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QUOTE(jphat007 @ May 12, 2006 -> 08:48 PM) Might as well let him save our bullpen for the series. Pitch as long as he can. At least if Judy is going to pitch like this maybe we should flip flop him and Bmac. The money he makes now is silly, but he hasnt shown too much improvement outside of facing the mighty royals offense.

Happy Birthday

Too bad the hunters never caught Manbearpig. Now that is something to have a story about.

QUOTE(Balta1701 @ May 11, 2006 -> 11:55 PM) How many times have we actually sat ourselves down for 1 on 1 negotiations with North Korea in the past 6 years? How high of a priority was it for us when North Korea announced they were going to build the bomb in late 2002, and then we detected signatures of them reprocessing fuel rods along the DMZ in early 2003? Why exactly were we unwilling to offer up a non-aggression pact with that nation? Neither side has negotiated in good faith in those discussions. And it wound up with NK getting the bomb. Where would the harm have been in actually trying? So here's the one argument I will make on Iran. And saying "It won't work" doesn't even do it damage, because it's so strong. According to the current CIA estimates, Iran is 10 years from a bomb. We won't be invading Iran this year, or most likely next year. Our allies are in no shape to do so, and neither is our army. Even if those CIA estimates are off by a factor of 2, we still have 5 years. So what exactly is the harm in trying? If it fails, so what, it fails, and suddenly we find ourselves replete with allies because we actually tried. If it succeeds, we avoid a war, the price of oil plummets, and thousands to millions of lives are saved. There is absolutely no reason not to at least try to sit down with Iran right now, at a summit, face to face, and try to negotiate a settlement that prevents Iran from getting the bomb. If a year from now it totally fails, then all it's done is take a year that we'd spend trying to rebuild our army anyway, and made us look a lot better in the eyes of the countries who might help out. Right now, the price of peace with that country is as low as its ever going to get. From here on out, the price of oil will only go up, which will make Iran stronger and less willing to negotiate, and make China and Russia even more obstinate. Iran will only get closer to the bomb, which will make them less likely to negotiate. And they know the U.S. can't invade right now, which gives them motivation to settle this now before the U.S. army returns to full force. Things will only get harder the longer we wait. And it is absolutely impossible for there to be any harm done to the U.S. by sitting down and negotiating. Those estimates are based on Iran developing all of the technology by themselves. As we have seen with Korea you can get some help from the outside to accelerate your nuclear program. Korea already sends their missle technology over for money, why not some tips and tricks on how to get around the difficult technical problems of nuclear weapons. I have the stomach to sit with the peace process, I hope you have the stomach if we have to detonate a thermonuclear weapon over Tehran in about 5 to 10 years.

QUOTE(Balta1701 @ May 12, 2006 -> 10:29 AM) Of course...when you avoid speaking out against the President or his war, avoid donating to alternative candidates, and never worry that you're somehow going to go to an airport and discover you've been put on a no-fly list, you have nothing to worry about. Oh, unless your name winds up resembling a terrorist, like that guy in Oregon a year ago or so. I love the tinfoil hat talk. You really need to put down your copy of 1984 and realize that the government really doesnt care about Joe Citizen. I doubt if they care about Joe Liberal like yourself. They care about Joe Bin Laden and his phone calls.

I could care less if the government knows who I call or who calls me or if they listen to my calls. I have always assumed that the shared media transport of our phone system is not a private system. I say things on the phone that I could care less that the world knows. You realize that when you talk on your cell phone that the signal is not point to point, that a doppler affect happens and the signal kind of goes everywhere. The weak levels of encryption and data obstification can be cracked by a person with minimal technology skills, a credit card, and your local Radio Shack. There are websites where people can just buy your records. If you use Vonage or any other VOIP technology, your phone calls go out unencrypted and can be hijacked just like any other data stream. I would suggest that if you are so worried and paranoid then invoke some technology and you can sleep better at night. Phones. Use something like Skype, which is from the creators of KaZaa. It uses a peer to peer model that is based on an encrypted data stream with a AES cipher. Then again if the person on the other side isnt using Skype then you are screwed. So make sure everyone you know uses it and the big bad government cant get you. Use point to point encryption software such as stunnel and use a chat client to connect a voip call. Data Your email is open the minute you click send. Its in clear text and anyone can intercept it. If your payload or your message is to sensitive. Use a strong bit cipher encryption package to encrypt your email. You can use PGP, however I would suggest using Twofish, Blowfish, or AES to encrypt your payload. Also make sure that you md5 hash your entire operating system, and burn the hashes to a RO drive. Then compare your binaries to it for verification that the government didnt hijack your system. Also make sure that you are running a rootkit revealer to make sure your application layer is not lying to you. In reality, we all take risks when we use electronic mediums for communications. I would be more worried about spyware, and people trying to make your system into a botnet than I would be on the NSA listening to my wife and her mom discuss recipes. In the end we are talking about pedabytes if not exabytes of data. Search filters are used most likely with some artificial intelligence to get hits. This is a mountain of data, so really do you think that there is an analyst that has enough time to sit and listen to you blabbing to your friend about the sox or how your day was, probably not.

Well it takes all kinds I guess. The class action claim filed by Michael Cohn, a Los Angeles psychologist, alleges that thousands of males and fans under age 18 are entitled to $4,000 in damages each because they were treated unequally at last May's promotion. Women over 18 received the gifts. My favorite quote "They claimed they didn't have any more bags, but my client said there was a mountain of bags stacked so high a show dog couldn't have jumped over them," said Alfred Rava, Cohn's San Diego-based attorney.

QUOTE(Balta1701 @ May 11, 2006 -> 03:26 PM) Here are 2 more attempts at translating the whole paragraph of Ahmadinejad's speech. In both of them, if you read the full thing and don't focus on that 1 clause alone, it becomes clear that the clause you're questioning is taken as happening the same way as the overthrow of the Shah. I give up, he is a real sweet guy who is just mistranslated.

QUOTE(Balta1701 @ May 11, 2006 -> 02:48 PM) "wiped off the map" is the most specific mistranslation. In fact, that particular phrase doesn't even exist in Farsi. Here's a different translation, with context, from Professor Cole (U Michigan) The one quick question you should ask yourself with a quote like that is...how American does it sound? To me, the phrase "Wiped off the map" makes perfect sense and I know its exact meaning, but that is a slang American phrase. Without the context, its direct translation would basically be me literally taking a map and cleaning it. In other words, the exact same slang phrase would have to exist in Farsi for that to be what Ahmadinejad said, and given how unique slang is in this country, the odds of that boggle my mind. This guy is not a good guy, but we're going to get ourselves into trouble if we let the wrong people doing translations make policy for us. Cole's translation is biased and his motives are horses***. He is an apologist for all things crazy. I am sure that he would translate Ossama Bin Laden video as a guy who said he is sorry for the towers falling. Here is the original arabic. srail ghiyam-e mossalahaane bar zed-e mamaalek-e eslami nemoodeh ast va bar doval va mamaalek-eeslami ghal-o-gham aan lazem ast. Here is the translation from the Institute for Imam Khomeini. Israel has declared armed struggle against Islamic countries and its destruction is a must for all governments and nations of Islam. Maybe the history professor knows more farsi than I, but I dont think he knows more than the rest of the world. He is just putting his bulls*** slant on it, just like he does with all of his crazy terrorist do no wrong crap.

QUOTE(Balta1701 @ May 11, 2006 -> 01:46 PM) First of all, Ahmadinejad is not in command of Iran's military, so even if he wanted to do that, he'd have a bit of a problem...Ayatollah Khameni is actually at the top. Secondly, I believe that his statement that he doesn't want to see Israel exist has been massively misinterpreted. Most people have bought into him saying that Iran would attack Israel with that remark. I think that other translations have strongly suggested he was actually quoting something Khomeni said about the Soviet Union...saying basically that he hoped it would vanish from time or something to that effect. Basically it was a statement calling for something akin to regime change...his words were almost a direct quote from Khomeni, and Khomeni had no intention of attacking the Soviets when he said them. He's not a nice guy, and yes he is a holocaust denier, etc., but thus far, the evidence doesn't show him willing to launch an aggressive war against Israel. \ Massively misinterpreted? Are you serious? Ahmadinejad has repeatedly spoken out against Israel and provoked a world outcry in October when he said Israel should be “wiped off the map.” Do you really think this means that he is pushing for elections to remove the jews from israel. Or to the fact that he wants them wiped ou. Come on now. You cant sugar coat the Iranian president.

QUOTE(Wealz @ May 11, 2006 -> 01:50 PM) Depends where it's made up. The Angels could say that was our last trip to Chicago, have them play the make up game when their back in town in September. I dont think thats how it works. We had to go to Boston last year and play a makeup game in September.

QUOTE(kyyle23 @ May 11, 2006 -> 11:06 AM) I was logged in and tried to load the chat and got this Just FYI Jas, I got the same thing as kyyle. I am using Suns latest JRE jre1.5.0_06. I use java all the time in Firefox to manage some equipment via a web browser.

QUOTE(Wealz @ May 11, 2006 -> 01:34 PM) No doubt this is a bit of gamesmanship by the Sox since their bullpen could use a day off with the re-shuffling of roles due to Contreras' injury and Haeger's less than stellar performance last night. It actually doesn't look too bad here in Oak Lawn. Kudos to the organization for puting winning in front of profits. They will get the profits and more in fact with a rainout today. Do you think there will be more people buying this ticket now with a rainy day, or maybe in August when the races heat up and School is out.

QUOTE(SoxPride56 @ May 11, 2006 -> 01:26 PM) Your right, tonights game has been canceled, an announcement will be coming within an hour. That sets up the next series as Santana vs Garland Radke vs Vazquez Silva vs Buerhle Baker vs Garcia Brandon will then go against the Drays next week. And then it sets up the Cubs series as Buerhle, Garcia and the Count going against the flubbers. I like it.

QUOTE(Balta1701 @ May 11, 2006 -> 01:06 PM) During the Cuban missile crisis, Nikita Kruschev sent 2 letters within 2 days to Kennedy, one saying the Russians would remove the missiles if the U.S. pledged not to invade Cuba, and another saying the Russians would remove the missiles if the U.S. removed its missiles from Turkey. The Kennedy admin. decided to ignore the 2nd letter and accepted the offer from the first letter. The Iranians may have learned a lesson from that. It appears that one of Ayatollah Khameni's representatives has sent a 2nd letter to the U.S., which both decries some U.S. actions but also offers more sound basis for negotiations than the rambling letter that Ahmadinjad's sent to Bush a few days ago. This is nothing new. This guy was on one show last week talking one way, while his president talks another. One is a direct letter to the president, and this is something from a lower level guy. This is smoke and mirrors to keep things moving so they can keep the status quo going on. The President of Iran doesnt think Israel should exist. He questioned its existance in the previous letter, in all of his ramblings. He belongs to a religious sect that believes that when a war between the arabs and jews happen that Mohammed will come to save the world. He is insane. I see Iran getting a nuke, then lobbing it over to Israel and waiting for Mohammed to save them.

QUOTE(SleepyWhiteSox @ May 11, 2006 -> 12:17 PM) Do they change their jerseys twice a year like in the Mexican League? No. The third kit may change from year to year. But the primary kit doesnt change all that much. The only time is when a new sponser takes over. Celtic FC changed their away kit a few times over the last few years. But the hoops home kit has been the same for a long long long time.

Hopefully he keeps the control when he comes to the show. We need guys in the pen who will attack the hitter.

QUOTE(LVSoxFan @ May 11, 2006 -> 11:23 AM) That was an ugly, ugly loss. The worst I've seen in a while, especially in person (and I've seen some nasty ones). But I would be the last person to start thinking the sky is falling. Hey, look at it this way: we are 3-1 against FREAKIN ANAHEIM thus far. Until the ALCS last year, people forget, playing them was like a GUARANTEED loss. Like with Oakland. Not only did we SWEEP them OUT THERE--!!!--but if we take this series, I'd say things are looking pretty damn good. I think we need to get our asses kicked once in a while to keep everybody's feet on the ground. And hey: KC beat freakin' Cleveland! You gotta love that. I was at the game also. Watching Haeger warm up in the 1st, you knew he was nervous. After the first inning, I figured it would be a tough night. So when they did lose, it wasnt that much of a shock. I wouldnt say it was one of the worst losses I have seen. They came back, and the game got out of hand at the end. It came apart real quick and it was over. It happens. To me the worst type of loss, is when you have a man in scoring position and someone Ks looking with 2 outs in the night. This one didnt bug me as much.

I was at Ballys for years. Its a dump. They closed the one on 22nd street, so I had to change clubs. Now I am at Lifetime and its a hell of a difference. Its expensive 100 bucks a month for the wife and I. But the immenities are awsome. 17 person indoor whirlpool, 4 lane swim pool, indoor zero depth pool with waterslide, and an outdoor pool with a whirlpool. The place is clean, TVs everwhere. It feels more like a country club than a gym. My suggestion is to try a few of these places. There is a lot of competitiion in this area, and they all will give you free workouts to try it out. I think I tried like 5 different gyms before I went with Lifetime.

QUOTE(LVSoxFan @ May 11, 2006 -> 10:29 AM) Can we stop with the rain excuses? I was there and yes, it did not start raining hard until we had obviously pisssed the game away. It was almost bibical, come to think of it. Jenks I love but I worry that everybody's figured him out and we've got our '06 version of Takatsu. In his defense, he had a bad night. Whatever. It's gonna happen. What actually worries me is that we only have one "closer." We need options besides Jenks. Unless he comes up with a killer changeup IMO, people are gonna figure him out sooner or later. People also forget that, last night, the guy after Jenks (Thorton? Logan?) gave up another two runs including a dinger. Not good. Our bullpen is our achilles' heel right now, unless you think we can trot out Big Bad Bobby to save every game. BTW our starter was terrible. Every pitch that guy threw was high. But I don't blame him for the loss because we managed to score 5 runs with 2 outs. Then Jenks lost it for us. Period. We need a plan "B" for a closer. Not to rip on Jenks--I love the guy. But you can't have just one. What team in the league is a few closers deep. Maybe Houston should ditch Lidge, because he cant handle it anymore also. Actually what you saw last night, was typical of the sox in 2004. The 5th starter would go out there, and give up the farm. The team would rally within a run, and then it would be out of reach. Be happy with what we have today. Now we have 5 good starters that keep us in the game all the time. What a great situation to be in. Heager didnt do the job, McCarthy will on Monday.

QUOTE(Dick Allen @ May 11, 2006 -> 09:57 AM) There's a big difference going into the bottom of the ninth down 1 or down 7. There is no way to tell if the Sox would have lost anyway. I'm worried about Jenks because he is throwing 94 mph and doesn't have the command of his breaking ball as well as he had last year. His ERA is 5.52. Opponents are hitting .288 against him. He's hardly walking anybody, which you would think would translate into dominating, but for some reason it has not. He has dominated a few times, but for the most part he has been extremely hittable. First thing, Bobby was not throwing 100 from April on of last year. He didnt get his full velocity until around June. At what point did Bobby have command of his breaking ball last year? If I remember he had a hard time throwing it for strikes last year. I think he has shown better command of his curve this year throwing it for strikes. He couldnt throw the hammer at all for a strike last year. He still got people out. Last year right handers had a good BA(.298) against Bobby while lefties he owned. Lets not get all goofy and start the closer by comittee thing already. And lets not act like Bobby is only throwing 94 all the time. He has been hitting 97 a lot in his recent appearances.

QUOTE(kapkomet @ May 11, 2006 -> 12:13 AM) I wasn't very clear on the phone, so a slight correction is in order... hehe Alissa Jeannette. Two weird spellings of both names - of course picked out by yours truely. Scary, eh? We are both worn out. Poor mom pretty much had some sort of labor for over two days; so she's resting, finally, and I'm about to myself after camping out on the hospital room floor for three nights in a row. Thanks everyone for the well wishes and prayers. Kap Congrats to you and your wife. Becoming a parent is one of the best things that can happen to a person. It changes your life in the best ways. Happy Birthday Alissa!!!!!

QUOTE(Harry&JimmyRocked @ May 10, 2006 -> 11:53 PM) rape and pillage? i don't call trading a guy that will never help your team win a world series, for bullpen help raping and pillaging? obviously your life sucks bad enought to be the "tough talking message board guy", so these are my last thoughts on the subject. Anderson-4th outfielder Garland- one year wonder Crede-playing for contract what about danny wright? where's mckay christensen? what about super joe borchard? scott ruffcorn? rodney bolton? jon rauch? the great one year wonder mike caruso luis andujar arnie munoz? and the names go on and on spout all the names for me you'd like gutless wonder. the best you got is mr. one year jon garland???? looks like you'll have to take his sausage outta your mouth to respond. looks like the sox disagree with you as charlies ass we sent packing back down to the minors. now please give us a rant on kenny williams and why this was wrong. I was one of the biggest Joe Crede critics on the site, especially with his bat. I have seen enough this year and late last year to see a complete workaround in his swing. Hands quiet, nice fluid swing through the hitting zone. This is not a result of someone working for a contract, this is a complete difference in his hitting technique. Whatever he did during his time off for injury he completely reworked his swing. Guys playing for contracts, hit a s***load of homers, they dont worry about average because its power numbers that pay the most. Guys playing for contracts strike out a lot trying to park every pitch into the stands. Look at Credes numbers and tell me that he is trying to park s*** all the time.

Pretty much this is my thoughts on our bullpen in general. From a stuff standpoint, they all have great stuff. However our bullpen members need to throw strikes. That was Bobbys problem tonight. You get behind, especially with men on, and you know he has to come over the plate. With the rain, he threw one curve to warm up and it was terrible. So at that point he became a one pitch pitcher. Throw strikes, get ahead and they will be a hell of a lot better than they are. Get behind, and we will have bullpen nights like tonight.

QUOTE(DBAH0 @ May 10, 2006 -> 11:40 PM) I would have given Haeger possibly another game, very hard for a pitcher in his 1st major league game to come out and pitch well straight away. But the Sox have obviously made their decision. I'd go with Lopez as the pitcher to call up because he's got the runs on the board and has pitched very well down at Charlotte, but if it's Tracey, hopefully he does well in a few appearances for us. Brandon is streched out enough to give 5 to 6 in his next start. He looked good.