NorthSideSox72

Where's the part of this thread where there is even a shred of evidence that FLA is even interested?

Super 8 was quite good. Maybe not as awesome as I had hoped, but still a well above average film. X-Men, I really don't get why people liked it. The dialogue was beyond clunky, the plot lines so very predictable, the characters often shallow and not believable (I don't mean the mutations, I mean the personalities).

Looks like they are stretching Shirek back out again to start. Odd, since he seemed to finally be having some success as a reliever.

QUOTE (fathom @ Jun 17, 2011 -> 04:07 PM) For three years, I've suggested Marmol gets a bigger plate than anyone. You usually don't see guys so wild get the benefit from the umps as much as he does. Well in this case, it really worked both ways. He got a few marginal calls, but lost a couple too. Game over, Cubs 3-1. This is apparently their World Series for this year.

Gardner base hit, 2 on and 2 out, tying run at 1B. Dickerson up.

This ump is terrible, for and against Marmol.

QUOTE (fathom @ Jun 17, 2011 -> 04:02 PM) Johnson dive to catch the ball? Yeah, it was a nice play.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Jun 17, 2011 -> 04:00 PM) Reed Johnson just saved Marmol an XBH given up. Quade smart to not have Soriano out there right now in LF. And then Marmol walks Martin. Also, Johnson's hand is bloody now.

QUOTE (fathom @ Jun 17, 2011 -> 02:55 PM) Yankees fans having a meltdown over getting shut down by Doug Davis. Reed Johnson just saved Marmol an XBH given up. Quade smart to not have Soriano out there right now in LF.

QUOTE (ChiSox_Sonix @ Jun 17, 2011 -> 03:28 PM) It was a joke I know, but an accurate one.

QUOTE (ChiSox_Sonix @ Jun 17, 2011 -> 01:20 PM) What is it with your man crush on Andy Wilkins? It's worse than NSS with Remenowsky. But at least Remenowsky might actually make the major leagues I wasn't even contributing to this thread and I got knocked!

Merging the Viciedo threads.

Keegan Linza, RHP Born 11/10/1988 in Salisbury, NC 6’6”, 225 Throws: R Bats: R OVERVIEW Keegan Linza is a big-framed 22-year-old college senior with a baseball and football background. The Sox took him in the 38th round, 1161st overall. After some mediocre results as a junior, he improved dramatically as a senior, garnering him draft attention. He has good control and a projectable frame. Found a snippet (link at bottom of profile) about Linza attending a camp as a 10th grader, and was already hitting 84 mph at that point. He is said to have a good slider, and tops 90 on the gun (but can’t find more specific data than that on his velocity – just that he was among a collection of pitchers at Liberty who all pitch better than 90). PERSONAL/PRE-COLLEGE NOTES Linza graduated from North Rowan High School in Salisbury, NC, where he was all-county and all-conference his junior and senior years. Was also named his conference’s player of the year in Football as a quarterback. COLLEGE Linza pitched at NW Florida State College (same school as 2011 Sox 9th round pick Matt Lane), then Liberty College, before being drafted by the Sox. At NWFSC in 2009, Linza posted a 3.67 ERA over 76 IP, striking out 76 while walking 27. He was named all-conference that season. After struggling his Junior year at Liberty (5.29 ERA in 64.2 IP, 34 BB and 44 K), Keegan improved dramatically as a Senior. He went 11-3 with a 2.08 ERA over 108 IP, walking just 22 while striking out 67. SIGN/DRAFT Drafted in the 38th Round by the Sox in 2011 out of Liberty. Assigned to Bristol Rookie team. MINORS This Season so far… Keegan has been assigned to Bristol (Rookie) in the Appalachian League, who open play on June 21st. OTHER PROFESSIONAL n/a REFERENCE No MiLB page up yet. Baseball Cube Liberty Team Stats page for 2011 Liberty College Bio Scout.com article, brief, scroll down

June update... D Lucy's hitting numbers have dropped off, he's now got a .209/.303/.269/.571 line for the season thus far. He has struck out in 10 of his last 32 AB, though he has gotten better at drawing walks. Only 2 of his 14 hits are XBH, and he is hitting .156 in his last 10 games. With Flowers having a better season offensively than last year (though he's in a skid at the moment), Lucy's prospects to even be a backup with the Sox anytime soon are dwindling. Known as a plus defensive catcher with a lot of baseball smarts, I still think he ends up becoming some sort of roving coach for the Sox at some point, as I doubt he'd get much of a chance with any other organization, as he approaches 29 years old.

Update on Charlie... he's been getting a lot better in the relief role. He was promoted from High A Winston-Salem to AA B-Ham after improving, and so far at B-Ham his numbers as a long+middle reliever and spot starter in are: 22 IP 22 H 6 ER 4 BB 16 K 2.45 ERA 1.18 WHIP .256 AvgA 2.00 GO/AO 6.55 K/9 1.64 BB/9 Its encouraging to see him continue to induce ground balls, but also lower his walk rate by about half and increase his K rate by about 40%. That's what we wanted to see from him to begin with. Charlie is basically a sinker-baller with good velocity and decent control, but his pitch repetoire is limited and didn't seem to have the stamina to start over a full season. This new role seems to suit him better. He's pretty much dropped off the significant prospect radar, but I wouldn't fully count him out just yet.

I failed to do a May end of month update, so here is one for the current B-Ham closer... Rem has been doing in B-Ham AA, exactly what he's done at each level so far - good core results, ridiculously good peripherals. So far this season in 33.2 IP he's allowed 20 hits, 10 ER, 4 BB and 47 K. His ERA is 2.67, WHIP is 0.71, AvgA is .168, K/9 is 12.6 and BB/9 is 1.1. And just for fun, his K:BB is 11.75 - he strikes out almost 12 times as many batters as he walks. At this point, I think the only reason he's not in Charlotte is there is simply no roster spot for him. As soon as that changes, I'd expect to see him moved up.

QUOTE (Pale Sox @ Jun 17, 2011 -> 01:38 AM) What's Kuhn's upside? How's his defense? Scouts like to talk about him being a bat with no position. Earlier in his career he was considered OK but not great at multiple positions (started in the system at short, but wasn't great there), so because of his bat, he naturally has become this utility guy. Some of the Sox scouts have apparently even joked that other players who can hit but have no position are "Tyler Kuhn". Seems to me a bit like a Tony Graff kinda player, but I have only seen him briefly, I'm going purely on stories and stats.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Jun 16, 2011 -> 04:48 PM) Awesomeness. Terrible policy, glad to have it gone. ^

Shirek gives up no earned runs and still gets the loss for B-Ham, that sucks.

Is Collin Kuhn related to Tyler Kuhn? QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jun 15, 2011 -> 02:05 PM) 12 http://www.salisburypost.com/Sports/061211-sports-briefs-qcd Linza! I'm taking him as an AAP.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Jun 15, 2011 -> 08:30 AM) Again, correct me if I'm wrong, but your idea is to turn SS into a "low-risk" privatized retirement account. In part, yes. I also think that the disability segment of SS needs to be wholly seperate, and do what it is supposed to do - be an insurance policy. I don't believe that retirement protection and disability coverage should be intertwined. SS-Disability should be a straight up tax, no cap, all pay the same small rate, into a cash account for paying out disability. Just like an insurance policy. The retirement side, peoples' money goes into an account that purchases US-issued and high grade corporate debt instruments, or some other combination of relatively low risk vehicles, possibly with some choice given to consumers. The problem on that retirement side, which I have acknowledged before, is the unwind. I think that model will work quite well, but getting to that point is the hard part. Also, no more IOU's from the SS funds for general funds.

QUOTE (iamshack @ Jun 14, 2011 -> 06:16 PM) So I am waiting on a possible job offer out of state that I am told I should be hearing about one way or the other around June 20ish-th. I've decided if I don't take the offer, I am going to look into buying something in our horrendous real estate market here in Las Vegas. We have a ton of foreclosures on the market, many of which have been left in varying states of disarray by their owners, and/or poached of things like pool equipment, AC units, appliances, etc, by vandals, professional thieves, and other assorted scum. As a result, there are properties on the market that lenders will only lend on if you take a "renovation" loan out or just buy with cash. I am not a cash buyer. I recently stumbled upon a property that fits my criteria: 1) cheap; 2) solid location in older neighborhood; 3) large lot (relative to Las Vegas, anyway); and 4) has an inground pool (I refuse to live in the middle of the desert without a pool). So basically how this works is the home gets appraised by a HUD contractor in an "as is" state and in a "as completed" state. The as completed state includes all the work necessary to bring the home back into safety code and characterize it as "habitable." It also includes regular renovations such as updating kitchens, resurfacing floors, painting, purchase of new pool equipment, etc. The difference between the purchase price and the as completed price is the size of the renovation part of the loan. At closing, this portion of the loan goes into escrow, to be drawn upon as contractors complete work. Has anyone ever done one of these or worked on a project such as this? We bought a house last November that was a foreclosure, had been empty a while, wasn't taken care of, etc. Paid a ridiculously low price, but knew we'd need to put some money into it. But since the home was appraised for almost 100k more than we were paying (mortgage company didn't believe it at first, had a different appraiser come out, who said the same thing), we had plenty of headroom to do the work. In our case, we bought the home with a traditional mortgage (with a decent sized down payment), then took out an equity line for any work on the house that was beyond what we could afford 100% out of pocket. WE did a bunch of work during the winter, moved in in January, and are doing other things one by one as the year goes on. Rates on equity lines are relatively cheap right now, almost as cheap as standard mortgages. So you may want to consider doing it that way, if its possible. Housing market sucks, but there are some ridiculously cheap prices right now too, and low mortgage rates. As long as you aren't thinking short-term flip (which is stupid nowadays), and you have good enough credit to get a mortgage, now is a great time to buy.

QUOTE (JPN366 @ Jun 14, 2011 -> 10:25 PM) Shoemaker and Colligan need to swap places. I have to admit I was wrong on Colligan - I thought he'd break out this year. Not so much. QUOTE (OilCan @ Jun 14, 2011 -> 10:34 PM) Check out the numbers from the Charlotte/PawSox game. Remember Andy Miller, the sixth overall pick by the TIGERS waaaaayyyy back when? K'd 10 in 5 innings. Give you a hint. Dallas McPherson was 1-6 with 5Ks tonight. In fact, Pawtucket K'd 17 Knights AND THEY STILL LOST! Dylan Axelrod.....Dylan Axelrod...Dylan Axelrod. Time to start the Helium Watch for this guy? But Axelrod, I've been talking about for a couple seasons now. He's on the older side, but he also started in the minors late. He's a guy, at that age and performance, who IMO you just keep promoting to see how real he is (IF he is).

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jun 14, 2011 -> 05:50 PM) Changing it might as well be ending it. The beauty of the current system is its simplicity. It keeps the administrative costs down well below those of private sector retirement plans, it makes sure everyone has something, it isn't subject to the fluctuations of the market or to financial crises, etc. Eh? You are so attached to the system the way it is that you are not even open to changing it? You are just fine with running a giant ponzi scheme?

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Jun 14, 2011 -> 05:06 PM) Why? It's prevented millions of seniors from entering into poverty. I didn't say end social security - I said change it. I'm not a true libertarian, nor am I a staunch conservative on government, as I thought was obvious.