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Checking to see if they actually fly to Knoxville.

Although, maneuvering one of those up the Ohio would be entertaining.

Xebec would be a bad choice.

Very much agreed.

QUOTE (Lillian @ Dec 13, 2010 -> 04:06 PM) Again, I agree. How Pierre could ever be considered preferable to Quentin is beyond my comprehension. It's because many way over value stolen bases. I'll take the higher OBP, and the RBI production any time. Again we go through this. OBP the last 2 years: Carlos Quentin: .323, .342. Career number; .347. Juan Pierre: .365, .341. Career number; .347. I don't really care about RBI's since those are a product of whether or not people are on base. There's a monstrous slugging difference between the two, and the 2008 version of Carlos Quentin had a massive OBP, but that version hasn't shown up any other year. Right now, there's no good reason to assume that Carlos Quentin will give you a better OBP than Juan Pierre. If you want to rip pierre, at least get the stats right.

This is a Chicago board. I'm comparing everything to Rose right now. For example, Derrick Rose is better at basketball than the Bears are at football.

Rose is better than him.

QUOTE (FlaSoxxJim @ Dec 13, 2010 -> 03:47 PM) We're all full, actually, and don't need anymore transplants. Really? I think there may be a fair amount of available housing still in that state.

QUOTE (joeynach @ Dec 13, 2010 -> 02:59 PM) Ok lets settle the Quentin as a defender argument right now. There is no doubt he is bad, however if you look at his Rfield statistic it will tell you what you need to know. Rfield measures the number of runs better or worse than average the player was for all fielding. Basically CQ had a career worst year defensively last year, absolutely brutal. However, prior to 2010 he wasnt great, but he wasnt that bad. I would expect him to bounce back defensively quite a bit, you have to be pretty horrific to post consecutive -20 Rfield numbers. 2006: +3 2007: +12 2008: -2 2009: -9 2010: -20 Does 2009 account for the fact that he only played about 1/2 the year? Because if that scales up linearly with playing time, then he did post consecutive -20 seasons.

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Dec 13, 2010 -> 01:45 PM) Unless I'm mistaken, you don't get to pick which Judge you want. You get to pick one Judge you don't want. And I'm guessing there were a whole lotta cases that ruled that blacks weren't citizens, abortions weren't legal, gays don't have special rights, etc. Numbers don't mean anything in the law. You should know that. And which ones do we remember? The ones that reach the big Court. Do you remember how any of the lower-court decisions that preceded Roe v. Wade were decided? Btw, it's probably worth pointing out who the biggest loser would be if this ruling stood...the health insurance industry. They'd be back in the insurance death spiral arena, where they might as well all just go out of business, because this ruling doesn't hit the parts of the law that ban recissions, ban rejections for pre-existing conditions, etc, just the part that protects/saves the insurance industry. In fact, the plaintiffs in this case had asked for the entire bill to be struck down, and the only thing the judge hit was the individual mandate.

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Dec 13, 2010 -> 01:30 PM) Wasn't the case brought by the AG of Virginia? This particular one, yes, and because he was bringing the case, he got to choose which federal judge in his state he wanted to have hear it. It's still a setback, but it's worth noting that out of 20-some cases previously brought against the individual mandate at this level, 14 have already been dismissed, 2 have been heard and ruled against with reasoning that directly contradicts the reasoning of this judge. From what I'm reading, the largest, multi-state challenge is still the one in Florida. This one will of course be appealed upwards to the 4th court of Appeals, and since the individual mandate doesn't take affect until 2014 there was no reason to issue a stay at this point.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Dec 13, 2010 -> 01:20 PM) I really don't care, honestly. This by the way is why Judge's should not be an elected office, nor should they be elected as part of a political party (if they have to be elected at all). Note...I said appointed. In this case, that's just how political the appointment process is. The anti-ACA forces had about 20 different states in which they could choose to file the case, and they filed it in the place with the most sympathetic judge they could find, where the state constitution gave them the best chance at success, which is why this challenge was found successful at this level while the challenges in other states were not.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Dec 13, 2010 -> 01:04 PM) Ah, so its the individual mandate. That makes sense, and its one of the reasons this bill was poorly structured. So far, the individual mandate has gone before 3 judges. 2 of them appointed by Democrats, 1 appointed by W. Care to guess which one was the one to rule against it?

QUOTE (Cknolls @ Dec 13, 2010 -> 12:25 PM) Yeah why would you want to fix crumbling roads and bridges when you can build an inefficient, over budget, highly subsidized, not for profit rail system? Seems like a good expenditure of capital to me. Why would you want to fix inefficient, over budget, highly subsidized, not for profit roads?

QUOTE (Athomeboy_2000 @ Dec 13, 2010 -> 10:07 AM) I dont think so, but team/league officials are optimistic apparently. Since it's not a structurally supported roof, all you need to do is fix the leaks. If the snow stops for a while, you cut out the damaged section(s) and basically iron/sew on a replacement section. That of course assumes no water damage to the playing surface.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Dec 13, 2010 -> 09:43 AM) 2010 was a bad year, just as 2006 was, but not AS bad as 2006. Worth jumping in here with a clarification...his bad 2010 involved 210 innings, 13 wins, 3 complete games, and a 4.28 ERA while pitching in the Cell. If we really want to go into the numbers a bit, his career Babip is .293, and last year it came in at .316, the highest number against him in his career.

California owes wisconsin a thank you note. Link

Perhaps they need to build a fire.

QUOTE (knightni @ Dec 13, 2010 -> 02:04 AM) I know how Nielsen stuff works. I just think that they're unreliable. Oh come on knight, really, you're questioning how reliable basic statistical analysis is on a baseball board?

QUOTE (Capn12 @ Dec 13, 2010 -> 08:32 AM) I want one Edwin Jackson on this team for a few years to come, he came over and whatever they saw that was wrong in his delivery, it was fixed fast. He was a huge bright spot last year. Now with that being said, I know he won't be here long term unfortunately, something about his agent, money demands.... It's worth checking his splits, btw. Edwin Jackson was fantastic in the month of August, as we all saw. But everyone sorta turned the TV off in September, and so did he. His month of September looked a whole lot, statistically, like his first half in fact; 4.93 ERA, 1.38 WHIP.

Is Kap blocking me or is there something unclear about my details there?

Renewing the Anthony rumors...supposedly Anthony is now saying that the only team he'll sign with if he's traded is the Knickerbockers.

Heaven itself stopped watching.

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Dec 12, 2010 -> 07:27 PM) Buncha pretenders. I'm going to put a hundo down on the Pats winning the Super Bowl. No one is stopping this team. Just like in 2007 right?

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Dec 12, 2010 -> 06:11 PM) Cutler is so far down that list it isn't even funny. The defense has been a joke today, as has the offensive line. Don't forget the Special Teams.