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  1. frostwyrm
    What people of New Orleans? By the time the city is ready to be inhabited again the residents will have spent years in homes and careers elsewhere. At that point there won't be a "people of New Orleans". I really think this is going to be a permanent move for the great majority of the people who have been displaced. You apparently are unaware of the resolve and links to that area that many natives of New Orleans feel. After those natives have been gone for 5-7 years, ask them if they want to chuck their new jobs and homes to return to NO, after having left under extremely unpleasant circumstances. No doubt SOME will want to return, but I'm guessing you overestimate their number. There's a strong tendency to inertia in the average person's life. People will be gone long enough to get into a happy rut in their new homes. I think occasional trips to the city will be enough to satisfy the average person's sentimentality.
  2. frostwyrm
    I don't understand this. Organization people are very high on Cedeno, but they are bringing Neifi back? How could they not be aware that there's not a snowball's chance in hell of Cedeno starting over Neifi? Stuff like this makes me think the Cubs deserve to lose.
  3. frostwyrm
    What people of New Orleans? By the time the city is ready to be inhabited again the residents will have spent years in homes and careers elsewhere. At that point there won't be a "people of New Orleans". I really think this is going to be a permanent move for the great majority of the people who have been displaced.
  4. frostwyrm
    According to ESPN the Cubs face RHP's in the next 3 games. Murton and Cedeno will probably be back on the bench tomorrow.
  5. frostwyrm
    It is a given that a new containment system that can withstand a category 5 hurricane must be in place before rebuilding begins. No homeowner or businessperson would be foolish enough to start building before then. The preliminary steps to construct a new containment system: 1)Congress will debate how to proceed 2)if rebuilding is a go, funding must be secured in Congress 3)proposals must be formulated and submitted by various engineering firms 4)proposals will be reviewed carefully and one will be accepted 5)Congress may want to sign off on the final proposal 5)Bids must be solicited from contractors 6)Submitted bids will be reviewed and contracts awarded. I'm not sure how long these steps should take. Maybe 2 years? 7)the new containment system must actually be built Another 2 years? 8)with the new containment system in place, the actual rebuilding of the city can start. 3 years? Of course this is all guesswork on my part, but it looks to me like rebuilding is going to be longer and tougher than people think.
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    People should realize that it will take several years to drain the city, perform all the demo work, AND get a new containment system in place that can withstand the strongest hurricanes. Meanwhile people will have gotten on with their lives and businesses will have relocated. How many people will even want to return? Will it really be worth the enormous expense, after all the old inhabitants have put down roots elsewhere?
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    I hope I don't sound offensive, but I've been to New Orleans, and this sentimental talk about the French Quarter, Bourbon St, and Mardi Gras doesn't carry much weight with me. These places had already morphed into crass tourist traps long ago. The authentic history of the places was already overwhelmed by the commercialism. Now the original buildings are largely destroyed and we're talking creating about a cheesy Disneyworld type copy, which will just be another tacky tourist trap, only completely phony this time, and it will cost several hundred billion tax dollars to do it. This strikes me as misguided sentimentality, and a guaranteed recipe for buyer's remorse.
  8. frostwyrm
    More time to evaluate Perez and Burnitz. Just what Hendry needed.
  9. frostwyrm
    I expect some will argue for rebuilding a bit to the West, which if I'm not mistaken is above sea level. It would of course be a facsimilie of old New Orleans and not the real thing, but you could argue that building on the original site will also produce nothing more than a facsimlie too, since so much of the city will have to be demolished and completely reconstructed.
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    I don't think Hastert threw out any ideas that won't be floated by other politicians in the coming months, and I don't think it will be just crackpots or extremists either.
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    I can't stand when people put money ahead of people's lives and homes. New Orleans was home to many many people. You HAVE to rebuild it. I hope Hastert's home burns down, so people can say, "nope, we shouldn't rebuild it." Maybe he is thinking of peoples' lives. One of the reasons I'm not keen on rebuilding is that I don't want to see a bunch of people killed again. Now if we can come up with a 100% guaranteed foolproof containment system then maybe it would be OK to rebuild, otherwise I say stay out.
  12. frostwyrm
    Yeah, New Orleans will never be the same. You can find good analogies in Germany. All those cities with their historical-looking buildings look authentic to us, but they are largely modern restorations or even complete reconstructions. Somebody who saw those cities in the 1930's wouldn't be fooled.
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    I guess it will be a while before we get a reasonably accurate price tag on a rebuild, but I imagine it will be incredibly expensive. One thing you have to worry about is that businesses will no longer want to be located within the bowl without flood insurance, which will be astronomically expensive from now on. The only way I can see business moving back is if the Federal government helps out with insurance costs, but I'm not sure that's a good use of tax dollars. I expect insurance will be a major issue in the whole debate. Of course the overriding consideration is the continued danger to human life. New Orleans is not a safe place to live or work.
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    Hi Mr. Pink!
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    A complete rebuild will cost a FORTUNE, and it could all be destroyed again with the same huge loss of life. There is already some debate about how to proceed. I admit I have no emotional attachment to the city but I think a 100% restoration is not the way to go. I have seen the satellite photos and some locations around the rim of the "bowl" were untouched, but unfortunately the great majority of the city is right in the bowl. It seems to me the site is fundamentally dangerous and it's amazing disaster has only struck just now.
  16. frostwyrm
    Ponson will take his millions and retire. I bet he could buy enough donuts to stretch from here to the moon, and he probably will. Kinda funny that Rafael Palmeiro publicly vouched for Ponson's character : "From one scumbag to another, you're alright dude!" http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/wire?section=mlb&id=2143969
  17. frostwyrm
    I don't remember if/how I cried, but I do remember I was firmly in the "this outfield sucks" camp going into opening day.
  18. frostwyrm
    In all seriousness, at this point I've come to believe Baker doesn't want Hendry to have a clear picture of what Cedeno can do at the MLB level. I am certain Baker wants Hendry to pick between Furcal and Neifi, and to further that goal Baker is doing his best to keep Cedeno in the shadows, without being too blatant about it. Obviously he couldn't get away with not playing Cedeno at all.
  19. frostwyrm
    I don't think Neifi is below average defensively, he's good, but certainly not great. It is a bit irritating that some people have built him up as a Gold Glove shortstop. He's not even close.
  20. frostwyrm
    I honestly believe this statement by itself is grounds for firing a manager. It's an outright act of sabotage to keep playing the journeymen who put you in 5th place and leave the kids on the bench. http://chicagosports.chicagotribune.com/sports/baseball/cubs/cs-050830cubsgamer,1,2308930.story?coll=cs-cubs-headlines
  21. frostwyrm
    Corey is probably already on his way out of town, but if he refuses to play winter ball I'd say it is 100% certain he won't be back.
  22. frostwyrm
    Where were you in June and July? I hate that Neifi's fans are alternately insufferable smartasses or invisible ghosts, depending on whether he's hot or cold. excuse me? I didn't make that stat up. I'm not a neifi hater, nor a neifi supporter. Face it, the guy hasn't been that bad this year. We could have done a lot worse than neifi this year. OK, maybe I jumped on you too hard, but we have had some real wiseass Neifi fans here who always disappear as soon as he gets cold. As for Nefi, he's way above his non-Coors career numbers this year. You have to expect him to regress back to his horrible sub-.600 OPS self, which is why I want nothing to do with him for 2006. Tony Womack 2004 version is a decent analogy.
  23. frostwyrm
    Where were you in June and July? I hate that Neifi's fans are alternately insufferable smartasses or invisible ghosts, depending on whether he's hot or cold.
  24. frostwyrm
    Neifi has a solid glove and puts the ball in play. He's pretty much done for the Cubs what he's done his entire career. Not true. Neifi has historically been a godawful hitter outside of Coors, not even good enough for a defensive backup, and if that were not the case it would have taken more than a telephone call to acquire his services last August.
  25. frostwyrm
    I sure am glad to get another look at that Neifi Perez kid. Jeromy Burnitz looks like a young go-getter too.
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