Balta1701

Balta's too old to be their primary market any more.

Zero dollars will be spent seeing those. Although I will probably catch them on tV.

Why would you do an IPO if you didn't expect to lose money? Isn't that the point, to raise money from investors to finance expansion?

The Refs are going to do what they're going to do. If the Bulls want to make it not matter, they need to cut out the stupid fouls. Joakim has been the worst offender on my list with those.

QUOTE (oldsox @ May 23, 2011 -> 11:38 AM) SoxTalk favorite Dan Hudson had another strong game Sunday. 8 Innings, 2 ER, 0 BB, 8 K's; now 5-5. Against the Twins.

QUOTE (Leonard Zelig @ May 23, 2011 -> 11:50 AM) Yeah, but interleague has only been around since late 90's, so those first 20 years didn't help him. Interleague did exist for about 5-6 years before Mark Buehrle became a starting pitcher in the big leagues though.

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ May 23, 2011 -> 09:41 AM) I wish I shared this belief and enthusiasm. Same here. If they don't figure out Miami in game 4, they have to win 3 straight against Miami. That's hard to do against any team.

Very close to getting a team with more history they were.

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QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ May 23, 2011 -> 09:14 AM) I see Jackson as a guy that is probably giving Cooper fits at night. One day he is absolutely unhittable, the next he can't find the strike zone with google maps. I have no problem believing the Sox would deal him to get some pieces for this run, or even prospects to fill up the system. ARGH

AL and NL went 21 and 21 over the weekend.

Tampa Bay agrees that franchise names never change. The City of Tampa however...

Chase Utley will return on Monday.

QUOTE (SpainSOXfan09 @ May 23, 2011 -> 12:01 AM) If they dangle CQ and DV continues to rake and get better defensively then it is a no brainer to bring him. Anyone know where on MILB we can get defensive stats? Just curious to see how DV has done defensively in the outfield? Nobody publishes minor league defensive stats aside from the easily calculated ones. The advanced stats are available in the bigs because there isn't the caliber of video available necessary to figure out what type of range a player covers.

QUOTE (SpainSOXfan09 @ May 23, 2011 -> 12:49 AM) Rowand, was it you or one of the other mods who said that DV has excellent bat speed? Bat speed? I didn't see him holding a bat when he was in the big leagues, I just saw his arms and some sort of odd brownish blur.

Really?

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ May 23, 2011 -> 08:07 AM) Honestly, given the reactions of the kids, it seems to me that being a jerk may be necessary. 8th graders probably need the occasional verbal head-smack back to reality. I have no problem with it. I don't think I have a problem with it and I see why its done, but without the context I had to ask. He could have just been a real jerk

QUOTE (ptatc @ May 22, 2011 -> 11:10 PM) I'm not sure where you got this information but HGH has a huge effect. The athletes just need to take more of it and it costs more. The dosage given out to the appropriate patient's doesn't have drastic effects just enough to stimulate normal growth. However, in the amount athletes take, it makes drastic changes. Look at the NFL. Most of the players are on it. The medical staff will tell you, they estimate 75-80% of players are on it. This is the current PED of choice because the only somewhat reliable test is through a blood test. No union, MLB or NFL has given in to allow blood test, for some valid reasons. I'm sure there are some designer anabolics out there but nobody has found them yet. And as I always say when this topic comes up...the fact that its illegal means you'll never get a double-blind clinical study of the actual effects of the abuse. It might be that 40% of the people who use it heavily explode like Bonds, 20% see improved visual acuity and some muscle gain but not immense, 20% have ligaments that tear themselves apart, and 20% wind up dead, and you wouldn't know.

QUOTE (buhbuhburrrrlz @ May 23, 2011 -> 12:44 AM) I wish I was confident. Bulls look completely lost on offense. They have looked lost for the last game and a half. It's funny Steve Kerr said in Game 2 Miami just doesn't have an answer and looked like this series was gonna be all Bulls, funny how things changed and now it's the Bulls who don't have an answer. I'm hopeful, but not at all confident. Right now, the Bulls have proven to everyone that they deserve to be looked at as underdogs.

QUOTE (lostfan @ May 23, 2011 -> 12:57 AM) That also goes to show you how each game in the playoffs is its own game. Except for how Game 3 looked like a repeat of game 2?

QUOTE (Brian @ May 23, 2011 -> 07:53 AM) The Heat are defending the ball screens for Rose really well. Probably can stop it and bringing the extra defender to the ball. Read that Tim Donaghy predicted before the series that the refs wouldn't let Noah become involved too much. Noah hasn't been slowed because of foul trouble and bad calls, he's been slowed because he's out of position and he's committed stupid, stupid fouls. He bailed out DWade with a foul in game 2 with about 6:00 on the clock and :02 on the shot clock right at the time the Heat started pulling away.

QUOTE (buhbuhburrrrlz @ May 23, 2011 -> 12:32 AM) so is noah gonna get a huge fine like kobe? he addressed it postgame and apologized. Right after the game, TNT was actually running a PSA about how using homosexual slurs as an insult is bad.

QUOTE (T R U @ May 23, 2011 -> 03:30 AM) they won 69 games last year, 65 the year before that.. now they are all of the sudden going to win 100 with essentially the same team? Tampa Bay did it.

Well bulls, you've been saying you were the underdog. Now you've convinced everyone. Bulls lose game 4 and this series ends in 5 and the heat succeed in their bs title.

That rebound might have given a shot.