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At a conference in Atlanta, researchers have announced that a 2.5 year old girl who was born with the AIDS virus appears to have been cured by a high dose of anti-Aids drugs. If the finding holds up, it would be the 2nd case of a person being cured of the AIDS virus.

Thanks Wolverines, now lose next weekend.

QUOTE (whitesoxfan99 @ Mar 3, 2013 -> 05:57 PM) Unless the committee doesn't follow any criteria they have used in prior years Iowa isn't even remotely close to the dance. Even if they win their last 2 regular season games they won't even be mentioned without a deep run in the BTT. Lunardi currently doesn't have them even in the first 8 out.

QUOTE (Leonard Zelig @ Mar 3, 2013 -> 03:38 PM) Does any body know if there was there a tablet specific thread on here at one time or was that in this thread? I think this thread actually started as the ipad introduction thread.

QUOTE (flavum @ Mar 3, 2013 -> 03:37 PM) Peavy getting torched. Spring training. I vaguely recall everyone freaking out about this during ST last year when all Peavy was doing was throwing his fastball to loosen his arm up.

QUOTE (elrockinMT @ Mar 3, 2013 -> 12:46 PM) When a rookie performs well in ST it seems there is always that temptation to put him on the roster breaking camp. But, there never seems to be a full-time role for them and consequently they sit. I think Mitchell and a couple other prospects might be better off at AAA this year and I am betting 2014 and 2015 we see the changes happening using folks from our own system to fill the holes Now that I stopped and thought about it...De Aza's been great, but one knock on him is health. I'm not sure if you'd count him as "injury prone" when so much of his problem has been one enormous, career-threatening injury, but I could definitely see some time being available for Mitchell filling in for De Aza if Jared plays well enough to earn it.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Mar 3, 2013 -> 10:48 AM) "owned by the public" pure ideology For #1, isn't that pretty much how WIC cards work already? Pre-loaded debit card that can only be used on WIC-approved items? Well, WIC approved items and the fees that the bank charges to use the card.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Mar 3, 2013 -> 10:54 AM) The anti-democratic, human-rights violating Malaysian government has been paying a range of conservative columnists in places like the Huffington Post and National Review thousands of dollars to run propaganda pieces for years. http://www.buzzfeed.com/rosiegray/covert-m...e-of-american-m Krugman with some good thoughts: http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/03/0...alaysians-know/ I stopped letting myself be surprised by corruption within media organizations a while ago.

QUOTE (Paint it Black @ Mar 3, 2013 -> 10:49 AM) Nearly everything went right last year. Really? Was I the only one who saw our opening day starter be terrible and then go down for the season with surgery? Ask yourself what would happen to any number of other teams if they had exactly that sentence happen to them. That's not "Nearly everything" going right, that's a huge loss. That's 3, 4 wins we might have lost. That's the margin between us and a playoff spot. And it forced trades that depleted our bench for good measure. If you want to reply "yeah but I said nearly", then let's throw in our opening day 3b's back going out, our 1b's wrist, the month we lost from our opening day CF, the time we had 7 rookies in our bullpen. A lot of stuff went wrong last year. Our GM and farm system just overcame enough of it to keep us in the race.

QUOTE (Tex @ Mar 3, 2013 -> 11:39 AM) With the money that JR and Co. saved by not bringing back AJ, I can take a longer vacation, perhaps go out to dinner more often, and maybe buy first editions of On The Road and Dharma Bums. What are y'all going to do with the money? /ducking guys I'm going to watch Jake Peavy pitch.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Mar 2, 2013 -> 10:31 PM) It is, but they REALLY like Mitchell. You should have heard Buddy Bell glow about him when I asked about Mitchell. Hawkins was the only other guy he was THAT charged up about. He said nice things about everyone, of course, but his tone was different with Mitchell. It was more personal. I don't know what the deal was, but the Mitchell I saw for a few games last summer was not a guy you'd glow about.

"Setback" for Carl Crawford, he's shut down for at least a week, status for opening day up in the air.

Veal handles the 7th pretty easily, did walk a guy, but also had a K and no solid contact against him either.

Santiago a little wild here.

QUOTE (staxx @ Mar 2, 2013 -> 04:01 PM) mitchell oppo HR Nice swing. Pitch was low and away, stayed down on it, kept his head still and eyes down really well, drove it high and deep the opposite way.

Didn't see the first 2 innings but Quintana was really good in the 3rd. Moving the ball all over, mixing things up, no solid contact.

According to this post, Flacco's cap hit this year is only $7 million.

QUOTE (Cali @ Mar 2, 2013 -> 03:25 PM) Yeah, I imagine if Paulie walks, you sign a stop gap, or move Keppinger to first. Barnum is still a few years away. Maybe Wilkins can come back from the dead... If the Sox are signing a stop-gap, it ought to be Konerko unless he decides to retire or has a terrible year this year. He's in his late 30's, ought to be on 1 year contracts...and we're kinda familiar with him. Since he's a righty he's also a good counterpoint with Dunn to share the 1b/DH spots.

QUOTE (Cali @ Mar 2, 2013 -> 02:56 PM) I don't want to generalize, (but I'm going to haha) cause I don't know how old everyone is, but it seems like a lot of older fans have a hard time letting veteran players go. One's that have either declined in play, priced themselves out, or are just too damn old to be viable options anymore, some older fans want on the team until they turn into dust on the field. (And not just White Sox fans too, I know some Boston fans who still think Varitek should be playing) No matter what kind of season Paulie has this year, I'm completely fine letting him go at the end of the season. Just like with AJ, I think some team will offer him more money than the Sox are willing to offer and everyone is going to freak out, but you gotta be smart. The front office values loyalty, but their not dumb either, they know what makes financial sense, and I tend to agree with them. Problem with letting PK14 walk at the end of the year would be...not sure who plays 1b next year. Maybe Mitchell and Thompson play well enough at AAA that they earn callups, and Viciedo hits well enough that they put him back there, but Dunn is not going to be this team's everyday 1b next year. And anyway, AJ can have more than just 1 standing O from the audience.

Has Quintana had a start yet?

QUOTE (MexSoxFan#1 @ Mar 2, 2013 -> 11:12 AM) Meh, does anyone really actually care about dunk contests? They've been practically the same show the last 2 decades. Bron's in-game dunks are spectacular enough. Nobody cares because guys who people would want to see compete...don't. I don't know that I care about the 11th guy on the Raptors ability to dunk unless he's showing up Lebron.

QUOTE (bhawk99 @ Mar 2, 2013 -> 08:14 AM) Well said Hitman. I agree with you 100%. I too hope Flowers develops into a .250 hitter with 25 HR's but I am concerned that he will be a .210 hitter with under 20HR's and way to many K's. Here's the thing...I took a second to actually put those numbers together. If he hits ~.210 with 20 HR's, I gave him about 25 2b (usually his 2b are close to his HR numbers) and ~55 BB in 550 PA's (could be a little low for him), those bad numbers still put him with a .674 OPS. That's not great and yes it's a downgrade from AJ last year, but it's not terrifically bad either. 1/2 the teams in the league got a sub-.700 OPS from their catcher's spot. 8 teams got worse production last year than we'd hope would be worse case scenario for Flowers.

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Mar 2, 2013 -> 10:41 AM) he definitely isnt worth the cheddar he is about to be making. But hey, who am i to argue, it isnt my team. Why are people still paying attention to the dollar amount instead of the guaranteed money and actual cap hit?

“@CST_soxvan: Keppinger said his shoulder is getting stronger and that he'll play 3B in 2 days. DH today.”