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QUOTE (rowand's rowdies @ Jun 12, 2012 -> 10:42 AM) Sox will have more than 2 all stars for the first time since 2006 when they had 7. SEVEN. That is not a typo. Without looking it up, who can name the 7? Your hint is that 2 of them still play for the White Sox. I think a lot of that had to do with Ozzie being manager. I remember a lot of fans thought he was doing his players favors by including them on the team. Buehrle probably shouldn't have been on the team. He was really struggling in June and July that year.

Say no to Soriano. That is all. Rios is doing fine and I'm confident that he will end up being productive (all things considered) for the rest of his contract.

QUOTE (Y2HH @ Jun 12, 2012 -> 10:54 AM) Usually that group isn't into 2k+ purchases, though. They're fine with spending 299$ on a new phone or 499$ on a tablet...but not 2k+. If I am Apple die hard and I'm looking for a new laptop with cash to blow, I'd totally buy the new Macbook for $900 more. I found this funny...it might be able to play Crysis. I see that it comes with a GTX 650M with the newest Ivy Bridge CPUs. I'm fairly sure the 650M might be an add-on option though.

QUOTE (Y2HH @ Jun 12, 2012 -> 10:46 AM) Whatever the case may be, the people have spoken and it's apparent that the laptop crowd is willing to pay a premium for an awesome screen/sleek engineering... This new Macbook Pro with retina has already slipped to a 2-3 week ship time...which means they're selling like hotcakes. This is the case with almost every new Apple product. You and I both know that there is a group of people who will buy anything with an Apple logo slapped on it.

QUOTE (Y2HH @ Jun 12, 2012 -> 10:40 AM) The people that buy laptops like this aren't doing it to play Windows only games. They're doing it for photography/graphics and/or the occasional game...but maybe no games at all. i.e. niche market. I understand that they won't play Windows games, the Crysis thing was a joke.

QUOTE (Y2HH @ Jun 12, 2012 -> 10:30 AM) And?! It's about driving technology forward, which Apple is doing right here. 3rd party companies cannot optimize their software to support hardware that doesn't exist...so are you seriously knocking Apple for giving them access to technology that would allow it?! Wow. Take the blinders off, Mr. Apple Hater. When they do optimize their applications for this new display, it will look amazing, especially for photographers, graphics majors, etc. You may not realize it, but this release, and their "retina" screen technology in general, has pushed screen quality forward in a way nobody bothered to do before they did it. Today, in direct response to apples "retina" phones, you have competing Android phones now using upwards of 300 ppi screens at much higher resolutions...until Apple started pushing higher density screens, nobody cared about them...all they did was up resolution, but the screen quality/density was still lacking. I never said the technology sucked or that it wasn't useful (right now, it's more or less targeted at a niche market). If you're paying $2100 for a laptop, it better be able to play Crysis 3.

QUOTE (Quinarvy @ Jun 11, 2012 -> 10:38 PM) Dance party! This makes me think even less of them.

QUOTE (Quinarvy @ Jun 12, 2012 -> 05:51 AM) I think we get Konerko, Sale, AJ in the manger picks + vote. Peavy and Dunn maybe by manager, but I can see them being skipped. De Aza merely on the final vote roster, but not necessarily winning it. De Aza is the third most valuable OFer in the AL. http://www.fangraphs.com/leaders.aspx?pos=...0&players=0

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jun 12, 2012 -> 08:59 AM) In case it was missed, 5/$85 extension for Ethier. Seems like a bit of an overpay... Ethier just doesn't seem like an $18 million player. $12 million sounds about right.

QUOTE (Y2HH @ Jun 12, 2012 -> 08:09 AM) Yes, with a LCD that probably costs upwards of 1500$ alone. Do me a favor, go find me a 15.4" laptop with a 2880x1800 screen at 220ppi and let me know what it costs. Odds are nobody else even offers anything close to that resolution, and if they did...they'd also cost a lot. If you're going to nitpick the Apple tax, which is what you're doing...use the Mac Pro as a better example, it's clearly overpriced and contains nothing you couldn't get elsewhere for less...aside from style that is, the Mac Pro really offers no real substance. Whereas, the retina display Macbook Pro offers something nobody else does...so the premium is at least temporarily justified. Most third party applications aren't even optimized to use the screen. So you're basically paying the premium to use Apple's currently optimized applications.

QUOTE (Cali @ Jun 11, 2012 -> 08:23 PM) So we lost the game, but won the war? We do if he doesn't face us when they're here next month.

QUOTE (Big Hurtin @ Jun 11, 2012 -> 05:15 PM) Apple introduced a new, thinner Macbook Pro that has a retina display and is all soid state, but it's expensive. http://www.apple.com/macbook-pro/ $2000 for a laptop? O.o

QUOTE (flavum @ Jun 11, 2012 -> 07:26 PM) Morrow out after 9 pitches tonight. Looks like the 119 pitches from the last start got to him.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jun 11, 2012 -> 04:30 PM) Serious questions: 1. Name a team and their 3b who would want floyd. Are you talking Youkilis? I'll admit, I'm starting to warm more to that idea, but still don't like it much. 2. How many more bad starts will it be before teams decide that Floyd is busting and might not be a good acquisition? You simply don't give up on Floyd. Remember when Gavin had like a 7 ERA back in 09 in June? He pitches in spurts, a good streak will come soon enough once something clicks in his head.

QUOTE (Y2HH @ Jun 11, 2012 -> 07:40 PM) If you use Cyanogen you'd have had that performance all along. The Cyanogen 4.0 is probably 50% faster than the release version, too. I did use CM7 and I'm using AOKP right now. It really just depends on what kernel you flash.

QUOTE (JoeCoolMan24 @ Jun 11, 2012 -> 02:49 PM) New update: http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20...#voteupdate0611 Paulie K has moved up to 2nd, AJ moved up to 4th, and Dunn moved on to the list, at 3rd place. Still behind by about 250K. Hopefully, he gets on another hot streak to promote himself.

QUOTE (Y2HH @ Jun 11, 2012 -> 04:26 PM) There is nothing to be impressed by...much like new Android updates...it's evolution of an existing product, not a dramatic revolution like Windows Mobile, which brings another entire slew of issues, like non compatibility, etc. Some of the changes in IOS6 are pretty nice...but they're still minor tweaks/updates, not radical shifts in the way things work. I thought Android 4.0 was a huge leap from 2.3 in terms of user interface and performance. 2.3 still felt like it wasn't good enough, I'm very satisfied with 4.0 so far.

QUOTE (kev211 @ Jun 11, 2012 -> 01:55 AM) iOS 6 being announced tomorrow (or later today technically) http://gizmodo.com/5917359/ios-6-new-featu...iphone-and-ipad I'm not that impressed. The Passbook thing looks pretty cool, but I don't know how useful it'll actually be. Most of the new features are just minor updates to previous functions. iPad 1 will not get this update.

QUOTE (Buehrle>Wood @ Jun 11, 2012 -> 12:49 PM) Until he loses. He'll lose in the Finals unless the Thunder repeat what happened in that Mavs series last year.

QUOTE (kitekrazy @ Jun 11, 2012 -> 11:16 AM) Maybe Cooper is the new Walker. It appears in all of baseball that so many guys have their first successful season as a starter and now get hammered when the league gets a second look. As for Greinke, he's a former Royal, a little over rated and the Sox have nothing to trade. They will be back to that "try to get the missing piece during the season" only to fall short and a future depleted. Greinke is far from overrated.

We're not getting Zack Greinke...dream on. Can you imagine our rotation with him? Holy fing f***. We just don't have the farm system to do it.

QUOTE (Jordan4life @ Jun 11, 2012 -> 08:50 AM) Shaq, Duncan, KG, T-mac, Vince, Kobe. This is without hesitation. You could argue guys like Pierce and Webber as well. Nobody who shoots 42% from the field (mediocre TS% of .518) is a top 5 player in my book. AI was arguably the face of the NBA at the time and everybody loves the little guys. But like I said, he was an inefficient chucker who either just refused to or was unable to adjust his game for the betterment of the team. He had nobody on his team. I agree with you that AI is inefficient and overrated, but you have to admit, he took a team with literally nothing to the Finals. That's impressive in itself. If he did have a better supporting cast, I doubt he has a 52% TS.

QUOTE (Y2HH @ Jun 11, 2012 -> 09:11 AM) Let's just be glad this isn't pre-07' anymore...where there was only one choice for a "Smartphone OS", which wasn't very "smart". Windows Mobile 4.x, 5.x and 6.x were nearly identical in features, non-intuitive and generally just bad in design...take it from a user that used all 3, on multiple devices back in the day when I was searching for a non "feature" phone that would suffice as a portable. Then came iOS and Android around 2007-2008, and things change drastically -- for the better -- in the smartphone industry. Microsoft finally followed up with a good release of their own in WM7 a few years later, a drastic change/rewrite from their previously terrible implementation of windows mobile. That said, I'm happy iOS, Android and WMx exist. And it doesn't matter which you use. I'm actually very anxious for Microsoft's platform to take off a bit more. Right now, apps are very limited. As soon as they start getting more apps, I might consider it. The Metro UI interface is great for phones IMO (PCs, not so much).

QUOTE (kev211 @ Jun 11, 2012 -> 03:18 AM) I always loved how Quentin had no walk up music I love how they just play whatever they want when Rios walks up.

QUOTE (kev211 @ Jun 11, 2012 -> 01:55 AM) iOS 6 being announced tomorrow (or later today technically) Time to herd the sheep.