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My oldest who just turned three, refused to go near Santa, and instead stood about 10 feet away and shouted her list at him.

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2008/o...ends-appraisal/

QUOTE (Athomeboy_2000 @ Dec 9, 2008 -> 10:19 AM) People say you can tell a man's character by what he says/does when he thinks no one's looking: Wow. How completely Nixon-esque.

Milton Bradley on this team? Hell if Swish couldn't survive here, how would Bradley? No thanks.

QUOTE (jasonxctf @ Dec 9, 2008 -> 09:10 AM) i'm telling you that i work in the financial services industry and partner with this bank in many of my corporate/municipal lendings with AAA rated credits for equipment lending. These are the cream of the crop lendings with perfect payment history. Think some of the largest and safest entities here in Illinois. I, as well as my industry colleagues, are being told that this bank has been frozen in lending since October and wont un-freeze until post 1/1. This is due to other areas of the bank, who was heavily invested in mortgages and consumer finance bleeding $ like crazy. A lending freeze doesn't necesarily mean they have money to lend, even if they are bringing in a lot of deposits. With the effect of SOX on capital ratios, they may still not have money to lend, due to the still falling valuations of their assets.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Dec 9, 2008 -> 05:06 AM) In Cowley's latest report, he has a major league source tell him don't be surprised to see Freddy back with the Sox if this latest problem goes away, so it is official. Scratch Freddy off the potential #5 starter list. If he is healthy, I would love to have him back. If not, forget it.

Wow. If he is involved in corrupt activity to replace Obama, he might be the planet's biggest idiot. How could you think it would be a smart idea to pull a stunt WHEN THE ENTIRE WORLD IS WATCHING YOU? He deserves whatever he gets, and probably more.

QUOTE (jasonxctf @ Dec 8, 2008 -> 09:09 PM) i will let you know that I know of a large bank in the Midwest, who has naming rights on an MLB stadium, who received a butt-load of $ in the bailout plan who has not changed their lending freeze that's been in place since October. Doesn't matter who the customer is, consumer, municipal, corporate, etc. Executive management won't decide on who/what to lend to until post January 1st at the earliest. at the same point, banks are taking in deposits at a record level. Thus the extremly low rate of returns in CD's, Money Markets and Savings Accounts. So at the end of the day, their is a ton of capital that is available to be leant (either by consumer deposits or via bailout plan) that are sitting in the banks and not moving. Are you telling me that you know this bank's capital ratios? Do you know their asset valuations on the books to know that they really have capital that they could lend?

QUOTE (juddling @ Dec 9, 2008 -> 06:01 AM) a bit more about the upcoming season.....Lost The reference to the Stand really piqued my curiousity.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Dec 9, 2008 -> 05:10 AM) Considering KW's MO is "under the radar", Dye's availability and rumored destinations have been anything but. KW said he considered JD a friend and respects him greatly, I just wonder why he'd have him twisting like that. Its kind of strange. You mean not lying to him? Kenny has said he would trade his own son if he thought it made his team better. Why would Dye be any different? To me it sounds like Kenny has just told him exactly what is going on. As for the leaks to the press, it is a large assumption that somehow Kenny is responsible for them, after all there are at least two parties privy to any set of trade negotations, not to mention how many people each party brings to the table. If there is a leak on the other side somewhere, Williams can't really be held responsible for that.

QUOTE (AWhiteSoxinNJ @ Dec 8, 2008 -> 02:27 PM) Good idea, I think the Dye thread was getting taken over by it. That's what I was thinking too!

Speaking of which don't be afraid to spam your cool (aka White Sox fan) friends to join the facebook group. We are up to almost 200 people on there!

Throw all of your thoughts and the like for the winter meetings in here... If we get something big, we will make a separate thread for it. Any early predictions for the Kenny Williams show in the next week?

QUOTE (Cubano @ Dec 6, 2008 -> 07:44 AM) I wrote something about Viciedo here. I translated some of the Spanish interview. His stats are also there in case somebody has not seen the stats before. http://cubanballplayers.blogspot.com/ He looks like he might have put on a 20 pounds from his workout to clips they were showing of him playing in Cuba (or whereever that was), but he doesn't look that fat. He looks like just a massive dude. He looks 19 like Greg Oden looked 19.

QUOTE (Texsox @ Dec 8, 2008 -> 01:24 PM) Yes I would, but with you, I could not write those loses off Call me a charity if you like

QUOTE (Texsox @ Dec 8, 2008 -> 01:10 PM) I'm considering a buy at that price. Off to do a little research. Send me the money instead. You have a much better chance of getting it back from me than you do this stock. The stock will be cancelled with a near certianty.

The stock is now halted. Last trade at 1.07, low of 1.00.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Dec 8, 2008 -> 12:46 PM) Tickers reporting that TribCo is indeed filing for bankruptcy. Stock went from 12.50 to 2.00 in a hearbeat. Its now pushing a dollar. Pretty soon it will cost you more for a Trib on the street, than a share of stock.

QUOTE (Texsox @ Dec 8, 2008 -> 12:43 PM) Newspaper edit the letters to the editor in print for space and other concerns. They generally leave the on line alone to promote a free exchange of ideas. My local paper finally gave that s*** up and now edits comments when complaints come in. Ours went from looking like this paper, to editing out the stupid stuff, to totally shutting comments down.

QUOTE (bmags @ Dec 8, 2008 -> 12:31 PM) I'll tell you why, some papers don't believe in moderating comments, thinking it would show partiality and negate free speech Ah, when you put it like that, it makes sense. IMO it just totally takes the professionalness out of the look of the site.

QUOTE (iamshack @ Dec 8, 2008 -> 12:08 PM) Has Hal McCoy reacted to all this denial of what his source is telling him? Has he defended his story or his source at all? I looked up the story on his paper's website and did not see any new info. I did, however, send him an email asking if there was any new info after the denial of the deal by both teams. I will share it if I get an answer from him. On a side note I could not believe how poorly moderated their comments are... Some people are raging assholes in their comments to and about McCoy, and they left them all up there for all to see. HOpefully they go through it and delete lots of the hateful stuff.

QUOTE (kjshoe04 @ Dec 8, 2008 -> 11:36 AM) False The person below me thinks Tex forgot what site he was on. False, Tex doesn't go to any other sites The person below me thinks the Sox will finish in 3rd place or lower next year.

I was selfishly hoping Maddux would stick around long enough to pass everyone up to third place on the all time wins list. All he needed was 18. What an incredible career. He is a first ballot HOFer, no doubt.

QUOTE (Texsox @ Dec 8, 2008 -> 10:14 AM) False, I have a final so no Monday Night a Football The person below me will have left overs for lunch today False, today I am loving that Chicken from Popeye's... The person below me is over 6 feet tall.

QUOTE (scenario @ Dec 7, 2008 -> 10:06 PM) It's not that big of a deal actually. Chapter 11 Bankruptcy is a process that a lot of corporations use to help renegotiate debt. The Trib has some extremely large debt payments coming due. That's the motivation I believe. Typically firms in Chapter 11 continue normal operations. You should only be really concerned if they owe you money. The one thing that could be interesting is that the sale of the Cubs would have to be negotiated and approved by a bankruptcy court if this was to happen. It makes their sale a potential nightmare for the buyers.