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QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Apr 27, 2010 -> 02:52 PM) 12 walks in 9.1 IP is inexcusable whoever you are pitching to. Five of those are vs. LHB too, including the great 4- pitch bases loaded debacle vs. Adam Lind. That's my #1 problem with him. Plus I feel like he has benefited by people cleaning up his messes, all though I don't have the numbers to back that up. Williams just strikes me as DJ Carrasco... Fine with no pressure, melts when he gets in a tough situation.

Thome would have been the only one so far I could see.

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Apr 27, 2010 -> 02:07 PM) I think you have your Blackhawks forwards whose last names start with a 'B' mixed up. Oh wow. I have no idea what is going on in my head:bang

QUOTE (MurcieOne @ Apr 27, 2010 -> 02:55 PM) Bickell and Troy Brouwer are essentially the same player. But Brouwer had that bad hiccup (turnover that lead to a goal) in game 1 and never really overcame it. Brouwer essentially admitted to such by saying that his confidence was shaken. Hence the emergence of Bickell who is a little quicker, but hasn't found the same scoring touch. Plus I am not convinced that Brouwer's back is healthy.

QUOTE (CrimsonWeltall @ Apr 27, 2010 -> 01:51 PM) Why not? What's the defense? "I'm a mutant unable to process alcohol so my BAC drops at inhumanly slow levels."? You are sighting an average. You don't see the problem in that?

QUOTE (kitekrazy @ Apr 27, 2010 -> 11:49 AM) Powerful statement. I would say this is something the organization cares very little when it comes to drafting and evaluating players. They believe it can always be taught. Most players coming into the minors or just coming out of college have been playing the game to some degree for 10 years. I they don't have it then, what's the chance of them ever getting it? So how do you scout a guy on how he plays the game of baseball when he comes from a country where you can't see him play?

Here's a great way to ease the middle eastern tention... How about a joke? http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,...1984994,00.html

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Apr 27, 2010 -> 02:26 PM) SOME companies. Any company or person that deals in any financial product what-so-ever. So everyone from your local bank, to your brokerages, to anyone who has a retirement account from work, would see lower costs.

QUOTE (CrimsonWeltall @ Apr 27, 2010 -> 02:19 PM) Wait, so now the guy isn't being charged with anything? Even if he wasn't drunk, isn't it still vehicular manslaughter? Can't you do some math to figure out (approximately) what his blood alcohol level was 7 hour earlier? This site http://www.selfcounseling.com/help/alcohol...stozerobac.html says a body processes .016% BAC per hour on average. So, .016 * 7 = 1.12.... + .032 = 1.152. Obviously, this is just an approximation and there are other factors, but it certainly points to him being above .08 during the accident. Unfortunately that isn't actual evidence.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Apr 27, 2010 -> 02:17 PM) But there's a point you're missing...there's always someone who loses when you cut back on that. Why do you think the financial regulatory system in this country is so backwards? Because GS and the like benefit hugely from having the system that way and keeping it that way. This system has been in place long before the events you keep referring to. And no, by making the agencies actually work together, making the regulations work together, putting the infrastructure together... the only people who lose are the bureaucrats who got us into this mess in the first place by claiming to secure a system they had no ability, or seemingly interest in fixing. Companies would benefit way more simply from lower costs of doing business.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Apr 27, 2010 -> 01:11 PM) So, what would you offer up as a solution to that problem? I'd argue that its an endemic problem and it's not going to just fix itself, that's how the parents grew up as well...thus, the only way you're going to fix that is to legitimately educate some percentage of the parents while they're having kids. Which, I might wind up thinking...is a role for government. On that, I'm sure you'd disagree, so I'd like to hear your suggestions. You are essentially saying that the government should make a judgment on who is an unfit parent and take over their kids education, or forcing parents to learn what their government feels should be good parenting. No, I don't agree with that at all.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Apr 27, 2010 -> 01:18 PM) NSFW language. But this is fun. Yet Carl Levin voted for healthcare knowing full well that the vast majority of American's were going to lose money on it.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Apr 27, 2010 -> 01:33 PM) Another great Californian example is the prison system, which is a gigantic, large, huge drain on the state's resources. Dramatically overcrowded, falling apart, hugely expensive. It'd be a great place to cut back on waste...waste like paying overtime for the guards, waste like hiring private companies to ship prisoners out of state, waste like all the other things that you have to do to manage a large, overcrowded prison system. But...cutting the waste means you're required to do 1 of 2 things. Either you need to build more prisons so that you don't have to pay the guards you currently have huge overtime salaries to deal with the overcrowding at their location, or you need to imprison fewer people. It's really easy to call stuff "Waste" if you want to get elected. It's really hard to deal with the political realities of cutting that waste. This is actually a great point that you are totally missing. It isn't that there is waste, it is that it is way easier to act like it doesn't exist when you get in charge. Just because people wimp out when the get into office, doesn't mean it isn't there. Besides if you really want an example, all you have to do is go look at the one thing I have been railing against for years, the financial regulation of this country. Billions of dollars a year are wasted in inefficiency, contradictory rules, repeat regulations, duplicate infrastructures, non-communications of information etc. It isn't even just the paying for it through the government issue, it is also the money in compliance costs of this ridiculous system that companies have to pay to support this inane structure.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Apr 27, 2010 -> 12:57 PM) Oh please, start naming the list of things you'd love to cut. I love hearing how cutting back on education spending or medicare or social security or whatever else you want to name is going to balance the budget forever, especially for the ones with dedicated funding streams. It's fun. (I'm just going to assume you're educated enough that you won't fire off the canards of eliminating foreign aid and waste). Oh no, you are perfectly right. Having guys surfing porn at the SEC is a great idea while the financial system crumbles. I know, it's government, so the spending it good. I can believe you actually believe that crap, but that is a totally different story.

QUOTE (maggsmaggs @ Apr 27, 2010 -> 01:58 PM) Is Kim Johnsson even alive? I mean where has this guy been? Upper body injury or concusion, why can't we get a definite diagnosis on his injury from the Hawks? We could really use his D-first prescence against the Canucks. It sounds like it was a really bad concussion from little I have seen out.

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Apr 27, 2010 -> 12:32 PM) I'm guessing Jamar Williams That is what they said on the score.

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Apr 27, 2010 -> 08:52 AM) Definitely. Just seems like in the city, the "top" schools get better & better, while the other schools just keep falling apart. I do realize that its not all the city's fault either, the parents or lack there of tend to affect it largely as well. One of the biggest problems at many urban school systems is a complete lack of any sort of Pre-K readiness being given to kids by their parents. One in five kids is getting to K in our school system without understanding how a book actually works... I am not talking about reading either. I mean know which way was up, you read from right to left, etc.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Apr 27, 2010 -> 08:34 AM) Unfortunately...this is a problem in basically every urban area. There just isn't the money in those systems to fix them. It doesn't help when you hire a career beaurcrat from the CTA to run the CPS who runs off all of the people who have any classroom experience... All though Michigan City now owes Huberman some thanks for that.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Apr 27, 2010 -> 11:42 AM) So if that's the stance to take... how do you do anything at all that costs money? If you were in Congress, or the executive branch, what would be your recommendation for trying to budget anything? You do it for historical multiples of what we are told, just like we always have. Honestly, I think it is as great of a reason as any that there should be a whole lot less federal government in this country. If I were in federal government it would be justification number one for cuts of extremely inefficient departments

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Apr 27, 2010 -> 11:36 AM) That's because the Bush administration threatened to fire the guys who were putting together more accurate estimates. Can you allege the same thing at the CBO in this round? Judging by the history of governmental programs? Absolutely. I would honestly assume they were wrong until proven otherwise.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Apr 27, 2010 -> 11:28 AM) But when you cover 30 million extra people at a 1% cost increase...you've decreased the cost per person by 28%. I'd be curious the last time that a major governmental program was institued that actually came anywhere near its projecting. The last major expansion of medicare was blowing out projecting in a couple of years.

HAWKS WIN!!!

Hit the empty net here and let's get ready for the Canucks.

Another nice kill... 9 minutes, come on guys.

Andruw Jones