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QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Jun 11, 2009 -> 11:20 AM) It has to be the ligament as he's had this problem before and got a shot for it this spring. I would imagine the pain is the issue. He's been slumping lately, but he still has been hitting the ball pretty hard. Has to be? If Ozzie says he's available today, then it probably is NOT the ligament.

QUOTE (BigEdWalsh @ Jun 11, 2009 -> 11:12 AM) Jacob Wilson Right-Handed Pitcher - RHP Height: 6-0 Weight: 170 Senior Bats: R Throws: R Previous Affiliations Richard King HS Blinn JC Courtesy: New Mexico State University Junior 2008: Wilson pitched in eight games for the Aggies during the 2008 season. In 24 innings, Wilson struck out 23 batters, while he gave up 33 earned runs and nine home runs during the season. Wilson only allowed two hits and one run while pitching against the Lobos. He pitched in five innings each against Fresno State (3/10) and Panhandle State (4/15) helping the Aggies to victory in both games. Junior College: Wilson played at Blinn College in Brenham, Texas before transferring to Laredo Community College where he played baseball for current Aggie assistant coach Chase Tidwell. As a pitcher, Wilson helped the Palominos place third in Region 14 in the 2005-06 seasons. High School: Wilson played high school baseball for the Richard King High School Mustangs. As a senior he had a 7-2 record with a 0.62 ERA while striking out 84 batters in 56 innings. In 2004 he received Honorable Mention as first baseman. He was awarded team Most Valuable Player and first-team All-District Pitcher in 2005. Wilson was also awarded second-team All-South Texas Pitcher. Personal: Wilson is the son of David Wilson and Cathy Taylor and was born in Corpus Christi, Texas. He is majoring in management and exercise science. This season Wilson had a 2-2 record with 4 Saves and a 3.04 ERA. He appeared in 21 games, 26.2 IP, 15 BB, 37 Ks. 33 ER and 9 HR in 24 IP? Yeah that's not looking great. He must have improved this (senior) season. I'l see if I can find this year's stats. Does Big West have a conference page with stats?

Go.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Jun 11, 2009 -> 10:26 AM) Guillen ruled out using Jim Thome at first base for the nine interleague games at National League parks starting Friday and said Josh Fields probably would start Thursday against Detroit. Gotcha.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Jun 11, 2009 -> 10:11 AM) Ozzie said no way. He said that this year?

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Jun 11, 2009 -> 09:39 AM) If Konerko can't play, I'm going to be crying in Milwaukee. 9 games in a row without a DH means no Thome. So it would be no Thome, Konerko or Quentin for 9 games. I believe it was Alice Cooper who said Welcome to my Nightmare. Thome was, at one time not that long ago, a good defensive 1B. I realize he's had back issues since and he's no spring chicken, but if Paulie is out, I'd bet they get Thome at 1B a few times in the interleague road series'.

QUOTE (lostfan @ Jun 11, 2009 -> 09:37 AM) FWIW, it's not summer yet. It is in fact meteorological summer (June-July-August). Just not official summer. Besides, ITS f***ING MID JUNE!!! IT SHOULDN'T BE 60 +/-5 AND RAINING EVERY DAMN DAY!!!

I'd like to point out that most of this week, and predicted for the rest of it, Fairbanks, Alaska is warmer than Chicago. This spring/early summer has just sucked weather-wise. Its been like late March since late March. Its starting to get to me. If I wanted my summers to be like this I'd live in Seattle, or London.

QUOTE (kapkomet @ Jun 11, 2009 -> 08:28 AM) If the definition of "preventative care" must include being told by our government what it constitutes, then it is a straw man that will lead to what will and will not be treated - and will be incredibly costly because now the system will require payments on "preventative care" visits. I think you are misusing the term "straw man" here, but that is an aside. More to the point, I fail to see how preventative care becomes deciding what will and will not be treated. How do you make that leap? And how is that something that makes preventative care somehow bad?

QUOTE (lostfan @ Jun 11, 2009 -> 08:06 AM) You know, I was wondering something and I figured Balta would be able to answer this - doesn't water expand when it freezes? Wouldn't that mean if it melted, the overall volume decreased? How does that work? I'm not Balta, but I can at least partially answer this one. Glaciers and ice caps are currently above water. They melt, they add to the overall volume of ocean water. That also changes the salinity as well, but I am not sure of what impact that has.

QUOTE (BearSox @ Jun 10, 2009 -> 10:31 PM) Question... hasn't the planet been going through climate changes it's whole existence? If so, why should we worry so much about this one? Why do we have to change everything we do if this could be a natural happening? 1. Yes of course the planet has seen a lot of climate changes over time. We've had ice ages, for example, and all sorts of other changes. 2. As to why people worry about it... let's just take the whole anthropogenic part out of it for a moment... regardless of cause, if for example the temperature on the planet rises (on net average) by a couple degrees, the level of the oceans will rise by numerous feet. This means entire cities, like say New York, will be flooded, unless you undertake massive engineering projects to prevent that. It also can mean all sorts of other damaging things from more intense storms, melting glaciers depleting water tables, less green matter on land to eat up pollution making that worse... there is a whole cascade of problems it would cause, REGARDLESS of whether or not humans effect it. So its a reality that needs to be dealt with. 3. The science on this is just so overwhelmingly in one direction that there is no logical argument to be made on the other side. The climate changes we are seeing are caused, in some part, by us. And just plain common sense should tell you that anyway - do you really think the 6 billion people on this planet and all their industry doesn't effect their environment? Now, there of course is plenty of debate as to how much of this change is anthropogenic. Could be only a little of it, might be a lot, that is very much up for debate. You can choose to ignore it, but its really just like choosing to ignore the train coming at you. You do so at your own peril. I prefer that we make some adjustments (and there is LOTS of debate to be had as to what those should be) and, you know, keep the planet liveable for our kids.

I don't jump into these health care discussions a lot because I think its incredibly complicated, and I don't have a good holistic solution in mind. But this... QUOTE (kapkomet @ Jun 10, 2009 -> 10:17 PM) Preventative health care is a straw man, too, IMO. It will lead to dictates of what will and will not get treated. ...is ridiculous. You think that preventative care is a straw man? First, that doesn't even make sense, as preventative care exists. Second, if you are saying its bad, I don't get that at all. Clearly, measures you take to be healthier via regular maintenance (diet, exercise, and yes, regular checkups to detect problems early) are a huge win for everyone involved. Lowers the need for more expensive health care, makes us all healthier... how can you possibly be against that?

Wow, I don't know if anyone really anticipated how much pitching talent Kanny would have this year... Infante, Carter, Leesman, Sauer, Corley, Remenowsky, Hudson (promoted already), Jones, Burdie... just look at the stats that core staff is putting up down there, from a bunch of guys (mostly) that people hadn't given much thought to. That team has 4 relievers with sub-1 WHIP's (Corley, Burdie, Jones Remenowsky), and the ERA's for that list I put up there are mostly in the zero to 3.00 range (only three of them above). Also, Paiml on fire, hitting .378 with 5 doubles and a home run in his last 10 games. Still probably a long shot to ever make it to the show, but, good to see.

QUOTE (flavum @ Jun 10, 2009 -> 03:58 PM) 30th rd- Rob Vaughn, C, Kansas St There's catcher number two. We now have three catchers to spread out over rookie ball and Low A this season.

QUOTE (maggsmaggs @ Jun 10, 2009 -> 04:23 PM) I don't care about Sauer starting as a reliever then becoming a starter, 50 to 1 K to BB, how the hell doesn't he get a all-star nod? That is whack, plus more than one K per 9 inn. WTF Oh jeez, I hadn't even noticed he wasn't there, but you are right. He absolutely belongs.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jun 10, 2009 -> 03:50 PM) I know why you guys are saying this, I just think it's so silly. Someone's going to pick up Fields off of us for nothing, teach him a better swing, and he'll spend the rest of his career putting up Troy Glaus in his non steroid year numbers over at 3b, and that someone will be very happy with it. You are arguing with the wrong guy on this. I've said a zillion times, I think he was starting to figure it out, and should have been left to continue that, instead of promoting a guy way too early. And I think there is a good chance he does indeed get good somewhere else, which sucks. But, I think we've now gone too far down that road, and he just doesn't have a future here anymore, barring some injuries.

QUOTE (whitesoxmanager @ Jun 10, 2009 -> 03:42 PM) if you could start your team with 5 non pitchers who would they be? mine are: 1. ichiro suzuki 2. albert pujols 3. mark texieria 4. kevin youkilis 5. orlando hudson interested to see what you guys would do? You seem to have an odd habit of posting in a thread with stuff completely unrelated to the topic at hand. I seem to recall the other day, you added posts to a game or baseball thread, with something about feminine hygiene. Are you lost?

We didn't draft any catchers after Phegley, did we? So I'm guessing our two Rookie Ball catchers will be Phegley and Dubler. Unless we draft another one soon-ish, then maybe Phegley goes to Kanny.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jun 10, 2009 -> 03:29 PM) Fields is a terrible matchup against Verlander right now. Anyway, do we have anyone at AAA who can play backup infielder? I'm starting to wonder if Josh wouldn't be better off in Charlotte getting daily at bats. Nix is really the backup IF right now, and Wise is the backup OF. We need a backup 1B who can maybe also play other positions or PH, since Nix plays the other three IF positions well. Take a wild guess who I'd suggest. Either way though, I agree Fields needs AB's, I just think it won't be in this organization most likely. Not sure he's got much more to prove in AAA.

Fields out again - message being sent.

QUOTE (Cknolls @ Jun 10, 2009 -> 02:19 PM) So the classless David Letterman makes fun of Palin by calling her a slutty flight attendant and makes fun of her 14 yr old daughter being raped by Alex Rodriguez. You sir are a douche and should be beaten with a baseball bat. Much as I despise Palin, I have to agree, his stuff was over the line and classless. He is welcome to be classless of course, but, I didn't like it.

QUOTE (lostfan @ Jun 10, 2009 -> 02:16 PM) All over the spectrum with that. But there is a theme there nonetheless - those are guys are or were very honest and upfront about their beliefs and policies.

Sweet, 2 of my AAP's. And I agree, Shirek probably will take a pass, being up with B-Ham now.

QUOTE (SI1020 @ Jun 10, 2009 -> 01:54 PM) Sigh. What can I say in a hopeless cause. If you don't know all the damage the Fed has caused, with it's malovelent hand in almost every economic downturn since it's inception, then pass me the kool ade I guess. I'm with Ron Paul. Audit it and then get rid of it. Yeah I know old Andy Jackson was a cantankerous fighter. I like Geronimo, Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull too. Can I at least make it to purgatory? If you want I could outline in brief detail the dirty deeds of the Fed since the 74-75 recession. I don't really believe people come to this forum to learn, but rather to flame each other. Oh wait. You live in NW Indiana right? You should definitely know better then. Some people have discussions here and learn. Others make posts that don't bother trying. Jackson is a fascinating figure in history, in that he is probably the strongest combination of both good and bad I think we've ever gotten from a single President. He broke all kinds of barriers and royal tendencies that needed to be broken, which is great. He was also mildly psychotic at times, and he had a big hand in pushing an entire culture to its virtual extinction. So for anyone to simply make it as if he was great because he was against the national bank is a pretty narrow view. And there is no way you can say the Fed is the progenetor of boom and bust cycles, which existed (and in worse amplification) well before the Fed was doing much, and still happen with the Fed being only a PART of both the good and bad of those cycles.