Balta1701

Viciedo walks.

QUOTE (Jose Paniagua @ May 25, 2012 -> 09:52 PM) I think over time, our best hope is that he just take a few more walks per month. To require a total overhaul of him is probably asking a lot. If he slugs, he's worth it. If he doesn't, he's not. He will take some more walks eventually. He grew into that in the minors, it'll take time here. Plus, it will help when pitchers start becoming really scared of him.

QUOTE (greg775 @ May 25, 2012 -> 09:48 PM) Now it's up to Zach. Not a horrible outing at all by Quintana. Who is Quintana? How did we get him? Thanx. Kenny Williams and Don Cooper might have found another talented steal.

Holy crap. Great game kid, hit the showers.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ May 25, 2012 -> 09:27 PM) coal lobby was running craigslist ads to get people to wear pro-coal shirts for $50 http://www.republicreport.org/2012/pay-people-shirts/ Why didnt I know about this!?

Solid inning kid

QUOTE (Chisoxfn @ May 25, 2012 -> 08:57 PM) The Pacers are better then Boston. Maybe, but they are absolutely not smarter

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ May 25, 2012 -> 08:59 PM) Is there a market for catching now? Which contending team desperately needs one? When's the last time a starting catcher with AJ's numbers on a team that was only 3 1/2 (possibly 2 1/2 after tonight) was traded in late May? With his contract and the fact that he will cool off again soon...what are you really expecting to get? And what kind of message is that going to send to the fans, to trade Peavy or AJ in May or June when we're still very much in it? AJ is also a 10/5 player.

That was great work by Viciedo to get on top of that high and inside pitch. That's been his weak spot before too.

QUOTE (Jake @ May 25, 2012 -> 08:23 PM) Hawk....is that leadoff walk dreaded? Yes.

I think that went off the end of te bat too.

Alejandro tried to hit that pitch 600 feet

QUOTE (Jake @ May 25, 2012 -> 08:19 PM) Yep, very good pitching there. Didn't go finesse, didn't walk anybody. Hopefully he can fid a groove now, his fastball picked up velocity as the inning went on.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ May 25, 2012 -> 05:19 PM) Bingo. Up until that point, the Sox had spent decades outdrawing the Cubs regularly. Then two things happened. One of them was the business-stupid decision you mention here, and that is on Reinsdorf et al. They gave away local fans and regional fans. The other was the transformation of the neighborhoods - Wrigleyville ascending to be a hot spot, and the areas around Comiskey going further downhill. Except nowadays, revenues from cable networks are absolutely exploding, and that seems like the place you actually want to be. 3 years ago I'd have agreed, now I'm no longer so sure.

QUOTE (Jake @ May 25, 2012 -> 05:31 PM) These are the people that you need to buy tickets Then what you do to get them to buy tickets is...win baseball games.

QUOTE (Soxbadger @ May 25, 2012 -> 04:24 PM) They may be worth more to the campaign as a drug dealer is likely not going to directly contribute, but the overall value to society is lost. Most estimates are US consumers spend about 60-100 bil per year on drugs. Think about all the income tax not being paid, all the sales tax not being collected. Doesnt make much sense. Congress cares very little about the overall value to society.

QUOTE (greg775 @ May 25, 2012 -> 03:25 PM) Look at the attendance figures. How can it be a great business decision? You own a business and you let one of your most popular dividends leave. One of the fans' two favorite players. You replace that ultra popular person with ... nobody. What remains are a lot of unlikeable characters to go with some likeable ones (Paulie, Lexi for starters). Letting Mark go IMO was the dumbest business decision of all time. The Sox deserve lousy attendance after that IMO. That attendance drop has been going on for a number of years now though. The revenue was already departing because of the fact that the team was losing while having Buehrle and Ozzie. That revenue drop would have been the same this year if they'd kept Mark. They just would have had to sell off Konerko to do it.

QUOTE (greg775 @ May 25, 2012 -> 03:30 PM) But how many of the Buehrle jersey people just threw up their hands last winter and said, "It's time. This team blows and now that they've gotten rid of Mark it's easy for me to move on. We'll watch the games on TV this year and save all that money." Nobody. A M-56 jersey is always welcome at the Cell. It will eventually be worn on a statue.

QUOTE (Soxbadger @ May 25, 2012 -> 04:05 PM) Well the hope would be with another 4 years hell get his act together. Its hard to believe that the govt doesnt want a piece of that drug money. So much tax revenue lost. They get a piece of the money. They just get it as campaign contributions from the prison industry/prison unions. And thanks to how we've set up our campaign funding system, those are worth 1000x as much to the "government" as tax revenues.

QUOTE (Marty34 @ May 25, 2012 -> 02:33 PM) Where's he going to play next year when the Sox sign Hamilton per your plan? He'll pitch.

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ May 25, 2012 -> 01:37 PM) Alejandro De Aza OBP vs lefties this year - .302 Brent Lillibridge OBP vs lefties this year - .143 (And De Aza's has been shooting up the last couple weeks, after it became clear that he couldn't hit left handers because stuff).

QUOTE (Tex @ May 25, 2012 -> 11:26 AM) Really, no one here believes strongly that the team should not have signed MB because they need to turn a profit this season to be contenders? Then I apologize. I thought that was exactly what some people were saying. If the team is going to avoid losing money and be in contention, then it should not sign players to bad contracts they are unlikely to live up to. Having players signed to bad contracts is why we're rebuilding this year.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ May 25, 2012 -> 09:42 AM) My nephew is 10 and he loves to sit back, relax and strap it down. I think Hawk appeals to a lot more people than a lot of this board realizes. As long as whatever he does, he doesn't strap it on.

Ah, here we go, thank you Google for helping me find this.

QUOTE (Y2HH @ May 25, 2012 -> 10:24 AM) P/E's can be higher for short periods of time, but they usually and quickly normalize, as shown in that chart, but even so...in comparison to those companies listed, it would take LinkedIn and Facebook, combined, about 5 years to make what Apple makes in a single quarter (and I'm talking profit, not revenue). Even with that said, the P/E ratios in that chart, even at their HIGH's were half of Facebooks current, and about 1/6th what LinkedIn is currently at. As I said, these new .com's are vastly overvalued. I couldn't find a graph with Google going back to it's IPO in 2004, but it's PE ratio was up over 60 at the least at that time (with substantial revenue growth that year, so it would probably have been higher a week after the IPO0.