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I change the channel when the sox hit...change it back to watch them pitch. Sucks with the errors though.

QUOTE (RockRaines @ May 9, 2013 -> 03:35 PM) Yeah, I deleted that part from my post. I dont know if its only obvious to us or not. Haven't read the books, but I'm aware of some of the families and stuff, might know who you're talking about. Something I caught last episode: The bastard torturer had a horn to wake Theon up...I'm assuming that was the guy with the horn in the 2nd season that was pissing Theon off outside of Winterfell. Funny how Theon was going to go medieval on the guy, only for him to be the guy torturing him.

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ May 8, 2013 -> 09:41 AM) You also have to keep in mind he's still a kid, like 12 years old. So sex isn't very high on his list. It's all about the power/authority right now. Book version is the 12 year old right? Well in the show I'm pretty sure he is supposed to be in his mid teens? The actor is 20 years old after all.

QUOTE (Buehrle>Wood @ Apr 26, 2013 -> 11:46 AM) I heard the Sox were making these up. Anyone know if they are on sale at the park yet? Could not find them online. towards bottom of page

The team is Adam Dunn-ing it out there today. Homerun or strikeout...no in-between.

QUOTE (God Loves The Infantry @ Mar 28, 2013 -> 09:39 AM) Frank, and it's not even close. -Frank scored 100+ runs nine times. He even did it in a season where he only played 113 games. He exceeded 110 runs three times. -Paul never scored 100 runs. -Frank hit 40+ doubles twice. -Paul never had 40+ doubles. -Frank hit 40+ homeruns five times. -Paul did it twice. -Frank drove in 120+ runs four times. He broke 100 eleven times. -Paul never did the first thing. He only did the second thing six times. -Frank walked 100+ ten times. He walked 130+ times twice. Once, he actually walked twice as many times as he struck out. -Paul never even walked ninety times. He walked 80+ times exactly once. -Frank hit .300+ in nine different full seasons. Three times, he broke .347. -Paul hit .300+ four times. He topped off at .313. If you were to list their best batting average seasons, you'd find Frank's name seven times before you'd find Paul's. -Frank had an OBP of .400+ in nine different full seasons. He reached .487 once. -Paul topped .387 only twice. Neither time did he reach .400. -Frank slugged at a .600+ rate six times. Once, he slugged .729. -Paul never came within .015 of slugging .600. -Frank's OPS was 1.000+ seven times. -Paul only reached .900+ four times. He never reached 1.000. -Frank's career OPS+ was 156. -Paul had a season OPS+ of 158 exactly one time. -Frank led the league in runs once, doubles once, walks four times, batting average once, OBP four times, SLG one time and OPS four times. -Paul once led the league in...GIDP. -Frank was a Silver Slugger four times. He came in the top ten for AL MVP nine times. That, of course, included two winning efforts. One effort, where he placed fourth which is higher than Paul ever did, came at the age of 38. -Paul never was a Silver Slugger. In AL MVP voting, he placed fifth one time. He only cracked the top ten one time beyond that. On Paul's behalf, he made it to the AS game six times. Frank only did it five times. I wonder how many people care immensely about that. Maybe Paul's defense is better. I don't really know. I was young when Frank was in his prime and I think I spent most of the time he was in the field in the kitchen digging around for snacks for our half of the inning. Either way, unless Frank was far more of a defensive idiot than I remember, those offensive numbers more than make up for it. But what about leadership, motivation, heart, intaaaangibles??? Ok. If we were picking someone to lead a bunch of Soldiers against a heavily defended objective, I'd pick Paul. But if we're sending someone up to whack the crap out of a fastball, I'd pick Frank. I'm gonna be honest. I've long felt that some of Frank's worst seasons resemble most of Paul's decent ones. Now, how do we compare this? One way, I think, would be OPS. In this case, Frank's worst season is 2002 (excluding 2001, 2004 and 2005 as incomplete). His OPS in that season was .834. That beats Paul's 2003 and 2008 seasons outright. It comes within 5% of every one of Paul's seasons except for five. To put it another way, only five times out of fourteen was Paul able to exceed 105% OPS of Frank's worst season. To expound on that, Frank exceeded 105% of Paul's best OPS season six times. Another way would be OPS+. In 2002, Frank's worst full season, his OPS+ was 119. Paul beats that seven times, ties it once and falls below it six times. Again, Frank's worst season in that category. Furthermore, if you put Paul's best (158 in 2010) against Frank, Frank beats him eight times. Basically, Frank outdoes Paul's best efforts one more time than Paul was able to outdo Frank's worst. Lastly, let's look at something I'll call "runs involved". I'm sure it has a name and is a legitimate stack but I don't care what it is. It's simply R+RBI-HR. Frank's worst year came when he was 39 years old playing in Toronto in 2007. He was involved in 132 runs. The 39 year old man only loses to Paul nine out of fourteen times. Frank beats Paul's best season (175 in 2006) seven times. Nine times when you allow the 1994-1995 seasons to continue to their full lengths (he was at 169 in 1994 and 173 in 1995). Offensively, these are two players with a small portion of overlap and much larger portions where Paul is unquestionably below Frank and Frank is unquestionably better than Paul. Higher ceiling, higher floor for Frank in every way. To be honest, compared to Frank, Paul is mostly mediocre. I think that's more due to Frank's insane dominance throughout his career than it is to any fault of Paul's. Monster...Just a f***ing monster the Big Hurt was.

QUOTE (juddling @ Mar 20, 2013 -> 07:13 AM) Debating what TV series to start watching now that i'm just about caught up with all my others. I was thinking about starting Psych on USA. I remember seeing one show in season 1 and i wasn't very impressed. i see the ads all the time and it does seem tobe a bit more entertaining than i remember it being. Any watchers of it have an opinion???? Watch the first few episodes and realize that's going to be the type of humor in the show. There is a bit of linear story from episode to episode. The show fits my humor, a lot of referencing 80's & 90's pop culture.

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Mar 4, 2013 -> 12:00 PM) SPOILERS AHOY! According to Wiki - In essence, the entire movie was makemup hollywood. Again, doesn't detract from a well-made movie, but I dunno, it has to lose points for basically being "political" while also being fake. The Bravehart effect. Just because it wasn't factually accurate even though it's "based" on a true person, place, event, or whatever, doesn't mean the movie in itself didn't kick ass. Argo kicked ass as a movie.

QUOTE (The Gooch @ Mar 3, 2013 -> 03:41 PM) I missed a few episodes in the beginning. Can someone tell me why they are searching for Drew Thompson? He's a fugitive the marshalls were after when Art was in Raylans spot, and his testimony will bring down Theo Tonin.

I know some great places to hang out(let me know when you're in town and I'll hang out with ya if you need a guide). Let me know what you're into and can afford I can give you a heads up on what's good. Make people think you were born n raised here like me.

Try a smaller village around Peoria. Bartonville or anything west of West Peoria is generally cheap and quiet. I live about 15 minutes away from downtown and I'm in a quiet area with affordable housing. If you go north/northwest you're getting into Kickapoo and Dunlap areas, which are prime living areas so rental properties can get expensive. Same thing with Morton anymore...great living area, but can get expensive, plus it's a little longer drive, but it is off the interstate. Stay away from downtown and anything south of War Memorial Dr. Or east of Kickapoo creek rd.

QUOTE (ScottyDo @ Feb 24, 2013 -> 07:39 PM) Hey, never been in the SLaM before but figured this would be the place to go with questions like this. I'm moving to Peoria for school this year (August) and I've only ever been there once. No idea what areas/neighborhoods I should look into. I will be crazy busy (med school) so I probably won't spend a TON of time at home, and will hopefully be living with my wife if she can get a hardship transfer from her work. We're ~30 years old with modest-to-moderate income. Any advice on where to look would be extremely awesome! Where will you be going to school? I assume you're looking to rent? I can tell you where is good and bad.

QUOTE (GoSox05 @ Feb 18, 2013 -> 08:33 AM) The new Die Hard movie was one of the worst movies I've ever seen. nothing memorable in the film at all. The interactions between John & son seemed stale. Script and plot were terrible...and the action scenes, though unrealistic, are kind of on par with the other Die Hards, and for an R rated movie, the violence and language was really tame. 4/10...wait for it to be on FX or USA or TNT or whatever.

QUOTE (lostfan @ Jan 26, 2013 -> 02:57 PM) Chris Sale was all hips, ribs, and spine... but that ball fires out like it's a cannon somehow. When i think of Chris Sale, I think slingshot...and not the Bart Simpson kind, the David & Goliath kind

Loved the Timothy Olyphant guest voice appearance on Archer.

QUOTE (Soxbadger @ Jan 16, 2013 -> 03:15 PM) Person of Interest is a pretty solid show. If you are going to watch it, Id try and get the early episodes because it actually builds up. One of the most important dynamics is explained early on. I do that with every show. Haven't seen person at all...if I do it will be from the beginning. Ex girlfriend was trying to get me to watch SoA from season 4 and I couldn't get into it, show really didn't seem that good from the episodes I watched...which is keeping me from watching from beginning.

QUOTE (lasttriptotulsa @ Jan 16, 2013 -> 06:37 AM) Another real solid effort from Justified last night. I don't know about anybody else, but it seems that I rarely watch any shows anymore from Fox/CBS/NBC/ABC. The cable channels are the ones putting out the best programming. F/X and AMC in particular. Once House was over, Fringe and Castle were the only shows I watch on the basic channels. I might check out The Following on Fox though, also might pick up on Person of Interest.

The Wynn Duffy appearance was great however.

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Jan 15, 2013 -> 08:54 AM) More constable Bob tonight! Well, maybe next week?

QUOTE (Brian @ Jan 10, 2013 -> 07:10 AM) Oscar nominations come out today. Sue me, I like it. Hope Looper, Perks of Being a Wallflower, Bradley Cooper, Denzel, and Beasts/Southern Wild get nods somehow. Gonna see Zero Dark Thirty tomorrow and hopefully Amour next week if I have time. Looper didn't get anything... i thought at least original screenplay

QUOTE (GoSox05 @ Jan 9, 2013 -> 09:14 AM) Dredd was awesome. If you are a fan of comic book movies you will love this. Also no origin story. Theater in 3d, it was awesome s***...very underrated movie. I loved it.

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Dec 19, 2012 -> 09:31 AM) (4) Quinn will definitely be back This needed to happen IMHO

He's not exaggerating. Episode 4 of this season had more happen during it than the entire 2nd season combined

I might've picked Rosario or Miley over Harper.