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Just an awful AB, De Aza.

1st and 2nd, 1 out for the Twins after walks to Span and Mauer (int).

Stone needs to stay, and DJ needs to get off broadcasting all together. He is terrible.

It seems a heavy part of the rankings were based on household income. Look through the list, it's pretty much is ascending order (there are deviations, of course). So is it the city that makes the income so high, or do rich people just choose to live there?

QUOTE (fathom @ Sep 27, 2012 -> 11:32 PM) The Sox were never in control, even with a 3 game lead, simply due to the final 2 weeks on the schedule for both teams. In 1st place for over 2 months straight, 3 game lead with 2 weeks left. I'd say we were definitely in control. Series loses to KC and Cleveland, and a sweep by the Angels blew it for us. We could have lost 3 of 4 to the Rays, and STILL be sitting with a 1 game lead going in to the final series had we not s*** down our legs against KC, Cleveland, and Anaheim. We were in control, and we threw it away.

It's going to be so sad when 10 years from now we look back at the 2012 season and see the Sox finished 5 games back, and maybe not even remember how in control we were of this division until an epic collapse in the final couple weeks of September allowed a terribly under performing Detroit team to get away with all their pitfalls and fall backwards in to the playoffs.

THIS IS f***ING AWFUL. ABSOLUELY LIVID RIGHT NOW. CAN'T BELIEVE I DIDN'T BREAK MY HAND ON THE CLOSET DOOR.

Come on.....run in to one here Dunn.....

All Dan Johnson does is have good at-bats....yet he never gets a chance to play.....good god.

Great. And there it is. We f*** up, momentum shifts, and we are down....

Replay makes it look like he re-touched, but it was so subtle, and he did it before he actually "committed" around 2nd, that the umpire called him out. Rays announcers saying that's way too close to call him out on.

.....wow.

Paulie is coming through here. He HAS to.

QUOTE (fathom @ Sep 27, 2012 -> 10:17 PM) I definitely believe they should put him on the market this offseason to see what other teams would be willing to give up for him. Don't trade him for prospects though, only MLB ready talent. Exactly. I'm not saying dump him and experiment with minor league options, but I am saying if we can get an upgrade, take it. The past few years, I was hopeful for a turn around, and didn't want to block him. But now, I think he's reached the end of his leash. Upgrade if you can, but don't abandon him at 2B if you can't get one.

I am officially done with Beckham. In his past 3 underperforming seasons, I have always given him the benefit of the doubt. Coming in to this season I said I would give him a year with Manto to see how he does. But still, not much improvement. Slight, but not much. I'm officially ready for an upgrade. I don't think he is a black hole, because his glove is very good, but if we can find an upgrade at 2B, I say we take it.

Beckham strikes out on a fastball, and the world continues to turn.......

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Sep 27, 2012 -> 05:04 PM) Hmm, thats crazy, I guess thats the world we live in now. Not even every kid in my dorm hallway had a computer, I was the only one with a cell phone. It's honestly getting to the point where you need to have a smart phone too. Teachers will ask you to pull up information on your phone, and one of my teachers even encourages us to use our smart phones to look up answers on her tests (so, it's practically an open book test, but with phones, not books). I, not having a smart phone, have to do it the old fashioned way.....cheat. lol, kidding.

QUOTE (Y2HH @ Sep 27, 2012 -> 04:39 PM) So then I'd have to ask...if you go to a school that uses Macs, in a profession dominated by teachers that teach with them and students that use them, for companies that distribute them, shouldn't you kind of expect to have to use them, too? This is probably where I had a problem with that entire 1500$ thing... If you don't want to race American branded cars, you probably shouldn't go into Nascar. I'm not planning on going in to anything with video either. First and foremost, I want to work w/ a baseball team. But if I DO use my major, it will likely he either on a sports radio program, or writing for a newspaper. Neither of those I would expect to be forced to use Mac computers.

QUOTE (Y2HH @ Sep 27, 2012 -> 04:25 PM) This is where the story bothers me...I've simply never heard of a class that forces you to buy 1500$ worth of computers/software in order to take a single class, without allowing for alternatives, such as using your current PC and perhaps a PC equilivant of software. IF that's the case, I understand what he's saying...but something is preventing me from believing this. If this is the kind of s*** schools do to students today, no wonder why people graduating from college are in that much debt. We aren't forced to buy one here because we have enough labs and editing studios with Final Cut Pro on them that it's not a big deal to find something to use, but all our teachers assume we all have Macs, teach us using Macs, give directions for Macs, and having us drop assignments to folders that we have to be on a Mac to do. Maybe at his school they don't have Final Cut Pro available as easily, or maybe he didn't want to have to deal with going on to campus to edit something. I don't know. All I know is that it has been an inconvenience not having a Mac, but it's nothing I haven't been able to work around.

QUOTE (Y2HH @ Sep 27, 2012 -> 04:19 PM) I get that...and as soon as he's done with that class, he can resell his Mac for practically what he paid for it...so he's going to be fine. Try that with a PC. That will never work with a PC because people don't like overpaying for them. Try and re-sell your Mac for $2000 and tell them Steve Jobs once touched the keyboard, and it will go for double! But seriously, let's not get in to this endless loop again. I have a test to study for in the next....45 minutes.

QUOTE (Y2HH @ Sep 27, 2012 -> 04:18 PM) That industry is flooded with Macs...so get used to knowing them. It's not just video production, journalism is very Mac centric these days, too. You're going to like Avid, it's better than Final Cut, Adobe Premier, etc...IMO, it's pretty much the best editing software there is...but it has a learning curve, like they all do. With your Premiere experience, you should be all right. I have no Premier experience, just Sony Vegas. So far everyone has been b****ing about Avid. I think the version we have is 9 years old or something. Either way, I don't have time for a learning curve, unfortunately. What I should do is spend time in the editing studios to teach myself how to use it, but I'm far too lazy.

QUOTE (Y2HH @ Sep 27, 2012 -> 04:11 PM) As I said, he was being a smartass, just like you're being. He still paid 1500$ for a computer + software, regardless of what retarded justification you -- or he -- comes up with. Edit: And if he's not familiar with Premier, again...wrong field. How do you know he didn't previously have a Windows laptop? Maybe he was planning to use that laptop, until he found out he had to have Final Cut Pro, so he was forced to buy an additional laptop JUST for the purposes of having Final Cut. I don't see why he has to be telling us all this JUST to be a smartass. Not everyone has to have an agenda.

QUOTE (Y2HH @ Sep 27, 2012 -> 03:59 PM) And more to the point, based on the fact he needed Final Cut X/Pro, which is video editing software...that tells me he's going into film production/editing, if he doesn't want to use Macs, he's going into the wrong field. Not necessarily. He said he is in Journalism school, as am I. We are forced to take a broad range of classes, including classes where we have to edit video. And since our campus is a Mac campus, all our computers use Final Cut Pro, so that's what they teach us and make us use. However, I've been able to get away with never using it because I have Vegas on my laptop, so I just edit it on my own time, and turn it in as a .MOV file, and they never know the difference. Maybe in Quin's case, he can't get away with using an alternative program, so he HAD to purchase Final Cut. All that being said, it's entirely possible he isn't going in to the field of video editing/producing, he just merely has to take classes for it. Speaking of which, I have to go help produce our campus TV show in a couple hours, and I will have to edit video with Avid, which I've never used. So that's going to be a real pain in the ass tonight. I'm not looking forward to this. :/

QUOTE (Y2HH @ Sep 27, 2012 -> 03:59 PM) What he was actually doing was trying to be a smartass, equating his 1500$ macbook w/necessary software to having paid 1500$ for JUST the software. Oh my, he's so creative! Reality is he paid 1500$ for a great computer with the software he needs...and that's that. Had he been able to buy a PC of similar spec, let's say it cost 800$...and then the Adobe software to go with it would cost another 200$ (probably much more)...so that's about 1000$ on a conservative estimate, because a similarly specced laptop wasn't going to cost him 500$, regardless of what he claims. At BEST he would have saved a few hundred dollars if he got a PC that's remotely as good. IE, he didn't spend 1500$ on software...thats just f***ing retarded. And more to the point, based on the fact he needed Final Cut X/Pro, which is video editing software...that tells me he's going into film production/editing, if he doesn't want to use Macs, he's going into the wrong field. No, I am pretty sure he was just saying he needed to have Final Cut Pro, and the only way to use it is to have to buy an overpriced Mac. Maybe he isn't fimilar with Adobe Premiere, or maybe he has to use FCP in his classes (like I am "supposed" to). So it's entirely possible he is saying the only reason he bought a Mac was because he had to have Final Cut Pro, so essentially, he paid $1500 just to be able to use that software.

QUOTE (Y2HH @ Sep 27, 2012 -> 02:55 PM) It's not difficult when you explain it in a proper way...but you didn't do that. According to you, you spent 1500$ on software, because you had to puchase a Macbook...in reality, you would have had to spend 600+$ on a similarly specced laptop (which wouldn't have been similarly specced) + hundreds more on Adobe suites. The amount of explaining needed after his original post is just mind boggling. Are you suffering from a concussion right now? I'm not seeing the hard part.