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QUOTE(iamshack @ Mar 10, 2008 -> 01:48 PM) The problem is that Jay has lost all sense of objectivity towards the Sox, Shall we start to list the posters here we could make that very same statement about, who also are negative constantly about the team?

QUOTE(lvjeremylv @ Mar 11, 2008 -> 09:24 AM) I'm not saying trade your old guys. I'm saying trade your old guys WHEN it's relatively clear you are not a legitimate contender and can still get some return for them to help you in the future. What good will it do the Sox to keep the same core of players if they're going to most likely finish 3rd at best? What good will it do to play the games with the best talent you can field? Keep your fan base. Grow your fan base. Catch lightening and perhaps win. google White Flag Trade to see what giving up does. Currently, using that logic, 8-10 teams in all of baseball should be keeping their players and the rest should be trading their highest value players. Anyone in the AL East, outside Boston and NY, should never keep any player with decent value. At some point you have to complete. Just this century, our best ranked teams leaving spring training failed and we won with a team that was not that respected.

QUOTE(Athomeboy_2000 @ Mar 11, 2008 -> 10:27 AM) http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/...ersity-of-iowa/ How STUPID is the University of Iowa? A liberal school hires the spinmaster and hatchet man of the Bush administration for $40,000 and expects everything to go well???? Some would say it went very well and Rove was the stupid one for accepting the speaking gig and expecting anything more pleasant. He knew what he was in for and accepted the challenge and the $40,000. I wonder if that is his usual University fee. BTW, "worse than the person who introduced aluminum baseball bats." that is perhaps the first thing he has ever said I could wholeheartedly agree with.

If you took all the GOP voters from my counties' primary, they would fit inside a High School football stadium with room for the band, cheerleaders, pom pom squad, and their parents. One voting location reported one person taking a GOP ballot.

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Mar 11, 2008 -> 10:22 AM) Just a thought... Anyone check to see if Bill was a "client" (Mostly green text) /when I read about the Clinton connection that was my first thought I viewed her campaign's ties to questionable fund raising individuals to be more of an issue. With all the delegates and super delegates out there, every candidate has some problems. I was thinking my Mayor, Joe Ochoa, endorsed Obama and has campaigned for him. This area is solidly Clinton territory, so this was a courageous endorsement by Ochoa. We also had a state rep or two that weakly came out for Obama and then fell back in line for Clinton. This was big news here, but I doubt it was covered in your media. Was it because he's a Dem, or because politics is local?

QUOTE(NorthSideSox72 @ Mar 11, 2008 -> 10:22 AM) Go solar/wind/geo/hydro/hydrogen and you have no waste whatsoever, not to mention much lower risks to public health and a lot less expense to run. or wave and a couple more. There are trade offs. Some of the best areas to generate that electricity is also some of the most beautiful. That needs to be balanced also.

QUOTE(StrangeSox @ Mar 11, 2008 -> 10:18 AM) That's much more realistic than some form of rapid charging. I was looking at the power connector on my son's Mac, the magnetic style and thinking that could work. Really fast connection so you could "fill up" in under five minutes. However the easier and more convenient you make the system, the easier it would be for someone to steal (siphon your "gas")

QUOTE(NorthSideSox72 @ Mar 11, 2008 -> 09:56 AM) Those plants are many times over more efficient at producing energy than gas-engine cars though, so its still a significant net drop in energy. Plus, you are assuming these will all be pure plug-in powered electrics. They will also, I'd guess, employ regenerative braking and other internal electrical regeneration methods, which are basically "free". Absolutely, it also seems easier to keep one power plant running at peak efficiency and with peak environmental controls than thousands of cars. I just see people call them non-polluting in other venues and we forget that electricity needs to be generated somehow. The infrastructure that SS mentioned is also key. It seems daunting to place cords everywhere, but imagine if we were switching to gas and needed all the gas stations we have now. On many street corners there are three or four. What I see instead of some technology that will charge "fill" in five minutes, is smaller, lighter, power sources that could be swapped out like propane tanks. At least here, more people just trade tanks at our local convienence stores than have our own tanks filled.

QUOTE(Alpha Dog @ Mar 11, 2008 -> 09:55 AM) Where ya been? getting hookers for governors, working out in front of Muslim women, smuggling illegals, and trying to kill Tex.

QUOTE(Alpha Dog @ Mar 5, 2008 -> 09:05 AM) That is a bulls***, Tex-like analogy, Nice, I don't post for two weeks and someone still can rip me There must be lots of Muslim women working out because the http://www.curves.com/about_curves/ Seems like perhaps more then just Muslim women favor that environment.

Random thoughts. Something I learned from the concrete industry that carries over to oil. We're using both faster than the earth can resupply. Therefor, the folks that own cement and oil, own as much as they ever will. It is just a matter of how fast they want to sell it. Why bust your ass in production just to lower prices? Work 8-5 M-F and not worry about it. Electric cars move the point of pollution from the cars to the electric plant. I know no one was touting the environmental impact but wanted to toss it out there. Anyone know if the taxes on fuel are percentages or exact cost per gallon? Perhaps consumers should be talking to our elected representatives to lower them taxes.

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Mar 11, 2008 -> 09:14 AM) How about a governor who has really close ties to one of the leading Presidential candidates? Then again even without the connections to Hillary, the affect is still more than the preachers that are taken down publically for the same kind of stuff. Hillary would have to have known he was soliciting prostitutes for it to change my opinion of her. Perhaps the effect is great, but less widespread. The preachers that have been involved in these sorts of things generally have a national following. I could not even name five Governors, so I just don't see it as being that important outside of his state. Except to score some little political points or, as mentioned, for the entertainment angle.

QUOTE(jasonxctf @ Mar 10, 2008 -> 03:09 PM) powerful men like to feel powerful. QUOTE(NorthSideSox72 @ Mar 10, 2008 -> 03:10 PM) What's the power in paying for sex? Anyone can do that. They feel they can get away with it. It's the same sort of hubris that allows you to run for office. It takes a real strong ego to run for office. I sometimes believe the very act of wanting to run for office should automatically make you ineligible to hold office. QUOTE(mr_genius @ Mar 10, 2008 -> 04:01 PM) This should be a big time story, we'll see if the media covers it like they did Larry Craig. I should be a big time story in his state, but really, how much does the Governor of another state resigning change in your life? Is it really of national importance? It will get covered for the entertainment value.

QUOTE(DBAH0 @ Mar 11, 2008 -> 05:40 AM) And once again I am the last man standing. Could it be there's like 6 women standing, but you're the last man?

QUOTE(SoxWS05 @ Mar 10, 2008 -> 10:40 AM) What a skumbag. This guy will never miss a chance to bad mouth the Sox. We could pick up A-rod and Johan and he would say how the Sox made a bad move and don't know how run the organization. What a joke this guy is. If the Sox did pick up those guys, half of this board would be saying the same thing. And have plenty of stats and financial projections to prove it. Then when Jay says it, it will be because he hates the Sox.

QUOTE(Felix @ Mar 9, 2008 -> 06:27 PM) None of those teams have really traded their highest value players while holding onto their lowest value players (unless you're talking about Miguel Tejada being traded when his value was probably the lowest possible, barring a suspension due to 'roids) I also don't disagree that the ownership in Baltimore is absolutely terrible, but Tampa Bay and KC are pretty well stocked for the upcoming years. I'm also not saying that Florida's plan is the best plan for everyone, but you can't deny their results. 2 World Series rings in 14 years of existence? Not going to get much better than that. So do you win without your most valuable players? Like Bad News Bears?

He also never really spent any time on the market.

QUOTE(YASNY @ Mar 9, 2008 -> 10:30 AM) We could have championships in Charlotte and Birmingham! Wouldn't that be great? exactly. But I was actually thinking about something even more important, perhaps, *the* most important thing of all. Would it result in more profits? That's #1

Trade him while his value is high! I'll bet he will really appreciate that hometown discount he gave to stay a Sox. dumb ass.

I wonder what happens when a team trades all of their highest value players and keeps their lowest value players. How many have won championships?

Instead of talking about people you "see", let's look at the numbers, Here, the average salary is less than $7 per hour. This could be someone just off public aid. Medium skill worker. They will not qualify for Medicade or Food assistance. $14,000 annual salary. After taxes like Social Security, etc. they will clear about $12,000 then a decent rent on a one bedroom here will set them back about $6,000 per year leaving $6,000 then electric, water, heating, telephone will set them back at least $2,500 per year leaving $3,500 then let's eat some food, buy some cleaning supplies, another $40 per week or $2,000 leaving $1,500 now let's fill up the tank on the car once a week, $30 x 52 week or $1,600 oops I guess this is where they buy the nice car, clothes, get their nails done, and pay for health care. This is the challenge that people face who want to stop having the government pay for everything. This is the challenge that people have who are trying to do the right thing. They don't magically jump to $25,000 jobs.

QUOTE(santo=dorf @ Feb 23, 2008 -> 11:50 AM) What did White Sox fans do to improve their names? You hit the nail on the head. One bad apple doesn't mean all members of a similar group have to taken action to improve themselves. Perhaps frats can improve themselves by finally allowing atheists, agnostics, and homosexuals to join their group. Oh wait, that's something the boy scouts should consider to improve themselves. And we do. Our Learning for Life programs, our Soccer and Scouting Program. Our Venturing Programs. Explorer Posts. Sea Scouts, and Air Scouts are all open to the groups you mention. So you are free to join.

QUOTE(Alpha Dog @ Feb 23, 2008 -> 11:24 AM) TEx, how many minimum wage people you know that smoke? Not a cheap habit. And drink? Eat fast food? All not cheap. I do alot of work for a local food bank. When I am there delivering stuff, I see some of the people who are there picking up food for free. Some have nice cars. And I mean NICE cars. Some have huge rings on their fingers. And I laugh at the ones sporting those huge-ass painted nails that are like 3" long or something. Those are not cheap to get, and how the hell do you do ANYTHING with claws like that? Choices. I also never said there wasn't a problem. My wife works for an insurance comapny and I still think it is expensive. Government run single payer isn't the way to fix it. We have had threads about this before. You need to do many things to fix it. Tort reform to keep malpractice insurancee in line, weed out bad doctors to help the malpractice stuff and find a way to entice drug companies to maybe CURE something in stead of maintain among others. People also need to make better choices. Stop eating crap food, excercise if you can, stop smoking or cut down on bad habits and stop having kids you can't afford (it's not like you can return them). It is not easy, as we can all see from our Biggest Loser thread. But as I try to tell my kids, choices you make now will effect you for the rest of your lives. Be a dumbass in school because you think it is 'cool' can screw with you forever in the form of lower paying jobs and less opportunities in life. Yep, these people live large on $15,000 per year! GMAB. Yep and the people I know are working two and three jobs. When one of my Scouts passed away last year his medical bills came to over $150,000. The parents were both working full time and he took side jobs every weekend. No time for their kids, they were always working. They will continue to work the rest of their lives to cover those bills. No chance to buy a home. Probably will never own a car, or at least not for a long time. You see people in the stores, I know them. I'm in their homes and they in mine. But fine, find your examples and then pretend that is the majority.

I did laugh at Life of Brian btw.

$28,000 per year. 20% or more of your take home pay for health insurance. Plus the poor are far more likely to have poor diets, poor primary health care, etc. Perhaps we learned a lesson from the Influenza outbreak that when massive amounts of poor people are sick, trhe wealthy people die also. Sorry I got the salaries wrong. It still doesn't address the people who are making $7 or $8 per hour. We know that raising salaries would be a disaster for business, it comes up everytime the DEMs start talking about raising minimum wage. So we'd have those people spending 50% or more of their income on medical insurance. No problem there.