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QUOTE (Milkman delivers @ May 23, 2011 -> 10:39 AM) I don't think Moyer is very surprising. He's been pitching for like 35 years. Yeah, I know he has been around, but it plenty of other pitchers who are way better would have been guesses before Moyer. Someone like Andy Pettite comes to mind.

QUOTE (maggsmaggs @ May 23, 2011 -> 09:44 AM) Yeah, he ain't coming back either, so makes sense. I think he would make a great arm for the pen during the stretch run if not traded. Obviously this six-man deal is coming to an end soon (according to KW), so somehow has to be moved from the rotation, and it should be E-Jax despite having the best stuff on the staff in all likelihood (at least when he is on). Do we dare offer him up to the Yankees? Maybe the Cubs? The latter is especially intriguing; they are in the race and need starters. The Yankees are going to trade for at least one more starter. I can't see anyway around that. If Santos hadn't been as good as he has been in the pen, I would be interested in seeing him close. He could be lights out with the stuff he has, and not having to worry about throwing 100 pitches. On the other hand, I am still a bit nervous about counting on Humber in a pennant race.

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ May 23, 2011 -> 09:35 AM) I really just want a level playing field. That out of bounds call on Luol Deng was inexcusable. I just can't get over it. Also, on the news this morning they showed 5 baskets that LBJ scored on where he took FIVE STEPS! Five! It's just depressing... on a level playing field, the Bulls are up 2-1 at worst. Anyway, I hate being that guy, but it's f***ing true. There was a couple of really bad misses of basic calls too. One that jumps back to me was one where a ball got tipped, the Miami player got it back, but dribbled it to get it back. Then he picked it up, and you could hear the Bulls bench yelling at the officials that he had dribbled, before he started to dribble again with no call. I said it last night, and I said it again, this looks like a Bulls/Pistons series from the 90s with the way that these games are being called.

Yeah, I haven't see it.

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ May 23, 2011 -> 09:19 AM) I don't know if it's overvalued or not, but LinkedIn has a very strong chance of becoming essentially Facebook for business, a market that Facebook will never be able to capture and a market that has no other competitors. 5 years ago if Facebook had gone public with a high price like this I'm sure your reaction would have been the same. It would still be the same today.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ May 23, 2011 -> 08:43 AM) Same here. If they don't figure out Miami in game 4, they have to win 3 straight against Miami. That's hard to do against any team. If they lose game 4, the series is over. They have to win this next game.

Konerko

Which would have really sucked.

Undeserving of a baseball team in Tampa anyway.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ May 23, 2011 -> 07:24 AM) They're now saying Byrd is out "indefinitely" with those facial fractures. He's still got some blurry vision, but he can at least see out of both eyes at this point (he wasn't able to see out of one eye for a few minutes after the hit). Goes without saying, but just to emphasize, I hate to see stuff like that happen to any player. I hope he fully recovers. Yeah, that is just scary. Best wishes to him.

QUOTE (ptatc @ May 22, 2011 -> 10:10 PM) I'm not sure where you got this information but HGH has a huge effect. The athletes just need to take more of it and it costs more. The dosage given out to the appropriate patient's doesn't have drastic effects just enough to stimulate normal growth. However, in the amount athletes take, it makes drastic changes. Look at the NFL. Most of the players are on it. The medical staff will tell you, they estimate 75-80% of players are on it. This is the current PED of choice because the only somewhat reliable test is through a blood test. No union, MLB or NFL has given in to allow blood test, for some valid reasons. I'm sure there are some designer anabolics out there but nobody has found them yet. Labs cannot test for PEDS in general. They need to know what to test for. So if they don't know about it, they cannot test for it. The IOC may be coming out with a program that could change this. What they will do is take a baseline blood sample. If anything changes, they may not know what they are taking but they will know they are taking something to effect the T/E ratio. Thanks for the info, as always. Great stuff.

QUOTE (T R U @ May 23, 2011 -> 02:18 AM) White Sox Stolen Bases: 20 White Sox Caught Stealing: 23 Opponents Stolen Bases: 41 Opponents Caught Stealing: 6 That deserves a hardy LOL Also this is funny too White Sox: .250/.315/.384/.699 Opponents: .254/.315/.384/.699 So pretty much for as bad as our offense has been, our pitching has been just as good.

QUOTE (robinventura23 @ May 22, 2011 -> 08:52 PM) Went to a wedding last night and happened to meet Scott Merkin. Picked his brain a little bit. -I asked him about the 6-man staff. He says Edwin Jackson may be the odd man out. They may try and trade him, but would be tough considering his salary. But they may hold off entirely to see if Peavy is fully recovered. -They may bring Buehrle back (he's not going to retire). Reinsdorf loves him, but only it's between $6-$8 mil annually. I post more when I remember what else he said to me. They may actually be able to get Buehrle cheap. If anyone, I believe Mark when he tells people how much he loves it here. He did already leave a lot of money on the table once to stay in Chicago. On the open market, he probably could have doubled the dollar value of his last contract, when you added in that someone would have signed him for many more years than the four he got from Kenny. I see Jackson as a guy that is probably giving Cooper fits at night. One day he is absolutely unhittable, the next he can't find the strike zone with google maps. I have no problem believing the Sox would deal him to get some pieces for this run, or even prospects to fill up the system.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ May 22, 2011 -> 09:27 PM) I still say looking only at the loss column is nuts. Those makeup games will be really tough on Cleveland. They're going to lose their rest for most of the 2nd half. I think they have four games to make up which is a ton. That pitching staff is going to get beat up over that time.

QUOTE (Real @ May 22, 2011 -> 09:43 PM) When you only have one player who can score consistently, and then that player has an off night, this is most likely the result. Game. Hi Troll.

I own a few other team hats, but mostly because I like the teams (Houston and Texas), but I can't see myself buying a hat from a team I couldn't root for, which is about 28 other teams.

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QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ May 23, 2011 -> 07:07 AM) Honestly, given the reactions of the kids, it seems to me that being a jerk may be necessary. 8th graders probably need the occasional verbal head-smack back to reality. I have no problem with it. In the two months I filled in as an Econ teacher, I had a senior who needed that class to pass who kept telling me how he didn't care about the class, and to just pass him so he could graduate. He also kept saying how he would never use anything from the class again, so why was I making him do all of this. After a few dozen times of hearing this (in addition to other behavioral problems in the class) I told him to realize the class didn't care about him either. And it didn't matter what he did in the class (pass or fail) that no one else's life would be changed by it. I finished it by telling him that there was no way he was going to do less work than everyone else in the class and pass, so he might as well quit complaining and work, because that was the only way he was graduating. And by the way, welcome to adulthood.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ May 23, 2011 -> 07:12 AM) I personally blame the idiots buying the stock up that high, as much as the underwriters. Seriously, I looked a bit at LinkedIn before the IPO... for that stock to run up like that, to establish that level of market cap, for a business whose revenue streams are very limited in my eyes... its a little reminiscent of some of the tech stock run-ups of the late 90's. I would avoid that stock like the plague. QUOTE (Y2HH @ May 23, 2011 -> 07:47 AM) It's CLEARLY .com 2.0. Anyone that says LinkedIn is a good investment at this valuation knows nothing about investing. LinkedIn makes ~15M per YEAR profit. Not per quarter. Not per month. Per YEAR. That pegs their current stock price at about a 600 P/E ratio. For comparison sake, Apples P/E ratio 15. That means people are only willing to pay 15 times what Apple makes per share...and this is a company that makes more profit in a single DAY than LinkedIn makes in an entire year. At the same time, people are saying they're willing to pay SIX HUNDRED times earnings for a social network with almost no revenue stream that will be an afterthought when Facebook goes public? This run up is speculation and day traders, not investment. They're hopes are that people run LinkedIn's price into the 200 range so they can dump it all, trying to not repeat the same mistake they made in the .com 1 bubble, where instead of dumping it all, they held it thinking it would go even higher...only it crashed instead. The market hasn't changed...companies are worth what they're worth, and the tried and true calculation of what they're worth ALWAYS ends up being the real value in the end. Bottom line, LinkedIn isn't worth half of it's current price, no, scratch that, it's not worth 15% of it's current price...so if you got in the IPO and made a profit, just get out while you can. Thank you, and thank you. One the Blue Sky clears, buy puts, if it hasn't crashed already.

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ May 22, 2011 -> 07:38 PM) Has Bautista ever been tested for HGH? It does suck that it's the first thing I think of, but blame Bud Selig. I've seen too many players put up crazy numbers out of nowhere to automatically think it's just a slight swing adjustment. No, mlb doesn't test for that.

Boy they just aren't going to blow the whistles at all. This is like a Bulls/Pistons series from back in the day.

QUOTE (Real @ May 22, 2011 -> 07:01 PM) when they can beat the twins, and not s*** the bed in september, come let me know meanwhile i'm gonna curb my enthusiasm, you can feel free to be giddy though Thank you Harold Camping.

Quite wrong. The Cubs can't play Miami in the World Series.

Oh, is Robert Zumeckiss next on the list of end of the world authorities?