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And the Stros lead 1-0 at Mil after 3 innings of play.

Wow it took about 5 minutes of watching that train wreck to turn it. Gee do you think now that Manuel is a dead duck that the team is sending a message?

Glad to see Sammy Sosa can make clear what the rest of us have tried to tell you for years

Actually I just got done reading a great article about slavery in the modern world. (the Sept 03 National Geographic edition, it is a must read) Brazil was mentioned as having slave kids to cut and slash rain forests in order to supply charcoal to the government subsidized steel industry. Steel is the big industry right off of the top of my head because where I live the whole industry has collapsed due to American wages being too high, while many foreign gov's have subsidized steel industries to dump onto the American economy. And the US needs the rest of the world just as much as they need us. In this day and age of US consumerism this country has overpriced its labor in relation to what it expects to pay for products. The net result is the need to export materials in order to find someone to build products cheap enough for American consumers to want to mass consume them. There are good and bad things that come with investment and trade in other countries. You don't have a country importing cheaper good without people losing their jobs because of it. The alternative is for that country to not import it, but have to have consumers pay higher prices, and have more of their income not be able to be spent on other things. And you are an econ major right? If you are there is a little nitpicking I am going to do. You don't "create" investments. Investments are used to create other stuff.

He wouldn't have been able to contact them except through EBay. It is mostly the idiots fault for giving out personal info though.

Being liked doesn't make you an effective manager...

Ebay allowed him access to the idiots...

Remember who he replaced???

http://www.msnbc.com/news/971734.asp?0cv=CA01

Smart kids. They could teach Frank and Mark something about talking to the media

Yeah, I need to know when to take a vacation

I wasn't trying to indict EBay or anything, but he did take advantage of of vulerabilities in EBay's system, combined with peoples greed to pull this off.

http://www.msnbc.com/news/957191.asp?0cl=cR

Hmm how about 2 days ago?

You mean despite Manuel wanting him to concentrate on hitting the ball the other way?

But attendance has a direct correlation on most of the other revenues, such as parking, concessions, souveniers, etc...

Raf you do realize that if the US hadn't intervened during the Brazilian economic crisis, there wouldn't be much left of the Brazilian economy to worry about? You do realize that the American economy is the biggest net buying of Brazilian products in the world right? You do realize how much military aid that Brazil depends on from the US right? Brazils whole economy is based on the US, without it, there would be no prosperity at all in Brazil. To single out one industry as protectionist is short sighted. Are you telling me that the Brazilia government isn't subsidizing any industries that are undercutting American products and putting Americans out of work???

We made a profit in 2002. The basis of the assumption is that other operating costs (ie nonpayroll) didn't go up at a rate that is out of whack with inflation (which is near zero right now) If you increase your bottom line with 20% more people, with all people paying 20% more to be there, then we should be able to stomach a 20-25% increase in payroll.

In reality, the payroll should be at least $70 mil, if this year was $55 mil. Realize that we had a 20% increase in attendance, plus a 20% increase in ticket prices. There is no reason, other than profit taking for the payroll not to exceed what it was this year.

But career numbers justify all slumps and bad seasons...

yet another guy who refuses to play for us.

Reading what he said the Trib today, he knows.

So why doesn't he use consistancy and apply this to the players who really need to be called out????