Balta1701

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Jan 22, 2011 -> 08:56 AM) Pretty big shocker that Olbermann signed off one last time night last. Wonder what really happened behind the scenes. I know he received some of the best ratings for the network. I wonder if he'll get another show elsewhere. Comcast takes over NBC on Monday.

Obviously you need to buy HBO for the rest of us.

Maybe we should kiss...just to create some.

QUOTE (J.Reedfan8 @ Jan 21, 2011 -> 11:30 PM) I personally still don't see them beating the Celtics in a seven game series. If both teams come in at 100% healthy you're right...but that's an old Celtics team.

Kids can write that fast. My joints hurt too much.

QUOTE (Jordan4life @ Jan 22, 2011 -> 11:34 AM) Nope. Never was. Not sure who had him in the deal. But I thought it was ridiculous the second I read it. If I was the Jays' GM and it took me Drabek to get rid of the bad years on Wells's contract, I'd probably do it.

I need a handful more posts for 60k, come on, keep going!

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Jan 22, 2011 -> 11:34 AM) I honestly don't know what you're referring to. Is this something on MSNBC? Dan Patrick and Keith Olbermann would do the NBC Sunday Night football show. Brought back memories of my childhood, so many years ago, when Sportscenter was excellent.

Go get em tiger!

QUOTE (kapkomet @ Jan 22, 2011 -> 10:27 AM) Boo. No, really, boo. I'm 30 years old, my knees hurt, and I'm going to hit 60,000 posts within the next few hours. I think I've earned an awful pun or two.

Gone from the football show too?

QUOTE (lostfan @ Jan 22, 2011 -> 11:07 AM) This article is really light on the science, surprised it took Balta so long to chime in. It's really quite creative in how they wrote it...it's entirely possible that it could show up next year, or it could show up in thousands of years...but it sorta writes itself as a "2012 end of the world thing" without mentioning anything about the end of the world except for the year.

QUOTE (JPN366 @ Jan 22, 2011 -> 11:28 AM) I know, but he does need to focus on plate discipline. Once he masters that, he will be scary. He'll get that in time. I'm sure you know he slowly improved in that as he sat at AA and AAA. When he got to the bigs, he was facing guys with better levels of control, and it caught him off guard.

Really? Drabek isn't included? That's insanity. I guess after they got rid of Gary Matthews Jr.'s deal the Angels decided that they hadn't blown enough money on CF's this year.

QUOTE (JPN366 @ Jan 22, 2011 -> 11:25 AM) Well, there's nothing wrong with making him more versatile, but I see what you mean. I think it would be best for him to just DH in Charlotte in the interim to focus on refining his hitting. Bah, his hitting will come around, in fact he probably doesn't have that much to learn in Charlotte, it's the fact that we've spent 2 years and we still haven't gotten him used to a defensive position that bugs me.

He's worth an extra $2-3 million to us compared to every other team, just in marketing and loyalty revenue.

QUOTE (JPN366 @ Jan 22, 2011 -> 11:22 AM) I think once Konerko's current deal is up, Viciedo will move back to first. He'll only be 25 then anyway. The fact that we're moving him around so often is starting to get frustrating.

So, they lose Crawford and Pena, and bring in Damon and Manroid for $7 million. I guess it isn't bad. They still have a 1b hole, they have no idea what they'll get from Manroid honesty, and their bullpen is still weakened, but with that starting rotation they can hang.

Really? Is the guy who got punched going to press charges?

It's worth a shot, but I have a feeling that this won't stick.

QUOTE (SoxFan562004 @ Jan 21, 2011 -> 08:49 PM) Manny and Damon to Rays pending physicals. Well, they lose out on defense, but that could well fill the offensive gap from the loss of Crawford and Pena.

QUOTE (SoxFan562004 @ Jan 21, 2011 -> 07:07 PM) hmmmm, yes, that would seem a lot more odd to me if Drabek went unless Angels are taking either all or near 100% of Wells deal and they demanded a good prospect in return That'd have to be it.

QUOTE (SoxFan562004 @ Jan 21, 2011 -> 07:10 PM) sorry if this is covered, but I don't have the time to root through 44 pages... I haven't seen anything in any of the articles I've read, but what do they expect to be her mental capacity? I don't mean this to be insensitive at all, but it was obviously a traumatic brain injury and haven't seen what expectations were. At this point, no one really seems to know. Doctors are particularly unsure about whether she'll have any lasting issues with movement on her right side, since the bullet went through the left hemisphere of the brain. Most of the things she's done so far are motor skills, which are the parts that weren't hurt as much. The thing that was hit directly was the speech center, which is why she hasn't spoken yet, they're not going to push her much on that. According to the doctors she's made very strong progress so far, but it's not uncommon for brain injury victims to make strong progress and then plateau for a while while the body adapts to the areas that have been damaged.

The White Sox have just put on sale single game tickets for a number of dates in April and May. I thought people here might be interested

QUOTE (TomPickle @ Jan 21, 2011 -> 06:32 PM) Blue Jays are sending Vernon Wells (and probably truckloads of money) to the Angels for Napoli. OMG Really?