Balta1701

This is the best data I've seen since the correlation between global warming and number of pirates.

Juan Cole has a couple useful pieces up. Here's his general politics one and here's why he thinks the election was stolen.

Viciedo's only limitation is going to be the strikeouts.

So who's ERA will get below 4 first, Contreras or Floyd?

QUOTE (mr_genius @ Jun 13, 2009 -> 12:36 PM) or wait to see if might have won legit, then if not find a bunch of ballots. then win. or have the supreme court give you the win. either way, winner winner chicken dinner. does Iran have a supreme court type institution? There is a court system with a Supreme Court, but like in many things, it appears that its rulings are strongly subject to the will of the clerics at the top.

Usually if you're going to rig an election you're smart enough to make it 51-49. Hell, there were 4 candidates here, he could have won it 51-30-10-10 and it would still have looked better and avoided the runoff.

QUOTE (joesaiditstrue @ Jun 13, 2009 -> 11:56 AM) Isn't there some sort of rule where you can't re-sign a player to less than their arbitration price? Or does it not apply because Jermaine still has an option year left? If you offer him arbitration, the lowest possible offer the Sox can make is 80% of his current salary for this year if he accepts arbitration. You could also sign him to a contract before the arbitration offers are due.

QUOTE (chw42 @ Jun 13, 2009 -> 08:07 AM) If you get rid of Dye's option for next season, you could definitely use the money on Holliday. He's going to come at around $15 million annually for about 4-5 years. Don't know if the Sox would take that deal on. But since his trade to Oakland, he is going to cost a hell of a lot less. No one is going to come close to giving him that money. This isn't the market 2 years ago.

QUOTE (SoxAce @ Jun 12, 2009 -> 09:08 PM) Jordan Danks certainly has been working on striking out less since his jump. He's actually around the same number as earlier this season with W-S and remember he's jumped a level. WS: AVG-.322 AB-118 H-38 R-25 2B-11 3B-2 HR-3 RBI-21 BB-18 SO-32 SB-5 CS-1 OBP-.409 SLG-.525 OPS-.934 BIR: AVG-.314 AB-118 H-37 R-20 2B-5 3B-1 HR-3 RBI-11 BB-14 SO-31 SB-3 CS-2 OBP-.383 SLG-.449 OPS-.833 He's hitting less XBH and he's cooled off a bit, but he's still been very impressive. That's still on pace for 130+ strikeouts in a 500 at bat season. His BABIP in the minors is still up over .400.

Jermaine has a $12 million mutual option for 2012 with a $1 million buyout. If both sides agree, then he will stay with the Sox for 1 more year and earn $12 million for that season. If either side disagrees, the Sox will get out of it by paying an additional $1 million. The arbitration rules are complicated, but the important detail is this; if the White Sox offer arbitration, the least possible amount that JD could get by accepting arbitration is 80% of his salary this year. The Sox could therefore offer arbitration, but they'd be guaranteeing him a 1 year deal worth over $9 million, in addition to paying the $1 million buyout. Given that the going rate for an OF like JD right now is probably 1/2 that, the odds of the Sox offering him arbitration are very low.

QUOTE (mr_genius @ Jun 12, 2009 -> 08:42 PM) CBS News : "OMG OMG Lindsey Lohan!! OMG OMG! " did you guys see that the Bill O'reily show has higher ratings than the CBS nightly news now? wow Have you been drinking?

QUOTE (kapkomet @ Jun 12, 2009 -> 05:31 PM) OMG, FEAR FEAR FEAR FEAR FEAR FEAR FEAR. So, you'd like to explain why more nuclear plants are a good idea?

That's just a smokescreen to make the Cubs offer more.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Jun 12, 2009 -> 05:16 PM) With Brian Anderson hitting 5th? What teams are these, besides the Nationals and Padres? At least those teams have Gonzalez and Dunn/Guzman...we have Dye and that's about it. The Nationals have a fairly good offense actually. This reminds me of the lineups the Cardinals, Reds, Braves, etc. have been running out.

British Nuclear accident only avoided by guy deciding to do laundry at the right time. I would also like to note that the Republicans this week released their version of an energy bill - which included building 100 additional nuclear plants in the U.S.

QUOTE (Athomeboy_2000 @ Jun 12, 2009 -> 04:54 PM) How long until ImANutJob makes the Iranian presidency a life term? He doesn't have the power to do that, silly.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Jun 12, 2009 -> 05:10 PM) It will be a minor miracle if we win one game this series with the line-up we're putting out there. Frankly, this lineup looks an awful lot like a normal NL lineup for 80% of the teams in that league.

That was one early pickoff.

We have 1 guy in our lineup today with an OPS over .750.

QUOTE (joejoedairy @ Jun 12, 2009 -> 04:54 PM) Since paulie is hurt, you think ozzie would give any consideration to thome playing first at all on this roadtrip? Frankly, no. He'll be a PH and that's it.

QUOTE (GoSox05 @ Jun 12, 2009 -> 04:31 PM) He would be a nice free agent to sign in the off season, but Boras kinda kills that. We're going to be one of the best destinations in the fall, we'll be a team that legitimately can spend money. And unless we improve...we'll be able to sign a type A guy without losing our first round pick.

Brian Anderson is hitting 5th for us.

The A's didn't give up a ton to get him...but here's the question...what would we be willing to give up that would be worth more to the A's than the 2 draft picks? That sounds like it'd be on the order of Richard or Poreda as payment to me.

Yes. Any time you pump anything in to the ground at pressure, you have the potential to trigger seismic activity. There is some finite amount of stress distributed throughout the earth's crust...usually it's less than it takes to fracture the rock or cause an earthquake. But if you pump a fluid in to there...the fluid is a hydrostatic pressure medium...in other words, you push on any 1 side of it with an amount of pressure and it applies that pressure in all 3 geometric directions. Rocks however are not hydrostatic; they have yield strength. If you pump in a fluid, because it's hydrostatic, you change the relationship between the stresses being felt and you can set off earthquakes. If that doesn't make sense, the short answer is "Yes", pumping a fluid in to the ground can set off earthquakes and fracturing. It's certainly not a guarantee that this is the single cause - a lot of things change tectonically and earthquake swarms do happen randomly, so there could be other causes, but pumping in fluids at pressure is certainly one way to move rocks to a state of failure. It's an interesting geoengineering topic actually. Some have proposed that pumping water in to a fault like the San Andreas might be a way to get it to creep along setting off only smaller earthquakes than it normally does. But no one wants to deal with the insurance implications, especially if something goes wrong.

QUOTE (lostfan @ Jun 12, 2009 -> 02:09 PM) Yeah, and it should've ended there, but she's clearly grandstanding now. She actually said something to the effect that Letterman was a child molester. So basically the only reason anyone is still talking about this is that it is press for Sarah Palin that makes someone else look bad?