Balta1701

QUOTE (DBAHO @ Aug 6, 2009 -> 08:48 PM) Rashard didn't know what he was taking was banned on the NBA Drugs Policy FWIW, but he should have definitely known better than that. And I should believe that because I've never heard it from an athlete before?

QUOTE (DaveBrown85 @ Aug 6, 2009 -> 07:15 PM) and Thome's BOMB that he hit in game 163 plaque. LOL, because there's no seats in that area...he hit it that far...

QUOTE (lostfan @ Aug 6, 2009 -> 03:11 PM) So what you're saying is that Sarah Palin is actually Orly Taitz? (every time I see that name I think "Oily Tits")

I wonder how accurate those pitch locations/types are. Gameday seems to miss an awful lot of them to me, especially with certain pitchers (i.e. they have a 4 seamer, a 2 seamer, or a cutter that are close in velocity).

QUOTE (nitetrain8601 @ Aug 6, 2009 -> 02:37 PM) Finally. 10 games is a joke and I love Rashard as a player. The testing in the NBA is a joke and so is the penalty. Apparently, this has to be the second time he tested positive. Told some of you guys(not many here though), that steroids do benefit more than NFL and MLB players. Until they test for HGH though, LeBron probably won't be caught. I've been of the same line of thought for years. MLB denied that steroids could help them for the longest time too. The NBA probably has a worse steroid problem than baseball does right now, just because their testing program is so weak.

Another interesting note.

QUOTE (lostfan @ Aug 6, 2009 -> 02:52 PM) The protesters feel like they have a right to shout down town hall meetings, and they do, but someone needs to tell them they look and sound like screaming f***ing idiots and their overall contribution to the dialogue is less than worthless. They're doing their job. The media has been able to easily portray this as a "Populist anti-Obama uprising".

The NBA testing program finally gets someone.

Can we get a "Time to move JD down in the order" thread?

QUOTE (chw42 @ Aug 6, 2009 -> 01:40 PM) You must not have seen his play at 2B earlier this season. I don't think SS is really Nix's primary position. He's a kickass second baseman though. He was really reliable everywhere on the field earlier this year, it seemed to me. It seems like he's making a ton more errors everywhere lately. Could be just a result of being moved around so much.

QUOTE (BigEdWalsh @ Aug 6, 2009 -> 12:28 PM) Just wondering...Kerry Wood. How does a closer with a 4.97 ERA have even as many as 15 Saves? It's boggling my mind. Basically that's what pitching a small number of innings every year will do for you. A couple really bad outings and your ERA never recovers.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Aug 6, 2009 -> 12:29 PM) Was it for PTBNL or cash? Either way I think we gave up too much.

QUOTE (Tex @ Aug 6, 2009 -> 12:38 PM) Could this thread follow her all the way to the White House in 2012? I think that either the Secret Service or the military will stop that angry mob before it gets there.

Bring it D1.

I still can't believe they haven't grabbed him as a spokesperson.

QUOTE (santo=dorf @ Aug 6, 2009 -> 07:17 AM) What studies are there that say organic is much more healthier than regular vegetables? I'd glady eat pesticide plants over organic Chinese (20% of the organic market) fruits and vegetables. How much healthier are (supposedly) organic foods over traditional grown plants? Enough to offset anything the human body takes in? Example: Am I just as healthy to eat an organic carrot and drink a Coke instead of eating a regular carrot and drinking water? If so, is that even worth the cost. Toss out the junk food: How longer would one expect to live on an organic versus non-organic diet? A coke is terrible for you. You're better off with the regular carrot and tap water. I think I said something to this effect in my long post: studies show there are some benefits health-wise to organic food. They tend to contain more vitamins, etc. But it's so complicated that there are dozens of studies saying different things; there's no easy answer. It's going to take years, decades of study. Different foods have different levels of benefits, there are very limited studies on the effects of certain pesticides and fertilizers on people, etc. Some effects, like increasing or decreasing rates of cancer, might take 30 or 40 years to show up. And then the real rub becomes; how do you compare people eating an organic-only diet to a non-organic-only diet...because your 2 groups aren't necessarily sampling the key part of the problem. If you're focusing on eating healthy and you wash your foods, etc., the difference with organic foods is much smaller than the difference between those 2 groups and the folks eating at McDonalds 4 times a week.

QUOTE (iamshack @ Aug 5, 2009 -> 11:31 PM) I think the market will correct itself though. A lot of teams were stuck with many of the inflated contracts that were signed between 2003 - Present and had to make overcorrections last season. I think now that teams realize their stadiums aren't going to be empty, the market will bounce back a bit. I don't know if it will reach the levels it did in the recent past, at least in terms of second tier players (those not superstars), but I think it will bounce back. I don't see a whole lot of Adam Dunn/Bobby Abreu/Orlando Hudson type contracts this offseason. Who knows though. A lot of these teams though are still looking to chop salary. MLB salaries in total actually declined this season, and I'd expect them to do even more so next offseason. The only thing that might change that trend is the Yankees.

QUOTE (Jordan4life @ Aug 6, 2009 -> 05:28 AM) He's been incredible the last 2 1/2 months. He's having a better season than last year (which is kinda shocking considering his ERA stood at 6.54 on May 22nd). He's proven all the Sabergeeks wrong, and he's totally justified the faith the organization showed in him with the 4-year extension. Take out a couple of those bad starts and his name would be in the Cy Young running.

QUOTE (bmags @ Aug 6, 2009 -> 08:20 AM) does bringing up Hudson now change anything in his arbitration schedule? Complicated question. Depends on how long he stays up for.

Welcome to the party!

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Aug 5, 2009 -> 07:57 PM) I'd love to shop at the local farmer's market but it runs from something like 7-9 on Saturdays. That's prime sleeping time. edit: and, as Balta points out, eating 'better' means paying more. Processed, mass-produced food is cheap. It's cheap at the time of purchase. The health care you have to get resulting from it is expensive and is an indirect cost.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Aug 5, 2009 -> 07:54 PM) If I remember what I've read correctly, our highly-homogeneous agricultural strains are susceptible to some sort of pandemic which would lead to world-wide food shortages. Our factory farm meat production system also is very susceptible to diseases and can in fact help create virulent strains (Typically, if say, a bug mutates in to a particularly virulent form of swine flu, it dies out pretty quick because it's strong. But if there are 100,000 other pigs sitting right next door...suddenly the virus can move through the community and develop and mutate in to something that can hit humans. You may have heard of the results of this).

Really surprised they're using Thornton here

QUOTE (mu mu @ Aug 5, 2009 -> 07:36 PM) I'd put Jenks in if Gavin can't hold it down. He's still unavailable

Now our 3-4-5 guys are contributing a little bit. That's a nice addition to the last few nights without them.