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QUOTE (Y2HH @ Apr 7, 2009 -> 12:40 PM) Who is he and what happened to Honda? Gene Honda did the final four last night...

Anyways, back to honesty in economic figures reporting... I wonder what job losses really look like, and how bad things will look with all of the high paying defense jobs the White House just axed? http://norris.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/03/06...g-revised-down/

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Apr 7, 2009 -> 10:23 AM) I am going to go with the Encyclopedia Britanica on this one... http://student.britannica.com/comptons/atlas?geogId=19 Actually this is even clearer http://www.usefoundation.org/foundation/re...eral.asp?CID=13

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Apr 7, 2009 -> 10:19 AM) Actually, it is a dialect of German, with its own differences, recognized nationally by Austria as their language. I am going to go with the Encyclopedia Britanica on this one... http://student.britannica.com/comptons/atlas?geogId=19

Anyone want to tell Bush, er Obama, that Austrian isn't a language? http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=206...&refer=home

QUOTE (bmags @ Apr 7, 2009 -> 08:28 AM) Man, Twitter has made Cowley like, reporter #1 in Chicago. The Trib needs to get their guys on Twitter, like yesterday.

QUOTE (soxfan3530 @ Apr 7, 2009 -> 09:27 AM) WHITE SOX BASEBALL IS HERE!!!!! One of the greatest new commericals in a long time.

http://blog.al.com/birmingham-news-sports/...acked_with.html

Allen got a lot of time in camp with the big league White Sox during Spring Training this year. He did get 13 ABs for the Sox this spring, getting 4 hits and scoring 4 runs. He did pound a triple and a homer in his plate appearences and drove in 6 runs in those 13 times up. Brandon will begin this season in the middle of the very nasty Birmingham Barons line up for his first full season there.

August 8th is the OFFICAL DATE, for the WSI/Soxtalk softball game, part III. Southsider2k5 Northsidesox72 Chisoxfn shipps kapkomet The Beast Molto Bigsqwert robinventura23 TitoMB345 (if you guys don't mind..) SouthsideDon48 Keep on signing up if people are interested!!! Don't let the number of people deter you. There are always last minute cancelations and changes, not to mention, no matter how many people want to play, everyone will get into the game!!!

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So the next question is if it is good enough for the banks, why isn't it good enough for the budget? Why can't we hold the President to his own administrations standards? http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/26/business...26banks.html?hp http://blogs.wsj.com/economics/2009/02/26/...omic-forecasts/

QUOTE (kapkomet @ Apr 7, 2009 -> 07:50 AM) It might be the loniest thread in the history of soxtalk. I'll at least stop by and make some "Can't Pass Again" jokes... That's what friends do.

How ever minor they might be... throw your tidbits here.

QUOTE (Reddy @ Apr 6, 2009 -> 10:52 PM) apologies if that's the case - but i was basing my statement and judgment off the fact that he was arguing against balta and sqwert on the last page. Nope, not against it at all. I was more laughing at the arguements being made to support this here, but forgotten in other similar, "not hurting anyone" circumstances.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Apr 6, 2009 -> 07:55 PM) It seems Elizabeth Warren may well be willing to stand up and be face of the the anti-Geithner plan forces. Is it worth pointing out, again, here exactly how much money Barack Obama got from the banks who are taking these trillions of dollars in various forms?

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Apr 6, 2009 -> 08:06 PM) Your article, I can presume only entirely by accident because what motivation would they have to make things look bad for the Democrat...left out some key, key polling data. From your piece: The small bit they left out: You better hope that Cuomo has a hooker problem if you think the Republicans can beat those numbers with Rudy. I would imagine the point of the article was to point out that the Democrats are already fracturing nationwide, not what Republicians would do in the race, being as that the Republicians only got one sentence in the whole article.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Apr 6, 2009 -> 08:06 PM) Your article, I can presume only entirely by accident because what motivation would they have to make things look bad for the Democrat...left out some key, key polling data. From your piece: The small bit they left out: You better hope that Cuomo has a hooker problem if you think the Republicans can beat those numbers with Rudy. I would imagine the point of the article was to point out that the Democrats are already fracturing nationwide, not what Republicians would do in the race, being as that the Republicians only got one sentence in the whole article.

QUOTE (Chisoxfn @ Apr 6, 2009 -> 02:54 PM) Bottom line Wasserman isn't very good. He might pop up somewhere and have a good year or two but it will be on a bad team where he'll get every opportunity to get hot for a season or two. I wish him the best but he isn't a good fit here, especially with guys like Link, Long and Omogrosso who have such better stuff and project to be pretty good relievers as well as a guy like Derek Rodriguez who has a really nice arm. In fact, keep an eye on a game named Jones down in the minors, plus plus curve and an interesting FB (clocked between 88 and 99MPH). Yes, I said 99MPH. This spring he was unhittable one game and pedestrian another (although his curve was filthy) and scouts were puzzled at the fact that he looked like an all world major leaguer and than a minor leaguer. Either way, Buddy Bell is aware of him and the Sox are watching to see if they can figure out a way to get him to consistently throw in the upper 90's. Location is another issue with him (his delivery is not what I'd call pretty nor did he have any consistency with it, hence the command issues). In addition to the names above, there is Adam Russel, Jack Egbert (both with the ability to go a batter or 3 innings) and obviously Aaron Poreda (who I ultimately peg as a plus reliever as opposed to a good starting pitcher). I think Poreda could excel as a setup man in the bigs or closer where as a starter I don't see him being more than a 4th or 5th which is why I ultimately see him settling in the pen. Now if something changes in regards to his secondary stuff we might be talking about a guy that quickly moves up (plus good sinkerballers can end not needing too much in the way of additional pitches to actually excel as a major league starter). What is his first name? Any idea where he is going to be assigned?

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Apr 6, 2009 -> 02:38 PM) 28 with as limited success in the major leagues as he has had, with an organization that values power arms, the writing is on the wall. KW would rather bring up a guy who throws hard and have him get torched than a guy like Wassermann. He's good AAA fodder, but that's it. No organization valued him enough to put them on their 40 man roster by claiming him off of waivers before he could be outrighted off of the Sox roster. That tells you it isn't just the Sox that don't see him as much.

Looks like Patterson might get thrown under the bus next... http://www.nydailynews.com/news/2009/04/06..._top_democ.html

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Apr 6, 2009 -> 02:30 PM) Parks and Recreation is coming... I don't know if I can handle more awkward interview style comedy like The Office, which I grow weary of, but we'll see. I obviously heart Amy Poehler. The previews for that show are some of the least funny things I have seen since the Kath and Kim previews...

QUOTE (flavum @ Apr 6, 2009 -> 02:11 PM) Dropped from the 40-man. I wonder what the story was behind that. The 40-man roster is now at 38. http://chicago.whitesox.mlb.com/news/press...sp&c_id=cws It also means he passed through waivers completely unclaimed.

QUOTE (lostfan @ Apr 6, 2009 -> 12:09 PM) That's what I figured. 12? They could have just brought along one of these guys...

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Apr 6, 2009 -> 12:02 PM) Took some Googling to find because it seems no one cared before now, but here's a New Zeland Herald article on the size of Bush's entourage. As usual, IOKIYAR (It's ok if you're a Republican). (Googling Bush trip entourage brought up about 1-2 hits involving Bush, one of which took me to that site, and about 10 people already complaining about the current President taking the exact same sized group.) My laugh was at needing to bring 12 telepromptors.