southsider2k5

Once again it doesn't matter how well we play anymore. It matters how bad the Twins play. They have 7 games left against the worst team in history, who they are 11-1 against. That is why people are giving up.

http://www.weather.com/maps/news/atlstorm1...lite_large.html Hurricanes are the most incredible of weather systems. This one has changed the weather of the entire eastern third of the country. As a matter of a fact the forecast for our weather might change, if Isabel takes a more westerly track vs northerly it will stop that cold front from making it here.

Try 2024 will he be old enough then??????? Exactly...

Try 2024

And that's even OLD peoples music Yea, and I'm old! Oh youngun.... Not even close

And that's even OLD peoples music

yeah, but then again, I found it in the search feature by typing in the numbers 95-67 and your Sox prediction came right up! how I wish you had been right! Silly me, I thought we would beat teams like the Tigers and Rays this year. Maybe one of these years I will learn But I did get the race down to the end of the year part right. I was also pretty proud of having the orders of finishes right except for the Sox and Angels.

Well since the thread is locked, I will start a thread to talk about it. I was actually pleasantly surprised that I had almost all of the divisional standing pretty close to the right order. The Sox and Angels are the only ones I was really off on.

Sorry it aint me, HSC. I have never learned the photo editor stuff, but I would like to. Check on Murice's board and that thread with all of the signatures. Look at all the guys who did the sigs. Those are the guys I would talk to.

OK for Bob, BJ, and anyone else interested. The problems are two fold IMO. First the tax cuts were stupid. You can't give money to the upper classes in a recesion, and expect it to flow through the economy, as it would while ideal conditions exsist. What happens is instead of being consumed, the money goes to making up for lost profits and wages. It is in effect wasted because it isn't going to new spending, it is being added to the bottom lines of companies to dress up bad profit numbers, and it is going to cover old debts that were started while people where making more money. Money used to cover debts actually has a negative affect on economy because that disappears from circulation. Now that the economic cycle has turned on its own, once wages start to recover growth will occur. But because tax rates were cut, not only is there growth, but there is more money out there because of the tax cuts. So instead of controlled growth, the money supply basically has had a multiplier of growth plus the extra of the tax cut. #2 is Key commodity prices. If you look at basically a cross section of prices you would find that many many prices instead of falling correspondingly with the economic downturn actually went up. For example take a look at the charts of gold, silver, gas prices, and cattle. All of these are at very high levels. Now once demand turns around as people get hired and companies expand, prices are going to keep going up, as all of this extra money (growth plus tax cut) starts to tear through the system. Plus as an added bonus, is all of this WTO talk. 21 nations organized in protest of the EU and US amoungst others subsidizing their farmers to the point of bankrupting the 3rd world farmer. The US alone gives out approx $6 billion a year to keep things like corn, wheat, beans, and cotton at historically low levels. Now these 21 nations are demanding that we drop our barriors, in order for them to drop their barriors in other markets. Estimates were that if dropped there would be about a 25% jump in most of these commodities as unprofitable farms went out of business, and were replaced by either forgein competition or just simply had that production disappear. Put these together and you have huge price increases in food, transporation, precious metals, and just about everything connected to these staples. The war on terrorism has been a huge problem, as have all of the other wars that we are now involved in. What they have done is cause deficit spending, which means the government is out borrowing $1/2 trillion making it much harder for anyone else to borrow money, which means the price of money (interest rates) goes up also. It also causes economice resources to get reallocated to much less profitable ventures (what is the economic return of a $1 million cruise missle exploding vs a million dollar expansion of a local factory) Consumer confidence actually remained incredibly strong after 9-11, actually confidence numbers broke when lay offs started en masse. And yes we were heading for recession way before 9-11. This was a result of the mismanagement of the bubble from the irrational stock markets of 99-00. Instead of just slowing down the economy they just burst the bubble. We were heading down hill anyway, but because of the disappearing resources, all of these cutbacks were multiplied.

Frank, Mags, and Lee are hitting .180 something against the Twins. Unless they do something, I think Bart's effort will be for nothing. Yeah of all the people to be called out, we need about 7 or 8 other players to be called out, long before Colon. This series would have been meaningless before we even stepped out on the field if Bartolo hadn't been answering the call for a month now, that the rest of this heartless team missed. How come no "clutch or Tub of Goo" threads for Thomas, Konkero, Ordonez, Valentin, Olivo, Alomar, or the rest of them? They have killed this team, not Colon. As for this thread the term "one hit (post) wonder" comes to mind...

I get the feeling we are getting swept tonight. Thing is even if Colon mails it in, you can look at the offense mailing it in for the last week (7 runs in 21 games without an ace pitcher in the bunch) and need no further reason to see why this is over. When you look at the mail in job that guys like Thomas (.192 in September) and Konerko (2-18) have done, it makes what Colon does tonight pointless.

geez how did we get so lucky.......no roman wish he could take wsc with him..... ....... Hopefully there will be no damage from the hurricane......with the only exception that roman's pc is sucked out to sea. SS2k3 Post of the Day!

You could convince me either way

Out of curiousity, anyone going to the game on Sunday?

Turns out the fools caused more pollution than they would have just letting the SUVs drive around http://207.68.164.250/cgi-bin/linkrd?_lang...6threadid%3d475

My favorites are the guys you see out there surfing in advance of the storm surge

If you want to hang your hopes on a team with 113 losses, I have some playoff tickets I would be willing to sell just slightly above face value. PM me if you really believe that much.

omfg lmao... roman and wsc in the same thread... you dont have a personality disorder do ya by chance...... Are we sure that they are not the same person? Now, positive. They evacuated the town that Roman is from in advance of Hurricane Isabel.

After Bush's terrible mismanagement of the economy, I can't see me voting for Bush again. His economic policy team has just been blatantly wrong, that's all there is too it. Mark my words, there will be 7+% inflation happening within 2 years. You heard it here first. If anyone wants the economics behind my theory let me know...

Wow, you would think people would have learned something from the "hazing" incident in the Chicago burbs. I hope they throw the book at these idiots.

I went for the whole team. All though it sounds like Jurassic tried to step up and send a message in Boston on Sunday, but it sounds like no one was listening...

First of all they said the estimated cost is $439 mil. There is no way they build this for less than $600 mil, unless they import illegal labor. And second there is no way the public will pay for 51% of that. It aint gonna happen.

In college hoops I pull for the Hawkeyes because Steve Alfords first coaching job was where I went to college. He was a great family type of guy, and I will pull for his school probably no matter where he goes.

Because it is the truth.