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QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Dec 23, 2009 -> 05:07 PM) IIRC, we can not offer a contract until like March or April to anyone from our team who we did not offer arbitration to. I thought someone said they changed that rule.

QUOTE (Chet Kincaid @ Dec 23, 2009 -> 03:04 PM) Angels Reach Agreement With Fernando Rodney By Tim Dierkes [December 23 at 2:57pm CST] 2:57pm: The Angels have agreed to terms with Fernando Rodney, according to ESPNDeportes.com's Enrique Rojas (Jorge Arangure of ESPN passes on the translated news via Twitter). Rodney will sign a two-year deal worth $11MM. Wow the Tigers are losing good players left and right... I guess that's good for us. Detroit is bleeding cash. They are in huge trouble.

QUOTE (SoxAce @ Dec 23, 2009 -> 06:25 PM) Wow.. he had to choose between the two, and he's picking the horrid (though up and comming through the farm) franchise over the loveable losers. I don't think I've ever been a bigger Matt Capps fan. I gotta ask though... how much more was the Nats paying him over the Cubs.. if at all? NVM.. I found something.. Yeah, if he can close at all, it is his chance at a big paycheck. I'd take the promotion too.

It is nice to see that Javy might not win when it matters, but he can still generate the same arguments as always...

QUOTE (Jordan4life @ Dec 23, 2009 -> 07:07 PM) This might have been a popular rebuttal in 2006 or 2007. Now? I think we all realize Brian is a bust of a prospect with the maximum upside of a 4th outfielder. Yep. I think the Brian Anderson defenders have gone the way of the American Indian.

3-0, Ditto.

Actual conversation with my four year old... Her:"Daddy, where are they playing tonight?" Me:"They are playing in Detroit." Her:"That doesn't sound like fun." Me:"No, not really." Her:"Why do people go there???"

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Dec 23, 2009 -> 04:59 PM) But...there's one big issue that can come back there...if there's even a moderate economic contraction...how does the government survive? As long as the cash lasts.

QUOTE (WHarris1 @ Dec 23, 2009 -> 04:47 PM) Harsh. Ah you know I love you

LET ME HEAR IT... DE-TROIT SUCKS!!! DE-TROIT SUCKS!!!

I GOTTA LOTTA PROBLEMS WITH YOU PEOPLE!!!

Meh.

Please. I was broadcasting! Too bad City lost

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Dec 23, 2009 -> 09:11 AM) But let's also note that there's a serious imbalance there...the labor costs issue should in normal times have begun to correct itself by the value of the Yuan increasing relative to the U.S. dollar given the size of the global trade deficit. The Chinese government is actively making sure that doesn't happen. The best part of it, is that they have built themselves a house of cards based on the value of the US dollar. They are the ultimate bubble economy on this planet right now. It is not a matter of if, but when. Throw in the ginormous public dependancy on their government, and the incredible amount of ineffeciency they get out of it, and you are primed for something worse than the Soviet collapse when all of the juggling balls fall. Right now they are keeping afloat on the hard currency that comes in from the US, but IMO if these recession is anything but quick, China as we know it disappears into chaos.

QUOTE (Athomeboy_2000 @ Dec 23, 2009 -> 11:36 AM) Nice reporting by MSNBC - Did Obama Campaign on the Public Option... no It depends on what your definition of "is" is.

So if you took the time that Sacto rallied at the end against the Bulls, and combined it with the period the Knicks got up 22 to make it a 48 minute game, the Bulls were outscored 113-52 during that time.

QUOTE (SoxAce @ Dec 23, 2009 -> 01:26 AM) I am a new follower to the game which I've stated many times here. If I was Tony, Keith, Mike, Joe, etc.. I can understand and will take the ripping since they have been hockey fans for a long time. I gotta get used to some of the names past and present. This isn't SoxAce from 04-07 who mocked hockey fans (like yourself) and the game entirely, though I'm still not "big" on it. Hell prior to 2008, there were only a handful of hockey players I ever heard of. Gretzky, Orr and Lemieux. (Chelios/Roenick/Savard as far as Hawk players) Welcome to the club! The more the merrier! Unless you are Red Wings fan.

QUOTE (lostfan @ Dec 23, 2009 -> 06:55 AM) Great, all of our jobs are coming back from China then Unless we are willing to pay multiples higher for basic stuff, those jobs are never coming back here. Think of the US job market as the world equivalent of a Chicago trade show.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Dec 22, 2009 -> 09:02 PM) But you know...it might mean that you ought to be amongst the group that says something is amiss in the housing market. To use the comparison to me again...if I could say something was screwy with that market, without knowing all the details about lending standards...then people who's job it is to get it right should be able to do at least as well as me (Note; I actually considered buying a condo when I started grad school in 03, and I decided against it entirely because I figured that there was a housing bubble that was eventually going to burst and I'd wind up losing a lot on my investment and being caught with the property, so I legitimately put a bet on the existence of a housing bubble). It might also mean you understand that investing in the stock market can lead to losses, and especially in the case of a not for profit invest ultra-conservatively, yet one of Obama's right hand men almost single-handedly blew up the biggest endowment fund on the planet.

And yet no one will buy an American car to keep them employed. Ironic, isn't it?

Really I have been totally busy...

I am glad to hear that. We could use some baseball IQ on this team after the last few years...

47 shots to 14. Nabokov, have a night.

As anti-clutch as we were last year, good.

QUOTE (Cknolls @ Dec 22, 2009 -> 11:05 AM) http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1209/30896.html Interesting!!! The tent gets a little smaller...