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RIOS!!!

QUOTE (docsox24 @ Apr 23, 2010 -> 02:50 PM) we traded for kotsay Brian Anderson is also a plus defensive CF.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Apr 23, 2010 -> 02:33 PM) We traded Guerrier for Marte....and Matt was one of our top 10 prospects at the time. The Pirates already had 2 two LHP's they were pretty sure to keep coming out of ST (think one of them was Beimel), so Damaso was going to have to clear waivers first but KW pulled the trigger, which turned out to be the wise move as he becamse one of the top 2-3 LH set-up men in baseball from 2002-2004. The Borchard for Thornton move also comes to mind. I'd rather get ANYTHING/SOMETHING back in return...at least TRY. The more times we roll the dice in getting "a bundle" of the prospects that KW and the scouts have identified, the better off we'll be. I hope you aren't comparing Jayson Nix to either Marte or Borchard, because it isn't even in the same neighborhood.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Apr 23, 2010 -> 02:30 PM) No one is trading stuff for a guy who they think might be a legitimate DFA candidate, even if he has a solid season. ^ The idea that someone would trade something of value for Nix is insane. He can't hit, and is only a decent defender at 2B. Nix is a classic AAAA guy.

Here we go... Scott Reifert #WhiteSox vs. Sea: Pierredh, Beckham4, Jones7, PK3, Rios8, Q9, Ram6, Lucy2, Nix5. Floyd pitching.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Apr 23, 2010 -> 02:09 PM) If Carlos was killing the ball, we probably wouldn't have too many threads about how much the offense was sucking, regardless of who Ozzie had hitting 2nd. Exactly. Really it is the same for everyone. If you stop and think about it, we have no one that would actually qualify as being "hot" in this offense. Even Rios who seems to be the trendsetter right now is hitting .250 with one RBI for the last week.

QUOTE (Thunderbolt @ Apr 23, 2010 -> 01:56 PM) Lead off double by Rios, Teahen works the count and get's on base, Q scores them on a gapper to center. It's not a ridiculious notion, and remember Rios is only really going to leadoff once per game. After that, it's just a manner of getting the best players the most at-bats. Carlos has had plenty of chances with guys on lately, and I sure haven't seen that happen. This last week he has been awful. If we are basing things off of this season, he might be the guy hitting 9th.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Apr 23, 2010 -> 01:50 PM) Rios 9 Teahen 5 TCQ DH PK 3 Jones 8 AJP 2 Beckham 4 Ramirez 6 Pierre 7 Great, so we get guys on base, and the only people on base are the people who are actually able drive in runs.

QUOTE (knightni @ Apr 23, 2010 -> 01:30 PM) AJ still has his probably. It was most likely well used.

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Apr 23, 2010 -> 11:37 AM) So much for the "NBA Superstars get every foul call" myth. Honestly, the calls were totally for Chicago down the stretch. This is coming from a Chicago fan. The other one that stuck out was that awful travel call under the basket.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Apr 23, 2010 -> 10:34 AM) Every single firm on Wall Street. Every health insurance company. The federal government... Oh wait that is have to, not need to...

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Apr 23, 2010 -> 10:38 AM) Last time Illinois played in Evanston in 2008, the attendance was 32,166. I guarantee Wrigley sells out, which is already 8k more fans. Not to mention all the possible advertising, memorabilia and all that good stuff. And they can double the prices just because of the venue.

QUOTE (Athomeboy_2000 @ Apr 23, 2010 -> 11:12 AM) I am going to try and explain this as best as I can. Over the last few days, my wife and I have toyed with the idea of potentially moving to Orlando within 5 years (more toward 2015). So, just for kicks we started pricing out homes down there to see what we could potentially get. We came across some REALLY impressive houses in our projected price range ($150,000). They seemed... well, too good to be true for me. So, I did a little research. Many of these house were once valued/listed at $270,000-$310,000 around 2003-2007. Prior to that, many of them were similar in price to what they are being listed at currently. So, if I am projecting out housing prices to 2015, what do I do? Do I assume that the 2003-2007 prices were a cause of the our of control housing market and therefor a statistical outlier and assume the 2000 price is more realistic. Or, do I assume that when the market and economy go back up, a good assumption is to find a middle ground in the prices? Yes, I know every market has it's own variables. Just looking for a little help. If you can figure it out, go here and make a boatload of money. http://www.cmegroup.com/trading/real-estat...r_fact_card.pdf

"Meteorologists have determined that the dust cloud that is now spreading over Europe and delaying International travel was not from the volcanic eruption in Iceland , but are now interviewing the person responsible for cleaning the Chicago Cubs trophy case"

QUOTE (TitoMB @ Apr 23, 2010 -> 09:39 AM) Why can't more games just be on CSN? I don't get CSN+ or CSN+2 or WCIU and I feel over 50% of the games have been on those channels already! TV contracts bring money,

QUOTE (southsideirish71 @ Apr 23, 2010 -> 09:04 AM) And we have a winner. No command = fail. Doesn't matter how good of stuff you have, if you walk the world and get into hitters counts at some point you are going to pay in the AL. The minute he gets his command underneath him, he will be fine. I said it last night during the game thread... He had much better control last time around at 91-92, than he did last night at 94-96.

squish.

And maybe getting rained on too... Have fun.

QUOTE (lostfan @ Apr 22, 2010 -> 10:28 PM) I like sexually transmitted diseases. Well that explains a lot...

QUOTE (lostfan @ Apr 22, 2010 -> 11:23 PM) The Bulls were starting to piss me off but they managed to hold on. LeBron is pretty ridiculous in the 4th. He stands there, with a guy's hand in his face, dribbling, then he'll just jump up and drain a 3. While fading away from 25 feet...

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Apr 23, 2010 -> 08:10 AM) Don't you guys realize that the point isn't "They could start their own network" or "They're being deliberately offensive"? You're fundamentally missing the point here. Even if they do wind up censored...that's the point...and not for marketing/money reasons either. This has been true since pre-Carlin. When a comic is being deliberately offensive to the point of provoking a societal response...the point is to make you, the viewer/listener, sit there and think whether or not the societal response is appropriate. Easy, if it was a right winger, this would be to insight hate-crimes. If it was a left-winger it would be a thoughtful attempt to changes minds and attitudes.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Apr 23, 2010 -> 06:27 AM) Didn't JR say money was there for another hitter a couple of years ago? Maybe he ought to look under his bed. Forbes said he pulled a $26 million profit last year. A bigger profit than the Cubs. Are we really back to this busted argument again?

QUOTE (FlaSoxxJim @ Apr 23, 2010 -> 06:22 AM) Now this is science! Boobquake Experiment coming Monday Now that is a Hoosier we can be proud of!

QUOTE (lostfan @ Apr 22, 2010 -> 09:21 PM) I actually think Parker and Stone and Comedy Central can do whatever they want, but GMAB with the free speech stuff. No s*** there is free speech, nobody is disputing that, but sometimes there are consequences and it's up to the person to decide whether they actually want to deal with them. Too often people want to have their cake and eat it too which is dumb. "I want to say offensive things, how dare you take offense to me being offensive you p****, I have free speech!" Not to mention that if they owned their own network, and had their own signal, they could do whatever they want. There is nothing that forces their bosses to agree to air it.

Well now at least we know what the SEC was doing while the financial markets crumbled... http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/conte...0042205783.html The memo was first reported Thursday evening by ABC News. It summarizes past inspector general probes and reports some shocking findings: - A senior attorney at the SEC's Washington headquarters spent up to eight hours a day looking at and downloading pornography. When he ran out of hard drive space, he burned the files to CDs or DVDs, which he kept in boxes around his office. He agreed to resign, an earlier watchdog report said. - An accountant was blocked more than 16,000 times in a month from visiting websites classified as "Sex" or "Pornography." Yet he still managed to amass a collection of "very graphic" material on his hard drive by using Google images to bypass the SEC's internal filter, according to an earlier report from the inspector general. The accountant refused to testify in his defense, and received a 14-day suspension. - Seventeen of the employees were "at a senior level," earning salaries of up to $222,418. - The number of cases jumped from two in 2007 to 16 in 2008. The cracks in the financial system emerged in mid-2007 and spread into full-blown panic by the fall of 2008. California Rep. Darrell Issa, the top Republican on the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, said it was "disturbing that high-ranking officials within the SEC were spending more time looking at porn than taking action to help stave off the events that put our nation's economy on the brink of collapse." He said in a statement that SEC officials "were preoccupied with other distractions" when they should have been overseeing the growing problems in the financial system.