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QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Feb 14, 2011 -> 12:33 PM) I watched Terminator Salvation last night. I don't know which would have been a more painful viewing. The Simpsons was surprisingly good. Family Guy was terrible.

QUOTE (Chisoxfn @ Feb 14, 2011 -> 10:06 AM) Angels, Dodgers, Cubs, maybe the Mets are about the only teams I see in the mix. Yankees and Red Sox just don't have a need. The Metropolitans are simply out of the mix until they know that they won't be transferring ownership of the team to Madoff's other victims.

QUOTE (kapkomet @ Feb 14, 2011 -> 10:24 AM) We had options. Otherwise, your blathering idiot propagandist extraordinaire Baghdad Bob wouldn't have been speaking about getting Mubarak out of there. I know I had a drunken angry post or two on the night he left, but did I ever come off as this insane in my dislike of the last President?

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Feb 14, 2011 -> 11:46 AM) Why is it that people with the name "initial""initial" Myers, both this BR Myers and PZ Myers, seem to be pompous, egotistical, elitist and evangelical douchebags? WTF do you have against PZ?

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QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Feb 14, 2011 -> 09:17 AM) You can't. that's the fun of the way MLB has handled drugs, is that you never really know about a player. However, the GM's and owners have no one but themselves to blame on this matter. If they wanted to be 100% certain that they didn't have to worry about guys they sign being juicers, then they should have pushed for a stronger testing agreement.

Really? Your defense for eating animals is that if you don't control a small number of them, agriculture will suffer? Fine. In that case, the ideal human consumption in terms of energy efficiency is 99.99% agriculturally grown products, and .01% animal products produced as by-products of population control. You're not feeding 7 billion people based on the few deer and other species it takes to keep herds from becoming overgrown. That's not a defense of anything. You've pretty much given everyone on earth a reason to eat meat 1 time every year or two. Hell, if anything, it's more a defense of protecting natural predators like wolves, which control the animal population on their own, and thus in those cases actually serve to increase agricultural production efficiency.

QUOTE (kapkomet @ Feb 13, 2011 -> 10:22 PM) Right now, we're dealing with the evil we know, vs. the evil that we don't know. And bad option A is better then bad option B. That involves pretending that we actually had options.

QUOTE (kapkomet @ Feb 13, 2011 -> 10:17 PM) I know I'm late to the party and haven't read the thread in its entirety, but if they are trying to go with a four man rotation for a while, it should be obvious that there's an issue. I realize they're doing this to give the Jakester time to get 100% ready, but ugh - "let's start out by going 4 deep" doesn't instill a lot of confidence. My Goodness, I agree with Kap about something!

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Feb 14, 2011 -> 08:24 AM) His body wasn't great back then? Hmmm, considering what the looks like now, I think thats another issue that comes up with a long-term contract. Had he been juicing at all? If so, is he still juicing now? If he is now, is he gonna keep juicing during the full length of the contract? All those questions could have a profound effect on how he ages through the length of the contract as well. His body wasn't great in the sense that he was thought to be overweight at the time. Think Dayan Viciedo.

QUOTE (Jordan4life @ Feb 13, 2011 -> 08:51 PM) As long as he stays out of the AL I'm cool. I still think they'll work something out. And another thing, am I the only person that gets really f***ing annoyed when I read s*** like Pujols is "perhaps" baseballs best player or "probably" the best player of his genertation? There is no f***ing perhaps or probably. It's like saying Jordan was probably the best player of his era. Albert Pujols is WITHOUT QUESTION the best player of the last decade. Nobody is close. Not Mauer. Not Cabrera. Not Carlos Gonzalez. Nobody. If the Cards don't extend him, I'd bet he ends up in the AL. He's worth more money to a team that has the DH spot available.

Lakers have now dropped back to the #3 seed in the West, 1/2 game behind Dallas.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Feb 13, 2011 -> 05:46 PM) I've got to imagine he is looking for a better chance that what we will have to offer. Then he ought to already be a Yankee.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Feb 13, 2011 -> 04:41 PM) That was 2010. I suppose you didn't look at other seasons like 2007 and 2008 when the league OPS in April was 20 points lower than the overall. How do you explain that? 2009 April .760 May .750 June .733 July .748 Aug .769 Sept. .741 Once again...April in 2009, 2nd worst month for pitching. Only month worse was August.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Feb 13, 2011 -> 04:34 PM) Exactly where is the evidence the majority of pitchers have dead arms? The fact that April had the highest average OPS out of any month last season (despite the usual complaints about April weather), and the OPS's went down at the end of the season?

QUOTE (mr_genius @ Feb 13, 2011 -> 04:28 PM) if that's the case, when do they reconcile? care to make a prediction? Over the summer, just like they did last year, when Gallup's numbers crossed underneath the BLS numbers by quite a bit. (The BLS numbers hung around 9.5% all last year before declining at the end. Gallup's went under the BLS numbers and then now is over the BLS numbers...because they don't seasonally adjust).

QUOTE (JoeCoolMan24 @ Feb 13, 2011 -> 04:19 PM) Ok, fine, read it the other way. If you are going out to a local place to watch games w/ people, then why bother paying to have it at your house if you are going to watch it elsewhere? I'm suggesting not getting mlb.tv package, not suggesting he shouldn't go out to local places and watch. WTF, you're really giving him s*** about wanting to hang out with other Sox fans in his area?

QUOTE (mr_genius @ Feb 13, 2011 -> 03:52 PM) You know, based on the BLS stats, we could lose a sum of 50k jobs next month and unemployment would still magically decrease. even with a number of +125,000 needed just to keep pace with new entrants into the job market. And if you simply read Gallup's numbers, you'd think we'd be going into a depression every year in Jan/Feb. Each survey is telling you something, these 2 are essentially telling you the same thing, as long as you understand the adjustments that are made to them.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Feb 13, 2011 -> 04:12 PM) They are over their dead arm period. Spring training is 6 weeks for fans and pitchers. They wouldn't start the season with dead arms. If the majority of pitchers had dead arms or were still fighting them, the length of spring training and the pitcher's workouts would be altered. Ask anyone associated with MLB and they will tell you at the beginning of the season, pitchers are ahead of hitters, especially if the weather isn't ideal. Of course, rather than stating anecdotes, some might want to apply data to the question. League OPS by month. April: .736 May: .731 June: .733 July: .736 August: .723 Sept: .714 Regardless of what they might say...there's zero evidence of "pitchers being ahead of hitters" in April/May last year, and reasonable evidence that the claim is wrong.

Well, the Celtics officially have the season series over the Heat. If those 2 teams finish with the same record, the C's take the #1 seed.

Worth posting this for future notes, since everyone in this thread is probably used to discounting Fox News polling.

Did anyone else lose audio as the crowd was chanting "bull sh*t" with 3:10 left in the Bos/Mia game? I'm wondering if ABC has started censoring profane crowd noise, it was really convenient timing for an audio loss if they didn't do it on purpose?

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Feb 13, 2011 -> 03:01 PM) His innings have been going up for the last 3 years. If its a problem, he's already screwed. Come on man, you know better than this. It's not that they're going up, it's that they're going to go dramatically down this year, before going dramatically back up next year. That's a much different beast from the fact that his innings have been going up the last few years.

QUOTE (Rowand44 @ Feb 13, 2011 -> 02:48 PM) Seriously, are the Heat going to beat one of the top tier teams eventually? They have the christmas day win against the Lakers but besides that they just can't beat an upper echelon team(ya I know there's a lot of time left in this game). I keep thinking of them as the favorite to win it all but at some point they have to prove something this season. Trouble is...how do you define "top tier teams"? Right now, the top tier teams are basically the ones that have played the Heat and beaten them. They haven't played the Spurs yet, they were without LBJ when they played the Bulls, they've beaten Orlando, Dallas beat the crap out of them. You wouldn't be asking that question if they weren't consistently losing to Boston. If they hadn't played the C's 3 times, or hadn't lost all 3 after today, then you wouldn't think to ask that.