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Fred Hoiberg?

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Apr 29, 2010 -> 11:24 AM) The Sox at least have a rival and some polarizing figures here. Most casual fans couldn't even name a player from Cleveland. That is odd. It might stem from the way their fans act. They seem to have a higher than normal percentage of asshole fans. See; Thome's return. I've been to a lot of Sox games, and the worst fans to be around when they come to town are NY, Boston, and Cleveland.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Apr 29, 2010 -> 11:03 AM) That is a terrible analogy. The problem was sending him back to an oppressive communist government. Did Castro take over Mexico? No, but some people do seem to believe that a communist took over the US.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Apr 29, 2010 -> 09:32 AM) And having the President say that oil rigs are to clean to worry about and never spill a thing I'm sure has nothing to do with the success of that marketing campaign. Yeah because that's what he said. Read the quote again.

Here's a novel thought. The housing bubble blame should go on banks AND the people who took personal financial risks AND the government agencies who failed in their duties. All three groups f***ed up.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Apr 29, 2010 -> 09:20 AM) The important point is...saying that spills from rigs don't happen is incorrect, and it's an incorrect argument in favor of a policy he's supporting. It was incorrect in Katrina/Rita, it was incorrect after a rig spill off California that was part of what spurred the offshore moratoria, and there's some well deserved ironic scorn in having him proved wrong 3 weeks later. This is about compromise, and its about the only way to get things done. Give some room for more offshore drilling, and some nuclear plants. That gives back all kinds of money for the real, renewable future path. If you just stand there and say "nothing will be allowed except alt energy", you won't go anywhere, because the oil companies and the GOP have successfully convinced a wide swath of the American public that alt energy isn't ready and therefore shouldn't be used. I don't like it, I'd rather not have it. But if a few more oil rigs go up, and a few nuke plants go up, in the next 10 years, and in exchange we see a big push towards solar/wind/geo/hydro/tidal/bio type stuff that will actually get us into a brighter future... then I am all for it.

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Apr 29, 2010 -> 09:15 AM) I thought the GOP was all about upholding the constitution? Is this guy for real?? via As a reminder (from the 14th Amendment): This bill has been very good at showing us the difference between old school individual freedom Republicans, and the angry, hateful social conservatives. We're seeing a number of GOP'ers standing up and saying that certain aspects of this law go too far. But then you get people like Hunter, Palin, etc., that are showing their true colors.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Apr 29, 2010 -> 09:13 AM) Well, he's 100% incorrect on the supposed lack of rig spills from Katrina/Rita as well. But considering that it took less than a month after that statement for him to be proven wrong by what is shaping up to be one of the biggest oil spills in U.S. history...from one of those supposedly safe rigs...that's the kind of thing that I'd expect to happen to W. By the way, the first link is a 14 mb pdf file, if you're on a slow connection, just trust me on the text. I think you're just doing the sound bite tactic here. Calling out Obama because he was wrong about the balance of where oil spills came from during Katrina, IMO, is subverting the important points here.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Apr 29, 2010 -> 08:47 AM) Yeah I know you only see the constitution as things that create new Democrats and things that are unconstitutional, but there are bigger things here. Take a macro-view of recent history and leave the party politics behind. The funny thing is that I really do believe this is a horrible law and should be unconstitutional, but then I again I don't see the world completely through the eyes of my party. To me this is as big of a intrusion on individual rights as the health care bill, gun bannings, and the Patriot Act, and other things that are bandied about. Other than the hyperbolic first sentence, I agree with this. Intrusion into our lives is intrusion into our lives. Its not OK in this law's case, nor was it OK with warrantless wiretapping, various provisions of the Patriot Act, pointless gun bans, requiring the purchase of health insurance, telling people who they can marry, etc. Neither party currently has much hold on the moral high ground of "individual rights" - they both pick and choose a few they like.

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Apr 29, 2010 -> 09:08 AM) One is too many. Yeah, but that's not about Obama. That's about another good reason to get off oil ASAP, which Obama has so far been pushing harder for than some of the previous Presidents. Though really, none of them are pushing nearly hard enough.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Apr 29, 2010 -> 08:59 AM) Barack H. Obama, April 2, 2010. I don't see anything wrong in what he said there. How many rig spills have we seen in recent history?

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Apr 29, 2010 -> 08:16 AM) He can't control it when he throws harder though. With the Padres, he could, that's how he took the pitching triple crown in 2007. I've seen that. Its also why I don't think this is an injury. But that's small consolation anyway.

Peavy has been toying around mechanically, and something seems to have clicked last night. He's been, at times, throwing HARDER this year than he had in previous years. I highly doubt he's injured.

mac9001- Thanks for joining the discussion, and diving into the economic impacts of this, which you are right, have not been fully thought out. Your posts are very interesting. Also, if you want to post in the Buster, please make sure you read, acknowledge and post in the PLEASE READ thread pinned at the top of the forum. Thanks!

Two players that are beginning to intrigue me, but I don't see a lot of info out there for - Tyler Kuhn and Justin Greene. Greene seems to have a nice combo of contact, power and speed. Anyone know anything on Greene?

Holy Winston-Salem offense! 13 runs on 14 hits to win 13-3. Garcia and Greene went deep (Greene's line now .328/.438/.607/1.045, and 9 of his 20 hits are XBH), Short, Escobar Greene, Garica and Loman all with multi-hit games. Griffith finally looked human, but managed to escape giving up just 3 runs. Kanny pitching looked good (Hopps, Buch, O'Neill), but the lost 4-3 in 10 innings. Thompson starting to look human.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Apr 28, 2010 -> 03:01 PM) Royals, down 5-1, actually had a comeback to tie game at 5-5 against the M's with two clutch, two out hits against R-R-S. Would be nice to see the White Sox do that more often. BTW, Pods 1/3 with Run Scored, .370 BA still and returning to earth with an .817 OPS, which still looks good compared to Quentin and Pierre. NOTE to KW: You can thank your lucky stars it was Pierre and not Chone Figgins you wasted money on, or you would be in real hot water. Seriously? The Sox had three straight games where they came back late to win, just this past weekend. Their clutch hitting is still bad, but did you not notice those games they just played?

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Apr 28, 2010 -> 04:01 PM) AJ? Since we're going with the bizarro lineup, bat him 3rd. Pierre-Vizquel-AJ. Awesomeness.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Apr 28, 2010 -> 03:59 PM) Google and Baseball-reference. Powerful combo. Awesome. Interesting that Pierre is one of only two players to do it multiple times in that period.

Heh, the first two slots are the worst parts of the lineup. Ass f***ing backwards.

QUOTE (docsox24 @ Apr 28, 2010 -> 03:06 PM) By July it is going to be too late. I am afraid that Hudson's value may have peaked last year. Let's not get too worked up over a bad outing here.

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Apr 28, 2010 -> 02:54 PM) You mean he's not fast enough to hit a bunt double? I wonder if that has ever happened. A bunt double. I know there have been infield doubles, in fact I believe Guillen hit one back in the day, in Minny.

QUOTE (Athomeboy_2000 @ Apr 28, 2010 -> 02:09 PM) Anti-abortion amendment narrowly passes Florida Senate I think its hilarious that the same people who feel its unconstitutional to require buying medical insurance (which I might actually agree with), somehow feel its OK to require an expensive medical procedure to satisfy a religious group. So they have all sorts of problems with requiring everyone to pay what amounts to a new tax, but they have no problem requiring medical spending AND foisting their religious views on others. Brilliant.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Apr 28, 2010 -> 02:37 PM) No, that's not what it says at all. This bad faith provision is quite explicitly saying that officers can't be sued for following the rules of their governing authority...but the indemnity goes away if the officer doesn't follow local rules. You are missing G&T's point. Bad faith is more than just failing to enforce some specific law. Those cases just don't fly, they can't possibly, otherwise you could sue every cop in the country for things they do every day. The law not specifying indemnity to individual officers isn't there because it is about protecting the agency. The officer needs no protection here because he's not liable in the type of situation you mention.

QUOTE (The Ginger Kid @ Apr 28, 2010 -> 02:38 PM) can gartrell lead off? Gartrell is a borderline prospect at best, and there is zero chance they bring him up to sit Pierre (though Gartrell is hitting well so far this year). QUOTE (The Ginger Kid @ Apr 28, 2010 -> 02:39 PM) de aza looked pretty good in spring, didn't he? Yeah, and now he's hitting .200-ish in AAA.