Balta1701

QUOTE (witesoxfan @ Apr 22, 2011 -> 08:05 PM) Verlander is going to throw a perfect game tonight You and that heckler made someone very, very, very mad.

"Don't blink Carlos, it's too fast"

QUOTE (fathom @ Apr 22, 2011 -> 08:02 PM) Well, I'm being dragged to see Scream 4. Someone do a rain dance for me. The governor of Texas is on it.

QUOTE (fathom @ Apr 22, 2011 -> 07:44 PM) What did rios do Dove on a fly ball, reached his arm out too far, ball knuckled, went under his elbow for an RBI triple. Basically both runs that inning happened because he couldn't get the ball. Gameday has the video up on that play.

Tampa Bay would have caught that.

Oh Alex....

QUOTE (lostfan @ Apr 22, 2011 -> 06:50 PM) Maybe with the benefit of hindsight but probably at the time, people were pretty locked in to whatever their opinion was. My 3 big political predictions of the decade, all made in 2002-2004, were: 1. This war is the stupidest f***ing idea ever. 2. The WMD thing is a bald faced lie 3. We're in the middle of a monstrous credit bubble that is going to burst sometime before the 2008 election, and whichever side wins in 2004 is going to get slaughtered in 2008 as a consequence (I wrote about 1500 words on that in 2004 as a guest post for a friend's blog, so that oen was actually on record). I thought Afghanistan in 2001 was going to be a hell of a lot harder than it was at the time, that's one of my biggest misses. Skepticism on the "Surge" is probably on that list also, but we can argue about what exactly happened there until we're blue in the face.

Well, that turned around quick then, huh?

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Apr 22, 2011 -> 06:46 PM) Here's a quote from the Sun Times from Ozzie: Me? No, I got a lot of money. I got a lot of work,’’ Guillen said before the Sox erupted with 10 hits, and two RBI apiece from Omar Vizquel, Carlos Quentin, Paul Konerko and A.J. Pierzynski. “If I’m not managing the White Sox, I will manage somewhere else. Maybe Mexico, Japan. I know I will manage in Venezuela. I can do a lot of great stuff in baseball. I might go to Fox. They want me.’’ Wasn't he crying about his extension last fall, giving some Latrell Sprewell-like comments? Link

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Apr 22, 2011 -> 06:41 PM) Chris Getz is a consistent .636/.637 OPS no matter where he plays.. Well, that's an impressively precise OPS.

Mark!

QUOTE (The Ginger Kid @ Apr 22, 2011 -> 02:19 PM) and your point is? That the surgeon giving a 12 month estimate doesn't mean that it can't be 9-10 months.

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Apr 22, 2011 -> 01:53 PM) yeah, but his franchise shouldnt suffer because of his marital woes, MLB didnt have to take over the Padres when their owner got divorced and it was messy. Besides, the spending dates long before the divorce. Apparently he has his children all over the payroll No, MLB didn't intervene. But take a look at what happened associated with that divorce...the Padres payroll from 2006-2008 averaged just over $70 million. Today it is $45 million. The franchise there clearly suffered because of the owners issues.

Google knows where your Droid is also.. May not be sitting on your own hard drive in unencrypted format, but it probably is sitting somewhere on Google's

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Apr 22, 2011 -> 01:29 PM) I think transportation costs are negligible compared to labor cost differences between the two countries. Don't forget, it's not just the cost of transporting the iPhone across the ocean, it's the cost of transporting everything to China as well.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Apr 22, 2011 -> 01:23 PM) Commodity prices would drop, but so would Chinese production. The costs of our good would be picked up by other labor, which would be much more expensive. Think through that for a second though. If Chinese production drops, it's not dropping because U.S. demand has decreased, it's dropping because Chinese demand has decreased. If Chinese demand decreased, that would put a deflationary pressure on the price of Chinese goods. It would actually make them cheaper for Americans to buy. Factories with robust export potential don't close, and there'd be plenty of spare capacity in China if some of them did. Furthermore, there is ample spare capacity available in this country for domestic production increases if Chinese Domestic production fell off. Yes, labor costs are higher, but transportation costs would be lower, and you get the added benefit of domestic job production. There are 2 things that could happen which hurt the U.S. in the event of a Chinese burst. First, exports to China from the U.S. would be hurt...but the U.S. export market to china pales in comparison to what China exports to the U.S. That'd sting a little, but it's not the dominant effect. The other thing that could happen is a governmental collapse or civil war. That's legitimately bad. If the Chinese stop manipulating the U.S. dollar through currency purchases...that's actually exactly what we've been demanding the Chinese do for the last decade.

The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs believes the Libyan War is "Moving towards stalemate."

AJ

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Apr 22, 2011 -> 12:47 PM) Mitchell sounds like he has a better tool set than Danks. Well certainly, but it's becoming more and more apparent to me that the single biggest issue for these multitool players is strikeouts. You can look at it in more detail by going to K/BB ratios or things that might make up for some of the K's like defense...but the K's are unavoidable. I spent a while looking at the numbers of guys like Grady Sizemore, Granderson, BJ Upton, a few years ago when I was trying to figure out what, if anything, D2 needed to do to become a legit player, and it was obvious pretty quick that these toolsy OF's who are striking out 130+ times a year just can't put up better numbers over a career. They don't hit 40 HR, so if they're striking out 130-150 times a year, the only way they can push an average close to .300 is with a huge BABIP increase. BJ upton had one of those in his great season, but he's never replicated it. If a guy is striking out 150 times a year, he can be a very good player, but he always has an upper limit. D2 is stuck in that boat. He doesn't have the raw tools/power of Sizemore or Granderson, but he has their strikeouts, and unless he cuts back on those, he'll get no where. Mitchell might have the raw tools of the other guys, but if he's in the 150 K range, we're going to hate him.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Apr 22, 2011 -> 12:50 PM) He's not worth 5/75. He's worth a lot more. Right now, 5/$75 would be a fair extension for him, because he still has 1.75 years before FA. Open market he's worth a lot more.

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Apr 22, 2011 -> 12:39 PM) It is going to be hard to prove to the courts that McCourt did not use the Dodgers as collateral to finance his lavish lifestyle. Just this month he had to ask Rupert Murdoch for a 30 million dollar loan to make payroll. First month of baseball season and he already cannot pay his players, not a good sign He does have a counterpoint though...he has a potential one-time event causing a major loss of liquidity...his divorce.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Apr 22, 2011 -> 12:49 PM) His offensive schemes are stellar. I think the NBA likes it...his schemes now are "Get the ball in Blake Griffin's hands and watch". Makes sure that there's 212 dunks for youtube videos.

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Apr 22, 2011 -> 11:27 AM) Damn, dude. He's just trying to help. And i've said thanks for the opinions on the phones repeatedly, that's just the one point that I seemingly didn't get across clearly.

A Dodgers executive spoke out against MLB today and it sounds like McCourt may be preparing to sue MLB.

QUOTE (Milkman delivers @ Apr 22, 2011 -> 12:07 PM) How do you "think" something that is a fact? Danks HAS been the best starter, and there is no question. Although now that I've said that, I'm sure Balta or someone who loves to argue will try to refute it Who would I argue on our roster has been better than D1? Jackson?