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“He is making all the right moves in terms of playing a bad hand,” Obama on Geithner or "Brownie, you're doing a heck of a job." Bush on Michael Brown

http://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/baseb...0,4413145.story

QUOTE (Princess Dye @ Mar 18, 2009 -> 07:13 PM) I'm fine with soxfest recapping. I dont really pay much attention to that event, since there's no real baseball going on, it's just a manufactured moneymaker for the team. Its not. All profits go to Chisox charities. Much of the money goes to things like Fields of Dreams where they build specialized ballparks for handicapped kids to be able to play baseball/softball. They also use it build and/or rebuild diamonds in poor areas around the Metro area.

QUOTE (lostfan @ Mar 19, 2009 -> 12:24 PM) Besides asking them to return it (which he did), what could he really do? the contracts were already written and signed. A contract is a contract. Even the administration isn't trying to directly abrogate those contracts. Nothing. Blaming Liddy after the fact is just silly.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Mar 19, 2009 -> 11:32 AM) This should go over well. Its the Citibank stimulus package! Think how many jobs they are saving and creating in the contstruction and Amish communities!

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Mar 19, 2009 -> 09:27 AM) They could have just hired an actual deer and shined headlights in its eyes instead of paying this idiot. If only he hadn't of paid his taxes, or thrown up some other red flag...

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Mar 19, 2009 -> 09:42 AM) No. this is why they are in congress. Word. Maybe someone will get him a cheatsheet to explain how long it takes to change a corporation around.

I watched the original Law and Order last night for the first time in a while, and damn is that show awful anymore. The cast is TERRIBLE.

QUOTE (kyyle23 @ Mar 18, 2009 -> 04:32 PM) I keep trying to get shipps to ban me, but I am pretty sure he is afraid to do it. He complains about not being able to do it, but i think we have a gunshy admin on our hands here. Don't think I didn't notice that you didn't ask me that QUOTE (santo=dorf @ Mar 18, 2009 -> 05:20 PM) SS2K5 might have this info, but whatever happened to that family that moved to Indiana and needed a baseball team to root for, and somehow they became Sox fans and the dad registered here? He faded out from posting. Last I knew he played in one of the fantasy leagues, but that was the last thing I remember. That was a cool story for Brooks and the crew in PR. QUOTE (Texsox @ Mar 18, 2009 -> 05:42 PM) IIRC LCR banned himself. True story. I miss Neil, and hope his teaching is going well. That was one passionate dude.

QUOTE (kyyle23 @ Mar 18, 2009 -> 02:19 PM) SSH2005 I think That is correct.

So I just thought about this...Slayer is still in camp after the second round of cuts. That is pretty impressive.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Mar 18, 2009 -> 12:59 PM) Sure, or any other "crisis" that comes up. Which makes the contention that this one person should have know the crisis was coming all of the more laughable.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Mar 18, 2009 -> 12:55 PM) This doesn't make any sense to me. People didn't like him before, but he wasn't in the press much or anything, so what was to discuss? He comes up in the news, we discuss him. That isn't obsessing, its reality, and most of our discussions here are prompted by something or someone being launched into the headlines for some reason. Kinda like the banking crisis? No?

QUOTE (kapkomet @ Mar 18, 2009 -> 12:11 PM) You people who have been around for a while knows it takes a lot to get "banned" around here. If people can't respect the "rules" (which are pretty damn lax) then they aren't here. It's not like we power trip... For the most part, people get second (and third and fourth) chances, with a few exceptions of course. Not to mention that even after bannings, people have been let back on Soxtalk.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Mar 18, 2009 -> 10:30 AM) I think Interactive Brokers is in the Rookery Building which was across the street from the fire. LOL I'm an idiot A city press release in 2007 referred to the building as the Continental and Commercial National Bank building. It was designed by Daniel Burnham and built in 1914, two years after the famed architect's death, according to the statement. That sould have been a big giveaway that it was the Continental bank building they were talking about!

No big surprises there... Hopefully these guys go down and light up Bham and Charlotte. I think the idea that Nunez will be closing in AA, and Link at AAA is closer to happening. I also really hope JVB absorbed as much as possible and he emerges to make the pitching situation all of the better.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Mar 18, 2009 -> 12:19 PM) Except...they could actually try doing some reporting. Like I said, what is there to report on? What big detail was out there that someone got, that no one else did? Who six months ago did the big expose on AIG or Bear Stearns, or any of them? Its easy for two bit hacks to come along after that fact and try to use it to score cheap political points, but the fact is there was no information out there that would have indicated anything else. I doubt very seriously that you in your respective field are going back and checking every single piece of work that you use as an aid to determine new data, unless there is a reason to. When it comes to rocks, are you telling me that you just discard all of the history of the study of geology and re-research it all yourself?

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Mar 18, 2009 -> 11:52 AM) 1) Cramer clearly knew about stock manipulation and short-selling. 2) Stewart's point was that they went for gimmicky cheer-leading bulls*** instead of even trying to find out if something was up. They lapped up whatever they were fed. 2) sounds great in theory. But in the real world, if the people in charge aren't telling you anything, and there is no trail of insider trades that point to them dumping the company stock, in fact the opposite, where they are adding on their positions, where praytell are you going to find out anything else? Cramer did go out of his way to get CEOs and the like on to put them on the record talking about thier companies. If he is getting lied to, and there is no other information to contradict what he is saying, there really isn't much that can be done.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/conte...opinion/columns

http://www.azstarnet.com/sn/diamondbacks/284842

Sidney Ponson is now a Royal http://voices.washingtonpost.com/baseball-...ow_a_royal.html

http://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/chi-1...0,1413364.story

http://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/baseb...?obref=outbrain

So we are saying Jenks Thornton Dotel Linebrink are 100% in With Clayton Richard in as long as he isn't a starter. For my money, I want to see both Marquez and Poreda in Charlotte starting if Richard is in the pen. After that I would go with DJ Carrasco and Lance Broadway as the garbage man. If the Sox think Poreda's future is in the pen, then go ahead and bring him north. If not, send him to Charlotte and let him work on his third pitch.

QUOTE (lostfan @ Mar 18, 2009 -> 09:48 AM) It's not really semantics though, it's the source of your disagreement with me and StrangeSox (who seems to have the same position as me) I guess depending on how you look at it... Still, who is posting SNL or South Park as a source to defend their political beliefs? Who is posting those sources as a reply to something in the news? How many of those shows have politicians on there to make political statements? By the same definition, no one should ever attack Rush Limbaugh or Glenn Beck.