southsider2k5

QUOTE (DBAHO @ Apr 14, 2010 -> 08:42 AM) That's something I actually almost wouldn't teach Rose. You don't want him to be a guy that's jacking up 6 to 7 3's a game (like a Gilbert Arenas for example), when he's so damn good at what he does now, driving in and either finishing at the hoop or distributing the basketball. Surround him with some actual shooters, and his value will only get better. I don't want him to be that guy either. I just want to have him have enough of a shot that people have to run out on him when he is at the stripe, to give him the extra advantage off of the dribble. Right now if he is 20 feet plus, you don't have to put an aggressive close out on him.

QUOTE (GoSox05 @ Apr 14, 2010 -> 08:39 AM) I'm sorry. I know how much good the Republican party and conservatives have done for the gay community. I'm sorry you are acting exactly like the people you are slamming by taking the actions of a few to label the whole.

QUOTE (whitesoxfan101 @ Apr 14, 2010 -> 01:25 AM) Rose is absolutely unguardable if is jumper is falling anywhere near like it was tonight. If he can add a three pointer, he will be unstoppable.

QUOTE (SHIPPS @ Apr 14, 2010 -> 08:28 AM) I directed a patient to go left down the hallway... but dammit they were supposed to go right! I should be fired, I consistently f*** up like this all the time! They should just bring up a bunch of people from the free clinic down the street. They treat way more patients than you lazy asses.

QUOTE (GoSox05 @ Apr 14, 2010 -> 07:04 AM) It is with conservatives. I love stereotypes.

QUOTE (Controlled Chaos @ Apr 14, 2010 -> 08:32 AM) I don't know much about the topic, but it seems like they get bumps in pay and it has nothing at all to do with their or their students performance. Like a bump in pay just for advanced schooling, a bump in pay for time on the job. I also don't know how accurate this is, but my friend told me this about his wife who is a teacher. When a school is hiring a teacher, they can't call the previous school the teacher worked at and get any negative information....said something about the union rules or something. To me this goes against all logic....anyone have any insight on this? I always noticed she took a ton of days off, and I was like when she goes to get another job....isn't the school gonna tell the next school how much time she missed and he said they can't do that. It has zero to do with job performance. It is a structured pay scale based on years of service, highest degree attained, and how much extra out of classroom activities that they manage. Teachers do get a decent time off policy, especially when you factor in the built in time off that the get for breaks. The big perk for time off is that if you don't use your sick time, you get to keep it and roll it over to the next year, though most places do now have a limit of an entire school years worth of break time that can be built up.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Apr 10, 2010 -> 10:07 PM) Forget cereal. Give me bacon, eggs, and pancakes. Seeing this thread still around inspired me. Its bacon and eggs day today

QUOTE (DBAHO @ Apr 13, 2010 -> 11:23 PM) Safe to say this season has picked up significantly since they've moved on from the Temple. Its building just like every season. I think the problem was that more was expected with it being the last season.

Awesome!

QUOTE (ChiSox_Sonix @ Apr 14, 2010 -> 08:05 AM) As good as Romero was though, I don't think our team came out prepared for this at all. It was as if they had never seen him pitch before. AJ, Beckham, Quentin, Andruw and Teahen had some pathetic looking at bats. Romero had never faced the Sox before.

QUOTE (Pants Rowland @ Apr 13, 2010 -> 11:29 PM) Out of curiosity, are you of the opinion that had they built the park in the middle of Bridgeport, the lack of parking available would have discouraged people from driving to the ballpark? I am not so sure I agree that is how it would have played out. I think those surface lots would still be used with some type of shuttle service to the park. I like public transportation for getting to the game and will do anything possible to avoid getting in my car and paying for parking. However, they are a lot of folks in the other camp who would rather b**** about parking prices and traffic than exploring the alternatives. Yeah, I don't think $50 parking would have helped attendance.

QUOTE (Ranger @ Apr 14, 2010 -> 01:02 AM) I can't believe I just read this whole thread. Its fun to watch every shallow argument get destroyed.

Well we all should have known this was coming. The team is playing like s***, the sun came up today, and Ozzie said something stupid. Go figure.

QUOTE (Quinarvy @ Apr 13, 2010 -> 09:03 PM) Good win by the Bulls. If they win at Charlotte, they're in. Either that or a Toronto win and we are in.

QUOTE (The Ginger Kid @ Apr 13, 2010 -> 08:24 PM) Thanks. Sounds like Romero was on. He's very, very good. Romero was nasty and got a big zone to work with.

QUOTE (La Marr Hoyt HOF @ Apr 13, 2010 -> 08:28 PM) Omar 'I'm 42' Vizquel leading off for a MLB team? Different line-ups every night (any other team you know have different line-ups like this night-to-night let alone year-to-year)? The past-the-prime squad of stiffs and Kotsay in the 5-hole? R/L/R/L/R/L/R/L/R/L/R/L/R/L/R/L/R/L Beckham bunting I'm smarter/cuter than the game -- so tired of his bullsh*t Ricky Romero, like all the novice/rook pitchers in the 2nd half last year we made look brilliant are not because they have electric stuff, it's because we dont allow our players to play in a consistent line-up with a coherent/intelligent game plan. Ozzie, like your idiot son, time to go ... this is a complete garbage argument. We had seven starters, one platoon player in Jones, and one bench player in the line up. That had nothing to do with it.

Well that is one way to finish an episode!

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Apr 13, 2010 -> 11:52 AM) I think my argument is...they're not breaking rules. They've whittled away at the Depression-era regulations so much that they're able to keep these things off their balance sheets legally, without breaking any of the rules. IMO, the only way that arguing we're in 2010 and not in the great depression is important is that the banks have found more high-tech ways to follow the letter of the law while still being able to get around the intent...and a key element of that is that they've been writing their own rules for 30 years to allow themselves to. You can argue that I've distorted your words in places and I'll disagree, but you've explicitly argued in many places that the compensation/bonus culture is totally unimportant and I shouldn't care about it, and I don't think you can disagree with that. But right here, as far as I can tell, you just made the argument for how important it really is. Each of the companies has been wiped out. The shareholders got killed, the workers got killed. The only people who didn't get killed are the people who took their bonuses and got out early to leave the government holding the bag for the mess they made. There's a huge downside in a corporation acting like that; it destroys the corporation. There's no downside for people getting paid entirely based on short-term gains to act like that, though. Anyway, thanks for replying. I found it quite edifying. Yet they wouldn't be able to get away with it if the government hadn't have set up a system to subsidize and encourage the risks they were taking. They also wouldn't have been able to get anywhere if regulators actually served a purpose in this country in any piece of the financial sector. The problem is that your focus is pinpoint narrow when it comes to regulation, which is exactly the problem with the system now.

Well there is the explanation for the whispers... Also nice way to work in the "date we never had".

QUOTE (Quinarvy @ Apr 13, 2010 -> 07:42 PM) On TV, apparently after the loss to the Suns Pax shoved Vinny and challenged him to a fight over the number of minutes for Noah. Wonderful. On March 30th after VDN played Noah too much. Then a few days ago Pax spazzed out from it being too few minutes. What a nutjob.

QUOTE (The Ginger Kid @ Apr 13, 2010 -> 08:36 PM) missed the game - did Gavin look bad or was it just Toronto staying hot at the plate? Gavin wasn't great, but the defense cost him at least two runs by not turning a DP.

So who is the young guy that Locke said to ignore?

There couldn't have been a better person to break it up...

I hear that Romero is THROWING A NO HITTER.

QUOTE (bmags @ Apr 13, 2010 -> 05:52 PM) For Camden i was actually referring to how the stadium ITSELF looked and how the sox built, like, the very last stadium before the "new" ballparks that Camden ushered in (Jacobs Field, etc.). Now, of course, our park looks beautiful. The roof improvement and centerfield absolutely made our park gorgeous. No complaints now. I was more referring to that early in the process, the sox were planning on integrating the park in the bridgeport neighborhood, then were going to move to schaumberg i believe. Then they decided to move the schaumberg design IN chicago. It was really dumb. The south loop would have been a perfect revamp at that time.