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QUOTE (Milkman delivers @ Apr 28, 2011 -> 02:55 PM) I believe this to be the case, but I want proof. I ask any of these writers to release a column next week where the first letter of the first four sentences spell M-I-L-K. Do it! I can see Cowley's next article... Maybe I like kids...

BTW to get this moving along, I am guessing opening day 2012.

QUOTE (witesoxfan @ Apr 29, 2011 -> 01:31 AM) Jesus, what a brutal schedule. The wallpaper is great, but f*** - two 9 game roadies alone in the month of May (and that last one is actually a 10 game road trip). Maybe I'm imagining things, but it seems like the cut down on off-days all together. Yeah after the opening homestand it is 30 of 43 on the road. That is just cruel.

QUOTE (ChiSox_Sonix @ Apr 29, 2011 -> 09:05 AM) Infante should really be in Charlotte. We could use another capable arm in our pen and AA obviously isn't challenging him. Unless they have him there to work on something specific, he needs to be moved up soon. Yeah I still don't understand how he ended up in Birmingham unless they were making him a starter.

QUOTE (Jordan4life @ Apr 28, 2011 -> 01:52 AM) JPN, if I sent you 5 bucks could you get rid of your Gio sig? It pisses me off so much. I will never forgive that second trade. If you give me the five bucks, I will get rid of it for you!

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Apr 29, 2011 -> 08:04 AM) Can some of you guys who watch the NBA a heckuva lot more than me give me a realistic assessment of what to expect in our next series? It is going to be the polar opposite of the Pacers series. It is going to be much more wide open, and way less physical. Atlanta likes to open it up and let their athletes go to work. How close the series is depends on how healty Kirk is, because if he can't hold Rose, the Bulls will just murder Atlanta. If he is healthy, it still shouldn't be that close. On the other side the only guy the Bulls will have trouble with is Joe Johnson, and that is only when Bogans and Brewer are on the bench for Korver. Other than that, their best players in Josh Smith and Al Horford will get D'd up by the Bulls best defenders in Noah and Deng for the most part. Boozer might get some time on Horford instead of Pachulia though.

http://sports.espn.go.com/chicago/nfl/news/story?id=6448930

QUOTE (iamshack @ Apr 29, 2011 -> 08:12 AM) I'm not the foremost expert, but from what I understand the Bulls matchup extremely well with Atlanta and have blown them out a few times this year. Even though we matchup better with Orlando since their big trade for Arenas and co., we get the team we wanted here in Atlanta. I was going to mention this if no one else did. That deal torpedo'd their season.

Don't worry Jenks, someday your price will come too!

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Apr 28, 2011 -> 03:00 PM) That's what I think would change. I bet if they took it off of the planes, they would do a lot more archiving. I bet they could use it to track other flight disasters. Thinking back to the Southwest Airlines flight that recently went convertable, I wonder if they could gone back and caught something in flight pressures to show that the plane was cracking for example.

QUOTE (bobryansson @ Apr 28, 2011 -> 03:04 PM) Weren't we all waiting for the Ozzie-drama to take the focus off the players? I know I was.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Apr 28, 2011 -> 02:53 PM) If they're logging it on the plane, I don't see why the storage would be more cumbersome or expensive on the ground. Currently they record something 24 hour chunks and re-write over old data on the planes. According to wikipedia (supreme authority), the space shuttles used this sort of data logging and didn't have onboard FDR's. I'd imagine that's due to the likelihood of an FDR burning up or being lost in space. Here's the FAA's TSO on FDR's, FYI: http://www.airweb.faa.gov/Regulatory_and_G...;FILE/C124a.pdf That's what I think would change. I bet if they took it off of the planes, they would do a lot more archiving.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Apr 28, 2011 -> 02:45 PM) I think the data storage is the easy and cheap part. Its not a huge ton of data. The hard part, I think, is partially the regulations you mentioned, and partially the cost the airlines would incur in changing their aircraft to add on the transmitters. That is a lot of data though. Every single bit of info from every single plane trip? Maybe if they figured out a way to not store it for very long it could work. But I have a feeling it would involve a significant amount of archiving if they made those changes.

http://sports.espn.go.com/chicago/mlb/news/story?id=6443737

QUOTE (gatnom @ Apr 28, 2011 -> 02:25 PM) I understand that they've tried. I also understand that they have a ways to go. They haven't had a lot of success trading away veteran talent either, and really just trades in general have been bad lately in my opinion. The returns on the Swisher and Vazquez trades have been... not so good. This isn't exactly relevant to the thread, but who do you replace Danks with presuming you trade him in the offseason? You only have Floyd, Peavy, and Sale under contract next year. How do you replace Danks if you let him walk away from draft picks? You have even less to replace him then.

QUOTE (gatnom @ Apr 28, 2011 -> 02:12 PM) Well if you have no faith in your team's drafting, maybe you should try to fix the actual problem instead of trying to circumvent it is all I'm saying. I don't really understand your metaphor. They have tried. I am saying that it isn't as easy as just "drafting better". For my money, I'd rather not gamble the teams future at something they have failed at pretty consistantly.

QUOTE (kevo880 @ Apr 28, 2011 -> 02:06 PM) Where is Jon Gilmore? Havent seen his name in any box scores all spring. I'm pretty sure someone said he was hurt. I don't remember the details though.

QUOTE (gatnom @ Apr 28, 2011 -> 02:05 PM) Or... we could just start drafting/signing better? Yeah that it's it. Why didn't I think of that. I think I am going to start having a million dollars in my bank account to while I am at it.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Apr 28, 2011 -> 01:58 PM) Is that the one that hit MO/IL/IN some decades back, where there will multiple tornadoes of like F4 and F5 all travelling together in a long path? IIRC that is the one from the 70's.

Knowing how things get with federal regulations, I would bet dollars to donuts that an old rule requires them to have a recorder on the plane so they can't legally do it. The the second problem would be that no one is set up for that sort of data storage, and doesn't want to incur the costs of it.

Nicely done!

QUOTE (Jordan4life @ Apr 28, 2011 -> 01:31 PM) And that will be the day J4L finds a new team to cheer for. Oh my goodness if that happens. I might switch over to the Cubs. Another quote to bookmark? Soxtalk is going to need a separate folder for J4L posts

I'm purely guessing here, but I'll bet the uniques count is at least 500 a day, probably closer to 1000 during the season. There is a very big unregistered readership, plus a very solid core of posters.

QUOTE (Chisoxfn @ Apr 28, 2011 -> 12:55 PM) On 2nd thought, you said, student loans carried by a bank. Those are similar to personal loans and a Chapter 7 would wipe them away. In fact, if any student was taking on a ton of debt, I could see significant reasons for why I wouldn't take a ton of government debt. God forbit you end up 200K in debt and its owed to Uncle Sam...you'll never get away from it (unless you land a big time gig). Bankruptcy is probably something more people should do now a days. Especially if they are severely under-water. They wouldn't waste money paying stuff that theyll eventually lose or won't recover for a period of 7 years, where as the bankruptcy would free them from most things (the exception to this would be if you had a lot of cash or savings/liquid assets; your 401k I believe is protected in a bankruptcy). And your credit would eventually recover (something like 7 years later, but it would recover). I'm pretty sure bankruptcy stays on for 10 years, but the ideas are all the same.

QUOTE (Chisoxfn @ Apr 28, 2011 -> 12:52 PM) That might have been pre 1998 and pre early 2000's. Two major bankruptcy reforms during that point in time have made it nearly impossible to walk away from student loan debt (Federally funded student loan debt). If you had private student loans, than that is a whole nother story. But if it was a loan from the government, it is impossible to get away from (excluding if you had a severe hardship due to a sever disability). Getting away from federally sponsored student loans might be one of the toughest things to ever get out from you. It is literally easier to get ouf of debt to the IRS than it is a student loan.