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Catch him at about :30 in this clip Just after :30 in this clip :57 in here 1:20 in this video :33 here.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Jun 7, 2011 -> 10:04 AM) I am thinking in terms of total season numbers. He is right now well below anything like his career or season averages. The reason I think BS is legitimately skeptical is that there appear to be 2 Alex Rios's...the Normal, borderline All Star Alex Rios who puts up an .800-.850ish OPS, and the "Slump" Alex Rios that showed up in the 2nd half of 2009 and for the full 2011 so far...who belongs in AA. It's seemed like a lightswitch with him so far. Either he's normal Rios or he's this rios.

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QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Jun 7, 2011 -> 09:58 AM) First, inflation in the direct sense already occurred. Second, inflation in commodities is well under way. The rest of the basket will go there too, but not yet - need a little more recovery traction first. The Commodities price spike has already reversed, it never began affecting wages, and it never began hitting core inflation. And even with the price spike, total inflation was still well under the federal reserves inflation target...which might suggest that the Federal Reserve should be taking action to meet their own target.

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QUOTE (iamshack @ Jun 7, 2011 -> 09:52 AM) I don't know...I don't really have an opinion on this or the answers to it...just making an observation. I am not technical genius, but it seems like the solid state drives they are using are too expensive to manufacture above 100 gigs or so, so they are shifting storage online rather than in the devices. Sounds like another case where the hardware is just ahead of the network. I guess that's the way AT&T wants the world to be.

A bit on him from 2009. Birthday: August 12, 1990 Major: Business Administration/Management Full name: Keenyn Tyler Walker

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jun 7, 2011 -> 09:31 AM) BTW, the Lilli-Catch was as good as it gets. He didn't have a chance at that ball, and he came fullspeed out of no where to go full extension and make it. It's not as good as it gets. He could have flipped the ball through his legs to Quentin to throw a runner out.

Junior College stats from last season. Hit .299, 21/23 stealing, 2 HR, 18 walks in 115 PA's, 1 double and 3 triples (wait, wha?), 7 HBP (He'll fit in well with Carlos), .435 OBP, 3 outfield assists, 7 errors.

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QUOTE (That funky motion @ Jun 7, 2011 -> 09:38 AM) Uribe eats blind squirrels. Very useful he'd have been against the squirrel that tried to attack my wife today.

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Here's some high school football video of him. scout.com

CSN Chicago writeup

Sickels Keith Law:

Via this guy.

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Lines that you guys are going to love:

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QUOTE (kapkomet @ Jun 6, 2011 -> 10:36 PM) But weren't these same radio frequencies and waves around in the 70s and now just used differently? Spectums and bandwidths have been there for a while. Think "Intensity". Energy falls off by distance from the source cubed. The idea is that now we suddenly have a whole lot more transmitters increasing the intensity and dotting around everywhere, thus everything gets exposed more. Of course, as I noted previously, that makes other predictions; like anything caused by the proliferation of these devices should be focused heavily around cities, esp. cities like NYC and San francisco.

Merkinball starts us off.

QUOTE (JoeCoolMan24 @ Jun 7, 2011 -> 04:18 AM) Drafting a reliever with the 13th overall pick is a terrible strategy. If you draft a guy 13 and he turns out to be a good reliever, you're content with that. Most guys who are drafted after #10 never give you 1 WAR. But if you're drafting a guy at 13 who can only turn into a reliever, that's the bad strategy. Chris Sale at least still could be starting if the org chose to use him that way.

QUOTE (fathom @ Jun 6, 2011 -> 11:08 PM) The board has been pretty positive regarding our first round picks the last few years QUOTE (fathom @ Jun 6, 2011 -> 10:54 PM) Nice write up by sickels. This makes Mitchell seem like a bust though

QUOTE (iamshack @ Jun 7, 2011 -> 07:11 AM) Did you guys really think the Tigers are that much better than us? I understand they are 5-1 against us...but they don't particularly frighten me with Don Kelly/Adam Dirks/Danny Worth, etc.... If Adam Dunn and Alex Rios continue hitting like this, yes. If They begin resembling Adam Dunn and Alex Rios, then no.