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QUOTE (Athomeboy_2000 @ Mar 8, 2010 -> 02:14 PM) The DNC must have been PISSED when Romney wasnt picked. For about what, 30 seconds?

QUOTE (2nd_city_saint787 @ Mar 8, 2010 -> 12:28 PM) your last line kinda answers my question but do you think being in the NL where maybe he gets pinch hit for could be a reason why he has a lack of complete games? No, I don't think that, and I don't think that because the available data shows that he's thrown a reasonable number of pitches in those innings. Subtitled; God I love B-R.com. IP/GS 2002 5.7 2003 6.1 2004 6.2 2005 6.8 2006 6.3 2007 6.6 2008 6.4 2009 6.4 Pit/GS 2002 96 2003 101 2004 99 2005 105 2006 105 2007 106 2008 106 2009 98 He's still throwing 100+ pitches in an average game prior to 2009, but only had a handful of CG's. Now here's # of starts with a certain number of pitches. 120 Max 2002 1 10 6 0 115 2003 2 11 17 2 126 2004 1 13 11 2 124 2005 0 11 18 1 124 2006 2 8 21 1 129 2007 0 5 29 0 118 2008 1 5 19 2 127

Andres Blanco (Backup IF, out of options) sprained a knee and is out 2 weeks or so.

QUOTE (lostfan @ Mar 7, 2010 -> 09:57 PM) Definitely. Especially the offensive coaches. I don't really know how to explain the failings on the defensive side of the ball (people like to say "Rivera!" but his play-calling and blitz schemes were just as lame without the pass rush, truth be told) Because Tommy Harris and Mike Brown pre-2006 injuries were just that damn good, and they had a lot of other really good people around them, but those 2 guys were keystone guys at 2 of the 3 levels.

QUOTE (Cknolls @ Mar 8, 2010 -> 11:59 AM) We deserve it! Hopefully Illinois, California, New York and some others go bankrupt. That will be the only way we can affect the change needed to become fiscally sane. Really, you think that'll change anything? All that will do is make it apparent to other states that they have another out if they cut taxes further.

Neyer

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Mar 8, 2010 -> 09:37 AM) Rarer than a guy like Jake Peavy who is going to get you wins, complete games, IP, SHO, K's and the like? Let's not make up stats even for guys we like: Peavy has completed 1 game since 2006 and 7 in his career, with only 3 shutouts (all in 2005). He tends to throw a lot of pitches and is often therefore gone after 6-7.

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Mar 8, 2010 -> 10:34 AM) there is no reason to bring him up with the club and give him minimal innings. This is also probably important enough to stress. He's 22 currently, turns 23 in May. His innings the last 3 years: 102 92 @ ODU, 69 @ Great Falls, 161 total. Last year, 147 between 4 levels. 150 innings isn't a bad place for an arm to be starting at. But...Dropping him back to 50 innings so that Ozzie can use him in the bullpen...that's a step backwards, not forwards.

QUOTE (TitoMB345 @ Mar 7, 2010 -> 09:25 PM) Wow, he seems beyond nervous.. Well, he has wanted to play for this team for so long.

QUOTE (Palehosefan @ Mar 7, 2010 -> 06:05 PM) I guess I'm going to be watching some Bears games now that Julius is aboard. Haven't paid much attention to the Bears D, but is Julius getting his wish as a 3-4 rush OLB? If so, he could have a monster year. No, the Bears play a straight-up 4-3 defense, so he'll be going into that system. I never heard much desire from him to serve as an OLB; suppsedly he never liked that the Panthers would have him dropping back on occasion.

Is there some reason why we have 2 threads on this?

QUOTE (lostfan @ Mar 7, 2010 -> 03:38 PM) The Islamic Traitor Enemy Within Administration's cancelling of the war on terror results in the arrest of Adam Gadahn - I'd say this qualifies as a pretty big deal, the guy was charged with treason http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/03/07/a...q_n_489124.html Someone please muzzle Liz Cheney. The reports of his arrest may have been incorrect.

QUOTE (chw42 @ Mar 7, 2010 -> 04:57 PM) He should rebound. He was hurt last year wasn't he? Yeah, but there's no reason to assume he'll be 100% healthy again this year, he is 34, so it's at least sensible to offer Blalock a minor league deal and sensible for him to accept it sine he'd probably get some playing time.

QUOTE (chw42 @ Mar 7, 2010 -> 04:50 PM) The Rays don't even need Blalock. The only thing he'd be able to do for them is DH and fill in at 1B or 3B once a week. I'd rather have Burrell as a full-time DH. I think the Rays would have also. But the guy who played only 412 AB's last year and gave them a .682 OPS out of the DH spot wasn't exactly the pat Burrell anyone would have picked.

QUOTE (knightni @ Mar 7, 2010 -> 04:32 PM) The Rays are talking to Hank Blalock on a minor league deal. Wow, the Sox could equal that. It's not money. They seriously don't want the extra person.

QUOTE (Kenny Hates Prospects @ Mar 7, 2010 -> 04:05 PM) +1 Kotsay is very well-suited for a bench role. The problem is going to be if he gets 400 AB's as a full time LH platoon hitter in the lineup.

QUOTE (Thunderbolt @ Mar 6, 2010 -> 05:22 PM) Please, a closer is a lot easier to replace then Joe Maur or Justin Moreneu. Hell, i could even argue that Baker contributes more to the team then Nathan. He's a good-to-great pitcher, but he gives you 5 innings a week if you play your cards right. And yet...I'll bet, they lose him for a time and they're a much worse team when it happens.

QUOTE (Rowand44 @ Mar 6, 2010 -> 03:17 PM) Lots of running so far, eh? Just got out of the shower and missed Quentins bomb, damn it. Stay in the shower, Maybe he'll hit more.

QUOTE (nitetrain8601 @ Mar 6, 2010 -> 01:51 PM) I find that hard to believe. If it wasn't for the numbers and the Bears already had agreed to a trade, what could he have possibly said at one meeting that would cause them to scrap a deal for a top 5 WR? Especially agreeing to then go after TO, which they didn't from the outside looking in. It doesn't make sense. If anyone thought he was a top 5 WR right now...he'd have been traded for more.

QUOTE (Athomeboy_2000 @ Mar 5, 2010 -> 12:58 PM) @Jay_Glazer - Peppers and taylor in chicago taking physicals. Kampman on his way to philly for visit NOT seattle. Osgood heading to jags for visit You know, if all of this winds up going down, it's only going to take a few months again for people to start complaining about how cheap the Bears are.

QUOTE (knightni @ Mar 4, 2010 -> 09:24 PM) The best thing that would save the NFL would be a rookie cap. Honestly, I see where that's coming from, but are there that many teams that draft well, sign a guy to a big, early draft contract, and then stay mediocre for years? The real guys who get hurt are the guys who draft busts, and is that really that different from spending big bucks to sign an FA bust?

QUOTE (Ranger @ Mar 4, 2010 -> 03:32 PM) Second, I know I've said this before, but the Frank Thomas/David Ortiz-type DH days are just about over. AL teams don't have to have a bopper in that slot like they used to and they don't need him to produce quite like you're thinking. They just aren't the best offensive players in the lineup anymore. You know Ranger...I'm going to be surprised if this holds true for long. The big thing right now may be the shift away from the DH this offseason...I'll bet that by the middle of this season, a number of the teams that think they're going to rotate the DH position will have wound up settling into a nearly full-time DH.

There's a serious paper coming out on methane hydrate destabilization in tomorrow's Science. Here's the NSF press release version.

QUOTE (Cknolls @ Mar 4, 2010 -> 04:08 PM) "What has happened in the last year, in the past year, in the United States Senate is a total obstruction by the Republican senators," Pelosi said. What does that say about the content of the legislation if it cannot pass with 60 votes? Don't let the botox go to your brain. Just keep working on that most ethical Congress thing...seems its a work in progress. This is an impressively disjointed rant.