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AJ's average jumps from .143 to a very Andersonian .167

QUOTE(DrunkBomber @ Apr 17, 2007 -> 05:01 PM) Man, I have a feeling Ozzies comments about not booing Soso is gonna make him get booed twice as bad You say that as though its a bad thing. You know...now that I think about it...maybe that was Ozzie's goal in the first place. Really get the fans fired up about the boooing.

QUOTE(fathom @ Apr 17, 2007 -> 03:43 PM) I love Geoff Blum. And in the 14th inning nonetheless. It's like the "Don't pitch to Robin Ventura with the bases loaded" rule. Don't pitch to Geoff Blum in the 14th inning.

A piece of data probably worth adding to this discussion...in 2005, according to the FBI, there were a total of 5 murders on college campuses nationwide.

QUOTE(Rowand44 @ Apr 17, 2007 -> 03:16 PM) Well sir...touche. I personally remember him being much better against lefties, I obviously follow what he does a whole of a lot less now, cause I just really don't care about the Phillies. In 05 vs. Left .303 .354 .474 .828 vs. Right .258 .321 .383 .704 04 .302 .371 .575 .946 .315 .355 .526 .881

QUOTE(Kalapse @ Apr 17, 2007 -> 03:10 PM) Are we even sure Rowand is all that great against lefties? He was beyond terrible against them last season. Like .222 AVG/.304 OBP bad. So how long until someone starts up the "Rowand to the Sox?" thread? Mr. Rowand is, quite frankly, not all that "great" at anything except getting stellar jumps on the ball. Aside from 04, he hasn't been great with the bat, doesn't have great speed, and doesn't exactly have a cannon for an arm.

QUOTE(Kalapse @ Apr 17, 2007 -> 03:06 PM) Rowand/Erstad/Dye Erstad Rowand Thome Konerko Dye Crede Iguchi Pierzynski Uribe How does that grab ya? Choking on vomit...

QUOTE(Rex Kicka** @ Apr 17, 2007 -> 02:55 PM) By the way... the VA Tech shooter had obtained his gun(s) legally. Fixed. Had 2 of them, one from a pawn shop, one from a gun shop.

QUOTE(WilliamTell @ Apr 17, 2007 -> 02:34 PM) Man this sucks. I'd love to see more of Pablo/Anderson in the outfield now instead of Mackowiak. Hopefully we'll start seeing that against some lefties, and not always lefties named CC and Johan.

QUOTE(Kalapse @ Apr 17, 2007 -> 02:24 PM) You're not getting anything better than you already have in exchange for Boone Logan. Maybe from the Phillies. Seriuosly though...no reason at all to part with Logan. That'd be almost as stupid as trading Anderson.

QUOTE(NorthSideSox72 @ Apr 17, 2007 -> 01:50 PM) Actually, there are. You can't purchase one either, last I knew. Has that changed? Bulletproofme.com

QUOTE(DrunkBomber @ Apr 17, 2007 -> 01:53 PM) I would of rather brought Sweeney up than Logan but oh well. I guess Mack is starting tonight. If his stint on the DL is for any extended period of time I really hope we see more of Anderson. Yeah, because it would behoove us to give Sweeney the same amount of playing time as Anderson, and start his Arb clock! Calling up the Legend is the right move, especially with the innings our bullpen threw to start the season. It would just be really nice if Erstad wasn't the next option.

QUOTE(RockRaines @ Apr 17, 2007 -> 01:49 PM) Im guessing Erstad will play LF and lead off, and BA will play center and hit 9th. Mack and Pablo will back them both up. Great, just great...our leadoff hitter will now be a guy batting worse than .200.

QUOTE(Texsox @ Apr 17, 2007 -> 12:03 PM) I'm not saying they were good picks, just saying that industry experience alone doesn't make or break a candidate. I like William Gates, and think there were any number of agencies he could have run. Let me put it this way...I think that emergency management involves a specific set of skills that not necessarily every good manager would have. You have to be able to coordinate sudden shifts in everything under you, have half of your people out of contact, not know which information you're receiving is credible, and still manage to follow your procedures. With experience, I think that a lot of good managers would become good at that job. But I wouldn't want to just give it to a good manager if that manager had no experience in dealing with exactly that sort of crisis situation, even if that good manager was the richest man in the world. Anywho, it's not like we even got good managers into those jobs, so dah well.

QUOTE(Texsox @ Apr 17, 2007 -> 11:51 AM) To be fair, a good manager doesn't exactly need industry specific skills. I'll take Bill Gates running a horse farm over a lot of people with experience. But, these guys maight have been over their heads running agencies that large. I think that the Clinton administration is actually a good example. When Clinton came into office, it was shortly after Bush 1 had been criticized for the Federal Government's poor response to Hurricane Andrew. So when Clinton came in, he brought with him someone who not only he could trust, but who had experience in disaster managment; the guy who held the emergency management position in Arkansas with him, James Lee Witt.

QUOTE(Jenksismyb**** @ Apr 17, 2007 -> 11:47 AM) All good and true but the fact is there are states that allow concealed weapons right now. The fears you speak of have not happened. So why assume they would in other parts of the country? I'm failing to see the logic here. And really, crazy things happen all the time with police officers enforcing the laws. Bullets ricochet and hit unintended targets, police chases often end in collateral damage, etc etc. None of these were intended and all of these are considered acceptable loses in the name of enforcing the law. So whats the difference if there are a few occasions throughout the country where innocent people get hurt or killed? I think my main point is that there are different levels of gun control that are appropriate for different situations. Simple example. Please, if you will...I would like for one person here to tell me that the city of Los Angeles allowing people to carry concealed weapons legally would make this city a safer place. Probably ditto New York. There are some places where increasing the number of guns or putting them on the streets is just not going to do anything but get a lot more people killed. I think that most businesses and most universities are similar places...I just don't want the people walking past me on campus to be carrying unless they're wearing security shirts.

QUOTE(Texsox @ Apr 17, 2007 -> 11:30 AM) Yeah, that one bit him in the ass. Do we know who below Bush championed that pick? I assume Bush didn't do all the research on this. Bush's first FEMA director, Joe Allbaugh, hired Mr. Brown originally at FEMA after he was fired from his horse trading job. Mr. Allbaugh came into that role with a very strong emergency management background; his main job beforehand was as head of Mr. Bush's 2000 election campaign. The 2 of them together presided over the rapid decline of FEMA from a professional organization that was constructed during the Clinton years to the joke we saw trying to respond to Katrina. Allbaugh left in 2003 to make a personal fortune by starting a company dedicated to helping other companies make money by getting contracts in Iraq.

Mike Mussina and Carl Pavano join Chien Ming Wang in placing 60% of the Yankee starting rotation on the DL. Bartolo Colon pitched 7 strong innings in his final rehab start. Kaz Matsui to the 15 day DL with back spasms Jason Jennings will miss a couple starts with tendinitis. Not sure why he's not hitting the DL. Byung-Hyun Kim to the 15 day DL with a thumb injury. Randy Johnson has 1 more rehab start before he joins the big league team. Jason Schmidt underwent an MRI to try to see why his velocity has dipped to the low 80's. Troy Glaus and B.J. Ryan both to the DL, Ryan gone 4-6 weeks.

QUOTE(Soxy @ Apr 17, 2007 -> 10:50 AM) But it's not true. I think it actually is true that he wasn't a U.S. Citizen. He was, according to press reports, born in South Korea. He had been in the U.S. since he was 9, a period of 14 years, and had appropriate permanent resident status, but he was not a U.S. citizen.

The NBA has suspended referee Joey Crawford indefinitely after his confrontation last weekend with Tim Duncan. He is at least gone for the playoffs, possibly longer.

Since some of the discussion has focused on whether the administrators should have shut down the campus after the initial shooting, I think it's worth pointing out this article from last August. An escaped convict was believed to be in the area of Va. Tech, and the campus was shut down and students told to stay in their rooms on the first day of class.

Oh for crying out loud. So, I'm deliberately not linking to their website, but that was posted on it.

QUOTE(StrangeSox @ Apr 17, 2007 -> 09:49 AM) How could this situation of an unhindered shooter killing at will be any worse than it was? Honestly, I don't see how armed resistance could make the situation yesterday worse. Well, there's always the issue of how much you're willing to risk to prevent the worst case scenario. I'll give you an example. There's a remote chance an asteroid could strike the earth this year. It's not exactly likely, but it's not zero. What is the appropriate response? Should we immediately begin digging gigantic caves and keeping a million people locked up in there every year for the rest of time because the chance isn't zero? You can only do so much to prevent an event like this. You can't confine everyone to their homes for the rest of time, you can't shut down every school or city in the country, and so on. Would arming people have helped? Possibly. But it's also possible that allowing people to carry in an environment like a school, especialy where people are untrained and things like alcohol could be involved, you'll wind up with more casualties due to the people carrying in the first place. And I'm not talking about just the event yesterday...if a lot of people were carrying and it wound up gradually piling up 30 bodies over the course of a year or two, it would get much less attention, but the casualties would still be there. There are probably some places where it would not be a terrible idea to allow people to carry concealed weapons. I think a college campus though, especially a large one, would be a terrible place for that.

QUOTE(retro1983hat @ Apr 17, 2007 -> 06:32 AM) Anyways, I think Iraq has been a disaster but I think Bush will be remembered for having to deal with several enormous tragedies: 9/11, Katrina and Iraq. More than most recent presidents had to deal with. And it's worth noting the fact that, while it is debateable as to how much for each of them, the administration shares at least some of the blame for each of those (And yes, some passes on to the Clinton admin as well, so give me a little slack here). The failure to adequately do anything to make use of the months before 9/11, the failure to go after Bin Laden afterwards, the abject failure of the federal response after Katrina, and especially on Iraq.

Here's the ABC version: It sounds like if he had a green card, and the law was fully followed, he would have only needed something like a bank statement to show he was a resident of the state, in addition to his green card, to purchase the guns legally. Or he could just have gone to a gun show.