southsider2k5

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ May 28, 2010 -> 09:35 AM) You think Kenny doesn't understand it? You know how dumb those Sanford guys are...

QUOTE (witesoxfan @ May 28, 2010 -> 10:16 AM) I'd say 2 guys in 10 years is a pretty good track record, wouldn't you? And one of those two was a trade engineered by the former GM, which has been well established publicly.

QUOTE (SoxAce @ May 28, 2010 -> 11:36 AM) Hawks play tomorrow night. time runs a little differently down there... Don't tell him we already beat the Sharks.

Dolsi's numbers are looking better after his awful start.

QUOTE (IlliniKrush @ May 28, 2010 -> 08:07 AM) It is apples to oranges. In both cases they weren't tossed for obvious reasons. Could they have? If the umpire really wanted to, I guess so. But it wasn't in relation to them, so they didn't really care. One's automatic, you have to look at the context or you could have ejections everywhere (think everytime AJ throws his bat down). Makes no difference what happened before it. Like I said, his actions got him tossed, balk or not. In Joe West's opinion, it was a balk. Buehrle reacted poorly and that's the reason he got tossed. To put it simpler if you want, two wrongs don't make a right. Just because he doesn't like the call doesn't mean he can throw his glove. He doesn't do that, he's still in the game. Easy call. There is step one of the problem. If Joe West knows the rules to his own game, Buehrle is still in the game. Its either that or he really does have an agenda. Either way, he needs to not be an umpire, because he isn't qualified.

QUOTE (FlaSoxxJim @ May 28, 2010 -> 02:46 AM) Thanks all for the warm birthday wishes. Alas, I spent the day in Anaheim at Disneyland with the wife so it was a very fun but booze-free day. Heading out to Catalina tomorrow where I'm sure the drinks will be much easier to come by. Just be sure to be back before lights out at the home!

In all seriousness, this area in NWI has some of the most beautiful and challenging nature walks in the midwest throughout our state and national parks. At very least the Calumet trail system is very nice, with my personal favorites coming in the Dunes State park, with some of the trails going up and down sand dunes with great views of the lakefront and even Chicago on many days. http://www.in.gov/dnr/parklake/files/dunes_trail.pdf

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ May 28, 2010 -> 08:36 AM) Shocker: philosophy and psychology bachelors degrees don't get you good jobs.

Unless this team falls into a death spiral, no one is going anywhere. Even if that happens, Ozzie is the only one on the hot seat IMO.

QUOTE (Chisoxfn @ May 27, 2010 -> 11:53 PM) I think Hahn will be the GM very soon with Williams moving up to a president type of role. I think Kenny can't continue to deal with the high strung lifestyle, etc. Ozzie will probably go ballistic shortly. Its just a matter of time. I was thinking for the first time in as long as I can remember, Kenny has really taken a step back. Everything he has said and done has been way less high strung than he has been in the past.

QUOTE (zenryan @ May 28, 2010 -> 04:08 AM) I'm willing to bet that West went into that game knowing he was going to call a balk on MB. This is 100% obvious to me as well.

QUOTE (IlliniKrush @ May 27, 2010 -> 09:07 PM) Regardless of whether it was a balk, tossing your glove like that will get you tossed 100% of the time. So, MB deserved to get tossed for his actions. To those of you who think a letter high strike should be called...wow. You want 1-0 baseball games and .200 averages, you got it. You can't hit 95 MPH pitches at the freaking letters. There's a reason that's not called. You can drop your hands and have a better chance hitting a knee/below the knee pitch than you do anywhere up there. That's ridiculous thinking. Plus, over the history of the game, with all the changing of the strike zone via the rule book and the strike zone, every year the MLB average has been around .260. Seems like they know that they are doing in that regard. This couldn't be further from the truth. You may not like a call or two in a particular game, but all the stats, now that you have Questec, says they are all calling about the same zone, day in and day out. Most umpires score over 95% every game. Those who aren't don't stay around very long. If anything, you used to have control over "your" strike zone back in the day. Anyone else remember Eric Gregg/Livan Hernandez? You don't see anything close to that whatsoever right now. That's not way back in the day, granted, but it's still before Questec. The whole premise here is stupid. We are steps down the chain by the time he tosses his glove. If West actually knew what a balk actually was, he never calls Buehrle for a balk, and Buehrle never gets a chance to get tossed. Its either that or he has some sort of irrational problem with Buehle, Ozzie, the White Sox, or whatever. Either way, he is being unqualified to do what he is doing. Picking out just Buehrle's actions here is completely missing the big picture.

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ May 27, 2010 -> 02:33 PM) ...and we would have (if everything stays the same) been the 1 seed. Which might have meant going through Detroit, which could have really changed things.

http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/yb/145483945

Lineup for Sox Thursday - Pierre LF, Pierzynski C, Rios CF, Konerko 1B, Kotsay DH, Jones RF, Teahen 3B, Ramirez SS, Beckham 2B - No Quentin

QUOTE (Chisoxfn @ May 27, 2010 -> 12:00 PM) I will say this though, after reading that write-up, it put everything into much better perspective to me. And the idea is definitely plausible and makes a s***load of sense. I enjoyed that as well. I think if nothing else LOST was a radical departure from the single person viewing that we have always had. I don't know that I have ever known a show that had such a social interaction aspect to following it.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ May 27, 2010 -> 11:02 AM) It'd be a fundamentally different situation if China was actively aiding the other side. China wasn't involved in that mess? That isn't really true.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ May 27, 2010 -> 11:36 AM) So in other words...you can't be mad at SOX here because if JPM did everything that law required, then the lawsuit will be tossed out rapidly. I can, because if it wasn't for SOX, AIG and LEH never happen.

QUOTE (chw42 @ May 27, 2010 -> 11:32 AM) Who would? Unless the team is going down the trash, nobody's willing to hand anything over. Charlotte pretty much did just that.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ May 27, 2010 -> 11:30 AM) Not necessarily. All they have to do is justify their own numbers. They might not be right, but as long as they have a good basis for why they used them, the lawsuit won't win. The burden of proof is tough in this case. And thinking back to the timing of the situation where there was literally banks going belly up because no one wanted to buy their assets, which by SOX standards makes them worthless, the defense seems like it would be pretty obvious to me.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ May 27, 2010 -> 11:24 AM) Anyway, more seriously...if SOX was the problem, and JPMorgan was just trying to live up to its SOX requirements, then wouldn't this lawsuit be groundless? Not necessarily. All they have to do is justify their own numbers. They might not be right, but as long as they have a good basis for why they used them, the lawsuit won't win. The burden of proof is tough in this case.

QUOTE (chw42 @ May 27, 2010 -> 10:47 AM) Just heard on the Score that D-Wade says the Bulls aren't loyal and that loyalty is important to him because he's a loyal person. He uses Pippen and Jordan not being around the organization as an excuse. Really Dwyane? Really? Maybe M.J. could have been a little more loyal and not have retired at age 34 and then come back three years later to another team. Maybe you shouldn't call yourself loyal because you're obviously not the cleanest guy around when it comes to marriage. The reason Jordan isn't around is because he wanted someone to give him a team to run. The Bulls wisely weren't going to do that.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ May 27, 2010 -> 09:32 AM) And what happens when 10 Chinese advisors are killed by a U.S. led air strike? We've seen that story before. Like when we bombed the Chinese embassy while bombing in then Yugoslavia?

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ May 27, 2010 -> 09:27 AM) This article seems to fit into that discussion we had a few months ago about how when LEH and AIG went down, one possible reason why was that their creditors were deliberately writing down the value of their securities too far to extract higher payments from those companies. Hooray for SOX!

QUOTE (ChiSox_Sonix @ May 27, 2010 -> 09:09 AM) I would think China would welcome it, even if they don't publicly state it. I think China likes there being another Communist nation in their neighborhood but I'd have to think if SK was able to "take over" the North and merge that country into one again, they could grow their booming economy even more. Plus they look like a failure if their system fails right on their doorstep.