southsider2k5

I will be the first to break out a gigantic mea culpa on Lexi... I didn't expect anything from this guy this year except a trip to AAA. I really thought it would take him a while to adjust, and we would get our money's worth out of him in the 3rd and 4th years of the contract.

Can we give him some love here at least? If the season ended today, could he be the MVP of the AL?

57-43 +2.5 games over MN

http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/columns/stor...&id=3501534

http://www.examiner.com/x-425-Chicago-Whit...-to-Sox-success

QUOTE (Iwritecode @ Jul 23, 2008 -> 02:40 PM) I remember paying under a dollar when I was in high school. I also remember the first time I had to pay over $2.00. Now I get excited when it's under $4.00 The lowest I remember paying was 63 cents. I am sure Flaxx and Tex could tell us about the good old days of nickel gas...

http://www.politico.com/blogs/thecrypt/070...York_Times.html

QUOTE (The Ginger Kid @ Jul 23, 2008 -> 02:17 PM) 3 errors on the day - atrocious Not to mention the mental errors... I hate games like this. They are just brutal. I would much rather just get our asses kicked versus playing a braindead ballgame.

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/mark-finkelst...fake-interviews

I'm still waiting for the headlines praising the speculators for pushing the price of crude oil down about $23 in the last week and a half, not to mention the gasoline futures down almost 60 cents, heating oil down 60 cents, and natural gas down nearly 4.000 points or about 33%!

For those keeping score, that was with 2 outs and RISP. 3-1 Sox

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Jul 23, 2008 -> 01:19 PM) What are the consequences for doing it wrong in the private market these days? Those who run giant companies into the ground still make out pretty well for themselves. Lawsuits, reduced shareprice, bankruptcy, liquidation, not working anymore...

QUOTE (Felix @ Jul 23, 2008 -> 12:35 AM) Brandon McCarthy had his first rehab start tonight for the Oklahoma Redhawks against Salt Lake tonight. He had a rough first inning, but looked awesome after that. Changeup was working really well as his main pitch, and his curveball looked great at times. His fastball touched 90 a couple of times, but sat at 89 for the most part. Good for Brandon. Glad to see he is back, and that we don't have to face him.

QUOTE (Texsox @ Jul 23, 2008 -> 12:42 PM) They are not saying landfall yet. It seems to be paralleling off the coast and heading north. It may cross a unpopulated area or even Port Mansfield. From what I've seen on the local news, I have a huge mess at camp. I'm waiting for my power to go out. It is very dark here and very windy. Do they consider the island "land"? Also is landfall when the eye touches land, or when the whole eye is over land?

QUOTE (bmags @ Jul 23, 2008 -> 12:31 PM) we'll ignore the 8 years of McCain love then. McCain's tour was pretty heavily covered, that's when the big Colombia hostage rescue happened. Pretty heavily covered? You can't be serious. NO ONE covered it until the hostage rescue. Well maybe you are right if this is the kind of "coverage" you meant... Has anyone asked Obama why he is in the middle east with the American economy in the toilet yet? http://newsbusters.org/blogs/scott-whitloc...s-about-economy Also to contrast apples and apples, here are some numbers from McCains last Iraq trip... http://newsbusters.org/blogs/nb-staff/2008...raq-barack-tour

So it made landfall pretty much right at South Padre, but it looks like it is falling apart pretty quickly.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Jul 23, 2008 -> 12:10 PM) But, similar to the attempts to bring those law enforcement agencies together (see: Homeland Security), there are dangers in doing that too. The SEC is much bigger and more well-funded than the CFTC. Any merger of them would really be the SEC taking over the CFTC. And that would almost assuredly result in even more of a lean towards the equity world, which is the opposite direction of the markets. If instead you put together a super agency over all financial regulation agencies, then you run the risk of doing what DHS has done - provide little more than more red tape. Ideally, any new oversight agency that is over SEC, CFTC, various banking-related agencies, etc., would focus on interagency cooperation, and also work towards taking in a budget and intelligently dsitributing it based on what areas really need it most. Given what happened with DHS, I think that won't go well either. Which is the biggest problem of all when you have the federal government involved. There is zero incentive to do it right. There are no consiquenses for bad actions or inaction.

QUOTE (Texsox @ Jul 23, 2008 -> 12:29 PM) Or that Democrates don't start screaming when McCain gets coverage. He'd have to get coverage before we could test that theory...

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Jul 23, 2008 -> 11:56 AM) ITs not a within-industry organization. Its a federal agency, just like the SEC. But because derivatives were generally a much smaller market, people tended to know very little about the CFTC, and its big brother (SEC) got all the focus. But, as the derivatives markets are actually similar in size now to equities, it gets more focus. Not from the government though - CFTC still gets treated like the ugly stepchild. Which is stupid, because the equity markets are much less complex and in need of less regulation than derivatives. Which is a part of the problem in the big picture. All of these groups are competing for budgets and attention within the government structure. There is no reason to have all of these different agencies independant of each other. This should be one organization working to complete our financial sector as one whole piece, instead of a million fragmented pieces. All of these industries and products are related in some way, shape, or form, yet there is no governmental recognition of that fact. These markets should all work together to give American's a complete overview and as simple as possible chance of managing their finances. A nice comparision is what we as a country faced after 9-11 with all of the different governmental agencies that oversaw parts of securty for the American people. There was no cooperation and none of them knew what the other was doing. It hasn't been completely fixed, but they have made strides towards beginning to fix these problems.

QUOTE (kapkomet @ Jul 23, 2008 -> 11:13 AM) McCain doesn't have to, because he's been there, done that. That's exactly why Obama DOES have to, because he has to show everyone he can. I'll just leave it at that. McCain DID just do it, no one cared.

Keep us in the game kid, and give us a chance to win! Anything else is a bonus.

But 7 8 9

I believe the Sox are clinched to have spent the most days in first place in the AL Central for this season, which is 92 so far.

The best part was the post game interview with Swish, which they moved into the dugout so he could watch for the inevitable shaving cream pie... So Toby Hall sneaks through the guts of the park, into the 3rd base camera well, then sneaks into the dugout and whams him with a facefull of shaving cream anyways. Classic.

3.79 is cheap... how sad is that?