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QUOTE (Rowand44 @ Jul 27, 2010 -> 11:37 PM) In my softball league tonight, I ended up ruining my pitchers perfect game when I made a throwing error at 3rd base. I really f***in suck at life. Um. So what is new?

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QUOTE (palehose23 @ Jul 28, 2010 -> 11:03 AM) I thought it was obvious Your aunt has a penis?

QUOTE (shakes @ Jul 28, 2010 -> 10:08 AM) Getting rid of Linebrink and his salary would be of great benefit to the Sox this year and next, regardless of what the return is(unless it requires taking on a bad contract). That could be the difference in being able to resign Putz next season. And it could open up money to take on salary this year for the stretch run.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jul 28, 2010 -> 09:46 AM) Is Mel Gibson a crazy liberal? According to Baltas standards, yes, which means all liberals are crazy and racist.

QUOTE (mr_genius @ Jul 27, 2010 -> 06:25 PM) i support this. IQ test for voters too. QUOTE (Quinarvy @ Jul 26, 2010 -> 05:51 PM) Can we start implementing IQ tests in elections? I'm sure the reconstructionists will love you for this.

QUOTE (flavum @ Jul 27, 2010 -> 10:01 PM) 63 games left. 2 with the Mariners. 7 with Baltimore. 6 with the Indians. 6 with the Royals. And it's arguable that the Tigers will be a good team the rest of the way. We have 14 left with them. With the injury problems they have now, I wouldn't argue that.

QUOTE (Elgin Slim @ Jul 27, 2010 -> 10:55 PM) My biggest 2 gripes with the Sox organization are: 1.They need to spend more on the draft and international scouting/signings. If you have a top 10 talent available to draft where you are, or if you have a chance to sign a top international free agent, unless there are some serious question marks with injury, you take them and sign them, especially if you are a mid market team. You should spend less on free agents and more on developing your own players that are under your control for 6 years. 2. You should not trade all of your top ten prospects away if you are intent on keeping payroll in a $90-105 million range and compete with the best of them. Break in a pitcher and a position player, if you think they are ready, each year. You pick 3 guys you think are going to be the best major league players each year and keep them or break them in over the next few years and make the other 7 available for trade. Repeat prospect process each year. Chris Sale says hi!

QUOTE (bschmaranz @ Jul 27, 2010 -> 06:16 PM) Totally agree with your disagree. Disagree with your agree with the disagree.

QUOTE (Lemon_44 @ Jul 27, 2010 -> 05:22 PM) Corey Hart. He wears his sunglasses at night.

http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/news?slug=tsn-...closeto20100727

QUOTE (lostfan @ Jul 27, 2010 -> 05:12 PM) I'm not saying they aren't good... they ARE in first place after all. But a run like the one they just had isn't exactly common. Which is what separates them from bad teams.

QUOTE (Jenksy Cat @ Jul 27, 2010 -> 05:11 PM) I think a good team can play like s*** for a while....but a bad team can't play like the best in baseball for that long. Exactly.

QUOTE (elrockinMT @ Jul 27, 2010 -> 04:58 PM) I think they should still bring back the Big Hurt as our DH. He probbaly can still hit better than 90% of what's out there Honestly his numbers would be really similar to Andruw's, I would bet.

QUOTE (lostfan @ Jul 27, 2010 -> 05:00 PM) I meant that the Sox going on a 25-5 run and currently being in first place doesn't answer any deeper, macro-level questions about the overall direction of the organization, its philosophy, what we look like for 2011, what our chances are if we reach the playoffs, how we fare against our own divisional opponents, roster management, and so on. It just means this team was ridiculously hot for 6 weeks and went 25-5, so hot that they caught up and landed in first place. It doesn't tell you how good (obviously not THAT good because maintaining that level of play is impossible) or bad (obviously not bad because bad teams can't win 25 of 30 games) they are. It's not an answer to anything in itself. Even past that they are 30-11 in their last 41 games. That mark is the best in all of baseball. That is one quarter of a season. You don't win that many games, over that long of a period of time, if you are a bad team. It might not answer questions about 2011, but it tells you the 2010 team has something there.

QUOTE (Jenksy Cat @ Jul 27, 2010 -> 04:20 PM) I mean you can't say "well nobody's going to games OMG!!!!!!" and then raise ticket prices every year. The 2 are related a bit Attendence was going to fall anyway. You could either do nothing and lose revenue for sure, or cut payroll, if you weren't willing to raise prices. Which would you perfer.

QUOTE (chw42 @ Jul 27, 2010 -> 03:54 PM) It's good to know that you are smarter than Steve Phillips. That's not saying much really. I think I just wiped something from the yard off of my shoes that is smarter than Phillips.

QUOTE (Kalapse @ Jul 27, 2010 -> 01:10 PM) Gavin over his last 63 IP: 0 HR JINX!

QUOTE (Jordan4life @ Jul 27, 2010 -> 03:25 PM) I'd trade John Danks yesterday if having his little brother, who's bad at baseball, on the team in any way plays a role in if he signs an extension or not. He hasn't signed an extension yet, so I wouldn't let that bother me at all.

QUOTE (DirtySox @ Jul 27, 2010 -> 03:10 PM) Levine says to acquire Dunn it is going to take Hudson + one of Flowers/Morel/Bad Danks. http://sports.espn.go.com/chicago/mlb/news/story?id=5414243 If that is the price, I think the deal gets done.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Jul 27, 2010 -> 10:27 AM) Not sure how it could surprise anyone that an increase in the amount of pollution people breath will result in poorer health. Seems pretty logical to me. The most important factor in educational attainment is the economic background that people come from. If that isn't factored for in a survey like this, the numbers are pretty worthless IMO, even if they are logical.

OK, so where does it say socio-economic factors are adjusted for?

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jul 27, 2010 -> 10:07 AM) One of the test study sites was NYC. So what I am missing? Rich people live next to heavy industry in NYC?

I believe it was Dukenukeem

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jul 27, 2010 -> 09:35 AM) Couple studies have come out recently suggesting that there are seriously deleterious results on the intelligence level of children from having expectant mothers breathing certain types of air pollution commonly produced by fossil fuel burning. Guess that explains me, downwind of Chicago, I-94, and U.S. Steel. I wonder how much of that is cause and effect though? People of higher socio-economic backgrounds don't tend to live next to power plants and other heavy industry. Those are the same people who pretty much across the board test higher all though out school.