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QUOTE (fathom @ Jul 22, 2012 -> 12:15 PM) I have a lot of questions about how Ventura has handled things for a few weeks now, but no manager in baseball could win when his offense performs this poorly. Just have to weather the storm. Yesterday's game hurt badly, and this is why. But we're still right in this thing.

QUOTE (Reddy @ Jul 22, 2012 -> 10:13 AM) i didn't think gatorade making crappy products was an issue people disagreed with... my bad. It's not about Gatorade. It's about you turning into this hyper-judgmental nazi about everything except Beachbody products. The product I mentioned is basically a pouch of liquid that provides you with a way to quickly digest potassium, b vitamins, sodium, and carbs; all of which are good if you are planning on running around for 2-3 hours in the 100 degree heat. Look, I eat probably just as good or better than 90% of people on earth. My diet consists of 90% vegetables and fruit. With a very small amount of meat, cheese, and nuts thrown in for protein. I eat very little processed foods, save for the meat and cheese which is probably considered "processed." I usually eat a protein bar or a banana prior to playing basketball, and then I bring along either G2 or coconut water. I sweat a lot. Humans are still not particularly efficient in that they shed water and salt when expend energy and release heat/cool down. These are valuable commodities when you're exercising and out of the sun. I am sure I could find more optimal solutions if I wanted to spend more time or money, but honestly, I don't think drinking Gatorade one morning a week is going to kill me. It certainly helps replenish nutrients and salt more quickly than water. Now I know you didn't need an explanation of my diet, but you seem to be lecturing all of us on the quality of said diets, so I thought maybe it would be helpful for your further lectures.

QUOTE (Carter224 @ Jul 22, 2012 -> 10:55 AM) I dont understand why this is so hard to get I don't know. Everyone wants to get on their moral high-horse and wax poetic about the lives of those in the limelight. In reality, we know very little about the personal or private lives of these people. What we see and read is is very little; we have no way of really knowing these people. We are not their friends or relatives or coworkers. I'm not going to judge people I do not know. I am not going to judge how people handle their relationships or marriages when I know nothing about them.

When you cheer for him, you are cheering for his accomplishments on the baseball field. You are not cheering for him as a man, or a human being. If you can't make the distinction, you probably shouldn't ever cheer. When you boo someone, are you booing them as a man or a human being? Of course not; you are booing their performance on the baseball field. It works both ways, folks.

QUOTE (Marty34 @ Jul 22, 2012 -> 08:20 AM) I don't see how wanting Myers to do his job well correlates to being pro wife beating. It doesn't. Once again, we have all the men in town lining up to play the knight in shining armor.

Blah...honestly, what do you folks care about what these guys do in their own personal lives? YOU WILL NEVER, EVER MEET THEM. There are a ton of people you'll come into a lot more contact with than Brett Myers, that have done equally bad things or worse, and yet I doubt you will think about that for one moment.

Oh for the love of god, Reddy...enough of the preaching. You f***ers go run full court with kids 10-15 years younger than you for 150 minutes in 95 degree heat and then tell me what to drink. It's sodium and potassium and vitamin b, with 25 grams of carbs.

None of us know what kind of relationship they have. I'm certainly not condoning anyone hitting anyone, but let's not pretend as if people aren't capable of inflicting all kinds of harm on others far worse than a punch. I've never hit a woman (I've not hit too many men either), but I've dated some evil, evil women that said and did things a hell of a lot more hurtful than a punch to the jaw. Honestly, we don't have to be the guy's friend.

He's a baseball player for us. Nothing else. Win us some baseball games, Brett.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Jul 21, 2012 -> 09:36 AM) Broken record. DeAza needs to get on base like he was the first 2 1/2 months, Youk needs to continue to be superman...seriously, the Tigers and Red Sox just have much more dangerous and balanced line-ups than we do. Beckham hasn't a homer in like 6 weeks, but we keep worrying about Viciedo? Dunn's striking out every other at-bat and not giving us many productive outs? Even if our line-up is scoring, we don't have the bullpen to hold leads. It's like the perfect storm now, with the Tigers cresting and the White Sox trying to ride out the storm. Konerko will not be moved down. He's either hitting clean-up or out of the line-up entirely. De Aza is fine. He's started to hit again in the last few games. Youk will be fine, but he can't hit a decent curve ball. Dunn looks fine to me as well. Alex and Alexei need to continue to hit. Our lineup is just as balanced as Detroit's. We just need to get our pitching staff settled in a bit and we'll be fine.

Ran full court for about 2.5 hours today...we play every saturday morning. Such a huge difference if I am in the middle of my P90X workouts or if I am not. Tons and tons of more stamina. Tried that Gatorade "Prime" stuff...seemed like it gave me a bit of a boost.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Jul 21, 2012 -> 12:59 PM) http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/mlb-big-leag...21968--mlb.html Poor Gordon is now officially "posterized." The equivalent of getting dunked over in the NBA...haha. Something about Reed's fastball, it's not consistently crisp, either. Sometimes it's THERE, other times, it's a liability. For a closer, you need to have more consistency with your #1 pitch, if it's not going to be the slider. I know Santos went on to get hurt with Toronto...and it is pretty impossible to know if the same thing would have happened here, but I liked his stuff a lot better than Reed's.

QUOTE (flavum @ Jul 21, 2012 -> 12:36 PM) Sale, Quintana, and Reed. Tood good and cheap to trade. Everyone else in the right deal. See, I'd include Reed if I got the right deal. I like his arm and his stuff, but again, he needs to change the eye level of the hitter. Fathom has been mentioning this for weeks now. Obviously he is a nice piece to have, but if I was getting the right piece back, I wouldn't hesitate to move him.

QUOTE (Jake @ Jul 20, 2012 -> 08:50 PM) Peavy hit Quentin Berry and then gave up some singles. It sucks but it happened. We didn't hit well and Verlander is good. Our best hitter has been slumping for over a month. Dayan isn't exactly en fuego. Tomorrow we have Sale vs Rick Porcello and then we have Humber vs Jacob Turner...two very winnable matchups. Let's go boys! If we don't win this series, there's a ton of season left, nothing to freak out about. Very interested in KW's next move, if there is one. Yeah, this is how I feel. This one was always going to be gravy to us if we won. We have the edge tomorrow and Sunday. Let's take care of business.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Jul 20, 2012 -> 09:47 PM) Ooops, somehow forgot DeAza. Probably because I couldn't conceive of a situation anytime soon where they would be trading him, with Mitchell going south and Rios so comfortable in RF. He's one of those guys who has a lot more value to the White Sox than what we could get back for him if we put him on the trade market. But it would be interesting to see what AJ, what Alejandro, what Dayan, what Quintana, what Alexei are worth right now to other GM's. Still don't imagine there are any GM's who would take either Rios or Dunn for their remaining contract numbers with no player coming back to the Sox. I think you could get actually get a pretty decent prospect back for Alex at this point. But I know I am in the minority.

The question is better phrased as "Who is our most valuable asset?" The answer is clearly Chris, even with the injury concerns. Then I think you've got Alejandro, Quintana, and Dayan. Of the well-paid players, I'd have to say Alex.

QUOTE (Reddy @ Jul 20, 2012 -> 03:38 PM) THAT'S exactly my point! Isn't that proof enough that we should be testing the food we eat!? How are you going to do this?

QUOTE (Reddy @ Jul 20, 2012 -> 01:16 PM) yeah 10,000 years ago... No, now. Why do you think people are getting all these cancers and what not? It is because there were no long term studies done.

QUOTE (bigruss22 @ Jul 20, 2012 -> 12:48 PM) So I test drove the Infiniti and loved it, played it off as if I was "meh" towards it, the car was "on sale" but the salesman said "What if I said I could sell it to you for $xx today, would you buy it today" which was about 4k cheaper. I said I'd consider it depending on the trade in. Now I knew this was a great price from all my research, so I was interested in this deal and we talked about the trade in a bit. He went back with $xx offer and trade in number, came back saying he couldn't do it, so I dropped the trade in by a few hundred and raised the car price by $100, since he had quoted me at that price. Came back and said can't do it, so now I know it was a bait game to get me to negotiate, went up $500 because I knew that I was looking to save $2k off the sale price anyways so Im still okay, but told him that was my final offer, he came back and said nope so I drove away. They've called me back 3 times in the past 24 hours, so I sent them one final pitch which raises it just a bit more, so I'm about $1k higher than their initial "offer" for car price and my very reasonable trade in request. If they can't do that then I'm just saying no, until they come back saying that offer is good enough. But these guys have been slimey since negotiations started, so I'm not getting my hopes up. They're ALL slimeballs!

QUOTE (Reddy @ Jul 20, 2012 -> 08:33 AM) so we're supposed to just force it down the american publics' throat, saying "we don't know what long term effects it could have" and just wait and see what happens? how many times throughout history have practices that were considered "SAFE AND BENEFICIAL" at the time, been proven to be the exact opposite? Leeching comes to mind... That is precisely what has been done with all the other foods you eat...

I'm a big GMac fan, myself.

QUOTE (Reddy @ Jul 20, 2012 -> 07:41 AM) Monsanto's website states, "There is no need for, or value in testing the safety of GM foods in humans. So long as the introduced protein is determined safe, food from GM crops determined to be substantially equivalent is not expected to pose any health risks. Further, it is impossible to design a long-term safety test in humans, which would require, for example, intake of large amounts of a particular GM product over a very large portion of the human life span. There is simply no practical way to learn anything via human studies of whole foods. This is why no existing food--conventional or GM--or food ingredient/additive has been subjected to this type of testing." Well, that seems like a fair point to me.

One more thing...I went to a FERC conference in DC back in March, put on by Skadden & Arps, and they actually had an economist speak, who was heavily involved in the creation of the CAISO market structure. He said that if the FERC continues down the current path of penalizing counterparties for manipulation when they were just operating under the existing rules, that the markets would collapse.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Jul 19, 2012 -> 10:03 AM) Having to come up with ad hoc patches to the original deregulation would seem to support Balta's point. It has nothing to do with deregulation. The WECC is deregulated and we don't have these instances of manipulation.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Jul 19, 2012 -> 10:03 AM) Having to come up with ad hoc patches to the original deregulation would seem to support Balta's point. I'm not trying to be a jerk, but these rules that are getting manipulated are not rules that are inherently moral or ethical. They are rules designed to send the most efficient price signals to incentivize counterparties to participate in the CAISO. Because they are artificial and controlled by software systems, humans find scenarios to exploit them. Just like lawyers find ways to exploit loopholes in the law. Should lawyers be fined for exploiting legal loopholes? When you talk about the manipulation going on here, it is far more complex than I think either of you recognize. These are rules which govern the supply and flow of energy and how the computer systems control those rules. It is not as simple as PG&E or SCE saying "we support a proxy payment for covering startup costs and minimum run costs because we know we can game them." These are rules created by electrical engineers and economists who are trying to artificially design a system which will produce the most efficient and reliable dispatch of energy to California. Smart people will always find ways to profit off that. Drawing ethical or moral lines in the sand is much more complex than you guys are making it out to be.