Leonard Zelig

QUOTE (chw42 @ Sep 18, 2010 -> 03:57 PM) Ozzie Guillen has nothing on LaRussa's resume as a manager. No s***, Larussa has 25 more years on him, if you look at their first 7 seasons, Ozzie's are more impressive.

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Sep 18, 2010 -> 03:34 PM) http://www.baseball-reference.com/managers/larusto01.shtml If you are comparing a man with 32 years experience to a guy with 7 years, then its really only fair to look at their first 7 seasons and Ozzie's are much more impressive.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Sep 18, 2010 -> 03:36 PM) It's not unfair once it's happened. And what exactly does that have to do with Larussa?

QUOTE (IceCreamPants @ Sep 16, 2010 -> 10:43 PM) I am really afraid that I am growing out of my love for music cause I haven't heard anything new and fresh that has tingled my music senses in a while. Someone please refer me to something melodic, different, and powerful. (Including bmags). I need some s*** that can get my juices flowing musically again. Yeah right, and have you follow me around the next 2 months like a puppy? No thanks, dude.

40 Watt Flood rocks my Sox

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Sep 15, 2010 -> 05:22 PM) Ah, I see what you're saying...let me explain why the phrasing is different. In OBP...there is a large packing of teams with team OBP between .330 and .340. 6 teams fall in that range. 2 teams are notably higher; the Yankees kill everyone and the Twins are at .344. No other team is above .323...therefore, the White Sox fall in the cluster that isn't really distinguished from each other; Boston's OBP of .338 is above the Sox at .332...but the total difference there is a fairly small number of baserunners (22 baserunners over the same number of at bats). On the other hand, in Sacrifice bunts...there are 4 teams that are in the 40's, including the Sox, 7 team's in the 30's, 1 team with 29, and then 2 teams that are anomalously low. The Sox are 2nd, the Twins are in the middle of the pack in the 30's. I think the raw values there provides a useful discriminant as there is different types of clustering in the case of the 2 stats. Sorry man, I wasn't trying to make an issue out of it, it just stood out to me because I read them within a few minutes of each other. Good job of explaining yourself tho.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Sep 15, 2010 -> 08:37 AM) Since Sacrifice bunts don't count as at-bats...I'm not quite certain what you're trying to say there. Just stood out to me how you manipulated the numbers to show your point. In one post you call 7th middle of the pack and in the other you say 8th is well into the back part of the league, when really they are equidistant from the median.

if you go to Gatlinburg, you can do some white water rafting on the Pigeon river. I believe it's mostly class 3 so it's probably ok for kids.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Sep 14, 2010 -> 01:59 PM) We're #7 in the AL with a team .332 OBP. That's decidedly middle of the pack; Detroit, Texas, Tampa Bay and Boston are ahead of us and are all under .340, Minnesota's #2 at .344.

QUOTE (Jordan4life @ Sep 12, 2010 -> 09:23 PM) If '05 wasn't a fluke then what is? I'm sure if the Cubs had a season like that we'd all be saying it was a fluke. What about teams like the Angels and Cardinals (I won't use the Yankees as an example, as they play by different rules)? They're in it every year. The Twins? Enough said. 05' is really the only trump card Ozzie and KW have to play. And it was a pretty good card. But that was 5 years ago. Getting old. Now I've heard it all. A White Sox fan who thinks that winning the World Series is getting old? Maybe in 83 years you'll appreciate it again.

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Sep 12, 2010 -> 10:24 AM) I don't want him on my favorite team anymore. Was it that cryptic? Didn't think it was that obvious.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Sep 12, 2010 -> 10:26 AM) He certainly could have helped earlier in the season. Kotsay was hitting .333 his last 20 games according to the graphic last night, but its a pretty empty .333. This month Mr. Unclutch Jim Thome has 6 walks and 5 homers in 23 plate appearances. He has 10 homers his last 60 plate appearances. I cannot see any argument that says getting rid of him, basically kicking him out the door as he would have played for whatever you would have paid him, was anything but a horrendous move. I've seen lots of attempts, but they make zero sense. QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Sep 12, 2010 -> 10:27 AM) Our team was in it primarily because of an outstanding run against NL teams, where the DH was not part of the equation. Notice how mediocre we were prior to and after the NL stretch. Just look at out record against the AL and AL Central. QUOTE (scenario @ Sep 12, 2010 -> 10:27 AM) Replaces one of the weakest links in our lineup (Thome > Kotsay) Takes away several Twins wins I can think of... including the walkoff against us in Minny. The swing between those two events probably makes the difference in the standings. And the Sox runs scored since the ASB is somewhat deceptive. We have been a very inconsistent offense. We had big scoring days followed by games where we couldn't buy a run against crappy pitching. It's exactly the sort of thing that happens when you have a combination of bangers and low OBP (aka high probability out-producing) players in the lineup. I'm not going to drag this out into a long argument, but I think Thome is the easy excuse and it ignores the fact that 2 of our starters were the worst in the league for 1/3 of the season, 1/3 of our lineup was horrible to start the season, and that our bullpen has cost us plenty of games. I'm not saying that the offense would not have been better with Thome, but he wouldn't have prevented what I believe the main deficiencies of this season were. The Sox could have won this division without him and I think there are several other people to blame for our position before the people who chose not to resign him.

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Sep 12, 2010 -> 09:47 AM) I am completely done with this guy. Talk about a one year wonder. What does this mean?

This is an argument that will live for years on soxtalk, but didn't I hear recently that the Sox were second in runs scored since the All-Star break? How much better would Thome have made this team? He could not have helped the bullpen, he could not have helped Floyd or Peavy in the first 2 months and I sincerely do not know if he would have helped Beckham, Ramirez, Quentin, etc. who sucked so badly at the start of the season. Thome, Ozzie, and KW are the popular scapegoats because its easy point a finger at one person and a say, "That's why our season was disappointing", but we had the horses to run this race, they just didn't run their best.

QUOTE (Kenny Hates Prospects @ Sep 11, 2010 -> 01:48 PM) More Kotsay hate.... Newsflash: Kotsay is a better baseball player than Mark Teahen and a much better RF as well. Morel should have taken Teahen's place at 3B after last night, and Kotsay should have taken 1B and LF/RF from him well before that. Teahen is not only a terrible baseball player, but he has no fit on this team beyond LH pinch hitter. If we make it he'll in all likelihood miss the postseason roster all throughout the playoffs, no matter what the Kotsay haters will insist. And Ozzie will be 100% in the right for doing it. Terrible baseball players do not make it to the major leagues.

Dude, you didn't even bother to add up the numbers to see if they were close to accurate?

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Sep 2, 2010 -> 11:09 AM) Yeah...but the cost/benefit calculation is somewhat enhanced when you compare spending a lifetime in near-poverty in Cuba with MLB. I'm not saying that he will or should make that decision, but he does have a choice whether he wants to serve in the Korean military.

QUOTE (mmmmmbeeer @ Sep 2, 2010 -> 11:04 AM) Yeah, that is the case. He can skip his conscription but would never be allowed to step foot on Korean soil again....tough decision to abandon your home like that. Sure it is, but it's one that pretty much every Cuban playing in MLB makes.

QUOTE (PeavyTime @ Sep 2, 2010 -> 09:58 AM) Doesn't Choo have to go home and serve his military commitment? Not if he doesn't want to. This is America, the land of the free!

QUOTE (Jordan4life @ Aug 31, 2010 -> 11:38 PM) The NL excuse card is pretty ridiculous, considering Hudson has faced better lineups than Jackson has. So your "NL is vastly inferior" stance only applies when you want it to?

QUOTE (justBLAZE @ Aug 27, 2010 -> 05:40 PM) No one from 40man roster could be a PTBNL, anyone from 40man roster would need to clear waivers themselves, someone correct me if I'm wrong. Is there a way that we could have all the rules on waivers, arbitration, rule 5, etc. posted in one place to use as a reference? Maybe in "how's that work" or something?

Come on Freddy!!!

QUOTE (chw42 @ Aug 27, 2010 -> 04:47 PM) We can be semi-objective when we look at the dropped third strike controversy can't we? Even if the ump made the wrong call, that doesn't mean AJ cheated.

500 posts since I left for work this morning, do we know anything besides the Sox claimed him?

QUOTE (Nyx81 @ Aug 26, 2010 -> 07:00 PM) I may be starting this workout myself in the next week. I only have the dvds. I don't believe I will be getting any information packets with it. Please keep the info coming. I don't want to start this off wrong. Ive been told there are easier variations in the dvd to go along with the workout for us ladies. Keep up the good work. My girlfriend did the program with me and the only thing she did different, aside from using lighter weights, was to use bands in the door for the pull up exercises.