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QUOTE (flavum @ Apr 21, 2012 -> 01:30 PM) I was wrong for picking the Angels over the Rangers. That offense can't be stopped. It also brings home how well the Sox pitched there. I'm glad we got it out of the way. QUOTE (The Ginger Kid @ Apr 21, 2012 -> 01:35 PM) Angels quickly falling behind in that division. Can't afford to dig too big of a hole. Seriously, don't count the Halos out yet. That team easily is going to go on a roll, and the Rangers have a habit of getting off to a great start and then slowing down when Cruz/Hamilton start getting hurt.

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Apr 21, 2012 -> 01:21 PM) When are you going to publish your findings and get all of these pitching coaches fired? Nobody knows what they are doing in the MLB It's not like I"m the only one pointing this out. Another

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Apr 21, 2012 -> 12:47 PM) Then it is obviously untrue and pitching counts don't matter. I'm not sure they do. They do if a guy isn't conditioned for something, where a guy used to throwing 100 throws 130, but if holding everyone in the 100-110 range was really key to keeping guys healthy then there ought to be some decrease in the injury rate for these guys as these pitch counts have become more strictly enforced, and that's absolutely not been the case.

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Apr 21, 2012 -> 12:37 PM) Iirc he started slow in 08 and was back to his normal self after the ASB. I do believe that he is a freak of nature in the mold of Nolan Ryan, but Leyland really should stop playing with fire. I can't imagine that Verlander throwing 100mph on an arm that just went 130 pitches is good. As soon as someone can conclusively prove that guys get hurt more often when they're throwing 130 pitches a game than when they're throwing 100 pitches a game, I'll be happy to agree, but I sure haven't seen it.

QUOTE (justBLAZE @ Apr 20, 2012 -> 11:22 PM) This, keep on limiting his role as a starter, allowing Flowers to be the catcher until Josh Phegley is ready. AJ Pierzynski is not going to want to spend more time on the bench unless he's on the disabled list. We ought to know that by now.

QUOTE (chw42 @ Apr 21, 2012 -> 12:57 AM) Leyland already kind of ruined Verlander once. Remember when he had velocity issues in 2008? Yeah... Actually, no we don't. 94.1 mph in 2007, 93.7 in 2008.

QUOTE (Stan Bahnsen @ Apr 21, 2012 -> 11:32 AM) 99% of us out-of-towners are stuck with Yank me's / BlowSox, and it's not raining in beantown. Damn. Joy, it's "Angry email to Fox and MLB" day #1 of the year!

QUOTE (bucket-of-suck @ Apr 21, 2012 -> 02:21 AM) In an interview at Soxfest this year he said the booing "didn't help". We gave 2 standing ovations to Dunn on July 4 last year at the Cell.

This may be the most incomplete story Hawk has ever told.

Good long AB here.

Decent swing form by Brent but his timing isn't there.

Man I never liked late starts.

This does not raise confidence in the state's case.

Commish met with Minnesota lawmakers today and raised the "topic" of Los Angeles not having a team.

QUOTE (Soxbadger @ Apr 20, 2012 -> 03:31 PM) Bulls offense without Rose is different. If Korver/Hamilton can shoot well, the Bulls can score. The difference is the Bulls just cant get lazy on offense and then hope for an iso from Rose to bail them out. They just need good good off the ball movement. Up against playoff level intensity defense though, that ball movement can easily be lost because the defense is pressing you harder and playing more physical.

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Apr 20, 2012 -> 02:48 PM) LOL, based on what? Check out their record without Rose, they are STILL better than almost every other team in the league, especially Boston. Without Rose, I really worry this team is something of a paper tiger in the playoffs, no matter what their regular season marks. The lack of a regular way to generate offense without him and the weakness in the backcourt it creates might be things you can exploit more in a 7 game series than in a single regular season game.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Apr 20, 2012 -> 02:15 PM) Pot jokes on 4/20

New MLB CBA sounds like it will ban performance based incentives in contracts.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Apr 20, 2012 -> 12:20 PM) Kerry Wood to the DL... Is it April already Also concerned Dempster could miss his next start.

QUOTE (Soxbadger @ Apr 20, 2012 -> 12:35 PM) I definitely think people have been trying to make it out that Zimmerman really shouldnt have been fearful and that he had no reason to use deadly force. And I think I was trying to say in my earlier post that this is one issue that the affidavit completely glosses over. It doesn't go into those specific details of the altercation in order to confront that point. Yeah, like you said they don't have to show all their cards, but I sitll find that intriguing.

A very interesting graphical look at how moves in a number of markets have become much more highly correlated since the 2008 collapse, and how it makes true diversification of a portfolio much more difficult because everything is moving the same way.

Somehow, this had to be the case.

QUOTE (Soxbadger @ Apr 20, 2012 -> 12:10 PM) You have to remember the charging papers are just the minimum necessary to get in the door. They arent going to bring up any facts that may hurt their case. And their interpretation of the law has to be that Zimmerman was not acting in self-defense, otherwise they couldnt bring the charges. Wounds to the back of Zimmerman's head definitely suggest that at some point Martin was on top of him. Presumably though, the SP and investigators have these photos and others, right? Consequently, at some level, even if they don't spell out the negatives in their affidavit, they have to know that this defense is coming and that these sort of photos will serve as evidence for the defense. So that takes me back to what I said when charged...if the SP has these photos and knows she can't prove her case, and brought the case anyway, that'd be incredibly irresponsible. Otherwise, they have to have some way around it, and between whatever the autopsy showed and the phone call records, they must think they can establish that Zimmerman remained the aggressor throughout the attack.

QUOTE (Soxbadger @ Apr 20, 2012 -> 11:45 AM) I really dont think Rondo is going to do drastically more without Rose, its not like Rose is known for his defense. I forgot about the more recent game, but when Rose was misisng against them for a game in Feb., he went off and torched the Bulls for a triple double with 30 points. Rose doesn't just have to defend him, but he also makes Rondo have to work on the other side of the court.

QUOTE (Soxbadger @ Apr 20, 2012 -> 11:49 AM) We may never truly know who was the aggressor that night. But the picture is evidence and gives off a different impression than the video from the police station, so it should also get the same discussion. I find it interesting that the affidavit filed in the case basically makes no effort to state either way what happened in the physical confrontation prior to the shooting, when that seems to me to be of vital importance to a self-defense claim. The filed document states that Zimmerman chased and confronted Martin, says that a physical confrontation began at that point, and that screams were heard and recorded by 911 operators that the state claims came from Martin. The state so far has seemingly made no claim about what actions happened during that confrontation other than the statement about the scream. Presumably they must have had access to crime scene medical reports such as this. Not sure what to make of it other than to note that the state's filing doesn't make it sound like they think what happened during the confrontation is a serious matter.