The New And Improved Fashion Board

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by Replaced_Texan
Ya'll can have my brussels sprouts.

if you're coming on to me AND Coltrane, I'm there. i think he's dreamy!

[Pretty Little Flower]

Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
This is bullshit. It is no more difficult dealing with a family or friend's health problems than anywhere else.

TM

Actually, what I think patantpara was saying is that, in NYC, there is 10 to 20 times more sickness, death, and suffering than other places so it makes it hard for someone like her to have to deal with hearing about it all the time, 24-7, from people at work she barely even knows. It is still complete bullshit, but it is bullshit for a different reason than you point out (although to the extent she is saying that it is harder to deal with sickness, death and suffering in NYC than elsewhere, it is bullshit for the reason you point out).

[greatwhitenorthchick]

Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield
I like...
Avocados (regular and Reed)

NOT a vegetable.

[Cletus Miller]

Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
I believe they do. And I also believe they set that up after watching the cash flow to Georgie boy after he started YES.

I don't have a dog in this fight, but NESN has been around since the early 80s (perhaps is was not initially owned by the Yawkeys?). Wasn't YES started in '01 or '02?

[ThurgreedMarshall]

Originally posted by Pretty Little Flower
Actually, what I think patantpara was saying is that, in NYC, there is 10 to 20 times more sickness, death, and suffering than other places so it makes it hard for someone like her to have to deal with hearing about it all the time, 24-7, from people at work she barely even knows. It is still complete bullshit, but it is bullshit for a different reason than you point out (although to the extent she is saying that it is harder to deal with sickness, death and suffering in NYC than elsewhere, it is bullshit for the reason you point out).

This is also bullshit because the circle of people you actually interact with is no bigger in New York than most anywhere else in the world. It's all bullshit.

TM

[greatwhitenorthchick]

Originally posted by ltl/fb
Cheese and crackers?

Re: the pie thing, I owe you some calories.

I did little goat cheese pastry puffs one year for appetizers as well as a cheese plate and crudites. Thanksgiving is the only day of the year that I go anywhere near a kitchen so I go all out sometimes.

[Replaced_Texan]

Originally posted by Did you just call me Coltrane?
I hate them as a kid, but that's b/c my mom didn't cook them the way Hank has suggested. The wife cooks them that way. A world of difference.

I'm pretty firm in my anti-Brussels sprouts stance, despite my mother's attempts to convert me.

There was a long discussion on the food board a few years ago on this.

[Sparklehorse]

Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
i think [Coltrane's] dreamy!

This seems so appropriate when you are Bea Arthur-Hank, leaning sweetly on your hands.

[Gattigap]

Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
It's all bullshit.

Someone hang on to this little gem, because about 3 weeks and 4700 posts from now, I think we might just have our new board motto.

[Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)]

Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
Maybe. My original point was, why make your first step into a new market a $90 million gamble?

1) NESN came well before YES. It was created in the mid-80s by the Red Sox and Bruins. It was some sort of partnership originally, but they now own the entire thing. YES came along in, what, 2000?

2) Yesterday your point was the Red Sox are as spendthrift as the Yankees. Now you're saying you just question the economics of the move. Which is it? The Yankees are never going to get away from the mantel of being the highest spending team, because they'll probably be a high revenue team for the forseeable future. The Red Sox will always be playing catch-up, and will, at least in the near term, always be a distant second (or maybe third) in spending to the Yankees. How does this change anything? Even if the Sox are paying $90M for the guy over the next four years, they're still $40-50M back in payroll. As for the Sox bid, while it was way above the others, at least the Mets were within 10-12M of it, which suggests other see some value too, which probably is essentially represents the discount they can get because he's not a free agent.

That said, I'm skeptical on the economics as well, which is why I suspect a mixed motive here. If they can sign him at a reasonable, not Boras-inflated price, they will. If the numbers get too rich, well, the Sox don't get him but neither do the Yankees. A consolation prize to be sure, but a consolation prize of consequence.

[Replaced_Texan]

Originally posted by Pretty Little Flower
Actually, what I think patantpara was saying is that, in NYC, there is 10 to 20 times more sickness, death, and suffering than other places so it makes it hard for someone like her to have to deal with hearing about it all the time, 24-7, from people at work she barely even knows. It is still complete bullshit, but it is bullshit for a different reason than you point out (although to the extent she is saying that it is harder to deal with sickness, death and suffering in NYC than elsewhere, it is bullshit for the reason you point out).

She's lucky, then, that she doesn't work in the Texas Medical Center.

[patentparanyc]

Originally posted by Replaced_Texan
She's lucky, then, that she doesn't work in the Texas Medical Center.

I could never be a nurse for that very reason. And the money for RN's is good/great.

[ThurgreedMarshall]

Originally posted by Cletus Miller
I don't have a dog in this fight, but NESN has been around since the early 80s (perhaps is was not initially owned by the Yawkeys?). Wasn't YES started in '01 or '02?

My bad. Henry took over in 2003 and they started following the YES model soon thereafter.

"As recently as 2002, 77 games out of a 162-game schedule were available on local over-the-air broadcasts. The John Henry-Tom Werner ownership team, which took over in 2003, reworked the arrangement to put more games on the NESN cable network.

But over the winter the Red Sox announced that all locally televised games will be on NESN, in which the Sox have an 80 percent interest. (The New York Times Company, owner of the Globe, holds a 17 percent stake in the Sox.)

Tom Werner, the Sox chairman, defends the move on the grounds that 94 percent of households in the region subscribe to cable or satellite TV."

http://www.boston.com/sports/basebal...ut_our_sox_on/

TM

[Shape Shifter]

Originally posted by patentparanyc
I could never be a nurse for that very reason. And the money for RN's is good/great.

They'd make better money if they'd gone to med school.

[patentparanyc]

Originally posted by Shape Shifter
They'd make better money if they'd gone to med school.

Sigh. you are back and already tiresome. And the money would be better if paras go to law school your point it? It does not detract from the fact that the money for RN's is good.

And hedge fund and private equity guys make more than most attys. point? none.