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QUOTE(southsideirish71 @ Aug 6, 2007 -> 12:10 PM) I disagree with this. Marks issue late last year was not his velocity, it was more of command of his pitches. His velocity was the same in the first part of the season where he pitched decent. His command went south and he started to leave balls up. For Mark Buerhle to be successful, he needs to pound righties in with his cutter, and then go away. The cutter keeps the right handers honest about diving over the plate to hit the change and curve. When Mark cannot command his cutter, he has a problem. If he can keep his command, his velocity will be fine, and he will be an effective pitcher. Velocity was a big problem for him last year because the gap between his fastball and change up dimished to the point where hitters could sit in between then and still hit both of them.

Why does anyone who is under 50 still write checks?

And it rallied off of that information... I love stock trading

QUOTE(THEWOOD @ Aug 5, 2007 -> 08:34 PM) I think the market still has a good distance to go down. We have not seen a BIG rally since each of these massive down days. That shows the market has no legs. It will be a grind back down to around 12500 where it should find a good amount of support. QUOTE(DBAH0 @ Aug 5, 2007 -> 09:35 PM) Yeah and the flow on effect is really hammering our market down here. Our Dow Jones equivalent is down about 500 points over the past week, although everyone's calling it just a major correction we had to have, and not a bear market. 12600 is the 10% official Bear market. We have to get down there and test that area first before you can really tell if this selloff has legs, or is just looking for the technical correction to get it out of the way.

QUOTE(Buehrle>Wood @ Aug 5, 2007 -> 08:02 PM) I get all the waivers rules and everything except for one thing, what prevents a team(we'll say in this case a weaker team) from just claiming every single player on waivers to prevent any trades working out? If you claim someone, you have to have a 40 man roster spot for them. Also I believe you can only claim something like 3 people a day, but I am not positive about that. QUOTE(Dick Allen @ Aug 5, 2007 -> 09:57 PM) The problem is the possiblility of claiming someone with an undesirable contract and the his team says fine just take him. You would be on the hook for the balance of the contract. The White Sox claiming Tejada is because they wanted him. Not to block him. The Sox wanted him, there is no doubt about it. The Sox are looking to contend in 2008, not rebuild.

QUOTE(Balta1701 @ Aug 5, 2007 -> 04:43 PM) I think the "Playing for the Yankees" issue also hurts him quite a bit. He became hated the day he signed with the Rangers.

Was Cirillo a well liked guy in the clubhouse?

Brandon Allen has continued a nice bounceback year, even though the strikeout numbers are still scary. That is what will keep him from the majors, unless he can start hitting 40 HRs a year.

QUOTE(NorthSideSox72 @ Aug 5, 2007 -> 05:17 PM) Well see, I don't think that is seeing the long run. In the short run, yes, a military action might destabilize Musharaff's government. Maybe. But going past that point, where are things in 5 or 10 years? Because the way it is now, regardless of us being involved or not, Musharaff won't last forever. And the question you do need to ask is, who do you want at the table when he walks away from it? You sure don't want Al Qaeda around as any kind of force. So what other group has enough organization, backing, military might, and power to step into a vaccuum in Pakistan?

QUOTE(NorthSideSox72 @ Aug 5, 2007 -> 05:23 PM) I agree with you 100%. I was responding to the idea that this was the "same old crowd", which it really isn't. The fact that both fields are so big still, is making it difficult for messages to get through. And the ones we DO get are the top 2 or 3 in each party, because the media gets lazy. What would be great is if both parties' leadership would go in about find a way to get their fields narrowed - like down to maybe 5 in each party. Some of these candidates could be talked down with promises of contingent future government positions, etc. These debates would be a lot more interesting with 5 instead of 10. Or, even better but not in the vicinity of realistic... we go to 100% public funding of campaigning, AND the press gets in the habit of trying to balance coverage of all the candidates regardless of pedigree. Just because someone is a difference race or gender, doesn't mean they are a different candidate or politician. I still want to know what kind of President they would be. I could care less if the first Martian were running.

Ah, thanks

QUOTE(Balta1701 @ Aug 5, 2007 -> 05:16 PM) I know a lot of people really dislike our system, but seriously...the way Owens, Richar, Fields, and now Floyd have been performing lately, it certainly seems like we're setting ourself up well for this offseason and next year. Yeah, everyone of those guys that can put up respectable numbers for us, saves us at least 10 times that in salary for another major leaguer.

QUOTE(NorthSideSox72 @ Aug 1, 2007 -> 08:05 AM) Clinton, Edwards, McCain and Kucinich are all recycled. though I think that McCain and Kucinich both add some value. Lots of new faces though - Obama, Richardson, Biden, Dodd and Gravel for the Dems, and Giuliani, Romney, Thompson, Thompson 2, and Hunter for the GOP. I think Obama is definitely talented, he's new and a fresh face, he has natural leadership skills... probably too inexperienced, but a good guy to have in the field. Richardson brings a real, serious resume for the job. Biden and Dodd are experienced Senators, and at least Biden has been willing to go out on a limb and suggest a pth for Iraq that isn't "stay the course" or "pull out". Giuliani brings a different flavor, being a mayor, businessman and social moderate, which is nice to see. Romney has executive experience. Thompson is definitely unique, and has some positives behind him. And I think there are a number of true believers in there - Hunter, Kucinich, Gravel. And check this out - we have in this race the following firsts... --First serious female contender ever --First serious black contender ever --First serious Hispanic contender ever --First serious Mormon contender ever --First serious contender from a mayoral background, that I can ever recall* To me, that's pretty darn interesting, and I'm a lot happier than I was in any of the other cycles I have voted in (first prez vote: 1992). I know it is popular to look at things like that, but I could care less. I would really like to hear more about them and what they want to do, than to look at them by race/gender etc.

You can't be thinking about the playoffs at this point. You have to take things day to day, and put people in the position to learn at the major league level to be able to help you here in 2008 and beyond. If we win, and get into the playoff hunt, that is just a bonus.

QUOTE(Balta1701 @ Aug 5, 2007 -> 05:09 PM) But of course, things aren't that simple. If it were known that Bin Laden was in that territory, how much difference could the capture of UBL make to the situation? Possibly a ton. And beyond that, Musharraf's government certainly appears to have considerably weakened over the past year or so, to the point where there has been some talk that it could just fall anyway. Like many military dictatorships, it can really only last so long. The capture of Saddam sure didn't make a difference in Iraq, and he was a hero to a lot less people that OBL is over there. Plus it still needs to bear repeating that would be invading an ally, not an enemy. If you think we have no credibility now, see how the world looks at us after that move. Bush may have pissed off a lot of people, but at least he hasn't gone that far.

QUOTE(29andPoplar @ Aug 5, 2007 -> 05:02 PM) Both Gomes and Paulo Orlando were playing in the Pan American Games for Brazil. Thanks. Glad to see it isn't problematic. It would be nice to see a guy like that with the high ceiling and out of Latin America, pan out for us.

QUOTE(danman31 @ Aug 5, 2007 -> 05:01 PM) BA Draft Database Perfect, thanks. 18 of our top 20 picks signed with 10 days to go before the deadline. That is nice.

QUOTE(NorthSideSox72 @ Aug 5, 2007 -> 05:04 PM) Anyway, that line of reasoning could go on and on. Pakistan is not only a big mystery, but they are a huge danger as well. I think we'd be well off to do everything we can to protect Musharaff or any other moderate successor (if we aren't already). They are both of those things and more. Jesus going into Pakistan in any form would guarentee the downfall of a friendly government and it would lose any help at all in that region. It would also put WMD into the hands of an enemy Islamic state.

The big sell-off Friday was not a good technical sign. I think we finally might be getting that official Bear market sell off that everyone has been hoping for.

QUOTE(Balta1701 @ Aug 5, 2007 -> 04:58 PM) Well, they did train the Taliban, they've essentially negotiated and signed a peace deal with organizations we'd label as part of Al Qaeda, and they're armed with WMD. If nothing else, every single justification for the Iraq war applies even more so to Pakistan. Armed with WMD, with a significant Al Qaeda presence in their territory that they're not even really trying to remove, they're run by a dictator, they've launched aggressive wars against their neighbors and their government has directly financed and aided terrorist operations in the past (in Kashmir). But supposedly not even genocide is enough to attack another country, and the Iraq war was wrong. How do you justify those two opinons working together?

Does someone actually have a list around that has our picks by order, and who is/isn't signed? Thanks.

Nice work Alex. With all of the moves, this has to be a never ending battle to keep current.

The server clock has been screwed up since the upgrade.

Man, if you take a banned substance, and STILL suck that bad... ooh.

Not enough Murcie cheering him on. He cracked.