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QUOTE(SoxFan562004 @ Mar 10, 2007 -> 03:11 PM) Watched Prior's outing on TV today. Cub or not, it's sad to see a guy who had so much promise look as bad as he does now. He topped out at 88, but mostly was at 87 with his fastball. His curveball wasn't very effective and couldn't throw it for a strike. Gave up 4 runs in three innings, 3 walks and no Ks But he pitched. I wouldn't write prior off. The guy has good mechanics and just really got screwed by the way he got broughten up with Baker just destroying young pitchers.

i absolutely thought sin city was one of the biggest pieces of garbage ever and I just hope I won't end up thinking the same thing about 300. It looks like it may be overdone but I'll finally see it next weekend cause I've heard too many good things about it.

QUOTE(Gene Honda Civic @ Mar 9, 2007 -> 08:32 PM) agreed. And I'm a fan of the Big Ten. It's Wisconsin, Ohio State, and a bunch of mediocrity. I'd seriously have no problem if those were the only teams that got in. This conference is a joke this year.

QUOTE(Cali @ Mar 9, 2007 -> 10:35 AM) Booooooo NorCal, Booooooooooo!!!!!!! Real shocker...the man hates everything but LA and I'm sure he hates half of LA. Your probably the real reason the OC got cancelled too. QUOTE(RockRaines @ Mar 9, 2007 -> 12:01 PM) San Francisco is easily the best city in california, but running very close behind is san diego. Oakland flat out blows. San Diego >>>>> LA >>>> San Fran Just my opinion. I was far from enamored with the two times I've been to San Fran.

QUOTE(hitlesswonder @ Mar 9, 2007 -> 01:56 PM) If he's the best bet to put wins on the board, he better be starting in the bigs. Some players can handle "being rushed" (Bonderman certainly has survived). I assume the worst case would be Danks heads north and gets slammed and is repalced in the rotation by someone like Haeger. I would hope that Danks would have the resilience to survive and pull himself together in AAA. If he doesn't, that's a sign he's not the guy Williams thinks he is. Just for reference, McCarthy debuted when he was 21 (Danks is 21 now) and got hit hard. And then he came back from AAA to be lights out down the stretch in 2005. If McCarthy could do it, Danks should be able to as well. Bondy also lost ~20 games his rookie season. QUOTE(Flash Tizzle @ Mar 9, 2007 -> 01:27 PM) Well, Danks has talent. Floyd? Not so much. Are you kidding me Flash? Floyd doesn't have talent? Have you seen this guy throw. He has plus stuff.

QUOTE(Balta1701 @ Mar 9, 2007 -> 09:05 AM) That's about 2-3 mph faster than I've seen most people say he throws. Floyd has pitched at the MLB level and thrown in that 95 MPH range, however that was when he was one of the top pitching prospects in all of baseball with the Phils (probably 2 years ago). I vividly remember him having a real nice fastball and his hook was devastating. He lost a bit of velocity on his FB but I remember hearing from a few people that it was closer to his old range during the AFL (albeit he wasn't consistently throwing 95 nor do I know if he hit 95). I'd imagine he'll be in the 92-94 range once he gets loosened up based on the reports I heard on him from the AFL.

Wow...HD Sox games in 08 for out of towners, that may be reason enough for me to think about switching to the dish a year from now (especially if I move out on my own).

QUOTE(southsideirish71 @ Mar 9, 2007 -> 09:35 AM) If we can give up a Tracey, a Phillips or B prospects like that then its no risk. Giving up a Masset, a Logan, or MacDougal is just too much of a price to pay. I was not a big fan of Rowand when he was here, hitting 235 and 245 in the stretch run. His defense while spectacular during the Yankee series, was poor at the end of the season when he was breaking back on flyballs and then running like a madman to makeup for the fact that he played the swing, and not the ball. The best thing he will bring back to me, is his attitude and his friendship with the team. I wouldn't have a problem with that type of deal at all. The problem is I think the Phillies would want more, based on prior times Rowand's name has been involved in trade talks.

QUOTE(DBAH0 @ Mar 8, 2007 -> 06:23 PM) Absolutely INSIPID. Worst half of our season so far. Out rebounded by double figures by a smaller team. 4/12 from the line. Letting Ben Wallace and P.J Brown score in double figures combined in a half. Missed layups and turnovers around the basket. I hope they are getting ripped at right now. Brian Hill is on thin ice. I call it POWNED. Also, West Ham had an amazing game last weekend. It was one of the best EPL games I've seen all season, too bad they went down at the end and pretty much clinched the fact they won't be in the EPL next year (or I guess thats my understanding, you go down a league and than can come back up in a year???). And Arsenal is really struggling without its strikers. We have a lot of talented young guys but those younguns aren't able to capitalize and take advantage of scoring opportunities. Thanks to that we pissed away a game this past weekend and than lost our champions league game yesterday.

QUOTE(striker62704 @ Mar 8, 2007 -> 04:16 PM) I know its spring training but our relievers (Jenks, Thornton, Macdougal, Sisco, Logan) have been lights out. Masset has been good too. I've been really impressed with Danks and Gonzalez, but haven't seen Floyd or Masset pitch. The jury is still out on Aardsma. Our starters appear to be solid, and I'm sure they will get better as the spring progresses. I love the fact that KW locked up Vazquez for 3 more years. Everyone has been freaking out about it but the key is the no trade clause. What KW did is lock a talented (though the numbers don't show it) pitcher up for the next 4 years for a very reasonable price (considering the market). This gives him leverage with the most important position in baseball, pitching. KW has turn into an "arms dealer" with all the pitchers he has. Thats why the door is still open for Buehrle. KW won't pass up good arms for the right price. I'm pumped baby. I'm just excited to be able to see some new faces and watch them develop and see if some stars will pan out. That said I also want to win and those young guys are going to have a lot of pressure on them. Here's to hoping they can do it

QUOTE(aboz56 @ Mar 8, 2007 -> 07:02 PM) Although I have DirecTV, I'm switching to the MLB.tv package this year simply because I believe most of the WCIU games are on there (I know they advertise having every game on MLB.tv, the WCIU broadcasts are not on DirecTV) and it's also $40 cheaper annually (for the Premium package, the standard MLB.tv is $70 cheaper). I worried somewhat about losing the ability to DVR the games, then again, they archive all of the games on MLB.tv. I just hope the quality for the streaming 700K lives up to what I'm expecting it to be. I also like the idea of being able to be out of town, finding a high speed connection and being able to watch the Sox game or taking the laptop to a friend's house to watch the game. One question I have for anyone who can answer, are you able to get both feeds (home and away) for all games or are you limited to the home feed? Say the Sox are at Cleveland, will I have to watch the Cleveland announcers like I usually do on the dish? The feed will be the same way they do it with directtv where you get one of the sets of announcers, so you won't have the option to pick the Sox feed everytime. Sometimes you'll get em, sometimes you won't. The only big thing I'm really going to miss is when I DVR a game, I stay away from all sports websites and don't look at my text messages on my phone or anything because I can't stand to see the score and I don't think there is going to be a way for me to navigate onto the mlb.tv page and play the archived feed without stumbling onto the score. But ya it will definitely be a perk being able to catch the Sox game from wherever. Of course I think my friends will be hating this cause I'll end up being at there places and go lets watch the Sox game and pop it onto there computer.

Gonzalez and Lopez are both slick fielders, too bad neither can hit. I think Lopez has a career as a backup though and Getz could turn into a decent 8 or 9 hole hitter.

QUOTE(Palehosefan @ Mar 8, 2007 -> 10:46 AM) http://www.baseballamerica.com/today/news/...12steroids.html I was really high on Valido when we drafted him, and thought for sure we had drafted our future SS. But the steroid case, and subsequent injury have turned me completely off of him. Would be great to see him come back with an assumed steroid free good year and retake his place as our best infield prospect. I guess I want to see him prove that he can play without help. He's still young enough to turn it around. I think he's way under-rated right now and I'm kind of looking for him to have a big time season where he re-establishes himselves as a pretty darn good all around SS prospect (never will he hit for power but I think the hope is that his speed, defense, and baseball smarts will allow him to get away with a lack of power; plus when I've watched him he seems to show a pretty good eye and I think he can develop into a .280 or so hitter and with that and a good eye you can have a long career when you play the D he can play).

Smart job by both MLB and DirectTV. I got to be honest, I don't see a problem in what MLB is doing because they are getting so much more money and are going to force a lot of people directly into there own online service which they have a much greater margin on. It sucks cause I'd prefer to have my games on tv as opposed to having to deal with hooking my laptop up to the tv and dealing with the lower quality but it still beats not seeing the Sox and I don't blame MLB for taking that fat contract. And over the long haul, lets be honest the only people effected by this are the big time die hard baseball fans and none of us are going to actually boycott our favorite sport just because of this deal (no way, no how).

QUOTE(Kalapse @ Mar 8, 2007 -> 02:21 PM) Yeah the 700K demo is legit but any Spring Training games you watch are going to be of lesser quality than anything you see during the regular season. Just saying. Thats what I figured, which is why I thought it was weird that I couldn't really notice the difference on my big screen between the 700K and the 350K spring broadcast. But I probably should look on my computer screen and I'm sure I'd notice more of a difference. Either way this is gonna be the ultimate distraction when things get slow at work and there is a day game, haha.

QUOTE(aboz56 @ Mar 8, 2007 -> 02:01 PM) How are you hooked up to your TV? Also, does the MLB.tv package allow you to watch full screen on your computer? I noticed you can't watch the demo in full screen. My TV has a PC input on the back of it so I just picked up a VGA cable for the cheap and plugged it into the back of the tv and leave it plugged in and than I just plug the other end into my laptop when needed. QUOTE(Kalapse @ Mar 8, 2007 -> 02:09 PM) Spring Training games are broadcast in 350K by the way and yes you can watch in fullscreen. The demo was in 700K though right? The spring game I saw looked pretty solid (it was the first Sox/Rockies game...I watched a few minutes just to see how it looked). On a sidenote, you know what would be smart...MLB finding a way to allow users to watch on there tv's through xbox360's and ps3 since both systems have online capabilities (albeit the Microsoft doesn't allow you to browse the web). Personally speaking I think that would be a good business decision for them.

Well I bit the bullet and bought the mlb.tv premium. I honestly can't tell the difference in the picture quality between the 350 and 700 on my tv (only thing in 700 I've seen is the demo of the Cardinals so maybe I'm missing something). That said it isn't horrible but I still have fear of the stupid lag time issues that mlb.tv has had over the past couple years with the streaming games. I was impressed that I have a connection rate of 2884 though. Still I wish I could still just watch it on cable in high quality (even if its not HD) and knowing if my internet s***s out or wireless s***s out I got no worries.

QUOTE(shipps @ Mar 8, 2007 -> 05:56 AM) What would be the best forum to sell a car privately especially at what would be an expensive enough price to pay my car off? I hear ebay is pretty darn good when it comes to selling cars. Craigs list could be solid as well. I say if you can get out of it and sell it for more than your pay-off that it would be a go. Than use the difference on a downpayment and you should have credit so your rate will be less and just go with something less expensive.

1. Most Improved - Mark Buehrle - He will be back to being a front line ace and he will sign an extension to stay in Chicago. 2. Most Dissapointing - Bobby Jenks - Don't ask me why, but I have some question-marks when it comes to Jenksy. I should say the only way things will be dissapointing from him is if he is injured. Otherwise I'm leaning with Jermaine Dye, mainly in the sense that he won't have another MVP like year, but still a solid one. 3. X Factor - Bullpen. I have confidence in our veteran starters so I won't call the starting rotation the x-factor, but I am not so sure about the pen as a whole and if it steps up and dominates this team will dominate as well.

QUOTE(bmags @ Mar 8, 2007 -> 07:39 AM) the others already have connections to the outside world, he was probably there to protect that place from other people stealing anything of help. Umm....maybe I'm being dumb, but didn't they say in the episode or at least Sayid mentioned it that they others probably lost satellite connections when the hatch exploded which makes you think maybe they were there (as this was originally the hub of communication to the outside island) to see if they could in fact restore it. QUOTE(Jenksismyb**** @ Mar 8, 2007 -> 08:37 AM) I thought it was great. Back to the old Lost filled with action and surprise and not boring love triangle crap. I thought Sayid's flashback was better in that it was a brief interruption of the action on the island and not the other way around. I don't trust Roussaeu....I think she's one of them. Exactly...this was a top notch episode.

QUOTE(NorthSideSox72 @ Mar 8, 2007 -> 09:00 AM) Wow. 91? I saw him pitch Monday, but I didn't see the radar (no display anywhere I could find). He looked decent, but that is huge if his velocity is back up to that point. I may need to change my statement about MB being a disappointment next year... I just remember seeing a clip somewhere. I also remember a quote from Graffy turning around and asking the catcher if Mark was throwing harder this year. So I don't think he's consistently doing it but his velocity is back and I'd imagine he'll be more in the 86-89/90 MPH range. I have only seen the WGN game so I can't comment on how he's actually pitched.

Wow...the Expos deal was terrible and the Mets trade was horrible. Thanks for that info Rock.

QUOTE(RockRaines @ Mar 8, 2007 -> 08:56 AM) He was downright spent last year. I have already liked what i saw this year. I believe his fastball avg speed last year was the second or third slowest in the league at about 84 mph. His years of not really working out in the off-season caught up to him. I really do think Mark has the ability to be a Glavine type of pitcher (albeit he's more like a less dominant left handed version of Maddux and no he's nowhere near as good as Maddux who in my mind is one of the 20 best pitchers ever). This off-season he apparently realized that as you get older you have to work harder and I think he's going to be much more like his old self. Its not like he ever relied on amazing stuff, but when you do lose that much off your fastball it means that inevitably all your pitches velocities get closer and teams just start to flat out tee off on you.

QUOTE(RockRaines @ Mar 8, 2007 -> 08:51 AM) He was probably thinking of his own career where failing to go to the playoffs after they went to the World series got him fired. Of course it could be the fact that his team went from first to worst, and he acquired greats like mo Vaughn, and traded away horrible prospects like Jason Bay and Melvin Mora. I think hes trying to parallel our 90 win performance after winning the world series with his 82 win performance after appearing in theirs. I didn't realize the Mets originally had Bay. Who did they get from the Padres in the Bay deal? I know Bay eventually went to the Pirates for Giles.

Iowa....Hawkeyes...DAR.