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QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Feb 29, 2012 -> 02:36 PM) Good read. A few years back, everyone was complaining that the Sox were taking too many safe picks. From the 2008 draft to today, they have really gotten more aggressive, and their draft performance has improved noticeably (which is amazing when you consider they still weren't spending enough, just scouting and selecting smarter). Guys like Walker, Mitchell, Thompson, will obviously have high bust rates, but the ones that make it have a chance to be superstars. I'll take the new philosophy over the old one. Just don't be as afraid to spend a bit more too. Agreed, but the philosophy is tough to do well if you only spend on 1 player a draft. Simple logic is that the more high rish/high reward prospects you have the more likely you have multiple succeeding at the MLB level. Drafting one per year will be tough to really get any success with the philosophy, as you can see with injuries (Mitchell) and % of busts.

White Collar with a pretty good season end there.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Feb 28, 2012 -> 03:32 PM) Hopefully you have better results than this: http://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com/2010...c-concepts.html This made my day.

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Feb 28, 2012 -> 05:05 PM) Hm. Just noticed I blasted past 20k. I'm guessing about 30% of those were original and thought provoking posts on random subjects, and another 10% were bad LBJ posts, and another 40% are NBA thread posts. That leaves 20% for random and White Sox. That seems generous

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Feb 28, 2012 -> 04:05 PM) Ken Rosenthal of FOXSports.com reports that the Cardinals and Yadier Molina are close to a five-year contract extension in the range of $70-75 million. I like this. Anytime I get the chance to lock up a catcher with an 88 career OPS+ at 5/70, I'm doing it. LOL Between this and the Zimmerman contract I'm dumbfounded. At least one can actually defend the Zimmerman contract.

QUOTE (Milkman delivers @ Feb 27, 2012 -> 05:57 PM) Forgive my ignorance, but why the f*** are Somali pirates such a problem? Why aren't we just having the Navy sink them left and right? $$$$

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Feb 26, 2012 -> 10:54 AM) Ryan Zimmerman signs six year, $100 mil extension, signed through 2019. $16.7 mil average salary, 2nd highest behind A-Rod for 3Bs That seems steep, especially for a guy coming off an .800 OPS season.

Every character on Walking Dead needs to be b****ed out, but Andrea is still the biggest b**** in the show. Great action scenes as stated earlier. My heart about stopped though when they showed the Public Works place because I saw the fences and hoped they found the prison. Oh well, I guess not yet.

This cracked me up.

QUOTE (Heads22 @ Feb 26, 2012 -> 05:20 PM) OK, I'm watching the start of Illinois/Iowa. Does Illinois have any sort of plan or anything on offense? Miss a lot of shots and commit a lot of fouls.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Feb 26, 2012 -> 05:00 PM) The thing is, Mary Buehrle was totally #2 until he had his bad year. It does happen. Konerko was somewhat similar in that he said he never really worked out much in the offseason, just went off of natural strength but didn't condition his body until he started to feel older. I believe that was a few years ago, around 2008. Some guys have been so athletically gifted and successful from that they never had to really condition their bodies. Once they hit that age though where their body just doesn't seem to have as much youthful energy though is when they realize they have to change.

Happy birthday Mark! Definitely one of my favorite posters!

10 points to the person that finds what's wrong with this picture!!!

QUOTE (Quinarvy @ Feb 24, 2012 -> 04:17 AM) I officially despise Apple now. I wanted to download some music I had purchased on my other laptop, so my computer said I had "165 awaiting download," I figured them to be the stuff I have already purchased on iTunes, so I hit "Download now". It then proceeded to start downloading The Complete Led Zeppelin, that I had pre-ordered, but never payed for, 4 years ago as I decided against wanting the item. It charged $100 f***ing dollars automatically. No requesting confirmation or anything. I'm really, really mad. Contact customer service, I bet they would do something about that.

QUOTE (GoodAsGould @ Feb 23, 2012 -> 10:17 PM) Yes I do, free game is the way to be. Although, I've never played a game with so many b****y people if the slightest thing goes wrong. QUOTE (CrimsonWeltall @ Feb 23, 2012 -> 10:44 PM) You died once! Feeder! OMG WERE GONNA LOSE NOW LOL so true....I love games where people are actually cool, even though that it rare. Anyways, add me rowdyruss22 if you want. I tend to play as Sona and I know a lot of people like playing with a support char. But seriously, if you don't start off with at least 3 straight kills you get called a noob and people start threatening to report you, even if they are worse that you.

TNT = Thursday Night Tradition Wayyy toooo s***tttty right now for not eveing being bar closed time.

Really curious to hear the details of this. Right now it looks like another MLB coverup to save its image.

Anybody else play League of Legends? It's my guilty pleasure nerd game.

QUOTE (GoodAsGould @ Feb 23, 2012 -> 02:10 AM) I never even thought about reheating pizza in the oven, if its leftovers its definitely either eaten cold or microwave... Try it once, put it on a baking sheet with aluminum foil under the pizza. You'll never use a microwave again.

QUOTE (JorgeFabregas @ Feb 22, 2012 -> 08:39 PM) According to nearly everyone, Cooper made the pitching decisions. He presumably left Peavy in games to build up his arm, which was ultimately the right choice for a team that was going nowhere. The right choice was pulling Peavy when he started losing it, and put him in the bullpen for extra pitches.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Feb 22, 2012 -> 04:58 PM) 1.) If you want to word it that way, sure. I'd prefer to word it that a lot of managers hesitate to take out the veteran bulldog pitcher when said pitcher makes it clear with visual signs he ain't coming out. If Peavy is healthy, I"m sure we'll be discussing him leaving him in too long this season. Please please remember this topic. 3.) Yes it happens to all managers who lose. You can blame the manager pretty much every 'L.' 1) Peavy wasn't healthy though, he was coming off major surgery and needed time to build strength, and that should not be done while in game, have him throw his 75 pitches then go to the bullpen afterwards if he can't succeed at that point. At that point Peavy wasn't a bulldog, he had the mindset of one maybe, but not the physical ability. If Ozzie couldn't see that then he deserved to lose the game. 3) Yet you give Ozzie a free pass.

USPS is also like half the cost to ship most of the time....

QUOTE (greg775 @ Feb 22, 2012 -> 04:21 PM) 1.) In the games I watched that Peavy pitched, he does not want to come out of games. Robin better just send Coop out there to deal with the situation. The way Coop allegedly crawled to Kenny last year to save his own hide makes me wonder if Coop has the guts. 3.) Amen. It should be interesting to see how the fans on here react whenever we lose, because I guarantee you, if it's a 1-3 run loss, there will be tons of things to pin on Robin. 1) So you're saying Ozzie didn't have the balls to pull Peavy even though everyone knew Peavy was about to get lit up? Hmm... 3) Isn't this exactly what happened to Ozzie!? He lost a bunch of games and people (everyone but you) questioned his in game strategy.

If it's something cheap like Dominos it goes in the microwave or gets eaten cold. Anything better and I put it in the oven.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Feb 20, 2012 -> 10:19 PM) The new rules on retention of cost basis data are screwing up everyone. If a large shop like Schwab had to push out to Feb 15, a smaller shop like OH will really have a hard time with those kinds of rules changes. Any other smaller shops are likely in the same boat. That said, pushing out tax data that far is a pretty big screw-up regardless, and you'd think it would be priority #1 (after keeping trading up of course). You lose customers that way. Especially when they had already delayed it once. Fortunately for them they are the cheapest and everything else with them has been pretty great.