Jake

Still not a fan of P90x and as mentioned, it's because it is essentially cardio or at least "too cardio" for my purposes. It's great that it motivates people to start working out and there are several pluses that go along with someone starting P90x: 1. The nature of cardio is that long cardio sessions can burn pretty large amount of calories while typical resistance training has a negligible calorie burning effect. I'd imagine a P90x burns off a whole twinkie or so. 2. Working out and particularly cardio has an appetite suppressing effect for a number of reasons. You're not hungry while you're working out. There is a slight stomach shrinking that goes on during exercise as well. Psychologically, folks feel much more accountable for their diet if they have worked out that day as well. 3. You're working out! Hooray. Untrained individuals in particular will respond very well to just about any workout program that they follow closely, especially if there is any resistance aspect to it. I still am a much bigger fan of true resistance training, like lifting heavy weights. Improving maximal strength is very important, makes notable changes to physique, and even plays a role in hormone optimization (cardio has been shown to have a negative effect of testosterone, in contrast). For those worried about getting "too big," please return to this planet (or remove your skinny jeans). Gaining muscle mass is very difficult even with a perfect program and diet. There is a distinct evolutionary advantage to gaining fat instead of muscle and you will fight that constantly. For a trained lifter (2+ years training), gaining 2 pounds muscle mass per YEAR is considered a reasonable goal. If you have gained or are gaining more you are either: untrained, gaining more fat than you think, or you have amazing genetics. And while it's fabulous to talk about workout programs, it all comes down to diet. Your energy balance (calories in vs out) along with adequate protein intake is going to explain 75% of your visible results. You may gain some strength or endurance with a poor diet, but your physique will change as your diet dictates it to. If anyone is interested in really cracking down on your diet, I'd be happy to explain more. It is actually much simpler than you might think and you'll be happy (or perhaps sorry) to know that much of the popular discourse about diet is completely false or misleading.

lol

I think Viciedo hasn't been THAT bad. Not league average, but he really reminds of 2008 Quentin out there.

Let them all get hurt bwahahha

QUOTE (greg775 @ May 13, 2012 -> 06:59 PM) The Sox home record would indicate the team is going to finish in the bottom five of all teams. How bad they freefall is anybody's guess, but you can't have this kind of home record and even be close to .500. you have a very odd preoccupation with our home record. let it sort itself out

Needs to be starting in the minors. The only plus of putting him in the pen was that his fastball supposedly got up to mid 90s in those situations -- it has instead dropped. Let him go down, get healthy, figure things out, whatever he needs to do.

lol, Ohman gets pulled in the middle of at bat

QUOTE (greg775 @ May 12, 2012 -> 09:16 PM) Chen is a Sox killer. It's an automatic W for Chen when he faces the Sox. I am saying I hope it's not the same for Luke this year when he faces the Sox up to five times. I was talking about the complete game

QUOTE (greg775 @ May 12, 2012 -> 09:11 PM) I beg to differ. This has complete game by Luke written all over it. I hope next time we face Hochevar we have a clue lest he turn into another Sox killer (see Chen). wtf are you talking about??

QUOTE (fathom @ May 12, 2012 -> 09:05 PM) Wow, just terrible at bats...Jake, you jinxed it! thought you unjinxed it for a second there

Is it the black jerseys or is AJ looking slimmer than the beginning of the season?

I need to see Paulie go the other way a bit -- always been his slump buster

This should be Hochevar's last inning

I vote for more Nate Jones

Dunn looked at Hochevar like he was about to beat his ass after that quick pitch.

You'll be hard pressed to find a group of fans that doesn't think they get beaten by "nobodies" and "the league's punching bags" etc. too often

In other news, Nate Jones is one of the most talented men in the MLB

some people get some kind of sick pleasure in seeing the Sox fail why don't you just predict good things to happen so you can stroke your ego as we win?

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ May 10, 2012 -> 01:42 PM) League doesn't seem to visit the board anymore, so... Kyle had a whirlwind 2010, making stops in Kanny (A-), W-S (A+) and B-Ham (AA). His A-ball stops were very impressive, posting a combined ERA well below 2, striking out more than a man an inning, and inducing plenty of ground balls. The 2009 5th round pick was looking like a fast-mover. But he struggled in Birmingham, his walks blew up, and the next the we knew he was injured. He missed all of 2011. Here in 2012, Kyle is at Winstom-Salem, and is doing pretty well so far: 15 IP, 10 H, 4 ER, 5 BB, 14 K. At age 24 he is now a little old for level, but he's got too much talent, pedigree and results to give up on him. He may see AA this year, and if he does well, there, it may be time to start talking about him again. It would be good to hear some scouting info from this year, to see how he is doing after the injury. I remember when he seemed fast tracked for the majors...wonder if he'll ever get there now. Missing a whole season is just such a huge setback.

QUOTE (daggins @ May 12, 2012 -> 08:12 PM) He's done a pretty good job of sitting the Sox down so far. I guess I should say, they have done a pretty good job of sitting themselves down. I'm not all that displeased with our at bats

It's one thing not to catch it, but he needs to keep it in front.

Wow Brent! Best AB all year.

lol game threads are getting bad when we fail for not scoring in the first inning of the ballgame

I recall Sale's draft scouting reports saying that his better pitch was his changeup. Bizarre that he doesn't like it anymore -- maybe a side effect of the time spent in bullpen.

QUOTE (Quinarvy @ May 12, 2012 -> 01:27 PM) Well I never! Well, IF we lose again this season, you'll get to show that you put far more effort into yours than I do mine