Jake

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Apr 1, 2013 -> 08:09 AM) They have enough DH's under contract for now. They seem happy to have the most horrific defensive corner infield ever assembled. Knowing them, they'll want to make VMart a C again and sign yet another DH to get the old man a title.

QUOTE (HickoryHuskers @ Apr 1, 2013 -> 10:58 AM) I don't think it's really a conspiracy theory to say that MLB used the leverage they had in the ownership transition process to get the Astros to agree to the move. It seemed pretty obvious. I thought that was out in the open as well.

QUOTE (HickoryHuskers @ Apr 1, 2013 -> 10:55 AM) What is commonly accepted by sectarian historical scholars is that there was a Jewish guy named Jesus who was born sometime around 3BC and made some outrageous claims that led to him being crucified sometime around 30AD. That he performed miracles while alive and that he was resurrected after his death are of course, not commonly accepted. This is what I recall from my early college days as well.

I know that it was gruesome, probably unfathomably painful, etc...but I feel like there has been some overreaction. Every orthopedist I've heard talk to the press has said that he should be 100% back to normal by next season. It's not 1985. If he tore his ACL, there would be no trending twitter phrases about this. Also, @StephLauren : Kevin Ware’s actual twitter account is @_Woody23, not @KevinWare_5. Do not engage. QUOTE (HickoryHuskers @ Apr 1, 2013 -> 10:51 AM) Yeah, because scholarship athletes are required to pay their own medical bills. I went to a D3 school and still had 5 figures of medical bills paid for by the college.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Apr 1, 2013 -> 10:04 AM) Another reason to think the Alexei contract isn't half bad at all. Indeed. Also, I think Kinsler is ultimately the odd man out. Gordon, you have two months to be good before you become Ian Kinsler the White Sox's backup.

QUOTE (Capn12 @ Apr 1, 2013 -> 09:13 AM) I was smart enough to opt for the month-to-month plan this year....lets hope I still have a reason to pay in September. I always go month to month, but that has more to do with me spending about half the season in the Chicago market. I don't even want to think about a world in which Sox games aren't worth watching.

Take my money MLB.tv! TAKE IT!!!

It would be rather contrary to what is considered appropriate in this age to simply wipe an entire country off the map. If we cared about the human rights abuses under KJI/KJU, then it wouldn't make much sense if we nuked those humans into oblivion.

QUOTE (danman31 @ Apr 1, 2013 -> 12:43 AM) Holy crap I just realized Olacio is listed as 6-7, 270! That's 40 more pounds than last year! That's a big ass dude

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Apr 1, 2013 -> 07:29 AM) Ok, I will hug myself.

QUOTE (whitesox901 @ Mar 29, 2013 -> 01:56 PM) Long term pitching deals always work in the long run. 24M (Fielder) + 16M (Sanchez) + 22M (Cabrera) + 25M (Verlander). $87 million into 4 players is a terrible business plan, despite how good those players are. Especially players who have body types that love to get big (Fielder and Drinky), an average pitcher and a guy who has 1550+ innings before age 30. Not to mention Jackson, Scherzer, Fister, are all entering free agency in the next 2 years or so. I get that they're pretending to be a big market team, but there are better ways to go about it. That will be the biggest issue. They really need to be able to replace those players (at least some of them) from within if this whole thing will work out. You also didn't mention Victor Martinez, who they may want to extend after this year or at least replace by that 2015 season.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Mar 31, 2013 -> 11:55 PM) I think what generally drives me crazy as a fan and winds up getting me suspended is when crazy stuff happens in our season. Like we'll have a rotten record in the Cell the first 2 months. Usually teams with the talent of the White Sox go 6-4 minimum on long homestands, not 4-6 or 3-7. I'd love for our team to be consistently good in the Cell. It'd save me pulling my hair out. What also drives me batty is never having a long winning streak. It seems like my team, the Sox, is incapable of one of those indescribably delicious 9-to-12 game win streaks that can really get the team well over .500 and establishing itself as a wild card contender. What also has driven me insane is losing to divisional foes, when those teams stink. Let's say KC has a typical KC season. It kills me when they dominate us in that scenario as the Royals did last year. Finally what drives me batty is the inability of Sox starters to complete six innings, preferably get one out in the seventh, even two outs. I am of the opinion the Sox have a heckuva difficult time covering nine outs with our bullpen. That said, I think I will be a lot calmer this year even if those things happen again ... cause my expecations are finally lower. They've remained high every year since 2005. I've had high expectations all those years that followed the WS title. This year I hope to enjoy baseball or at least not get so worked up. I don't expect us to get the wildcard which leaves the division title or bust. And I'm not too energized about our chances there. But I am kind of a wacko regarding the Sox. My opinion on most Sox matters totally deviates from the normal fan. GO SOX! LOL hearing your pre-emptive complaining about the Sox's play at home means it really is time for another year of White Sox baseball. Woo!

QUOTE (justBLAZE @ Mar 30, 2013 -> 10:12 PM) Can you please change my username to Knuckles That will confuse the living hell out of me

QUOTE (farmteam @ Mar 31, 2013 -> 12:52 AM) I thought the issue was that whatever this product that could be litigated over is used by some absurd portion of agribusiness. So if there were an injunction that would prevent the product's use, that would seriously screw up the nation's food supply. At least that's how I took the way the GMO supporters argued it. If that's the case, then that is a legitimate problem that needs to be considered. Indeed. The law doesn't stop inquiry or legal challenge, but it does prevent the courts from halting the entire farming industry while those things happen.

QUOTE (Jordan4life @ Mar 30, 2013 -> 03:50 PM) a legitimate go-to guy would've been nice to have today. Bulls used to have one. That was before his recent sex change. Yeah, like Marco. What the f*** is his problem, man? Oh, did you mean Rip?

Bad loss. Jimmy with the choke at the FT line and the defensive scheme on the GW shot by Dirk was stupid. Not face guarding Dirk is just horrible.

QUOTE (Reddy @ Mar 30, 2013 -> 02:36 PM) should i respond here or there? because methinks you don't have a great understanding of nutrition if you're not worried about the longterm effects of GMOs Everything has been genetically modified for a century plus -- so what specifically has you concerned?

QUOTE (CaliSoxFanViaSWside @ Mar 30, 2013 -> 01:59 PM) Brewers going with a pitcher an inning also. Makes sense.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Mar 30, 2013 -> 01:01 PM) I'll raise this issue again; it's entirely possible that Garza has reached a point where he'd be terrible if he were moved back to guard. Not only has it been several years since he played there, but his play at center has been trending down. That's a good point. It's also possible that we will try to get him out of the lineup entirely.

All of my correct picks (Oregon) are brilliant, all of my wrong ones (Indiana) were bulls*** and I got screwed

There was a discussion about this tucked into the Financial News thread QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Mar 29, 2013 -> 09:30 AM) This happened when you weren't looking, btw. QUOTE (farmteam @ Mar 29, 2013 -> 11:11 AM) I keep reading that it "protects Monsanto from litigation" without seeing how it protects them. I'd want to see that before getting worked up. QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Mar 29, 2013 -> 11:45 AM) as soon as I saw that Snopes had a piece on it, i figured that aws a better explanation than anything I could find elsewhere. QUOTE (farmteam @ Mar 29, 2013 -> 12:07 PM) Still pretty vague sounding. It's not like it prevents constitutional challenges to this act, though. QUOTE (Jake @ Mar 29, 2013 -> 12:16 PM) Yeah, I have no problem with it. The consequences of stopping the use of these seeds with little notice would be tremendous. It doesn't prevent the legal challenge, just prevents the court from banning its use during the proceedings. IMO, we will never find a decent shred of evidence against GMO farming. There are still some concerns about how Monsanto conducts business, but I fully believe that genetically modifying crops is not something that will come back and bite us and very well may actually be something that saves/extends the life of humanity.

FGCU was extremely fun to watch. They lost today to a team that was a lot better than them, but they held their own. Their attitude and style of play was a blast, I'm glad they made it so far. I hope they can get some better players in there and let that coach keep that vision going.

QUOTE (kev211 @ Mar 30, 2013 -> 12:34 AM) Anyone who thinks the cubs wouldn't survive outside of wrigley is delusional. Their massive fan base would easily support them in a new stadium. They'd draw so much more people from the northern suburbs. I'd actually be afraid if they moved. New facilities would do a lot of things for that franchise. Then again the white sox would technically be the only team inside the city then. Agree, would be a short term problem and a huge long term gain. The Yankees aren't the perfect comp because people never got so pissed in the first place, but yeah they're fine.

The way I see it is this -- they were always going to keep him. He's never going to cost more than this, this is his peak value. He very well could have hurt himself before the end of the current contract though and remained on the Tigs for a far lower price. So in my mind, even if Justin remains just as good, they are paying as much as fathomably possible to have him do that. They have also vastly increased the chance that this is a tremendous waste of money, even if that chance isn't tremendously high.

While Dunn is no speedster, he is in a whole other league from Paulie. The only person whose speed was even in the ballpark was AJ and AJ was still much faster than PK