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That didn't take long... They are better, but still probably only a 70-75 win team.

QUOTE (mr_genius @ Apr 20, 2008 -> 05:38 PM) http://www.suntimes.com/sports/baseball/cu...gordo18.article classy move, cubs. insult your new player. And yet White Sox fans are the ones steretyped as some kind of narrowminded hicks... That is the kind of stuff that you should get your head beat in for.

Going forward I have more confidence in Floyd versus Danks over the course of a whole season. I am not sure if Danks will be able to hold up to the workload of a whole season, whereas we know Floyd can pitch that many innings.

Happy Birthday

Someone told me that it was a prank phone call that triggered these raids... Is this true? If it is, does that affect the legality of these raids? Can the cat be put back in the bag?

QUOTE (Athomeboy_2000 @ Apr 20, 2008 -> 08:33 PM) When some says "you can make an argument" then rattles off a list of things to support it, they are making the argument that you believe that. Why would you rattle off facts that support something you dont think is the case? And facts that are WRONG! Inflation and Job Creation be two. On your second point, can you prove it was "obviously" a different point? I can prove it was in context. I am willing to concied that there is a POSSIBILITY we were better in 2004 or 2005 than we were in 2000. however, in 2008, we are worse than we were in 2000 on a total economic level due to lax economic polices and an ongoing war that has tripled the price of gas.. THerefore, we are not "better off overall if you look at the entire eight-year period" Lax economic policies is very incorrect. Out-dated is much more accurate. The problem is when Congress "fixes" the problem, they will screw it up worse than before, just like they did with Sarbines Oxley. They need to leave economic regulation alone, because they have NO IDEA what they are doing. Also the tripling of the price of gas is not someone else's fault, its our fault. We keep buying no matter what, and you can throw China and India into that if you like. Because of the narrow elasticity of gasoline it takes near zero change in supply or demand to change the price by a huge amount. Remember the gas crisis of the 1970's was caused by only a 15% net supply reduction, which quadrupled prices. With the steady demand increases, it doesn't matter who was President, prices would have increased a ton, and economic disincentives such as "windfall profit taxes" would have only encouraged less production, and would have increased prices further. Really that proposal might be one of the dumbest things I have heard come out of Obama's mouth so far this campaign, as it has historically proven as a failure, yet he is putting it out there like it is some brand new idea, and it will work.

Boy he really went out on some limbs there... They might not win the division, but there is a chance! The Sox won't maintain their HR/allowed rate! I was surprised he didn't go really risky and say that AJ probably won't hit .350 for the season this year, or that Floyd won't finish with an ERA of 1.5!

QUOTE (Tony82087 @ Apr 20, 2008 -> 03:43 PM) A-Rod went down with a strained quad today, looks like he might miss a few games. That could be huge for this week... IIRC, the Sox have always had decent "success" against Arod, but missing a guy like that is never a bad thing.

Its one of those situations where a change of scenery means everything. Floyd was never going to be successful in Philly. A guy like Kip Wells wasn't going to be successful in Chicago. They just needed something different to start over and rebuild from.

The only people who belong in this discussion are Frank and Joe Jackson. No one else even deserves mention. Because of the differences in era, it is difficult to pick one or the other. They both dominating like nobody else for what they did in their era.

+ 2 1/2 over KC and MN +4 1/2 over CLE +5 1/2 over DET Interesting to note our +32 run differential is #1 in the AL and #2 in all of baseball, behind the AZ Dbacks +39.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Apr 18, 2008 -> 02:28 PM) Personally, I just don't think "We haven't bombed nearly enough countries in the Middle East" fits the description of middle ground for this country by anyone's imagination except Brooks, McCain, and Lieberman. Picking out one issue is an easy way to make anyone look the way you want them to look, good or bad. Getting past that and realizing that those are two of the very few pols today who aren't afraid to work the other side of the aisle screams middle ground at me.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Apr 18, 2008 -> 02:20 PM) Just out of curiosity, how much do you know about David Brooks? Senior editor at the highly conservative "Weekly Standard", Writer for the WSJ and Washington Times, strongly in favor of the Iraq war, wrote in 2006 that a McCain/Lieberman ticket would represent the middle ground that the press seems to think America wants. The overall opinion page certainly tilts to the left, but the Op-Ed page gets quite loaded with conservative writers, some good, some barely conscious. I'll be honest, I don't read the NYT, just like I don't read a lot of the stuff that I believe is so far out of left field that it isn't worth my time. And in regards to McCain/Leiberman, I will say this much... Is a ticket that really pisses off the wings of both parties that bad of a thing? If the right wingers hate McCain, and the left-wingers hate Leiberman, that kinda leaves the middle ground open.

I'll be honest, I forgot it was on because of the Sox game.

This isn't Ozzie's fault. It's Jenks fault. He was the one shaking off the signs from AJ (from Ozzie). If he was tired or hurt, he should have told Ozzie.

This isn't Ozzie's fault. It's Jenks fault. He was the one shaking off the signs from AJ (from Ozzie).

QUOTE (IowaSoxFan @ Apr 18, 2008 -> 11:49 AM) I would like the move better if I thought Alexei was any different than Uribe, but so far he has looked unable to hit breaking balls and is trying to lift everything, granted this has been in limited at bats, but at this point he is a downgrade defensively, an upgraded base runner, and probably an equal at the plate. I would rather have Alexei go down to AAA and get everyday at bats until he can get Joboo to have his bat not fear curve balls anymore. I am glad I am not the only one who sees a skinnier Uribe when I look at Ramirez.

This from the last place I ever expected to see Obama get lit up in... The New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/18/opinion/...amp;oref=slogin

QUOTE (daa84 @ Apr 18, 2008 -> 12:43 PM) wow that is certainly unconventional, from both angles...if im longoria no way do i do this...look at how much contracts have jumped over the last 9 years...you gotta figure that it could be similar over the next 9 as well....which means that 2 mil per year will not only be under the 3 mil per year average right now, but well under the average...i dont get it at all The security versus potential arguement is very interesting here. Is it worth the extra millions to KNOW that no matter what happens, you have $18 million coming to you? This guy could end up as the next washout prospect. He could also end up giving up $50 million or more over the life of the contract. It is an interesting deal.

maginitude 2.5 was felt at 10:15 am, and a 4.5 right before that... http://neic.usgs.gov/neis/bulletin/neic_qzbb_l.html

Even after an ugly loss in Baltimore, we live to lead another day! Feels good.

Seems as if Ozzie was serious about not messing around with Uribe this year.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Apr 18, 2008 -> 09:21 AM) I think this was more of a case of beating yourself (3 unearned runs) than just being out-played. Yup. No one out of the pen really looked sharp, the defense looked disinterested, and the offense minus CQ really didn't do anything. Hopefully we can just chalk it up to a bad night.

QUOTE (kjshoe04 @ Apr 18, 2008 -> 08:22 AM) This movie looks pretty good. The ad campaign made me not want to see it... They had the stupid ads for it EVERYWHERE downtown.

QUOTE (Shadows @ Apr 17, 2008 -> 10:34 PM) I hope that wasn't the full video, because if it was that was the lamest s*** ever No one got "beat up" and it was just girls b****ing at eachother It wasn't. The full attack was 30 minutes long, they knocked the girl unconcious and then smacked her around somemore to "wake" her up. They haven't released the whole video yet.