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QUOTE (Y2HH @ Mar 14, 2011 -> 01:35 PM) I have nothing... That has to be a joke.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Mar 14, 2011 -> 01:33 PM) You don't see why I'm asking this at all do you? I'm not sure why you are surprised by the reaction... With all of the preaching that the private sector can't police itself, and that the government ought to be doing it in all of these areas, the fact that the federal government in many cases is more inept that the private sector is going to be a common reaction.

QUOTE (ZoomSlowik @ Mar 13, 2011 -> 08:25 PM) NU with a home game. Now how the heck do they distribute tickets? They just give them to the 14 people who want to go.

Why is that exactly?

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Mar 14, 2011 -> 01:12 PM) That was our thinking going into the season with him as the starting 3b last year, so we gave him all of ST and the first 2 months of the season. We saw how that turned out. Most guys play the same position for years. Some guys can't pick it up in a short period of time. Other guys never pick it up.

QUOTE (witesoxfan @ Mar 14, 2011 -> 01:05 PM) If the White Sox could simply unload his contract, they would have done it in November. That has immense value in itself. With regards to his throwing inaccuracy, it's possible that he simply just does not throw very accurately. Perhaps thinking while he's throwing or just doesn't have a consistent release point or whatever else. It happens. That could also be that he hasn't had enough reps at one position to ever get comfortable there.

Unlikely for that to change either.

Sucker

QUOTE (La Marr Hoyt HOF @ Mar 14, 2011 -> 11:24 AM) Wishful thinking, but Dallas is going to finally break out in AAA and be up with the club to rescue 3B in June ... If MacPherson is our 3B, we will be talking more about what we can get in trades for people like Danks and Buehrle.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Mar 14, 2011 -> 12:10 PM) The North American plate tried to break apart 1.2 billion years ago. That originally set up these fault lines and a bunch of interesting geology. These lines were then covered with sediment once that rift failed and the continent went back to being a settling, accumulation space. Over time, those faults were buried quite deeply under sedimentary rock cover. When you start changing the stress regime though...by continual burial of sediments, and by moving ice sheets onto and off of those faults, you re-stress them and potentially reactivate them. So it could still be splitting? Or not.

Quit while you are behind.

Oh well.

Happy Birthday guys!

QUOTE (Y2HH @ Mar 14, 2011 -> 09:12 AM) I'm interested to see the relief efforts, which are already underway, from numerous governments and institutions around the world. My prediction: Those asshole American's everyone seems to hate will contribute 95% of all relief work/money to the Japanese, and the rest of the world will contribute the other 5% combined. We are such pricks/bad guys, it's not even funny. :/ That's the way it always is, even in countries that are not our allies.

QUOTE (Y2HH @ Mar 14, 2011 -> 08:33 AM) Most of them are unaware of it because of how dormant/silent New Madrid has been, even when it does rattle, it's barely touching 3's in magnitude. If NM decided to repeat it's 1812 quake to remind us of how strong it can actually be, it'd pretty much be the most catastrophic natural disaster to hit the US since...forever ago. From Wiki (removed reference links) November 2008, The U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency warned that a serious earthquake in the New Madrid Seismic Zone could result in "the highest economic losses due to a natural disaster in the United States," further predicting "widespread and catastrophic" damage across Alabama, Arkansas, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Mississippi, Missouri and particularly Tennessee, where a 7.7 magnitude quake or greater would cause damage to tens of thousands of structures affecting water distribution, transportation systems, and other vital infrastructure. The lack of apparent land movement along the New Madrid fault system has long puzzled scientists. In 2009, two studies based on eight years of GPS measurements indicated that the faults were moving at no more than 0.2 millimeters (0.0079 in) a year. This contrasts to the rate of slippage on the San Andreas Fault which averages up to 37 mm (1.5 in) a year across California. I read before that someone thought the New Madrid was where the North American plate was trying to break apart.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Mar 14, 2011 -> 08:12 AM) Yeah, that's pretty much my logic on why I said a magnitude 8 event on New Madrid would be more damaging than this magnitude 9 event in Japan. I had a friend who's parent was in the Evansville Mayor's office, after Katrina I passed along a few casual tips about what your emergency services should have on file somewhere as a plan for what to do in the event that it were to go. No idea if they followed anything I suggested (one suggestion was to spend the money on a study/planning scenario, at least as a Cover-your-tail move). I'd be willing to bet that a 7.0 would cause more damage down there, nuclear disaster aside.

QUOTE (IChaseBlackWood @ Mar 14, 2011 -> 01:29 AM) He's not sure about anything!! Idc where he goes as long as it's not home! He would be heart broken. There isn't much of a chance of that happening right now is there?

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Mar 14, 2011 -> 07:42 AM) Remember...this is a guy who everyone thought still had some work to do on his approach at the plate. There's risk associated with pushing him up too rapidly. The organization is seeing something though. They don't rush a lot of people coming back from injury.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Mar 14, 2011 -> 08:21 AM) 26 year old Aussie, NDFA by the Rockies in 2003, bounced around the minors with high K totals but also some walks, along with usually decent core numbers... until 2010, when his K:BB dropped off and he gave up a lot more runs, in AAA. Project guy, seems like. Guys with control problems make sense to bring in with Cooper. He seems to have an idea how to fix arm slot, repeatability, and giving up velocity for control, so without knowing the stuff he brings, it could be something that works here.

QUOTE (witesoxfan @ Mar 14, 2011 -> 12:44 AM) Not sure if this was posted, but it's a great read no matter what. Peavy had a hell of an offseason. http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/spring2011/n...tory?id=6182437 Now that is how you write an article. Great stuff.

QUOTE (Chicago White Sox @ Mar 13, 2011 -> 11:02 AM) I like seeing Milledge in CF. If he can be serviceable out there, then he should get the 4th OF job. Rios doesn't need a lot of time off anyways. If he can play a replacement level CF, then I really would like to see him break camp. I had no idea he could play Center.

My God, this almost went a week without a post.

QUOTE (flavum @ Mar 12, 2011 -> 03:56 PM) Buddy Bell is on with Farmer. Just said Mitchell is going to Winston-Salem. That means he must be showing that he is fine again.

QUOTE (Thunderbolt @ Mar 12, 2011 -> 08:25 PM) I forgot to mention this in my earlier post. We had awesome seats for the Rangers game at Suprise. We were three rows behind the field and the entire coaching staff were sitting in folding chairs in front of us. We had scouts sitting next to us and a row down was Ibis and Oney Guillen (No, i didn't hit him) By far the best part of the weekend was watching the Cubs-Sox game at Camelback and seeing Frank Thomas walking up the row towards concessions. Also, Mark Teahen beat the living hell out of two balls in Suprise. His homer was hit so damn hard that the Rangers LF went through the bullpen fence in an effort to track it down. I was unimpressed with Morel, but Teahen came to play. Final autograph total: AJ Ozzie Jared Mitchell Josh Phegley Jake Peavy Matt Thornton Brian Bruney Tyler Flowers Can't wait for this year to start. Congrats, that is a nice haul. One of these years I need to make it down there. It would be like my personal Disneyland.