Balta1701

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jul 12, 2011 -> 10:04 AM) Supposed to be a trailer for it hooked to HP7_2 this weekend. QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Jul 12, 2011 -> 08:35 PM) the teaser for The Dark Knight Rises will be released in front of Harry Potter this weekend. the description i read of the the trailer on screenrant.com gave me goosebumps I win!

Very easy to win. Better odds than a slot machine.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jul 12, 2011 -> 07:20 PM) These guys are targeting the military industrial complex, so they are cool. Im pretty sure newscorp targeted them too. A lot.

QUOTE (lostfan @ Jul 12, 2011 -> 07:04 PM) These hackers are starting to bore me. Would it help if they worked for Newscorp?

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jul 12, 2011 -> 06:48 PM) If they throw a way literally a once in a generation chance, they are completely f***ed with the fan base. If their fanbase isn't completely f***ed already then one division title run isn't going to make the difference.

Again, especially with streaming content rapidly becoming dominant, it's not just blockbuster. If a studio wants to sign a deal with Hulu, Amazon, or who knows what else in the near future, they can block Netflix out and essentially kill them if more than a couple do so.

QUOTE (elrockinMT @ Jul 12, 2011 -> 06:29 PM) And shouldn't be IMO. Hopefully we keep him. Pitching wins At this point, I think it's almost abundantly clear that we won't be keeping John Danks past the end of the 2012 season and there's nothing that can be done to change that.

QUOTE (elrockinMT @ Jul 12, 2011 -> 06:27 PM) Puhlease. Jackson is mentioned in the article as possibly the best pitcher available. And quite possibly he is. That should be a bargaining chip. Jackson is not a bad pitcher at all. He is actually pretty good and has a lot of upside. Quentin is a player I would not trade at all unless overwhelmed with a great offer. Here is a guy just selected by his peers for the all-star team and some Sox fans on this site do nothing but bash the guy and/or call for him to be traded. You have me confused A few discussions of trading Quentin and that's all we do is bash him? My word, that's more than a bit excessive.

The tax rate paid by the criminal enterprise known as NewsCorp in the U.S. for the last decade? -46%. Made a cool $4.8 billion.

QUOTE (Soxbadger @ Jul 12, 2011 -> 06:11 PM) So Netflix is drastically raising their prices. This is probably why.

QUOTE (Milkman delivers @ Jul 12, 2011 -> 06:13 PM) Huh?

QUOTE (Milkman delivers @ Jul 12, 2011 -> 06:05 PM) It's both disappointing (from a wider scope for baseball) and highly arousing to me. If Jackson is that well regarded, we could make a killing. Re-read what he said. No one said Jackson is that highly regarded. He said Jackson is the best pitcher currently available on the market. That's bashing the market more than anything else. There's no Cliff Lee this year.

QUOTE (knightni @ Jul 12, 2011 -> 05:37 PM) The leadoff hitter only leads off once normally. Being able to drive the 7-8-9 guys in would be helpful. Almost by definition, the 789 guys aren't going to be on base nearly that often. It'd be nice, but what you really want is guys to be on in front of the 345 hitters.

That's what she said.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Jul 12, 2011 -> 05:14 PM) "Basic negotiation practices", a novel concept for the GOP. I'd say they're succeeding markedly on the basic negotiation front here. Aside from a few angry bloggers, who is actually going to call him on this? If he pretends that Obama has given up those points, not as a negotiation matter but in general, the media won't call him on it, his side can run outside ads saying "Obama agreed to raise the Medicare age to 67 and gut your Social Security" without being called on it, and the Obama Administration will not pull an offer off of the table once its been made.

QUOTE (Swingandalongonetoleft @ Jul 12, 2011 -> 05:16 PM) Haha yeah, I preferred Rock 103.5 actually, but they've been gone since '98 I think. Will Chicago have any modern/alternative rock stations (other than obviously XRT, whatever they count as)?

QUOTE (chw42 @ Jul 12, 2011 -> 05:08 PM) His stuff isn't dominating either. But results are results. From the looks of it, he's got incredibly good control to go along with a good fastball. Legitimate UDFA. LLink

Russian Roulette

QUOTE (Swingandalongonetoleft @ Jul 12, 2011 -> 05:06 PM) Thursday is the last day of Q101. Really though, it kind of died a long time ago. Now I feel old.

QUOTE (chw42 @ Jul 12, 2011 -> 05:04 PM) If his upside is his 10 K/9 and 2 BB/.9 ratios, that's pretty damn good. Beachy is a guy that the Braves seem to suddenly love who just came out of no where.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jul 12, 2011 -> 04:49 PM) Milwaukee did it a couple of years back for Sabathia. Its not a crazy idea. Brewers opening day payroll the year they traded for captain cheeseburger: $81 million. Pittsburgh's opening day payroll this year: $45 million. Even if they now have a little bit extra in the budget...they NEED to go with the long term plan. Deviating from it would be suicidal.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jul 12, 2011 -> 04:36 PM) It depends on who you are. Say you are someone like Pittsburgh who is doing this for the first time since Barry Bonds was clean and skinny, you might be paying more than someone who expects to be here every year. If Pittsburgh's GM paid a price in prospects for John Danks he should be fired on the spot.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jul 12, 2011 -> 04:18 PM) That would be the assumption. You don't dump him for nothing. The idea is to rebuild your system. I don't know if this is going to make sense but I'm going to say it anyway. If I were an opposing GM in a pennant race, I wouldn't give up as much to get John Danks as the White Sox's should be asking for him.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jul 12, 2011 -> 04:02 PM) If continue on our recent trajectory, he should be. I'd listen, but I'd demand a very high price.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jul 12, 2011 -> 03:58 PM) Edwin Jackson is being described as possibly the best starting pitcher on the market. Stop and think about that for a second in terms of what that means Danks would be work on the open market. That also means that Danks is not expected to be on the open market.