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QUOTE (Dick Allen @ May 21, 2009 -> 09:36 AM) But it shows they aren't at or over their salary limit like they have been preaching. I'm not suggesting they just give all that money to the next guy. What I'm saying is their every dollar in goes out isn't accurate. They obviously have some cash laying around. Enough with the broken record. We've all heard your Kenny is Cheap song hundreds of times now.

QUOTE (Thunderbolt @ May 21, 2009 -> 09:32 AM) If KW gets Peavy, i want a Mea Culpa from all the posters who were talking s*** about KW's desire to compete. Their's no doubt that he's made mistakes, but the guy hates to lose. Good luck with that. The only team in baseball who has been more competitive than the Sox in the current decade is maybe the Yankees, and some people still think KW is a crappy GM.

QUOTE (KyKyGruber @ May 21, 2009 -> 09:25 AM) http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2009/base...rade/index.html This is new:

QUOTE (RockRaines @ May 21, 2009 -> 09:22 AM) It was said Eck and Getz may swap teams here to we can lead off with Eck. Ugh.

QUOTE (bigruss22 @ May 21, 2009 -> 09:19 AM) He must love to hit. Peavy has a career line of .178/.219/.234. But his last two years have actually been much better, and even decent for a pitcher: 07: .233/.250/.315 08: .265/.302/.306

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ May 21, 2009 -> 09:08 AM) When this trade falls through, will KW be willing to pick up salary elsewhere? He obviously isn't at his limit. Same with all other trades that don't happen - we will have no idea whether or not there was even a trade discussed, and if there was, what the details were. Therefore, nothing to draw from it really, unless you want to create evidence to support your already existing bias in one way or another (i.e. Kenny is cheap).

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ May 21, 2009 -> 08:21 AM) The Score is actually saying Jermaine Dye is in the proposed Deal. That means the Sox are only adding 5-6 million dollars this year. Did Josh Kroeger just become our right fielder? Or possible Nix? I sure to like Peavy, but boy... Poreda, Richard, Dye, and some PTBNL seems like a LOT to give up.

Holy wake up and see a 10 page thread on a trade, batman! Did I read right? Last we know, there is a serious chance this might happen? Holy frijoles.

QUOTE (BearSox @ May 20, 2009 -> 03:11 PM) Powell is as much of a republican as you are. Interesting choice on who to say that to - AHB voted Obama but his views seem to align mostly with the current GOP way of doing things (social conservatives and who cares how much it costs). Powell is more aligned with the smaller government crowd that used to dominate the GOP.

We should find a way to breed Lucy's defense with Flower's bat to create the ultimate super-prospect catcher.

QUOTE (BearSox @ May 20, 2009 -> 03:06 PM) IIRC, someone here said or posted an article stating he doesn't have much stuff. How does a guy without much stuff put up a 31/2 K/BB over 15 innings?

QUOTE (shipps @ May 20, 2009 -> 02:54 PM) Your a knucklehead LOL @ unintentionally funny

What do we know about Dan Remenowski (Kanny closer)? His numbers last year at GF and Bristol were very good - 0.44 ERA, 18 K in 18.2 IP. Now this year with Kanny - 1.72 ERA, very solid 0.83 WHIP, a ridiculous 5.50 GO/AO, and in 15.2 IP he has an insane 31 K, and only 2 BB. He just turned 23 so he's a bit old for his level, by maybe a year at most. BB Cube says he was UNDRAFTED. Thoughts on this guy? I know numbers don't tell the whole story, but those aren't just numbers, those are NUMBERS.

QUOTE (santo=dorf @ May 19, 2009 -> 08:31 PM) I've heard it use for fair weatherness with politicians going with the popular vote, but wiki doesn't have either. Who knows? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Origin_of_the...22Windy_City%22 fairweatherness? No, it originated in NY newspapers around the time of the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago. Its a reference to loud, bombastic politicans in Chicago. Wind bags, if you will.

QUOTE (maggsmaggs @ May 20, 2009 -> 02:08 PM) I am fairly confident Hahn won't go anywhere unless it's for what I call local jobs: Cubs, Sox, Cardinals, Brewers and maybe a couple others. He is from the area, lives with his kids in the area, family in the area, you get the picture. He wants to stay around here. He is the next GM after KW IMO, with only a few other jobs preventing that from happening. He is also a great guy. He went to the same high school you and I did, in fact I was there with him for some of that time.

QUOTE (Chisoxfn @ May 20, 2009 -> 12:37 PM) Poreda with 9 k's so far. In addition, kind of cool, one of the guys on the opposition is a guy I had an econ class with at Fullerton. 11 K now in 5.2 IP.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ May 20, 2009 -> 12:37 PM) Sales of Hybrid's are down about 2/3's. Seems about right. Hybrids will, as long as they continue to be a small part of the market, have more volatile sales than other vehicles. Most vehicle types have dropped in sales by half, hybrids have dropped 32% more than that. When they were hot, their growth rate was off the charts. Since gas prices are up the last month or two (since that article was written), and more people are opting for road trips this summer instead of the absurd hassle of flying, they'll pick up pace again.

QUOTE (False Alarm @ May 20, 2009 -> 12:12 PM) most of the book-buying public. why do you think we've seen such a rash of "memoirs" that turned out to be fake in recent years? most people want stuff they perceive as real. nonfiction sales crush fiction sales. I was more directing my question at people here in this thread, for discussion purposes.

QUOTE (SI1020 @ May 20, 2009 -> 12:09 PM) North Side or anyone else that might care to read this please be advised, this may be long. Most will probably find it boring. When my family first moved to Chicago in 1953 it was a totally different city. It was before the Immigration Act of 1965, so most Chicagoaons were either white or black, the city as a whole was about 80% white. Many neighborhoods were to change from all white to all black in the 40s, 50s and 60s as this was the era when southern blacks were leaving in droves in hopes of getting jobs in what was then the industrial north. In 1953 neighborhoods all over the city like Austin, South Shore, Avalon Park, Calumet Heights, Auburn Gresham, Washington Heights, Roseland, West Pullman, Grand Crossing, and Chatham just to name some, were pretty stable and solidly middle class. Grand Crossing and Chatham were at the beginnings of racial change but blacks moving in were for the most part upwardly mobile. Other neighborhoods like South Lawndale, Brighton Park, most of Lincoln Park (believe it or not), West Garfield Park were more blue collar and lower middle class but had stability, tradition and healthy business districts. Almost the entire NW side from Fullerton north to the city limits, Pulaski on the east and the city limits on the west was solid and stable. Ditto for the SW Side, I'm talking about West Elsdon, Archer Heights, West Lawn, Marquette Park (mostly called Chicago Lawn back then), Ashburn, Clearing, and Garfield Ridge. In the 50s many homes sprung up in Clearing, Garfield Ridge and Ashburn in what had been prairies. There were real ethnic neighborhoods then too. Lincoln Avenue from North all the way up to Lawrence was German. Taylor Street was a teeming Italian district as was a long stretch along Grand Avenue. Chicago Avenue between Kedzie and Pulaski in the Our Lady of Angels parish had the most unique and lively Italian American business district I've ever been in. Albany Park had a large Jewish community that was more blue collar than it's decidedly wealthier neighbor North Park, which had a Jewish community more upscale. There were also large Jewish populations in Rogers Park, Uptown, West Ridge (mostly called Northtown back then) and Lincoln Square. Great swaths of the south side were Irish, parishes like St. Sabina, St. Killian, Little Flower and others in neighborhoods from West Englewood to South Shore to Beverly. Chicago had the largest Polish community centered at Milwaukee and Division, and working its way north on Milwaukee all the way to Jefferson Park. In addition to this there were some Irish up north (Rogers Park, Edgewater and Albany Park) and Jews on the south side, and a good sized Polish community in Brighton Park and South Chicago. Being older I remember what it was like to experience the sights, smells and experiences of those old neighborhoods and compare it to the remade latte crowd areas of gentrification today. It's not even close. The Chicago of that era blows the Chicago of today right out of the water. Yes, gentrification has improved parts of the city. I had a relative that lived in the Kenmore-Winthrop corridor in Edgewater in the 70s and 80s when it was really bad. I lived on the Western border of Edgewater near Hayt School and could relate all kinds of urban horror stories from a generation or so ago. Yes some neighborhoods have definitely improved, that can't be denied. I still contend that when you look back the city as a whole has declined. I will say this, of all the so called rust belt cities Chicago has by far done the best job of both reinventing and preserving itself. Change is inevitable and all the large American cities have been under incredible social and economic pressures for over half a century. I'll stop here for now. There is so much more I would like to say. Maybe I'll write a book, but there is no guarantee anyone would read it. I've noticed a few books written recently about 1940s and 50s Chicago, particularly about certain far north side neighborhoods. That was actually very interesting, thanks. I do agree that the more ethnically vibrant neighborhoods have faded. I also recall some of that. Chicago was once 200 small cities, and you got a lot of interesting culture that way. But, that same factor also resulted in much more amplified segregation. There were, back then, virtually no neighborhoods that had a racial mix, a you stated. Now there are many, if not most. So that is the offseting factor. By the way, a neighborhood you didn't mention was Englewood. My father was born there, but the family moved out to the NW side (near Six Corners) when he was about 7, as the neighborhood went downhill in a serious hurry. They had "street guards" who would more or less try to filter who came onto the block. Sad situation all around.

QUOTE (kyyle23 @ May 20, 2009 -> 12:05 PM) The movie version of Jurassic park cuts off some of the more interesting action in the book. The Aviary, the second younger T-Rex, and Hammond isnt presented as much as a crazed billionaire in the movie as much as he is in the book, plus Hammond and Malcolm die in the book(although Malcolm gets a soap opera style rebirth for The Lost World book) Yeah, and I thought it was hilarious in the movie that Muldoon goes out hunting velociraptors (which are dramatically exagerrated in size from reality) with a friggin shotgun. Seriously? An animal roughly the mass of a grizzly bear but much faster, more muscular and with tough skin, and you think that 12 gauge is doing a damn thing? In the book, they used LAW rockets and/or tranqs, which seemed over the top but actually would be much more effective. The movie was silly. Book has silly elements too of course, but not as bad. The lawyer character was entirely different in the book as well.

QUOTE (LosMediasBlancas @ May 20, 2009 -> 11:45 AM) I remember reading somewhere that you should work your shoulders from back to front. In other words, do the rear head, then the middle and the front head last. Does anyone know why this is recommended? I'd like to hear the "why" on that as well, since I had a shoulder issue and surgery a few years ago that may have been caused by bad weightlifting technique (my thoery is doing bench press all the way to chest bounce, and lat pull-downs behind the neck).

Leesman with another nice outing. Shirek settling down after an early run, same with Poreda. Shirek has only had one bad start the whole season thus far (4/16), every other outing 3 ER or less.

QUOTE (Cali @ May 19, 2009 -> 04:01 PM) I'm not even kidding when I say, he needs AT LEAST 7-10 stars in AAA before I would even consider bringing him back up to the big club. If he keeps pitching well and throws strikes, I don't think I'd go that far. More than his current two, but not 7-10. After two more starts, if he still looks solid, I think its time to look at it.

QUOTE (kyyle23 @ May 20, 2009 -> 11:33 AM) Crichton jumped the shark with Congo. Oh my lord was that a bad movie. After seeing it, I swore off reading the book, which i am told is a good book. The book, which is short, is pretty good. Not great, but entertaining. Actually, the book Jurassic Park was a decent read, far better than the movie.

QUOTE (Iwritecode @ May 20, 2009 -> 11:20 AM) I just finished "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy. I have to say I wasn't real impressed with it. I'm also reading "I am Legend". It's kinda interesting reading these two together because they are both post-apocalyptic stories. My parents just got two boxes full of books for free and asked me if I wanted any of them. I picked up a couple by Michael Crichton simply because I recognized his name. Don't remember the titles though. I'm a huge Stephen King fan and have read all his books. I've also got a handful of books from Dean Koontz (who I've heard many people compare to SK) but I haven't really found any by him that I really like. Some of Chrichton's earlier stuff, particularly some short stories like Sphere, were good reads. After a while though, he was just writing books that were clearly meant to become screenplays. Characters shallowed out, everything was too clipped and over-reaching for poignant.