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QUOTE (zenryan @ Apr 19, 2010 -> 03:35 AM) 20 playoff games. 13 one-goal games. (2 games that werent decided by 1 goal had empty netters. So 15 games have been 1 goal games going into the final 2 minutes or less.) 8 overtime games. This NHL postseason has made me not give two s***s about whats going on in the NBA. The NBA playoff product sucks when compared to the NHL. It isn't even in the same universe.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Apr 19, 2010 -> 08:22 AM) Yes there is. This is how the banks and their defenders want it. And adding more rules to an ineffective unit is going to make them work better? If they can't handle the supposed few rules they have now, somehow they are going to get massive amounts of more work, and they are somehow going to be more accurate? Really that is like saying to Jayson Nix, we know you can't play anywhere but 2B, but hey, why don't you catch and pitch too while you are at it!

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Apr 19, 2010 -> 09:02 AM) One other note...the SEC didn't start subpoenaing financial firms about CDO's until December, 2009. I'm not registered so I have no idea what the article said, but it you are saying it took until November 2009 to figure out there was a problem, you are kind of making my point for me about the way we regulate the financial sector being worthless.

QUOTE (Quinarvy @ Apr 19, 2010 -> 12:28 AM) Joe Crede for Ervin Santana and Chone Figgins. I remember this trade being rumored in 2007 I think. And with the way Crede's health has been since, this would have been a no-brainer. Having Figgins gives you your lead off man (allowing Pierre to bat 9th), and Santana could be a strong 5th starter, or traded to clear room for Hudson. Anaheim had no interest in the deal Kenny wanted Pence in the deal, that is why it fell apart. I am pretty sure Cincy is the one who killed this deal because we weren't willing to include cash to the big monetary imbalance in the deal.

Gotta give some love to Sopel. He really got dirty tonight.

HAWKS WIN!!! HAWKS WIN!!!

Come on, get the empty netter and finish this off.

Nashville is just trying to goon it up now.

Boy it is hard to appreciate that look away pass fake by Kane at full speed. It's so quick, but the keeper totally has to respect it because of Kane's passing ability.

KANER!!! Great play by Sharpie on the other end to break that puck out.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Apr 18, 2010 -> 08:29 PM) No, the people who did really dumb things are still ultimately at fault. Those who let them do dumb things are also responsible, but aren't the primary cause. People who did things wrong, did them because there was little to no chance of them getting caught. There are laws on the books, and adding to them isn't going to aid the enforcement of things there are already laws against. All it will do is add to the workload and make sure laws get enforced even less. There is no reason it should have taken three years for one violation to be found by the SEC.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Apr 18, 2010 -> 05:23 PM) Because this isn't the only thing that happened that should have been against the law. The irony if it took them three years to find one thing wrong with this huge supposed lack of laws, adding more laws is going to make them more effective and work quicker? That doesn't make any sense either. You are really reaching here.

QUOTE (JoeCoolMan24 @ Apr 18, 2010 -> 08:36 PM) Sox players all at the game tonight. I saw Beckham (who was being interviewed), Lucy, Peavy, and Danks. I saw AJ and Pauly for sure too.

Hopefully some people take this advice from ESPN...

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Apr 18, 2010 -> 03:07 PM) Which, I'd argue, is what happens when you're able to write the laws. You write them so it's really hard for them to send you to jail, even if you nearly destroy the world. That doesn't make a bit of sense. If this is a violation of laws, what does the writing of laws have to do with this? This is all on the enforcement side, which is the realm of the SEC in this case.

QUOTE (Thunderbolt @ Apr 18, 2010 -> 02:43 PM) I thought you'd link him to PodsLovers69.com. What... No one else thought of making that site? Even if it existed, I sure wouldn't click it to make sure it was OK to link people too...

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Apr 18, 2010 -> 02:40 PM) I'll be the first to admit I don't know if Johnson is correct here but he dealt with that already. Emphasis mine to stress the Civil Case response. You want to know what I think of regulation a nutshell? It has been as long as three years, and they only have enough to go off of one incident in civil court. According to that they want to find something, anything for someone to pile on with because that is all the SEC has been able to find in three years. Great job of protecting anyone there.

QUOTE (jphat007 @ Apr 18, 2010 -> 02:23 PM) 3-4 2 RBI http://royalsnation.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=general

From what I saw on CBNC it sounds illegal. It wouldn't look very good to trump up charges against GS in order to support regulations strengthening and then have your case suck. Granted all we have seen is the government's side of things, but usually when it gets to this point it is pretty clear. The one interesting thing to me is that this is only an SEC civil case.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Apr 18, 2010 -> 12:49 PM) So...everything Goldman Sachs does is legal, and no one ever gets assaulted in New Orleans unless they're Republican. And at the same time you are trying to tell me that the GS announcement wasn't politically motivated, and nothing ever happens because someone is a Republican, crimes are only politically motivated against those poor victim of hate crimes, the Democrats.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Apr 17, 2010 -> 04:49 PM) FWIW, so far the police report contains no statements suggesting a political motivation behind the attack and the NOPD has so far denied stating that there was any political motivation. lol.

QUOTE (kapkomet @ Apr 17, 2010 -> 07:06 PM) It's called the timing of it, Balta. Come on, you're smarter then that. This is almost ... (almost...) as bad as the UN speeches before Iraq. Exactly. They could have done this for years... heck they could had done their jobs when people's money could have been saved, but it happens right before they are going to fight regulations in Congress. This is as pathetic as an Ozzie rant after a shutout.

QUOTE (G&T @ Apr 17, 2010 -> 06:29 PM) I agree. It's so easy and routine to blame the goal tending, but the Hawks were outplayed all around in that 3rd period. Hell, everyone knew the goal tending would give up softies and be mediocre at best. That offense and defense were terrible. True. We aren't going to win a Cup if we are depending on Neimi to win it. The offense and the defense have to be better in front of him. Don't forget this was a guy making his very first playoff start ever.

QUOTE (flavum @ Apr 17, 2010 -> 05:52 PM) If the Sox fall out of this in the next few weeks, there won't be any point of having Freddy Garcia on the team. That may be the biggest factor of them all. Fall out of this? In April? Geesh.

QUOTE (fathom @ Apr 17, 2010 -> 06:20 PM) I was so close to buying season tickets this season. I'm very relieved knowing that I decided not to. Hopefully we start playing better and generate excitement for this team. Why? You haven't been happy about anything over the winter.