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QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Sep 29, 2009 -> 03:32 PM) Dems are a bunch of inept douche bags. I can't argue with that. How did the repubs manage to stay together so much better than the Dems did?

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Sep 24, 2009 -> 10:48 PM) Wait a second, health insurers have an anti-trust exemption? Why? Step one is to repeal that. You'll see a much better result from that, than anything the government has proposed.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Sep 29, 2009 -> 03:26 PM) I still think Fields is one mechanical change away from being a good hitter. He just seems unable to change that one thing, for whatever reason. I can't remember the last time I saw a hitter struggle where you could clearly see one, specific, mechanical thing, that is so obviously causing them a problem, and yet the player can't adjust. I agree on Wise and Lillibridge though, and Fields won't be with the org in 2010 either I'm fairly certain. Fields is SOOO long on his swing. Unless he fixes that, he is a classic AAAA guy.

QUOTE (flavum @ Sep 29, 2009 -> 04:37 PM) Cowley fails again. Buehrle will start Game 2 tomorrow. Let me know when Kotex Jr. actually gets something right...

A Thabo Sefolosha fan huh?

QUOTE (flavum @ Sep 29, 2009 -> 02:32 PM) Buehrle is done. http://twitter.com/cst_sox/status/4477696244 Ah, I wish you would have said that was Cowley, so I didn't click on the link.

QUOTE (lostfan @ Sep 29, 2009 -> 02:33 PM) That really shouldn't take that long, it takes me a couple of hours to back up and it takes me about as long to restore it. Then again 8 GB of RAM so... yeah. I didn't think it'd affect it that much. This thing has 1/25th the processing power. I still have to go back and look through documents some time, but I am done for the day.

QUOTE (longshot7 @ Sep 29, 2009 -> 01:26 PM) This doesn't think either will be dealt: http://www.tampabay.com/sports/baseball/ra...fseason/1039549 That article stinks. Basically everyone is coming back, and none of the kids has a spot yet? Iwamura will not be the biggest name to not come back.

Chocolate is totally overrated. There, I said it.

QUOTE (lostfan @ Sep 29, 2009 -> 02:18 PM) What format are you transferring it from? Over IDE cables? USB 2.0? I am putting it on to an 1 TB external hard drive for storage and back up. The old computer has a 40GB hard drive and a 256 RAM. I need that smilie of the dude smacking his head into a wall.

QUOTE (lostfan @ Sep 29, 2009 -> 02:18 PM) And if our currency collapses then labor here would become cheaper than there (what I meant by the yuan appreciating, but I guess that was the wrong way to say it), plus we wouldn't be able to buy all of their cheap exports. That too. They would lose a lot of their competitive advantage if the Yuan appreciated significantly versus the dollar. They would lose both the labor advantage, and directly because of that the pricing advantages, depending on how much of a move we are talking about here.

29 is not 30.

QUOTE (jasonxctf @ Sep 29, 2009 -> 01:32 PM) but when it was around, the Arena Football League or XFL competed with the NFL, so the NFL was not exempt from the Act. You guys are misunderstanding Sherman. It isn't that there can't, or won't, be competition, it is that the exempt entities are exempted from following the rules governing competition. MLB could pretty much do whatever they wanted to undercut any other professional baseball league that could come along.

QUOTE (lostfan @ Sep 29, 2009 -> 02:04 PM) So yeah that's what I think I was getting at, why would they want to yank the rug out from under the dollar? They would lose a ton of money. Is that just them trying to get our government to spend responsibly? Yep. For better or for worse, China's existence is based on the US. They are afraid of the US running the dollar into the toilet with their policy, and are trying to make noise to get them to shore it up.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Sep 29, 2009 -> 11:23 AM) That is not true at all - all those countries have significant AA defense systems, and air forces. There is a HUGE difference between a quick 20 mile incursion into Syria and back out before a response can come, and a 1500 mile each way sortie like we are talking about here. I think you are seriously underestimating the abilities of these countries. These are not Iraq after the Gulf War wipeout. The question is more about will than ability. If Israel wanted to fly a direct, one time, mission over its neighbors to bomb a facility in Iran, I really don't think anything short of a lucky shot would stop them.

QUOTE (lostfan @ Sep 29, 2009 -> 01:52 PM) I'm not articulate enough in economics to explain what I meant any better than I just tried to. I suppose, though, that since China can control their labor/wages etc. that they could do that under other circumstances too. Wouldn't a "basket" of currencies need a significant amount of USD? It all depends on what you want your "basket" to achieve. That term is so complete generic, it really means nothing without specifications for its purpose. Most baskets center around trading partners, or a predominant currency that mirrors the trading pattern of a certian commodity. Yes, most "baskets" would require a large amount of dollars, because that is what the trading tied to those things is done in. Some places are trying to change that for various reasons, such as Iran wanting to move oil trading out of the dollar.

QUOTE (lostfan @ Sep 29, 2009 -> 12:17 PM) Question for someone more economically literate than me that I just thought of. If right now China is keeping their currency artificially low to keep their exports up, and they are loaning us billions and complaining about the amount of debt we have, let's say the dollar gets replaced by something else today. Granted there is nothing to replace it as the global reserve currency but let's just say for the sake of argument there is. Wouldn't this cause the yuan to go up, and make labor in the United States cheaper? Kind of the opposite of what China wants? So why would they want to change it? The thing that is hard to calculate is each currency is its own entity. Just because the dollar/yuan relationship could do one thing, that doesn't mean it would do the same thing with their other trade partners. The yuan is pretty much fixed to a certian number of dollars now. What they are most worried about is that they are so heavily invested in the dollar (by both trade surplus and government debt owned), that they are essentially on the dollar as a currency by default. If you devalue the dollar, you devalue China. The Yuan could go up versus say the Euro, but the net result would probably still be a disaster in domestic China because it would give them less money overall to support the bloated government structure over there.

Is there anything more boring than moving files over from a crappy old computer? Over 12,000 pictures alone. It has taken all day so far.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Sep 29, 2009 -> 01:50 PM) No, it prevents us from starting an MLB team without their approval, or from starting a league or team and then going after MLB in court for unfair collusion in business practices. It also has major impact on player contracts and the players' union. That's the big part. Baseball doesn't have to follow the legal competition rules. If I started a baseball league, they could do whatever they wanted to undercut me.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Sep 29, 2009 -> 11:02 AM) I think they like Israel a lot less. Something else to consider here - the only way Israel has of doing this military thing in Iran is with air power. How will they get there? They can bomb Syria because they can get there without crossing anyone else's airspace. The onyl way to do that to Iran is to go all the way around the Arabian penninsula to get there - impractical in fuel use and also would make it likely they'd be detected very early on. And I don't see any of Jordan, Syria, Iraq*, Saudi Arabia or Turkey allowing them to do it. * Depends on the state of the Iraqi government at that time I really don't think that any of those countries could stop Israel from doing anything if Israel decided that it had to be done.

QUOTE (Athomeboy_2000 @ Sep 29, 2009 -> 09:18 AM) Bush White House Denies J.K. Rowling and Ted Kennedy Presidential Medal of Freedom But you have to watch was is said in the media... You never know.

QUOTE (WCSox @ Sep 29, 2009 -> 08:16 AM) Upton and Getz have nearly identical OPS and OPS+ this season. Thus, it's not inaccurate to say that Upton is having a Getz-like season at the plate. Making a point via the comparison of two unlike things is not a revolutionary concept. So you aren't comparing him to Getz, but you are... That makes total sense.

QUOTE (striker62704 @ Sep 29, 2009 -> 08:41 AM) How did the Sox staff fix him? I don't know what they did, as I don't work for Don Cooper, but all you have to do is look at his numbers and his peripherals to know something was done.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Sep 29, 2009 -> 08:06 AM) Well first, I think some of the guys on his list are not eligible yet - Corley and Johnson for example. But I'd say these guys all could get picked up in the Rule V, from his list: Brandon Hynick Brian Omogrosso Kyle McCulloch Matt Long Christian Marrero Anthony Carter John Shelby Justin Cassell Stefan Gartrell Fernando Hernandez Derek Rodriguez That is most of the list. We won't protect all those guys. But I agree with danman, we seem to have a lot of guys eligible this year that might be appealing to other teams. Plus the various minor league FA's that might leave - that is a big turnover, potentially. I'd guess that we will protect Hynick, Marrero, Shelby and Gartrell. There are 3 open slots on the 40 right now, but I think you will see Cole Armstrong dropped, and Josh Fields with another club, which would leave 5 open slots. No one is going to pick up McCulloch. Omogrosso is out with the Tommy John surgery happening. I'm really not convinced about the rest, except for a few.

QUOTE (Brian @ Sep 28, 2009 -> 07:54 PM) "Accidently, On Purpose" and "Cougar Town" are awful. Both looked awful from the previews. I actually turned AOP off to watch the Sox, and came back for 2 1/2 men and Big Bang.