doubleM23

I don't give a f*** that they signed Kimm (I think it may be a little bad for PR to pick up Cub scraps, but I dont care about that), my beef is that they have a gem in Backman in the minors and they're going to let him stay down there until some other team gets smart and hires him. As long as Kimm stays the hell away from the pitchers, I'm happy.

Rather than bring in the fiery Backman and solidy his association with the organization, KW decides to pick up Scrubbie scraps to replace Wavin' Wally? Wavin' Bruce Kimm? God, have mercy on us. :puke http://chicagosports.chicagotribune.com/sp...ome%2Dheadlines

Don't worry, Jason. The way they've been playing there won't be too many teams picking in front of them.

Harold has 4 years on Edgar.

You been tweaking off of soxfan420's stash Chisoxfn? I don't think weed is that strong.

He's an interesting pickup, but I think if I was given the choice of Thome or Martinez to replace the Hurt, I'd have to go with Thome. He hits for more power without giving up that much in average, and COULD play the field if need be. That, and it would just be a way to stick it to Cleveland. And we all know that they suck.

I think we're going to see a lot of this from the Bulls... They are so young they're bound to be extremely inconsistent.

They're pretty much all good except for maybe Yellow Submarine.

I think they're all good but I'd have to say: 1) Revolver 2) Sgt. Pepper's 3) The White Album 4) Rubber Soul 5) Help!

leave Stop reading.

hey, it is one of life's little pleasures.

I can't help but smile...

LOL... Then why do you read it? If you think I have no idea what I'm talking about, why do you waste your time and read the stuff? There are a few like Jason, bjmarte, CubKilla, and Murcielago who's actually reading what I'm writing and making intelligent commentary on it... If anyone's wasting your time, pal, it's you. I'm sure there's a way to block me or something. If you don't wanna read it, knock your socks off... You won't hurt my feelings.

For someone who says s*** that NOBODY (including yourself) gives a f*** about, they spawn some pretty long threads. Sorry, I didn't know I put a gun to your head and made you click on every link I ever provide. How inconsiderate of me. Actually, where did you get the journal link? I don't even recall giving it to you...

If that is the case I hope they can figure out a way to keep you and your ghey life lessons off of it. I AM A PISS-POOR WRITER WANNABE WITH AN INFLATED EGO, READ MY DIARY. Ha ha... For someone who seems to hate me so much, you really do a good job of following me around...

Then what the f*** have you been spouting off about for 3 pages genius? Though I guess it was obvious before, now you've admitted you know s*** about economics, which diminishes any argument you may have had. All I have to say is, wow. Hmm... I dont know if its as much economics as it is government (and, yeah I did mention that I know s*** about it in that first truly economic post I made when I dumbed all the numbers down for my mathematically-challenged self). Man, you all get worked up...

You needed an accounting major to explain this to you? This is what banks call "interest". Common sense will tell you that if you had $2000 in one hand and a $2000 credit card bill in the other, economically, you'd be better off using all $2000 to pay off the credit card bill to avoid the interest payments instead of investing the $2000 at a lower interest rate. Now I know why you are so far left..... you're probably a quota student at Bradley University. Nah, I knew the basics of it, I just didn't know how to say it. I have about zero understanding of economics outside of the crap we learned at St. Pat's and I have even less understanding of the language used.

The internet had nothing to do with liberal thinking you f***ing retard. Go away. Did I say it was? The internet, however (like other inventions), now needs to go through a period of conservativism so that it can be more throughly regulated.

Notice how doubleM ignores these fun little tidbits..... Well, I had to do a little research on this one; a know a guy who was Hispanic (last name was Rodriguez) and he scored in the 82nd percentile of the North Side College Prep placement test and got rejected, so I am a little leery of those numbers... If you can direct me to where I can find them, then I'll gladly tell you that kind of racial discrimination is horses***.

here is where i call you a stupid pinko and again ask you to go the hell away so i don't have to listen to your stupid bulls***. I'm sure there's a way to block me.

Well, you can only fit so many people on a Top 10 list, I suppose. I was a little surprised to see Hummell there and not Malone; seeing as Malone's troubles were more likely caused by injury and Hummell just struggled. Ring hasn't been around in pro ball long enough, I don't think, to make a serious estimation of his level of talent.

Maybe voters are sick and tired of the liberal bulls*** the Democrats like you spew out on a daily basis. :**** For now they are, but that's what they said in 1980 and by 1992, they had changed their colors. The 90s were a period of more liberal thinking and innovation (i.e. the internet)... The 00s will be a period of conservativism and adapation to the change. In 10 years, everyone will be sick of Republican bulls***, then they'll get sick of Democratic bulls***, then they'll get sick of Republican bulls***, then they'll get sick of Democratic bulls***, then they'll get sick of Republican bulls***, then they'll get sick of Democratic bulls***, then they'll get sick of Republican bulls***, then they'll get sick of Democratic bulls***, then they'll get sick of Republican bulls***... It's just one big ol' cycle.

Well then why do we allow people to smoke? What? Nicotine isn't a drug now? Criminilzation of drugs is a direct violation of the seperation of Church and State in that it is the legalization of Christian morals. Guess what? The government does not have the right to tell me and you what I can and cannot do with my body as long as I am not infringing on the rights of others (so yeah, murder is still a no-no). You should be allowed to go out and snort as much coke as you want, but the second you lay an unwanted finger on someone, BAM! That, and like it or not, people still do drugs, despite the fact they have Uncle Sam wagging his finger in their face. Guess where that money goes? To criminals... Gangbangers, organized crime, terrorists.... Is that really where you want billions of dollars going each year, or would you rather accept reality and say, "Well, s***, as long as people are going to do the drugs, we may as pump them for cash," 'cuz that's a lot more likable to me. Yes, in a perfect world, no one would smoke weed or do crack... This ins't a perfect world, but all you do when you make drugs illegal is to reinforce crime and give it a strong source of income. Take away gang's drug money and they suddenly have their power sliced. Thirdly, by legalizing drugs you make them vastly less dangerous (and less addictive). Right now, it only makes perfect sense to lace stuff with stronger, more addictive stuff, so that same person gets addicted to your s*** and keeps coming back to you. I have a friend who is a habitual cocaine addict and he picked up the habit from buying weed from a guy who laced it. Do you think that would happen all that often if you could just show up at an Osco and buy some marijuana cigarettes?

Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight.... I don't think you read my post, 'cuz they're not really being punished since they end up with more expendable money, anyways. Ya, but whose to say that they don't deserve the same cut off their money that the others get? It doesn't seem fair to me if you go out and make all your money that you have to give it away to others. Call me selfish or whatever, but in life, I want my money in my hands so I am set for retirement and can live a good life. Its why I am in college now and why I work part time during school year and full time during the summer. I think a point that I don't articulate well enough that I probably should is that all the taxed money doesn't necessarily go directly to the poor. On the contrary, while a large sum of it does go for public housing, public health insurance, public education etc. a lot of money that ends up in the tax poll does pay for a lot of public programs. I'm no doctor on communism or socialism, so I don't want to say exactly what would get funded through tax dollars, but I would assume that you'd probably see kickbacks to businesses who are environmentally friendly (to offset the costs of transforming to a green economy), and what not. Regardless, the point I've probably not made vocal enough is that the taxed money does not simply go to inner city programs that folks like you and I will never directly benefit from. Put people in a more socialist economy, and while you have less total expendable money, in reality, you have more proportional money to spend on purley consumer goods because a lot of things you'd end up flipping the bill for (like the increases in prices to offset the cost of becoming more eco-friendly... such as with gas) become obsolete payments because people above you on the food chain pay more. You're right, the system I advocate hurts the rich the most, and I can't counter that, but (maybe its just me) when I get a million bucks, I'm not going to have much use for a second million. I think the overall cost of maybe lowering the standard of living of the wealthiest (sorry, no more Aquafina baths and 38 cars in the garage) to substantially improve the lives of the bottom-feeders (like, sticking a roof over my head) is a sacrafice that needs to be made. Regardless, the upper class is still doing quite well for itself. They still have MORE; I'm not advocating pure communism here (while that would be my ideal), because I understand no one would go for that; however, in a psuedo-socialist/capitalist system, incentive remains because you can still do quite wel for yourself, but you never have the sword of dire poverty haning over your head because, no matter what, your basic human rights (housing, health care, education) are available to you because of government.