Balta1701

QUOTE (greg775 @ Jun 16, 2012 -> 11:14 PM) Humber's gonna get killed. He's one of the worst pitchers in baseball right now. He's done. He's gotta be sent down. He can't be sent down, he'd be released.

QUOTE (fathom @ Jun 16, 2012 -> 11:00 PM) Yeah, if Rios wasn't on fire, I would have been fine with the move. The big issue is it seems so many hitters get distracted when the runner is in motion. If Paul Konerko gets distracted by a runner in motion I think we'd have figured that out.

QUOTE (Quinarvy @ Jun 16, 2012 -> 10:17 PM) You would have to understand my larger point that there people who have grown up here and some of them are the embodiment of the American Dream. And don't act like the conservatives don't use them as pawns. It's a pretty big stretch to say that "getting used as a political pawn" is worse than "being deported to a country you don't know".

Well, that definitely makes that steal attempt look worse.

QUOTE (2nd_city_saint787 @ Jun 16, 2012 -> 05:06 PM) Ok so now that my body is feeling good again (I was a lil dinged up from rugby) I need to start working out again. Since I stopped doing p90x I've gained 15 pounds and it's killing me. p90x started getting stale with me, I use the heaviest resistance bands I found and I still feel I can do much more. I want size, I wanna sculpt my 295 lbs into a 255 brock lesnar type body. I've got a bench, one 45lb dumbell, a tractor tire, and a sledge hammer. What sort of routine should I follow? Make me a routine and I'll follow! Try out for the Bears?

Here's some videos of Rienzo during his debut outing in Birmingham. Not the greatest outing for him, gave up only 1 run, but was very wild. Will add pictures in a later post once things have loaded.

Remenowsky pitching on 6/16/12. Pictures another time.

Nicely done Beckham and Humber.

A guy gets on, and immediately Humber becomes hittable.

QUOTE (ZoomSlowik @ Jun 16, 2012 -> 08:19 PM) Hence the amesty of Boozer part once he's outlived his usefulness. That takes a massive chunk out of the potential luxury tax bill. The problem there of course is that doing so does not make the Bulls better. It can't get them under the cap far enough to offer a real legit Free Agent deal, and losign him makes the team worse.

QUOTE (kapkomet @ Jun 16, 2012 -> 08:17 PM) You would have to understand my larger point that all these people are being used for political pawns. And it's sick. And you're happy to use them as political pawns too.

QUOTE (mataipaepae @ Jun 16, 2012 -> 03:00 PM) That is what a lot of people said about de aza too. So you'd rather have traded De Aza?

QUOTE (kapkomet @ Jun 16, 2012 -> 01:56 PM) So the solution is just accept everyone/everything that wants to come here? There is a legal way to do it. The DEMOCRATIC led House of Representatives voted down your precious bill, Balta. Your own "party" wussied out. Why? Because they knew King Obama would wave his magic EO wand and make it "law" anyway. This is of course either an example of not Googling or deliberately lying.

Manroid asks for, receives release from A's.

QUOTE (Quinarvy @ Jun 16, 2012 -> 01:30 PM) Also, the Kings offer is #5 and Garcia for Deng. I take that and run. Is Garcia anything other than a backup? He's paid like $6 million a year, that's basically dealing for the #5 pick to first order right?

That's my Boy appears to be on the "Little Nicky" level bomb path.

QUOTE (Quinarvy @ Jun 16, 2012 -> 09:25 AM) That is in no way a response to what I said. My friend is more American than half the people who want her deported because she was born in Mexico and spent a whopping six months there. I guess the twenty and half years here don't mean s***. Hell, she's been trying to get naturalized for the past seven years, but the process has been tied up. That's what I call efficiency! Hell, she knows more about American history, the Constitution, etc. than most people who were blessed to be born in the country they've lived almost their entire lives in. You're not listening to Kap's important point. If your friend knows the laws this well, then she should know she doesn't belong here. Of course, she doesn't belong in Mexico either. So she needs to help establish a colony in international waters for the other half million or so people like her, and wait until Congress passes the DREAM Act. It's the only patriotic thing she can do.

QUOTE (kapkomet @ Jun 16, 2012 -> 09:18 AM) CONGRESS shall pass the laws, not the president. He had this in his back pocket for 2 years and they all knew he would EO this. That's why the Democrats in Congress all grew massive hoo hoos on the vote and looked the other way. The vote in the Senate was 56-43 in favor in 2010.

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Jun 16, 2012 -> 09:59 AM) At Safeco: 3.19 ERA, 4 HR allowed Away from Safeco: 4.53 ERA, 11 HR allowed Sounds a lot like Fister.

QUOTE (ZoomSlowik @ Jun 16, 2012 -> 12:26 AM) I'll just leave it at this since it's been a back and forth for way too long in this thread... The Bulls were on the short list of teams for the title before Rose got hurt. As long as he's his old self, that's not really going to change. They can keep as many parts of this team as they want with the only real issue being what JR's tolerance level is for the luxury tax. They have a star level PG, a very good frontcourt, a solid albiet not stellar SF, and one of the more productive benches in the league. Most importantly, they play championship level defense. If they break this up, it better be for an elite player that allows them to make a good 5-year run, not for an aging star that was the third best player this year on another contender that fell short. Their core is mostly pretty young and has a lot of basketball left in them. Any picks they get might help, but counting on them to start is highly risky if it costs you someone like Deng or Noah. Those guys aren't stars, but they're not super-easy to replace either. There's a distinct possibility that they'll get worse instead of better. The obvious problem is that Rose is probably not going to be his old self next year, 2 seasons from now when Rose might be re-approaching his best form, Boozer might well be significantly worse, Deng I dunno...and the Bulls entire bench will be emptying. Hamilton, CJ, Korver, Brewer, and Taj all will hit FA (and that's after Asik hitting FA this year). The Bulls won't be able to rebuild that using the MLE, even if JR pays the luxury tax, unless Butler steps up huge, because he's about the only real "Kid" left on the roster who might get significantly better. If you tried to keep this team together until Rose recovered, you're $10 million+ into luxury tax territory from resigning people and you've got a lot of parts that have gotten older and less effective.

QUOTE (chw42 @ Jun 15, 2012 -> 11:19 PM) De Aza really struggles against a few pitchers. When he struggles, he's god awful. I won't complain too much about anyone who struggles against Kershaw.

Yeesh dodgers just take the out were giving you

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Jun 15, 2012 -> 10:59 PM) 11-4 Rockies. CarGo, J4L's boy goes yard. .382 at Coors, in the .240's at home. I think that's 12 Coors Field homers and 5 away now. He got traded again?

This is of course exactly what everyone expected when they saw this pitching matchup right?

It'll actually be interesting to see how Sale can gut through an outing without his best control.