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QUOTE(The Critic @ Nov 16, 2007 -> 05:28 PM) Not exactly "significantly" more likely to strike out IMO... That's not at all how one would determine whether or not a correlation was significant. If nothing else, the obvious place to start is to determine the average. For every guy at the top of the list, there's a guy at the bottom of the list too. So you could probably calculate an average per player amongst each letter, and an average k/ab for each letter as well.

QUOTE(Gregory Pratt @ Nov 16, 2007 -> 03:53 PM) It is definitely possible. /Devil's advocate ... I would like to know -- why is Bonds a "cheater" and what rules did he break? Didn't his juicing, and McGwire's/Sosa's juicing/everybody else's juicing come before it was a Major League rule? Or am I missing something?` According to several published reports, including this one, in 1991 Fay Vincent sent around a memo explicitly stating that Steroids would be placed on MLB's banned substance list. While there was no testing for it, it was therefore supposedly something that you'd treat like, I dunno, Steve Howe's cocaine problem; if a guy was caught doing something then he was caught breaking the rules and MLB would have the ability to react.

QUOTE(heirdog @ Nov 16, 2007 -> 01:58 PM) No way we get one of those propects let alone 2 or 3 from the Dodgers unless we add more to the deal. I could see Crede, Garland and MacDougal/Thornton for Kemp/Loney, Abreu and Broxton. I would do that deal as Kemp would immediately fill an OF hole, Broxton would set-up for Jenks and Abreu/Richar would battle it out for 2B. Maybe we could get them to "throw in" Hu. Why would you go after Abreu instead of Hu?

QUOTE(NorthSideSox72 @ Nov 16, 2007 -> 02:22 PM) What is that, a video game character or something? Street Fighter 2.

QUOTE(FlaSoxxJim @ Nov 16, 2007 -> 01:36 PM) Inexplicably in the mood for some Pink Floyd now. It's almost as though we have a thread running titled "The Wall"

QUOTE(kapkomet @ Nov 16, 2007 -> 01:22 PM) oh goodie. Our country is trying to keep us in! Well, in another 6 months...if you try to go overseas and buy something using dollars...

QUOTE(longshot7 @ Nov 16, 2007 -> 12:40 PM) How do I do the black box?

QUOTE(bschmaranz @ Nov 16, 2007 -> 12:40 PM) Only other guy that hasn't been mentioned that has played for us is Schoenweis, but did we sign him or trade for him? Honestly can't remember. EDIT: Nevermind, just noticed Blackbetsy mentioned Schoenweis was traded to the Sox from the Halos in a deal involving Danny Glover. He then, IIRC, decided to get real angry about the fact that he wasn't starting, got a starting job, and got hurt. All while on steroids. It's a wonderful story.

Btw, was I the only one who found some measure of poetic justice in the fact that ARod's resigning yesterday was upstaged by a bigger event in a funny reminder of how ARod managed to go about trying to upstage the Red Sox in the 8th inning of game 4?

QUOTE(YASNY @ Nov 16, 2007 -> 11:44 AM) Pearls and diamonds last. Haircuts just get shaggy in a few weeks. Diamond is only metastable at atmospheric pressure. Put enough heat in and your diamond goes back to coal!

QUOTE(Texsox @ Nov 16, 2007 -> 11:36 AM) I wonder if this was MLB, and not the United States of America, going after players, which end they would have started, if they would have started at all. Did you pay attention to the performances of Selig et al. a few years ago when they went before Congress? They were 100% about covering their own ass. None of this would have ever happened had the government not gotten involved.

The video from PBS's episode of NOVA on the Dover, PA Intelligent Design decision is now available online.

"Mr. Burns, your campaign seems to have the momentum of a runaway freight train. Why are you so popular?"

If you don't eat your meat, you can't have any pudding. How can you have any pudding if you don't eat your meat?

The Ordonez situation with Boras was also a mess. Mags flipped his agent to Boras mid-season during his contract year IIRC. Don't recall if it was before or after he got hurt, but at least the press reports I remember have Mags basically saying that he wanted to stay with the Sox, then going overseas to have an experimental surgery on his injured leg without getting explicit approval from the Sox medical staff, continuing to say he wanted to stay with the Sox, then refusing to even allow the Sox to examine his post-surgery knee before the arbitration deadline, and thus leaving the Sox no choice but to let him walk without offering arbitration, because if he'd accepted we'd have been on the hook for $15 million for a guy who's health was probably more in question than Joe's is right now. If nothing else, we probably could have used those draft picks that we didn't get from Detroit that year.

Summary from the Atlantic.

A team like the Astros would be foolish not to take a flyer on Tad.

Since we're on the subject of the guys @ ESPN, here's one of them in writing. Interesting thought line there. This did come awfully rapidly after the nomination of the new AG was approved. Perhaps Mr. Anderson was water-boarded? Anywho, that's got to play into this somehow. And the positive test thing is going to be big...because that might well say something about those 2003 MLB tests, because who else would have given ones that we hadn't heard about?

QUOTE(Tony82087 @ Nov 15, 2007 -> 03:58 PM) BTW, if Lowell goes to NY, does Boston look at Crede? Or maybe they move Youk to 3rd, go after Kong?? I think there'd be a real solid chance of them gambling on either Crede or Rolen if Lowell were to leave. Who else is out there who'd be a solid 3rd baseman other than Cabrera?

QUOTE(witesoxfan @ Nov 15, 2007 -> 02:07 PM) OHHHHHH NO

For now it's still an outlier, but it's also following the recent trends, so it's worth noting this ARG poll showing Huckabee and Romney statistically tied in Iowa.

PlantsforHillary.com

3 year deal to replace LoDuca. Money not disclosed yet.

QUOTE(Kalapse @ Nov 15, 2007 -> 10:45 AM) In order to land Herges you'll have to give him 2 guaranteed years. He will be 38 next year. I have no problem guaranteeing a reliever 2 years even at age 38. Not if we're in a position where we need a reliever, which we are. That's what, an extra $2 million? Big deal, we're spending more on Uribe for 1 year than we probably would on Herges for 2. It's not like a 2 year, $3-$4 million deal would hamstring this team even in the worst case. He blows his arm out and needs TJ surgery while signing the contract...D'Oh. It was such a small gamble that it really wouldn't kill anything.

QUOTE(Texsox @ Nov 15, 2007 -> 10:11 AM) Is the question ever which guy will make us a better team? I think that's the base of all of it. Which one leaves us as a better team...Torii Hunter with an insane deal or Rowand with a more sane but still not totally so deal. I still think a deal for that Fukudome guy might be the best of the lot.