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QUOTE (DukeNukeEm @ Mar 30, 2010 -> 03:36 PM) Good the know the Mexican army has helicopters. Considering they've basically been fighting an ongoing drug insurgency for something like 10+ years and a near open Civil War the last couple, and their opponents can get arms from the U.S., they darn well better.

Well, I'm up to have my 2 taken out in a few weeks.

Right moves. yay!

Has ESPN's computer predictions established any sort of record of predictive ability or accuracy in the past? I could write a "Computer prediction code", feed in last year's OPS numbers of every player and pitcher and probably come up with a computer prediction code that could be a statistically significant predictor of every team's finishing position this year, but that doesn't mean that I'd actually gain anything by the 20 minutes I'd spend doing it. Seriously, the odds that every team in the AL central will be a .500 team or below? I learn nothing from this.

QUOTE (ScottyDo @ Mar 30, 2010 -> 10:16 AM) The IF looks fine to me, with the exception of 3b. Ramirez had at least 1 "I don't care about this" throw during the game I was watching over the weekend.

QUOTE (SoxFan562004 @ Mar 30, 2010 -> 11:26 AM) where did the tradition start? I want to say Cincy, but that seems wrong. 1910, William Howard Taft, thrown from the stands at a Washington Senators game.

Somehow, the dancing poo just elevated that last post to another level.

NY Times conservative columnist David Brooks spent a whole column today telling us why Sandra Bullock should have been staying at home popping out babies to keep her marriage solid rather than winning an Academy Award.

The Nationals get the President for their first pitch.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Mar 30, 2010 -> 09:16 AM) Perfect comparison. Some teams can take a world of talent and turn it into s***. The Raiders are embodiment of this team. I feel like the Redskins dump a bunch of money on people with no plan and have it blow up repeatedly. I feel like the raiders dump money on people in a deliberate effort to end those players careers. Doesn't it have to be on purpose at this point with them?

Different subject. Paul Konerko right now probably wishes the season started a week ago. He's swinging the bat as well as I've seen him swing it since the first half of 2006. Every ball is hit hard. He's driving things every direction, he's got that hard fly ball to RF working just fine, he's hitting balls hard up the middle, down the LF line, everywhere. Here's hoping PK14 realizes he's playing for what could be his last contract.

Koz

After some Googling, we're both wrong on the date, it was 1916 for Columbus.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Mar 29, 2010 -> 10:39 PM) He had better get a long ass contract extension out of it, because it will end his career. Well, you do have to admit, that's an offense with some weapons, if you put someone with talent in at the organizing position.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Mar 30, 2010 -> 08:43 AM) I've gotten this impression too - the baserunning has looked quite good, other than Pierre, strangely. Last night he was thrown out in the first inning trying to steal by nearly half a Podsednik.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Mar 30, 2010 -> 08:30 AM) Who, when and where was the last time a foreign military invaded the United States (the 50, not territories)? Who, when and where was the last time a foreign military invaded the CONTIGUOUS United States? Do you count areas that became states? Because the Japanese invaded 2 islands in the Aleutians, but Alaska was not a state at the time. No? Ok, then we go back to Pancho Villa and his attack across the border to try to seize a weapons depot in what, 1915 I think, which led to General Pershing following him around Mexico with an expeditionary force for about a year until he kinda got reassigned to this small conflict in Europe.

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Mar 29, 2010 -> 05:28 PM) He was wasted and his girl just broke up with him... Just was informed last night that he's played by the same actor who played "Chase" on season 3 of 24.

QUOTE (chisoxfan09 @ Mar 30, 2010 -> 07:10 AM) What is everyone's opinion of smallball until now in ST? Has there been progress made on base running and stealing fundamentals? On defensive fundamentals? Baserunning...there's been some nice stuff going on, except Juan Pierre looks awfully slow to me. Alexei, Rios, Becksy have been moving well. Ozzie has also pulled off some sweet hit and run/double steal plays in the spring, and I think almost everyone on this board would agree that the hit and run is the one pressure/speed play that Ozzie has underused the past few years, so hopefully he likes those. Defensively...well, we've improved the OF. The IF...hasn't looked good to me yet. Beckham's still obviously settling in at 2b, Alexei seems right where we left him last year.

QUOTE (Melissa1334 @ Mar 29, 2010 -> 04:21 PM) well i took the over , 82 1/2, bet 500$ so hopefully minimum 83 lol Its hard to fathom how many things would have to go wrong for this to be a sub-.500 team.

QUOTE (ScottyDo @ Mar 29, 2010 -> 06:52 PM) Plus, this is like his 5th year in the league, it's not like they haven't had plenty of time to figure it out. Well, he has been playing for the Royals, so it's not like those really counted.

Fox headline:

QUOTE (iamshack @ Mar 29, 2010 -> 05:15 PM) I think the game would actually have lackluster ratings, and only lackluster because of Duke. . How common is it for the championship game to happen on MLB's opening day? That can't be good for ratings.

QUOTE (Kalapse @ Mar 29, 2010 -> 05:18 PM) Maybe it's because they don't consider him a top prospect? He's an incredibly underwhelming talent especially given where he was taken in the draft. BP didn't even have him in the Cubs top 15.

QUOTE (bmags @ Mar 29, 2010 -> 12:57 PM) Was super excited to watch the pacific since I loved band of brothers so much. But it was awful. As I told my friend, it was more Pearl Harbor the movie than band of brothers. The story of the Pacific war is just so much harder to tell effectively than the European war, so far it's been interesting to see how they've done it.

QUOTE (SoxFan562004 @ Mar 29, 2010 -> 03:02 PM) watched the Simpsons yesterday... boy that show has fallen so hard, it's bad everything on Fox last night was just flat out awful.