chw42

Ugh, 3 totally avoidable points.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jan 9, 2013 -> 09:28 PM) It doesn't surprise me at all. I bet he would be a much better pitcher sans Ozzie. Javy's success depends on his team's lack of it.

After getting us back in the game, Abrams turns it over twice.

Can we shoot any worse?

Some national media outlets (starts with E ends with N) were talking about if Cutler's NFC Championship fiasco had anything to do with RGIII going out there playing hurt. Absolutely stupid and ridiculous. You can't let what the media, some meatball fans, and players who think they're tough sway your judgement. Your entire career is far more important than one wild card playoff game. It's not the super bowl, it's not even the NFC championship. If RGIII was thinking about something like that, then he would have gotten hurt eventually.

QUOTE (Baron @ Jan 9, 2013 -> 09:04 PM) Ken Rosenthal ‏@Ken_Rosenthal Both #WhiteSox and #RedSox also scouted Javier Vazquez tonight. https://twitter.com/Ken_Rosenthal No thanks.

QUOTE (witesoxfan @ Jan 9, 2013 -> 03:29 PM) These percentages tell me that Bonds and Clemens get in eventually. Personally, this is more of an indictment on Sammy Sosa. 12.5% for a guy who never test positive and never admitted to it? Won an MVP, multiple All-Star appearances, 600+ home runs, only guy to hit 60+ homers in 3 seasons. There are about 1 million red flags, and apparently the BBWAA has taken those quite seriously and they have essentially stated that, without steroids, Sosa is nowhere near a Hall of Famer. Even with steroids, Sosa isn't a sure-fire hall of famer.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jan 9, 2013 -> 02:44 PM) These are the writers who made their ballots public. http://bbwaa.com/13-hof-ballots/ Who the hell designed that website? It looks like it's from 1998.

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Jan 9, 2013 -> 12:37 PM) phablets are teh gey Get some larger hands.

QUOTE (Y2HH @ Jan 9, 2013 -> 11:56 AM) They allow tethering. Bootloading/rooting isn't the same. Verizon has their own software in their OTA builds that checks whether or not you subscribe to tethering. It isn't the same, but part of the reason Verizon likes locking bootloaders is to enforce stuff like that.

QUOTE (Y2JImmy0 @ Jan 9, 2013 -> 11:44 AM) Would you rather have Torii Hunter on the White Sox at this stage than Viciedo though? I think Viciedo's numbers at the end of the year will be better than Hunter's numbers. Tank should hit close to 30 HR's this year. I'd rather have Hunter for the next year or two, if they're both paid the same amount.

QUOTE (bhawk99 @ Jan 7, 2013 -> 10:07 PM) CF A. Jackson 7 vs DeAza 6 slight advantage Jackson LF T. Hunter 6 vs Tank 7 almost a wash but I'll say slight advantage Tank RF Q. Berry/ A. Garcia 6 vs Rios 8 advantage Rios 1B Prince 9 vs Paulie 8 sorry to say but I have to give advantage to Prince 2B R. Santiago 4 vs Beckham 5 both suck but because of D slight advantage Beckham SS J. Peralta 5 vs Alexi 7 advantage Alexi 3B KM. Cabrerra 10 vs Keppinger 7 blowout advantage Cabrerra C A. Avila 5 vs Flowers 4 Flowers is unproven advantage Avila DH V. Martinez 8 vs Dunn 8 push Ace Verlander 10 vs Sale 9 Sale is very good but Verlander gets the advantage Rest of Starters Det 6 Sox 7 slight advantage Sox Bullpens Det 5 Sox 5 push Bench Det 5 Sox 3 Sox have no bench Manager Det 6 Sox 4 Robin still learning In my opinion and home made formula Detroit wins 92 games and the Sox win 88 [maybe enough for wildcard but doubtful] 4 games Detroit advantage is catchable if Rick Hahn makes the right moves. Come on Rick we are counting on you. Torii Hunter's better than Tank and Omar Infante plays 2B for the Tigers now.

I thought 2012 was the year of the ACL injury... Get well soon RGIII.

QUOTE (HickoryHuskers @ Jan 9, 2013 -> 08:45 AM) So now MLB is getting into 1990's technology in 2013. How hard would it be to have touch-screen computer terminals in the dugout and bullpen and have the manager or pitching coach just pick from a list of relievers on the screen and have it flash on the bullpen screen? YOU JUST DON'T GET IT DO YOU? Baseball is an old timer sport and WE NEED TO KEEP IT THAT WAY! YOU KIDS AND YOUR DAMN TECHNOLOGY.

Verizon might have the best service in the U.S., but my god are they a pain in the ass. Not only do they lock their bootloaders so you can't flash your own ROMs on Android phones, but they don't even allow you to return your phone to stock that easily when you realize that you need to unlock your bootloader first (doh). And here I am, waiting for their OTA update to finish downloading so I can flash this phone back to stock with ODIN. I get that they do it because they don't want people tethering without a plan for it, but a lot of carriers detect that no matter what software you're running. Did I also mention how slow Verizon is with updates and how they force you to update your software after you download an OTA (accidentally or intentionally) after 5 days? Awful.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Jan 8, 2013 -> 04:24 PM) It's going to be a long, long time before that's widely available and in all markets in the dozens of countries they sell games. It'll also be a while before all games become download-only. But I can see something like that 5-10 years from now.

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Jan 8, 2013 -> 04:12 PM) Simply the size of the files comparable to blue-ray. Seems like a ton of downloading/storing to me vs changing discs. 500 MB/s internet will come soon enough, after all, Google's Fiber service is 128 MB/s.

Boozer's been playing real well as of late.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jan 7, 2013 -> 03:48 PM) Someone really overplayed their hand... Bob Klapisch ‏@BobKlap Told Scott Boras asked #Yankees last month if they'd consider taking Rafael Soriano back on a 1-yr deal. Request flatly denied. Hahahaha. Who needs to overpay Soriano when you have Mariano Rivera coming back?

QUOTE (Y2HH @ Jan 6, 2013 -> 09:07 AM) Well, in fairness, you just compared a phone to a tablet. So of course it's smaller than those...to me, that's like comparing a compact car to a pickup truck...IMO, they're different tools for different type jobs. But, like you said, if it was free...I wouldn't say no, either. Shack was comparing it to an iPad...

QUOTE (iamshack @ Jan 5, 2013 -> 08:08 PM) The Note is retarded big...I was at a party today and my buddy has one and had it sitting on the kitchen island and I was looking at it like, honestly, I should just bring my iPad in and put it on the island too...that thing is just too f***ing big. The Note 1 is big. The Note 2 is actually not that bad since they made the dimensions a little friendlier, even though the screen size is larger. And you really are exaggerating on the size. It looks small compared to a Nexus 7 or Kindle Fire. Is it a little bit too big? Yeah, I think so, I'd rather have my phone fit in my pocket comfortably rather than barely fit. But I wouldn't mind having one if it was cheap or free. This guy gave some pretty good insight on the phone:

QUOTE (Y2HH @ Jan 5, 2013 -> 07:27 AM) The trend has been upward, but only to a point. Even Samsung, noted there is a huge market for 4.0-4.8" screens by releasing a Galaxy S3 Mini (not in the US yet), and their biggest selling phone of all time is of course the S3. Their Note phones have sold a few million...but when comparing to what the S3 sold, it's not even a close comparison. The market for 5+" phones is primarily in China, where they actually sold a few million of them, but that's still a small number...the American market hasn't been very accepting that market. I'm not saying there isn't a niche market for them in the states, there obviously is, but it's not a trend market that they'll continue to go after being that their smaller devices are outselling them with relative ease. The sweet spot has been shown to be between > 4" and And like I said, while I'd prefer 4.5", a number I would have once quoted as 4.2"*, I feel they get too large/unwieldy after that point. That said, If Googles Nexus comes out, has superb build quality, LTE, enough onboard storage, which is basically all I ask of it, but it happens to be .2" bigger than I wanted, I'm not going to let that stop me from making a purchase of it. * The better builds of the shells have resulted in smaller overall phones, so I've gone from saying 4.2" is a perfect size to 4.5", because the outside casing is no longer taking up a ton more room after the screen real estate as they once did. The S3 is a perfect example of this, they really shaved down wasted bezel space and made the overall phone smaller than it would have been a few years ago, this trend has allowed larger screens to be fit into smaller overall form factors. The Nexus 4 actually does have LTE...it only works on band 4 though (1700/2100 MHz frequencies I believe). So it currently only works on Bell, some AT&T markets, or future T-Mobile LTE networks. The inclusion of LTE into any Google device from here on out will have to do with how Google and carriers deal with each other. One of the reasons there is no LTE on the Nexus 4 is because of how stubborn and slow Verizon was with updates. And I feel as if the S3 could be even smaller, the physical/capacitive buttons are really a waste of space.

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Jan 4, 2013 -> 01:38 PM) So, now that I have a tablet that is the bees knees, I discovered that Rockstar released not only one of my favorite games of all time in Max Payne on Android, but also Grand Theft Auto 3, which is another favorite game of mine of all-time. I downloaded both, and cannot believe how smoothly they run, and how gorgeous the graphics are... also, the games are just a blast to play and the controls on the screen actually work and make sense. They just released Vice City, too, but I'll wait to DL that until I've re-defeated GTA 3. Man, these games are all great and take me back. It's amazing how I still remember all the secrets in GTA 3. But anyway, if you have a 7-10" tablet or iPad, holy f*** is it fun to relive these games. The GTA 3 10th Anniversary Android version has better graphics than the original PS2 version. That's nuts. My phone has a little bit of trouble playing VC, especially when I use my MOGA controller with it. Either way the auto-aim blows. But it's still great fun. It is pretty crazy how I marveled that I was able to play these games on my PS2 back in 2002. Now I can play them on a tablet or phone, that's crazy.

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Jan 4, 2013 -> 09:44 PM) I hope this was a joke. Are you saying USB has been consistent? There are at least 3 versions I've been through with cell phones in the last 10 years. Micro-USB is a standard now in Europe. And it should be everywhere.

QUOTE (Jake @ Jan 4, 2013 -> 09:12 PM) Thinking about making my next phone an Android. I like the app cross compatibility with my tablet and I really love widgets. Thinking about Samsung S3 or Note 2. Unsure of size and price of the Note obviously. What other things should I consider? Other phones I should bring into the mix? Depends on your carrier. The Note 2 is a big phone, but if you love big screens, that's the phone to get. S3 is a great phone as well, I really like the feel of it in the hand. But you should probably hold off. New flagship phones will be here in 2-3 months.