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Cost is cost. Guards are overhead. The taxpayer doesn't get to deduct those salaries. Also, don't you think that the $155,000 per inmate ($167,000 minus $12,000 for individual prisoners) attributable to salaries, benefits and facility maintenance is a little high? I don't know the guard to inmate ratio but even if it was 1 to 1, $155,000 is still way too high. I own a condo in a high rise on a beach and my share of the maintenance is $12,000/ yr and that is considered high. $155, 000 of maintenance attributable to each inmate is outrageous.

And we thought that $60,000/ year per inmate was a lot. This is disgraceful. http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/nyc_prisons_gilded_cages_EDFG3OkjCXbAfOhiMD0lAI

Well, I can't change what I like, and it is the most benign of my flaws. LOL!!

Is Buch pitching a rehab game this weekend?

I would.

Before All of the PED use hads been exposed, I would watch Bonds and marvel at his plate discipline. Once he was busted as a PED user, I still wondered whether it helped his plate discipline which was so much better than before his PED use. It was explained to me that some stuff does help your vision and it does help your reflexes. An improvement in vision and/or reflexes would help him identify pitches a minute fraction of second earlier and allow him to wait a fraction longer before committing. In a game of inches and fractions of inches, improving by a fraction catapulted a great ballplayer's performance into the performance of an All Time legend. The real measure of Bonds was how he played before he got the big mellon head and the raisen sized testicles, and that was a pretty great ballplayer. He had won 3 MVP's. The melon head Bonds was all fake, -- power and plate discipline-- it was all enhanced. Of all the PED users, Bonds is the one who was certain to go to the HOF if he had not used PEDs. They say it about Clemens, but he had less than 200 wins when he left Boston and the Duke was right-- he was in the twilight of his career before it was revived pharmaceutically. At 200 + wins, his case for HOF would not be as strong as Schill's, because Schill had the post-season legend status.

The biggest tragedy to come out of the PED scandal is that no one from the late 90's on is beyond suspicion. They are all tainted.

My apologies. I am a flawed man. I am not proud to say that I like the fake ones as well as the real ones. LOL!!!

I hope that my Miss America analogy was not offensive to our women readers.

SFF is a great fan and poster who has a positive outlook most of the time for the team, but when his emotions get the better of him, he makes a 180 degree turn. When he gets emotional, he can doom and gloom as much as anyone. That's okay. Being a fan is an emotional roll coaster. At least he sticks around to commiserate when the going gets tough unlike the pink hats who disappear.

PED use creates an uneven playing field, because not everyone does it. Believe it or not, even in the heyday of PEDs before the drug testing, a lot of players were clean. Canseco, who is trying to make money and sell books claims that two-thirds were doing it. That is probably an overstatement, but even if accepted on it's face, there were at least 250 MLB players who were clean at the height of the usage. They had an unlevel playing field and they were cheated. The fans were cheated, because we thought that we were witnesses to something special watching Bonds and the MGWire Sosa HR chase and Clemens and so on. Now, we realize that they just gave themselves an unfair edge. I used to watch the Giants a lot and marvel at Bonds. His plate discipline was unbelievable and when the pitcher threw him a strike, he crushed the ball at a phenomenal rate. He almost never missed his pitch or failed to crush it. He was always great, but earlier in his career, you could get him out with pitches out of the zone. He was playing in an otherworldly manner in his Giant days. It was special to watch. Now, it just seems fake and not special. It's like finding out that Miss America had a boob job before the pageant. Yes, she is a beautiful girl, but she shouldn't have won because she was artificially enhanced, fake.

If you ain't cheating, you ain't trying.

He's a victim with a $142 million contract. Please spare me.

Screw him. What a jackass.

I am glad that Ortiz was publicly critical of Dempster's idiotic selfish move.

Some people in the Mets organization rate Wheeler's stuff as superior to Harvey.

Jays are freaking useless. No help from them.

This situation meets the minimum requirement for a racially motivated crime-- there was an African American and a Caucasian involved. In the Martin case, there was no Caucasian involved in the incident, but it was portrayed as a black-white racial incident.

He started the season in the minors. He has a elite arm and he has done well since his call up. I wish we had him.

Wheeler is pretty good.

Another chance for Dice K

The Nats acquired him and put him on waivers immediately.

The Rays have added Delmon Young

At first glance, I said: who is that on Nava's back?

LOL! So you are all in on the Sox.