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QUOTE (fathom @ Oct 22, 2013 -> 01:57 PM) Eagles drafting Mariota Kiper has Manziel listed as the 7th best QB in the draft as of now. Drool...

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Oct 22, 2013 -> 01:57 PM) Hey I'll move to Vegas. Find me a job at your company You just never know...

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Oct 22, 2013 -> 01:39 PM) The reason I was big on the Abreu signing is that right now I can say the Sox have a complete roster where if everything goes right and everyone develops and they come out of spring training awake and they remember that they're supposed to catch the ball, this team could compete right now. Without Abreu I would have said they have a gigantic gaping hole at 1b and that would prevent them from competing. If we're going to cut ties with someone now...Viciedo, De Aza, Phegley, Beckham...fine, but in some ways it has to be done based on information I don't have. I don't know how those guys worked with the coaching staff, how they were in the locker room, or what kinds of changes they were willing to make last year. That kind of info has to be big in deciding to replace on of those guys now. I don't agree. I think that year was 2012. In 2014 we're going to need an upgrade at C and 3b and possibly even LF before I feel like we're there.

QUOTE (Eminor3rd @ Oct 22, 2013 -> 01:28 PM) No, that's not true. You don't need to get all the way through dev. You need to get half decent through dev and then start making signings and trades. The signings and trades can even be half of it if you think about the stars you'd be targeting. But you can't look at every opportunity to improve from the perspective of "well, if we were an 85-win team, we'd go after this guy. There are a number of routes we can go and the emphasis should be on acquiring talent that makes sense within the parameters of our time frame. If we never try to acquire anyone until we're an 85 win team, then it's going to be awhile until we are an 85 win team because the only other way to get there is through development from within.

QUOTE (TaylorStSox @ Oct 22, 2013 -> 12:29 PM) I'd consider it if we were an 85 win team, but we aren't, so no. Even if we do have a good first half, he's the type of player you pick up in a mid year deal. Thing is you have to start somewhere. If you use this thinking the only reL way to get there is through ground-up development, which I think is not in the cards for us.

QUOTE (Soxbadger @ Oct 22, 2013 -> 01:11 PM) Learning? booo hiss boo hiss Nah actually I agree completely. The difference is most industries I cant help regular everyday people and go home knowing that I did more good than bad. Yeah it wont pay the bills, but at some point my brain was damaged into thinking that helping people is worth more than money. You can in a lot though. I work on a trade floor where every penny we save gets passed through to our ratepayers. So every bit of knowledge I can arm our traders/managers with regarding what is and is not permissible, gives them more ability to buy and sell power from all over the country and therefore cut costs/earn revenue.

QUOTE (Soxbadger @ Oct 22, 2013 -> 12:43 PM) http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap200000026...ing-uncertainty I guess what I was saying isnt to far fetched. That's an interesting thought, and I'm sure it's something Emery and Trestman will think through.

Well, there's plenty of money to be made as a law school graduate in other industries, guys...I can't tell you how few lawyers are involved in utility/energy regulation, especially out west. And if you can learn a complex industry and then apply your legal background to it, you'll be in a very unique position. Best thing I ever did was NOT go into practicing law after graduation and instead get involved in energy trading.

QUOTE (Soxbadger @ Oct 22, 2013 -> 10:51 AM) That really isnt the point. The point is that law school is becoming prohibitively expensive which will cause people who have to take loans to potentially not go to law school. My parents were told how to do this by the High School I went too because they suggest parents do it for undergrad as well. True, especially since there are so many out there who did not find jobs upon graduation. However, some folks do what Jpenks is suggesting and go because the job market is rotten anyways. I know that what a lot of folks were doing when I was graduating in '07.

QUOTE (Soxbadger @ Oct 22, 2013 -> 10:37 AM) First those numbers are much higher than 1%. Second look at schools like U of Miami (private schools where money matters) and you are already down to 80%. Then add to the fact that those numbers dont mean anything... IE I took law school loans because my parents asked me to. While I was in law school they were 0 interest (ie free money). During that time period my parents invested the tuition into cds/bonds/etc. When I left law school I had X debt. The day before the deferment ended my parents paid the entire amount. Thus while I left school with debt, I never really had it. It was just a scheme to get free interest. So on that report I would have had "debt" even though it wasnt real. I really doubt there are a whole lot of folks that did that represented in these numbers.

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Oct 22, 2013 -> 10:30 AM) Here are the % of law students who walk away from law school with debt: http://grad-schools.usnews.rankingsandrevi...d-debt-rankings Not seeing a lot of low percents there. You can see the old money there though if you look at the more prominent schools. In many cases, their percentages are a little lower than the less-prominent institutions. Wow though, that makes me feel a bit better about my debt. I remember a lot of these kids signing private loans at like $40k/year to live in these plush condo-like facilities...just idiots.

QUOTE (Soxbadger @ Oct 22, 2013 -> 10:23 AM) Right, which is why people with money can afford to invest in it, where people without money cant. Well I think it's pretty clear that that isn't a good thing, except for perhaps the folks who can afford to "invest" (have exclusive access) in it.

QUOTE (Soxbadger @ Oct 22, 2013 -> 10:19 AM) So the outcome will be less people who need loans go to medical/law and more people who have money do, regardless of how smart or talented they are. Im not sure what you guys are arguing here. When your parents are offering you 3 more years of vacation, you dont really have to worry about your friends at the iron plant or what they are making. I think the argument is that the education route isn't as much of a slam dunk in an uncertain and stagnant economy that it might have been before. At least not advanced degrees.

QUOTE (IlliniKrush @ Oct 22, 2013 -> 10:08 AM) My wife says the same thing every day regarding law school. If she hears someone considering law school, she'll do anything she can do basically talk them out of it. As it is, we'll be paying back that loan for the next 15 years. She's also not a "hot shot" attorney making bank, so it's not like the payments are small compared to overall compensation. Meanwhile, she gets very frustrated when she goes on depositions and sees these HS-educated workers that are making like $25+ an hour and they don't have a college degree, let alone loans from a secondary degree to pay back. We've all seen the articles and the math - if you jumped into the work force as an "unskilled" worker immediately after high school, you really aren't that bad off compared to the person that went to 7-8+ years of college and has possibly hundreds of thousands of dollars to pay back. Takes a long time to catch up to the HS worker that didn't take out loans and started earning immediately for an extra X amount of years. I've got some friends who are iron workers that started immediately after hs. They've got very nice retirement plans in place and have been making pretty solid money for the last 10+ years or so. I've eclipsed them in salary by a decent margin, but still have the loans and still have the retirement plan where I'm way behind them. I think if everything remained on the trajectory it is now, I'd end up in a much better place, but that is certainly not guaranteed by any stretch of the imagination. Higher Ed is almost certainly a gamble you make on yourself.

I'm in the same position regarding my loans...I feel like every month I pay $500, but nothing ever changes That said, I have gotten the six-figure job as a result of going to law school. I feel like law school was so much better of an educational experience than any of my other educational experiences. That said, there were certain classes I never attended once, and still did as well as those I attended regularly. If they would have allowed it, I feel like I could have gotten the same degree/experience simply by buying the textbooks and reading them on my own. Probably could have gotten it done for $5,000 instead of $80k.

QUOTE (GoSox05 @ Oct 22, 2013 -> 07:30 AM) I bet Greg Jennings wishes he was still catching passes from Aaron Rodgers. All the Minnesota receivers were incredibly frustrated last night...throwing their hands up like, are you f'ing kidding me with these throws?

QUOTE (Rowand44 @ Oct 21, 2013 -> 08:31 PM) All the physical tools are there, apparently something is missing between the ears. He had plenty of time to make throws all night and wasn't even in the same zip code on most of them.

QUOTE (bmags @ Oct 21, 2013 -> 08:22 PM) This game is hilarious. Freeman just looks brutal. I really believed he was going to be one of the good young quarterbacks about halfway through last year.

QUOTE (ChiSox_Sonix @ Oct 21, 2013 -> 09:39 AM) Lost Cobb last week, lost Martin this week. Not my year. The Bucs are saying Martin will be back, perhaps as early as two weeks. They wouldn't even rule him out for Thursday though. Not that he has been very good this year.

I'd say a lot depends on what kind of company you work for. If it is a smaller company, you probably want to do some research to see what typical people that work in a similar job such as yours are paid in your general area. If you use that, combined with some details on what you have done this year and why you deserve a raise, you may be able to negotiate something. For larger companies, it runs more similar to the process Russ described. They don't do a whole lot of negotiating until you reach the higher levels. Usually, you'll get some sort of piece of the pie determined by your manager, in which you need to be able to show and sell to him/her why you are valuable and one of their better employees. A lot of times companies will do market surveys as well to see where they stand in terms of other similarly situated companies within the industry, and then if an upward adjustment is in the cards, they will award you that. Essentially, you want to be able to bring to the table all the reasons why YOU deserve to be considered valuable to the organization.

QUOTE (Eminor3rd @ Oct 21, 2013 -> 12:37 PM) Hawk is gonna sell Abreu so hard. "I tell ya, Stony, this kid has a chance to be a MONSTER. The sound it makes off this kid's bat... I say the best three right-handed hitters we've seen over the last twenty years are TheBigHurtFrankThomas, Manny Ramirez, and Miguel Cabrera -- this guy has a chance to be as good as ALL OF EM." "I don't know about the other league, but the three liveliest bats in this league are Cespedes, Viciedo, and Abreu -- and we got TWO OF EM" He may not be better than Cabrera, but he has a chance to be as good as Cabrera.

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Oct 21, 2013 -> 12:41 PM) I won't have confidence until I see him do it against a defense that doesn't give up 30+ points per game and has a week to gameplan for him. That's fair.

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Oct 21, 2013 -> 12:37 PM) I saw the same exact plays being called - couple of reverses to Jeffrey, inside draws to Forte, slants, screens, etc. All plays that the Bears have run before. I think the difference is (1) the crappy defense and (2) McCown getting rid of the ball a little faster than Jay. It's also not the same connection (reliance) with Marshall. I think the ball will get spread around a bit more with Josh.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Oct 21, 2013 -> 12:17 PM) The playing calling really changed to recognize the change at QB. Everything became much shorter and quicker. They ran that quick out to the WR a bunch of times. The balls were crisp and right on the numbers though, which is more than I can remember from a Bears' backup in a long time. I thought he looked great, and I have confidence that he will continue to play well.

QUOTE (Chisoxfn @ Oct 21, 2013 -> 10:10 AM) Agreed. I look at Jay's numbers this year and they were pretty impressive and I thought he was getting better each week. He's still young enough that he has plenty of time left and I think starting over does a disservice to the current weapons we have on offense. I think they need to look for a slot receiver and a center (plus start thinking about a forte replacement) and focus on the dline (and also secondary while perhaps considering a move of Tillman to safety). There are so many personnel decisions to be made on defense, I don't even know where to begin. I do feel comfortable with Emery at the helm though. Hopefully the offense can carry the rebuilding defense for a year or two and then the two can both play well simultaneously before Cutler hits the wrong side of his career trajectory.