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Cleveland got on one of those streaks last year and made a run past us sometime after the all star break when we were falling apart. That's the reason everyone kept saying Cleveland would be so much better this year. I'm starting to think they're one of the streakiest teams in baseball. Fact is, we've got a big lead on them and we're due for a hot streak as well. Jake Westbrook has reverted to his 2003 form, with an ERA over 4.5 and as many losses this year as he had all year last year. Their big off-season acquisition was Juan Gone (on the DL). They have Sabbathia back, and Millwood might be coming off the DL soon, but they don't have nearly enough to make a run for this division. Not unless the Twins and the Sox both fall apart.

There is 1 more set of split lines that we shouldn't forget with El Duque: ERA wins losses innings games Postseason 3.59 16 9 223.0 35

QUOTE(Chisoxfn @ Jun 16, 2005 -> 05:50 PM) Is the New Madrid one that one that was in Missouri where they had like two magnitude 10 quakes in like a 2 year period? That was back in the 1800's if I recall or early 1900's. Yes, that was New Madrid, although they weren't magnitude 10's, they were in the magnitude 8 range. It was centered in Kentucky and Tennessee, although that would have hit Missouri and Illinois and Indiana as well. And in case anyone's interested, this afternoon's quake was revised downwards to a 4.9.

Personally I didn't think he was saying that the U.S. was holding U.S. citizens at Gitmo, I read it as him saying the government is giving us no information at all about those people and saying that we should trust the government when it says that they're all bad. But given the fact that the government has explicitly declared that it does not need to tell us who those prisoners are, what their crimes are, or even where they come from, there's nothing you could do to disprove a claim that they were holding a U.S. citizen there (or for that matter, in one of those secret facilities run by the CIA into which people like Khalid Muhammad have disappeared). In fact, I'd say that speculating that there are U.S. citizens at Gitmo is no more idle than speculating that everyone at Gitmo is guilty or speculating that the U.S. will give them a fair trial. Without genuine proof and some sort of open procedure, everything both sides say is just idle speculation.

QUOTE(Jabroni @ Jun 16, 2005 -> 04:06 PM) Buehrle has a 3-year contract worth $18 million... 2007: $9.5 million option; $1 million buyout[/color] Is that a team option? Considering that the price of a quality starting pitcher in the FA Market has already topped about $10 million thanks to the Yankees last year, I'd say that in 2007 MB for $9.5 million might seem like a bargain still. Might even give us leverage to negotiate another 3 year deal.

QUOTE(Chisoxfn @ Jun 16, 2005 -> 04:33 PM) In general, anywhere there are hills there are or at one point were faults. Thats at least my rule of thumb. I still say rather live in earthquake country than deal with blizzards, hail storms, and tornado's. Actually, I'd say instead that everyehwere you go you can find old faults. Even in the middle of plain states where all of the hills have eroded away. They're just buried under significant amounts of sediments, and many are inactive, but there are still cracks in the ground basically everywhere you go. The most common example given is the New Madrid fault zone - area in the Ohio River valley, southern indiana, basically flat for millions of years, only topography is due to erosion, and it experienced the 3 largest earthquakes in recorded Us History in the early 1800's.

QUOTE(SoxFan1 @ Jun 16, 2005 -> 02:48 PM) Wow, I didn't know that. Enlighten me.........how do the ycategorize tsunami's? As far as I know, there's no richter-scale type classification system for tsunami...what's usually done is that the height of tsunami is estimated based on how high up the water goes at a particular distance from the earthquake epicenter. Just for an example...the Sumatran tsunami actually did strike New York and Washington D.C. It's just that at that distance, it was hard to discern amongst all the other waves.

I think I just found the single best comment on Durbin's remarks that I'm going to find.

QUOTE(FlaSoxxJim @ Jun 16, 2005 -> 02:41 PM) As long as you don't have to ask her, 'did you feel that?', then it's OK. No but I did shout it down the hallway in the basement here. 2 people other than me did feel it, 2 didn't. You know, one of these days I'm going to bring my camera to school & take a couple pictures of the news vehicles lining up outside here whenever there's a quake. I biked behind a guy from NBC4 last Saturday when there was that 5.6 quake in the south of the state. Ah the joys of being a Caltech geology student.

QUOTE(kapkomet @ Jun 16, 2005 -> 02:35 PM) I bet everyone is calling everyone going "did you feel that!!??!!" My fiancee has called me like 4 times already...

QUOTE(Chisoxfn @ Jun 16, 2005 -> 02:17 PM) Ya, I figure the Newport one would of been too small. Of course for my sake the Newport one is the one that would do the most damage to the area I live in. Its been a dormant fault for a long time, but its ripped off some of the larger earthquakes in the state and goes down all the way to ingelwood (which is where the Lakers used to play before Staples Center). There are dormant faults all over the LA Basin. That's the biggest thing we learned from Northridge; they're just all over the place. Downtown, just about every suburb, hell there's one a few miles south of me now. This place is cracked up to hell and back. The reason you don't know it is that most of them have recurrence intervals on the order of 10,000 years or more.

Yeah, the Newport quake was a 2.0 - almost no humans can feel that. The Yucaipa one was actually pretty nice sized - a 5.3 according to the early # from the USGS. Incidentally, I wrote a bit last night on why earthquakes are nothing out of the ordinary last night for the tsunami alert thread.

QUOTE(Chisoxfn @ Jun 16, 2005 -> 02:01 PM) I don't know which one I felt. There was a 2.0 or so in Newport Beach and right at that same time there was a 5.3 in Yucaippa. Newport is only like 10-15 minutes from where I am but thats a pretty weak earthquake. The shaking lasted for about 3-5 seconds. Almost no humans can feel a 2.0. You felt the 5.3. So did I. There's a thread about this in the Politics section.

QUOTE(LosMediasBlancas @ Jun 16, 2005 -> 12:03 PM) Exactly. Didn't we say the same thing before the Tigers signed him? I've learned to never be surprised by how much or how long a guy is signed for. Just because you're not surprised doesn't mean you can't laugh at the idiots who are signing the checks.

QUOTE(SoxFan1 @ Jun 16, 2005 -> 02:11 PM) What the hell is up with your cats then? Cats can hear at different frequencies from humans.

QUOTE(Chisoxfn @ Jun 16, 2005 -> 02:02 PM) Ya, that was weird. I don't know which one I felt. There was one in Yuccaipa and than another in Newport right at the same time. I only felt it for like 3-5 seconds though, but I think this is as good of time as any to get out of the state for a few days, lol. Until this past week it seemed like forever since the last time we'd had a quake. I bet you it was the Yuccaipa one. I felt it too...and that's by far the closest one to me.

QUOTE(Cali @ Jun 16, 2005 -> 01:58 PM) Just had another one a few minutes ago. That's way too many lately. I think we're gonna be breaking off of the country pretty soon.... Haha...that's my first one since I moved here 2 years ago.

Ok...I've got a better Frist one thanks to the The Center for American Progress Bill Frist on the Today show in an interview with Matt Lauer: And from the testimony above...

I'm sorry, but i just can't see how a guy standing up, saying he's a doctor, and then saying "And that footage, to me, depicts something very different than persistent vegetative state" can be construed as anything other than making a diagnosis. But as you said, everyone has an opinion.

QUOTE(JimH @ Jun 16, 2005 -> 10:05 AM) Mike, where have we heard all this before? When have we heard this while sitting in first place?

QUOTE(YASNY @ Jun 16, 2005 -> 09:55 AM) So those poor mistreated terrorists, that want to kill YOU were uncomfortable. Damn! What's the world coming to? Of course, given that many of them aren't actually terrorists...that most of the people who have been at Gitmo have never been charged or tried with a crime, and most importantly, that many of them were simply rounded up for rewards, it's slightly wrong to call them terrorists. What actually happened was that when the U.S. went into Afghanistan, we put up big rewards for anyone who would turn in an Al Qaeda suspect. So, the Afghan people started pointing fingers at each other in droves...entirely for the reward money. And since the U.S. had absolutely no way of filtering out which ones were AQ affiliates and which weren't, people were just rounded up and sent away to Gitmo. This was the conclusion of a 2002 CIA report that was leaked to the NYT in 2004.

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Jun 16, 2005 -> 05:35 AM) I read it. Trust me. As usual he has a D behind his name so he is just being misinterpreted. I guess the Democrats are the only ones who can use the Nazi comparision and get away with it these days. And as usual people we are bending over backwards to say that isn't what he meant, when his words are pretty clear. Trust me if it had been Bill Frist who had said the samething we would have judiciary committees investigating it, and headlines all accross the country about it. Its a joke. Well, there sure weren't any investigations, or even much press coverage, when Rick Santorum called the Democrats Nazis for blocking judicial nominations.

So when they say they aren't as good of role models as they used to be, who exactly are they referring to? Those wonderful role models like Elvis, who's gyrating hips destroyed a nation's innocence? Frank Sinatra? Marilyn Monroe? The Beatles? Celebrities have been crazy since there have been celebrities. You take people and give them an enormous amount of easy money, and voila, you get a bunch of kooks acting wierd on national TV. It's remarkable.

QUOTE(ChiSoxyGirl @ Jun 16, 2005 -> 08:51 AM) Frist weighs in... Frist, R-Tenn., said he never made his own diagnosis but did argue there wasn't enough information about Schiavo's condition to justify allowing her husband to remove her feeding tube against her parents' wishes. "I raised the question, 'Is she in a persistent vegetative state or not?' I never made the diagnosis, never said that she was not. I did say that certain tests should be performed to determine that before starving her to death," Frist said in the interview. Absolute 100% Bulls***. Pure Bulls***. Complete lie. Here's his speech on the Senate floor about the Schiavo bill.

QUOTE(Middle Buffalo @ Jun 16, 2005 -> 09:38 AM) Did everyone hate Mags this much when he was with the team? I don't live in the area anymore, so I really don't know what the local opinion is. I just remember him being really popular before I moved away from Chicago. He was really popular. Great guy with the community, etc. But when you turn on your team, you get a backlash. That is all. Sosa was really popular on the North Side for quite some time too. Now he's a rich guy who's too hurt to play for a losing team, he didn't give the Sox the chance to even examine him before the arbitration deadline last year, he switched agents to Boras to deliberately piss off management, and he's spent the last 6 months engaged in a verbal war of words with the city and the team. That's a wonderful way to burn bridges. (That, and I think a couple of us are wondering if he might have had anything extra, um, enhancing his performance over the last few years and that might explain his recent injury rash) Oh, and on top of that, getting rid of Maggs was 1 big step towards building the 1st place team we have this year. That's another big help.