jasonxctf

ehh maybe hold back on Buehrle or Jenks, but would 15 extra at bats kill Thome, Dye, Konerko, etc? you can't baby these guys. 06 had some pretty big names Francouer C. Jones A. Jones Bedard R. Hernandez Tejada Ortiz Varitek D. Lee Zambrano Griffey Jr V. Martinez Francis Holliday C. Guillen Maggs Polanco I Rod D. Willis Lidge Colon Vlad F. Rodriguez El Caballo Liriano Morneau Nathan J. Santana Beltran Delgado J. Reyes Damon Jeter A Rod Street Abreau Bay Peavy Piazza Alou Vizquel Beltre Ichiro Pujols Teixera M. Young Rios Wells Soriano All in all, the following playoff teams in 2006 had the following number of players in the classic. WS champs- St. Louis= 4 AL Champs- Detroit= 10 AL East- NYY= 5 AL Central- MIN= 9 AL West- OAK=4 NL East- NYM= 12 NL West- SD= 6 NL Wild- LAD= 7

any Sox players (major or minor league) commit yet? I think in 2006, they had 3 players, including Javy, Freddy and Cintron. It would be cool to see guys like Buehrle, Jenks, Thome, Konerko, Dye play for Team USA or Ozzie coaching the Venezuelan team.

dropkick murphys

well the reason that I said Haegar is the fact that someone like him, can pitch on back to back days. Could say Lance Broadway pitch 3 innings consecutively?

wouldn't it make sense to sign a guy who can eat up long innings incase these guys (Richard, Poreda, Marquez, Broadway or even Contreras when he comes back) can't make it out of the 4th? I'm thinking a guy like Charlie Haegar who was just non-tendered by the Padres.

i was sharing the Daley idea with some friends of mine.. someone above hit the nail on the head. As long as the streets are clean, parks are beautiful, etc he will keep getting elected. People would rather have a corrupt mayor who gets stuff done, than an honest guy who is in over their heads.

well deserved. he does a great job.

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QUOTE (Shamrock4Life @ Dec 12, 2008 -> 04:53 PM) The Echo company was incorporated in Illinois according to the reports. They just bought the factory in Iowa. ahh thanks, you are correct. they are registered here in IL. No financial filings as of now.

I think Bally's Total Fitness has filed BK 3 times in the past 6 years now too.

QUOTE (mr_genius @ Dec 11, 2008 -> 07:27 PM) looks like this corrupt UAW bailout is going to fall through. i love how this somehow becomes the workers fault. at the end of the day, us automakers designed and manufactured crappy cars. they didn't listen to what the consumer wanted (see Honda/Toyota) and instead tried to "sell" the public on what they made. there's a huge difference between asking consumers what they want, and building it versus building something and trying to convince consumers its what they need. on a sidenote, anyone here ever see the movie... "Who Killed the Electric Car?"

Quinn will name the replacement im still hoping for Tammy Duckworth.

weird, no public reports on Echo Windows and Doors in Iowa, unless they incorporated elsewhere. Republic windows and doors seemed to have gotten some financing from Chase Capital Corporation in 2007 here in illinois. looking over some of the republic filings, it appears that the following companies had loan/lease arrangements with Republic over the past 5 years, thus may have some debt with them. Chase Capital Veka Inc (not sure who this is) LaSalle Business Credit (now BOA) Bank Midwest UltraFab (not sure who this is) CitiCapital GE Capital HB Fuller Company (not sure who this is)

QUOTE (jasonxctf @ Dec 8, 2008 -> 10:17 PM) exactly. as someone in the lending world, i understand that there a rules/requirements for these types of things to occur. now if BOA told this customer back in Sept that the LOC was going to be revoked in November, then I've got no problem with this. If BOA just showed up last week and said we are cutting you off immediately (for any issue not associated with non compliance) then BOA's got some explaining to do. I am surprised, however that in a PR move, a Harris Bank or JP Morgan Chase rep didn't come out and save the day. My prophecy (spl?) has come true... CHICAGO (Reuters) – JPMorgan Chase & Co offered $400,000 on Wednesday to help pay severance to laid-off workers occupying a Chicago factory, whose protest has come to symbolize resentment over the federal bailout of big banks while workers suffer. JPMorgan Chase's offer, announced by U.S. Rep. Luis Gutierrez, who has been mediating the dispute, follows on Bank of America Corp's pledge to make an unspecified, limited loan to Republic Windows & Doors on behalf of the 250 workers.

CHICAGO – Bank of America says it will extend credit to a Chicago window and door maker whose workers have occupied the factory for five days. The bank said Tuesday that it's willing to give the Republic Windows and Doors factory "a limited amount of additional loans." That's so it can resolve claims of employees who have staged a sit-in since Friday. The factory closed Friday after Bank of America canceled its financing. Workers were given three days' notice. But they refused to leave and vowed to stay there until receiving assurances they would receive severance and accrued vacation pay. The bank has been criticized for cutting off the plant's credit after taking federal bailout money.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Dec 9, 2008 -> 02:58 PM) Are you telling me that you know this bank's capital ratios? Do you know their asset valuations on the books to know that they really have capital that they could lend? i'm telling you that i work in the financial services industry and partner with this bank in many of my corporate/municipal lendings with AAA rated credits for equipment lending. These are the cream of the crop lendings with perfect payment history. Think some of the largest and safest entities here in Illinois. I, as well as my industry colleagues, are being told that this bank has been frozen in lending since October and wont un-freeze until post 1/1. This is due to other areas of the bank, who was heavily invested in mortgages and consumer finance bleeding $ like crazy.

howard

QUOTE (southsideirish71 @ Dec 8, 2008 -> 11:27 PM) The 15 billion was to open lines of credit. Now that doesn't mean that the lines of credit are opened up to companies that don't deserve it. Thats what got us here in the first place. I would rather they be frugal with the credit than to go hog wild, piss it away on companies that will fail anyway and then we have to give them another bailout. i will let you know that I know of a large bank in the Midwest, who has naming rights on an MLB stadium, who received a butt-load of $ in the bailout plan who has not changed their lending freeze that's been in place since October. Doesn't matter who the customer is, consumer, municipal, corporate, etc. Executive management won't decide on who/what to lend to until post January 1st at the earliest. at the same point, banks are taking in deposits at a record level. Thus the extremly low rate of returns in CD's, Money Markets and Savings Accounts. So at the end of the day, their is a ton of capital that is available to be leant (either by consumer deposits or via bailout plan) that are sitting in the banks and not moving.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Dec 8, 2008 -> 09:35 PM) Probably because BofA had some good reason to remove the line of credit. some backgroud here, the original LOC was written by LaSalle Bank per the UCC filed with the IL SOS. So most likely, when BOA took over LaSalle, that banker lost his job and the account went unassigned. Thus the original banker and credit analysts who've been working with this customer for years, no longer were around to assist or notify the customer properly.

exactly. as someone in the lending world, i understand that there a rules/requirements for these types of things to occur. now if BOA told this customer back in Sept that the LOC was going to be revoked in November, then I've got no problem with this. If BOA just showed up last week and said we are cutting you off immediately (for any issue not associated with non compliance) then BOA's got some explaining to do. I am surprised, however that in a PR move, a Harris Bank or JP Morgan Chase rep didn't come out and save the day.

hey, i'm all for it. throw in legalizing fireworks, gambling (incl sports betting) and prostitution too and tax the sh*t out of them.

i just would like BOA to come out and say why they declined they renewal of the company's line of credit and what kind of notice they gave them.

CHICAGO – Gov. Rod Blagojevich ordered all state agencies Monday to stop doing business with Bank of America to try to pressure the bank into helping laid-off workers staging a sit-in at their shuttered factory.

interesting note on the New Orleans race, the winner was just on CNN saying that his team was hoping for a low voter turnout, because if the voters actually showed up, he wouldn't have won. never heard that from a politician before.

http://chicago.whitesox.mlb.com/news/artic...sp&c_id=cws not reading 18 pages to see if this was already posted