Texsox

I wish someone made an ironing board for people taller than 5'6". They are all too short and not long enough for my pants.

QUOTE (Athomeboy_2000 @ Sep 2, 2009 -> 02:03 PM) ah how I love hypocrisy: Not a fair comparison, we ain't getting that same level of care, and neither are the rank and file servicemen and vets.

Kentucky rain is a decent song for Elvis

Some guy is waking up thinking I got K'd by their third baseman

QUOTE (Alpha Dog @ Sep 2, 2009 -> 11:53 AM) Tex, so are you upset that more people aren't calling out the Indian programmers and doctors here than they are the MExican meat plant workers? I would say that you are not talking to the right people then, as most of my college friends all went into programming and/or IT and half are out of work, and blaming outsourcing or cheaper foreign talent. And again, you have 2 different arguements here, beacuse the people here on the H1B are here LEGALLY, while the 'undocumented' workers in various businesses are not. What I am pointing out is we use the same immigration system to bring in temporary farm/manual labor and professionals. The system is far too expensive for an employee earning $12,000 per year. Plus, we could also adopt a smaller benefit package for those individuals. And if I was unemployed, I'd be more upset about someone from overseas working a job I want, than someone working a job I do not want nor would sustain my family.

17 inning game forced Sergio Miranda to handle a little pitching duties, with predictable results http://web.minorleaguebaseball.com/milb/st...mp;ymd=20090901

Another year older ain;t the worse thing.

Yesterday was my 48th birthday*and* the most covered song of all time.

Thank you for those too

That that is a decent summary of the season.

I doubt our fortunes will change dramatically there. But at least we will not feel the ghosts of past collapse.

As anyone mentioned this thought . . . Hey Kenny, It's Jim, you know your DH? Any chance of getting me on a contender this season?

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Sep 2, 2009 -> 08:25 AM) I am hoping it means he has worked hard and improved, and that the award isn't like a gold glove in the majors. Basically what I thought as soon as I read that. It is difficult for me to be optimistic about anything WS at the moment. 2010 is starting to look good, so I'm starting to think of this as early Spring training.

Thanks everyone for the birthday wishes.

QUOTE (CanOfCorn @ Sep 1, 2009 -> 03:41 PM) Happy Birthday, Tex! May the Rio Grande Valley Killer Bees win the CHL in your honor! Every team in Texas made the playoffs They need to catch some lightening for that to happen.

I remember sitting in on a golf course committee which was discussing the new fleet of golf carts being purchased. Somene mentioned they were happy we were going to "non polluting" electric carts. I had to mention there was still pollution happening, it was just shifted from the course to wherever the electricity was being generated. A couple people actually believed that electricity just spontaneously appears at each outlet. They had no concept of generating electricity and using fuels to do it.

QUOTE (kev211 @ Sep 1, 2009 -> 08:39 PM) He'll be the DH in the AL park in the WS if the dodgers get that far. I hadn't thought of that. That would be cool. And, pondering the future, no one has mentioned if he was to win the ring, retirement may be on his mind. There are probably 600 reasons why he wouldn't, but still, it would seem tempting at this point in his career.

Steve, you are at the second stage. You need to work through the anger and get to bargaining, then depression, and finally acceptance. There is time left this season, and we all will be working through these stages. Some quicker than others.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Sep 1, 2009 -> 02:56 PM) Bring Your Own White Friend. Not what I meant, but

QUOTE (kapkomet @ Sep 1, 2009 -> 07:13 PM) You bring this up every damn time. And it's now a fallacy - Americans WILL do it. f***, I might have to pretty soon, and I'm not joking. There's no other jobs. Second, as Alpha commented, and I have repeatedly and repeatedly, guest worker programs are fine. But then they will not be subject to health care availability, nor should they be. I know seven white collar professionals out of work. Two for over a year. So far none have been willing to take jobs for significantly less than they were making. And certainly not willing to move to Omaha and work in a processing plant. Yet only one blames it on H1B professionals that have been hired from overseas that are actually working the same job they work.

Well, it is pretty much football season.

QUOTE (Alpha Dog @ Sep 1, 2009 -> 03:14 PM) Tex, not every illegal immigrant in this country picks crops or busses tables. How many meat packing pants have been raided lately? Those are good paying jobs that people lined for inthe hundreds when they were available. We talked about all this in other threads, I have no problems with a viable guest worker program, but then they wouldn't be here ILLEGALLY then, would they. Anyone not here on a guest worker program should be promptly shown the way out of the country. Actually those meat packing plants have some of the largest turnover rates in the country. There is a huge shortage of workers. And, once again, there are not as lot of unemployed citizens willing to move to the plants to work, and not a lot of communities that tolerate a meat packing plant in their area. Again, look at this scenario, a student arrives from overseas to attend a US University, they go on to receive a coveted spot in a US Med school, they stay here and earn a nice salary in the US. So far, we don't have a complaint in the world. But when they want to hire a yardman or babysitter WHOA!! That's a job an American can do. We want Americans working for the foreign professionals. What a f***ed up system. What we need is a guest worker program that makes it easier for American businesses to hire minimum wage labor from overseas and much, much, harder to hire skilled labor from overseas. The guest workers should have very limited benefits, and most of those should be tied into what benefits America the most.

And it's BYOWF time on the south side. The annual glimpse of what may come next year. Maybe in a few days I will get excited, but the last hope I had for this season just collapsed like a six day old helium balloon. Not in a magnificent pop of a new balloon, but in the slow, gradual seeping out, with a last gasp that will not even make your voice all high and squeaky.

QUOTE (Chisoxfn @ Aug 31, 2009 -> 12:40 PM) Cool. It'll at least be fun to see what these young kids can do. My guess is we might see Hudson too, just so he can see what the major leagues is like. How about an ad campaign "These Kids Can Play"? I'd rather be in a race

Or we could spend a few hundred billion dollars in rounding them up and destroy our agriculture industry. Until I see a whole lot of unemployed Americans rushing to pick crops in Idaho for four weeks, or work at a processing plant, I'll support a guest worker program that gives them only limited benefits. Using the same system to bring in a $100,000 programmer or accountant, as you would to bring in a $14,000 temporary farm labor, is kind of silly.