Balta1701

This one's for Tex. The Hammer will be on this season's Dancing with the Stars. Personally, I'm rooting for the Chairman.

QUOTE (SoxAce @ Aug 17, 2009 -> 01:52 PM) It's predictable to say/think Balta kills every mood and thread imaginable. Just means I need to make a poop joke to redeem myself.

I'd also imagine there's a big difference relating to the type of surface you're running on. Grass/turf with cleats is going to give in a totally different way than sprinter shoes on a track.

Great, now we're getting even more childish.

QUOTE (Rowand44 @ Aug 17, 2009 -> 12:37 PM) This team seems to focus much more against really good teams(Dodgers, Rays, Yankees, Angels), that guy named Jake Peavy might help a little bit too. When all you have to do is be 3 games above .500 in a 19 game stretch, and you can throw out Peavy, Buehrle, Floyd, Danks, you've got a shot at dominating every time.

Tough.

QUOTE (lostfan @ Aug 17, 2009 -> 07:36 AM) Eh, Marion Jones was a huge source of excitement for the Sydney Olympics and she turned out to be a cheater too. I think we'd get over it. Kinda sad we see a superhuman feat and immediately that's what we think.

QUOTE (chw42 @ Aug 17, 2009 -> 09:03 AM) Jay Blazer says that Favre could go to the Vikings after all. Can he just go away already? I wonder if this one is just someone from the media trying to keep their name out there. After all, if you want to make something up to get your story picked up nationwide, you've got like a full year where people will genuinely believe you.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Aug 16, 2009 -> 09:06 PM) Try near 100%. He said "Pass through". 100% are put on waivers. I'd bet something like 20% seriously pass through.

Mark!

QUOTE (knightni @ Aug 17, 2009 -> 08:59 AM) Has the deadline passed? Midnight tonight.

QUOTE (Quinarvy @ Aug 16, 2009 -> 09:59 PM) Nah, they can't draft him next year without his consent. All that would mean though is that Boras would go from having to convince Washington to hand over $50 million to having to convince Pittsburgh or K.C. to hand over $50 million. That's the predicament for their side; he's never going to fall to the Yankees, and he can only hold out for so many seasons.

QUOTE (Markbilliards @ Aug 17, 2009 -> 06:46 AM) You think some people would consider Quentin above average in LF? I guess he doesn't fail to make a lot of routine plays, but at the same time I've never felt impressed by him in anyway. With the way he's running right now, absolutely not. Last year was probably better than this, but he wasn't exactly lighting it up out there. Wasn't getting good jumps on the ball or covering a lot of ground, although he had a couple OF assists on impressive throws IIRC. A number of folks have speculated he'd be better in RF.

QUOTE (SoxAce @ Aug 16, 2009 -> 07:35 PM) :lolhitting I hope you just meant Nix as a utility fielder (SS, 3B, LF etc.) Not second base. Nix has just been bad lately. He was really solid earlier in the year at all 3 positions, but lately he's just been an error machine. 2b is not as bad as SS for him, but he's had some iffy ones at 2b lately too.

So let's see...if you lose your job and get sick you're SOL, oh well. Yeah, that's a workable system right there. Also nice to see you ignored the study I posted a while back showing that 80% of the country's health insurance markets are considered "Highly concentrated" and although there's different companies dominating in different regions they're really not competing with each other at the level of local markets, and you seem to have a problem with spending at the ER yet you think it's totally ok for people to go without insurance? And no, it's still not possible to get insurance in the private market. I couldn't, I have bad knees. My wife couldn't either for other reasons. The only way anyone in my current family can get insurance is through an employer. No one would take either of us otherwise. And yes, that last statement is Kaperbolic at some level. But let's actually go to the data. The insurance companies admitted under questioning, in a way that they tried to make it sound like a defense, that their recission rate, the rate at which people who are filing claims get canceled completely for various reasons, is 0.5%. If you do the math, that means that somewhere between 10% and 50% of the really expensive people are having their policies canceled when they need them. Over a 5 year period, that totaled over 20,000 people between just 3 insurance companies. Every one of those people is someone who was actually sick who had their policy canceled underneath them because they got sick.

Xanadu makes more sense than this.

Cowboys receiver Roy Williams hurts his wrist. XRays and MRI are coming.

QUOTE (fathom @ Aug 16, 2009 -> 03:57 PM) you know you're my favorite on here, but I disagree. I don't think there's anyone on here that wants to see Jenks pitch in non-save situations. This season, prior to today, his ERA in save situations was 3.49, non-save situations was 4.26. Not terrible, but not good. But he's only had 13 innings in non-save situations; like 1 or 2 runs is a huge difference.

You know, now that I check, Jenks's career numbers in save and non-save situations are almost identical.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Aug 16, 2009 -> 03:52 PM) Jenks has appeared in 263 major league games. 102 of those in non save situations. What are his records in those situations?

QUOTE (Buehrle>Wood @ Aug 16, 2009 -> 03:43 PM) We could use another Walker thread...in all seriousness. Since the AS Break we're #10 in MLB in runs scored. We're up to #14 in MLB on the season despite the dreadful start.

Argh.

OK, one pitch one out.

Jenks? Uh-Oh. Come on Bobby, if their closer can do it so can you.

Is Dotel or Thornton coming out for the 9th?