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I have always been a huge Baines fan. His class and professionalism was always top tier. I wish injuries hadn't shortened his career.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Apr 22, 2015 -> 11:58 AM) The big fail IMO is the actual replays and that is on the league. Both teams should look at the exact same thing the guy reviewing the play would be looking at. Nothing more, nothing less. Great point. I was really shocked that it wasn't already standardized.

We do not want people to think and make decisions. Instead we want numbers and procedures and strategy that is bound in research. There needs to be a balance. You have to include the players in this. Of everyone associated with the Sox, who had the absolute best view of the play? Ramirez. Who is not part of the process and still won't be? Ramirez. I hate to bring his name up but Oz's managing from the gut probably would have had his ass out of the dugout as soon as he saw his player's actions, not waiting on someone viewing it from various TV angles.

This probably belongs in the video game thread but is anyone playing WGT? I'm almost addicted right now.

I'm new here

All of a sudden I am only seeing the first post in a thread the rest are in a nested outline below. How do I adjust the settings?

QUOTE (Athomeboy_2000 @ Apr 21, 2015 -> 12:36 PM) Pics, or it didn't happen. And I'm talking starting at the conception. uhh... PS: CONGRATS. already uncovered http://www.soxtalk.com/forums/index.php?sh...p;mode=threaded

QUOTE (Chisoxfn @ Apr 21, 2015 -> 11:24 AM) We have people on Soxtalk who can do our eEnglish homework. My kids are destined to be numbers people (born to a mommy & and daddyies who are both CPAs, haha). fixed like a stray dog

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Apr 21, 2015 -> 10:56 AM) But I'm sure the SF Giants fans will put him in their Franchise Four. Mays, McCovey, Marichal, Bonds, Sandoval, Will Clark, Orlando Cepeda, maybe Jeff Kent (although everyone hated that dude)....Lincecum and Bumgarner will get some consideration as well. Probably. However, I could see MLB dictating that they do not. Same with Pete Rose for example.

QUOTE (3GamesToLove @ Apr 21, 2015 -> 07:42 AM) Because he is one of the greatest players of all time? Just a wild guess. I'm of the camp that sadly we will never know how great he would have been if he was honest. Including him in the greatest of all time disrespects guys like Thomas who didn't cheat.

Thomas is a lock, modern and great stats. I will be shocked if a banned player would make any MLB or team sanctioned list. So no Joe. I'd love to see Minnie for his all-time contribution to the team. After that there is a fine list that I would be happy seeing any two on.

Congratulations! Have you reserved a soxtalk alias for him? I was looking through the registered names and Mydadcantspell is available. Will you be doing his homework?

QUOTE (Y2HH @ Apr 20, 2015 -> 04:18 PM) Oh, no, I did not mean to insinuate that ALL cops in Mexico are corrupt, however, the Mexican police are pretty well known for corruption from the top down, complete with cartel involvement. For a country that has a complete ban on guns, they seem to have just as many as we do. And from everything I know, most people work for small companies (with less than ~25 people). While I don't know the numbers for Mexico, here are the US numbers as of 2011: In 2011, according to U.S. Census Bureau data, there were 5.68 million employer firms in the United States. Firms with fewer than 500 workers accounted for 99.7 percent of those businesses, and businesses with less than 20 workers made up 89.8 percent. I'm wondering how they determine "employer firm". For example my wife and I edit books and have a business. We generate less than $5000 per year, teaching and coaching are our "real professions". Is our business included in employer firms? Owner/Operators are firms, so that could account as well. Interesting.

QUOTE (Y2HH @ Apr 20, 2015 -> 02:41 PM) That's like saying health care is perfectly fine in the US because I work for Blue Cross Blue Shield, and we have a number of doctors/nurses on staff and a clinic in the basement of our offices. That doesn't mean everyone else does. Unfortunately, MOST people don't work for large employers, not the US, and not in Mexico. And one doctor for an entire "large company and their families" doesn't sound all that amazing, to be perfectly honest. I'm just suggesting the all cops are corrupt in Mexico may not be accurate. We had 400 employees that classified as us a large employer. I think a lot of people work for companies of that size. One doctor 8 hours per day, 6 days per week. Plus a nurse the rest of the time. Anything they couldn't handle was paid for at the hospital. For accurate comparison only. Use the facts as you wish.

QUOTE (Chisoxfn @ Apr 20, 2015 -> 02:14 PM) In one case of my example that is true, but for all other companies, the amount the company would match and pay stayed flat and/or increased (as a relative percentage), however, to keep things from going crazy, other adjustments had to be made. For example, this current year at my current employer, premiums went up 10% (and coverage went down...hard to quantify exact percentage because a lot depends on how much you go out of pocket, but it was a pretty big overall reduction in coverage vs. the previous gold plated caddy coverage). Had the Company kept everything the same, premiums would have went up in excess of 40% (both to the company and the employee), whose % match was going to remain consistent). They opted to go with the version with lower premiums (and subsequently lower coverage) as the perception is the employee (and I'd generally say this is true) is more focused on the premiums paid vs. total cost (as you usually have to put some estimates in up front when analyzing that). Either way, my point is, it isn't employers driving this change. In some cases sure, but in general, all I see is absurd price increases and they have gotten crazy post Obamacare. I am not actually correlating the two because insurance costs have been crazy prior to, but lets not just look at premiums as an indicator. I could be on a plan that cost $50 / month and ultimately cost me thousands more than a plan that cost 500 a month depending on coverage & my use of insurance. The cost increases have been horrible since the mid 1980s.

QUOTE (Y2HH @ Apr 20, 2015 -> 08:27 AM) I hear people repeat stuff like this all the time...insert Mexico, Cuba, or some other 2nd/3rd world nation, and compare them to the US. I don't, for a single second, believe statistics coming out of corrupt ass countries like that, and if you've ever gone to any of these places, and actually left a protected tourist zones, you'd quickly realize that's a load of crap. Hell, get pulled over by a cop there (off the reservation), and you'll quickly realize it's nothing more than a shakedown where you have two choices, you either give them all the money you have, or you get to go to Mexican jail for a day and see how that works out. They're great at reporting stats from the areas they want to report them from, but ignoring poor/troubled areas, and then showing "their healthcare is as good as any other countries". That'd be like Chicago ignoring the south side gun violence "because it's just poor people killing poor people", and reporting there were just 15 murders for all of 2014, and then proclaiming, "Look, Chicago is just as safe as Sweden!" I worked in Mexico for three years. I've been pulled over by cops in Mexico and in the US. The experiences were about the same. As a large employer we were required to provide a doctor on staff to treat the employee and their families. Much cheaper than providing insurance and more convenient for the workers, less so for the families. I spoke with the doctor a number of times, he was educated in the Caribbean. Seemed like the employees were well cared for.

Fantasy golf this week I have Speith, Johnson, Casey, and Donald. Definitely my best ever week in the making. Only 7% picked Paul Casey. I'm really surprised by that.

I caught a player on my team cheating. I watched him take a seven. Long story short, he turns in a four, verifies it with the marker, reads it to the score, signs his card. At this point I ask him to tell me the shots. BOOM! You are DQ'd and turn in your equipment.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Apr 7, 2015 -> 08:04 PM) See Mark Fuhrman, OJ Simpson case Exactly who I was thinking of. He managed to frame a guilt man.

QUOTE (Alpha Dog @ Apr 4, 2015 -> 12:52 PM) So...officers should be fired for something they said (texted) in private and what appears to be mostly while not on the job. So should people who tweet/text death threats to pizza owners also be fired from their jobs? If we are policing thought and speech, I would think the death threats are just as bad as racial comments. Or is headhunting only OK for certain groups? You make great points there. One question, and on a tangent, if you had an employee whose tweets were costing you money, would you say fire the employee or lose business from customers that don't have the same enlightened attitude you have? On this case, if you were on a jury and learned that the officer that arrested someone had just sent a message that showed hatred for that race, would it affect your opinion of the officer's testimony? If an hour earlier he sent a message about idiot white guys who think they own the world, then arrested a rich white guy, would you have an issue? I think I would.

That will be a cool trip.

Whew. Long day. We cruised to a third place finish in our district. We just couldn't beat the country club kids. My top player finished fifth and will advance to the regional tournament next week.

End of round one of our district tournament we sit in fourth place, three back. The country club kids will finish 1-2 but I'm confident we will place third. I also have the low medalist. She is a freshman and standing tall after a disastrous front nine.

QUOTE (Soxbadger @ Apr 1, 2015 -> 02:38 PM) Im going to go out on a limb and say that the taxes generated by small mom an pop businesses pale in comparison to large corporations. How much revenue would Indiana lose if they lost the Big10 championship, Indy 500 etc. How much revenue do they gain by passing this law? Economically speaking its not very logical. If Indiana wants to be on the wrong side of history, that is their call. The last time I was there was over 10 years ago to see Bon Jovi, ironically Melissa Etheridge was one of the opening acts. I'll saw off the limb. Mom and pop business, and all single location businesses, pay taxes in Indiana. Large corporations are more likely to have been given tax incentives to locate there. They are also more likely to shift their tax liabilities to more tax friendly locations. The Indy 500 is based at a specific track and isn't moving. Also as a member school Indiana isn't going to be frozen out of the revenues or kicked out of the Big 10 over this. Notre Dame isn't going to find opponents unwilling to play in Indiana.

QUOTE (Alpha Dog @ Apr 1, 2015 -> 02:24 PM) So, doing business with Indiana means you hate gays, but baking a cake for a gay wedding means nothing? Just as you are implying guilt by association, so are the bakers etc. who don't want to do business with gay weddings and be guilty of supporting it by association. Damn, I am agreeing with Alpha and not Balta. I need to go think, this can't be right. BTW, we do need to look carefully at the statements doing business WITH Indiana (as in the state) and doing business IN Indiana. In my mind there is a huge difference. SS2K5 lives in Indiana, I would still do business with him. If I had the luxury (which few businesses do) I might not do business with the State of Indiana government.