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QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Aug 22, 2011 -> 08:22 AM) The numbers say one thing for sure, but we have seen plenty of guys kill the minors and still not be ready to go at the major league level. Yeah, but, there are different varieties of "kill". There are guys like Ehren Wassermann, who put up good numbers in AAA but it never translated terrribly well (though even he had some success for a bit). But Reed, his peripheral numbers are just outstanding, far more dominant that many of those other guys like Ehren. And additionally, the scouting reports on Reed that we've gotten a glimpse of make it seem like he's the real deal. Who knows, I don't watch the guy every day, but it seemed hard to believe to me that they were keeping him down for anything other than a financial reason. Since that reason was apparently wrong, I am at a loss.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Aug 22, 2011 -> 08:15 AM) The other reason is that they don't think he is ready yet, at least that is what it means to me. Yeah I'd normally consider that, but really, they guy has just outright dominated at every level including AAA. It is possible he has some flaw not yet exposed by minor league hitting that they want to iron out first, but it is hard to believe that they way he has pitched so far.

QUOTE (Kalapse @ Aug 19, 2011 -> 11:44 PM) His clock starts on September 1st anyway. September callups get credit for their 30 or so days service so calling up reed now would save us like 12 days of service, which will mean absolutely nothing in the long term. For some reason I thought that September call-ups, who are on the 40-man but not the 25-man, didn't accrue service time towards that measure. If I'm wrong, then yeah, no idea why we saw Kinney over Reed.

Every time I see Axelrod through another solid game, I keep thinking... is he for real, or is he Jack Egbert?

QUOTE (mr_genius @ Aug 21, 2011 -> 08:59 PM) i want that shirt Copy the image file, go to cafepress.com, and make one.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Aug 22, 2011 -> 07:49 AM) A guy in a midlife crisis? Dammit, beat me to it! Anyway, have to admit this whole thing didn't go the way I thought it would. I didn't think we'd get involved... if we did, I thought we'd be in the lead... thought the regime would either crumble quickly or not for a very long time. Wrong on all counts.

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Aug 19, 2011 -> 05:00 PM) When his anti-capital punishment view is based on the the sanctity and finality of life, I think it does. In both instances you're making a judgment call about whether something is worth keeping alive. If your perspective is that life begins at conception, than your view makes perfect sense. If you feel that life begins when a fetus is able to be born and survive (say, 4-5 months), then there is nothing at all conflicting about the views you say are inconsistent.

QUOTE (Quinarvy @ Aug 19, 2011 -> 02:58 PM) Can we stop calling up the "experienced" Kinneys and Bruneys and instead just bring up Reed, Infante, or Lindsay? The Sox do actually have a number of intriguing relievers to pull up, but keep a few things in mind... --Lindsay, while talented, still struggles mightily with his control. Look at his peripherals. They may not think he's ready for patient MLB hitters. --Reed, if they wait another couple weeks for the 9/1 callups, they avoiding starting his arb clock. Another year of him for cheap is probably more important than adding him now. --Infante... no idea, I thought he'd come up. There are other guys too, like Remenowsky and Nunez, but Rem doesn't seem ready yet and Nunez... like Infante, I have no idea why he wasn't called up.

QUOTE (SoxAce @ Aug 19, 2011 -> 10:45 AM) Son of a b****. That is the best thing that could ever happen to that franchise was getting rid of him. Now get rid of Wrigley Field (as well as most of that front office) and I might have to start taking the Cubs alot more seriously in winning. The Cubs getting rid of Wrigley would be like Microsoft giving up Windows. Business suicide. Won't happen, shouldn't happen. They do eventually need to gut or rebuild, but if they do anything other than rebuild a new Wrigley, in the same place with many of the same touches, it would be an epic fail.

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Aug 19, 2011 -> 10:58 AM) I'm not going to lie, keep him out a few more days, Flowers has been giving some unreal at bats to this team. His swing has been cut down considerably from what it was and he is flat out seeing the ball well. AJ has no choice anyway, he was put on the 15 Day DL, retro to Saturday. He's out at least another week plus.

QUOTE (Heads22 @ Aug 18, 2011 -> 08:12 PM) Nebraska was probably pretty squarely middle of the pack academically in the Big 12. Below UT, TAMU, Baylor, ISU, Mizzou and KU, but, better than Tech. When I was at ISU, the strongest school academically in the Big 8 was Colorado. ISU was close behind, then Mizzou, KU, and KSU/Nebraska/OU/OSU were at the bottom (in terms of rankings in publications and what not). Then the 4 Texas schools came on, UT and Baylor came into the upper echelon academically, the other two not so much. Nebraska was still near the bottom, in terms of rankings and reputation academically.

I just saw something really strange.... I'm working at home today. I look out the front window of our house, and I see this Metra truck with three dudes in it, drive up and park in front of our house. We're a couple blocks from the train, so, I figure they're just waiting for something, no big deal. Then, one of the three gets out of the truck, grabs a bucket, and starts wandering around our front lawn. After some wandering, he starts picking up the black walnuts off our lawn (we have two very large, mature black walnut trees in our front yard). He proceeds to fill an entire bucket with these things, with his buddies watching, and I'm sitting here in the window watching the whole thing, but apparently they don't see me. After his bucket is full, he gets back in the truck, and they drive off. I wasn't going to use those anyway - I know they can be eaten but they are a big pain to deal with, so I was just going to rake or pick them up and throw them out. So I don't really care if they go away, in fact it makes life easier for me. But there is something disturbing about the idea that these guys apparently scoped out my house, and then grabbed some things off my lawn, when they thought no one was home. Just kind of creepy.

QUOTE (ChiSox_Sonix @ Aug 19, 2011 -> 07:11 AM) I don't think it was. I'm actually surprised it took so long for this kind of post to pop up. I believe Ozzie got immediately blamed for Jared Mitchell's injury as well for making him play LF In that case... LOL

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Aug 18, 2011 -> 05:45 PM) Selling after a sell off is classic mistake #1 for an investor. You sell at highs, not lows. And if you are a long term investor, you sell on plan, not based on a market fluctuation of any kind. Maybe at the very end of the planned period, if it seems inflated, you pull back a little early... but that's it.

QUOTE (shlammajamma @ Aug 18, 2011 -> 05:29 PM) Well captain arrogance, Rios played plus RF most of his career with the Blue Jays, while playing abysmal CF defense this year. I even remember somebody on the score saying that Rios said he feels more comfortable in RF, since it's his natural position. You tell me, has Rios looked better than De Aza in CF to you? You need to cool it with the insults. Balta asked a perfectly mundane and reasonable question. If you can't handle that, you don't need to be on the board.

QUOTE (SoxFanForever @ Aug 18, 2011 -> 05:07 PM) Very tempted to close my mutual fund and roth IRA accounts with the way things have been going with this market lately. That would be an epic mistake. Don't do that. If you are a shorter term guy - in terms of mutual funds that must mean a few years - you will miss any rebound that eventually occurs. If you are a long term guy, you miss out on that and more. Unless your plan was to cash out within the next few months, I would not even think about that. Even if you were planning on cashing out in the next few months, it may not be a great idea. Since it is an IRA, there is no tax reason to take the losses really, and you may get penalized too.

QUOTE (JoeCoolMan24 @ Aug 18, 2011 -> 04:24 PM) That's what we get for letting him rot in AAA only to suffer multiple injuries and possibly ruin him before he ever got a chance. Has to be sarcasm.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Aug 18, 2011 -> 03:47 PM) CST_soxvan Daryl Van Schouwen Pirerzynski checked out fine with specialist in cleveland today. Begins light baseball activity friday Excellent. I assume he's back before Castro is, then.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Aug 18, 2011 -> 03:41 PM) Or their own guns... More guns than sat phones, but few of either. We only did one trip I can remember where we decided specifically to go armed. We were the maiden group to do the official anchor leg of the Continental Divide Trail, at the southern end (previous to that, the official route just followed roads). We hiked 75 miles in the bootheel of NM, from the Mexican border, up through a couple mountain ranges, all the way to I-10. It was extremely remote and rugged (as locations in the lower 48 go), and quite frankly, we were concerned about bandits of various kinds in that remote border area.

QUOTE (ChiSox_Sonix @ Aug 18, 2011 -> 12:45 PM) Not only short but Walker and Thompson as well. Does Mitchell play CF too? I sort of assumed he meant upper-level guys closer to ready, since he mentioned Danks and Greene. But yeah, Mitchell, Thompson and Walker have all played there (not sure how many will stick there), and are better prospects.

I thought Brandon Short couple play CF as well, and I'd take him over either of the two you asked about.

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Aug 18, 2011 -> 12:02 PM) concealed carry! Most of the states that have these large expanses of wilderness already allow for that. But most people still don't carry out there, for a variety of reasons. I've had people in our groups carry, on occasion, but it is rare. Furthermore, in some of those areas (particularly national parks), firearms are specifically prohibited.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Aug 18, 2011 -> 11:51 AM) The point of the first question is there...you saw no one. For a person to be on a rampage in an area where he's not likely to be caught, he's not going to find many people. If a person were to go on a rampage in a moderately populated area, or in a hiking area within a park, etc., that's the only place he's going to find targets. But, the more targets, the more likely someone has a sat phone. Or the more likely someone has cell reception. Or, the more likely it is that the person told someone their hiking plan and when they don't get back, rangers go out looking for them. After there was an accident (not involving me), every one of our weekend groups who went out in no-cell-reception zones always had a sat phone with. Oh I don't doubt that help would eventually arrive. But it would be a long time, that is my point. I've literally never ran into a person in the backcountry (and you always end up talking with people you see, when you don't see many people) who carries a sat phone, and cell reception is a question mark (many people also specifically don't carry them because they want to be, you know, in the woods). But even if, after the shooting starts, someone manages to raise help via some sort of phone (which is a big if), it will likely be hours before help arrives. That's always been the nature of medical emergencies out there anyway, but this is different. It isn't someone with a broken leg, or a snake bite. This is people being shot, and they won't last hours.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Aug 18, 2011 -> 11:48 AM) No one likes you. Justin does. He told me so at recess.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Aug 18, 2011 -> 11:42 AM) How many people did you run into while on trail? And what are the odds that none of them had sat phones? In this case - in one of the least visited wilderness areas in the west - we saw zero other people. On other hikes we've done, in say National Parks like Olympic or Yosemite, we see lots of people, even days into the wild. Sat phones? Virtually no one carries those in the lower 48. I have never seen anyone carry one. They cost a fortune to rent, weigh a ton, and by the way also aren't always reliable depending on the terrain. Most backcountry folks carry GPS now. A small number, like us, carry GMRS 2-way radios with a theoretical range of 36 miles (under ideal circumstances - but really its closer to 10 in highly broken terrain). No one monitors GMRS though, not reliably.