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QUOTE(Flash Tizzle @ May 10, 2006 -> 08:21 PM) Tough s*** for Haeger. He wants to pitch in a major league rotation one day, he can't have even half of these walk totals. Considering hit totals will likely be present for him (as well as any knuckleballer) and it's difficult to hold runners, issuing free passes isn't conducive to winning. Is he performing about as expected for anyone else, or is it just me?

QUOTE(TitoMB345 @ May 10, 2006 -> 07:18 PM) By my count, the score is 0-0 with a no hitter so far. Whats your count say? Pssst...green=sarcasm.

haeger the horrible

QUOTE(aboz56 @ May 10, 2006 -> 05:03 PM) Shocking Now you know why many of us get pissed at the constantly lineup juggling. Seriously. Why rest the regulars ever? Why even have a bench?

QUOTE(greasywheels121 @ May 9, 2006 -> 11:57 PM) ^^^ Solid little clip, and pretty cool that the Sox were the only team recognized. f*** I missed it! I hope someone posts it online verry soon. I liked the Chicago small talk bit so far.

QUOTE(greasywheels121 @ May 9, 2006 -> 11:04 PM) Just for the time being. Get to working.

QUOTE(Chisoxfn @ May 9, 2006 -> 11:02 PM) All the old skins won't work, but we will be building a custom banner that we hope will be much more comptabile with firefox. The banner is now working thanks to Heads getting to work on that. I'm working on finding a way to get the quick edit feature and the poll to start working with mozilla. So that means we gotta stick with blue or am I missing something?

QUOTE(SoxFan1 @ May 9, 2006 -> 10:17 PM) Now that I see it, I might have. I just didn't go all the way back. I was sooo wrong wasn't I? Oh yeah, my bad. A second thread came up about the same topic so I posted that just messing around. Then it got thrown/merged into the big thread so it didn't make sense anymore. You posted in that thread too, douche. QUOTE(SoxFan1 @ May 8, 2006 -> 11:04 PM) I have never heard of this nonsense before!

QUOTE(YASNY @ May 9, 2006 -> 09:53 PM) Rob Neyer has an article about Haeger on ESPN. Unfortunately, it's an Insider article so I can't read it. This is just an FYI for anyone that has insider access. Here's my, uh, "summary" of the article. Hope it's ok... With the news that Charlie Haeger is probably going to start for the Parolees on Wednesday night in place of the injured Jose Contreras, I went scurrying to the record books. And what I discovered is that Haeger is apparently something of a prodigy. Here are the last four pitchers to debut in the majors as knuckleballers: Pitcher Debut Age Tim Wakefield 1992 25 Steve Sparks 1995 29 Dennis Springer 1995 30 Jared Fernandez 2001 29 Haeger is only 22, which is all the more amazing when you learn that when he was 19, he didn't play professional baseball. A 25th-round draft pick in 2001, Haeger "retired" after two seasons in the lowest minors -- and went to college (and played golf). But as the Baseball America 2006 Prospect Handbook notes, "Haeger didn't give up on baseball completely. He worked on a knuckleball that had been suggested by minor league pitching coach Chris Sinacori and decided to give pitching another shot. Haeger rejoined the Parolees as a knuckleball specialist in 2004 and broke through with 14 wins last year." Eight of those wins came in Single-A, six in Double-A. His ERAs were decent enough at both levels, but the most impressive number: four home runs allowed in 168 innings. And this season in Triple-A, Haeger hasn't allowed a homer in 40 innings while posting a 0.45 ERA. It's been a meteoric rise for any sort of pitcher, let alone a knuckleballer. To find another who reached the majors so early, you have to go back to 1970, when Charlie Hough debuted at 22 years, 8 months, and 7 seven days. Eddie Fisher, who enjoyed a long, solid career, debuted in 1959 when he was roughly 22 years and 10 months old. Haeger's slightly younger than both of them. If he does pitch for the Parolees on Wednesday, he'll be 22 years, 7 months, and 21 days old on the occasion of his major league debut. I suppose that some other knuckleball pitcher was younger & but I haven't been able to find him yet. So is Haeger the next Tim Wakefield, or perhaps even the next Phil Niekro? Probably not. The knuckleball is notoriously capricious, and I believe that it's harder than ever to thrive as a practitioner (because so many bad knuckleballs become good home runs, and also because umpires still don't call the high strike). Also, I'm a little gun-shy. A few years ago, I touted s***ty Sox knuckleballer Charlie Zink, but he hit a wall and is just now beginning to re-establish himself as a decent prospect. But Haeger apparently is the real thing. Baseball America rated him as the White Sox's No. 14 prospect last winter, and I'm sure they haven't rated a knuckleballer so high in quite some time. By the way, Jared Fernandez is back in the majors with the Brewers. But he's 34 and has never come close to establishing himself. R.A. Dickey, a recent convert, has a 7.62 ERA in the minors this season. Which means if Wakefield does have an identifiable successor as MLB's good knuckleballer, it has to be Haeger.

s***, Twilight Princess won't come out 'til the Wii launches, and there's gonna be two versions, one for GC and one for Wii.

By the way, you can watch it live on gamespot.com.

No price announced for Wii. http://www.gamespot.com/e3/e3story.html?sid=6149663

QUOTE(EvilMonkey @ May 9, 2006 -> 08:47 AM) They CAN come here legally, they just choose not to go that route and wait in line. The current system is a joke. Fixing it would probably do wonders.

QUOTE(YASNY @ May 9, 2006 -> 08:12 AM) Secure borders. What a concept. I've yet to see anyone on here argue for open borders. Nice try though.

QUOTE(YASNY @ May 9, 2006 -> 11:00 AM) Just one reason why we need to know who is coming into our country. Link But the rappers keep telling me how great the gangsta life is!

Funniest thread in a while... Just accept your pwnage and move on. Happens to the best of us.

WHAT??? Quit your f***in' bulls***. I hate trolls and pot-stirrers. Your ass needs to get banned!

QUOTE(Jordan4life_2006 @ May 8, 2006 -> 09:55 PM) The Nets bent the Heat over pretty good in game 1. Amazing what happens when you have some talent to go along with effort, isn't it?

QUOTE(Buehrle>Wood @ May 8, 2006 -> 08:38 PM) Sony is having their conference now and just showed off the new controller. Haven't seen pictures yet, but it's a Nintendo Wii rip-off. LOL EDIT: They also just announced a 600$ price tag. I'm saving my hysterical laughing 'til I hear the price for the Revolution (yep, I'm still calling it that for now ). And I can't wait 'til I have my navy blue DS Lite at a very good price while sony is scrambling and knocking down the psp price.

QUOTE(jackie hayes @ May 8, 2006 -> 10:30 PM) This board is getting pussified fast today. In the end, he was right, so the doubters have to eat it. But he didn't call anything, he just asked, so he doesn't have much to crow about. In the end, noone's got much to talk about, so this long argument about who should be apologizing looks pretty dumb. Gotta admit it was hilarious. Works both ways though. Kinda hypocrtical for the ones who called him out to complain about getting called out themselves after being proved wrong.

QUOTE(shoota @ May 7, 2006 -> 11:18 PM) Do you suggest this nation not enforce its laws? Nope. The suggestion being made is that nation should improve its laws to better fit the situation.

I'm a lefty too.

AJ's wearing it??? I missed today's game, but I was originally very proud that our team wasn't wearing the women's softball helmet.

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I had to try Sol, Victoria, and Estrella when I went just because I always saw them on Mexican league soccer jerseys...