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QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Aug 25, 2010 -> 10:09 AM) One has to wonder if Stras came in all amped up and is just throwing everything max effort. Eventually the arm will give out if your mechanics are as bad as they say Strasburgs mechanics are I don't think that could possibly be it. His velocity was down a little bit from where he was reported at SD State even.

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Aug 25, 2010 -> 10:04 AM) May be true, I dunno, I'm just saying there are multiple reports out there that have come back with an extremely low (i.e., nearly non-existent) threat for toxic seafood, which is what Balta was concerned with. A lot of the seafood tests have been of the olfactory variety...which I have zero confidence in. That tests for classic oil on the surface, not for degraded oil byproducts in the digestive system of these things. It's entirely possible that the oil will take some time to move up the food chain or to build up in significant amounts in larger animals...or that they're not even looking for the right chemicals. I really have zero urge to eat anything out of the Gulf right now.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Aug 25, 2010 -> 10:08 AM) Sox haven't faced Matusz before I don't think, but he's a lefty, and this year the Sox have actually done well against guys they haven't seen. MB is rockin' in August and did reasonably well vs BAL earlier this month (3 ER in 7 IP). Let's clinch the series tonight and be in position to sweep. Matusz went 6 innings and gave up 3 hits and 1 run against us the last time we faced Baltimore.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Aug 25, 2010 -> 09:58 AM) Kind of surprised its Harrell over Torres. Based on how they pitched in the bigs earlier this season, I'm not.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Aug 25, 2010 -> 09:58 AM) Rising? Come on up for it.

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Aug 25, 2010 -> 09:52 AM) 9 replies in a winner thread. NIce. So I forgot to link to my wrapup. Oops.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Aug 25, 2010 -> 09:37 AM) And how'd that work out? You're saying we need to keep Mexicans out because they'll give us syphilis and smallpox?

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Aug 25, 2010 -> 12:01 AM) What I originally came here to post was that Sidney Rice just had hip surgery and is out for at least half the season. Percy Harvin is basically a game-time decision for the rest of his career with migraines, so that leaves Brett with Berrian & Greg Lewis as his top two receivers and who knows after that. He has survived with worse, but that definitely weakens the Vikings a bunch with a tough schedule. That's a team that could be posed for a major dropoff this season. Tough year last year, lots and lots of locker room issues.

QUOTE (kapkomet @ Aug 24, 2010 -> 08:16 PM) And, people are sitting on cash because no one knows the business environment right now other then the government is going to take more and more... so of course business sits on cash. It's what happens when you have no real policy but to extend things out, hoping it gets better. Yay, a point that can be discussed and debated with actual data. There are surveys out there measuring the reasons why businesses aren't hiring...and it turns out, political uncertainty is not a strong one. According to the latest National Federation of Independent Business small business survey, 64% of small businesses cite economic conditions and lack of sales prospects as their reasons for not hiring: just 15% percent cite “political conditions.” One other point I wanted to make re: Jenks that I forgot yesterday...there is a bill right now sitting in Congress that would do basically exactly what Jenks was advocating yesterday...$12 billion in tax breaks for small businesses that expand, $30 billion in federal loan dollars to fill the gap where private banks are still unwilling to lend to small businesses since they don't need to take on risk in a deflationary environment. I'm sure you can guess which house of Congress has it stalled.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Aug 25, 2010 -> 03:23 AM) I would think one of the contracts that got the Rangers into the most trouble was the Michael Young deal....not sure how they structured that one from an accounting standpoint. 2 words. Alex. Roidriguez.

QUOTE (SoxFan562004 @ Aug 25, 2010 -> 12:32 AM) which one? the last one or the 90s one... two different sets of ownership I believe for those two runs... anyway, how much could they have lost after the 03 one? They traded away their players right away. The 2003 one. They sold right away after the 97 one, they held onto guys for a while after the 2003 series. Beckett, for example, wasn't traded until after the 2005 season. They also added expensive guys like Delgado while they were at it. Baseball-Reference has their 2005 salary somewhere in the range of $80 million, which i might add, was more than the White Sox were spending at the time I believe. They cut back to less than $20 million within a couple years.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Aug 25, 2010 -> 08:29 AM) That is so great to see from Josh, I'm really happy for him. I honestly thought it was more likely he'd be out of baseball next year, than getting a promotion this year and performing. He's a definite lower-level AFL candidate.

QUOTE (iamshack @ Aug 25, 2010 -> 09:04 AM) We need to get Threets off the DL with his turf toe and get Thornton on there retroactively to last Thursday. As I noted in the other thread, they think Thornton will be ready to go by about the end of this series.

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Aug 25, 2010 -> 08:20 AM) So who's to blame for sending an injured Putz out last night? And why the hell were we carrying two injured relief pitchers on the roster? My god! Who the hell is running this team? If Putz wasn't on the DL, then he needed a shot last night, with where that bullpen is. If he couldn't go, he should be on the DL.

This is odd, the Tribune said the opposite today about Matty.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Aug 24, 2010 -> 06:35 PM) I don't think Sale will go. They want to limit innings, not add on this year. They've said over and over that he was going to the AFL since the day he signed. When you count the cape cod league, he's still well below his innings total from last year.

QUOTE (justBLAZE @ Aug 24, 2010 -> 06:26 PM) Showing a bit more power in Charlotte but this explains it. Any chance he plays 3B for the Sox next year? Maybe an ideal 2nd hitter? Long term he's a possible 2 hitter, but I don't know if anyone knows how his bat will develop. If he keeps hitting well, then I think he's a mid-season callup next year, but especially if he's rehabbing a shoulder I have difficulty fathoming KW putting him on the board to start the year. It might, however, make KW less hesitant about going in to the regular season with Vizquel as his primary 3b and Teahen as his backup...because if the ancient one gets hurt or struggles for 2 months, he'd have another option.

QUOTE (justBLAZE @ Aug 24, 2010 -> 06:24 PM) So how about this Morel kid, many loved him before me being very skeptical but the kid is having hell of a season? Is Charlotte more of a hitter or pitchers park? Charlotte is a stellar hitters park. Birmingham is a pitcher's park. Morel has hit well in both.

Damon invokes NTC and nixes trade to Red Sox, remaining in Detroit.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Aug 24, 2010 -> 06:14 PM) He'd be perfect for it. Is there a limit on number of guys we can send to the AFL? Isn't it like 6 players or something like that? Sale, Flowers, Viciedo start off the list. Wasn't there talk of Mitchell possibly being ready by then?

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Aug 24, 2010 -> 05:50 PM) Too bad it wasn't the same person. 1 of them is the other's grandmother, if that counts.

QUOTE (Cali @ Aug 24, 2010 -> 06:05 PM) I gotta hope having this leak early before LA actually puts him on waivers that some other teams will attempt to block the Sox Part of being the team in the AL with the worst record that is still legitimately in the race is that there's no other team that can grab him in the AL before us and think that it'll vault them to a division. The Tigers, for example, would basically be spending $4 million out of spite. That typically doesn't happen in MLB. An NL team or two might claim him because they legitimately want a bat for the stretch run. That's your real risk.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Aug 24, 2010 -> 06:00 PM) Those don't necessarily disqualify anything. That's the point. One thing to remember is that those numbers don't break out private and public employment. The New Deal was MASSIVE increase in governmental employment. I haven't seen figures that show anything about what that did private sector employment. It could very well that increases in governmental hiring could have crushed competing private sector employment. Using bald employment numbers doesn't show anything in that case. Honestly I don't even know that I buy the theory, I just threw it out there as an intellectual counter to the absolutism that was being presented. I'll be the first to agree that there was massive government hiring at the time. My point I think is pretty simple...if unemployment dropped in half and turned around basically at the moment FDR entered office, then something worked, so if that model is right and wage inflation was a major drag on hiring...then it was completely overwhelmed by some other program. Something must have worked very, very well. P.s. I've enjoyed this discussion quite a bit.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Aug 24, 2010 -> 05:46 PM) That is like saying the stimulus didn't work because unemployment is still high now. Is that what you are saying? That doesn't answer my question. I can give a consistent answer right now (the stimulus hit was too small to fill the output gap or to push back against deflation), you just won't like it. You've explicitly stated that businesses would have put off hiring because wages were artificially increased, yet a drop from 25% unemployment to 13% unemployment over a period of less than 4 years is a huge jump. Can you give a similar reason why, if hiring was so strongly impeded by FDR's programs...hiring didn't pick up in the 3 years between the crash and FDR taking office, and why exactly employment shot upwards so far if there was such a strong drag on it?

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Aug 24, 2010 -> 05:44 PM) And you stop hiring, just like the report said. Then why did unemployment drop in half between 1933 and 1936?