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QUOTE (BFirebird @ Jun 11, 2010 -> 04:06 PM) I know only half of 1 year was in the Majors, but he did have success at every level he has played. There had to be something that scouts found in his approach that he has to adjust to somehow. It is frustrating to watch but I would have to believe he is not THIS bad. I'm still convinced he puts it together as the year goes on.

QUOTE (Heads22 @ Jun 11, 2010 -> 04:03 PM) .322/.379/.967 13 HR/31 RBI/19 SB And yet, he's something like 15th in All Star votes for outfielders. I hate the all star voting system.

AJ seems to do well in these interleague series. I think the atmosphere gets him going.

Wells at 73 pitches, lets run that up and get into that tender Cubs bullpen.

So are they booing AJ? Hope so, he lives for that s***.

QUOTE (Athomeboy_2000 @ Jun 11, 2010 -> 01:07 PM) Stone criticized Lou for how he's using Colvin. So is it Stone on the air with Lou interviewing him? Or was Lou commenting on something Stone said previously?

QUOTE (justBLAZE @ Jun 11, 2010 -> 12:54 PM) Lou Pinella going off at Steve Stone on CSN! Someone said this in the Cubs thread too... what is he saying, and why does he care about Steve Stone? Is Steve Stone actually on the air with him?

QUOTE (Athomeboy_2000 @ Jun 11, 2010 -> 12:54 PM) OMG! Lou went OFF this morning. Absolutely ripped Steve Stone asking "what has he done?". Why did he go off on Steve Stone? About what?

Shirek has imploded. He was rockin' until the DL trip, now his past 3-4 starts he has gotten rocked.

QUOTE (Reddy @ Jun 11, 2010 -> 09:23 AM) ok i said basically this much in the other thread - but with Ozzie getting the ultimate stamp of approval from JR to do whatever the goddamn f*** he wants, how can ANYONE put this season on KW? This isn't the team HE wanted to build. People keep jumping to this conclusion - I'm not seeing it, and I have seen no evidence of it. I think Jerry does like Ozzie a lot, but also finds him difficult. I think he likes KW less, but knows KW is damn good at his job. I just don't see Jerry taking Ozzie's side over KW in this situation.

OK, so, all this might have happened... on the other hand, if you look carefully, you will see that no solid information exists here. Cowley, who just proved the other day yet again that he makes s*** up to stir the pot, has a "source" who said they "almost came to blows". That is incredibly weak. Might be fire there, might not, but Cowley has just been outright wrong on this sort of thing so many times, that I would need to see someone, anyone, else confirm it before believing it.

QUOTE (knightni @ Jun 10, 2010 -> 06:32 PM) Flowers might be getting in a rut in the minors. He's had success in AA/AAA in the past, perhaps he needs the promotion to get him out of the rut. Baseball has a big mental part to it too. Perhaps he's becoming discouraged. That doesn't appear to the case here. IN the offseason, Flowers worked with someone (not in the Sox org) to tweak his approach at the plate, and it backfired. They are now working to get him back where he was.

I see this headed in a bad direction here, let's everyone please take a step back and cool it a bit.

QUOTE (Soxbadger @ Jun 10, 2010 -> 03:07 PM) Big 10 tried (or is trying) to get Texas. (depending on who you believe) Im not sure that Iowa State, Baylor or Colorado are that much superior to Nebraska academics to off set Nebraska's superior brand and reputation. One of those teams fills an 80k+ stadium every year, the other 3 dont. If academics are close, you look for the marquee brand. I guess I dont consider Colorado, Baylor, or ISU as academic schools that "the big 10 would be falling over for." They are solid schools, but Im pretty sure that they would be in the lower half of the Big 10 in academics. Its just not a really big selling point (imo). Sorry, to be clear, I meant that those 4 schools (ISU, Bay, CU, UT) were the ones OF THE BIG 12 that were strongest academically. Saw an article today with a complex point formula used in the academic community, I think it was done for AAU schools only, and those schools I mentioned were all basically in the middle of the Big 10 pack. Not Northwestern by any stretch though. Your line about the football stadium is key - that's the difference maker here.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jun 10, 2010 -> 12:42 PM) Good for the Big 10. Yeah, but the idea that academics is anything but an afterthought in this is a joke. If academics were a priority, the Big 10 would have been falling all over themselves to get Colorado, Texas, Iowa State and Baylor - not Nebraska. Being an Iowa State grad, it looks to me like ISU has a great case for the Big 10, except for two things. Unfortunately, one of those things is football, which is like 80% of what this is about. The other is that they don't even have a baseball team, so that's 2 of 3 major sports where they are just a non-thought. And even in basketball, they are historically a strong program, but lately have sucked. On the Learfield list of overall sports impact among colleges, which looks at the top 20 sports together, ISU is #22 in the country. Unfortunately, they get that way for being strong in stuff like wrestling, gymnastics and track/field.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jun 10, 2010 -> 02:06 PM) I'm betting that sounds worse than the actual conversation by being compressed into a tweet. You are saying that Joe Cowley might be trying to create controversy where none exists? Say it ain't so!

QUOTE (PMD @ Jun 10, 2010 -> 12:24 PM) I met Beckham and John Danks last year. Both were incredibly nice guys, great sense of humor, very fun. Sorry to see Beckham's having such troubles this year-- but honestly I think the coaching's more to blame (and perhaps not giving him enough time out on the farm). Welcome to the board!

QUOTE (ChiSox_Sonix @ Jun 10, 2010 -> 11:42 AM) A friend of mine does border patrol work in New Mexico. They put up with a lot of s***. Where in NM? If he's in the Bootheel area, I may have run into him. I've talked with a few of those guys down there, when we hiked that segment of the Continental Divide Trail.

QUOTE (fathom @ Jun 10, 2010 -> 10:52 AM) Our second day was average...nothing special, nothing awful. But of course, the big headline was something about how it's a tale of two Sox (Red Sox being the best). Yeah, the article was linked from SI to somewhere else, can't find it now.... but it put the Sox as slightly above average, with Sale being a steal, and the rest middle of the road.

QUOTE (fathom @ Jun 10, 2010 -> 10:42 AM) So did anyone see who Keith Law said had the worst second day of the draft? That's right, KW and the Sox. Did KW run over Keith Law's puppies or something? Yeah, for whatever reason, Law is always unusually critical of the Sox. I just saw an analysis of the draft somewhere last night, stating the Sox had one of the better drafts in MLB.

QUOTE (kitekrazy @ Jun 10, 2010 -> 10:03 AM) Even if he didn't win another game it still make the Cubs getting the better end of that Bradley trade. Silva could have spent the duration of his contract on the DL, and the Cubs would still have gotten the better end of that trade.

QUOTE (ChiSox_Sonix @ Jun 10, 2010 -> 09:50 AM) Well whoever grabs Kansas and K-State immediately improves their basketball quality and prestige. In fact, I was thinking... look at the 5 remainder schools: KU, K-State, Iowa State, Missouri, Baylor. The Kansas schools and Missouri are pretty serious basketball programs, Iowa State was too until recent years, and Baylor suddenly is making some noise. If you can pull in say one or two of the stronger WAC and Conf USA Schools, you could have a pretty damn good basketball conference.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jun 10, 2010 -> 09:06 AM) I can see what you're saying in interest in it not happening, but frankly, the only way the debts from this don't kill the company is if the people wind up hung out to dry by the court system, and that'll take 20 years to wind its way through (see: Exxon). Plus, one poorly placed hurricane and things go to Hell 20 times faster. I'd lean towards them not going to bankruptcy. Their stock is still holding significant value as you see, so most of the street feels they will survive this without having to go that route. Now technically, holding common stock does not NECESSARILY mean its worthless in a bankruptcy. What it does mean is that you are at the very end of the claims line, so for practical purposes, there is a 99% chance your stock would become worthless.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jun 10, 2010 -> 08:33 AM) NCAA football thread. Hell, considering the conference realignment is entirely about football, it belongs there anyway. Its not entirely about football. Or are you just being sarcastic?

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jun 10, 2010 -> 08:32 AM) Sigh. These are the kinds of failures that deserve to get you thrown out of office. Yeah that's absurd. I've been more and more pissed off at ObamaCo for the response to this. Yes, its ultimately BP's fault. But the administrative and managerial immaturity and short-sigthedness being displayed here by the administration is basically just as bad as what we saw with Katrina. The RESULT of that for Katrina was worse in the element of people's lives being more directly at stake... and Bush's nomination of a joke to head FEMA doesn't have an analog here... but other than that, its the same B.S.