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QUOTE(Balta1701 @ Nov 21, 2007 -> 01:23 PM) Purely from a performance issue, a day or two off a week would clearly be better than 2 or 3 straight weeks off. I meant he plays 14-16 games then takes two games off, not two weeks and perhaps combine that with a travel day.

QUOTE(kapkomet @ Nov 21, 2007 -> 01:05 PM) That's absolutely not true. In my years setting up international purchasing groups for companies, we were mostly speaking in that countries language. It was the clearest and most efficient manner. Typically we had to phone outside of usual business hours in the US, and it was far easier to hire someone in the US who spoke that language, than insisting our partners, who we wanted to keep as inexpensively as possible, to hire someone to speak English. We wanted people skilled in Engineering, material analysis, ISO procedures, etc. When I was buying tooling in Taiwan, it was a huge asset having someone here speaking Taiwanese. They could consistently negotiate better deals than when we attempted to force them into English. Less problems too. But your experiences must be different. I forgot to add, you are correct in that all contracts and legal documents were in English, and I think we even had one or two in French also. But everyone was in English, it was the expected, customary, and my understanding ONLY legally allowed language for international contracts. But I'm certain one of our lawyers here could verify that.

At 130 games he would be at the same as last season. I always wonder which time reference is best when discussing these types of issues. Purely from a health issue and rest, not a performance issue, is once a week rest better than every couple weeks taking two or three straight off? I don't know. Plus, and I do not want to jinx him, but I'd pencil him in for at least one 15 day stretch on the DL.

QUOTE(Steve9347 @ Nov 21, 2007 -> 10:30 AM) Great article by Rozner today... OMG Please make it true and I'll throw away my Stars stuff. Mezmer back, Foley back, Free TV, it's almost too much, I have to sit down.

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Nov 21, 2007 -> 11:55 AM) congrats Soxy

QUOTE(witesoxfan @ Nov 21, 2007 -> 01:31 AM) Ace, I don't mind if people wear their hate sideways. That's about individuality. When on the baseball field, you should follow some type of dress code, and unless you are tilting your hat to block the sun, I feel you should keep it straight. Merely an opinion, among many, but it's how I feel. QUOTE(Dick Allen @ Nov 21, 2007 -> 09:02 AM) I may be very wrong, but I still think Hunter is all about the money. Anything else I believe is an act. Like 99% of the American population. If he was interested in a tradition of winning and a proven track record, he'd be in New York chatting with the Yankees. With Free Agency, absent of the money issues, we'd see every great player in the Bronx with pin stripes or LA soaking up the sun and speaking their native language.

QUOTE(Milkman delivers @ Nov 21, 2007 -> 12:02 PM) What are those two? George Lopez for one.

QUOTE(southsideirish71 @ Nov 21, 2007 -> 11:29 AM) I have worked for 3 international companies, 2 extremely large ones including a Dutch owned one. And one mid sized. At every one, the predominant language of the company was English only. It was rare to run into someone who cannot speak english. It was up to the location country personnel to be able to communicate in the local language. That was the entire reason that they were employed. I would say that only a small small minority of the executive or higher management teams could converse in more than one language. The international language is English. Exactly, and when you are employed in the US and need to speak to a foreign country, you would be speaking in that language. Look at all the US businesses that have subcontracted work to non English speaking countries. For example all the maquilla's here on the US need Spanish speaking employees to communicate with their plants in Mexico. We have a thriving call center industry here because of the number of Spanish speaking employees, Hotels.com, Ticketmaster, and many others all have call centers here. No doubt that English is the language around the world, but English ranks third in the world for first language, behind Mandarin and Spanish. And it is always better to communicate in your first language, than second. Imagine if you are a customer overseas buying American products or services, one employs someone who is fluent in your language as a native speaker, and the other does not. Who will you be more comfortable with? In business everyone is looking for an edge, and speaking the tongue is one of the edges in International trade.

In the man shoots goat when his wife would not bring him beer QUOTE(knightni @ Nov 21, 2007 -> 01:24 AM) Ah s***. He'll never win a World Series now. Two hours later I was doing something else and finally got the joke

QUOTE(knightni @ Nov 21, 2007 -> 01:24 AM) Ah s***. He'll never win a World Series now. QUOTE(mreye @ Nov 21, 2007 -> 08:04 AM) A+ He who laughs last. I just got the reference

QUOTE(The Critic @ Nov 21, 2007 -> 10:28 AM) Beautiful Thing You - The Wildhearts You are so Beautuful - Joe Cocker and others

QUOTE(BigEdWalsh @ Nov 20, 2007 -> 11:23 PM) Breakfast In America - Supertramp America the Beautiful - Various Artists

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Nov 20, 2007 -> 08:07 AM) But you keep leaving out the hundreds of millions of innocent American's who will end up bearing the cost of illegal immigration in the long run. As our Presidential candidates have pointed out on many occasions, social services aren't cheap, and neither is supporting another 100 million people to our south who pay nothing in taxes, yet are receiving American dollars as their second biggest national revenue source. Let's not play like this is just a benefit for the US with no cost to us. Yeah innocent people are going to get harmed no matter what happens, but it also isn't the rest of the countries fault that a sector of our country based their economic status on illegal activity. If the standard is that you can't stop something that could economically hurt people, you are telling me that you shouldn't stop the illegal drug trade, pirating media, black market activities, car theft chopshops, etc. No, we have laws for a reason, and we shouldn't be held hostage to a small portion of our country who believes our laws are for everyone else. I was referring to the legal tourists that visit here. Just like those camera toting folks snapping pictures of Buckingham Fountain and the Sears Tower, we get them too. It is a huge chunk of our economy. You are so right about the social services costs, it is going to be huge. As soon as we finally get those jobs on the books, whomever is working them, will be taking those benefits. It is a huge cost and it has been avoided thus far by the hiring of illegals off the books. And a huge reason that politicians have not been proactive in solving this. I'm curious about the money sent to Mexico, and this is more up yours and Kaps expertise. Mexican-nationals, legal and illegal are sending that much back. That would be after they pay their normal living expenses here in the US. This would be their savings. How is that different than you or I investing in an overseas market, buying a foreign car, clothes made in China, etc.? We report the foreign markets on the news, so I assume that enough Americans are investing in those markets.

QUOTE(Alpha Dog @ Nov 20, 2007 -> 03:30 PM) And those children get taught in bilingual classes, further eating up scarce educational resources teaching kids in spanish that should know english before getting into the public school to begin with, because the parents can't and/or won't learn english enough to speak it at home, etc., so English is at best a second language to them, when if they are going to be citizens, it should be a first language, if possible. Oh, and the birthright citizenship also needs to stop. What we see here when kids transfer from Mexico schools is they are a year or two ahead in Math and Science. So the extra time for language comes from less time for Math. That of course would not be the same for the first year students. There are also native kids who are not as developed in certain areas, and that takes up time. Any class, any subject, and the strugglers hurt the fast achievers, it doesn't matter their nation of origin.

QUOTE(Jenksismyb**** @ Nov 20, 2007 -> 02:19 PM) So the ability to speak a language is all you need?? How about trying, at least a little, to become legal? And I think these studies are all BS. In my senior sem for law school a woman is doing her study on English only laws. We get in these types of debates ALL the time. She quotes study after study about how language trends are increasing and how they are different than past immigration rushes (though she still can't comprehend the problem with having ~10M people who can't speak a lick of english). But the studies are worthless as they are all based on census data. Guess what big chunk of the population is not included in the census? The section that no speaka de ingles. The economy is now global in nature, business prizes employees who can speak foreign languages. Would it not make sense that the current immigrants are facing a world where speaking English just is not as important than 100 years ago and any trends would reflect that? Don't we receive what we reinforce and reward? Now I happen to live in an area where most of the Mexican population is bilingual. The joke is, if you speak three languages you are multilingual, if you speak two languages, you are bilingual, if you speak one language you are gringo. The trend now is the grandparents and the grandchildren are bilingual and the parents only speak English. The current feeling is speak Spanish in the home and English in public. I have a great deal of empathy for anyone who tries to pick up a new language during middle age. I could not, despite many hours of individual teaching and practice, plus working in Mexico.

QUOTE(Jenksismyb**** @ Nov 20, 2007 -> 01:33 PM) Texsox- One thing I don't understand from reading your posts is this sense of a "right" of Mexicans (or immigrants in general) to come here or to have access to our economy. When did that become part of our system? Tradition doens't hold up anymore, especially since traditionally immigrants came here to stay and assimilate - that's definitely not the trend now. I don't think anyone has a right to immigrate here at all. As I've mentioned often, any immigration should be tied to jobs and American needs. As a matter of fact, American needs often are overlooked in our rush to punish. We talk about shutting down companies that employed illegals. Let's think for a moment, that could be hundreds of companies, maybe thousands. Why should the tens of millions of innocent Americans that work at these companies be punished? Imagine Enron, only this time it's Eimile in the mail room who overstayed her student visa who took down the company. I think any solution has to balance punishing the criminals with not punishing the innocent Americans. What gets overlooked in the assimilation issue is Mexican immigrants, unlike those through Paris Island or Angel Island, can drive back for the weekend. Our immigrant history is very different based on which path you took. All our heroic stories are from Ellis Island. Much of the Southwest was once Mexico, those people were not immigrants, they were basically taken over. Angel Island were many Asians coming here to build the railroads. Not too many of their stories are ever told. It's the wonderful Europeans who did everything correct. But even they settled into areas of major cities. Look around Chicago, if people assimilated, why is there China Town, Greek Town, The Southside Irish neighborhoods, the Italians around Taylor Street?

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Nov 21, 2007 -> 09:16 AM) This is one of the greatest sports movies of all time. Incredible cast and a great time. ^^^^ Even for non Sox fans. Speaking of baseball movies, I'm hoping Sports Illustrated comes out with Chicago Cubs, A Century of Failure I have not subscribed in years, but I would just to get that movie.

QUOTE(Soxy @ Nov 21, 2007 -> 09:28 AM) Thanks. I just want this nightmare to be over so that I can be ABmotherf***ingD. I try not to encourage teacher's pets. They make me realize how annoying I was in college. Ha. I am getting so frustrated with one of my classes. It has finally become clear in any sort of a subjective grading he uses a personal curve, because he was expecting more from me, my grade was about the same as someone who put a Powerpoint up with U R Gonna Like This Test!!!!! ahrgggg. On the better side, my History Professor is using one of my suggestions in my on-line class. Basically for the last unit we're going to use the message boards to conduct debates on a couple topics. One question compares Jackson's popularity with Bush's. Filibuster time I've been practicing for this for several years now.

QUOTE(YASNY @ Nov 19, 2007 -> 11:25 PM) And don't you forget it. Actually we do use snow tires down here, here are a couple pics

QUOTE(Soxy @ Nov 21, 2007 -> 09:14 AM) I don't have time. Too much to do. Also, my students keep "dropping in" despite me not having office hours. Seriously, I have the worst luck. But I have a nice big scarf I think I will wear over the top. Kind of clashes, but I made the scarf myself so, it will be fine. It's all about attitude. You will be great. Good luck Wait, students, swap with one or send them to the store, there has to be a teacher's pet just waiting for a suck up moment.

Wait till he wakes up with a hangover and realizes he shot the pretty one . . . Wait that's sheep.

When backpacking, I cannot give up my coffee and someone tipped me off to this new packaging for Taster's Choice. I'm reading it and thinking WTF? To Parties!? What the hell kind of crappy party is bring your own coffee? Must be a Florida thing, Jim must know.

QUOTE(Soxy @ Nov 21, 2007 -> 08:13 AM) Fudge, fudge, fudge, fudge!!!!!! After 3 months of waiting I finally have a meeting with my pre-lims committee today (which I just learned of) and of course (OF COURSE) I am wearing the most inappropriate low cut top (because I figured no one would come in today so I didn't do laundry). CRAP! CRAP! CRAP! Should I wear the clashing cardigan? Hold papers in front of my chest? Of course I also didn't wear a coat because it is unseasonably warm. AGH! How can we give advice without a picture? Is there time to run to the store? Sounds like a nice reason for a new top.

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Nov 20, 2007 -> 01:17 PM) They are talking about rain switching to snow tomorrow... Damn, I am glad I don't have to fly anywhere this Thanksgiving! Texas would love to have you back

QUOTE(Balta1701 @ Nov 20, 2007 -> 10:15 PM) Love Boat Captain - Pearl Jam Love the One You're With - Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young