Milkman delivers

I definitely forgot Fukudome was on the Sox until the above post reminded me.

QUOTE (SI1020 @ Mar 7, 2012 -> 01:33 PM) I was disappointed in the article and me for being dumb enough to click on it. I'm so tired of homage to all things named Beane and James. They did not reinvent the wheel. By the way, how much mention did Zito, Hudson and Mulder get in that Academy Award winning movie? As for the Sox, not much on the roster and even less on the farm. It looks like at least several lean years ahead and KW may have played out his string. Not much on the farm and everybody hoarding prospects means the Sox have to draft better and KW needs to remember how to find those diamonds in the rough. When he goes for the big name he usually fails. It won no Oscars.

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Mar 6, 2012 -> 04:24 PM) Awesome.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Mar 6, 2012 -> 05:22 PM) It should be either Danks or Peavy. With Jake, it's all about marketing him as a trade possibility from June onwards. With the expanded playoffs and renewed competition in the AL East (with both the Yankees and Red Sox holding back on offseason spending so far), the pressure will increase on both those teams to make pitching moves as the season goes along. I'll say this again. Jake Peavy deserves to be the #1 starter less than every other candidate. And if you're doing it to increase his value, then make him the 5th starter so that he's likely to face lesser competition.

QUOTE (forrestg @ Mar 6, 2012 -> 01:52 PM) Sox pay 3 million of his salary for those two years then it might be close in return sox get in return some AA ball player with an upside kind like when we got Bobby jenks from them. I thought Jenks was a Rule V acquisition?

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Mar 6, 2012 -> 11:37 AM) leave it off and stick it on a fan for a day. Or, put it in cup surrounded by rice to absorb the moisture. You can save it! On a fan? Like on top of a box fan, you mean? Never heard that one. QUOTE (Middle Buffalo @ Mar 6, 2012 -> 11:39 AM) Thanks. I put it in rice. The Chinese built it, and now they will fix it. Gotta love it. QUOTE (iamshack @ Mar 6, 2012 -> 11:43 AM) I ran my original iPhone through the wash and it worked the next day just by drying it out Wow.

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Mar 6, 2012 -> 09:24 AM) Every morning. I don't really see what the big deal is. +1

QUOTE (Soxbadger @ Mar 5, 2012 -> 10:43 AM) This is about Walking Dead. That's actually a very good explanation, and I'm going to go with it. I'm glad that Daryl was the one with the strength to do what needed to be done at the end.

I voted "no", but I'm sure I have done it once or twice in my life when it was the only option in an emergency.

I have to restrain myself from making snide (but true) remarks on Facebook so often.

QUOTE (flavum @ Mar 3, 2012 -> 11:26 AM) Intrasquad lineups today: Team Konerko lineup: De Aza cf, Beckham 2b, Rios rf, PK dh, Ramirez ss, Flowers c, Gallagher 1b, McPherson 3b, Mitchell lf, Floyd p. Team Dunn lineup: Lillibridge ss, AJ c, Fukudome rf, Dunn dh, Morel 3b, Viciedo lf, Johnson 1b, Danks cf, Escobar 2b, Sale p They should throw everyone for a loop and have Konerko on Team Dunn, and vice versa.

QUOTE (ptatc @ Mar 2, 2012 -> 10:30 PM) The draft is much better. Evens out the playing field a little more. It decreases the "whoever has the most money wins" effect. +1

Besides some snow, Chicago is a pretty ideal location to avoid most things.

For what it's worth, I definitely know a few guys that have gotten them. There was (as I'm pretty sure it's been shut down by the city) an Asian massage parlor near here, and they did it. I still have no idea how they went about asking for it, though.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Mar 2, 2012 -> 02:45 PM) The worse seeded teams gets the first two games of the series at home, and then the better team gets the last three at their place. I don't think I like that at all.

QUOTE (Soxbadger @ Mar 2, 2012 -> 02:46 PM) The point is its entirely unnecessary to attack the collector. All he had to say was: "In order to ensure the reliability of the MLB drug program, MLB and the players association have instituted certain rules about how all samples should be handled. At trial it was shown that in this instance that protocol was not met and therefore the result was unreliable." Hes not admitting hes a cheater, hes saying due to lab error the results are unreliable, therefore even though he "failed" it doesnt matter because the test was never accurate in the first place. To take any other approach suggests that there must have been a scintilla of evidence to suggest that Braun felt he was targeted. I don't know what to say. It seems like pretty common sense to me that, in order to sway an ignorant public back in his favor, he has to make someone else out to be the bad guy.

QUOTE (SoxFan1 @ Mar 2, 2012 -> 01:23 PM) @MLB BREAKING: 2012 Postseason to feature 10-team format that includes 2 additional Wild Cards and elimination game in each league prior to DS. @MLB MORE: This year only, Division Series will begin with 2 home games for lower seeds, followed by up to 3 home games for higher seeds. I'm sorry, but this confuses me. What is that saying?

QUOTE (Soxbadger @ Mar 2, 2012 -> 02:27 PM) Balta, Thats why Im wondering. I would have assumed that the samples are numbered and therefore only the tester knew what sample belonged to who at first. The reason I assume this is because I also assume that the test is supposed to be blind (aka they dont know who the sample is until after the result). If that is the case, then the only people who knew the results had to be pretty high up. People in those positions generally dont risk their job over releasing confidential information. I dont know, Im just speculating. The tone of Braun's speech seemed to suggest that he believes the tester did something to him, not that the tester just made an innocent mistake in delivering the sample late in the afternoon instead of early in the morning. Hard to speculate, just seems like a mess from day 1. Yes, because he has to paint somebody else as the bad guy. If he said the latter, he'd be admitting to being a cheater.

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Mar 2, 2012 -> 08:12 AM) Returns is forgiveable. If you would have said Forever or & Robin, well, you would be perma-banned from this thread and all film related threads I liked Batman Forever, so there.

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Mar 1, 2012 -> 03:44 PM) The hype for DK was just too strong. It was a great movie, and it gave fans everything they wanted, but yes, Batman Begins on the whole is a better film. I love them both. Where the hell were you?! I was getting massacred for that opinion.

QUOTE (DirtySox @ Mar 1, 2012 -> 03:13 PM) No. Agreed.

QUOTE (danman31 @ Mar 1, 2012 -> 03:30 PM) I thought the first Iron Man did a great job of showing the back story. Personally I prefer Batman Begins to The Dark Knight other than Heath Ledger because the story was much better. To say the Batman movies had that feel and Iron Man didn't is curious to me. I remember arguing that on this site. Too bad you weren't around to help me out

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Mar 1, 2012 -> 03:25 PM) I admitted I have a bias towards these movies, so i'm sure that plays a part. But I did watch three of those four (no Captain America) and I just didn't see anything different about them. The way the movie was presented wasn't anything new or innovative, the acting wasn't anything to write home about, the scale seemed much smaller (i.e, the locations and filming at those locations), and I dunno, just seemed to me that these movies are just cash cows. IMO BB and TDK were more artistic. Yes, at their core they're still about a comic book hero with lots of explosions. But the entire feel was "this is bad ass." I'm sure if you were big into the Avengers as a kid this would be a great movie and the ones preceding it would be great. I just don't see it. To each his own. I wasn't a fan of them at all. The most I ever got into superheroes was watching the X-Men and Spider-Man cartoons. I still like the movies, though.