Balta1701

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Feb 18, 2014 -> 03:21 PM) Was Piazza named in the Mitchell report? I dont remember anything but vague accusations, nothing concrete Oh, I should add this:

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Feb 18, 2014 -> 03:21 PM) Was Piazza named in the Mitchell report? I dont remember anything but vague accusations, nothing concrete No. He has never turned up in any official investigation. He was alleged to have used in a book by Jeff Pearlman, but that's the most specific anyone has gotten with him.

QUOTE (bmags @ Feb 18, 2014 -> 03:02 PM) I don't care whether the years applied to the sentence are lengthy, that you can't get charged for murder with what happened above is infuriating. Someone else will point this out if I don't, he was charged with murder, just not convicted.

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Feb 18, 2014 -> 02:25 PM) "God damn laws and trials and people having different opinions! I read the internet, dammit. I know what happened that night. My opinion that he is guilty is the only acceptable conclusion!" - Balta Thankfully this only goes one way right?

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Feb 18, 2014 -> 02:28 PM) And it really didn't work. He was still convicted of three counts of attempted murder. And the murder charge was as mistrial, not a not guilty verdict. They'll try again. He wasn't convicted. He murdered a kid and wasn't convicted.

QUOTE (witesoxfan @ Feb 18, 2014 -> 02:31 PM) Still, I think that point is valid. You can probably shift guys to the left side a bit with Cabrera because he does pull a few more balls, but he generally puts balls all over the field. Mauer sprays it even better. Without looking at relevant data (thus, going off what I've seen of Mauer), you may be able to play the shortstop straight up the middle with the 3B playing in the hole a bit where the SS normally plays, but then you're asking him to hit a gimme double down the line. If you actually look at Mauer's spray charts though, there's an obvious pattern. He hits a lot of fly balls to left field and a lot of ground balls to right field. There's even a couple fly ball clusters. If you moved the CF by about 5-10 steps to the opposite field and moved the LF towards the line and perhaps in a bit, you're actually going to take away a good number of hits from him. Cabrera sprays it in the OF better but there's a strong tendency to ground the ball to the LH side, particularly to the 3b line side of where the SS plays. A few steps by the SS and 3b could quite possibly cut off a few hits.

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Feb 18, 2014 -> 02:10 PM) It's not vague at all - it's defined: “Forcible felony” means treason; murder; manslaughter; sexual battery; carjacking; home-invasion robbery; robbery; burglary; arson; kidnapping; aggravated assault; aggravated battery; aggravated stalking; aircraft piracy; unlawful throwing, placing, or discharging of a destructive device or bomb; and any other felony which involves the use or threat of physical force or violence against any individual. Which of those applies to this scenario? And did Dunn even make this argument or are you just making this up to further the "OMG GUNS, EVERYONE DIES! narrative? I'm pretty sure he argued self-defense. And it worked.

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Feb 18, 2014 -> 01:38 PM) That's not the standard. The standard is whether Dunn reasonably believed that he had to use deadly force to prevent immediate harm/death. Seeing a gun does not automatically create a fear of immediate harm/death. "or to prevent the commission of a forcible felony." You missed the nice, vague, catch-all at the end.

QUOTE (IowaSoxFan @ Feb 18, 2014 -> 01:48 PM) I would say this is because there are not many other players in the division that you would perform a shift against, perhaps Prince, but not really anyone else I can think of. And the Sox have Dunn, which means teams are shifting at least four times a game against us. You're thinking about the "3 person on the side overshift". That's only the farthest extreme of what this type of data is referring to. This is talking about moving a player a couple feet to the side rather than across the entire field, I believe.

QUOTE (witesoxfan @ Feb 18, 2014 -> 01:29 PM) The stories behind Pizza indicate that he was a burly, slow kid who did not look the part of a big league player. Even looking back, you would just think that he was too big to play the game. For all we know, he may have continued working hard and put together a career as a big leaguer. I'm guessing the Tigers didn't draft Alex Avila totally based on his baseball experience but also because his father worked in the front office. Nepotism has always existed in baseball and, now and then, guys make it through. (this may not be directly nepotism, but the move was made based on the same exact sentimentality) My main problem with that logic is that it thus suggests that no undrafted player who was eligible for the draft should ever make it to the majors. Supposedly his father refused to participate in any scouting discussions on him because he wanted him to be drafted on his own merit, for whatever that is worth.

QUOTE (Stan Bahnsen @ Feb 18, 2014 -> 11:51 AM) I've maintained that defense will be much better evaluated when all players' positions are accurately GPS'ed. Featherweight sensors that could be put in the belt area of the pants could easily be done with present technology, I believe. Would players' union have a beef with this? I actually don't know that a very lightweight GPS tag would be accurate enough to do this effectively, not with the amount of movement done by most humans. If you're jogging/biking/driving you can average things out, but over a distance of 30 meters and times of a few seconds, I don't think you'd get accurate enough data.

QUOTE (Jake @ Feb 18, 2014 -> 11:27 AM) Honestly, this is one of the reasons it can be difficult to figure out what's going on in the organization. Were drafts bad because: -scouts were bad, recommending bad players -GM is bad, overruling good scout recommendations -owner is cheap, overruling the choices of GM/scouts due to cost -player development is great, making up for iffy drafts -player development is terrible, making good drafts look bad We are finding out that it was the owner to a great extent for the Sox recently, but it can be pretty damn difficult to know which variables are true at any given moment You left out a huge one...bad luck. In any given year, several teams should have below average drafts from a combination of bad luck and not drafting highly. A couple years of that should leave most systems pretty barren.

QUOTE (bmags @ Feb 18, 2014 -> 01:07 PM) That's so frustrating, there were no weapons in their car. Hence the standard that he only reasonably needed to believe he saw a shotgun in order to justify opening fire in that direction.

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Feb 18, 2014 -> 10:14 AM) LOL, seriously balta? Like this isnt known? I was responding to him stating that Lane is the replacement for Peppers. Not anything about the depth of the line. If he said "More D Line depth" as opposed to "replacement for peppers" I wouldnt have said anything. But if this is the Bears plan to replace Peppers as the starting end, that is terrible. I take it I missed the sarcasm in your "really, do tell".

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Feb 18, 2014 -> 09:08 AM) really? do tell Wootton is a free agent and Peppers cannot possibly return on that contract without a major restructuring. If Peppers is cut, then Shea McClellin would be just about the only DE on that roster. And that D-Line wasn't exactly deep last year.

QUOTE (Eminor3rd @ Feb 18, 2014 -> 08:54 AM) Second FEWEST shifts Ah. I'll blame that on a morning misread then. I believe "fewest" shifts a whole lot more.

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Feb 18, 2014 -> 08:37 AM) God I hope that isnt their plan. Lane only played 2 games for the Lions last season. Even in a down year Peppers had twice as many sacks as this guy in his career They need more than 1 DE this year.

So perhaps the problem was that the White Sox were so focused on this that they didn't pay attention to the regular details like catching the ball? because that team just convinced me that shifts are the worst thing ever. Any chance they're just getting counted for extra "shifts" because Alexei plays off towards the 3b bag compared with some other SS's?

QUOTE (Marty34 @ Feb 17, 2014 -> 08:22 PM) Don't write Jimenez off yet. Navy Seals are 50/50 to pass Orioles physicals. I tells you what, this is seriously a hard sell on signing this guy. "He's lost 4 mph from his fastball since he was 25 and can't pass a tough physical. That's the kind of guy I want to build my team around!"

QUOTE (pittshoganerkoff @ Feb 18, 2014 -> 07:19 AM) I don't see how anyone could view this offseason as anything but a success. Well, their scouts could be wrong and those guys could all bust.

So this thread actually should have been "Asking prices barely fall at all"?

Town in Michigan discovers a 5 mile long stream of manure leaked out of a frozen/burst pipe and is now buried under a foot of snow.

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Feb 17, 2014 -> 02:16 PM) OK? So the jury was instructed on the law. What's wrong with that? They clearly didn't believe that he was acting in self-defense or that he "had not duty to retreat" since they convicted him of 3 counts of attempted murder. And I doubt I would have convicted him of first degree murder based on what i've read. There wasn't much premeditation here. This is yet another case where Florida prosecutors went for the home run instead of the single. The law worked as it should in this case. Dude's a murderer. He didn't shoot because he thought he could get away with it. He shot because he's a murderer. Um, as of right now...he's not a murderer according to the jury of the state of florida.

Again, Jenks, he did not request an SYG hearing and instead the Judge charged the jury with the "no duty to retreat", SYG standard in the instructions to the jury, and as of now he was not convicted of murder despite murdering someone.

QUOTE (pettie4sox @ Feb 17, 2014 -> 01:07 PM) Was that the clown who said he was standing his ground? Yes, yet another one.