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QUOTE (Athomeboy_2000 @ Aug 20, 2010 -> 11:05 AM) yea, but look a little closer. What is the marker on? The number 4? There is an odd break in the purple/green boundary at the edge of the Google style dot where the color boundary doesn't line up on each side, Not sure what else to see.

Looks a lot like the little marker dots that show up on Google maps.

QUOTE (Big Daddy Kool @ Aug 20, 2010 -> 10:45 AM) http://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2010/08/dbac...-extension.html If they want to keep him then it would make sense to not trade him...but he could have still been claimed by this team when put on waivers.

Yup.

The Broncos gave Kyle Orton a 1 year extension through 2011, $5.5 million in guaranteed new money.

QUOTE (justBLAZE @ Aug 20, 2010 -> 09:39 AM) I know some of you already gave up on a season but I highly doubt Kenny starts 'teasing' about selling guys. 4GB with 6 solid weeks of play. No way. I agree. He might have thought about it if we'd lost last night.

QUOTE (G&T @ Aug 20, 2010 -> 09:11 AM) Spitballs use snot. I don't know what that guy was doing. Baseballs dry your hands out.

QUOTE (Rex Kicka** @ Aug 20, 2010 -> 09:13 AM) I'll give you that. But there are some actual victories here. In a few of these situations, the administration really has been making chicken salad out of chickens*** and some modest recognition of that is good to see every so often. My biggest complaint is that they've weasled their way into several of their current issues. The Health Care fight dragged on and the most popular parts of the bill were lost? That was a choice. The stimulus was too small and now we're back facing the 2nd dip? Choice.

QUOTE (Rex Kicka** @ Aug 20, 2010 -> 09:08 AM) Because we need some cheerleading now and again: Mr. Eugene Robinson. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/conte...0081904771.html You know what that reminds me of? The people (including some here) who back in 2006 were saying that the economy was great and it was just the liberal media that didn't want to give credit to W for it.

QUOTE (Rex Kicka** @ Aug 20, 2010 -> 09:07 AM) I think its Sarah Palin that's whining the most loudly about this, not Dr. Laura. Link with video.

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Aug 20, 2010 -> 09:00 AM) Hasn't it been well known that AJ has been a great clubhouse guy for us for the last 5 years? Depends on how you define "Great clubhouse guy". There have still been some rants that people thought wound up directed at AJ...example, there was that one day last year where the team lost a game and Ozzie was furious about someone having turned all the TV's in the locker room to some college football game and a lot of people thought that it was AJ...

Prove me wrong, Edwin.

QUOTE (Alpha Dog @ Aug 20, 2010 -> 12:10 AM) The Plainfield school district here wants to accelerate and increase the pay for first year principals from $116,500 per year to $121,400 per year because "many of the assistant principals we are interviewing are making more than that and wold have to take a pay cut." I read that (in an actual paper!) at dinner tonight. I would say that 6 figures for an assistant or regular principal seems like a lot, for running one school. Gotta retain top talent!

QUOTE (JoeCoolMan24 @ Aug 20, 2010 -> 12:57 AM) I asked Brent, and he basically said "not this year" as if he was already told he wasn't being added to the 40-man roster because he is behind Teahen, Vizquel, and Viciedo. The 40 man slot is another good reason

QUOTE (chw42 @ Aug 19, 2010 -> 08:44 PM) He wasn't caught for that? I think if you're away from the rubber it might actually be allowed.

QUOTE (Leonard Zelig @ Aug 19, 2010 -> 11:12 PM) Is AJ's "reputation" is really an issue to teams or is it more of a fan thing? How often does our team use chemistry as an excuse? Yes, it's an issue. It might not be an issue if he was hitting .325 this season, but it's an issue.

QUOTE (lostfan @ Aug 20, 2010 -> 08:09 AM) Ozzie used his gut in '05 a lot and did things like leave his starters in. Not exactly outside the box but that was something he deserved credit for at the time. There's also a skill in knowing that a guy has gone 5+ innings, is in line for the win, and is in trouble. G was demolished on Wednesday while Ozzie left him hanging in the 6th.

Skanberg FTW.

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Aug 19, 2010 -> 05:40 PM) We can't even blame the season on Kotsay. Juan Pierre has proved worthless in most situations, Andruw Jones had no business being on a Major League roster this year, etc. etc. Juan Pierre has a .345 OBP on the season and has stolen bases at better than a 75% clip. That's pretty much what you hope for from an effective leadoff hitter, and that's his game. He's taken more walks/been more patient than expected. Andruw Jones has an OPS+ of 105. Andruw Jones has been an above MLB average run producer at the plate this season. Read that sentence again. Andruw Jones has done everything that could have been asked of him this year. Does his average suck? Yes, but he has made every time he puts the bat on the ball count. Furthermore, he's put up an .869 OPS against left handed pitching. That's as ideal of a platoon partner as you can get. And on top of that, he's at worst been adequate defensively, and at best been well above average. Andruw Jones belongs on this roster and in fact Andruw Jones was an ideal platoon partner if we actually wanted to use the rotating DH effectively by moving guys like Quentin to the DH spot to get them extra rest. The problem has been the lack of production from the LH counterpart, not the lack of production by Jones.

QUOTE (T R U @ Aug 19, 2010 -> 04:57 PM) My P90X should arrive either monday or tuesday, I am hoping monday so I can start that day.. I think im going to do 30 minutes on the eliptical, then the P90X, and then at night when its not 100 degrees out run a mile.. and just keep that routine up every day Christ that sounds like suicide.

QUOTE (kitekrazy @ Aug 19, 2010 -> 04:50 PM) One thing I've noticed is how the Twins outfield gets to the ball and gets it back in. That alone make their staff look better. The Sox on the other hand tend to give up a lot of triples, more so the past two years. I don't know if this is a failure in communication between outfield, pitcher, catcher or what. The Twins do have guys who close up those gaps quick. The Twins have given up 22 Triples this year, the Sox 17. The Twins have a bigger ballpark so that's somewhat to be expected, but they've also given up more doubles than the Sox, and the Sox give up fewer triples per double than the Twins as well. Can you offer some actual support for your intuition? The numbers disagree.

Just because it's something no manager would ever do doesn't mean it's not the right thing to do to win a game. Managers in all sports tend to be conservative and not go outside of the classic game box...because if they go outside the box and it fails, they get blamed...but if they do what has been done for 75 years and it fails, they won't get blamed because that's what everyone else does.

QUOTE (CQMVP @ Aug 19, 2010 -> 04:27 PM) True enough I guess. Though, actual training camp doesn't start until the very end of July or beginning of August. The first pre-season games aren't starting until end of August. Season is wrapped up by the first week in February. I guess baseball is really not that different, except the ridiculous season length... They play the first spring training games first week of March, and don't finish up the World Series until end of October... Nearly eight months of baseball. If you count the Super Bown in Feb, and just Training Camp starting in August, that's 7 or so months of NFL football where there are actual games going on...more if you count late July training camps. Furthermore, I think it's all but a given that there's going to be an NFL regular season expansion in the next CBA, so that'll lessen that point even more. Flip sports and it works too. Training camp for Basketball starts in October. November 1 is about tipoff time. Late June is the finals. That's 8 months from November to the end of June. If you count exhibition games throughout october, July August and September are about the only times when the NBA doesn't have games, and even then there is international competition and the Lebron James show.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Aug 19, 2010 -> 04:25 PM) It was a Futurama joke. LOL, I caught that episode repeatedly and didn't even get the joke. I guess I'll go make amends by devouring some sort of flightless manicotti.

QUOTE (chw42 @ Aug 19, 2010 -> 04:18 PM) Don't think for a second that everybody would welcome a new manager, whoever it may be. Even though I don't like Guillen, I still think he's at a pretty mediocre manager when you consider everything about him. If we're bringing in somebody like Cito Gaston or Bobby Valentine, you might as well just stick with Ozzie. It's the devil you know versus the devil you don't. What are the odds that there is a great motivator of men and tactician of baseball sitting around undiscovered on some other team's roster awaiting plucking?