Texsox

Why is it called a one night stand when it is very rare to be standing?

I am very disappointed. While I understand anyone's desire for an opportunity to be a Senator, hell, there ain't many, this is so wrong. I had a fairly high opinion of Burris, until this week.

Decent enough analysis. We are predicting how humans will perform over a six month season. It is always a crap shoot, if he was a poster here, he would be called a realist. This is probably the most fluid spring training in the past decade. The guys he predicts are on the downside of their careers, are. They may resist the aging process a little longer, but if you had to bet up, down, or stay the same, stay the same or down are the safer picks. A playoff spot last season was a shocker, as would this season.

QUOTE (shipps @ Feb 17, 2009 -> 10:34 AM) How is a Washington apple not on this list? Because they sell for $250,000 each, but it will stimulate the economy like nobody's business besides, no one in Washington can decide on which apple is the real Washington apple.

I assume you mean for eating in hand, not baking or making sauce, or any other use.

QUOTE (lostfan @ Feb 17, 2009 -> 09:08 AM) Reagan at least had the Soviet Union there to justify his absurdly large defense budget if nothing else. We are still holding onto some of these defense programs though and we're always caught up in "next war syndrome" ignoring the fact that the second largest defense budget after ours isn't even anywhere close even if we cut it back significantly. Bob Gates is aware of this though, he's a practical guy and he wants to spend money on stuff we need rather than a bunch of cool stuff we think we can use one day. http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/...ss-politics-cnn To get the Dems behind his absurdly large defense budget, he gave them every damn program they wanted. Then made certain not to piss anyone off by raising taxes. Once the pols realized how happy everyone was, the vault was open.

Back before Reagan we had tax and spend Dems and Don't Tax and Don't Spend Reps. Reagan brought us Don't Tax and Still Spend DEMReps. Both sides love that. We demand they go borrow some money and give it to us, while we believe someone else will pay for it.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Feb 16, 2009 -> 06:15 PM) That doesn't mean he can't take steps to clean up the record book. I am as critical as anyone about the cheating. Unraveling the record book is a step that I would have to think long and hard about before starting. My first thought is no, but would like to hear arguments on both sides before forming an opinion.

QUOTE (mr_genius @ Feb 16, 2009 -> 06:00 PM) Basically what has happened is the Republicans aren't in control anymore and they needed to 're-invent' the party. They have decided economic conservative approach is a good one right now. If they actually became fiscally conservative, like they were pre-Reagan, I would find it much more appealing to support their candidates.

QUOTE (CanOfCorn @ Feb 16, 2009 -> 02:31 PM) As a graduate of the College of Media (nee Communications) and as a former ad professional and a man married to an ad professional, all I have to say is...DON'T DO IT!!! Seriously though, congrats! If she's at all interested...the photojourn professor, Brian Johnson, is absolutely awesome! I will faint if she actually sticks to her major, but we will see. Thanks for the tip. I assume most of her first two years will be spent in lecture theaters run by TAs.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Feb 16, 2009 -> 10:28 AM) I'd love to see them come up with a way to institute a proper stimulus plan. Because economics is an inexact science, there is no way of truly knowing the outcome of any plan. Some have a better chance of succeeding than others. Harry Truman had a great quote "what I need is a one armed economist". Sending everyone a few hundred dollars didn't seem to do much except buy some votes. That may have been all that was hoped for.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Feb 12, 2009 -> 12:26 PM) If he suspends ARod, he must suspend every player who tested postive during that confidential test. Just because his name was leaked doesn't mean he should be subject to more penalties. Just because events caused him to be made public, he should not be punished? Some people get caught, others do not. Happens all the time, for stuff more important and much less important than this. I see no problem in punishing some, we know we will never catch them all.

QUOTE (YASNY @ Feb 14, 2009 -> 02:44 PM) I have to say, I have a different opinion on Bud Selig than the majority. First of all, Selig seems to be getting the blame for the steroid era. Well just step back in time bit, say to 1994 ... and remember the season without a World Series. Then look at the backlash from the fans after that season and the one when they avoided a strike/lockout because the fans were so vocal. The union wouldn't let baseball implement the PED tests. Yes, it was known in the late 90's around the game that PED's were part of the equation and Selig let it continue. But his hands were tied. He could not force the issue and cause another work stoppage over it. At that point in time, his best recourse was to sweep it under the rug and that's what he did. In the mean time, baseball is as healthy and vibrant as it has been in a long time. More butts in seats now than there ever has been. I credit Bud Selig's leadership for a big part of that fact. QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Feb 16, 2009 -> 10:01 AM) I disagree totally with your statement YAS. Bud Selig alone had the power to do something about the drug problem in baseball. He has the ability to take a unilateral action if he deems it "for the good of baseball". It was a power that Landis insisted on when he took over after the Black Sox scandal. This power still exists to this day. He could have instituted any level of testing and penalties that he saw fit. Instead he negotiated it with the union, and besides how long it took to institute, it became so watered down, even to this day, that it is almost counterproductive. If Bud Selig wanted Olympic style testing, it could be done tomorrow, and there isn't a damned thing the union could do about it. They couldn't even sue because of the baseball anti-trust exemption. I have to agree with you both. I also think somewhere in the middle was the right course of action.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Feb 16, 2009 -> 07:37 AM) Good for Mark. Its too bad that we don't really focus on the guys like this in baseball instead of the low lifes like Bonds and Arod. A guy who can make his money, stay normal, and still be a good family man should be the guy we celebrate. Chicago is lucky to have a Mark Buehrle on the Sox for all of that time. Agreed. It is also a shame that when it is time for the HoF voting, stuff like this isn't figured into the voting. (I am not suggesting Buerhle is HoF material, I have someone else in mind)

I hope Burris gets a nice pension out of this. Has it been reported how much Blago has in his campaign accounts? And was the law ever changed about using those funds to pay legal bills?

QUOTE (lostfan @ Feb 16, 2009 -> 08:15 AM) Anything I said in support of Burris was based on the benefit-of-the-doubt assumption that he wasn't completely full of s*** for the record. me too. What a shame, it keeps getting worse.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Feb 14, 2009 -> 11:06 AM) Congrats! It's a great school. What's she going for? She is in Communications / Advertising

After some trial and tribulation brought on by my daughter's High School, she was finally accepted at U of Illinois. It was such a relief. She was in the top ten in her class at the International Baccalaureate School here, but when she moved back to Illinois, her new high school screwed over her transcript. Oh boy, both kids in college . . . /anything in the stimulus package for me? or am I the stimulus package.

QUOTE (longshot7 @ Feb 12, 2009 -> 12:40 PM) That's just not true. Who do you think did those jobs before the illegals got here? slaves, recent immigrants, high school students, braceros. But more importantly, who is going to work them now? Do you remember President Reagan? His answer was amnesty in 1986. Twenty years later, the same issue faces us. It's supply and demand. After going to US schools for 12 years, are we going to tell our children they can be migrant farms workers? Bus boys? The lowest rung of the economic ladder has been a start for immigrants throughout our history. It is only recently that we have embraced immigrants as Doctors and other professionals and demanded that our children be allowed to work for them at minimum wage.

QUOTE (Rex Kicka** @ Feb 12, 2009 -> 10:51 AM) His diet should be exclusively peanut butter sandwiches on peanut bread all from his factory. This is the kind of behavior we expect to see coming from Chinese food factories, not from the US... but it happens more than we realize. You'd be surprised how much cow poop is in that burger you had for lunch for example. Oh my. How about some cow urine in your soft drink. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_...icle5707554.ece

QUOTE (Rex Kicka** @ Feb 12, 2009 -> 10:51 AM) His diet should be exclusively peanut butter sandwiches on peanut bread all from his factory. This is the kind of behavior we expect to see coming from Chinese food factories, not from the US... but it happens more than we realize. You'd be surprised how much cow poop is in that burger you had for lunch for example. The gist of your comment is correct, we do allow a fair amount of contaminants in our food. Specifically to ground beef, quietly, thanks to the fast food industry, regulations were changed to allow ground meat to enter this country. Prior to that, the smallest you could bring in were subprimals. And of course prior to that it was primals. So the slippery slope concept was alive and well in those regulations. US beef, has a much smaller chance of the poop in your burger. There are very few slaughter operations that also process at that level.

QUOTE (Rex Kicka** @ Feb 12, 2009 -> 10:47 AM) I love the fact that its all substance, no style. Kind of like your avatar

What's everyone reading? I've got my nose in Amerco Peredes' George Washington Gomez, Burroughs Junky (excerpts about my neighborhood) , and Stevenson's Jekyll and Hyde. George Washington Gomez was written in the 1930s but not published until about 1990. It is set in my neck of the woods, and I find it very interesting.

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Feb 10, 2009 -> 03:02 PM) HAHAHAHA!!! Everyone forgot about ME!!!!

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Feb 12, 2009 -> 09:16 AM) He has the Constitutional right not to incriminate himself. Yes he does. And Congress has the right to call him before the cameras for all the world to see what a scum bag he is. A little public humiliation before the real flogging is nice. I can't wait for the perp walk with him covering his face.