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QUOTE (kapkomet @ Mar 5, 2009 -> 04:46 PM) That's true. They are doing Europe tickets out of Chicago for $400 ROUND TRIP right now. It's insane. went to italy for my honeymoon. was the best trip ever. take the train between cities, great food, amazing sites/culture. i think it comes down to... a) are you a beach guy, sit and relax B) are you an explorer, go-getter

QUOTE (Athomeboy_2000 @ Mar 5, 2009 -> 01:27 AM) Ok, for starters, ".eco" is not a "World Wide Web"... it's a top-level domain. That aside, interesting idea why not? schools have .edu

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yeah stay the hell out of mexico cruise europe... its cheaper bthan you think

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QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Mar 3, 2009 -> 03:06 PM) I remember being in Vegas in Jan of 2005, and putting $20 on the Sox to win the WS. Odds that year at that time were 30:1. Then after the season ended, I couldn't find the damn ticket. Found it 2 years later when moving some furniture, after it had expired for reimbursement. that sucks. $600.

a question about spring training tickets. i'm planning on going to 2 games in late March. One at Oakland and one at Cleveland. Oakland uses mlb.com for tickets and Cleveland uses ticketmaster. Both charging nearly $10 in fees/delivery charges for 2 tickets. I hate to be a cheap as* but I'd like to avoid $20 in fees for $50 worth of tickets. Any suggestions/ideas? I guess I could buy at the stadium the day of the game, but I'm guessing that I'd get crappy tickets then.

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no doubt about it. And quite frankly, they aren't doing themselves any good with it right now. In general, the public will give Obama sometime to make things work. More than the 2 weeks the Republicans gave them. So they are attacking a publicly popular individual during a honeymoon phase. That's why approval numbers for Congressional republicans have dropped since Jan.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Feb 27, 2009 -> 06:46 PM) Obama's approval ratings would be farther down as he'd be looking like a dishonest, out of touch, imbecile. And since Democrats hate Wall Street and Wall Street always gets its best returns under Republicans, that's exactly what they'd want. I mean, take a look at the stock market during the Bush years. From Jan 2001 to Jan 2009 it absolutely soared. You mean going from 9.878.78 to 7,182.08 over an 8 year period is a bad thing? I thought people loved a 28% drop in nearly a decade.

for anyone who listens to Howard Stern Rod Stiffington Jack Meyhoffer Nick Gerz Norma Stitz

I was thinking RC

http://news.yahoo.com/s/time/20090227/us_time/08599188216700

early take on today's game Positives - Jerry Owens - Clayton Richard - Alexei Ramirez - AJ - Jayson Nix - Josh Fields Negatives - Tyler Flowers - Octavio Dotel - Adam Russell - Carlos Quentin - Jim Thome - Jermaine Dye

QUOTE (daa84 @ Feb 25, 2009 -> 10:17 PM) javier castillo takes over at 3rd for Fields, Flowers at Catcher, Nix at second....randy williams (who)pitching http://mlb.mlb.com/stats/individual_stats_...playerID=430942

maybe i'm late to the party, but audio feed is free on mlb.com right now.

online streaming

god not this topic again. here comes 5 pages of rants pro/anti WBC.

does anyone know if wscr will carry the audio feed on line or not?

i think that any movement comes down to overall success. Its not a stretch to think that attendance and support go hand-in-hand with play on the field. Think Indians in the 90's. How many sellout games did they have in a row??? Now, if I had to pick one AL Central team that is destined to move, it would be Kansas City. They haven't had a quality team in nearly 15 years.

Nine Fla. Republicans want stim cash They voted no, but they want the dough. We're getting into broken record territory here on Republicans clamoring for stimulus money. Nine GOP House members from Florida, all stimulus no's, joined nine of their Democratic colleagues, all yesses, in asking the feds to grant a waiver giving them access to, you guessed it, hundreds of millions in state stabilization stimulus cash. “This critical funding is vital to protecting our schools from budget cuts and teacher layoffs. Because Florida has been hit especially hard by a rise in foreclosures, unemployment, and recent natural disasters, we are experiencing a crippling budget crisis. Now more than ever, we must invest in our state’s future,” said the letter. The Republican co-signers: Adam Putnam, Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, Lincoln Diaz-Balart, Tom Rooney, Mario Diaz-Balart, Ginny Brown-Waite, Cliff Stearns, John Mica and Bill Posey. The Dems: Suzanne Kosmos, Ron Klein, Alcee Hastings, Robert Wexler, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Kathy Castor, Kendrick Meek, Alan Grayson and Corrine Brown.

but will the games still start at 7:11

im so over this whole story. The seat is up for re-election in 21 months.

QUOTE (lostfan @ Feb 16, 2009 -> 04:20 PM) I actually like Gov. Sanford and think Begala is a shameless Kool-Aid drinker, but he really does have a point. Find me a Republican governor who opposes the stimulus but won't take any of the federal money. At least Charlie Crist is keeping it real. edit: also, Begala's original piece that Sanford's op-ed was in response to was kinda sad. Begala never has any original thoughts whatsoever, they're all pure regurgitated Democrat talking points. and that's where I get a bit frustrated by the "partisan" comments about this bill. There are plenty of Republican lawmakers who agree with this plan or at least a good portion of the plan. They just don't happen to reside in DC and are local Govenors/Mayors, etc.

I'm sure people here will hate the messenger, (Paul Begala) but within this partisan article, there is a valid argument. If you think that the Stimulus is such a horrible thing, don't take it. WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Gov. Mark Sanford of South Carolina took umbrage at my writing that his approach to the economic crisis is to do nothing. I'll deal with his "ideas" in a moment, but first let me make a modest proposal: If Republican politicians are so deeply opposed to President Obama's economic recovery plan, they should refuse to take the money. After all, if you think all that federal spending is damaging, there are easy ways to reduce it: Don't take federal money. Gov. Sanford can lead the way. South Carolina should decline to accept any federal funds for transportation, education, health care, clean energy or any of the other ideas President Obama is advocating to fix the economy. And the rest of the GOP can follow suit. Justice Louis Brandeis famously called states "laboratories of democracy." So let's experiment. Gov. Sanford can be the guinea pig. His Palmetto State already gets $1.35 back from Washington for every dollar it pays in federal taxes, according to 2005 numbers, the latest calculated by the Tax Foundation, a nonprofit tax research group. South Carolina is a ward of the federal government. It's been on welfare for years. If Gov. Sanford is so all-fired opposed to federal spending, let's start by cutting federal spending in South Carolina. Otherwise, he's got about as much credibility on fiscal conservatism as A-Rod has on steroids. Under the Bush-Sanford economic theories, South Carolina's unemployment rate has reached 9.5 percent -- among the highest in the nation. But if Gov. Sanford wants to continue those policies, good luck to him. Make no mistake about it, Republicans like Gov. Sanford want to go back to the bad old days of George W. Bush. In his CNN.com column, Gov. Sanford expends 605 words attacking President Obama's plan to turn the country around after eight years of Bush-Republican-Sanford economics. That is his right, but attacking President Obama's plan is not itself an alternative plan. Nor is dredging up hoary old gripes about the New Deal. Nor, indeed, is deriding neighborhood electric vehicles -- which create jobs, save money and reduce pollution -- as "streamlined golf carts." But that is what Gov. Sanford offers us. iReport.com: Share your thoughts on the stimulus plan Then Gov. Sanford turns to his ideas (keep in mind he was responding to my charge that he favors doing nothing). He devotes precisely one half of one sentence to his plan to save the world economy; 24 words that will create millions of jobs, restore liquidity to capital markets, protect investors and consumers, regenerate stagnant demand and restore the capitalist system. Here they are: "... cutting the payroll tax, opening foreign markets through an expansion of our trade agreements, and reducing our corporate tax, which is among the highest worldwide." Wow. As we say in the South, I've got the vapors. So cutting taxes and cutting trade deals will get us out of this mess? That's all we need to do? We don't need to extend unemployment insurance, or update health information technology, or move to renewable energy or repair roads or rebuild bridges or modernize the power grid or prevent states and cities from laying off teachers and cops or any of the other myriad proposals in President Obama's plan? To be sure, President Obama's plan includes tax cuts -- mostly for middle-class families. But cutting taxes on corporate profits is of little utility when there are no corporate profits to tax. And precisely with whom would Gov. Sanford cut these miraculous trade deals? In case he hasn't been watching CNN, the entire world economy is in the tank. If cutting taxes for the rich and for big corporations and promoting foreign trade alone could energize the economy, we wouldn't be in this mess. But maybe Gov. Sanford is right. Let's keep our federal money -- give it to states where the governors will actually put it to good use. We'll let Gov. Sanford try his plan, we'll try President Obama's plan. Something tells me Gov. Sanford won't take that gamble. Because for all his rhetoric about hating federal spending, he can't wait to get his hands on our money.