Controlled Chaos

Tom Collins' cousin

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Apr 18, 2008 -> 03:49 PM) A few more observations from last night: Carlos hit 2 dingers. One on a breaking ball to left and one on a fastball to right. Its said when he gets going his power is going to be to right center, so its a good sign he hit one hard there. The baltimore announcers are pretty good, but the fans are not, they consistently threw HR balls back onto the field. Give it to a kid guys. Gavin Floyd it starting to like to attack hitters. He is starting to realize his fastball can give him a strike right away on batters, this is a good thing. I don't feel terrible about the loss...s*** happens and there were a bunch of positves. I just wasn't happy with Dye in RF in the 9th inning. If the Sox are winning, put your best defense out there. That is all.

QUOTE (Soxy @ Apr 18, 2008 -> 12:39 PM) I'm a bit torn on it. On the one hand, it seems rather indisputably true that there are behavioral outputs that make a lot more sense if put in evolutionary perspective than basic learning theory. (Like a finding that animals are unable to learn associations between some sets of stimuli, but not others.) Of course, some basic theories of learning can also account for this data--but the mechanisms that they use to account for them isn't necessarily theoretically interesting. Also, I think that the points raised by Chomsky about language acquisition also are really important, valid, and have laid the ground work for modern theories of psycholinguistics. SOME of the more social evolutionary theories are also pretty interesting--I particularly like Buss' theory about love and jealousy. On the other hand, a lot of the explanations offered by EvoPsy seems really post-hoc to me (although I suppose this just goes back the general adaptationism critique that can be leveled against them or the unfalsifiable one). I also think that focusing on the neural and biological correlates of speech, auditory/visual perception/ memory is interesting--but I think it isn't necessarily as interesting as studying pure behavioral stuff. And sometimes focusing on something like a language acquisition center in the brain can take away from really interesting other phenomena. So, I guess it's more about how diversified the field is--I think EvoPsy is an important aspect of experimental psychology and other sub-disciplines should take their theories into consideration. But I don't necessarily think it is the most interesting question in Psychology (because, admittedly, we're waaaaaaaaaaay behind the hard sciences theoretically). Oh, and I should argue that I think that a lot of the EvoPsy explanation for mental illness and suicide is pretty piss poor and not convincing to me at all. DAM...I feel like Will Ferrell in Old School, when he woke up after blacking out during the debate. Impressive Soxy.

Lets kick some Devil Ray ass.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Apr 18, 2008 -> 10:43 AM) Aftershocks of some size are normal for days to weeks after an event. The larger the event, the longer it takes to return to a normal background seismicity rate. CHICAGO (CBS) ― A second earthquake struck southern Illinois today, following a earlier temblor this morning. Both were felt throughout Chicago. The second quake measured 4.5 magnitude and hit at 10:14 a.m. The first one, with a magnitude of 5.2 struck early Friday, around 4:30 a.m. There were no injuries or structural damage reported in Northern Illinois, but many people were curious and even panicked.

I didn't feel this one...I did feel the one a couple years back. I remember posting on here about it.

QUOTE (lostfan @ Apr 18, 2008 -> 09:49 AM) If we saw MacDougal come in during a 1-run ballgame Soxtalk would explode, even knowing we're overusing Linebrink/Dotel/Jenks. Yeah, I wouldn't have liked Mac in that situation and I don't like second guessing the bullpen decisions so much. I do however think Thorton can handle more than just leftys....I wouldn't use him in such a limited capacity.

It sucks..but these games will defintely happen over the course of the season. I can accept a bad outing, an error, an O-fer. What I can't stand though is when you don't have the players in the best postion to win the game. Dye simply has no business being out there in the 9th with the lead. We have a suberb glove sitting on the bench. I don't know if it would have mattered in the grand scheme of things, but WTF. Why aren't your best players on the field? That Roberts double in the 9th should not have been. I thought Dye was out of position, took a bad angle, and he's just kinda slow out there. Look at where Markakais was playing on Quentins homer in the 8th compared to where Dye is playing...against the lefty Roberts, in the 9th. Both have probably taken a 3 or 4 strides steps, but this is the first screen capture I could grab when they flash to the outfield.

QUOTE (lostfan @ Apr 17, 2008 -> 01:12 PM) The first 2 weeks of the season carry more weight? I mean, I'm as optimistic as the next guy, but I'd like to think not. Offseason moves carry some weight but questions have to be answered, like do we think this offense is going to maintain this pace? Is Floyd going to hold up? Will Contreras collapse again? Is the bullpen for real? It takes a few more weeks to prove that. I don't know...I was under the impression these power rankings are based on the current play. Not how they played last year, not how they might play in the future, but how they are currently playing. I don't mind the ranking...I like the underdog role....

f***in Disgusting!!

QUOTE (kyyle23 @ Apr 16, 2008 -> 04:07 PM) And there is also a story about a possibility of a second cougar in the area, they were looking for it today Search Still On For North Shore Cougar Reports Of Sighting Tuesday, After Roscoe Village Incident POSTED: 2:22 pm CDT April 16, 2008 UPDATED: 3:06 pm CDT April 16, 2008 WINNETKA -- Searchers swooped low over the Skokie Lagoons in a helicopter Wednesday morning to look for signs of a cougar after several reported sightings of a big cat there -- including one on Tuesday, a day after a cougar was shot by police in Chicago. Two Cook County Forest Preserve District biologists and a forest preserve police officer spent about 1 1/2 hours hovering above the sprawling forest preserve in an unincorporated area near Winnetka on Wednesday, but saw no signs of a cougar or other large cat. "It was all coyotes, deer and waterfowl -- no signs of big cats," biologist Chris Anchor, one of the airborne searchers, told the Sun-Times. A ground search by forest preserve workers and police also was taking place Wednesday in the preserve at the northern end of Cook County. "We're just being extra, double cautious because of the circumstances," Anchor said, referring to the Monday night discovery of a 2-year-old, 122-pound cougar in Chicago's Roscoe Village neighborhood. "Because of what occurred in Chicago, it behooves us to check out any sightings that seem credible," he said. The most recent report of a big cat at the forest preserve came Tuesday morning, Anchor said. Another sighting -- at Erickson Woods in the southwest corner of the park -- came about 5:30 p.m. Sunday, a county official said.

Floyd teased history his last time out. Let's hope he can avoid the distractions of pitching in his hometown and boost his record to 3-0. Let's get the 2 game sweep here!!

Forgetting Sarah Marshall

Go see Mike and Joe tonight at Bourbon street. Should be tons of chicks your age there.

April 15, 2008, 0:00 a.m. A Living Lie Obama's controversial statements in San Francisco are perfectly in line with his Senate record. By Thomas Sowell An e-mail from a reader said that, while Hillary Clinton tells lies, Barack Obama is himself a lie. That is becoming painfully apparent with each new revelation of how drastically his carefully crafted image this election year contrasts with what he has actually been saying and doing for many years. Senator Obama’s election-year image is that of a man who can bring the country together, overcoming differences of party or race, as well as solving our international problems by talking with Iran and other countries with which we are at odds, and performing other miscellaneous miracles as needed. There is, of course, not a speck of evidence that Obama has ever transcended party differences in the U.S. Senate. Voting records analyzed by the National Journal show him to be the farthest left of anyone in the Senate. Nor has he sponsored any significant bipartisan legislation — nor any other significant legislation, for that matter. Senator Obama is all talk — glib talk, exciting talk, confident talk — but still just talk. Some of his recent talk in San Francisco has stirred up controversy because it revealed yet another blatant contradiction between Barack Obama’s public image and his reality. Speaking privately to supporters in heavily left-liberal San Francisco, Obama let down his hair and described working class people in Pennsylvania as so “bitter” that they “cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them.” Like so much that Obama has said and done over the years, this is standard stuff on the far Left, where guns and religion are regarded as signs of psychological dysfunction — and where opinions different from those of the Left are ascribed to emotions (“bitter” in this case), rather than to arguments that need to be answered. Like so many others on the Left, Obama rejects “stereotypes” when they are stereotypes he doesn’t like but blithely throws around his own stereotypes about “a typical white person” or “bitter” gun-toting, religious, and racist working-class people. In politics, the clearer a statement is, the more certain it is to be followed by a “clarification,” when people react adversely to what was plainly said. Obama and his supporters were still busy “clarifying” Jeremiah Wright’s very plain statements when it suddenly became necessary to “clarify” Senator Obama’s own statements in San Francisco. People who have been cheering whistle-blowers for years have suddenly denounced the person who blew the whistle on what Obama said in private that is so contradictory to what he has been saying in public. However inconsistent Obama’s words, his behavior has been remarkably consistent over the years. He has sought out and joined with the radical, anti-Western Left — whether Jeremiah Wright, William Ayers of the terrorist Weatherman underground, or pro-Palestinian and anti-Israeli Rashid Khalidi. Obama is also part of a long tradition on the Left of being for the working class in the abstract, or as people potentially useful for the purposes of the Left, but having disdain or contempt for them as human beings. Karl Marx said, “The working class is revolutionary or it is nothing.” In other words, they mattered only in so far as they were willing to carry out the Marxist agenda. Fabian socialist George Bernard Shaw included the working class among the “detestable” people who “have no right to live.” He added: “I should despair if I did not know that they will all die presently, and that there is no need on earth why they should be replaced by people like themselves.” Similar statements on the Left go back as far as Rousseau in the 18th century and come forward into our own times. It is understandable that young people are so strongly attracted to Obama. Youth is another name for inexperience — and experience is what is most needed when dealing with skillful and charismatic demagogues. Those of us old enough to have seen the type again and again over the years can no longer find them exciting. Instead, they are as tedious as they are dangerous. — Thomas Sowell is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution. COPYRIGHT 2008 CREATORS SYNDICATE, INC.

QUOTE (EvilJester99 @ Apr 16, 2008 -> 11:42 AM) Man now I'm hungry Temp is right for some grilling tonight.

QUOTE (knightni @ Apr 16, 2008 -> 12:01 PM) What do you mean? I'm guessing there'll be a bunch that don't make the top 20. So I was wondering it you were going to list them all somewhere. I know I'll see some that I'm like DOH!!! I should have put that in mine.

Anyone getting owned with Father Pfleger used as the example...is a joke....Fox didn't get owned...Pflegar and his support for Louis Farrakhan did.

Sox need to keep up the stellar pitching and defense. They were errorless on the seven-game homestand while allowing just one home run. Count needs to be careful with Millar and Roberts. Millar posts a .444 career average, 2 bombs and 5 steaks, and Roberts brings a .346 average with 1 bomb and 3 steaks.

QUOTE (rowandrules83 @ Apr 16, 2008 -> 09:08 AM) I was specifically referring to stories I read about Hawkins and Baker saying there were specific racist things both said and written to Hawkins specifically. I think some fans used the frustration with Hawkins' crappiness and expressed it in a terrible way. While I don't recall ever hearing a story about Manuel and any racism toward him, you do raise a valid point. One can't help but wonder what would happen if Ozzie, KW, or Dye completely started to suck at their job, how mature the reaction would be. Would it stick to the fact that they just sucked, or would it cross an ignorant line? While I'd like to think we would be more mature than that, there would likely be a few morons who would resort to that. Here's the link to the story about hate mail: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?...SPGC8D128O1.DTL EDIT: My apologies, I didn't know that was added to this forum. I just acknowledged it. I think there would definitely be morons who would cross the line. There always are. I'm sure every manager deals with it. Yeah there are some wackos....I'm sure Guillen gets racist crap sent to him too....I'm sure Dye has.... All athletes/managers/owners have to deal with ignorant fans. I'm sure Reinsdorf has received his share of mail with Jewish epithets . There are assholes in this world...no doubting it....Some bring ignorant name calling...some bring threats and others bring race. Imrem alluding to it in this article, without referencing anything by the way, is painting a lot of Cub fans with a broad brush. It just seemed misplaced to me. Found this tidbit from the normally useless Mariotti from back then..... The first time Dusty Baker opened his mailbag and made a racist letter public, I was all ears. The second time Dusty Baker opened his mailbag and made a racist letter public, I wondered what he was suggesting. The third time Dusty Baker opened his mailbag and made a racist letter public -- which happened the other day, only weeks before his contract expires -- I grasped his agenda. He wants the world to think bigotry is a regular occupational hazard of Cubdom, that he's fighting obstacles much uglier than a billy goat and 98 years of futility. To which I say: Dusty, stop using convenient copouts to shroud the real truth -- that you simply haven't been a good manager the last three seasons and don't deserve to have your contract extended.

"Hopefully, especially, on Jackie Robinson Day, Baker was booed for the quality of his managing and not the color of his skin." Man I don't know where to put this...I oringially had it in the Cubs thread, cause it's Cubs related and hardly anyone comes in the Buster anymore, but it would prolly get moved here anyway. I don't want to stir up a whole race discussion and get everyone's panties in a bunch. I just think the comment was uncalled for. I have a few friends that are Cub fans and God knows the man has plenty to be booed on. I have never heard anyone mention the color of his skin except for him. It was all In Dusty We Trusty when he was hired. The hire was loved by every Cub fan I know. Yeah things went bad and the Cubs have plenty of reasons to boo him, but they didn't all become racists all of a sudden. Article

Will there be a list of all the movies submitted as well??

QUOTE (SoxFan562004 @ Apr 15, 2008 -> 03:24 PM) very solid win, used walks and HBP to get runners on and beat the type of pitcher who usually gives the Sox fits. Don't forget the Q-shot.

Man this thread starter had a helluva game today!!

GAME OVA!!!