Texsox

Early morning has become my favorite vacation time.

$5000 credit if you teach in a Title 1 area for 5 years. $10,000 if it is STEM related. There are a couple simple methods for paying off your debt. Pay the smallest bill off first then roll that money into your payment for the next lowest and keep snowballing. Start with the highest interest and work your way down. Either way you go, keep track monthly of your balances. Seeing results is a great motivator.

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Feb 10, 2015 -> 02:19 PM) No, see that's the difference. As I said before, at least SA has a "law" and SOME kind of justice system in place. Yes, it might be weak, it might be ludicrous, but it's SOMETHING. Presumably you could, in most cases, not do what is illegal and you'd be fine. Just because Balta can point to a few select cases doesn't' mean it's some epidemic where SA is systematically killing its people based on witchcraft allegations. ISIS is doing that. Grabbing random foreigners, kidnapping them, holding them for ransom and then killing them when they don't get their money (and let's not forget about the mass executions in public). I seriously cannot believe that you guys think the two situations are even remotely similar. Not even remotely similar? They are all capital punishment. They are both holding someone against their will. People are being killed. Other people believe those people should not have been killed. Other people believe they should be killed. There is a justice system in place. It is fast and efficient. That all seems similar. Balta is on his own for the oil stuff.

New supplier, under $200 fully loaded. Starting at $65.

Very close to the start of the baseball season.

QUOTE (LDF @ Feb 10, 2015 -> 01:16 PM) oh i don't know, i like the idea of a slow drip, lethal injection with a little acid mix, not enuf to kill, but enuf to hurt. and while that is being applied, start breaking every digit on the hand and feet. ~~~ edit, and since we are talking about ISIS, how bout a little blood infusion with some pig's blood held down with pigs leather. ~~~ edit 2, and since he is strapped to the table, how bout getting some boars testicles and shove it up their arse and sew the arse cheek shut. like this they are really getting screwed, figuratively and literally. good bye to seeing alah. Which again shows how close we are to having the same beliefs as ISIS and the rest.

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Feb 10, 2015 -> 09:44 AM) When SA kidnaps someone and beheads/lights them on fire and posts it on the internet, please let me know. Until then, they are not the same. It's not the same. I agree. But what is the same is arguably the most important part. Someone is held against their will, judged as being a threat to that society, and killed.

It has been an up and down down season. We're middle of the pack but with a decent group of underclassmen I could ride this for a few seasons.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Feb 9, 2015 -> 09:34 AM) I remember when some were predicting 50 homer seasons for Josh Fields. He was 16 short of that. For his career. Well played Dick

The take away I get from Balta's posts are we tolerate the exact same behavior from our "friends" that we condemn our enemies for. We do have some level of hypocrisy on this level. I do believe we would have a greater moral platform if we didn't use capital punishment as a deterrent to acts we find deserving. We execute people people as well but we do it humanely (maybe) and for better reasons.

Great day to day. My team finished second in a decent tournament. Best finish in 10 years.

Zenith of this thread may have just happened.

Capital punishment is capital punishment. Each group has its own laws and ways of carrying out the sentence. Balta, the SA argument should would also apply to SA, (San Antonio) TX. We execute a fair number of people each year for crimes that we find serious.

X usually kills this thread.

QUOTE (Buehrle>Wood @ Feb 7, 2015 -> 08:16 PM) http://www.baseball-reference.com/friv/birthdays.cgi Try by dob Thank you. I am still trying to track down a birth certificate. All I have now is the year of birth.

Remember this is a MA Thesis that a committee will be reviewing before I defend it later this year. I am the professor's only student for this class. It is the equivalent of 9 semester hours. Also, I am hoping to write a couple pages about his baseball career. I wish it were that easy.

That is my assumption. So I need to look at independent leagues in the 1950s which will be a PITA

I have not found another name that he used, but I am in the early stages of researching. Thanks.

QUOTE (Jerksticks @ Feb 6, 2015 -> 10:01 PM) Would there be interest if we made a spreadsheet with everyone's picks for like 5-10 Abreu categories, and then at the end of the year you get a rank for each category. For example, whoever is closest to guessing his HRs gets a 1 for HR category. Say the next closest is a tie they both get a 2 and the next poster would get a 4. Like golf, lowest score total gets the trophy. I think it would be fun only because his numbers could be anywhere from good to ridiculous. And we could post leaderboards every month or something. I think some good formulas in excel could probably spit out leaderboards simply by inputting Abreu's current stats. Fire it up. I also think when these threads start we need to QFT the prediction before your post. Just saying there may have been some editing going on in last year's prediction thread. Maybe we could lock the thread at some point.

I am researching a Texas writer for a chapter in my MA Thesis. His name is Mack Thomas and on one of the dust jackets for his novel The Total Beast it mentions he "tried his hand at pitching professional baseball" another reference makes me believe he probably was paid to play. Any suggestions on sources that may help me trace the dates and teams? (he has been dead for forty years). He was born in 1928 and served in the Air Force and went to college so he probably played in the 1950s.

I understand there will be a less expensive option for this year. I'm not certain what it will look like. I may create a team jacket since none of my players have bought a varsity jacket. They would rather buy a new driver for $400 than a jacket. The other difference from when I was in school in Illinois is here you only qualify to buy one if you have earned a varsity letter. We could buy one freshman year and would sew on our freshman numbers (grad year), then you would earn a sophomore letter (smaller than varsity, then to complete the look a varsity letter with devices for each sport or, keep sewing on each letter. To really complete the third world general look, the track and cross country runners would add the medals we won and walk down the halls jingling like Noriega at a state dinner.

Unlike younger "rookies" he is more seasoned and I do not see a sophomore slump setting in. .321/33/129/.995 I'm guessing power down a bit, average up.

When it does snow here the newspapers will put out special editions of the paper.

I just learned the jackets at my school are over $400. Wow. What did y'all pay for yours and when? Obviously my $50 in 1979 isn't a fair comparison.

Tuesday, fortyfive degrees and light rain falling. My girl's team ignored the weather and just grinded out decent rounds. They struggled with club selection but overall I was really impressed.