southsider2k5

QUOTE (Heads22 @ Jul 3, 2009 -> 08:20 PM) I'm not sure if it's just me missing Quentin, but my foot hurts. Yer what hurts?

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jul 3, 2009 -> 08:17 PM) 56 pitches through 4 for JDanksy. The nice thing is that the pen has worked 1.2 IP in the last three games. They have gotten a nice break.

I think we are seeing the book develop on Nix. Keep the ball away from him, as his power seems to be when he turns and burns.

Pods is 15-29 now against Grienke. That is pwnage.

6 up, 6 down.

QUOTE (Reddy @ Jul 3, 2009 -> 07:27 PM) AJ LOOOOVES Greinke We need to find a way to have every pitcher piss off AJ. He always seems to step up against the guys who hate him.

Nice easy inning for Danks there.

That was a s***ty pass at a hit and run by Nix, Pods was dead to rights.

The funny thing is that if it is really the continued pressures of being one of the main targets of the national democrats, they just screwed themselves, because Palin winning the GOP nomination would have been the best possible thing to ever happen to them winning again in 2012.

QUOTE (The Critic @ Jul 2, 2009 -> 09:24 PM) I hate the song, but I'm in the minority. My buddy who works at the UC tells me it's a big hit with the higher-ups and it's not going anywhere. So I will continue to mute the TV when they score and just suffer through it when I'm at the UC. Its popular, being old you are morally obligated to hate it now

Am I the only one who remembers the forced expansion and invention of programs with only temporary funding in the stimulus package?

QUOTE (fathom @ Jul 3, 2009 -> 05:05 PM) The biggest issue I have with Anderson is his terrible approach with RISP. With his defense, I'd be ok with .235 batting average if he would deliver with some RBIs once in a while. For example, Beckham in about half (167-83) as many ABs has more RBI (15-11)

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jul 3, 2009 -> 04:42 PM) A long time? Most of it is out the door in the 2nd half of 2009 and 2010. Why might that be a good thing? You think job losses are going to stop before then? The only things that could get out the door by now are: the tax cuts and aid to states. The tax cuts have already taken effect (the largest tax cut in history actually...would be several times the size of the Bush tax cuts if they lasted 10 years). The problem with tax cuts is; they're crappy stimulus. Which is why they're having only a limited impact. Exactly as predicted. The part that could be out the door right now that would have been a more effective stimulus...significant aid to state governments, was hacked by the Senate in favor of this year's AMT reform, which would have been passed anyway...because we needed to get the stimulus in under the arbitrary $800 billion figure to get the 3 Republicans to vote for it. The construction/rebuilding dollars are starting to hit right now. There should have been more of them, but clearly I'm not allowed to blame the people who wanted the stimulus shrunk for some reason. It'll make some difference later this year, but as a few of us said back then, there should have been a lot more of it. And permanent spending increase? Seriously, by the CBO numbers, 80% is out the door by 2010. Virtually all of the rest is out the door by 2012, and that part is spent on upgrades to the electricity grid. Care to back up your point with something harder than a talking point? Um, unfunded mandates? And again, spending in 2010 is doing NOTHING to stem the recession today. If the money had been done the right way, you might not have needed the spending in 2012. And if you did, you would have had the option to tailor it around what you needed. Instead you are locked into Obama's plan, for better or for worse. It's also really trite to blame the minority party for everything, when they have zero control over anything. They got the blame when they were in power, and now they get the blame if they were out of power. If they had that much ability to control everything, why did we end up with the plan the Democrats largely wanted? GMAB.

QUOTE (fathom @ Jul 3, 2009 -> 04:04 PM) Anderson's had very little value ever since the start of 2006. At this point, he's more valuable as a defensive replacement than as a trade chip. Thank you. I agree 100%. If he had any value, he would have been traded a long time ago. That is Kenny's style.

No Alexei again... interesting.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jul 3, 2009 -> 03:58 PM) So wait, it's a bad thing that the stimulus wasn't fast enough, and it's a bad thing that the stimulus had to be rushed through? Its two different things. They rushed the package through, even thought the majority of the spending wasn't for a long time. A true stimulus would have been geared towards now, not later. And it wouldn't have handicapped the government into having no ability to do anything again, because of a ginormous expansion of permanent spending, which by definition is not a stimulus plan, it is a spending plan.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Jul 3, 2009 -> 03:35 PM) I think there's a distinct difference between the two. One is moving on to something new, the other is quitting an elected position in the middle of your term. Doesn't it set up easy "will she just quit the presidency half way through if it gets too hard?" rhetoric from her opponents? It could also set up, "It isn't fair my fellow Alaskans for me to be unable to fully fulfill my duties to them, as running for President is a full time job." as well. They are both loads of crap.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Jul 3, 2009 -> 03:23 PM) Bill Kristol on Fox is trying to spin this into a positive for her. Shrewd political move and all. "Just saw the opening of the 2012 campaign" Wouldn't it be incredibly easy to beat her over the head for abandoning her elected post? More and more candidates are trying it. John Edwards comes to mind right away, though most have just not run for re-election.

QUOTE (shakes @ Jul 3, 2009 -> 02:39 PM) It's an interesting thought, but right now I think they need the outfield depth, and I think he would bring very little in a trade. I've given up believing he will ever be more than a 4th or 5th outfielder. The offseason would be a better time for this. http://www.suntimes.com/sports/baseball/wh...T-joe03.article Its great to be a writer. Now if he would actually talk about who would want him, and what they would give up, you might be able to call this "journalism".

QUOTE (Flash Tizzle @ Jul 3, 2009 -> 02:47 PM) Juicy scandal brewing? Hopefully... That way she can not be considered a front runner for President, like some like to think.

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Jul 1, 2009 -> 03:47 PM) Anyone else plan to see Public Enemies? I will once it hits DVD. I am curious to see the local sites, as they filmed parts of it in Hammond IN.

QUOTE (Heads22 @ Jul 2, 2009 -> 11:33 PM) That'd be f***in awesome to try. I can't wait to try it.

I don't know if it has been said or not, but I love the Madden signing. This is a guy who lives and breathes playoff hockey. The Hawks biggest fault is not putting up 60 minutes a night, and guys like this ( a 4 time Selke finalist) go a long way towards teaching these kids how to play.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jul 3, 2009 -> 01:54 PM) So let's see...we shrink the stimulus because we need to get the Republicans on board, weaken it by switching a good chunk of it to poorly stimulative tax cuts, cut out the aid to the states (which is among the most effective parts), and it's too bad we didn't do it correctly so that we had some bullets left? The only reason we don't have any bullets left and that we cut out the effective part is that we tried to get a couple of the "Hoover was right!" crowd on board...and we'd have a good number of bullets left if we didn't have to listen to that crowd too. Bond yields are still very low, the Fed interest rate is still at zero and the Fed is still attempting its "Quantitative Easing" policy of trying to push us back the other way by buying up those bonds. And I've been screaming for years that the unemployment rates as presented are garbage and have been for years. Y'all didn't listen to me when it was just the media trying to make Bush look bad by saying the wonderful economy was worse than it really was (look at the increase in people's total wealth thanks to real estate appreciation! The economy is great!) The number of people not counted by U3 has been going up steadily since the early 1980's as the government finds more reasons to exclude people from the numbers to make them look better. U6, the measure counting unemployed, out of the labor force, and underemployed is closing in on 17%. Was it the Republicans who wanted most of the stimulus to be spent years into the future, because I sure don't remember it like that. Was it the GOP who wanted most of the money to get into programs that required continued funding, or did they want something temporary and short term? No we would be able to do something if we didn't turn this into the second biggest expansion of government in our history (though working on being the biggest after some of these other programs get rammed through.) We have no bullets left because people insisted that "stimulus" package that had to be RUSHED THROUGH NOW, meant that most of the money was going to be spent in 2010 and 2011 instead of 2009 when things were going to be at their worst. As a matter of a fact I remember you arguing that we needed it to be done that way, so I know that was the official party line.