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QUOTE (iamshack @ May 17, 2012 -> 10:25 AM) The numbers just don't work without the tax credits...I interviewed with a major wind company last year and their director of development admitted that they don't know if they could be profitable without the credits... Hopefully the price of natural gas will increase in the next year or so. One interesting thing to come out of this cheap gas atmosphere is that it has probably sped up the demise of coal a bit. A small increase in the price of gas is possible depending on weather, but a significant, long term increase is unlikely. That would require the current drilling boom to slow down, and they're racing to drill/frack as much territory as possible now because they can get it done now before the regulations catch up to the technique/pollution levels, and let the well sit there capped off until the price goes up slightly.

QUOTE (Lillian @ May 17, 2012 -> 10:19 AM) Those of you who think that Morel should play, for the sake of his development might consider the fact that failing badly for an extended period of time may not necessarily be good for a youngster's development. Moreover, if this team is going to place its highest priority on developing players at the Major League level, then why are they holding onto the veterans that could be moved? I suspect that many of the previously unmovable pieces could now be dealt. With the pitching depth on this squad, they could still contend this year, with a more productive offense. I think that they need to decide in which direction the organization is going, and then follow through with their plan. If they intend to keep Peavy, Floyd, Konerko, Dunn, and other other productive veterans, then they need to fix the offense. If not, clean house, acquire more prospects, and forget about competing this year. If they judge it's the case that having a kid struggle at the big league level playing through a back injury is the right move, then that's their call...they're the ones who have to deal with replacing him if he fails. If they think they can't fix him at the big league level, then either he ought to be on the DL or playing every day at Charlotte.

Blasted regulatory uncertainty costing good manufacturing jobs.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ May 17, 2012 -> 09:52 AM) They have to. Or else you get something like what happened in Vancouver post cup. But then you also wind up with things like Oakland.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ May 17, 2012 -> 09:49 AM) I was never to any real protest pre-Seattle. They all have the perspective. I love how hung up on the one report of the one instance you are. If it didn't agree with you, you wouldn't be talking about it, which is why you keep trying to switch the subject back to it, instead of the likelihood that groups are/were planning violent protests, especially in this case. Somewhere 6 months ago I posted a detailed look at how post-Seattle, the police preparations for any sort of protest have become much more aggressive and militaristic as well, how they literally are going in expecting to have a fight as part of their standard operating procedure.

JESUS CHRIST PUT VICIEDO IN A POSITION AND STOP MOVING HIM. ARRRRRGFHHHGHGHGHGHGH.

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ May 16, 2012 -> 05:58 PM) Part of it is to hide their identity too, so they can't come after them later (See, Vancouver riots). That they know they're about to do something to warrant getting pepper sprayed also pisses me off. If UC Davis has taught us anything, "being outdoors" warrants getting pepper sprayed these days. Let alone actually attending a protest.

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QUOTE (Harry Chappas @ May 16, 2012 -> 04:20 PM) He and Tori Hunter will homer twice and drive in at least 5 runs combined over the next two days. Hopefully the Sox can keep the Halos down. Hunter is unlikely to play tonight.

Robert Downey Jr. May clear $50 million on that film.

QUOTE (fathom @ May 16, 2012 -> 02:43 PM) Is there a place to view late inning pressure situation (LIPS) stats for hitters? I was thinking earlier today that outside of one AB vs the Cubs a few years ago, Beckham has seemingly sucked big time at the end of games. Go to B-R, go to splits for the season or career, scroll down to the situational splits, and you want "Close and Late".

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ May 16, 2012 -> 02:36 PM) Yeah, I'm sure he'll be sitting for a while, and should be. But enough of this "old school" umps with huge ego crap who don't want players to 'show them up' by assuming a pitch a foot off the plate is a ball and then making a vindictive call against them on the next pitch. Remember...if MLB disciplines an ump, it's not something we hear about publicly.

QUOTE (ScottyDo @ May 16, 2012 -> 12:07 PM) His numbers are terrible, though. How much more expensive could he get? Perhaps I'm showing my arbitration ignorance. If he keeps hitting this craptackularly, he'd be on pace for something like $2.5 million. Maybe, maybe you can stomach that, but then that would go up to $4-$5 million in his 2nd arbitration year.

QUOTE (Marty34 @ May 16, 2012 -> 12:14 PM) I figured this was self-explanatory. 1. I don't believe Dunn is a 3 hitter because of his radical splits. 7-9th innings, sometimes 6th he can be nutralized by a lefty matchup. 2. Humber and Danks can't be counted on to fill heir respective roles in the rotation and of course Sale with the creeky elbow. Adds up to mediocre SP.. 1. The beauty of that though, is that if you can bracket Dunn with 2 righties who are hitting (Konerko counts, Beckham doesn't) and you have De Aza leading off, then you're going to either get your #2 hitter facing a lefty, your #4 hitter facing a lefty, or you're going to destroy a team's entire bullpen in one inning. The only reason this isn't working right now is that all 3 of our options for the #2 slot have been terrible. 2. So, if the White Sox came inot this season with so many question marks in their rotation, you'd therefore agree that this year must be considered a rebuilding year? After all, you've got a journeyman #5 starter who you said can't be counted on and a rookie #4 with a tired elbow since he was in the bullpen last year.

QUOTE (wallyburger @ May 16, 2012 -> 01:28 PM) Another 6 inning 100+ pitch outing. I don't know if that counts as "6 innings".

QUOTE (fathom @ May 16, 2012 -> 10:38 AM) I tried to find it on baseball-reference, but I was unsuccessful. Anyone know what Ohman's velocity was in 2008 as opposed to now? You have to use fangraphs for that. 2007 89.4 2008 89.7 2009 90.9 2010 90.3 2011 90.1 2012 88.5 He's a little lower than last year but there's a sample size thing happening too. He's not outside the range of what he threw in previous stints.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ May 16, 2012 -> 10:27 AM) Stewart had just pitched 3 innings the day prior. He wasn't an option. Will Ohman facing a RH hitter ought to be in the same category as "using a pitcher who threw 3 innings the day before". You do that if you're desperate and ready to lose a game because of it.

QUOTE (fathom @ May 16, 2012 -> 10:26 AM) Correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't Leyland have Delmon bat for Kelly? Missed that...but if that happened, fine, then he failed to get out the first righty, which makes it even more curious that he was the first option out of the pen.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ May 16, 2012 -> 10:19 AM) Ohman has faced more RH hitters than LH hitters during his career. The one problem with LOOGYS is when they are in with the game on the line, they are either going to face a real good LH hitter or the opposing manager will pinch hit so he's going to have to get out a RH hitter. If there was a line up stacked with LH hitters and Ohman came in when the game was pretty much out of reach, he'd look like an All Star. Usually though, Miguel Cabrera isn't sitting on the bench. If he is, then that's a case where you are very cautious about where you use Ohman (i.e. only to start an inning, rather than with runners on base). Or, you put him in to a place where he has room to walk the righty to face a lefty. Yesterday, he failed to get the lefty out. This does happen. He then gave up a big hit to Austin Jackson. If he'd gotten the lefty out, we'd have been fine, but those things do happen, they don't have a 0.000 OBP against him. The problem was that we didn't attempt someone like Crain against Austin Jackson, even if he'd just gotten off a plane. A tired Jones or Stewart, for 1 batter, against Jackson, would have been more relaible than Ohman.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ May 16, 2012 -> 09:40 AM) Game situations force that, not the other way around. If that's the case, then we shouldn't get threads saying that we should DFA the guy who failed to do a job he's not supposed to do.

QUOTE (Tex @ May 16, 2012 -> 09:46 AM) Not during but for years afterwards. Lots of free publicity going out worldwide. There will be plenty of location shots that highlight the city.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ May 16, 2012 -> 09:34 AM) The big problem was that the team had already gotten 6 innings out of the pen the day prior, and was going to need at least 3 and 2/3 yesterday. It is much more difficult to play the match ups game when you had a bullpen game the day prior, and needed a high amount of innings out of them on a getaway day to California for a two game road trip. Every once in a while, guys need to step out of their comfort zone. And if we try to force guys out of doing something they're clearly good at and paid to do, into doing something they're clearly bad at and always have been, it's going to cost the team some games and that's that.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ May 16, 2012 -> 09:30 AM) You are only allowed to amnesty players you signed to a contract, pre-CBA. So trading Boozer's big deal for Gordon + Villaneueva would lock the Bulls into both of those deals and basically remove the Bulls from any chance of an amnesty? Of course, they both are player options for 2013-2014, but that seems like a really odd technique if the Bulls wind up being unable to compete this year. I wouldn't expect to pick up either of those options.

Link. Makes me even more astonished that the prosecution felt they had enough to bring charges.

Different subject. Last night's scoring: James: 28 Wade: 24 Everyone else: 23.