lostfan

QUOTE (Milkman delivers @ Aug 13, 2009 -> 04:44 PM) Wait, who is this? I don't remember ever seeing this handle, but you've been around since 2003. It says it right there under his avatar, he was also Danks Fan until very recently.

Sigh, I guess if anything it's a reminder for people to have a living will. I don't have one, but I should.

I think Getz and Beckham will both improve next season. We also won't have one of the worst defensive outfields in the majors.

Yeah, I'm not the biggest Roger Goodell fan, but I don't see how you could do anything other than suspend Stallworth for the whole year.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Aug 13, 2009 -> 04:21 PM) Its not momentum - its mindset. What happened in the previous games, or other recent ones, absolutely has an effect. You just don't necessarily know what that effect is (positive or negative). Sometimes its clear - some games get everyone on the same page all of a sudden and spark a run, or start a freefall, others don't have as much effect. But I tend to be in the camp with Kyyyyyyyle on this one. I think the combined effects of the close games, getting Rios, getting Peavy soon, etc., are going to push this team into a nice little run. Which would be great, for the next week and a half, going into the nightmare 4-series abyss that awaits them after that. I think, like Balta was saying, that it affects individual players differently. For example, if Paulie goes 0-4 and the next day strikes he is like an emo kid and starts looking all depressed and trying too hard. With someone like Alexei, if they're feeling it, they're hot.

I don't think there is any such thing as momentum, as this team has shown over and over. The exception being when they go to the Metrodome and admit they lost before they've played the game.

QUOTE (longshot7 @ Aug 13, 2009 -> 03:39 PM) Thank you! Someone I agree with. Why can't we be the 2006 Cardinals? The 2006 Cardinals weren't actually a mediocre team. Plus, Detroit totally helped them out by choking in the WS.

QUOTE (KipWellsFan @ Aug 13, 2009 -> 03:31 PM) I remember we were having a debate a while back about whether Dick Cheney is an evangelical. Here's what Barton Gellman, Cheney expert, has to say on the subject. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/conte...ml?hpid=topnews I'm pretty sure that was Rumsfeld we were talking about.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Aug 13, 2009 -> 03:38 PM) It really shouldn't be. Touche, because I totally know how it's happening. "Mind-numbing" isn't the best choice of words. "Profoundly disillusioned" maybe is better.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Aug 13, 2009 -> 01:50 PM) We should know for sure by the end of the month. We play Oak, KC and Baltimore before the big road trip. If we don't kick the living s*** out of those 3 teams then we'll know. We play very well against good teams but believe me we're not going to be dominating Boston and New York on that road trip and we all know for some insane reason we can't beat a very bad Twins team in their pisss*** of a building. If we somehow get red hot and take care of business against those 3 bad teams, we might have some good momentum going to play the big boys and in that scenario could split with Boston (gasp) and win one in NY before the Twins fiasco. I like this word.

QUOTE (T R U @ Aug 13, 2009 -> 02:37 PM) I wish people would shut up about that Cardinals team already.. Thank you thank you thank you thank you god I hate that example. Actually the comparison is almost sort of valid now that we're getting Peavy back and we got Rios, but I am really tired of seeing that.

Well that the whole thing is a lie is a given. A Republican from GA (forgot his name) said he doesn't know how that even got started because the actual bill says it gives the individuals a choice and has nothing to do with the government. How it's been distorted and allowed to perpetuate like that is mind-numbing to me.

Question, how many who are currently promoting the "government will decide when to pull the plug on grandma" lie were among those in Congress who thought it was appropriate for the government to intervene in an end-of-life decision in 2005 (Terri Schiavo)? And, in fact, to override what her husband (and apparently Schiavo herself) wanted? Is it worse to be an unapologetic liar or a hypocrite? f*** it, let's just be both.

Eh did health insurance even exist in the 1790s?

QUOTE (kjshoe04 @ Aug 13, 2009 -> 01:46 PM) What are your feelings on the 2008 version? I loved what he did for us at 3B last year. I was kind of mad at first that we were paying him so much, but it was a relief to have him on the team when Crede went down.

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QUOTE (Molto @ Aug 13, 2009 -> 09:43 AM) It's easier to blame one player than a nine-man offense. To be fair, this wasn't one of those times were some no-name starting pitcher faced the Sox for the first time and they folded.

There are certain players who should not be bunting, but "conventional baseball wisdom" makes it automatic in those situations, for some reason. If you have a weak offensive player coming to bat, your odds of moving the runner over are higher than they would be by letting the player swing away, you need the run bad enough that it's worth risking an out, and you believe the next guy coming up has a reasonable shot at getting a solid base hit, then yes, go for it. This isn't the NL, with weaker lineups, and we shouldn't see it happening in the AL so often.

QUOTE (Wanne @ Aug 12, 2009 -> 08:17 PM) Atta boy Juan!!!! I really miss this guy on our team.... The 2004 and 2005 version yes, not the 2006 and 2007 s***ty version.

QUOTE (fathom @ Aug 13, 2009 -> 12:40 AM) You have to wonder if we would win more games if there was a manager who tried to be a little more creative and strategical. You never see us put on pick off plays or throw a pitch out, etc. You totally just made up a word.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Aug 13, 2009 -> 12:40 AM) I fully believe it is a backdoor route to exactly what they wanted in the first place. If you can beat your enemy, you weaken him for later. They know this. If that was happening I think they'd do it more gradually.

QUOTE (lostfan @ Aug 13, 2009 -> 12:34 AM) What just happened, Pods picked off on a stupid baserunning error? I guess that means Thome can just hit a bomb Ok, Thome can just not make an out, and Quentin can do it.

What just happened, Pods picked off on a stupid baserunning error? I guess that means Thome can just hit a bomb

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Aug 13, 2009 -> 12:17 AM) So how is being forced to have government health care, being taxed to pay for it, and being penalized if you don't particpate not losing freedoms? Right now you have the freedom to choose who you want to be covered through, whether it is a company that your employer picks, or someone you pick on your own. You also have the option of not having any insurance at all. The second line sounds great as a talking point, but is a horrible misrepresentation of what will be the reality, and I can give a great example in the modern corporate world today. Wal-Mart. If the federal government comes in, cuts the prices at which the labor pool is going to work at, and cuts the prices that can be charged for goods and services, eventually the will run out all of the other competition in the system, eventually rendering themselves the last stop for health care. I'm not saying that I agree with it, but that's the reason you don't hear Dems talking about it. On the campaign trail, Obama said he wanted a single-payer system, at some point he saw it was obvious that it wasn't going to fly so he adjusted fire. So, logically, since he and the Dems backed off of the stronger option, they say the public option is adding another choice and keeping the free market system. Maybe I'm naive for it, but I think Obama really believes what he says, and if the public option ends up expanding to the point where it's the only game in town, that would be an unintended consequence.

QUOTE (Alpha Dog @ Aug 13, 2009 -> 12:20 AM) I have to disagree. When most people say 'congress', they lump them both together. Well me or you, yeah. In Beltway-speak it really depends on the context. In this case Pelosi may well have been talking about both of them, but I'm sure she knows she can only run what she's in charge of.