Poll Position: Which big win would make you happiest?
Now for something completely different …
As my longtime readers know, I’m a sports fan. And if there’s been a bigger four-day stretch of big and potentially big sports news in Atlanta than we’ve seen beginning Wednesday, I don’t recall it.
Which of these big wins makes (or would make) you happiest?
- UGA's (potential) SEC title/BCS title game berth (120 Votes)
- The Falcons' big win (64 Votes)
- Sports? I'd rather be shopping ... or raking leaves! (21 Votes)
- Tech's (potential) ACC title (18 Votes)
- The Braves' big moves (13 Votes)
Total Voters: 236
Loading ...Wednesday: The Braves reached a deal with free-agent CF B.J. Upton.
Thursday: The Falcons beat their arch-nemesis, the Saints, to move within a whisker of the NFC South title and a step closer to home-field advantage throughout the playoffs. (As a bonus, a loss Sunday by Tampa Bay would give the division title to the Falcons.)
Friday: The Braves traded pitcher Tommy Hanson, freeing up payroll funds for another possible big move (a LF or 3B, depending on where the ultra-versatile Martin Prado plays next year).
Saturday: Georgia Tech plays for the ACC championship in Charlotte while, here in Atlanta, Georgia plays Alabama for the SEC title and a spot in the BCS national-championship game in Miami on Jan. 7.
Oh, and the Hawks are playing better than most people (or at least this person) expected when they traded away All-Star Joe Johnson earlier this year.
For a city that has never been confused with Titletown, U.S.A., this is a big Bid’n deal.
Make no mistake: My main interest, really my only interest, this weekend is seeing the Bulldogs knock off Alabama and keeping marching toward the promised land. As far as predictions go, my head says the two teams are evenly matched except that experience and coaching give an edge to the Crimson Tide. But my gut … well, let’s just say I’ve learned not to listen to my gut.
But how about the rest of you? Football is king in the South, but I know from experience that some of you (cough, cough, Dusty) are bigger baseball fans. Which development (or potential development) makes you jump for joy at the mere thought?
That’s this week’s Poll Position question. Answer in the nearby poll and in the comments thread below.
(And no, none of these would make me change my mind about a new stadium.)
– By Kyle Wingfield
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Lil' Barry Bailout - OBAMAPHONE!!!
December 2nd, 2012
2:40 pm
Sorry, saywhat, but the study didn’t provide data for 2008, Our President Bush’s last year in office, or 2009, Obozo’s first.
Were you aware that Our President Bush had increased median household net worth by nearly 20% from 2001 to 2007? You are now.
saywhat?
December 2nd, 2012
2:52 pm
Nice try. The study clearly states the median income “plunged” starting in 2007, during the reign of error of your president bush.
Tell me again what good it is to increase net worth by 20% over 6 years if it is only going to decline by twice that amount over the next two or three years.
Were you aware that your president bush was the worst. president. ever.?You are now.
JamVet
December 2nd, 2012
2:55 pm
Want to know why the neocons have gotten crushed in three out of the past four elections?
Look no further than: “The worst president in American history was elected in 2008, and reelected in 2012. That’s saying quite a bit since he nudged Jimmy Carter out of that position!”
cc/CC, Lil BB, et al are the libs’ secret weapon.
Good job. guys…
Lil' Barry Bailout - OBAMAPHONE!!!
December 2nd, 2012
3:01 pm
Nice try, saywhat. What was household net worth in 2008? Surely if we know it plunged in 2007, you can tell us what it was in 2008.
Why hasn’t Obozo been able to increase it back to where Our President Bush had it in 2007? He’s had four years.
Obozo: Inferior to Our President Bush.
Lil' Barry Bailout - OBAMAPHONE!!!
December 2nd, 2012
3:04 pm
Obozo has the worst record on spending, deficits and debt. That much is not arguable. It’s just math.
CC
December 2nd, 2012
4:05 pm
“Thats right, 2007, when Obama took office.”
Yep.
You really know what you’re talking about . . .
CC
December 2nd, 2012
4:07 pm
JamVet@2:55 pm:
Just part of the problem spouting off . . . again.
Linda
December 2nd, 2012
4:14 pm
Obama has been on the campaign trail this week touting his class warfare agenda, claiming that if the Bush tax cuts expire on the middle income earners, it would cost an average of $2000 per family. This site includes a map of the “average tax savings from a one-year extension of the Bush tax cuts” in ‘13 on all taxpayers. There are 5 states that average from $4242 to $5783 & 5 that average from $1310 to $1530. Couldn’t help but notice that his Blue state voters would get that “revenge” he was talking about.
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/if-the-bush-tax-cuts-expire-how-much-more-would-you-have-to-pay/
getalife
December 2nd, 2012
4:15 pm
w was a disaster. Fact.
getalife
December 2nd, 2012
4:17 pm
Linda,
Our President is doing exactly what he campaigned and won on.
If you cons want to stay in la la land and ignore the majority of the American people, you are free to do so. Stay the course.
CC
December 2nd, 2012
4:26 pm
Rafe@9:14 pm 12/1/12:
Much of this proposal has to be bargaining material or Obama is certifiably a blithering idiot, not that I doubt the probability of the latter! Anyone with half a brain, excluding liberals who have no brain, can immediately determine at a glance that this is pure hogwash and will do far greater damage to the economy than he has already succeeded in doing. If the drag on consumption is “redistributed” as suggested, I predict a boom in lottery ticket sales, malt liquor sales and illegal drug sales.
USA Patriot
December 2nd, 2012
4:29 pm
Obama is a failure. Fact.
CC
December 2nd, 2012
4:30 pm
getalife:
You need to rush back over next door. I heard that a column writer just regurgitated, and I would hate for you to miss your share of the bounty!
You dont say
December 2nd, 2012
4:36 pm
CC
Are you against other’s speaking their mind or are you so mypoic that you prefer an echo chamber?
Rafe Hollister preparing for an Obamanist America
December 2nd, 2012
4:38 pm
CC: Yes, he has clearly chosen a “Fair” America over a “prosperous” America, so you can’t expect his decisions to make much economic sense. Libs will argue that you can have a “fair” America and a “prosperous” America. That has been proven to be false everywhere it has been tried. In an effort to force fairness, the pie is just continually redivided over and over, to make sure everyone gets the same size piece, until the misery is spread evenly.
The utopians always claim that you can bring the bottom up without lowering the top, but like in education, the theory never works. It seems there is always a bottom that doesn’t move, you have to bring the top down to achieve average.
Linda
December 2nd, 2012
4:46 pm
This is how the Democrats can pay for their spending agenda, at least for a while.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=661pi6K-8WQ
CC
December 2nd, 2012
4:48 pm
“Are you against other’s speaking their mind or are you so mypoic that you prefer an echo chamber?”
I’m simply someone who likes words that emanate from a functioning brain rather than a void.
getalife
December 2nd, 2012
4:51 pm
‘President’s Idea of a Negotiation Is Roll Over and Do What I Ask’…crybaby.
Um, yeah you lost crybaby.
CC
December 2nd, 2012
4:52 pm
Rafe:
“It seems there is always a bottom that doesn’t move, you have to bring the top down to achieve average.”
That is a REAL fact, and exactly what the liberals want and intend to do. The fact that they cannot or will not grasp is that you CAN’T make the poor wealthy by making the wealthy poor.
getalife
December 2nd, 2012
4:57 pm
Let me be clear, the mindless zombie welfare for the wealthy with trickle down, laffer curve and invisible hand bs is over.
We are focusing on good paying jobs for the middle class so the failed gop party needs to get out of the way of free commerce.
Got it cons?
Linda
December 2nd, 2012
5:18 pm
Obama’s offer to avoid going over the fiscal cliff is like a prospective buyer offering $100,000 for a house appraised at $300,000, anticipating that he will eventually get the house for $200,000, splitting the difference with the seller. It appears that Obama also asked for the furnishings, the cars & the family pets.
Obama might be surprised when the seller counter-offers with $500,000, the same amt. OVER the asking price that the buyer offered UNDER the asking price. The seller might get the impression that the buyer is not serious & is, in fact, wasting the seller’s time with insults.
It’s time for the seller to change his phone number.
Lil' Barry Bailout - OBAMAPHONE!!!
December 2nd, 2012
5:20 pm
getalife: Our Republican House is doing exactly what they campaigned and won on.
———
Yup. FIFY.
getalife
December 2nd, 2012
5:22 pm
Oh, you want the Dems to win the house to give our President two years of a rubber stamp congress.
Okay, deal.
getalife
December 2nd, 2012
5:38 pm
See how easy it was to cut a deal.
Just stay the course until 14.
Easy.
Lil' Barry Bailout - OBAMAPHONE!!!
December 2nd, 2012
5:40 pm
You’ll get that chance in two years. Until then, if you want your Prog Viagra (higher tax rates only for the productive) you’ll have to pass it in the Republican House.
getalife
December 2nd, 2012
5:42 pm
We can wait.
Lil' Barry Bailout - OBAMAPHONE!!!
December 2nd, 2012
5:49 pm
I guess you’ll have to, since you lost.
getalife
December 2nd, 2012
6:01 pm
No problem.
Stay the course.
getalife
December 2nd, 2012
6:03 pm
BTW, the Dems are for the fiscal cliff.
Then our President and the Senate will propose a vote on the middle tax cuts again.
Good luck with that.
Linda
December 2nd, 2012
6:18 pm
Someone is talking with himself, again.
Lil' Barry Bailout - OBAMAPHONE!!!
December 2nd, 2012
6:23 pm
I’m for the fiscal cliff too. We’re all in it together. Shared sacrifice.
CC
December 2nd, 2012
6:24 pm
Linda @ 6:18:
She does that when she can’t get anyone to respond to her inane and childish posts!
Lil' Barry Bailout - OBAMAPHONE!!!
December 2nd, 2012
6:26 pm
The middle class won’t notice the expiration of Our President Bush’s tax cuts, since they are only for the wealthy.
CC
December 2nd, 2012
6:34 pm
LBB:
Excellent point! Now we know that MarkV, JamVet and getalife will not feel a thing! Makes you kind of want to see it happen, doesn’t it? I know that if they can stand it, I’ll certainly survive it!
saywhat?
December 2nd, 2012
6:52 pm
Right now the biggest win that would make me happy is the Fighting Irish of Notre Dame over the crimson laundry detergent of Alabama.
Linda
December 2nd, 2012
6:52 pm
CC@6:24, She? Her? It’s an it.
Linda
December 2nd, 2012
6:56 pm
The Democrats are already figuring out how to tax the rocks at the bottom of the cliff.
Isn’t it funny that the liberals have been demonizing ALL the Bush tax cuts since ‘01 & all of a sudden they’ve been SAYING they want to extend them for the middle income earners? Kiss my grits!
CC
December 2nd, 2012
6:57 pm
Linda:
I know that you are right. Sometimes even giving one the benefit of the doubt can be ludicrous.
CC
December 2nd, 2012
7:00 pm
“Right now the biggest win that would make me happy is the Fighting Irish of Notre Dame over the crimson laundry detergent of Alabama.”
The Tide will roll over Notre Dame like Obama lies roll over the MSM.
In short, it’s over for Notre Dame.
saywhat?
December 2nd, 2012
7:01 pm
“The middle class won’t notice the expiration of Our President Bush’s tax cuts, since they are only for the wealthy.”
_____________________________________________________
Sorry to have to correct you, again, but you should be used to it by now. Your worst president ever’s tax cut benefitted the middle class as well, but not to the obscenely out-of-proportion extent it benefitted the wealthy. Your masters have had a relatively cheap ride for too long. Its time for the money hoarding non-job producing to pay their share. The election is over, and the Americans have spoken.
It will be o.k. to raise taxes on the middle class for the purpose of closing the defict once we finish our ascent out of the economic disaster created by your president bush (worst. president. ever.) Until then, the money is need to stimulate the American economy.
Tiberius - pulling the tail of the left AND right when needed
December 2nd, 2012
7:07 pm
“Our President is doing exactly what he campaigned and won on.”
I didn’t realize he actually campaigned on destroying the greatest nation that ever was seen on the Earth.
Lil' Barry Bailout - OBAMAPHONE!!!
December 2nd, 2012
7:20 pm
[Our President Bush's] tax cut benefitted the middle class”
———
Not according to the progs. When they did admit that the tax cuts benefitted the middle class, they claimed their cuts were minuscule.
The middle class won’t notice their missing Bush tax cut.
They WILL notice their missing job, after taxes go up disproportionately on small businesses.
Linda
December 2nd, 2012
7:27 pm
Democrats’ example of spending cuts: the wars the US had planned to wage on Cuba, Brazil & California have been officially called off & the $1 T that those wars would have cost the US, that we would have borrowed from China, can now be spent on unions in blue states. We can now afford Stimulus MDCCXIV!
Linda
December 2nd, 2012
7:32 pm
Tiberius@7:07, You didn’t realize when he said he was going to “transform America, ” he meant he was planning to destroy our capitalist system, our Constitution, our economy, our health care system, our freedoms, our way of life, the American Dream, etc.?
Thought you were more perceptive than that.
getalife
December 2nd, 2012
8:32 pm
“I’m for the fiscal cliff too. We’re all in it together. Shared sacrifice.”
Did you break up with your precious billionaires?
getalife
December 2nd, 2012
8:38 pm
Sending out Tim to negotiate was a bold move.
It reminded me of the Godfather’s counter offer to the corrupt, pill popping Senator from Nevada.
“My offer is nothing ………..
Lil' Barry Bailout - OBAMAPHONE!!!
December 2nd, 2012
8:41 pm
After the fiscal cliff, the middle class’ #my2k will be #our2k.
Time to eat your peas, middle and lower class Obozobots. We’re all in this together. Now get out there and pay your fair share.
Lil' Barry Bailout - OBAMAPHONE!!!
December 2nd, 2012
8:48 pm
“It reminded me of the Godfather’s counter offer to the corrupt, pill popping Senator”
———-
Right, because the Godfather wasn’t corrupt at all.
Analogy fail.
Linda
December 2nd, 2012
8:48 pm
The Democrats think the globe is warmer at the bottom on the cliff.
Martin Luther King, Jr. was a Republican & Democrats have always been & are still racists.
http://runslave.blogspot.com/search?q=Martin+Luther+King+Republican
Linda
December 2nd, 2012
8:56 pm
Democrats have always been & are still racists.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hwqhoVIh65k