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QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Apr 18, 2013 -> 09:18 AM) Developers aren't going to care as long as they can sell the homes. One way to do it would be to have people warned if their home is within distance x of a potentially hazardous site, but that can be a joke anyway. In California, you're supposed to be warned upon the purchase of a home if it's a few hundred yards from a fault line, but there's a place I really like on state route 14 where there is a steep slope with a bunch of houses on it, a mansion across the higway that I always guessed was over a million dollar home, a few hundred yards...and then you cross the San Andreas Fault. You couldn't pay me to live there. People run a similar risk living right on a river too. Hell, there are literally all sorts of places people could live that are just as dangerous, if not moreso, than living next to this plant.

Hey Zack, maybe you get the label of a head-hunter because you like to hunt heads on occasion. Maybe you should stop throwing up and in to Carlos Quentin.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Apr 17, 2013 -> 09:55 PM) http://espn.go.com/mlb/attendance The interesting question is can the Twins/Indians/Rays 10 game homestand avoid putting us in 29th place for attendance? We will have to wait until May 10th to play a team that should be a good draw in the Angels, and that's also a weekend series (assuming the Angels actually pick up the pace and start playing better than their woeful 4-10 start). Worry about attendance rankings at the end of the year. On April 17th, you are worried. That's ridiculous.

Even as very pro-gun, I had no problem with extra regisration. I compare owning and firing a gun to owning and driving a car. 99.9% of people use them properly, but there will be a small percentage who will abuse those powers (and in fact, when considering DUI arrests, more do so with cars). You should still have to go through a lengthy ordeal to get your license and regisration.

QUOTE (Athomeboy_2000 @ Apr 18, 2013 -> 08:07 AM) OOPS! @mylesnmiller CBS' John Miller says these men identified by the NYPost are not the two suspects law enforcement seek. @joshtpm As they say at the NYPost, if at first u don't succeed w an Arab guy, try, try again. /facepalm

QUOTE (CaliSoxFanViaSWside @ Apr 18, 2013 -> 12:23 AM) In today's game thread I said Q might be better than Sale long term . No one wanted to discuss it except to say I was doing drugs You are doing drugs Q has a less violent delivery and is probably a better bet long term to stay healthy, but Sale has the stuff to win a Cy Young. It is good to see that Q's late season fade last year has not manifested itself this year.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Apr 17, 2013 -> 04:41 PM) Technically the bottom of the grand canyon is still at an elevation of about 2000 feet. You can still go a long way down from there. When you're at the bottom of the Marianas Trench, you have no where to go but up (or in the belly of Cthulhu)

QUOTE (Jake @ Apr 17, 2013 -> 04:03 PM) Quite a bit of overreaction about Hawk's talk about sabermetrics. He's obviously not going to wholly understand them since most people don't, and he's frustrated with the over-reliance on advanced statistics nowadays. I think the general sentiment that the explanatory power of advanced statistics is overstated is in fact a correct sentiment to hold. This is an opinion, thus it is not the correct sentiment to hold. Name one thing, ANYTHING, about a baseball player that you want to know and I can, with little doubt in my mind, find both: 1) a number that is derived from that quality 2) find a number rooted in sabermetrics that better defines that original number The biggest area of debate at this point is amongst fielding numbers, but no matter what you want to use - fielding percentage, errors, defensive runs save, ultimate zone rating, or fan evalutions - we are trying to come up with some sort of way to come up to generally accepted opinions about a players defensive skill sets. Numbers without context mean nothing, but numbers with context mean everything.

This feels like it's turning into the Scranton Strangler case.

Zach Stewart

Both Danks and Wise have plenty of pop. They're not exactly Juan Pierre and Luis Castillo

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Apr 17, 2013 -> 11:02 AM) It's not really hahaha so much as a lot of effort in the re-design. I submitted it six months ago (it's quite a process) and they told me to gtfo. Now with the redesign and oodles of content it was accepted. I coded it to rock out each article moving forward. Pretty awesome to see John Norris's NFL Free Agency article I posted show up on Google News and have jamokes organically hitting the website 15 minutes later. I guess I might as well submit to Bing and pretty much say "Google likes us, so obviously you will too". It's still hahahaha because it's exciting

This tells me that Anthropolous is a "grass is greener" guy (an upgrade in talent is an upgrade in talent, any way you slice it) while most GMs are "maintain a relationship" guys (even if a guy is marginally more talented, maintaining the relationship we've built with a player is more important). I know which philosophy works in games, but which philosophy appears to work in real life?

QUOTE (Marty34 @ Apr 17, 2013 -> 11:05 AM) Bad analogy as the worst starting outfielder on the Sox is nowhere near as good a player as Jay Cutler. Sorry, it's a Chicago board, I thought the most recent backup that people called for would be appropriate. Let's just call it a more general "backup quarterback syndrome." Ultimately, there's going to be virutally zero effect felt by this move, even if Danks ends up getting a game winning hit or something OR if he sucks and completely falls on his face.

QUOTE (witesoxfan @ Apr 17, 2013 -> 09:48 AM) Cose has had a nice start to the year My bad bro He was at 4 IP, 4 H, 1 BB, 4 K Then, 4.1 IP, 7 H, 6 ER, 2 BB, 4 K

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Apr 17, 2013 -> 10:26 AM) For a guy who is older than Gordon Beckham and has a career .560 OPS, Jordan Danks gets an extreme amount of love around here. How does one conclude he is better than Wise? Caleb Hanie syndrome

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Apr 17, 2013 -> 10:25 AM) So Flapship was accepted as an official Google News Source. Hahahaha awesome

I have no doubt Thompson is a major leaguer. Whether that is a big time, middle of the order power hitter (similarities to Giancarlo Stanton, but nowhere near as good) or a talented, defensive-minded, but strike out prone player (in the mold of Drew Stubbs), I'm not sure. Thompson will be at the MLB level, and I wouldn't be surprised by a cup of coffee this year.

Cose has had a nice start to the year

QUOTE (Jordan4life @ Apr 16, 2013 -> 07:49 PM) Ha. Well the Marlins are givin' it to the Nats right now. What the f*** happened to Haren? He's horses***. I would not tell the White Sox this.

QUOTE (Chilihead90 @ Apr 16, 2013 -> 09:04 PM) I just don't trust he will ever amount to more than a backup or utility infielder type. He doesn't impress me. I think when he's hitting .300 on the regular at the MLB level, he will start impressing you.

QUOTE (flavum @ Apr 16, 2013 -> 03:39 PM) You want Lillibridge back? DFA I follow him on Twitter. Seems like a great guy who works his ass off. But no.

QUOTE (The Ginger Kid @ Apr 16, 2013 -> 04:07 PM) I would say the Jays and A's belong in that first list of names, Wite. And is there a reason you're not counting the Yankees? Just because I forgot to mention them. The A's I'd put in there, but it's hard for me to put the Jays in there - they won 2 World Series, but they haven't done anything in 20 years. At that point you have consider the Tigers - who have been to 3 and won 1 World Series in the last 30 years, along with multiple playoff appearances - even though, from 1989 through 2005, they were among the laughing stocks of the league, including the worst season in AL history. There's a lot of gray area, but lumping the Sox amongst the Reds, Blue Jays, Tigers, and Indians really isn't bad company when you consider how good those teams have been at certain points in the last 25-30 years.

QUOTE (Eminor3rd @ Apr 16, 2013 -> 04:00 PM) But ballpark factor is exactly why ERA is not a good way to judge pitching. Yep. 108 ERA+ last year, with the Yankees and Orioles both at 109. The Rays had by far the best pitching staff in the AL last year.

QUOTE (oldsox @ Apr 16, 2013 -> 03:21 PM) I disagree. Talent-wise with position players, it is in the lower third of MLB. Easily, IMO. And the pitching staff is, bare minimum, top 10 in the majors with the potential to be top 5. The team is better than this are you are nitpicking a weakness to try and prove a rather weak and hollow point.