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Holy f***, HIRISE caught an image of the **** thing on the way down!

QUOTE (elrockinMT @ Aug 6, 2012 -> 01:24 PM) What do you think? Trade bait or could he be the long reliever/spot starter? We saw some good games out of him for sure as weell as some real struggles. I do agree Santiago may be a starter in September or at least in the plans for 2013. We really have no idea of what will happen with peavy and Liroiano or Floyd for that matgter. Plus John Danks situation is up in the air I have trouble believing that they could really get anything hugely useful for him after his struggles this year. He could be good "Danks insurance" if they are comfortable putting him in the pen next year, and it's not like he's expensive.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Aug 6, 2012 -> 11:15 AM) So I'm watching the Canadian feed of the Olympics and just saw a hilarious War of 1812 commercial, talking about how Canadians and Brits stood shoulder-to-shoulder to fight off those invading yanks. That really was the legitimate first act of that war. Supposedly fought over trade routes, impression of sailors, forts out west...and the first thing the U.S. does after war is declared is try to conquer canada.

Sticking this here because of the mention of the budget cuts.

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Aug 6, 2012 -> 01:07 PM) Have they posted a video of the landing yet? No, and it will be some time before the more hi-def stuff from this starts coming back, but the cameras on this are incredible.

According to a number of sources, the shooter has an army background, first working on some variety of missiles, then being moved into "psy-ops" psychological operations warfare, which is at least an interesting note. He had some behavior issues but received an honorable discharge in the late 90's.

QUOTE (Y2HH @ Aug 6, 2012 -> 10:37 AM) Until I hear a good argument of how he escaped the Batwing/Atomic Blast with five seconds to go, generally, I do not see how he could possibly survive." Well, let's hypothetically say he ditched at that moment somehow...perhaps with an escape pod of some sort. That pod plummets into the ocean, hits the ocean, goes under water several tens of feet. At that point, the explosion happens. The water being fairly incompressible is hit by the shock from the explosion and the water takes the shock. The water is forced outward by the shock, pushed away from the source of detonation, and depending on the distance and whatever the escape mechanism was, you could possibly get survivable conditions. Lots of mythbuster-esque variables there. Of course, this does bring me to my other physics problem here...you set off an atomic blast at an altitude of a few hundred feet over the ocean, you create a pretty darn significant displacement of water. It would be less than if the blast happened under water...but there ought to have been generation of a pretty significant wave from that explosion...at least meters high, probably tens of meters again depending on the exact distance and conditions. In other words, Manhattan ought to have taken a tsunami hit after that thing blew.

QUOTE (Quinarvy @ Aug 5, 2012 -> 05:33 PM) I enjoy watching Theo burn. Just remember, they wouldn't do stuff like this their first time out with the Cubs unless they thought it was normal.

QUOTE (Benchwarmerjim @ Aug 5, 2012 -> 10:48 PM) the Red Sox put a waiver claim on Danny Valencia so the Twins traded him for an OFer in the GCL (speed guy, no bat. what a shock) and the Red Sox sent him to AAA. Valencia really looked like a player that could hold down third base for a while after his rookie year (a thing not done since the days of Corey Koskie). But, he never cleaned up his defense and his offense got worse. Maybe the change of teams will do him good, but I highly doubt it. Wait, what happened to Middlebrooks?

QUOTE (greg775 @ Aug 5, 2012 -> 10:35 PM) I would think the media coverage of this incident will not be as great as the Colorado massacre. These things usually happen with a great amount of time between the first incident and second. These came so close together.... Because of that fact, this should get even more coverage, but the shock value isn't here because of the recent Colorado tragedy. Do all you TV folks agree with this? I think if we have one more incident like this in the next couple weeks, Obama is going to have to have an all-out assault on this type of crime. Our country is in serious jeopardy, folks. These incidents are starting to occur with great frequency, signaling a huge problem with society and values of people today. There's not going to be an "All out assault" on this type of crime any time during this type of election season.

SONOFAB**** IT ACTUALLY WORKED.

After the bullpen has been pretty heavily used the last few days it doesn't seem unreasonable to put a "long man" back there if the starters can take it...and the starters all just got an extra break in this cycle.

QUOTE (kitekrazy @ Aug 5, 2012 -> 08:47 PM) I'll believe when I hear Kenny say it. I'll believe it when I hear Kenny deny it.

QUOTE (Y2HH @ Aug 5, 2012 -> 08:52 PM) Would you rather hear about more gun laws that would have prevented this law breaking criminal from doing this, then? Without knowing any details about the weapons, that's not a step one can reasonably take yet either.

QUOTE (lostfan @ Aug 5, 2012 -> 08:49 PM) Sikhs aren't even Muslim (unless you are stupid), which I'm betting the gunmen assumed. I'll reply by saying that I'm not going to even guess about the cause/motive of the shooter, because whatever guess one makes is likely to be wrong.

QUOTE (TaylorStSox @ Aug 5, 2012 -> 08:10 PM) Easier said than done. The South Side has never been attractive to free agents. When have the Sox really recruited someone hard and wound up missing out for any reason other than $?

Bears free agent signee Devin Thomas to retire.

I said Uh-oh when that was hit. Nicely done Addy!

Loved the fastballs there Addy!

Nice fastball there.

Come on Addy, make it quick

HUNTER FAILED TO CATCH A BALL AGAINST US!

LOL Hawk's ipad is 6 minutes behidn.

Yowza, beautiful hook to ace Pujols.

Gordon got a "Hit and run" jump there.