jackie hayes

QUOTE(Buehrle>Wood @ Aug 19, 2006 -> 12:56 PM) Billy Koch never blamed anyone but himself. He was a hard-worker who just couldn't get it done here for many reasons, but he would never, ever blame anyone but himself. This doesn't belong near the category of what Freddy Garcia has done. That was exactly my point. Koch manned up, every time. I miss that attitude.

It takes a lot to make you wistful about Billy Koch.

I'm unable to express the sheer wonderfulness. Magisplendent.

The Sawks didn't claim Lopez, anyway. He passed through waivers completely, giving Baltimore the right to trade him anywhere.

QUOTE(AssHatSoxFan @ Aug 17, 2006 -> 03:28 PM) the movie opens in some places at 10 PM tonight who is going? Maybe. I feel so bad that I missed Samuel L Jackson's call, it's the least I can do to make it up to him.

QUOTE(CYGarland @ Aug 17, 2006 -> 03:42 PM) Thats baseball for you. and thats why its such a tough sport to predict, and bet on for that matter In principle, sure. But it just seems a lot screwier the last 2 weeks. We just need a 4 hr day from Joey Gathright to top it all off.

How f'd up are the major leagues when KC pounds us one day and the best pitched game the next day involves Kyle Lohse AND Jeff Weaver??? Just feels like a lot of upside down lately.

QUOTE(BigSqwert @ Aug 17, 2006 -> 03:29 PM) I'm just as bad. I was having a baseball conversation recently and mentioned that a batter got a pitch in his wheel barrel. I literally loled at that one. Nice.

QUOTE(whitesoxfan101 @ Aug 17, 2006 -> 03:25 PM) 3-2 Cleveland heading to the 9th in Minny. I really hope they don't bring in that Carmona guy. No way in the 9th.

QUOTE(whitesoxfan101 @ Aug 17, 2006 -> 03:20 PM) wtf? He meant "paramount", I'm guessing.

QUOTE(aboz56 @ Aug 17, 2006 -> 01:15 PM) I doubt he would have even gotten to an AL team. A NL team surely would have claimed him first. ^^^^^^^ And that's all she wrote.

QUOTE(SoxFanForever @ Aug 17, 2006 -> 08:22 AM) Do you really think an inch or a few pounds is going to make someoone less "thick"? Honestly, I don't know. I'd have to look at the stats. My impression has been that he is roughly the same build as Portis but does look a bit longer and leaner than Sanders. My main point was just that ssi wasn't talking about height at all. Whether it's significant, I dunno. But in absolute terms, no, he's not small. He's no Dunn.

QUOTE(Athomeboy_2000 @ Aug 16, 2006 -> 11:47 AM) Mitchell & Ness makes some quality old school jerseys. They're so old school they don't even know 2005 happened. Tsk, tsk, tsk. When I was a kid, I had one of those glossy M&N catalogs right next to my bed, and I dunno how many hours I spent looking through that thing.

QUOTE(SoxFanForever @ Aug 16, 2006 -> 11:53 PM) He is a whole 2 inches taller than Barry Sanders and the exact same weight Barry was during his carer at 203. He is also 1 inch taller than Portis while weighing 2 pounds less. I guess the naked eye is deceiving or you just don't know what you are talking about. Hell, i'm not even a big Bush fan and I realized this. If he's taller and weighs the same, or a little less, then his body would have to be less "thick", which is what ssi was getting at; not height.

QUOTE(Cuck the Fubs @ Aug 16, 2006 -> 08:27 PM) Does it actually say that in the rulebook, or could you play a guy short on the field?? It does, but unless it's a very bad injury, the guy could just stand somewhere on the field. But you do need to be able to field 9 men.

Where's our Ryan O'Malley? Just to piss Flash off, cuz I know he wanted to be the first to say it.

Liberal sugarcoating. vandy, you're going to hell, that's all there is to it.

QUOTE(Athomeboy_2000 @ Aug 16, 2006 -> 11:33 AM) anyone else think it was VERY irresponsible of Baker to play all 25 players?? One tweeked muscle or ejection and they would have forfit the game!! Not speaking to his specific moves, but no, I don't think anything's wrong with that. You're weighing the probability of an injury against the probability that ph x will get a hit to win the game for you. The latter seems much more likely, so go for it. If it doesn't work, you make do. Always take your shots, don't worry so much about tiny probability disaster scenarios. Jmo.

QUOTE(kapkomet @ Aug 16, 2006 -> 12:03 PM) Yea, cause all those asteroids are now 'planets' if they're big enough. Just another example of the soft bigotry of low expectations.

QUOTE(PA32R @ Aug 16, 2006 -> 12:42 AM) Though you have a point, I disagree. Total wins partially measures a pitcher's ability to stay healthy, to pitch beyond the early innings, etc. W/L, especially in comparison to other pitchers on the same team, is indicative of a pitcher's ability to motivate his team to support him, etc. For a relief pitcher, to me it's an important stat because you certainly don't want a guy to come in and give up the game winning hit, though I concede that saves/opportunities certainly is good indicator for this. Besides, who would Denny McLain be without W/L records? What an odd response. If anyone can stay healthy and give you long games, Santana can. And w/l is especially bad for relievers, at least the wins half, as so many of the wins are leads that were blown into ties. I dunno about Denny McLain. But if he was such a great guy that his teammates decided to actually play well for him (not that their own jobs depended on it or anything), they had a funny way of showing it a couple years later.

QUOTE(longshot7 @ Aug 15, 2006 -> 07:15 PM) I believe that airplanes and automobiles work by divine magic, and nothing you can say will convince me otherwise. Clarke's third law, baby...

QUOTE(Palehosefan @ Aug 15, 2006 -> 11:37 AM) He's going to be a special "slash" player. Meaning rb "slash" wr? Just wondering; I've never heard someone described as a "slash" player who wasn't part qb, or at least played positions more different than rb & wr.

QUOTE(LowerCaseRepublican @ Aug 13, 2006 -> 06:03 PM) Actually when the IDF states they need to learn military tactics from those used in the Warsaw ghetto, I'd say its somewhat clear that they're acting like Nazis. That's my point -- if the state of Israel would like to have the allegations of acting like Nazis levied at them, then they should simply stop acting in the fashion of the Nazis. Finkelstein's piece cited the newspaper source quoting the IDF on that -- hence bringing it to the discussion. But the IDF officers don't represent the IDF, right? And you're welcome for my balance on the issue. Objectivity is a complete myth. No, not at all. The way you're using the phrase "acting like Nazis", it would apply if the US mimics Panzer or Luftwaffe battlefield tactics. There's nothing wrong in learning a strategy used effectively by an army fighting an immoral war. Likening Israel to the Nazis is obviously supposed to imply that one of Israel's main purposes is to massacre and liquidate Muslims, Arabs, Palestinians, or some group. That's something that I don't believe one bit, and the IDF quote doesn't support it in the least.

QUOTE(LowerCaseRepublican @ Aug 13, 2006 -> 03:40 PM) Ah, the usage of a few selected photos as a means of dismissing those who are knowledgeable about the topic and have logical, cogent reasons for being against it. I'm not saying that you're doing that EvilMonkey -- it just gets tiring with the "OMG! Teh Bolsheviks!" sign and then using that to dismiss an entire movement. It's just like "OMG! Arnold's dad was a Nazi so he must be one too!" You're not going to get much love from me for ANSWER. One of my favorite sites is: http://www.authoritarianopportunistswhocoz...s-forpeace.org/ And with the Nazi references, here's a piece from Norman Finkelstein (prof. at DePaul, parents were concentration camp victims) "To repress Palestinian resistance, a senior Israeli officer earlier this year urged the army to "analyze and internalize the lessons of…how the German army fought in the Warsaw ghetto." (Haaretz, 25 January 2002, 1 February 2002) Judging by the recent Israeli carnage in the West Bank - the targeting of Palestinian ambulances and medical personnel, the targeting of journalists, the killing of Palestinian children "for sport" (Chris Hedges, New York Times former Cairo bureau chief), the rounding up, handcuffing and blindfolding of all Palestinian males between the ages 15 and 50, and affixing of numbers on their wrists, the indiscriminate torture of Palestinian detainees, the denial of food, water, electricity, and medical assistance to the Palestinian civilian population, the indiscriminate air assaults on Palestinian neighborhoods, the use of Palestinian civilians as human shields, the bulldozing of Palestinian homes with the occupants huddled inside - it appears that the Israeli army is following the officer's advice. Dismissing all criticism as motivated by anti-Semitism, Elie Wiesel - chief spokesman for the Holocaust Industry - lent unconditional support to Israel, stressing the "great pain and anguish" endured by its rampaging army. (Reuters, 11 April; CNN, 14 April) Meanwhile, the Portuguese Nobel laureate in literature, Jose Saramago, invoked the "spirit of Auschwitz" in depicting the horrors inflicted by Israel, while a Belgian parliamentarian avowed that Israel was "making a concentration camp out of the West Bank." (The Observer, 7 April 2002) Israelis across the political spectrum recoil in outrage at such comparisons. Yet, if Israelis don't want to stand accused of being Nazis they should simply stop acting like Nazis." Oh, I get it. The opinions of a couple dozen-odd anti-Israel (and sometimes obviously anti-Semite) protesters is unrepresentative and unfair. But your quote from one Israel-hating Jew writing in 2002 is cogent, insightful, and relevant. Thanks for your balance on this, LCR.

LMAO at Singleton. Called a "cutter" a "cooter". 'That's what Magglio would call it.' lolololololololol....