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It looks like another admin is jealous of my winning streak...

QUOTE (chw42 @ Jul 16, 2010 -> 09:29 AM) Quentin misplayed a routine fly ball, Rios went over there to cover for him and dropped it (I like how Chris Rongey wanted to blame Rios for that play...). Had that been caught, Danks probably has a 1-2-3. You know how Hawk is about this kind of stuff... To be fair, Rios got A LOT of glove on it. I would have given him an error, but it wasn't really his fault, if that makes sense.

I [heart] Mark. He is everything that you could want in a major league pitcher.

QUOTE (iamshack @ Jul 16, 2010 -> 02:30 AM) Kenny was on PTI today, here is the link to the video. Kenny looks great...I don't think he looks like a guy who's ready to move on from his role as GM, as was speculated. Kenny on PTI There is also a lot less pressure on the guy in first place versus 4th.

And no matter what happens in this series, we will leave Minnesota at least 1.5 ahead of the Twins.

QUOTE (jasonxctf @ Jul 15, 2010 -> 09:44 PM) if these numbers are correct, and this is from October 2009.... The US currently holds 261,499,000 fine troy ounces in its reserves. US International Reserve Position, US Treasury The amount today would be approximately $8,000 per troy ounce. 261,499,000 x 8,000= $2.09 Trillion http://jessescrossroadscafe.blogspot.com/2...ave-in-its.html How is that right? Gold is a fraction of that price. Spot gold is about $1200 an ounce.

QUOTE (Controlled Chaos @ Jul 15, 2010 -> 06:52 PM) You're bigger than this Balta. Really? I haven't seen it.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Jul 15, 2010 -> 09:10 AM) That would give you the opposite result - variations would be smaller in the past. Its a posted growth rate number anyway, so I don't think it works that way in this chart. Actually the biggest problem I have with that chart is of the usage of GDP, as it includes government spending. What that means is you really have no idea what is going on in the private sector due to tax changes. The explosive growth of spending during down times over the last few downturns has manipulated those deltas in GDP viciously. Now instead of the usual downfalls, there are huge spikes in government spending that manipulate the numbers on that chart. In other words there is nothing that can be read from that graph that matters in reality.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Jul 15, 2010 -> 08:31 AM) Implied volatility, in this case implied by the periodic snapshots. In other words, decreasing vega, if you trace a line of peaks and a line of valleys on that GDP growth line, you will see that the two lines are approaching each other to intersect at some point in the future. Now of course, they won't ACTUALLY intersect, and the function is probably better represented by two functions approaching a common limit. But its interesting to see the gap tightening, with remarkable consistency, over time. It looks like they set modern day to zero, which really screws up the chart.

It sounds like the Braves just dumped D'Angelo Jimenez...

QUOTE (jphat007 @ Jul 14, 2010 -> 04:29 PM) http://www.soxtalk.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=21178 THE MEMORIES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! LOL. Read that. Great stuff. My favorite post of the thread... QUOTE (greg775 @ Jun 27, 2004 -> 08:53 PM) Teahen was the A's best prospect.. Mark Wood was like 11 - 3 with a 2.87 ERA in AA... and John Buck was hitting like .338 with 19 HR's in the Astros AAA KC got everything they wanted, and they are all good prospects... Wait a minute. Buck was hitting .300 with 12 hrs. Yes, Teahan is good. Wood was 11-3 at sacramento like you said. Now Greg can never say anything bad about Teahen.

QUOTE (DaveBrown85 @ Jul 14, 2010 -> 03:59 PM) who wasn't pissed when he got traded? I loved the trade.

QUOTE (whitesoxfan101 @ Jul 14, 2010 -> 01:41 PM) Oh I completely agree this that the scenario you paint is very possible, which is why i'm backing off from criticizing the organization to any extent for how this is all playing out. If such a deal was in place and helped you get a top 5 talent for a bargain price, it was worth doing IMO. I'm still curious as to how this will affect Sale's development long term though. http://www.thebaseballcube.com/players/M/Jack-McDowell.shtml

I like the career .666 OPS

Two things I didn't know know about the Stein. -He actually tried and failed to buy his hometown Cleveland Indians the year before he bought the Yankees -He owned a 7% share of the Bulls, which he sold to Reisndorf and his group when they bought the Bulls in the 80s right before Michael Jordan was drafted.

QUOTE (whitesoxfan101 @ Jul 14, 2010 -> 11:05 AM) Yeah, i'm a little worried about the way we're handling him to be honest. I get the feeling there is something to this that ended up being the reason he signed with us. I really wonder if there was a deal in place for him to make himself fall to the Sox in exchange for them allowing to get the taste of the majors this year.

QUOTE (Reddy @ Jul 13, 2010 -> 11:10 PM) so this girl who i had a fling with (i was the one who was more into it than her - suck - and we broke it off) anyway - we still hang out and we're trying to do the friends thing cuz she's cool and well connected (i mean what?) but I realized this evening that she's a GREAT wingman. we were both called back for the same show - both actors - and we're there all evening. I'm reading for the role opposite of her, and the fact that we know each other brings really great chemistry to it. I ALSO read with this other girl, really cute, but so my time was spent being pulled between both of them, trying to practice with each of them equally while waiting to go in. I was flirting with this new girl and casually added that there was history between me and girl A, who kept coming over to pry me away from her. Long story short, I ended up getting the new girl's number. Now girl A had no clue she was being a wingman, but the end result was the same - so it leads me to ask... Do you think women can be good wingmen? I'm of the opinion that they're the best kind of wingman - but I'm curious what other people think. I actually read a good intro book on evolutionary psychology and there is actually a reason behind why that works. Basically they figure that the first girl has already done the scouting work on the guys, so they go off of their approving of this person as evidence that they should also approve.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jul 14, 2010 -> 10:20 AM) I like how just about as many people consider a cell phone a necessity as AC. Peoples priorities are just f***ed up. Too bad they don't put the same emphasis on things that could actually do something good in their lives...

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Jul 13, 2010 -> 09:06 PM) No I haven't. I miss the good old days of you going ape s*** when Nancy Reagen would tell us not to use drugs. You weren't even born then

Anything on AC Law?

QUOTE (asmithxc @ Jul 13, 2010 -> 06:41 PM) Like you said, he didn't really give anything up for any of those guys. The worst trade was probably the Todd Ritchie one since Ritchie was incredibly bad and Josh Fogg and Kip Wells were at least serviceable (Wells had a couple of nice years at least). Whether through luck, skill, or some combination, Kenny has generally done a tremendous job of not giving up players that developed into guys we wish we hadn't given up. It has been said pretty clearly that the Ritchie thing was done pretty much by Schuler.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jul 13, 2010 -> 03:42 PM) No. He was thought to be very talented coming out of the draft. The question with him is learning how to use his ability. And I'm sure that contracting a case of VDN for a year didn't help with that. I agree with this. Tons of potential, a lot of growing to do.

QUOTE (SHIPPS @ Jul 13, 2010 -> 01:50 PM) I like WestEnd on the near west side...I like Pippens on Rush St...I like Duggans in Greek Town That is a great spot.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Jul 12, 2010 -> 07:27 AM) Serafin was promoted? Hadn't even noticed. For a guy drafted in the 37th round who can't hit 90, he's been doing pretty well for himself. Got roughed up a bit in his first game at High A though. And boy do I live me some Brent Morel. I don't think you can like him being a 3rd round pick and all...