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QUOTE (Jordan4life @ Jun 29, 2012 -> 11:47 AM) Well, in greg's defense, I don't think it's just a coincidence a Marlins thread (one that he did not make) was created for the first time in soxtalk history this year. We all want Ozzie to fail now. greg doesn't. You had to know this was coming. I don't...I honestly hope he does well...I am interested in following his exploits, but certainly don't wish ill-will upon him. I do think the "quit on the White Sox" thing is ridiculous....who the hell cares...season was over, we were all wanting him gone...he obliged us, and yet now we are holding it against him.

16 is just enough space for about 8 gigs of music, a reasonable number of apps, and some books...

Notice the sheath...

QUOTE (JoeCoolMan24 @ Jun 29, 2012 -> 12:18 AM) I'm not. I'm feeling New Q being brought way back to Earth tomorrow. Blah.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jun 29, 2012 -> 07:19 AM) I stole it from NotKennyWilliams on twitter a while back, and used it on Soxtalk first.

Is it just me, or does Rios make some of the ugliest catches out there that you will ever see? He caught that ball like 3 feet away from his body...I don't understand how he even looks the ball into his glove when he catches it like that...scares the hell out of me.

Sorry to hear that...my condolences...

NY'ers hold their pizza like douchers.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jun 28, 2012 -> 08:08 AM) It was very realistic IMO. I just wanted to see the other stories that it impacted more...certainly not in a position to claim whether it was realistic or not.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Jun 27, 2012 -> 09:48 PM) Margin Call wasn't terrible. I used a few selected pieces of it with my ECON class here in China. HBO also did a similar movie on the 2008 crisis, can't remember the name of it off the top of my head though. It wasn't terrible because the cast was very solid...but they didn't ever get into any details enough to ever really tell a story...The movie opens with a big financial services firm firing 80% of their employees. One of the managers that gets whacked tries to warn his boss that he needs to look at something he's been working on...everyone in the firm says "don't worry about it now...it's not your problem anymore." Before he gets escorted out by security, he passes a zip drive onto one of his employees and says "take a look at this...and be careful." The guy then looks at it that night and realizes that they are so levered up on crappy mortgages and their trading model is showing them as beginning to exceed their volatility limits or risk tolerances over the last two weeks. They realize they have more potential losses just in that product than the overall value of the firm. He tells his boss. Who then tells his boss...and on and on...they hold emergency meetings all night with all the high executives and they determine the only option is to liquidate their position in that particular product. The managers in charge of the trading operations don't want to liquidate because they know it will cause the market to collapse and shred their reputation amongst all their counterparties. The execs go over the top of them and force them to sell. They offer incentives to their traders to sell off all their positions, which will ultimately make their jobs no longer necessary, but they tell them there is no other option. They liquidate their position, piss off all their counterparties....the market is presumably in the first days of collapse, and the movie ends....they do show throughout the movie how greedy these traders, managers, and executives are...but they never really tell the story of what led up to that point or what happened after that point. It was just sort of a look at the 24 hours before a major trading firm realizes the music is about to stop. Not a bad concept, but I just thought something was missing. I just think it was too vague...

He's going to see Andrews...I don't think there has been a diagnosis yet.

QUOTE (fathom @ Jun 27, 2012 -> 08:29 PM) I found Ozzie likable in the preview episode they showed. If you liked him here at all, you should probably like him there too... For me, I've got nothing against the guy...I still think he is a genuinely good person and a blast to be around. But he lost his ability to manage our club effectively, so I am glad he moved on. No hard feelings.

QUOTE (Milkman delivers @ Jun 24, 2012 -> 07:44 PM) It was awesome. My boss was telling me there is another one where he is a zombie killer or something...was on pay-per-view recently. He was describing it and I was like "how f***ing drunk was he when he watched it, because I'm positive it's about killing vampires, not zombies." Then he starts talking about how at the end he gets John Wilkes Booth to assassinate him because he can't die as a zombie, and I knew we must be talking about two different things. In other news, I just watched something called Margin Call, and it was vague and pointless. Don't waste your time, despite a pretty solid cast.

QUOTE (maggsmaggs @ Jun 27, 2012 -> 09:13 PM) That 2000 team just had every frickin hitter with a plus-.800 OPS. Man that team was loaded offensively. I looked that up a month or so ago when I was bored at work...Absolutely incredible some of the numbers that team put up offensively...and how terrible they were on the mound.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Jun 27, 2012 -> 05:48 PM) Good point. It is very hard to win one. He is young though. I'd figure odds are relatively good if he manages 20 to 25 more years he'd get another one. I'm not ruling out that he could make adjustments in his personal life and have some longevity, but if he keeps going down this current path, there isn't a chance in hell he'll make it another 5 years, let alone 20-25.

QUOTE (Jose Paniagua @ Jun 27, 2012 -> 01:59 PM) I don't want to credit hitting coaches, as that is the most overdone comment. I will credit an idea though -- there's too much of a downside for him when he's constantly trying to hit to all fields. Alex doesn't have to be an All-star hitter, just take it into right field when the opportunity is there. I'd rather he be an overpay and do what he's best at than try to justify the contract. If he's fine defensively, and maintains that career OPS, I don't see why people consider this the worst overpay of all time. I couldn't disagree more. He's become much, much more dangerous now that he is trying to turn on the inside pitch. The first month and a half or two of the season, he hit 1 home run because he was trying to just go the opposite way with everything. The pitchers adjusted and started busting him inside. It took him a few weeks to adjust back, but in June, he's been turning on inside pitches and going with pitches out over the plate. He's got 10 or 11 home runs now that he is willing to turn and burn the inside pitches, and his average hasn't suffered.

Humber will be on the DL until at least July 2nd, so they've got to bring someone up for the weekend.

I don't think he and Robin ever got along...didn't seem to appreciate being left in to face righties. When was Humber available to come off the DL?

QUOTE (greg775 @ Jun 26, 2012 -> 07:45 PM) If he's the owner, then it's pretty crazy to think my defense of Ozzie would elicit such a venomous response. All I'm doing is stating my defense of Ozzie. It's not like I'm starting threads saying Ozzie this and Ozzie that and I wish Ozzie was still here. You guys think Ozzie quit on the team whatever that means. I say the Sox didn't want him and he sped up the process by negotiating the final week or whenever. If the Sox wanted Ozzie Guillen and made it known they wanted Oz through thick and thin, he'd still be here. Also, who cares if he's playing on the internet before games instead of scouring advanced stats. What did Earl Weaver do back in the day w/no internet or Tommy Lasorda? They played grabass with the media I'm sure or played cards. Who cares? A manager brings the intangibles and semblance of strategy DURING games. What do you want the owner to do? You know how many hours they spend at the site? Gage has time to f*** around. Like he said, let the admins/mods do the things they are paid for. The owner is the organizer. I wouldn't read scads of posts on the Internet either, if I were Gage. His track record suggests his style works.

I don't need to hear about Chris sharing rubbers with Nick Blackburn...or anyone else for that matter....

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jun 27, 2012 -> 08:00 AM) Part of that could be if you know the ump is giving you six inches off of the plate, why would you throw it over the plate. He called the curve off of the dish all night long, so he kept going there. Oh for sure...I'm not faulting him for taking advantage of it. I'm just saying that I think with Gavin's arsenal, and the difficulty level of getting that curveball over on a consistent basis, if you're getting a lower zone and a zone off the corners, that is a huge advantage, but in the number of pitches the umpire is calling and the psychological effect on the hitters.

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Jun 27, 2012 -> 06:59 AM) The strike zone was the size of a Buick, if he gets breaking balls that go around the plate on lefties he's going to be tough. Also thats the first time he's stuck out Mauer in like 3 years. Yeah, I think if he gets that kind of zone on a consistent basis his numbers are completely different than they currently are. He clearly benefited from the huge zone, more so than most pitchers would, IMO.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jun 26, 2012 -> 04:08 PM) I wouldn't be surprised at all if in about 10 years we started hearing the "new stadium" whispers. If you count the renovations done to Kaufmann and the big A, the Cell is actually becoming one of the older stadiums in the league. I would be...they've been constantly reinvesting into the place to the point where it isn't at all the same as it was when it was built...we've had a renovation just as Anaheim has...just over the course of a longer time period.

That is great! My 6 month old is looking like he is going to be that kind of dog...loves to eat and almost nothing will stop him from finding food... That is a big boy!

QUOTE (Tony82087 @ Jun 26, 2012 -> 02:21 PM) Welcome to the major leagues. God forbid Robin move a career .249 hitter out of the #2 to try and balance out the lineup more. It never fails around here. Personally, I would have put Youk at the bottom of the order and moved him up if he started to hit...no need to move Gordon until there is a reason to move him...but it's not the end of the world...Gordon has gone through a lot of adversity over the last few years. If hitting in a different spot in the order is going to sink his ship, I'd be shocked. He hit the ball hard last night several times...I don't think he was too concerned.