 21, 2010 -> 02:08 PM) It was a ground rule double cause one of our fans touched the ball, which then becomes a judgment call for the umpires. Juan Pierre could have been standing on home plate when the ball bounced over the fence, and it wouldn't have mattered. The ump has discretion over whether to award home plate in either case, which makes it a luck call either way.

QUOTE (bulokis @ May 24, 2010 -> 05:15 PM) Anybody know or here anything about Ladd's injury? Apparently after the game he had nothing on his arm at all, and said he wouldn't miss any time.

QUOTE (Tex @ May 24, 2010 -> 03:25 PM) Same with unemployment numbers. Do we think that maybe the whole immigration issue is political grandstanding for votes? You have to be a citizen to be considered "unemployed" by any governmental faction. Average wages are just an average of what is being paid out. So if someone is an illegal, and isn't being caught, their wage would still factor into the national average.

QUOTE (Tex @ May 24, 2010 -> 03:05 PM) Last I saw they were being replaced by lower earning service sector types of jobs. WalMart part time cashiers, things like that. But I will admit that info could be stale and inaccurate. People say that, yet the average wage keeps increasing in the US (well at least up until this recession.)

QUOTE (WCSox @ May 24, 2010 -> 03:02 PM) Rowand hasn't touched an OPS+ of 100 since getting that $60M deal. Kenny >> Sabean Agreed 1000%. We got the best years out of Aaron, and got rid of him before he got expensive. We also got an elite hitter for him. I don't see the problem with anything in how Rowand's career arc proceeded with the Sox.

QUOTE (fathom @ May 24, 2010 -> 02:47 PM) It's so scary people think this way. No one person should ever be more important than the success of the organization. I have yet to hear anyone from the organization say anything remotely like this, so it really doesn't matter. Who cares what regular fans think at the end of the day?

QUOTE (bighurt574 @ May 24, 2010 -> 11:55 AM) Sadly, 2/3 doesn't even do all that much, especially with 4 @TB next. If we're going to make any noise, this is really a series we need to sweep. We have a much better record against .500+ teams than we do against losing teams.

QUOTE (fathom @ May 24, 2010 -> 02:43 PM) And he totally hit the wall down the stretch of the season, was a year away from free agency, and the organization thought that he wasn't going to improve for various reasons. His defense was so overrated, IMO. Anderson and Rios make him look like Jermaine Dye out there. Not to mention if you look at the contract Rowand ended up getting, you have to realize that we would have lost him for nothing. We got Jim Thome for him. The Sox were win-win when it came to Aaron Rowand.

Scott Reifert #WhiteSox at Cle: Pierre7, AJ2, Rios8, PK3, Kotsay dh, Jones9, Teahen5, Viz6, Beckham4. Danks pitching.

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ May 24, 2010 -> 01:28 PM) here's the solution: our society stops being PC p*****s about EVERYTHING and then this crap wouldn't happen. You think middle school hispanic kids gave a flying f*** what these idiots were doing? But now that there's a major uproar over it we just gave kids the incentive (attention) to be a bunch of teenage assholes. This country makes me so f'n sick sometimes with having to appease EVERYONE about EVERYTHING. Can't we just go one day where someone gets direspected and instead of crying like a bunch if p*****s we just say "ya know what, EVERYONE gets disrespected about SOMETHING. That's life. Shut up and deal." Or people could quit being selfish assholes about everything. That would work too.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ May 24, 2010 -> 01:03 PM) And I still think that Beckham ends up being very good. I do too.