Balta1701

QUOTE (BigHurt3515 @ Jul 27, 2015 -> 07:36 PM) throw offspeed to Ortiz Fell behind him with the fastball early, had 2 that were low and out of the zone, elevated one and bang.

4-2 White over Red, HR Ortiz, VERY deep CF.

Good curve ball to Xander.

Danks leaving stuff up to the first hitter.

Flowers actually hit the ball hard the other way, had a good shot of getting through if there was a runner on 1b.

4-0 Sox on an Alexei GIDP. Edit: I meant 4-0 "White" Sox.

QUOTE (Mike F. @ Jul 27, 2015 -> 07:20 PM) He has been struggling mightily though. Until the Cleveland series that is.

Avi actually ripped a ball hard to LF. I can't remember seeing that any time recently.

QUOTE (fathom @ Jul 27, 2015 -> 07:18 PM) He leave the game? Nope, stayed in after a detailed check by Herm.

Abreu heads to 1b.

Abreu HBP on the hand for those not watching.

QUOTE (Sox Fan In Husker Land @ Jul 27, 2015 -> 07:15 PM) When is the last time a team has had 2 triples to lead off a game? It may take us a while before Stats can look that one up, I'm sure someone's on it.

QUOTE (BigHurt3515 @ Jul 27, 2015 -> 07:11 PM) I would be willing to send over a lower level prospect or some money along with LaRoche You're probably not willing to send off enough money, would be my guess. They got the Brewers to still pay 40% of Aramis's remaining $5 million, so they only took on a sliver even in that deal.

If your number 1 priority is to keep your family safe, and strong evidence consistently shows that your children have a significantly higher chance of dying with a gun in the house...you don't keep one there. No matter how much your gut tells you otherwise, you don't let whatever desire you have, whatever situation you're picturing...to overwhelm that reality.

QUOTE (bmags @ Jul 27, 2015 -> 05:59 PM) Ye Gods, I read it, he's taking 2 days to clear his head. Eaton said Herm pushed something through him and he feels better. I literally can't. I try to open the article and I get a popup that will not close. I try to close the popup ad or answer the stupid survey thing and whenever I click on it the page automatically closes and it opens an empty new tab.

QUOTE (Alpha Dog @ Jul 27, 2015 -> 05:43 PM) 3000 out of 320,760,000 people (as of 4-15-15) is .0000935%. HUGE problem we have there. I am sure it is huge for the 3000 families effected, but as an overall 'epidemic' it is peanuts. You could probably find more than 3000 people who were saved by guns each year to balance that out. QUOTE (Alpha Dog @ Jul 27, 2015 -> 05:59 PM) If I recall, they also got busted for counting kids twice, by making the 'kids' category 24 and under, but the adult category 18+. And I trust the NYT to accurately report good gun usage as much as ss trusts any link from breitbart. Which means I don't. Jenks posted a link, go check it out. And those are just the ones that get sent into them. I'm sure that for the 1362 cases recorded on that page it's a huge deal, but you could find 90,000 people killed by guns over the 3 year period counted by that website to balance that out. Or are we only supposed to minimize things when its people dying?

Unreadable, Sun Times, closed link.

QUOTE (Alpha Dog @ Jul 27, 2015 -> 05:43 PM) 3000 out of 320,760,000 people (as of 4-15-15) is .0000935%. HUGE problem we have there. I am sure it is huge for the 3000 families effected, but as an overall 'epidemic' it is peanuts. You could probably find more than 3000 people who were saved by guns each year to balance that out. One of my personal favorite anecdotes about this whole discussion is that after Sandy Hook, the NY Times or the Post or someone like that started compiling a list of kids killed in accidental shootings to see if they were being undercounted (note - they were by a factor of 2). They got complaints about how they weren't keeping a list of when guns were used in self defense. Turned out they were, there were just that few, and a majority of those were things like arguments in the home where guns were pulled from both sides or people pulling guns on someone else as a threat and then declaring that they were doing it in self defense.

QUOTE (Alpha Dog @ Jul 27, 2015 -> 04:46 PM) thousands of people die every year for no other reason than a gun is present. That was the quote from Balta. NO OTHER REASON. I didn't make those words up, he did. If he meant something else, he should have typed something else. You are the first to jump on whatever fits your narrative, the exact word or the meaning. Well, his exact words are very damn clear there. NO OTHER REASON. In some but not all cases of deaths caused by guns, the person would still be alive if a gun had not been present. - StrangeSox OK, how many? 10%? 50? You have no clue. You can guess, but other than some suicide studies, you have no clue. Like I said in reply the last time, when the Israeli army banned their soldiers from taking guns home on the weekends they saw a rapid 40% drop in their suicide rate. Throw that in with the several hundred accidental deaths per year and without even talking about crime one bit, without doing anything about keeping guns out of the hands of criminals, you're talking about thousands of deaths that would 100% not have happened had there been no gun present. Maybe it's 10%. Maybe it's 50%. If it's 10%...right away that's 3000 lives per year. That is "thousands of people every year". That's how bad the gun problem in our country really is. The numbers that you threw out add up to costing thousands of lives every year for no reason other than these fantasies about how this time I'll really get to be the hero.

QUOTE (Tex @ Jul 27, 2015 -> 04:58 PM) And let's think about what the theater will look like during the shooting. Has anyone ever looked around a movie theater? I might have special vision but I can see almost everyone in a theater. It's pretty bright with that movie going and everything. Your eyes get adjusted once you are in there for a while. Now, I'm guessing a lot of people are hiding and still others are running away from the shooter. How many people are running towards the gunman and standing really tall to be shot? Is the gunman surrounded by dozens of people standing there waving their arms? What do you think it looks like? And yet, the actual shooter in this case was able to walk out with the crowd and they didn't recognize him.

QUOTE (Lillian @ Jul 27, 2015 -> 05:24 PM) The fact that LaRoche is sitting against a RH pitcher is the most encouraging part of that move. If he were just sitting vs. a lefty, it wouldn't be all that significant. Sitting even against a righty, should give us hope that the Sox are finally ready to go in another direction, unless he's injured or ill. I don't think there's any chance they're "going in another direction" with that contract, but they're at least giving him some time off hopefully. Of course, the real irony would be if he got today off then faced a lefty later this series.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Jul 27, 2015 -> 03:47 PM) NPR (and I'm sure plenty of other media outlets) had pretty terrible coverage of this Friday afternoon, going on at length about how damaging this was for Clinton, how terrible it looked etc. etc. and then threw in an 'oh by the way the New York Times had to retract the core of the story, whoops probably should have mentioned that before railing on Clinton for five minutes' at the very end. It made my local news last night and was presented as "DOJ requested to investigate Hillary Clinton's email for possible criminal proceedings". Exactly the opposite of reality and exactly the whole point of the smear.

QUOTE (Tex @ Jul 27, 2015 -> 04:14 PM) Reading through the comments one thing becomes clear. Most of the non gun owners believe that non criminals with guns will act like criminals with guns. Criminals do not follow the same laws as the rest of society. Some criminals have severe mental disease or defects. You also assume non criminal gun owners will do the stupidest possible thing. In the theater they will just stand up and start shooting in any random direction like some cartoon character. Remember these are really normal people. They are doctors, lawyers, professors, truck drivers, construction workers, secretaries, and from every walk of life and background. They don't suddenly veer their cars into traffic, they don't randomly start killing people. But somehow many of the people here suddenly think I'm as crazy as the criminal that is killing people. It just isn't so. There are millions and millions of very responsible gun owners who just would not do the things that some people here think they would. Your caricatures would be laughable if they weren't so wrong. Those doctors, lawyers, professors, truck drivers, construction workers, and secretaries also aren't likely to be extremely well trained at aiming firearms in a dark movie theater, yet we get presented the fantasy that they would be.

QUOTE (Jose Abreu @ Jul 27, 2015 -> 04:06 PM) So he's still good away from Coors, but obviously not as good. FWIW, his home BA/OBP is .321/.394, and away it's .277/.349. The problem of course with any Coors person is that lots of guys naturally play better in their home park anyway, and you also might see a different approach from him if he wasn't hitting in Coors regularly. Matt Holliday's OPS while at Coors was .938, while it's been .888 with the Cardinals after a down year in Oakland, and his time in STL has been while he's been in his 30s. So it's definitely hard to read how these guys will play when you take the coors effect away, it's not as simple as "he'd just play like he does on the road".