Gregory Pratt

History: http://media.www.chicagoflame.com/media/st...y-3839283.shtml Sociology: http://media.www.chicagoflame.com/media/st...e-3841196.shtml

the answer is no.

Political science and history.

philosophy: http://media.www.chicagoflame.com/media/st...s-3832784.shtml

You are good, man.

Did Biology this week: http://media.www.chicagoflame.com/media/st...e-3826142.shtml Ten dollars to anyone who understands the picture I chose.

This one, part III, deals with the most controversial stuff so far: http://media.www.chicagoflame.com/media/st...e-3819802.shtml Classics Department.

pitching Blanton tonight was a bad decision, however it turns out and it hasn't been good so far.

Part two: Physics http://media.www.chicagoflame.com/media/st...t-3812358.shtml

The headline comes from a banner around University Hall.

Hello old friends I was named News Editor of my college newspaper, The Chicago Flame, and have been working on a series of stories about funding problems in UIC's College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. The series is titled A world-class university? You can see part 1 here: http://media.www.chicagoflame.com/media/st...y-3806365.shtml I know there are some people here who enjoy my work and so I am sharing it with you.

It's a New Yorker piece so it's ridiculously long but obviously I think it's a good read if I would post it. http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/10...a_fact_gladwell

I remember when people were penciling him into our starting lineup with thirty homeruns.

Man, I want USA to win tomorrow.

Thanks friends and losers!

QUOTE (knightni @ Jun 4, 2009 -> 07:16 PM) Carlton was a better lhp. Glavine was up there too. If you look at all the numbers, Glavine is nowhere near Johnson's league.

QUOTE (The Critic @ May 22, 2009 -> 07:47 AM) The end of Impact last night was absolutely awful. Foley teased fighting a "former world champion" to prepare for the PPV. They brought out a cardboard cutout of Stallone as Rocky Balboa with a robe on the cutout, and Foley had a "match" against it. It wasn't funny - not even one bit, except for the crowd chanting "Rocky! Rocky!". Foley's work in TNA is actually making me wonder how much the WWE writers made him funny, or whether his multiple head injuries are finally catching up to him. The Rocky segment was worthless. But I've thought he's been hilarious aside from that in his role as a madman shareholder. I loved when he interviewed himself, faced off with Kurt Angle in his office, and declared that he only wanted to defend the title once a year.

QUOTE (witesoxfan @ May 21, 2009 -> 12:39 AM) I don't think so. Pedro Martinez had a 7 year span from 1997 to 2003 where his average season was 16-5 record, 2.20 ERA, 201 IP, 251 K, 45 BB, and 144 H. That's good for a 0.94 WHIP, 11.3 K/9, 2 BB/9, 5.6 K/BB, 6.4 H/9, and, the most telling statistic of all, a 213 ERA+...over 7 years. Greg Maddux had an ERA+ of 200 twice, and both were very good - probably the 2nd and 3rd best seasons of all time, behind Pedro's 2000 - but Pedro did that over 7 years. And he was out for half of 2001. And, though I find it generally meaningless, it's still fun to look at...his W-L over that time was 118-36 and his winning percentage was .766. That's ridiculous to even think about. I struggle with this question because I love them both. The raw totals and the ERA+ adjustments favor Pedro. But Pedro put up gaudier number in far fewer innings than Maddux did. I think it's obvious to anyone looking at the numbers that Maddux had a better career than Martinez, but who was the better per-game-peak pitcher? The only years when Maddux pitched a "low-200s" total of innings were the years when he had better ERA totals than Martinez. He was always finishing his games and never got hurt. Martinez only pitched over 215 innings twice. Maddux did it 14 times, not counting playoffs! Besides that, his peak is almost as good as Martinez' except for the strikeouts. Let's put it this way: if Pedro Martinez had pitched 100 CGs over the course of his career he would have died. He was a guy who needed to pitch around 100 pitches and get out before he tired out.

QUOTE (FlaSoxxJim @ May 21, 2009 -> 07:25 PM) I usually avoid these stories because they are so heartbreaking, and this one absolutely takes the cake. Put yourself in the place of that kid who literally went through being killed TWICE by his own mother. That may be the most brutal thing I've ever read. I had the same reaction.

In.

thoughts coming soon bmags -- and congrats on graduating, if I read correctly somewhere on these parts.

make it legal to bowl over people who walk down the street with their noses in their cellphones

The double-post was indeliberate. Can someone please delete the other thread?

So, I've been too busy to come around lately, as I'm sure a lot of you have noticed. (And some of you have celebrated! ) But, one of the many things I've been busy with of late is work at my school newspaper, where I was recently named News Editor. I just finished a long profile piece about the recent student elections at UIC and the subsequent disqualification of nine candidates, all of whom ran as members of the same political party, and asked NSS if I could post it here. He said, Sure. So, I thought I'd share it. The one thing I'd say by way of introduction is this: The title explains itself once you read it, unless you don't know that the UIC campus is built in an architectural style known as "Brutalism." So, with that said, the rest is, I think, self-explanatory. Please let me know if you have any thoughts or criticisms of my article or anything else. You can see it here. I know there are a few fans -- for lack of a better term -- of my writing here, and I like sharing the things I write.

thx