jackie hayes

:headshake With Rooney on his way out, did we win that WS just in the nick of time or what? (I know he's not gonna be the broadcaster, just saying that it doesn't help any.) And yeah, I want the playoffs too. With different announcers. I figure, as long as I'm dreaming...

Btw, can someone enlighten me? Mike Lowell: wtf happened there???

And Soxy didn't believe the Beaujolais Nouveau was really that bad...

Let's start that trail at the first post. QUOTE(Mercy! @ Nov 15, 2005 -> 05:50 AM) I might as well not comment about the sexual assault part since it’s only an accusation at this point. But I’m surprised that the level of ignorance is still so high about how HIV is contracted. The remarks by Tony Miles sound like something you might have heard 15 years ago. QUOTE(Mercy! @ Nov 16, 2005 -> 02:16 AM) First, could we please stop passing that “ignorant” along? If you’ll follow the trail of that word’s usage in this thread – I believe you’ll find that you and Steff are the only ones who have used it. I most definitely have not called anyone ignorant. So his remarks display a surprising "level of ignorance", but you would never dream of calling him ignorant. Explain, please.

Those look like good references and good studies. But they answer a different question. Take the "Estimating the Risk for HIV Transmission" paper as an example -- the question answered there is, What is the risk of any particular player contracting HIV during his career? And they guess that the rate is less than 1 transmission per 85 million game contacts. Which is very low. But the questions here are, what is the probability that a particular HIV positive player will, at some time during his career pass on the virus through contact? And how much does his probability of transmission increase when he has a cut? That number will be much larger, though still low. But how low is low enough? Say it's 1 in 500 -- is he obligated to stop playing, or is that risk acceptable? I'm not arguing that it is a big deal -- just that it's too much to call someone ignorant for worrying about blood-borne HIV transmission from someone who is known to be HIV positive.

I still don't see anything where he says that he might get HIV from the locker room contact. If what he meant was, don't pretend to be my friend and teammate if you're putting me at risk on the field, what's ignorant about that?

I read that differently. He only talked about contracting HIV from playing. I think the walking, talking in the lockerroom comments meant something like, 'How can you look us in the eye when you're putting everyone on the field at risk?'

From what I can find, it seems to be: Sweat, no chance. Tears/saliva, possible but very unlikely. Blood, possible in theory but has never happened. I know it's Canadian football and all, but they still sometimes hit hard, right?

So his reaction is stupid because...? The idea is that players bleed in football. If 2 bleeding players collide, and the open wounds come in contact, HIV may spread from one to the other. Now, okay, I know it has never actually happened. But I've never heard anyone explain why it never could happen. Until I hear that, I'm going to continue to think this is a legitimate concern.

Why was the trade for Jerome Williams bad? When a player is hated as much as Hawkins was, I don't fault the gm if he gets rid of the guy. To get someone with Williams' upside, who did a pretty decent job for them, looks to me like a pretty good trade. Hendry's had his share of head scratchers, but I think that, ARam + Lofton, Lee, and Garciaparra were pretty good moves.

I like Durazo a lot better than Piazza, but it's fa -- who knows. Durazo's price could be higher than anyone thinks, maybe he wants to stay closer to home, maybe KW has no interest. Piazza, w/ a line like the one you put up, would be worth a few million in that case. Not my first choice, but I wouldn't take it off the table. Durazo may be "plain and simple a Dh", but that's how I'm thinking of Piazza, too. The thought of him behind the plate gives me the willies. Am I the only one hoping that we sign Frank AND someone else? It sounded like Frank's gonna open the season on the dl, anyway -- if he's going to take a while to round into form, can't we just start the season w/ Hurt on the 60-day, then see how things go?

QUOTE(CWSGuy406 @ Nov 14, 2005 -> 10:11 PM) Wite, Jason -- I'm not buying the 'he played in Shea Stadium so his numbers are a little skewed' argument. First, bbr had Shea playing just below neutral (or, just a tiny bit as a pitcher's park) this year. If Shea Stadium was really taking away a bunch of homers from Piazza, he'd have a lot of doubles: he doesn't -- he had 23. With 19 homers. Next -- OPS+ accounts for that (park factors), and he still wasn't a very good hitter -- .251/.326/.452 is not the line you need out of a DH. Piazza, simply put, isn't a good option. At least with a healthy Thomas, you know you're going to get good production. The same can't be said (anymore) about Piazza. So you wouldn't buy the line that, if he isn't playing catcher (I'd expect him to catch absolutely no more than 5 games in the whole season), he'd be less tired, healthier, and sustain his bat over the course of a season better? I don't know. 2005 he was terrible, but the two years before that he was still hitting pretty well. I'd give that a look as dh material. If there's a reason (injury) to think it might have all just vanished, okay, pass. O/w, I think it may just be a fluke. Of course it's a last option, and of course it's got to be low salary, but it sounds...plausible.

QUOTE(RockRaines @ Nov 14, 2005 -> 09:56 PM) I cant figure out which year was a fluke. This year, where he produced better than pretty much all of OUR hitters, or the years before that, where he is one of the most consistent elite hitters in the game. I wouldnt mind his .411 OBP let me tell you. Better question is whether anyone would care? Throw out 1 year out of the last 5, hell, throw out 2, take your pick -- and tell me what's left isn't one hell of a great hitter. Not that he's moving, but...

QUOTE(RockRaines @ Nov 14, 2005 -> 09:52 PM) Please tell me which year was a fluke? Hey, if last year was a fluke and he's about to revert to 2004 form...I could handle that.

Yeah, forgot about him. Can't knock the Hustler.

QUOTE(AddisonStSox @ Nov 11, 2005 -> 06:19 PM) I think you'll see the O's make the major push for him. Just spitballing here, but, I think this is a very logical rotation for 06': Burnett (They'll pay him and his wife's family is from the area, expressed some desire to play there during the trade-deadline) Vazquez (Why not? It makes perfect sense. They need an upper-tier starting pitcher and Vazquez certainly has the stuff) Lopez Chen Cabrera All of a sudden, the O's have a respectable rotation. Will it be enough to compete for the divison? I'm not sure; but, those two additions would certainly help. I don't see Burnett coming to the O's. The Orioles are notoriously gunshy about giving pitchers long deals, and Ponson couldn't have improved that attitude any. That's why I see Vazquez being a good fit -- only 2 more years on the deal, a reasonable salary (about $12 mil per), and a history of success. The Orioles also seem to have some players that could make a deal attractive -- a deal centered around Hayden Penn makes sense to me. You have a respectable first 4, then you hope Mazzone can work his magic with the next Jaret Wright, and you're ready to play. Then the O's can focus on signing a bat, which is the only signing they really seem to enjoy, anyway.

How in the world can we even think about Furcal? The guy's gonna get $10-13 mil per, there's no way we can afford both that and $12-16 mil per for a hitter with power. Even if you fit it in somehow, you're locking up $25 mil per (maybe more) for 4-5 years, which will annihilate your flexibility, especially when you're talking about (say) Furcal and Konerko -- good players, but not among the best in the majors. So you have to try to find a younger, cheaper hitter with power. There's no guarantee you'll find any, but if you do, it will cost you pitching (and no, I don't mean Marte). So we'd f up the part of this team that carried us to a WS win to improve our ss's obp by 50 points? Have you forgotten in one year what a real 5th starter looks like?

QUOTE(The Critic @ Nov 11, 2005 -> 05:59 PM) Great for Cards fans, terrible for Sox fans. Yeah, but there's some solace in that it's a Cubs opponent. I'd ten times over rather have him back on the south side, but he's still fighting the good fight.

Javy Vazquez has asked Arizona to trade him to an East Coast team, citing how far he is from his family. He can specify 6 teams he doesn't want to be traded to. Another somewhat prominent name available for someone's rotation. Orioles?

QUOTE(KipWellsFan @ Nov 9, 2005 -> 08:41 PM) France to expel foreign rioters, Nuke's man Sarkozy at work! http://go.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?ty...58&section=news How exactly to you deport someone that's your own citizen? I mean why would whatever country have to accept him? Umm...

QUOTE(Soxy @ Nov 9, 2005 -> 10:47 PM) See, here's the thing. I don't tell Doctors how best to heal people. I don't tell my mechanic how to fix my car. I don't tell my grocery cashiers how to bag my groceries. Why? Because that's not my job. My training is not in those areas. I want my medical advice from a licensed doctor. I was my car fixed by a trained mechanic. And I want my science from people trained in science. The question isn't oh, well, at least evolution will still be taught. The question is: why are we ignoring the people with the most training in this area and choosing to listen to people with far less experience/knowledge about the topic. As a nation, if we continue to allow our children's education to be compromised by theologians and religious zealots who are ignorant to the scientific method, we are committing (in my mind) a grave crime against those children, future generations, and ourselves. This debate has been laid to rest in mainline (and any respectable) scientific theories and deserves to be treated as any other refuted theory. Hmm... I want to criticize this argument without disagreeing with your end result in the least. Taken to the extreme, your argument would seem to imply that (say) a hs history teacher, b/c he knows more about history than the school board, should be able to teach whatever he wants. I'm sure there are history teachers out there who have some pretty odd notions that we don't want kids to learn. There is a role for this sort of oversight, just like I (or a family member) have to approve medical treatments and car repairs before they're done, and just like the cashier will f***ing hear something if he puts my bananas at the bottom of the bag. The problem isn't that people outside of science are deciding what to teach and what not to teach, that's inevitable. It's just that they made a piss-poor decision. Then the voters in Pennsylvania, also not scientists, made the right one. If the board members in Kansas (and, ultimately, the voters) want to be morons and f*** up their kids, well, it's sad, but they should be the ones deciding that. I think you also give way too much credit to id, in calling it a refuted theory. There's no theory to refute. There is a substantive negative claim: Darwinism is not right, because there is in some sense too much biological complexity. That's a fine, scientific claim. They've shown nothing of the sort, but it is science. But it's just part of Darwinism, it's part of that debate, it's no positive theory of the origin of species. The positive side of id is not science, it's just a big fricking assumption. Since that positive part is the only thing that "competes" with Darwinism, it would be nice if it were actually science -- testable. Seems fair. At best, the idea belongs in a metaphysics class. It belongs in science no more than Aquinas' first-mover idea belongs in a physics class. (Can't you imagine it? -- Newton's "laws" are only one of many competing theories...) What's funny is thinking about how uncomfortable this overall argument should make Republicans. You know, Marxist theory "competes" far better with classical equilibrium economics as a theory of production, than id does with evolution. Just saying... (From someone who is very pro-free markets, and who lights into anyone who thinks Marx has an ounce of credibility.) So in summary, the Texas gay marriage ban is bad. Really, I don't think we should worry so much about this. The recent spike in pirate stories suggests there are more pirates, while global temperatures continue to rise, a paradox that clearly signals the end of the world. Can't we all just get along in the short time we have left?

I wouldn't dismiss Durazo out of hand. He's a great lefty bat when healthy. If community means anything to him, he may not mind playing in a market where so many Mexicans live. And I'm under the impression that Tommy John surgery is a lot more straightforward than Frank's recovery. ptatc's been a pretty good source about these injuries before, too. Jason, your plan would sound great if we knew where to find those premier players. The cupboard's bare in the fa market, except for Paulie and Giles. I don't see why Durazo's a bad direction in this market.

QUOTE(Kalapse @ Nov 4, 2005 -> 05:31 PM) It's easy to talk s*** and call other people out when you have no opinion on anything during the course of the season. I just really don't see how someone who never voices any kind of unique stance on any subject can possibly talk so much s***. Yup. Agree completely. I shouldn't have used "you" in my post -- I quoted your post, but just to second it. The "you" was directed at the guy you (yes, you) quoted. Hope that was understood.

QUOTE(Kalapse @ Nov 4, 2005 -> 03:47 PM) ^^ This is getting extremely annoying. ^^^^^^^^^ You hardly took any position all year, you barely said anything about Crede or Castilla, and you don't even know who the hell Danys Baez is. Cut out this gloating s***.

Delgado makes a lot more than $37 mil over the next 3. It's closer to $45 mil, plus a $4 mil (or something like that) buyout for the 4th year. I think it can get guaranteed at $16 mil -- can't recall how, maybe plate appearances.