***The Official Philadelphia Phillies 2012 Thread***

The Fixer wrote:

not baseball related, but it's nice to see PA is considering 20th century policies. gotta be one of the least progressive states in the US. also, I like booze as much as the next guy, but it is a luxury item. I think luxury items like booze and cigarettes should be taxed as much as possible. people will still buy that stuff.

http://www.philly.com/philly/news/20101 ... r_end.html

Love it. Maybe I'll finally be able to order booze and wine from other states and have it be delivered to my house instead of family and friends in Jersey. :roll:

Also, I found this funny because the site you linked earlier was embedded in my gmail. It's scary how much google does the thinking for you.... http://traderyanhoward.com/?gclid=COShj ... 4AodPT2KoA

Like the article on keeping Blanton a lot.

Jearlpam0925 wrote:

And I know this is off-topic, but did you know Philly is 9th overall in the world in GDP? I had no idea we were even close to being that high.

holy shit. if that's true then the top 10 must contain at least 5 US citites.

NYC
LA
chicago
dallas
philly
paris
london
tokyo
beijing
shanghai

that's my guess off the top of my head (in no specific order)

Jearlpam0925 wrote:

The Fixer wrote:

Jearlpam0925 wrote:

And I know this is off-topic, but did you know Philly is 9th overall in the world in GDP? I had no idea we were even close to being that high.

holy shit. if that's true then the top 10 must contain at least 5 US citites.

NYC
LA
chicago
dallas
philly
paris
london
tokyo
beijing
shanghai

that's my guess off the top of my head (in no specific order)

Yeah, it's Tokyo, NY, LA, Chicago, London, Paris, Osaka, Mexico City, Philly, Sao Paolo in that order. Crazy. (edit) 388 B GDP at a population of 5 million for the area. Really didn't know we had that much of an effect.

I had sao paolo on my initial list but replaced it with shanghai. damn

forgot about mexico city. I'm shocked that there are no chinese cities on that list

Jearlpam0925 wrote:

The Fixer wrote:

Jearlpam0925 wrote:

Yeah, it's Tokyo, NY, LA, Chicago, London, Paris, Osaka, Mexico City, Philly, Sao Paolo in that order. Crazy. (edit) 388 B GDP at a population of 5 million for the area. Really didn't know we had that much of an effect.

I had sao paolo on my initial list but replaced it with shanghai. damn

forgot about mexico city. I'm shocked that there are no chinese cities on that list

Yeah, I know. I gotta think their international trade is high, but within their own country it's low. I know there's that whole thing where they've been keeping the value of the yen low, so maybe that has something to do with it as well. I also thought Rio would be higher than Sao Paolo.

pretty sure S.P. is the largest city in the world, in terms of population. it's S.P. or mexico city I believe

cover of the DN today is great. I don't know how to post pics here

The Jeagler wrote:

The Fixer wrote:

cover of the DN today is great. I don't know how to post pics here

just saw it. EPIC.

What are we talking about? The Billy Penn picture? I'm missing something.

Jearlpam0925 wrote:

Ahhhh, now I get it. Nice. Just reminds me how much I hate that Eagles logo though.

That's Lurie's wifes claim to fame

Phantom Pain wrote:

Jearlpam0925 wrote:

Ahhhh, now I get it. Nice. Just reminds me how much I hate that Eagles logo though.

That's Lurie's wifes claim to fame

Another reminder I didn't need. Ugh.

The Fixer wrote:

Just found out that I got that job. Looks like the Fixer will be taking his talents to DC

congradulations....beer on the fixer at pj20