Harry Chappas

QUOTE(Shadows @ Feb 4, 2008 -> 08:45 PM) The 85 Bears can sit and spin Only one undefeated, only one that ever will.. best team of all time Why does the history of football begin with the Superbowl?

QUOTE(Steff @ Feb 3, 2008 -> 08:27 PM) Then you might have an insurance carrier problem. Nationwide and Allstate specifically state in their policies that if your vehicle is stolen, and you have a police report to that fact, you are not responsible for any damages or crimes commited. I have no idea of the others, but I can't imagine it wouldn't be the same. Just like when your credit card is stolen and you are not responsible for the charges. The problem is when you leave your keys in the ignition. I believe a stolen car if broken into is very different from leaving your car running and having it stolen.

QUOTE(Chisoxfn @ Feb 3, 2008 -> 01:33 AM) So lets say I had my car running outside (while I was in the house to grab something) and some schmoe walked up and got in the car (nowhere did they have to force anything) and just drove off. Would that not be theft? You know something that is really messed up. In that exact situation above you are responsible for any damage done by the vehicle after it is stolen and your insurance company will not cover it. If someone disagrees please do so as I have been lead ot beleive this is true.

I get the feeling this contract will be regretted much more then the Pedro one. I just get disgusted by teams being able to waste 10's of millions of dollars a season on dead weight and smaller franchises can/will not resign players. There is no parity in baseball as much as it may be touted to be.

QUOTE(Brian @ Feb 1, 2008 -> 08:08 PM) From a Lost spoiler site. The Oceanic Six are... Locke and Linus do not want to leave the island. Those are the 6 I thought as well although how they came about I do not understand. Sayid has a flashforward off the island this season. I think the dead person is unknown at this time but will be somebody that helps them get home and knows where the island is hence Jake's feelings of sadness/distraught when he dies. I believe the flashforwards are not that far off and will be brought into real time within this season or the next. I am more curious about who Kate is hooked up with than the daed guy.

I think Veeck should get one. Didn't he actually save the franchise? I think it will be Harold. Guillen may get one as well. Who are they playing June 20th?

The thing I thought was dumb was Sayid was convinced the boat was trouble but then he stayed on the beach..... The Ben Linus role was really good.

I had a hell of a time with the St. Louis Cardinals and the St.Louis Cardinals. I thought it was all good when the New York Giants moved and broke up the New York Giants and New York Giants. You see I was young and finally understood New York, New York and well............

QUOTE(Kalapse @ Jan 31, 2008 -> 11:25 AM) A player's salary can drop at most 20% in arbitration but that NEVER happens. You'll be hard pressed to find any player who's taken a paycut during his 2nd or 3rd year of arb. And Crede would not be forced to take a physical for the arbitration hearings, the arbitrator would just look at his stats and the current salaries of his comparable peers and pick either the Sox's or Crede's proposed salary. How are his stats from last year looked at and can an arbitrator take injury into account?

Can I ask a question and I pointed this out in an other thread... Why did the White Sox sign Joe Crede to a $5M contract when they could have waited and possibly have gone to arbitration and force his hand? I assume they have seen hium work-out and he would have had to have passed aphysical before the contract could be signed correct? At some point there would have had to have been a medical evaluation, no?

They should rerun every episode using hte format they had last night. It was awesome to see the things that really get missed.

Racism is still very alive and kicking in this country due to the socio-economic situation of the inner city. Many of the fears and hatred as result of crime and poverty are a direct result of race thus resulting an inert dislike for a race whether intentional or not. Jesse and Al do nothing to assist in disfusing this situation because it keeps them in the spotlight. There is no definitive voice for the minority race. Obama can be looked at a face for this cause. I find sexism funny. Sexism is an emotional process related to instinctual feelings that need to be repressed by the human mind which I feel is not even possible. Hillary being a women is not why I would not vote for her. If women really wanted sexism to go away and the objectivity of women to cease they would evaluate their status. I really think that at least average looking women geta pretty good shake. I am not advocating sexual harassment and am not tying it to this response as that is a different opinion. The black senator v. female senator is all you need to know. I like Obama and hope he wins. I loath Hillary. I also planned to vote for Giuliani............

QUOTE(almagest @ Jan 30, 2008 -> 11:43 AM) Now you're going in the exact opposite direction, and evaluating defense as more important than offense. Swisher would have to be absolutely terrible defensively in CF to make up for the offensive difference between him and Anderson, unless Anderson miraculously turns it all around. I believe defense is more important than offense because of the impact on pitching. The comparison of players is Anderson v. Owens/Quintin and the result of Cabrerra leading off v. Owens. Swisher moves to left with Anderson in center. In the day and age of finite pitch counts for a game, hits that are not taken away and errors that are made create stress on pitchers and more importantyl reduce the length with which they are in game. One error and two plays that are not made are an extra inning of work and possibly 15 pitches.

7 of 10 I think I am up on Lost but what is the deal with the 4 toed statue. I do not reacall seeing it anywhere and I have watched Season 1 on DVD and am through 5 discs of season 2 without seeing anything...... It is amazing what you pick up by rewatching them. I missed the Hurley (Dave Season 2) episode and did not know Libby was in the mental ward with him.

QUOTE(YASNY @ Jan 30, 2008 -> 11:27 AM) Perhaps I should explain myself. Though I used a finite example, I was doing so to make a broader point. There seems to be an overwhelming emphasis on offense when evaluating a player's value on this board. Defense is just as important, if not more so. For over 100 years, the saying "Pitching and defense wins championships" has been a constant in baseball. Casey Stengel once said about Aparicio that he steals a hit game with his glove. That can have quite an impact over the course of a season. I'm not saying that offense is not important, because Casey's Yankees would always just beat out the pitching-defense-no hit Sox of those days, but the Yanks also had some pretty damn good pitchers and glovemen too, in addition to the thumpers. But a guy who can "go get 'em" in the field can be a pretty damn valuable piece of a championship ballclub. Brian Anderson did not produce at the plate, but in a big game I wanted him in CF over Mackowiak, for example. In 2006 Brian Anderson saved at least one game that really mattered against the Indians with this glove. If he is in center and Swisher in left we will be a good team. If Owens or Swisher are in center we will be average. The affect on pitching as a result of bad defense is never really discussed. Aaron Rowand and Scott Podsednik cost Bobby Jenks a save in the World Series thus allowing a walk-off that never should happened.

QUOTE(Vance Law @ Jan 29, 2008 -> 03:31 PM) A couple of these are huge strikes against Inge- Already signed to an extension....for so much more money than he's worth, that nobody is even willing to take the salary off Detroit's hands. Taking into account the positions they play, it would be like us trying to get someone to take Uribe if we had him signed for 3 years and $8 million a year. In fact, it would be smarter for the Giants to take Uribe to play 3rd base rather than Inge, if Crede's back were a concern. Contact hitting?- Maybe that was a typo. Inge struck out 150 times last year and has averaged about 140 for the past 3 years. Crede strikes out about half as often. Inge is basically exactly a very poor man's Joe Crede. Very good defensively, has some power but not as much as Crede, doesn't hit for average, doesn't get on base, strikes out a lot. Sounds like Uribe without the ability to play short.

The Giants are on really good terms with Boras so representation is not an issue there. I would put Inge's value a little above Juan Uribe. I just do not think he is that good. If Inge is really 31 years old he is not worth that contract.

The longer Crede is held the more desperate a team in need of him could become. The reason I disliked the Garland and Garcia trades so much was when they went down. They can play on the desperation of a team especially a team that losses a 3B in spring training. This is the same thing that could happen to Uribe and possibly even Nick Massett or Gavin Floyd. There is no need to take nothing prospects for them now as at worst they add depth of MLB players, not great players, but guys that you can count on for something. Lost in the Crede situation in my mind is the fact that the Sox signed him to a high contract when they still had time. I am not certain if he worked out, had a physical or what but they could have held out until it was time to go to arbitration to sign him.

I forgot about this part, He said first he could send down Danks, Fields, Quintin, and Floyd. The more interesting part is that he stated that Baseball America's resources for the most part are local writers, he pointed out Phil Rogers in particular. I found this very interesting and hoped someone with more knowledge could weigh in. He trashed Baseball America and kept stating that a competitive minor league system is not his goal MLB Championships are. The alarming part of this is the fact that he complains about rising salaries and how they need young players. I had asked my questions but my point was going to be that I could care less about the minor leagues but if you are not going ot spend on the draft and outbid in free agency, the result will be quite simple......your team is going to suck.

I was there Friday and was actually the dumb guy that was on CSN asking three questions. I usually do not ask questions as there is no real question I wanted to ask more like debateable points. That being said here were my specific questions Is Carlos Quintin healthy - KW stated that Quintin and Walker worked out last week and his shoulder is fine Would you sign Podsednik to a minor league deal and see if he can give them anything. Owens could be sent to AAA and brought back if Pods injures himself KW stated that Pods is close to signing a minor league deal elsewhere and he would not have a shot at makinnthe team. -------- I am not a Pods fan but here is low risk in giving him a minor league deal and going with Owens. Owens is being handed the lead-off spot and CF job arainst RHP in my mind. Would you draft Pedro Alvarez?[/b] KW stated that he would not discuss amateur players. I was hoping for a more specific ansers as to how that would approach the draft. I guess you get what you ask for. Some things that he spoke of that I did not see anywhere; Uribe was mentioned as a 3B option on more than one occassion. Players can not be judged on spring training as the high sky (can't judge outfielders) and rock hard ground (can't judge infielders) affect all aspects of defense and pitching (can't judge pitchers). I was hoping somebody would ask, "Then why in the hell did you move there?" If he wanted to build a top notch minor league system he could trade for one in three days. Again I wish I could have asked him more about this. I thought over-all Farmer was trying to bait people as he came out questioning the knowledge of fans for some reason and tried to piss people off right off of the bat. I thought it was pretty sad. He started by asking who would sign Hunter for $90M nobody raised their hand and then he said essentially that Rowand is not worth Konerko money. A fan called him out on this and nailed him by stating that you cna not compare contracts from two years ago to today. Farmer looked bad here but kept saying "you would pay Rowand as much as Konerko". The Rowand love was 50/50. The little kid that asked why they Uribe and then traded for Cabrerra was blown by a Cabrerra lovefest by Guillen. Unfortunatly that was not the question. Guillen and KW left the Bartolo option open. I think Cabrerra and Owens platoon at lead-off as Guillen kind of stated this when asked what his line-up would be. A few organizational folks believe Crede is gone. Roland Hemond is cool. The new marketing campaign seems blah. The Palmer House sucks and the event has really gone downhill. It is hard to get around and we missed the whole fundamentals section that was not even marked.

Felix and Bedard are arguably the best 1 & 2 in baseball. That could be enough. I really like the potential of Seattle better than the Angels. Sexson and Beltre behind Ichiro could be tough. The Angels need to look at getting some more pop I bleive.

When talking about steroid "dens" how is Wrigley not mentioned? The greatest steroid fraud occurred there while he was covering the team.

McDougal is a-lot like Howry when he was here but with better stuff than Howry. With experience comes the ability to throw better strikes and better control

I love Julia Styles due to his role in 10 Things I Hate About You.

QUOTE(Balta1701 @ Jan 22, 2008 -> 03:32 PM) You'd seriously give up Booooooone for Jamie Walker? Not in a 1 for 1 deal but if it sweetened the pot of a bigger deal yes, they are essentially the same pitcher.