Texsox

We've sat here for years watching Oz make some awful decisions. We are only guessing how Robin will manage, and clearly mostly here have decided he's going to be terrible. But terrible how? Making the same decisions as Oz? I don't believe he will. Of course I am guessing like everyone else. However, I believe his personality will be one of playing it safe. Following the traditional (stats friendly) route. I believe Robin is a follow the book not write the book kind of person. That could be a welcome breath of fresh air on the south side.

Will everyone be happier if he's making $2 million or more? You know, JR can't win with the salary.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Oct 6, 2011 -> 08:56 PM) What exactly has he done to earn the players respect? Worked his way up? Gained experience? Done anything to establish himself as wanting this job? Played the game honest and hard?

QUOTE (JoshPR @ Oct 6, 2011 -> 08:44 PM) Why is Cooper the problem? Probably no control over a major part of the team. The guy will get all the blame, and none of the credit, for the pitching staff.

There are a number of private residences that people will rent out during March. It's a good time for locals to take a vacation. So imagine your parents renting out your family home to college students on spring break. They can set some strict rules, and they will get families to rent their places. Safer for them.

QUOTE (bigruss22 @ Oct 6, 2011 -> 03:43 PM) So Im trying to plan a spring break trip for a bunch of seniors, and we thought South Padre Island, TX would be awesome to go to, so I found a great place on the beach for a reasonable price but when I emailed them for more details they said if we need a parent present, even though all of us would be 21. Im trying to keep the costs low, and renting a house seems like the best choice, but any ideas on how to convince them or alternatives for us? What week are you planning on coming down? There are a lot of rental companies, each with different standards. Being on the beach isn't really that important. From the bay to the surf, the width of the island, is less than a half mile. The entertainment district is the middle of the island and the bay side. Surf side is nice during the day, but seriously if you can walk a block or two, you are at the beach. Most condos only require 21, some will even go lower if a parent provides a credit card. I use to suggest a trip to Mexico, but with the cartel violence in Matamoros, I would not recommend it.

QUOTE (Milkman delivers @ Oct 6, 2011 -> 08:22 PM) So if we hire a team full of midgets, we'd be great. That one guy had a career 1.000 OBP. Gotta play by the stats

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Oct 6, 2011 -> 08:24 PM) Can someone please tell me what Robin Ventura could have learned waving guys in from the 3rd base coach's box or holding elbow pads in the first base coach's box or sitting next to a manager telling him what he would do, that he in no way could have picked up all those years he played? What makes Ventura a worse candidate than Martinez or Alomar? Steve Phillips was on the radio and he was talking Dave Martinez. He said he would never hire him as a manager because he thinks he lacks presence. That's his opinion and could be way off, but Martinez has interviewed for a couple of jobs and apparently didn't do so well. No one is a guarantee, but I like Ventura's chances. Current knowledge of the opponents would come to mind. We have to hope he has good coaches around him to get the team prepared. The next few choices to round out his staff will be a good test. He has a very experienced pitching coach, if he adds some other good minds (Tex Winter types) he could do fine.

QUOTE (Milkman delivers @ Oct 6, 2011 -> 08:22 PM) Tex, what is your incessant need to consistently mock the posters on this board? It seems that every post of yours in PHT is of this nature. Can you ever add anything to the discussion without coming off like this? How is pointing out what people actually said mocking? The majority of posters could do a better job than Ozzie. Do we really think Robin is going to do worse than the average poster here? So I'm relaxing and feeling OK with the choice. But we also know from another poll that the average poster here could also be a better GM than KW, so maybe somewhere in there there is a possibility that Robin could be worse than Ozzie. But all he has to do to be a major upgrade is be as good as the average poster, doesn't that make you feel better about the pick?

I'm willing to give him a chance. Everyone here knows he's going to be the worst manager ever. But remember, a poll here showed that a majority of posters said they managed better than Oz, all Robin has to do is be as good as the average poster here and it's a major upgrade. http://www.soxtalk.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=81618

I can't believe all the people that said they just want someone to manage by the stats would be upset.

All he has to do is look at the stats and do what the stats tell him to do. He was a great presence in the locker room as a player, a team leader who gained the respect of his teamates. I am excited to see how he does. And, since Ozzie cost us about 15 games last year all he has to do is not be Oz and we're back in the hunt.

For about the past couple years it has been a green mug with a fairly large handle with a nested and scripted PA for UTPA, The University of Texas - Pan American. It was a gift from my bestee. For travel with home brewed coffee, it is a leather and stainless travel mug I received for donating to the Boy Scouts. For brewing up a mug while on the road it is a portable, thermal, french press that stores loose coffee in the bottom. Very handy as long as you have hot water.

And who made a greater impact on getting computers into homes, Apple and closed source, expensive hardware and software that was incompatible with anything else, or open source IBM which allowed computers at half the price?

I think it is much closer to thank him for operating a company where his engineers could develop all those neat new toys. And a fairly decent comparison would be Masaru Ibuka, and Akio Morita of Sony who invented the Walkman. That was the first truly portable device for listening to your choice of music. As cassettes changed to CDs then MP3s the style of devices changed, but it would be unrealistic to believe that Jobs gave us portable music players.

Here's to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes ... the ones who see things differently ... they're not fond of rules.... You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them, but the only thing you can't do is ignore them because they change things ... they push the human race forward, and while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius, because the ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world are the ones who do. I'm as proud of what we don't do as I am of what we do. In most people's vocabularies, design means veneer. It's interior decorating. It's the fabric of the curtains of the sofa. But to me, nothing could be further from the meaning of design. Design is the fundamental soul of a human-made creation that ends up expressing itself in successive outer layers of the product or service. Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower. We don't get a chance to do that many things, and every one should be really excellent. Because this is our life. The people who built Silicon Valley were engineers. They learned business, they learned a lot of different things, but they had a real belief that humans, if they worked hard with other creative, smart people, could solve most of humankind's problems. I believe that very much. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. All from Steve Jobs, 1955 - 2011

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Aug 24, 2011 -> 02:51 PM) Also... am I the only person who clicks on this thread almost excited to see who died? Then I find out most of the time I have no idea who it is so I need not bother tweeting or posting something about it? How f***ed up is that? QUOTE (Milkman delivers @ Aug 24, 2011 -> 02:58 PM) Nope, I'm right there with you. Morbid, ain't it? We really should do a death pool. Scoring is simple, we pick a start and end date, you earn points based on the age of the celebrity that passes. 100 minus their age generally works well. Pick 20 celebrities. We could go November 1, 2011 through October 31, 2012. Seems kind of cool to end on Halloween. Thoughts?

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QUOTE (Rex Kicka** @ Oct 5, 2011 -> 04:23 PM) Yes, a very bad dream. For the GOPerheads

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Oct 5, 2011 -> 04:24 PM) Even if one were to hold discourse on this topic predicated around the extant American governmental system, one may still be tempted to ask why coalescing power at the State level is an ideal structure, preferable to further delegating State power to local municipalities. Surely, if the claim that States act as a "test bed" of Democracy for various policies and that citizens can freely and easily relocate to the State that endeavours to enact their personal preferences most closely, then one can further reason that delegating the aforementioned powers to an ever more granular level maximizes one's ability to live with one's own ideal governance. Thank you, I am reading 8th grade ESL papers right now.

Quietly so no one sees is an awesome thread title for this.

Palin - Perry would be a dream ticket.

Guns make some people brave. I have no doubt that given two scenarios, a town where everyone has guns, and a town where no one has guns, there will be less murders in the town without guns. I also believe we tend to overlook the words regulated and militia when discussing what our founding fathers meant. Plus, in 1787 if you wanted meat, you generally were on your own to get it. So the world is much different than when the U.S. Constitution was written. So I do not believe a person not in an organized militia has a guaranteed right to own a gun. I also believe citizens have a right to be able to protect themselves, both with a gun, and from guns. There is the balance that is difficult at best.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Oct 4, 2011 -> 08:15 PM) It's a philosophical question, not "how does American government function" question Gotcha. I forget we have a well educated group here. The average Joe Sixpack tends to forget that.

Turns out SS has some strange publishing house fetish.