Texsox

QUOTE (Jenks Heat @ Feb 19, 2010 -> 11:44 AM) Off the time of my head it was something like this Compensation $400/week each for 12 months $41,600 Food Stamps $225 /mo each $5,400 Federally fund day care not sure Federally fund health care not sure The point was that in certain cases it is more profitable to stay unemployed and the duration is as helpful as it seemed. Last I knew, unemployment insurance pays 4% weekly of your highest previous quarter of salary in the past year. So the person receiving $400 per week was earning somewhere near $40,000 per year before losing their job. As a couple they were at $80,000. $50,000 is a steep cut if they were living close to their income. If they were saving a a bunch, they probably could get by with less stress for the year. I'm not certain but I do not believe day care and health kicks in for a while. It certainly explains why an out of work middle manager isn't eager to go work in a packing shed or meat processing plant for $20,000 per year. I guess demand for those positions will not be seeing much of a jump. I am happy that only two of my friends are still looking for work. I pray each day their search will be over. I find it interesting that so far everyone seems to be finding employment close to their previous positions and wages.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Feb 18, 2010 -> 03:31 PM) I had you put on the no fly list. Just wait until you get the full body cavity search. He likes that . . .

I lost an appeal with the IRS. It got ugly. But I never thought to go up there and kill anyone. I read his letter. Seems as if he blamed everyone except himself. It also seems as if he may have been suffering from a mental disease.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Feb 18, 2010 -> 03:30 PM) Some scattered authentic Mexican places have them, but they are impossible to find in general. It is sure not a regular thing. More than anything I miss Tex/Mex and real BBQ, along with fresh and big shrimp. Add breakfast tacos and you have all would miss. But you have way better pizza, beef sandwiches, gyros, neighborhood taverns, delis, . . .

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Feb 18, 2010 -> 10:06 AM) Not up here anyway... It was more of a joke. I got the joke about the shake, it just got me to wondering about whole jalapenos

QUOTE (Cknolls @ Feb 18, 2010 -> 02:07 PM) I believe they would blame the State of California for the increase. Anthem Blue Cross, the Wellpoint subsidiary that is raising the rates on 700,000 of its customers says it is due to state regulations. Even after their customers' COBRA benefits are exhausted, the State bars Anthem from dropping them. And they cap what Anthem can charge these people. That's fair. Who is left to subsidize these people but currently employed customers. Sebelius and Messiah also do not mention Wellpoint lost $58 million on these post COBRA people. But then again they do not care as long as they can paint an insurer as a greedy institution. When I was on COBRA I paid 100% of the premium plus a service fee. What is being subsidized here? Wait, they made only $500,000,000 even after they paid out the $58,000,000?

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Feb 18, 2010 -> 12:48 PM) Damon has made nearly $100 million in his career. If the Pirates offered him $10 million, do you really think the extra $3-5mill would make him want to waste away at age 36 on a guaranteed last place team??? Esepcially after he has been in the playoffs 7 of the last 9 seasons with a couple titles??? I highly doubt it While that sounds good, then why is he looking to Chicago or Detroit? Why isn't he in NY or LA begging to play for the league min?

Hmm, the best beer in the world thing has me thinking. I wonder what an easy way is to track down where I can find one. So I called my son, who knew immediately which beer I was talking about, where to buy it locally, the cost, the brewing process, the spicy after taste, and suggested a couple more to try. Not bad for a kid who just turned 21 a few months ago. He really learned quick.

I wonder why I just don't get too high or low before it happens. I've kind of stopped projecting lineups until position players report.

QUOTE (G&T @ Feb 18, 2010 -> 12:07 PM) My mom used to make us graham crackers in milk, warmed up and mashed. Looks awful but tastes awesome. I haven't had it in forever. Hmm, I love that cold, never tried it warmed up.

I'm home with a terrible back and neck pain. I just fixed a bowl of Ramen. Something about Ramen when I'm not feeling 100% . . .

QUOTE (GoSox05 @ Feb 18, 2010 -> 08:33 AM) I took a fastball to the jaw with bases loaded. Which scored the go ahead run in the playoffs. It was totally worth it. It really hurt though. I won most improved player of the year award the first year I played little league. That was cool. My team won the championship the last year I played. I went out on top. I was looking and hoping to get hit. No way I wanted to be up in that situation.

Tony LaRussa

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Feb 18, 2010 -> 08:57 AM) I said American and United. I don't know about Continental. AA and UAL were both doing that when I was flying a lot, in the 2007-2009 period. Sorry, I misread. American flew to Dallas from here, Continental hubbed from Houston, so I usually went via Continental since I was almost always flying east. Y'all in Chicago, or living near a hub, are so lucky. Every flight for me required 2 hours and $100 - $200 just to leave McAllen.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Feb 17, 2010 -> 05:00 PM) Jalapeno shakes don't have the same ring, now do they? Does McDs, BK, and the rest offer jalapenos? Everywhere down here you can get them.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Feb 18, 2010 -> 08:53 AM) American and United definitely both do that. I know because I had status with both, when I was travelling almost every week at my last job. Is that new? I always had gold status with Continental and I do not remember that. The last time I flew weekly was around 2002.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Feb 18, 2010 -> 08:40 AM) Yeah, I am sure there is no reason why the Dem thread is a couple of thousand posts longer than the Rep thread... Outside of yourself, most of the top posters are the same in both threads. Hell, I have more posts in the GOP thread than the Dem. Kap has more in the Dem than the GOP. Its a mixed up muddled up shook up world

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Feb 8, 2010 -> 07:32 AM) And until about 2001, I voted for far more Republicans for office than Democrats. It wasn't until the GOP decided to abandon financial restraint and the protection of individual freedoms - once the cornerstones of that party - that I was forced to vote more often for Dems. Its not because I liek the Dems, its because they are currently the lesser evil. I'll also add in trying to remove any checks and balances from their power by attacking the courts and the press.

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Feb 18, 2010 -> 07:41 AM) Ah ok. But I still haven't heard any reasons why their system is better for a frequent business traveler. As I mentioned, for short notice travel, I wasn't stuck with a center seat. I wasn't aware of an airline that held back seats like you mentioned. That is a better system no doubt. But the carriers that I routinely traveled, Continental and American, do not do that. SW attendants are the best of any airline I've flown. SW's safety record is the best in the industry.

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Feb 17, 2010 -> 04:51 PM) In theory, yes. But those seats always seem to be taken by people choosing to pay a few extra bucks at check-in for the better seats or standby passengers for other flights. But then the seats they switched from would be empty. Continental and American will sell out their flights as soon as possible, never holding any seats back. That's kind of cool of Delta.

Traveling team, league championship game, one out, bases loaded, me a .275 hitter. I was too slow to move out of the way of an inside pitch and got plunked. Umpire rules I moved into the pitch (I did), does not award me the base. I didn't even know that was a rule. Two pitches later I crush one that drops in just over the shortstop's head.

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Feb 17, 2010 -> 04:45 PM) I think they keep economy plus seats open on United for those with status. They also allow those checking in on the day of the flight to upgrade to any available economy plus seating. Interesting, so if no one checks in, they would have empty seats?

QUOTE (iamshack @ Feb 4, 2010 -> 04:40 PM) That is simply not true. Sometimes they do not want to allocate the money in their budget for a college graduate, so they simply do not respond to college graduates who apply.. I was thinking about this, they also would not respond to the high school diploma with 10 years experience, who would ask for more money.

Funny how many people that have said f*** Boras, the Sox should never sign a Bopras client, aren't so worried now.

Not matter where Damon lands, I LOL with Boras and how well he does his job for his clients.