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I wonder if he ended up getting sued or having to pay any money to the 19 year old girl who suffered a lower back/vertebrae fracture last year, because Stewart openly admitted that accident/crash was his fault or responsibility? Clearly, he's not going to do the same thing here, or it would be tantamount to awarding $20-30 million in a civil suit to the Kevin Ward family.

QUOTE (Andy the Clown @ Aug 11, 2014 -> 03:55 PM) He may have had a couple decent years, but his walk rate and velocity did not bode well for the long term. At the time of contract extension? Really? Someone would have to get out fangraphs and look at his fastball velocity from 2008-2011, but I'm 95% sure it would show him consistently at 89-92 and sometimes touching 93. A lot of us questioned it, because it happened right after they extended Santos and then traded him for some no-name Blue Jays prospect and nobody really understood what direction the team was going. It SEEMED contradictory at the time.

QUOTE (witesoxfan @ Aug 11, 2014 -> 03:51 PM) A caution does not mean the race stops. You remain driving your car. On dirt style tracks, at the very least, it will mean the person who caused the crash will move to the back and once the lines are reset, you start the race again from the lap the caution was caused. The only time it would be safe to get out of your car is on a red flag (on red flags, everyone stops moving immediately. This is almost 100% of the time due to a medical emergency) or if you are safely in the pits. I haven't seen the video yet, but this guy should have never, ever gotten out of his vehicle. I'm pretty sure his car was turned around backwards and against the upper fence...

QUOTE (raBBit @ Aug 11, 2014 -> 03:43 PM) This thread just makes me more excited for the (hopefully) massive turnover from this year to the next. With that in mind, I've only read about 10% of the posts in this thread. According to some, that's the same amount of attention to detail Ventura shows for statistical analysis of other teams and individual match-ups.

QUOTE (Rowand44 @ Aug 11, 2014 -> 02:45 PM) Boobs. http://imgur.com/r/realasians/WljjQtO

Doesn't he have the right to get out of his car when there's a yellow caution flag out? Not to walk into the middle of the track and toward oncoming traffic, but at least get out under his own power...?

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Aug 11, 2014 -> 12:35 PM) Buster Olney ‏@Buster_ESPN 7h Have heard enough to know this: MLB has had a hard time enticing commish candidates. Reality: great title, but relatively little power. Doesn't Selig make something like $30-35 million per season...?

Back in the 1980s, when Greg Morhardt was just another minor leaguer on his way to soon becoming an ex-minor leaguer, he crossed paths with players such as Rafael Palmeiro, Will Clark, Mark McGwire and Barry Bonds. Decades later, when Morhardt became an area scout, he recalled those future major league stars as he watched a muscular teenager from New Jersey. "Gee whiz," Morhardt recalled thinking, "Mike Trout is 16 or 17 and he's really better than all of them." Back then, it may have seemed like hyperbole when Morhardt filed glowing, almost unbelievable reports, on Trout. Today, it makes sense. Trout is a virtual lock to be selected the AL Rookie of the Year on Monday. He's also got a shot to win the AL MVP Award, which will be announced Thursday. Trout could join Fred Lynn and Ichiro Suzuki as the only players to win the Rookie of the Year and the MVP in the same season. Trout is the underdog in the MVP race because Miguel Cabrera won baseball's first Triple Crown in 45 years. Trout supporters would say his season was just as historic. He was the first rookie to combine 30 homers and 40 stolen bases. He led the majors with 129 runs. "The home run power you expected to come because he has the frame and the quickness and the strength," Morhardt said, "but you thought maybe it would be a year or two later." As high as expectations were for Trout, they weren't this high. "None of us thought he'd be as good as he'd be last year, at 20 years old," former Angels scouting director Eddie Bane said. "You could dream about it when he was 27 or 30. Even then, we'd have been told we were crazy." That's because in the spring of 2009, when teams were assembling their lists and preparing for the draft, none of them thought Trout would do what he's done. Good thing, too. Or the Angels wouldn't have been able to get him with the 25th pick, after 21 other teams said, "No, thanks," including the Washington Nationals and Arizona Diamondbacks twice. "He definitely moved a lot quicker and turned out to be a hell of a ballplayer a lot quicker than people were anticipating," said San Francisco Giants scouting director John Barr, who picked sixth. "I think we all look back now and think, 'Geez, we wish he was higher on our boards.'" The Angels had Trout at No. 2 on their board, behind only Stephen Strasburg. "And even that may have been a little low," Bane said. Although Strasburg was baseball's consensus No. 1 pick, a once-in-a-generation talent who has lived up to the billing so far in his major-league career, there was at least one voice in the Angels' draft room who dissented. "I didn't think there was a better player than Mikey," said Morhardt, who now works as a national crosschecker. "I'll put him against anybody. Sometimes you have to jump out there a little bit. I didn't think there was a better amateur player in the country. At some point he's going to have a chance to be a Hall of Fame baseball player." www.ocregister.com

Someone's got to do it, since he won't accept any love from Sierra.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Aug 11, 2014 -> 02:51 PM) There is an actual problem with Connor 2nd as the lineup is currently constructed. L - Eaton. L - Gillaspie. Righty, righty, righty, righty, righty, righty, righty. Perfect setup for a bullpen to devastate the team with specialists. That's why the devastating Beckham and Leury Garcia can nullify those lefty specialists...(please Dick Allen, save your breath about his stats against lefties when he's hitting .180 or .190 against RHP, which is the majority of mlb pitching).

QUOTE (ptatc @ Aug 11, 2014 -> 12:02 PM) I think much of that is due to hitting an innings limit. He currently is pitching more than he has in the last three years. He was pretty good early but has hit a wall. Hopefully as he adds the enducrance he will be able to pitch deeper into the season next year. Every once in a while, he will rare back and get a 90 or 91 on the gun. Not sure if he's just trying to quiet down the critics/whispers...or what the reason, as he's usually 86-89 these days. It's hard to say what effect the trade rumors have had on him, but surely it hasn't been helpful, either.

QUOTE (Chisoxfn @ Aug 11, 2014 -> 11:48 AM) Feherety was on DP this morning and absolutely scoffs at the notion that Tiger is a quitter. Also blames Haney for what has happened to him injury wise and kept reiterating the fact that Tiger shouldn't be on the course and he's purely willing himself to be out there. Says he knows Tiger isn't a quitter and only reason he didn't stop playing on Friday was because he's trying to will through it, potentially play in Davis cup, and is aware of the media bashing him as a "quitter". Feherety called it pure poppycock. Ryder... It will be interesting to see if Tiger withdraws himself, or pushes ahead into Europe and attempts to demonstrate his worthiness as a captain's choice. Dufner's out...isn't Kuchar hurt? One of the biggest arguments is that the "old/#1" Tiger was/is still a well below .500 record in Ryder Cup matches. This version, with the back problems, knees...sacrum, hips, etc., it wouldn't be much of a help except for tv ratings/curiosity.

QUOTE (iamshack @ Aug 11, 2014 -> 11:55 AM) Yeah, Day just couldn't trust his grip...he's fighting a hook and was playing tentatively all weekend. He was interviewed prior to Saturday's round and said he thought they had cured it with a more neutral grip adjustment, then went out and proceeded to hook his drive left of the creek on 2....and fought it the rest of the way. Didn't stop Baker-Finch from talking about how many hours he practices his short game or where he would be if he had just made more 10-12 foot putts. Els had it really going early and they wanted him to post a score that would put pressure on the leaders coming down the stretch. He, just like everyone not named Rory, couldn't keep the momentum going on the back nine though. Had forgotten about Stenson....Stenson is intriguing because he is very colorful. He has a tendency to hit some very "interesting" shots under pressure, or to break a club over his knee every know and again. Crazy how they mentioned his caddy has a Ferrari....Stenson made $21 million just in golf earnings last year though, so I can see how his caddy drives a Ferrari. Don't the caddies get about 2.5 or 3% of their total purses? Is it 5%? Something like that.

Please keep Buddy Bell at least 100 yards away from Rodon. The only ones who should be allowed to speak to him are Hahn, Cooper, JR Perdew and Nick Capra. Half joking.

The problem is that Danish and Montas are probably 1 1/2 years away as it stands right now. Rodon, of course, should arrive sooner. And then you have Adams hopefully in 2 1/2 or 3 years. The problem is the franchise getting through 2015...they simply have to be able to promote the realistic possibility of a playoff run when they're selling 2016 season tickets. It's also far from clear when/if Anderson, Hawkins and Davidson will be making any type of contribution. We've had so many debacles with Mitchell, Walker and Thompson's pretty much fallen off the prospect map as well...too many misses. Then you have Semien, Erik Johnson, Davidson (again), Micah Johnson struggling to feature his #1 asset with the lingering hamstring issues....Daniel Webb's gone backwards, Anderson and Montas hurt, not to mention a lot of the guys having surprising seasons like Sanchez, Wilkins and Ravelo are still basically "fringey" candidates for everyday play at the major league level. Beck hasn't progressed as hoped/hyped. Nobody's expecting All-Star appearances, that's for sure.

QUOTE (iamshack @ Aug 11, 2014 -> 11:43 AM) It was interesting...you could see the nationalistic biases coming out in the broadcasting...Baker-Finch was talking up Jason Day every chance he could get. Feherety was cheering on Rory. The crowd favorites were Mickelson and Fowler, the two Americans. When Rory was lining up the eagle putt on 10, someone made the comment that the place would be up for grabs if he knocked it in. There were definitely cheers, but it wasn't nearly the house coming down like they thought it would be. Jason Day almost completely disappeared from the coverage. They seemed to really want to force Ernie Els into the story...that was interesting, although he was never legitimately in contention, he did play a pretty darned solid round except for one hiccup. Stenson, rightly, got a lot of time...but he's about as exciting as Vijay Singh. I'm sure they were happy with the Austrian golfer didn't have to be featured as much as he also disappeared after the turn.

QUOTE (scs787 @ Aug 11, 2014 -> 11:30 AM) Sooo, explain why fangraphs had him worth 17M the year before his injury and 500K this year? He also had the 18th highest WAR that year....Lets not act like he wasn't a damn fine pitcher before the injury. He and Floyd were really good in 2008, pretty good (at least a 2/3 level starter) in 2009 and 2010 and then downhill from that point. But none of that has anything to do with the $35+ million pitcher we have on our roster now. It's very obvious he's having a hard time keeping the ball down, there's not enough differential on his pitch speeds, and his location/control has been suspect...isn't he leading the AL in homers allowed? Sometimes I also think the blackout/playoff game made him "an ace" to the fanbase (since we have so few playoff appearances)...and memories of that start lingered far longer than Nick Blackburn.

QUOTE (witesoxfan @ Aug 11, 2014 -> 11:32 AM) Seth Smith signed an extension with San Diego. He's not going anywhere. The thought behind it is that you can get his bat into the lineup more consistently then. It's not to move him to OF full time. I know that. And he's not even "under the radar" to MLB GM's, I just meant to the average fan who's never watched a Padres game since Peavy or Gwynn were there... Just have huge doubts you could stick him out there 10-15 times per year and not have even more disastrous results than Adam Dunn out in the outfield. I suppose if he played in the AFL/winter ball...but only Capra, Bell, Hahn, etc., know the plan for Wilkins going forward, if he's even in their plans at all. Maybe they're all a lot higher on Ravelo, for example...anything's possible. Finally, he signed that extension with Hinch, right? With a new GM/regime, they might be open to moving him in the off-season. We did it with Sergio Santos, after all.

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Aug 11, 2014 -> 10:05 AM) Yesterday's final round was more entertaining and enjoyable than 90% of Tiger's major victories. It sucks that the media has to keep talking about Tiger while this new generation is making history and creating a much more compelling and memorable viewing experience. Well, that's human nature. This tourney had the best rating for PGA Championship since, you guessed it, 2009 when YE Yang shockingly took down Tiger. The Masters is generally around a 7.5 rating, I think the 2009 was 6.8 and this one must have been in the low or mid 6's. That said, McIlroy isn't an American, and it's like comparing tennis when Roger Federer or Nadal are dominating with the years of McEnroe and Connors, or Sampras and Agassi, the Williams Sisters, etc. You can appreciate how great McIlroy is, how far he hits the ball (especially the scorcher to the green that preceded the eagle, the only player on that green in 2 Sunday)...but I would imagine 75% of the people tuning in were still rooting for Mickelson or Fowler.

Has Wilkins EVER played the outfield? Just doesn't seem like the best idea in the world if he's going to be worse than Viciedo and Garcia out there...thinking Josh Fields and that move to LF. They're much better off acquiring a Seth Smith/under the radar type...who can actually upgrade our OF defense instead of make it even worse, and that's pretty hard to do when you're talking Viciedo, DeAza and Garcia.

QUOTE (Big Hurtin @ Aug 11, 2014 -> 09:25 AM) I don't even care about the White Sox. I'm full of schadenfreude that an MLB "darling" or two could be on the list. I wonder if Bud Selig would try to bury it if it turns out to be Big Papi (one of the names)?? Of course, he "allowed" Ryan Braun to go down, and that was a player from his own franchise (along with his daughter's). Well, a lot of the $250 million he's made has been based on championing/cheerleading the steroids era and then finally being forced to turn against it.

QUOTE (Lillian @ Aug 11, 2014 -> 09:23 AM) I didn't say anything about his being able to perform at the same level, in the Big Leagues. All I am saying is that Wilkin's performance is impressive enough to merit some time with the parent club, and certainly enough to rank him ahead of a lot of guys in the organization who are not putting up numbers even close to being comparable. The ceiling/floor in a 1B/DH/LF guy is a lot different than for a middle infielder, catcher, CF, starting pitcher, etc. That said, power is at an all-time lower, so they would be almost negligent to not see what they have in Wilkins and hold onto Dunn out of stubbornness. Hahn didn't sign Dunn (well, KW was more responsible, and JR okaying it), so he doesn't have to worry as much about pushing him out the door, as he's already pulled the trigger quickly on both Downs and Keppinger. Maybe he's waiting to showcase him against the Giants, Blue Jays and Orioles. After that, he HAS to be gone.

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Aug 11, 2014 -> 09:11 AM) Yes, you are setting a triple A players numbers against a major league players numbers and saying it is the same A lot like Grazy Sizemore, Josh Fields or Wilson Betemit's numbers in spring training vs. the real world...or NFL preseason stats, especially in the first 2 games. Or college basketball/football in non-conference, etc.

QUOTE (Stan Bahnsen @ Aug 8, 2014 -> 01:42 PM) Still. Raking. 1263 OPS in August so far to back up his July. Regardless of how remote his chances of MLB success may or may not be, they're screwing the pooch here. We should be watching him now instead of Dunn, but aren't. And it might be Andy's only real opportunity against real MLB pitching. Sucks. Luckily for Wilkins, there aren't very many affordable and available LH DH types on the market, just like Tyler Flowers mostly has to worry about the Sox going after Russell Martin (although of course they could also make a trade).

QUOTE (witesoxfan @ Aug 11, 2014 -> 09:06 AM) So because the White Sox have a rational and fiscally responsible ownership group, Sox fans should be upset? What a travesty. You don't have to spend $150-175 million to win in today's environment. You win by building your team up from within and making smart acquisitions and then adding pieces to that core group of players. I'm mostly responding to Greg's comments, without doing it directly. It seems he also feels the same way about the Glass family in Kansas City, since they've always been despised as owners because of their connection or association with the cost-cutting, profit-driven, anti-union Wal-Mart. There aren't very many owners like Ilitch, Cuban or Ewing Kauffman left...that's for sure. Steinbrenner's gone. The Red Sox seem TOO rational these days, tearing their championship club apart. The Cubs always cry poor. Maybe only the Dodgers, Angels and Giants to a lesser extent run their franchises like we would love to see in Chicago, or maybe the Cardinals. Of course, the reality of their situations and the one facing Hahn/Reinsdorf are completely different.