Middle Buffalo

QUOTE(fathom @ Aug 17, 2005 -> 12:50 PM) Kapler .... I don't think he's on roids...especially since his numbers haven't shot up. Steroids don't magically improve your ability to hit a baseball. They will improve your power, but if you aren't putting the bat on the ball, you won't see an improvement in your numbers. I, too, can't wait to see the HOF baseball writer (who somehow missed the boat on the whole steroids issue for 15 years) fumbling for words on Baseball Tonight friday.

When I saw the title, I was hoping it was instructions for doing an "up and over." I'm sure my wife would love to see me doing that.

QUOTE(Steff @ Aug 17, 2005 -> 06:24 AM) http://www.cnn.com/2005/LAW/08/16/yacht.mu...reut/index.html He is accused of enlisting the help of 40-year-old gang member John Fitzgerald Kennedy and ex-jailer Alonso Machain, 21, to carry out the murder on November 15, 2004. How dare they drag the good Kennedy name through the mud!

Please, don't do it. Please. Oh, please, please, please!

QUOTE(Kalapse @ Aug 16, 2005 -> 10:23 AM) You don't just name a captain (Jeter, V-tek, Sweeney) a player first becomes a captain by their attitude and the way they handle things in the clubhouse. If the players look up to Konerko and see him as a captain then he is a captian. We don't really know what goes on in the clubhouse, we only get small samples from the media, which a lot of the time mean nothing. Be careful, you're making sense.

Anyone have a one page cheat sheet for 2005 Fantasy Football drafts? I started to make one last night, then realized that: a. I'm not too good with spreadsheets; b. I don't really have much time; and c. I am lazy. I'm just looking for something that I can print out on one page that has QB, RB, WR, TE, (K, & D - I can live without these, but if they fit) and a top 100 overall. I do both of my drafts on-line, and I don't really feel like shuffling papers. I appreciate the help, and assure you that you will be rewarded with good karma for the white sox.

"Muhammad has already developed a good relationship with Bears' quarterback Rex Grossman, something which was apparent during Sunday's first training camp workout" That should come in handy.

QUOTE(NUKE_CLEVELAND @ Aug 4, 2005 -> 09:31 PM) I'll tell ya one thing. When I have children you had best believe that I'll teach them to be smarter than that floozy was. Her parents failed her in that they didn't instill an ounce of common sense into her empty head. Natalee strikes me as a typical spoiled brat who couldn't function on her own for 5 minutes without someone right there making sure she didn't f*** something up. If parents are that aloof or that busy that they can't take time to properly raise children then maybe they shouldn't have them in the 1st place. I have three kids. When they are outside, so am I. That's wheter it's right in front of my house, or in the backyard. It's completely different than how I was raised. Sometimes I wonder if all the attention they (and a lot of other kids DO get) is what makes them so naive at 18. Like I said earlier, the problem you should have is with the media coverage. The girl obviously made a huge mistake. She paid the ultimate price. RIP. Rest in Peace.

QUOTE(SleepyWhiteSox @ Aug 4, 2005 -> 09:28 PM) I sure as hell don't want one if she's gonna run off with 3 guys while drunk on vacation wasting my hard-earned money. That would mean I failed as a father, and I can almost assure you it wouldn't happen on my watch. Almost.

QUOTE(Middle Buffalo @ Aug 4, 2005 -> 07:43 PM) Hope you never have kids (especially a daughter). I refer back to my earlier post.

QUOTE(Milkman delivers @ Aug 4, 2005 -> 08:58 PM) Point taken. But if I had made such a stupid choice, no matter how drunk, I wouldn't want to be seen as a martyr. Gotta get the last word in.

QUOTE(Milkman delivers @ Aug 4, 2005 -> 08:48 PM) The point is that she doesn't deserve all of this attention. Yes, it's unfortunate that this happened. But, she doesn't deserve all of this attention. There are plenty of people that are more deserving of having a 24-hour watch for them on CNN. This girl made a piss-poor decision, and it cost her her life. Her fault, this deserves very little media attention. Then Nuke's anger should be directed at the media. For some reason, he and others are attacking the VICTIM.

QUOTE(kapkomet @ Aug 4, 2005 -> 08:38 PM) Situation: If you were in that club, 18 years old, you'd a been mackin on her. If she acted interested, you'd a been all over it. Now, I'm not saying three guys, that's SICK, but the point is, 18 year old males and females, in that setting, with the alcohol make STUPID judgements. In this case, she paid for it with her life. That's s***ty, and I feel bad for her family to have to go through that. But when we were 18, we thought nothing would happen to us, we did the same (generally) stupid s***. So please don't be so quick to judge... that's all I ask. Ditto. And not in the Patrick Swayze - "Ghost" way.Not that there's anything wrong with that.

QUOTE(Milkman delivers @ Aug 4, 2005 -> 08:21 PM) Like going out to get gang-banged by 3 foreign guys that she's never met? Like trusting people and having them take advantage of that trust.

QUOTE(kapkomet @ Aug 4, 2005 -> 07:59 PM) All too much damn press, just like the AL East, and nothing about the White Sox, those ugly duckling bastards in the Central. Well, there's something we can all agree on. Oh, and Peter Gammons is a damn sexy man.

I understand, but at some point every kid goes out on his own, and you just hope they don't make stupid decisions. They all do. You just hope yours doesn't die for the mistake. I also understand getting sick of the news coverage, but every story is overplayed now. OJ. Menendez Brothers. Scott Pederson. Beretta. All of them. That's what happens when you have 24hr news networks.

QUOTE(kapkomet @ Aug 4, 2005 -> 04:21 PM) Banks get it wrong. A lot. If you don't reconcile your statements, you're asking to get ripped off. I once cashed a $200 check at the drive-thru and counted my money in the car (which came up $180). I immediately notified the teller, and she told me to come inside and talk to the manager. He said I'd have to wait until they balanced the drawer to find out if there was a mistake. Of course, the drawer balanced, and I was out $20. Damn you to hell LaSalle Bank. Damn you to hell. I now bank at Bank One.

Hope you never have kids (especially a daughter).

Next time they bring BMac up, they should put him in the bullpen in long relief. Get his feet wet in the majors without the pressure of starting.

Is Barry Bonds subject to testing this year?

When I was a kid, I swear 95% of the time I went to a game it was against the Brewers. I have no fond memories of that logo, Sixto Lezcano, Sal Bando, or any other thing associated with the late 70's/early 80's Brewers. It does beat the new logo though. I'll sign.

Then dig him up and put him before congress. Let's get to the bottom of this!

QUOTE(YASNY @ Aug 2, 2005 -> 11:10 AM) Now I totally disagree with that. How can you break a rule that doesn't exist at the time? Then so far, only seven major leaguers have broken the steroid rule. All the others that we speculate/know about did so before the rules were in place.

Doctors prescribe steroids all the time. There's a difference between using them to treat an injury and cycling them for the bulk of your baseball career.

QUOTE(Steff @ Aug 2, 2005 -> 06:31 AM) You still gotta make contact. I agree.. roids are terrible.. and it's cheating. But without the eyes and the instinct one is not hitting a 90+ mph ball. That is undeniably true. And that's the argument that you always hear pro athletes make. However, what might have been a "can of corn" is now a HR for a guy on steroids or HGH. Here's a couple of interesting facts: • Through 1994, a player hit 50 or more home runs in a season just 18 times. Since 1994, there have been an amazing fifteen 50-homer seasons, and in the late 1990s an explosion of power-related records infused baseball, though no one seemed to put this together with the changing physical stature of the players. More than any other sport, baseball is numbers-driven. Fans relish numbers, and if they're tainted, there's a sense of consumer fraud • Bonds, much like McGwire, experienced this incredible surge of power in his twilight years when most ballplayers are fading away. From 1986 through 1999, he hit three homers beyond the 450 ft. mark. In the last five years he has belted 26 over 450 ft. How many that were caught on the warning track prior to the BALCO juice have been sailing over the fence since? Credit: http://www.whenitwasagame.net/story_pages/editorial.html