Y2HH

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ May 29, 2016 -> 04:27 PM) This team isn't this bad. They're playing "Braves level" right now, they're not nearly that bad. Teams are never as bad as they look when they're playing their worst. (But the converse should have been remembered in April). I honestly hope you're right. It's just hard to see the forest for the trees at this point.

This team will self destruct 10 days ago. Call me a pessimist, but I've watched baseball long enough to know when a team is done. And with its current makeup, under its current management, this team is doneski.

QUOTE (The Ginger Kid @ May 29, 2016 -> 04:17 PM) this is when I miss Ozzie. He'd be tossing these assholes under the bus like spike strips This. And they deserve it.

QUOTE (fathom @ May 29, 2016 -> 04:12 PM) This game isn't on Robin at all Yes it is. When it's obvious a pitcher is struggling get him the f*** out of there. Two days in a row he leaves a struggling pitcher out there to continue struggling and they blow the game. Yes, that's on him. If it was one or two batters, fine, I'd agree with you...that's just a pitcher failing. But when they load the bases it's obvious they need to be changed, and he's not doing it. He's just hoping they will pull through and they aren't.

Well at least I can stop caring early and not waste my time. This team is done so long as Robin is in charge. And I don't care what you think...he's in over his head.

According to the AP, Trump has the delegates to clinch the nomination as of now.

QUOTE (Ezio Auditore @ May 17, 2016 -> 06:52 PM) i didn't like the Bergdahl thing either. I didn't really freak out about it, I just didn't understand the logic. I get it, he's an American life even if he's a criminal, and I get that the Israelis do the same thing, but I felt like a sports fan questioning if his GM gave up too much. In that case, he traded the equilivant of Jake Arrietta and Chris Sale for John Danks. I think he got robbed.

QUOTE (Ezio Auditore @ May 17, 2016 -> 02:24 PM) I can still lobby for you to be suspended if need be! I probably deserve it.

I'm fake outraged by this thread. This thread is almost as bad as the WORST name change in the history of ALL name changes. A few years ago this name change would have led to me getting suspended. Nice try, Lostfan...

QUOTE (Deadpool @ May 17, 2016 -> 11:37 AM) I would love to try a different keyboard on my iPhone, but the implementation of third party keyboards on iOS leaves much to be desired. You leave a lot to be desired, Mr. Pool. And you look like an avocado had sex with an older, more disgusting avocado.

Please bring Lostfan back.

QUOTE (Ezio Auditore @ May 17, 2016 -> 11:11 AM) Apple's default keyboard kind of sucks, I hate the autocorrect, and they somehow make SwiftKey suck on purpose. I find Apples default keyboard pretty good, if it had swipe I wouldn't bother with anything else.

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ May 17, 2016 -> 07:14 AM) Gboard is life. So far it's the only third party keyboard on iOS I actually like and have continued to use. Has a few bugs, but I'm sure they'll work those out relatively quickly now that it's in the hands of the public.

Highlights why I love Hawk, and why I'll miss him when he's gone...and I really like Jason. But Hawk is a different animal -- pun intended.

QUOTE (whitesoxfan99 @ May 5, 2016 -> 06:29 PM) I'm honestly not sure this could have made much less unless the movie was a Fantastic Four level disaster. The movie opened up big based on the brand and WB doing a good job marketing it but it had horrible legs in basically every market so clearly the general audience didn't care for this at all. It might not even double its opening weekend in terms of box office domestically which is unbelievably bad. Disney/Marvel would be incredibly unhappy if Civil War had Batman v Superman results. I personally think a lot of these movies better start getting used to it, the casuals are getting burnt out on the endless supply of superhero movies now. And I think that's going to get worse. I also can't blame them, it's getting to be a bit much at this point.

QUOTE (Quinarvy @ May 5, 2016 -> 06:01 PM) If Disney considered Age of Ultron disappointing, then Warner Brothers definitely considers Batman v. Superman disappointing. But they don't. Studios are never unhappy with a couple hundred million in profit, all things considered. Could it have made more? Sure. But it also could have made less and lost them money. Again, they crank out Transformers movies which critics hate, but people see them...so long as they're making profits they're not going to care. Sure, when I sell a stock I'd prefer to sell it at 100 instead of 75, but if I bought it at 40...I'm not really going to cry. If they wanted Snyder gone, he'd likely be gone by now...instead he's already filming The Justice League.

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ May 5, 2016 -> 03:40 PM) We arent talking about all WB movies, we are talking about DC movies. As much as you keep trying to deny, Snyder mapped this thing out, he is in charge. He hand picked all of the characters, he is producing all of them, he is directing the tentpoles. And now, the s*** is hitting the fan. Wan has to come out and tell everyone his movie isnt gonna be so serious, Suicide Squad just went into panic reshoots to make sure the movie doesnt have the same moody tone of a Snyder movie. SGS left Flash, and while you are acting like this isnt a big deal, it is a big deal. Marvel can weather directors leaving their francises and replacing them, they have built up a tremendous amount of good will because their films by and large have been good, some of them great. DC doesnt have that good will. They have a director who immediately tore up the fabric of what made Superman a special character, and then had to "fix" the s*** storm that he caused with Batman vs Superman. Except he didnt fix anything, he doubled down on it. He ruined Supermans biggest foil in Lex Luthor by making him a whiny little spoiled s***. One of the most feared criminals in Supermans rogues gallery reduced to a sniveling brat with daddy issues. He also threw away one of Supermans greatest adversaries ever and half assed the Supermans Death storyline for literally no reason at all. The guy took two excellent plots in BvS and The Death of Superman, mixed in bit of The Dark Knight Returns and threw them together. WHY?!?! That is 3 compelling separate stories!!! Why mash them together and waste all three at once?! Look man, I know you are hooked into WB somehow, trying to get in to the business. You try and look at the good in movies and pump up the art you see in them, but DC has gotten out on a terrible foot. Joss Whedon left for a multitude of reasons, he was burnt out, he had problems dealing with Marvel because they had a grand plan and were trying to shoehorn that in. This isnt a secret. But that doesnt mean that these movies havent been good. We threw a bunch of different movie genres at you within the last phase, not even the entire marvel catalog, and you are ignoring it acting like they are all the same. Being nice, im gonna say that DC needs a fresh perspective and someone to take a Kevin Feige overview look on this and pull things together going forward. Being blunt, im gonna say that Zack Snyder is a trash director and they need to ditch him as soon as yesterday. Not happening. Regardless of what people want, or say, or the bulls*** they make up to pretend the movie failed, the movie made almost 900 million and counting. And ignoring that ridiculous made up number from Forbes as to what the movie would need to profit, the studio is ecstatic. The movie will easily go on to gross over a billion with merch and rentals/sales and in the end, record massive profits. And that's all studios care about. They don't care about Tomato ratings. They don't care what fanboys think. If they did, they wouldn't keep making Transformers moves that people keep seeing. Snyder is staying.

Our teacher put five of us in the school library all day and made us write an essay of no less than a thousand words describing who we think we are. And we weren't allowed to repeat a single word a thousand times, either. I also recall quite a bit of 80's music. I'm also pretty sure that teacher raided Barry Manilow's wardrobe.

QUOTE (lostfan @ May 3, 2016 -> 11:13 AM) I'm going to suspend Y2HH because I think he misses me. But you're back!

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ May 3, 2016 -> 09:54 AM) I can't say I've noticed Menards remodeling? The stores in Bolingbrook, Homer Glen and Crest Hill or Romeoville are all laid out identically and the CH/R store is pretty new. Sports Authorities/Dick's etc could try to mimick something like Bass Pro but on a smaller scale instead of just being a big box. Me either. And I think Bass Pro is buying Cabelas, so good luck with sports authority and dicks trying to compete.

Oh, and I should tell you I'm not an expert in this field. This is just what I know from reading financial books and whatnot. I know there are new government programs that assist with such things, but all of them require proof of financial hardship, and since it sounds like the bank is saying they're not in financial hardship, I really don't see a way out of this unless they use nuclear bomb options, such as purposefully destroying their credit and going through foreclosure. And it sounds like that's an option they wouldn't ever consider -- and the bank is betting on that.

QUOTE (shipps @ May 3, 2016 -> 09:45 AM) Is having the bank review the denial with another case manager worth it at all? If they truly believe they're in financial distress, I'd go back. But they should know if they are or not without having to go through that. When you do a short sale, you're essentially asking the lender to agree to absorb any loss on the original loan when they property sells. They'd only do this if they believe you 1) won't be able to make payments soon or 2) won't make the payments purposefully to go into foreclosure, destroying your credit or ability to buy another home anytime soon. The bank is basically playing poker here, saying we know you have money and will continue making the payments, so why should we deal with you?

QUOTE (shipps @ May 3, 2016 -> 08:36 AM) What should one do when a short sale of their condo is denied by the bank? Lets say a friend of mine owns a condo that they lease out. The condo is worth about $90k less than what it was purchased for. The owner..."my friend"...wants to rid themselves of the property and has gone through the short sale process. Day one that it was put on the market for short sale there was a bid on the house for about $60k less than what is on the current loan. This offer was more than expected actually. Months pass and the bank denies the short sale because they say the owner is not in financial distress. This property has been a complete headache and financial burden for the owner and they do not want to continue owning this property. Obviously foreclosure isnt really an option due to the credit hit that they would take. It maybe that on paper the owners are not in financial distress but they basically want to get from under a terrible investment. Is there any next step in this situation or are they stuck here? Thanks for any insight. I don't see anything they can really do if they're not in financial distress. Just because you don't like an investment you've made -- if you have other assets -- doesn't mean you get to wash it away and make others absorb the loss. I see only three options here. 1) Keep it temporarily, hoping the market rebounds so they can sell it at closer to even. 2) Destroy their credit for a number of years and foreclose it. 3) Sell it and absorb the loss. There is no bank on earth that's going to let you walk away from a debt obligation when they know you have money/other assets.

OP pitching. Not that I'm complaining.

QUOTE (pettie4sox @ Apr 25, 2016 -> 03:45 PM) Stroman will obliterate Avi... probably most of the SOX hitters but Avi has no chance. No, this is the exact kind of game where Avi will close his eyes, swing, and somehow connect, assuring us another few weeks of Avi sucking.