Texsox

QUOTE (God Loves The Infantry @ Sep 30, 2011 -> 05:38 PM) Dude, it's just my style. You know that. Careful, it was bordering on hyperbole, and that's my style. You work your side of the alley, I'll work mine.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Sep 30, 2011 -> 05:32 PM) Funny how Ozzie had to have that option exercised, it gets exercised and he doesn't honor it, and HE pops off about loyalty. Maybe he should re think that. If JR doesn't let him out of his contract, its very debatable whether he ever gets offered what he signed for ever again. Where was Ozzie not going to honor the contract? Did we really want him to?

Depends on the bodyguard

NSS, from a practical point of view, it is impossible to interview ever qualified applicant. So you start to apply filters to narrow down the list. Whatever filter you use will potentially cause you to overlook the very best candidate. So which filters should be employed first? The unqualified are tossed aside. Then here is the first cut I used, local versus out of the area. Unemployed applicants from out of say a 100 mile area, went in the bottom stack. Employed applicants without specific industry experience were placed on top of them. The top of the stack were applicants from my biggest competitors with three years of experience or less and one promotion in that time. Why? Because that formula worked for me on numerous occasions. In fifteen years I never fired someone who fit that profile. I was 100% happy with each hire. Some left on their own accord, but were considered solid employees while working with me. Any one of those filters may have caused me to overlook someone, but you have to trust your gut and history.

QUOTE (God Loves The Infantry @ Sep 30, 2011 -> 05:07 PM) He lost that status when he took up arms against the United States. I will shed no tears for him. Besides, if this wasn't justice, what would have been? Allowing him to live and continue to murder innocent people out of some refusal to extrajudicially execute a "US citizen" (and I use that phrase in the loosest way)? I don't think so. Regardless of the legal implications here, the world is now a better place and AQAP is substantially weaker. I'll take it! Besides, he could have gotten his fair trial at any point by simply surrendering. But he didn't do that. Instead he continued to fight. And we have no obligation to capture individuals who take up arms against us and do not surrender to our forces, no different than the fact that a cop no longer has any obligation to capture the criminal who shoots at him. Awlaki can burn in Hell. I hope his body is devoured by wild pigs. While I stop a little short of the blood thirsty rhetoric, I do agree with, and endorse, this message.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Sep 30, 2011 -> 03:31 PM) The answer to this is to go back to Reagan-era upper level tax rates. (/rimshot).

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Sep 30, 2011 -> 03:24 PM) In fact the evidence is quite the opposite. Exactly, which is partially why he does not take 100% of the fall. Oz playing Dunn in 122 games or so and getting him 400+ ABs is more the problem.

QUOTE (Quinarvy @ Sep 30, 2011 -> 12:05 PM) Can we STOP acting like Ozzie would have died poor if he left the Sox and had to go be an analyst for Fox or something? The guy has probably over $40M in career earnings. Give me a f***ing break. Your analogy makes sense for normal jobs, but when Ozzie is already set for life, no, it doesn't work. LOL. I don't believe I sugested Oz was going to die poor, but do you really think Ozzie has enough to watch $8,000,000.00 slip away? You can always live a little better. An even bigger boat, an even bigger house, bigger diamonds for the wife and girlfriend, even longer and more lavish vacations. I just watched a special about a ship that rents for $500,000 per week. Think a guy with a couple million in the bank will lease it for a month and cruise the Med Sea? How about a guy with $10 mil in the bank? If no one desired a house more expensive than a milliom bucks, then no one would build $5 mil homes. Think about this, didn't Jordan make enough playing basketball? Why did he endorse products? I've read very few people that say they have enough money and don't want any more. Yes, he's set for life. But do you think he doesn't want to improve on how "set" he is?

QUOTE (Marty34 @ Sep 30, 2011 -> 03:10 PM) What's that old saying, the buck stops here? I don't care if everyone in the world heralded the Dunn signing at the time. The GM has to take responsibility. Hell, he's done that publicly and there are still those on this board who give him a pass. Actually Dunn should be the person to take the responsibility for playing this poorly. About the last guy to be blamed for the way Dunn played should be the GM.

QUOTE (Marty34 @ Sep 30, 2011 -> 02:35 PM) There is absolutely zero evidence that Kenny was against signing Dunn. Nor is there any evidence that he was the only one that wanted him.

I read this thread, then tell my gf how much I love her and love our life together.

QUOTE (Milkman delivers @ Sep 30, 2011 -> 05:53 AM) Very much agreed. Haven't we just lived eight years with the uncomfortable? Less show and more go feels better.

Actually, looking over what the club needs more than anything else, a quality DH, I say allow Dunn to pick the new manager. Dunn hitting .265 with his usual power would add more to this club than any manager.

I want a manager who successfully redefines how the game should be played today, not following the crowd.

Ozzie was working in a situation that happens to a lot of employees, you don't get along with your boss. And as been noted in other threads, they may never have gotten along. On top of that your boss continues to send employees into your department that are not always what you ask for, or what you need. Most of your employees seem to like you, but your boss is their boss too, and that conflicts loyalties on their part. Meanwhile there is another company that has tried to hire you several times. Your boss doesn't seem to want you, this other company wants you a lot, and you sit there. Frustrated. You hate the company you work for, but love most of the people you are working with. You even love the owner, even though he isn't coming to your rescue. Then it appears there is an end in sight. However it will happen after the company that really wants you already has someone. Your boss is going to get his final revenge, you will be unemployed with no obvious job opportunity available. You do like having an income, the awards and s*** you earned while working for the company are nice, and you'd like to earn a few more, but money in the bank pays for food, raiment, and shelter. So what's your only way out? ----------- I always predicted Oz would be fired for some Al Campanis type comment. I easily see his career going in one of two directions. A Tony La Russa type, a long time in Florida, or a spectacular explosion of his mouth. Either way, thank you Oz. You left a season or two too late.

X - Why I sometimes visit this thread and slowly back away.

Just say the word and let's go. Do you know anything about mountains?

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Sep 29, 2011 -> 08:00 AM) Texas, St Louis, or Milwaukee. No one else. That's my list along with the Tigers. I know I'm a minority by I usually cheer for the AL Cent champ. Seems like there is some bragging rights for playing in a division tough enough to produce the ws champ.

By the end of the nomination process, Dems will love Perry more than the GOP faithful. In the general he will pull more Dem voters away than Obama will pull Rep voters away.

BTW Hawkaroo, every team doesn't win 60 games, the Astros say hey!

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Sep 28, 2011 -> 09:16 PM) but the point that they're not really creating any jobs if they're refusing to hire the unemployed but are instead "job shufflers" taking advantage of a depressed labor market still stands. It creates an opening and when the merry go round stops, someone new has to get on. It's just not at the largest firms. It may be with a start up, or a smaller firm.

BTW, for our last teacher opening we had over 300 applicants. The applicants that received an interview had to work their butts off to get noticed.

Tex > Tigers > TB > Yankees Cards > I don't care

When you have this many to sort through, going with someone who is currently employed saves time by having a solid reference. The references from former employers are basically crap now because of the various laws and potential law suits from negative information an employer can give. Additionally, if they are in the same industry they may bring with them current knowledge of what their old employer is doing. They may have fresh customer contacts. In the back of interviewers minds, who have little time and many applicants is why has the rest of the world passed on this person?

f***, why hire a person, all we need is Have the guys check the screen and go with whatever is statistically best.