Balta1701

QUOTE (staxx @ Mar 3, 2012 -> 12:37 PM) lol good luck mitchell vs sale Cant imagine Sale going 9 batters/2+ innings.

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QUOTE (kapkomet @ Mar 3, 2012 -> 11:17 AM) Yes, yes, let's create the image that all "Republicans" are classless "misoginists" (sic). Politely, f*** off. Wait, so why did you misspell it?

QUOTE (Jordan4life @ Mar 3, 2012 -> 11:01 AM) Yes, I know they lost that game 7 in '08. But LeBron did everything he could. They had no business being in a game 7 against that great Boston team. Really? Cleveland had more regular season wins than Boston and genuinely looked like they ought to be a better team than Boston until Lebron quit.

QUOTE (SoxAce @ Mar 3, 2012 -> 10:37 AM) No... well.. not to true peeps who have been getting on him about that for a long time now. Hell he's done that before (when it seemed like Mo Williams was the only one bailing him out for actually taking/making the shot and now DWade) but it's something he'll continue to have over him. He has the will/drive in final stretches, but not the killer instinct. QUOTE (Jordan4life @ Mar 3, 2012 -> 10:48 AM) Repeatedly as in the finals. He was never criticized before that. Hell, he chewed up Boston and Chicago last year in clutch situations. It wasn't just last year in the finals. That was just sorta a nice crescendo after the "Decision". People have said things like that for years. Last year in the finals wasn't his first disappearance (Remember the Celtics pre-decision?) and there's another guy right there talking about Lebron being bailed out by the dominant talent that was Mo Williams.

QUOTE (Jordan4life @ Mar 3, 2012 -> 10:33 AM) But we're talking about LeBron James. After last year's finals, he doesn't get the benefit of the doubt in situations like that. Had that happened with anybody besides LeBron, there would've been nothing said about it. You're right, he doesn't get the benefit of the doubt. When he's the clear best player in the league, his team isn't supposed to lose at the end of the game after he gets the ball in his hands. When that happens...repeatedly...it's going to fall on him.

QUOTE (ewokpelts @ Mar 3, 2012 -> 10:26 AM) I think this format will work. 2012 will be VERY interesting. especially come september. selig wanted it this year becuase the tv deals expire in 2013. And if you can offer a potential tv partner a sudden death playoff game(the wild card round), they'll get excited. espn has been salty for awhile that they are all but excluded from the postseason, and nbc is itching to get back in. And with comcast owning nbc(and partners with a few teams on RSNs), they may want a bigger slice of the pie. i also wouldnt be suprised if MLBnetwork takes the wild card games, seeing as they have high visibilty already on cable. dont forget that the newer LOCAL deals are extremely lucrative. if a team like texas, or both la teams is in the hunt longer, more value to thier RSNs(both the rangers and angels were awarded a stake in thier fox sportsnets on top of the BILLION they will recieve as part of their deals). and that can help drive up ALL local tv contracts. the white sox (and cubs)currently get 45 million a year, and the tigers are at 40 million. seeing as the rangers and angels are now getting 150 million PER YEAR, it's not inconcieveable that more traditional baseball markets can cash in too. but the rsns will want more meaningful games. more teams fighting for the playoffs will help that. This is a very smart post. Thank you I learned a ton.

QUOTE (Jordan4life @ Mar 3, 2012 -> 10:24 AM) But he wasn't criticized for making a bad pass. It could've been a perfect pass. He was criticized for not taking the last shot. It would have been a lot more muted if he'd passed to an open guy for the GW bucket. Instead he threw it to 4 west defenders. He had an open but difficult shot, with no one else on his team in position to shoot, and he defaulted to passing anyway. I'm one who always says that the isolation game at the end of a game is the worst play you can draw up, and that teams should run their offense. But if a guy has an open shot and the rest of the offense has broken down or been put out of position, you take that shot and then criticize the coach later for the fact that the offense broke down.

QUOTE (Jordan4life @ Mar 3, 2012 -> 09:04 AM) Yup. The all-star game criticism was lame. Those passes were warranted, as he would've been forced into ridiculously low percentage shots. Last night was unacceptable. Except for the fact that he threw a horrible pass. A ridiculously low percentage shot is better than throwing the ball away.

Well, according to press reports, yesterday will go down as the biggest outbreak of tornadoes ever recorded in the month of March. Which means, in a period of 11 months, any of us in the South/south central US have gone through the biggest single day of tornadoes ever in March, and the biggest single day of tornadoes ever recorded in April...and one of those was the single biggest ever. Lousy Smarch weather.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Mar 2, 2012 -> 05:34 PM) Tornado warning count for the day: 3. I'm may retreat and take shelter in the big buildings on campus from this one.

QUOTE (Y2HH @ Mar 2, 2012 -> 07:50 PM) Beck doesn't surprise me, the guy was the quintessential flash in the pan when he got really popular. Maher surprises me as he's been a long running television personality, but then again, I'm sure Maher got quick and easy replacements for any lost ads, just as I'm sure Rush will. The guy has too strong/rabid of a following for some advertisers to ignore. As for BS, the thought of you advertising on Rush Limbaugh's show...is...well...just...no. You would cause a chain reaction in the space time continuum that would undoubtedly destroy our universe, inadvertently causing Jet Li's power to grow on all other universes. Didn't Maher basically not only lose advertisers but quite quickly lost his show? (and wound up on HBO where he didn't have to worry about that).

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Mar 2, 2012 -> 06:49 PM) You are right actually, it is 25%. It goes from right about 80 to start this year to over 100 now. And even indexed it doesn't make any sense. Indexing shouldn't turn a 1% loss into a 25% gain. The last time either of those graphs is close to 80 is 2001. Are you looking at te line for oil?

Tornado warning count for the day: 2

QUOTE (zenryan @ Mar 2, 2012 -> 05:27 PM) This diminishes the regular season. What it really diminishes is the wild card.

QUOTE (Soxbadger @ Mar 2, 2012 -> 04:58 PM) Which is why the best statement would have been about how the testing policy is great, 25 times Ive passed, 1 time there was an issue and because the policy is so good, the arbitrator clearly saw that there was an error and found the test unreliable. Now what can MLB say, they vehemently disagree that they have good testing procedures? For once you're right. I'd still think he was probably a juicer, but that is exactly what he should have done, and I wouldn't be able to make such an easy case without the extra details he prompted.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Mar 2, 2012 -> 04:57 PM) To visually show correlation. Plotting dollar against oil price should show divergence, not convergence, if dollar value drives oil price. Inversing dollar gives a more visually intuitive correlation while having the numerator at 10000 keeps 1997=100. But one obvious effect is flattening of the line. Your eye can usually make out anti-correlation just as easily as correlation, and scaling the number reduces the impact it has on your eye so that the movements are less impressive.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Mar 2, 2012 -> 04:53 PM) It's 10000/TWEXB. I don't see any obvious reason why you'd want to do either of those operations to the data.

Here's the TWEXB graph straight up.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Mar 2, 2012 -> 04:45 PM) Whatever it is doing, it isn't right. That is not a performance chart for the us dollar index. It is no where close to accurate. You are definitely right on this though.

Where does it show a 20% increase/decrease in the dollar? I mean, I could believe you if you were saying it was down 5% and the real number was 1%, but there's no 20% anywhere in there.

QUOTE (G&T @ Mar 2, 2012 -> 04:25 PM) I don't understand. Do you think it was smart for him to come out and attack the collector? Was it not foreseeable that he we defend himself and make matters worse for Braun? No, it was idiotic. He should have just read a brief statement from his lawyers saying he was happy the arbitrator had vindicated him and then walked away. The more details you give, the more those details can be fact-checked.

QUOTE (Soxbadger @ Mar 2, 2012 -> 04:19 PM) A mistake by MLB in their testing because I never took steroids, so I have no idea how the test came up positive. Im willing to take as many other tests as necessary to prove my innocence. Frankly, no one would beleive that, nor should they. Thats' why 2 independent samples are taken.

QUOTE (Soxbadger @ Mar 2, 2012 -> 04:05 PM) I disagree. I think that most people are willing to believe that there is a chance a mistake occurred in a drug test, especially given the fact Braun has passed every other one. That is what I would have stuck to, over all the tests, a mistake can happen 1 time. A mistake in the sense of "I put a needle in my ass and I regret it"? or a mistake in the sense of "testosterone appeared in my urine magically"?

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Mar 2, 2012 -> 03:52 PM) Yeah, but they'll also have great coastal property sometime soon, too! (You realize you just said that to the geologist and I'm having to bite my tongue to avoid a rant...right?)