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QUOTE (mr_genius @ Jul 1, 2008 -> 02:42 PM) Ah yes the Geraldo Rivera award. Anytime you almost get yourself killed you are a great journalist. He's a complete idiot, his reporting is terrible and you can just tell that he's dumb as a rock when you see him on tv. And yes Bmags, he tells a narrative, which is a shameful technique in covering the news. Any journalist that goes out and cherry picks stories to coincide with their political narrative, while completely ignoring relevant important stories which may contradict that political narrative, is a hack. I could go on and on about this, but I will no longer hijack the Obama thread. Maybe I'll go post a rant in the GOP only thread. Well, in response I'll say that I really haven't watched his show in recent years because I'm working 2 jobs & never home at that hour, so on that interpretation I'll leave it up to you. I'll still say he did solid work in the 90's.

QUOTE (iamshack @ Jul 1, 2008 -> 01:26 PM) The difference between $2 million and say, $400k is not as much as you are claiming for a big league team. Florida excluded.

QUOTE (bmags @ Jul 1, 2008 -> 02:33 PM) you know I continue to find posts like these funny. So many of these stories pop up in these forums with the basic theme calling Europe p***** but you'd find more hatred for Islam there than in the US. There's a reason those cartoons showed up in Belgium. The cartoons actually turned up in Denmark.

QUOTE (mr_genius @ Jul 1, 2008 -> 02:10 PM) he's a horrible journalist. i'll just leave it at that. Strictly in terms of his journalistic abilities...I'll grade him as excellent...but a lot of that comes from his work back in the 90's, when he started working with the "channel one" program beamed to a number of schools across the country (Including mine). They had a habit of constantly trying to kill him. They sent him a fair number of places that no other network was sending people, like the middle of the Bosnian war, I think he hit up Rwanda although I could be mistaken, etc.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Jul 1, 2008 -> 01:08 PM) If Aardsma had MacDougal's contract last winter, Boston wouldn't have traded for him. Because Boston hates throwing around $4 million dollars.

QUOTE (mr_genius @ Jul 1, 2008 -> 01:02 PM) No one would care. I've basically heard it said a bunch of times on tv and by Obama supporters. I also wonder if McCain is too old to be president, I guess that makes me guilty of ageism. But it's unrealistic to not question it when someone would be 78 after their second term. So if some 98 year old runs for president no one can question if their too old? He'd actually be 80.

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Jul 1, 2008 -> 12:59 PM) More proof that cable tv news is the worst thing to happen to the world in the last 25 years. "Hi"

QUOTE (bmags @ Jul 1, 2008 -> 11:09 AM) do you think in August or so, we can pair up Danks and Masset so Danks will come out at 5.0 and use our lightly-used bullpen? When it's all said and done us using our bullpen so little is going to be a huge advantage. I think there are several possibilities. Either you can just shut Danks down and put him on the DL for a couple weeks just to keep him fresh (Just call it "Tightness"), you can just have him skip a couple starts (This is what Detroit did with Verlander in 06) or you can basically give him September off when the rosters expand and Broadway and Loaiza come back up. Again, the 160 innings thing is just a rule of thumb, some pitchers are able to add more than 30 innings in a year and survive without injury, but it just seems to be asking for so much trouble (See: Gallardo) that I really hope they don't push him too far beyond that.

QUOTE (Chisoxfn @ Jul 1, 2008 -> 11:12 AM) He broke down even earlier last season, but if you look at his minor league inning totals you can see that he hasn't even come close to throwing the amount of innings that it takes to pitch in a complete major league season and the White Sox need to be aware and careful because if you push him too far past his prior year inning totals you take a major chance at ruining a promising arm (and this is statistically proven). Danks's limit this season should be about 160 innings. He's thrown 92.2 in the first half.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jul 1, 2008 -> 09:12 AM) The main opponents of free trades are the unions who are hurting their own workers by burying their heads in the sand for their own self interests. Look no further than the auto industry. Free trade makes many more products affordable to everyday Americans, but you won't see that in the union propaganda. Think about what $4 gasoline would look like if we had protectionist trade that made the cost of a Japanese car prohibative for all but the richer classes. You'd be stuck with one of the SUVs that are rusting on the lots, because the US auto companies would have no reason to change their behaviors. It does cost Americans jobs, but more American jobs get hurt by ineffecient industries than ever get hurt by free trade. Some people just have been lobby's. But then again, think about how much we'd have been helped if we'd had freer trade in things like the investor classes, if they weren't so well protected by those same "free" trade agreements. Hell, we might have had investors who were intelligent enough to realize that a gigantic bubble was building in real estate. But then again, those guys have even better lobbyists than the unions.

QUOTE (Chisoxfn @ Jul 1, 2008 -> 08:26 AM) You would have loved his curve....it was filthy. Once they got the big lead he was throwing strikes and trying to pitch to contact. Ok, I only had his line to work with and I saw the 4 runs given up but 10 k's, given how he's struggled his last couple outings especially after defensive flubs I was hoping he'd have a better looking game.

QUOTE (Jordan4life @ Jun 30, 2008 -> 08:11 PM) When he's gettin' it over, Floyd's curve rivals any other pitcher's best pitch in all of baseball. Just nasty. Floyd's control was pretty bad in the first inning. Did he manage to settle down more after that in terms of throwing strikes?

QUOTE (lostfan @ Jul 1, 2008 -> 05:38 AM) The O's have zero talent at SS. I was at the Astros-O's game a couple weeks ago and they booed Tejada when he came to bat, I don't know why, it's not like he ever did anything to hurt Baltimore. I don't think the whole B-12 shot thing and the Mitchell report did anything to help him there. How would you feel if you paid about $12 million a year to a guy who turned up in the Mitchell report?

QUOTE (lostfan @ Jun 30, 2008 -> 05:36 PM) I agree in principle with asking how his military service translates into qualification, command experience or whatever (it's not automatic contrary to popular belief, and this is where Wesley Clark was going) or the fact that being a POW, outside of respect, doesn't really add anything. But going outside of that is just cheap. Has Gen. Clark actually gone outside that?

Ok, now it's down to Crede vs. Swisher for the team grand slam title.

QUOTE (southsideirish71 @ Jun 30, 2008 -> 05:49 PM) Floyds curve looks nasty tonight. Been out of the office for an hour...folks, has floyd looked to settle down after the walks in the first?

7 strikes, 12 balls.

QUOTE (kapkomet @ Jun 30, 2008 -> 02:26 PM) Can you tell me more (without posting a huge link that I don't have time to read - I need the cliff notes version... ) Ok, bullet points: 1. Collisions of the sort that will happen in the LHC happen all the time in the universe, in the solar system, and even on earth (involving solar and cosmic rays hitting each other or hitting celestial bodies). Therefore, there is no reason to be afraid of them. 2. In the event of something unexpected happening, like the generation of a black hole, the Earth would not be destroyed, because a black hole or other wierd particle like a magnetic monopole would die out very quickly because of its small size (a small black hole would lose the energy within it very, very rapidly, although it'd be really cool to do, and it wouldn't destroy the planet. A tiny black hole is not a dangerous gravitational well like the larger ones...in fact, it's basically just a rapid system for converting matter to energy because that's all it would do)

QUOTE (YASNY @ Jun 30, 2008 -> 02:00 PM) If you look at the two trades with the D'backs as one, you have Viscaino, El Duque, Young and Carter for Vasquez and Quentin. Not too shabby. We picked up a couple million dollars also.

QUOTE (Chisoxfn @ Jun 30, 2008 -> 02:29 PM) Gordon is the superior offensive player, however, Hughes has a very unique skill-set and I figure he's going to stick on the Bulls because they can't get rid of him. He isn't excatly an efficient offensive scorer but aside from that he can handle the ball better than Gordon and is a much better defender. He does have injury issues though and one could question how well he'll play within an offense (but than again, I don't really see how Gordon plays within an offense). The one big benefit of Hughes and the reason you might want to hold him at this point...he's a 2010 year monstrous expiring contract. That's the Lebron/Wade year. We may not be in a position to make a run at either of those 2, especially if we use the MLE or we trade Hinrich/Noc and don't get back an expiring deal...but for a team like the Knicks, Nets, or others who want to sink their teeth in to those 2 players...the value of that contract is only going to go up from here (and that's assuming Hughes simply doesn't even play for the next 2 years).

Gavin, time to get your head out of your tail and end this dead arm period or whatever it's been for you lately. Have a day G. Floyd.

It won't destroy the earth.

QUOTE (Benchwarmerjim @ Jun 30, 2008 -> 01:12 PM) from baseball-reference AL leads NL 149-102 (1247 runs to 1010) With 1 makeup game still to play IIRC.

QUOTE (SoxFan1 @ Jun 29, 2008 -> 08:49 PM) Put it this way, Rose-Gordon-Deng-Brand-Noah is the best offensive 5 the Bulls can put on the court this year, and I'll tell you why. While I totally agree with you that your lineup there is as good of a 5 as the Bulls can put on the court this year...I'll still fire back that "The best offensive 5 the Bulls can put on the court this year" should not by any means be Paxson's goal right now. His goal should be to have the best team assembled possible for the 2010-2011 season and beyond, because you just have to assume Rose's learning curve is going to take a couple years, and trying to win now has a strong chance of hurting you down the road.

Thanks again MB. 3-3. Honestly, more of a sigh of relief than elation.