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They are just completely melting down.

HAHA 5 ON 3

It is wild to see Chicago out physical a team.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ May 7, 2010 -> 09:02 PM) And now suddenly you're dealing with half a million people rather than 12 million people...and instead of a thriving illegal immigrant community, you've made the illegal immigrants the enemy of the legal immigrants because they're taking the guest-workers jobs. So, you suddenly have people willing to report those businesses. Um, you have legal immigrants now. You also have legal workers. Why isn't that happening now?

Luongo sucks. There I said it. He can't handle a physical series.

Rios is so smooth out there.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ May 7, 2010 -> 08:51 PM) An incentive not to do it...like a higher wage if you don't. You can get rid of 90% of the problem with a positive incentive. Anyway...I'm not silly enough to say that the law shouldn't be enforced at all. It's really just not necessary to spend tens of billions of dollars doing so though. Just because you have a worker program, doesn't mean everyone who wants to come to the US will get to do so. There will still be people who either fall after the quotas, don't qualify for other reasons, or just aren't willing/able to go through all of the bureaucratic paperwork do so. Those people will still stream into the US illegally, because there will still be people wanting to save a buck to make a buck.

Thornton is just amazing.

QUOTE (fathom @ May 7, 2010 -> 09:46 PM) I don't think he's an asshole at all, in the way that someone like Milton Bradley is. I think he's just wild, and our clubhouse led by Konerko, Thome, and Dye didn't like it. Judging by how he reacted to getting benched, he sure sounds like one to me. he sure thought he was more important than the team, that's for sure.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ May 7, 2010 -> 09:45 PM) So, you'd argue that given the option of working for a higher wage or a lower wage, they'd choose the lower one, because that's what would be required for people to choose to continue being illegal immigrants if the option to become legal was offered. I'm saying even if you put a program into place, there would still be people who didn't go through the program who came to the United States and worked illegally for less money, because there would be no reason not to. In other words, without incentive to not do it, it will still happen.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ May 7, 2010 -> 08:38 PM) No it's not...because if they want to come here and work, there is no legal means for them to do so. There are more jobs available than there are immigration slots available. Their only choice is to do so illegally. And they are hired because they are willing to work for less than they can hire American's for.

3-2 Chicago

Must be something with Cubans and April... They must not start playing baseball until after May Day,.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ May 7, 2010 -> 09:35 PM) There's no way that the popping it up part was intentional, is there? It was the same bunt Gardner did to us in the Yankees series. Pierre just f***ed it up.

Ugh. He tried to dump on over Gregg's head and in front of the 2B.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ May 7, 2010 -> 08:31 PM) But if the program is actually designed well enough that people who want to get into the program and have jobs can do so...there's very little benefit to the worker to come here illegally, because the worker would have to work for a lower wage. That is exactly what people are doing now!

I wonder what the lowest BA ever to get an intentional BB is?

QUOTE (The Ginger Kid @ May 7, 2010 -> 09:29 PM) let teahen swing, wind's blowing out to left, correct? The ball has been jumping to left and center tonight. Every ball caught by an OFer over there, they end up backing up on.

Man is it distracting going from the Hawks in HD to this in standard.

Carlos with the walk.

LOL

Real nice work by Ladd to draw that penalty

At the rate Buck is going, he will be our catcher next year.

QUOTE (EvilJester99 @ May 7, 2010 -> 08:12 PM) Tie game.. stupid penalties will kill ya. Especially against this PP.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ May 7, 2010 -> 09:10 PM) So...do you think that if the penalties for the oil spill in the gulf hadn't been capped...BP would have had better safety precautions? No. You want to prevent oil spills, you remove the need for oil entirely. You want to prevent illegal immigration...you set up a legal guest worker program. I have no problem with a non-racist guest worker program. But It still doesn't take away the incentive to hire someone illegally for cheaper.