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QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Feb 28, 2010 -> 08:50 AM) While we bury JD for his bad second half last year as ample proof he's total worthless, take a look at Andruw Jones' 2008 season and look at his stellar .185 average the second half of 2009. If he's primed for a comeback, JD is a possible MVP candidate. I hear ya on that, but look at the defensive side. JD would be worth something to this team if it had a solid LH hitting backup OF who could play some defense. Damon and JD instead of Jones and Kotsay would have been a solid, if much more expensive construction. I come not to bury JD's bat, only to bury JD's defense.

QUOTE (JoeCoolMan24 @ Feb 28, 2010 -> 02:43 AM) I hope some vet will not go down, but either way, i would like Jermaine on this team. I would feel MUCH more comfortable with a lineup including Jermaine Dye than a lineup without him. Jermaine Dye really adds nothing to this team right now. If he's better than Jones with the bat (which, after the 2nd half of last year, I'm not sure), he's much worse with the glove and he'd move Kotsay or Pierre to the backup CF spot, which is just, ugh. The only 2 things that would fit on this team are a backup IF better than Nix or a LH power bat. If you can't find either of those, then there's nothing that catches my fancy.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Feb 28, 2010 -> 08:36 AM) I doubt KW really wants to give up any of his top prospects, but he's not going to miss out on Adrian Gonzalez because he doesn't want to part with Jordan Danks, or Tyler Flowers or Dan Hudson. Gordon Beckham, I hope that's a deal breaker, but everyone else.............enjoy SD. It depends on what his scouts have told him. If they're unanimously saying that in 2012, Hudson it in your 2nd starter spot...that's a hugely useful piece. I wouldn't deal that for AGon unless I expected a big revenue boost before then, and we've already won our world series to get that.

QUOTE (SoxFan1 @ Feb 28, 2010 -> 04:10 AM) Hunter is here to coach Derrick Rose, and that's the only reason. And I'm perfectly fine with that. I'd much rather give minutes to Law than Pargo. Hunter is among the most highly paid coaches in the league.

Free wireless at this airport? Well, that's, that's just swell.

"I'd love to be able to holler at him. (pauses, not sure if he should say this)...that's one of....that's one of the most idiotic things you could do". -Local news broadcaster being picked up by CNN right now, talking about a guy walking along the beach.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Feb 27, 2010 -> 05:12 PM) I can't find anything on google news either, except that they were expecting two to three feet surge in Ventura. In most areas there tends to be a pretty steep sea-wall between most of the houses and the ocean, but there are some areas where it's a little bit flatter or where there's something like a beach-structure or a parking lot or a shopping place along the shore that I could see being affected by a couple feet, if it hit at high tide.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Feb 27, 2010 -> 05:10 PM) This isn't an injury that causes permanent damage. Once you give it time to heal, it is over. But, isn't there a possibility of having things snap if you keep pushing it (a-la, why they shut the Q down last year?)

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Feb 27, 2010 -> 05:06 PM) I just heard that too. There hasn't been a word about the west coast, everyone is watching Hawaii. Any details from local news out there? So far, the LATimes has nothing up.

QUOTE (knightni @ Feb 27, 2010 -> 05:00 PM) Geez. Look at those morons watching the waves come in on the webcam. Once you're 40 feet up, no reason not to watch.

The Pacific Warning Center has a report of damage in Ventura, CA.

QUOTE (MHizzle85 @ Feb 27, 2010 -> 05:02 PM) This team can't afford that. They also can't afford to do long-term damage to win a few games this year.

QUOTE (knightni @ Feb 27, 2010 -> 04:31 PM) Why buy supplies if the tsunami would just take them away? Because you can take your supplies up-slope with you. As long as you're >30 feet above sea level, anything you take is pretty much safe. Mauna Kea, for example, rises 14,000 feet. So you're in pretty good shape. Edit: except in the case of an asteroid impact in the Pacific Ocean or a sector collapse avalance of a Hawaiian volcano. Then you're in real trouble.

QUOTE (Athomeboy_2000 @ Feb 27, 2010 -> 04:19 PM) Freaking morons are SURFING right now. Yeah....

QUOTE (Athomeboy_2000 @ Feb 27, 2010 -> 04:21 PM) Waikiki beach waters are retreating 20-30 ft That's not unusual. Just means that in this direction, you have a negative wave first, it's going down first rather than going up. 20-30 feet out isn't all that far, when you consider that the slope is pretty shallow; that's only a couple feet down.

CNN just referred to receding waters on Coconut Island. That tree photo is from Coconut Island park.

QUOTE (knightni @ Feb 27, 2010 -> 04:04 PM) Headley and Kouzmanoff (who they send to Oak) are/were better than Morel potential-wise. Were either of them thought of as highly defensively as Morel is? Because defense is getting a lot more attention right now than it was a couple years ago.

Here's also a shot from above of Hilo bay.

Since I happened to have this photo, this is a shot of a tree in Hilo Bay, HI. The water there is the Pacific, so that is sea level. The rings on the tree mark tsunami levels. The top one marks 1960. 35 feet, I believe. The lower ones would be ~ a 10 feet tsunami, which is what they're talking about now, roughly.

Yeesh, already?

QUOTE (Stocking @ Feb 27, 2010 -> 02:32 PM) grow up, seriously. I live 1.5 miles off the coast but getting called into work to help the evacuation. Ocean across the street, I'll be on the sixth floor. Are you still along the Kona coast? What's the history with Tsunami on that side? You're kind of shielded by Hualalai there, right?

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Feb 27, 2010 -> 01:11 PM) And if it turns out worse than expected they don't have the luxury of driving out to some far suburb for supplies. They're on a island....in the middle of the ocean....thousands of miles away from other places. The other thing worth thinking about...how does Hawaii get its supplies? On the big island, basically you've got ports and you've got the Hilo airport and the single road around the island. The Hilo airport is at an elevation of about 10 meters above sea level. And every port, presumably, sits at sea level. So its entirely possible that there could be a cutoff of supplies for some time if the tsunami is big enugh.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Feb 27, 2010 -> 02:22 PM) People actually died in Kenya from the Boxing Day Tsunami. But, it was only a couple of them, because the warning got there, and because it wasn't as big as it was when it struck Sri Lanka, Aceh, or Thailand.

QUOTE (Athomeboy_2000 @ Feb 27, 2010 -> 02:03 PM) ahhh ok. I had the opposite impression that they dissipated over distance. Thanks for some education! Actually, you're 1/2 correct, they will dissipate in magnitude with distance. The way to think of it is that when the earthquake happens, it raises up a mountain of water that immediately collapses outwards. There's nothing in the way that slows down the collapse, but as the collapse covers more area, it does lose energy. An avalance is a decent reference for that. What happens when it gets towards land can, however, re-alter the format. For example, Hilo Bay is the kind of area that slopes inwards, so if you hit it at the right angle, the waves can interfere constructively, you can re-combine a portion of that energy, and thus you can re-energize it. The reason the wave gets bigger when it gets close to land is that when its in the open sea, the wave runs the full height of the ocean (a couple kilometers deep). When it gets close to shore, the bottom gets shallower, so all of the energy that in the open ocean is spread out thinly gets compacted into a few tens of meters or less, and then that's what hits the shoreline. A normal wave only impacts the surface; a tsunami is a wave of energy through the full depth of the ocean. They certainly will dissipate with distance, but the main dissipation for now is that it is covering more area. This tsunami will be register-able in the Atlantic tomorrow.

Eat it Calipari.