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QUOTE(Chisoxfn @ Jun 16, 2005 -> 02:17 PM) Ya, I figure the Newport one would of been too small. Of course for my sake the Newport one is the one that would do the most damage to the area I live in. Its been a dormant fault for a long time, but its ripped off some of the larger earthquakes in the state and goes down all the way to ingelwood (which is where the Lakers used to play before Staples Center). There are dormant faults all over the LA Basin. That's the biggest thing we learned from Northridge; they're just all over the place. Downtown, just about every suburb, hell there's one a few miles south of me now. This place is cracked up to hell and back. The reason you don't know it is that most of them have recurrence intervals on the order of 10,000 years or more.

Yeah, the Newport quake was a 2.0 - almost no humans can feel that. The Yucaipa one was actually pretty nice sized - a 5.3 according to the early # from the USGS. Incidentally, I wrote a bit last night on why earthquakes are nothing out of the ordinary last night for the tsunami alert thread.

QUOTE(Chisoxfn @ Jun 16, 2005 -> 02:01 PM) I don't know which one I felt. There was a 2.0 or so in Newport Beach and right at that same time there was a 5.3 in Yucaippa. Newport is only like 10-15 minutes from where I am but thats a pretty weak earthquake. The shaking lasted for about 3-5 seconds. Almost no humans can feel a 2.0. You felt the 5.3. So did I. There's a thread about this in the Politics section.

QUOTE(LosMediasBlancas @ Jun 16, 2005 -> 12:03 PM) Exactly. Didn't we say the same thing before the Tigers signed him? I've learned to never be surprised by how much or how long a guy is signed for. Just because you're not surprised doesn't mean you can't laugh at the idiots who are signing the checks.

QUOTE(SoxFan1 @ Jun 16, 2005 -> 02:11 PM) What the hell is up with your cats then? Cats can hear at different frequencies from humans.

QUOTE(Chisoxfn @ Jun 16, 2005 -> 02:02 PM) Ya, that was weird. I don't know which one I felt. There was one in Yuccaipa and than another in Newport right at the same time. I only felt it for like 3-5 seconds though, but I think this is as good of time as any to get out of the state for a few days, lol. Until this past week it seemed like forever since the last time we'd had a quake. I bet you it was the Yuccaipa one. I felt it too...and that's by far the closest one to me.

QUOTE(Cali @ Jun 16, 2005 -> 01:58 PM) Just had another one a few minutes ago. That's way too many lately. I think we're gonna be breaking off of the country pretty soon.... Haha...that's my first one since I moved here 2 years ago.

Ok...I've got a better Frist one thanks to the The Center for American Progress Bill Frist on the Today show in an interview with Matt Lauer: And from the testimony above...

I'm sorry, but i just can't see how a guy standing up, saying he's a doctor, and then saying "And that footage, to me, depicts something very different than persistent vegetative state" can be construed as anything other than making a diagnosis. But as you said, everyone has an opinion.

QUOTE(JimH @ Jun 16, 2005 -> 10:05 AM) Mike, where have we heard all this before? When have we heard this while sitting in first place?

QUOTE(YASNY @ Jun 16, 2005 -> 09:55 AM) So those poor mistreated terrorists, that want to kill YOU were uncomfortable. Damn! What's the world coming to? Of course, given that many of them aren't actually terrorists...that most of the people who have been at Gitmo have never been charged or tried with a crime, and most importantly, that many of them were simply rounded up for rewards, it's slightly wrong to call them terrorists. What actually happened was that when the U.S. went into Afghanistan, we put up big rewards for anyone who would turn in an Al Qaeda suspect. So, the Afghan people started pointing fingers at each other in droves...entirely for the reward money. And since the U.S. had absolutely no way of filtering out which ones were AQ affiliates and which weren't, people were just rounded up and sent away to Gitmo. This was the conclusion of a 2002 CIA report that was leaked to the NYT in 2004.

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Jun 16, 2005 -> 05:35 AM) I read it. Trust me. As usual he has a D behind his name so he is just being misinterpreted. I guess the Democrats are the only ones who can use the Nazi comparision and get away with it these days. And as usual people we are bending over backwards to say that isn't what he meant, when his words are pretty clear. Trust me if it had been Bill Frist who had said the samething we would have judiciary committees investigating it, and headlines all accross the country about it. Its a joke. Well, there sure weren't any investigations, or even much press coverage, when Rick Santorum called the Democrats Nazis for blocking judicial nominations.

So when they say they aren't as good of role models as they used to be, who exactly are they referring to? Those wonderful role models like Elvis, who's gyrating hips destroyed a nation's innocence? Frank Sinatra? Marilyn Monroe? The Beatles? Celebrities have been crazy since there have been celebrities. You take people and give them an enormous amount of easy money, and voila, you get a bunch of kooks acting wierd on national TV. It's remarkable.

QUOTE(ChiSoxyGirl @ Jun 16, 2005 -> 08:51 AM) Frist weighs in... Frist, R-Tenn., said he never made his own diagnosis but did argue there wasn't enough information about Schiavo's condition to justify allowing her husband to remove her feeding tube against her parents' wishes. "I raised the question, 'Is she in a persistent vegetative state or not?' I never made the diagnosis, never said that she was not. I did say that certain tests should be performed to determine that before starving her to death," Frist said in the interview. Absolute 100% Bulls***. Pure Bulls***. Complete lie. Here's his speech on the Senate floor about the Schiavo bill.

QUOTE(Middle Buffalo @ Jun 16, 2005 -> 09:38 AM) Did everyone hate Mags this much when he was with the team? I don't live in the area anymore, so I really don't know what the local opinion is. I just remember him being really popular before I moved away from Chicago. He was really popular. Great guy with the community, etc. But when you turn on your team, you get a backlash. That is all. Sosa was really popular on the North Side for quite some time too. Now he's a rich guy who's too hurt to play for a losing team, he didn't give the Sox the chance to even examine him before the arbitration deadline last year, he switched agents to Boras to deliberately piss off management, and he's spent the last 6 months engaged in a verbal war of words with the city and the team. That's a wonderful way to burn bridges. (That, and I think a couple of us are wondering if he might have had anything extra, um, enhancing his performance over the last few years and that might explain his recent injury rash) Oh, and on top of that, getting rid of Maggs was 1 big step towards building the 1st place team we have this year. That's another big help.

Who in the world would take a guy making $60 million over 4 years and who hasn't been healthy for a full season's worth of games since 2003? I mean, I know the Yankees need another outfielder or two, but Jesus, that was a terrible contract when the Tigers signed him to it, and it's a terrible contract today. No one else was considering offering him more than 2 years, and Boras got 5 out of the Tigers.

I'll feel happy for Giambi when he gives some of that $120 million that steroids earned him to a charity that helps prevent teenagers from using steroids. Otherwise...he deserves every single Boo he gets.

QUOTE(Hideaway Lights @ Jun 16, 2005 -> 09:27 AM) My hunch is that Garland had worse luck last year than most pitchers and worse run support during that first half. Yeah, but it's somewhat evening out this year...Garland's mostly had bats there to carry him when he needs them (aside from that start in Anaheim) - he gave up 6 to Toronto and the bats bailed him out, he gave up 6 yesterday and the bats bailed him out.

Also I got the impression that the Sox weren't to thrilled with the inconsistent strike zone yesterday. Yeah pitchers are supposed to get used to it, but when it seems like every other pitch is a close call...you start wondering.

QUOTE(ScottPodRulez22 @ Jun 15, 2005 -> 11:13 PM) Maybe his rbi's will slow down with frank batting a few of them in. Maybe his RBI's will go up with the big man in front of him actually walking. I wonder if the biggest effect Frank might have on this team is just as a hitting mentor. No one in baseball has been a more patient hitter over the last 15 years. Frank knows better than anyone that a home run is great, but a walk is better than an out, and his whole career he's shown that. We've already heard anecdotes about Frank working a lot with Uribe to force Juan to be a more patient hitter. I wonder how many of the other guys Frank spends time talking to about hitting? Frank's also a guy who's never been scared to hit the ball the other way.

QUOTE(SouthSidePride05 @ Jun 16, 2005 -> 08:47 AM) For anyone that cares, it was about a 6-minute segment. It started with Sox highlights from this year, and then the lady (don't know her name) interviewed a guy in North Carolina who wrote a book on the Cubs, believe it or not. The book is called "Cubs Nation : 162 Games. 162 Stories. 1 Addiction", and that's who they interviewed. UNBELIEVABLE! That's about it. :sleep The guy who wrote it was GENE WOJCIECHOWSKI. He's one of the ESPN columnist/reporters. You can find his archives here if you care to read more.

QUOTE(RockRaines @ Jun 16, 2005 -> 08:51 AM) If anyone saw his tweak his leg again last night, and his limping around the bases, I wouldnt predict any huge comback at this point. The guy is going to be fighting through injuries the whole year. The best thing to happen to Frank this year may very well be Carl Everett. Now that Everett has stepped it up, Ozzie has to find Carl some playing time. In other words, Frank will be forced to take extra days of rest just because we have Carl. And therefore, Frank will be more well rested when he's in there, and hopefully will be in prime shape when September and October hit. God I hope we re-sign the big guy.

Every pitcher ends up dealing with some bad luck and poor run support. That's why you have people pitching more quality starts than wins. That's why Jose Contreras and Mark Buehrle don't have 10 wins a piece. When John Garland is on, he's one of the best around. Does anyone other than me remember that game last year where Garland came out pitching against the Twins (I believe against Santana), El Cabayo hit a home run in the first inning after taking a pitch that should have been strike 3, and then that was all that Garland needed? There's no reason Garland can't be one of the best sinker ball pitchers in the Big leagues. He needs to keep his slider moving, but his sinker and straight fastball combo is as good as anyone's when he's smart enough to change speeds on them. We've seen that plenty this year. He's grown up enough now that he shouldn't get too rattled if someone commits an error behind him or if someone hits one out of the Cell. If he keeps his head in the game, keeps the ball down, and doesn't change what he's doing when he makes a mistake...then he will win 15 or more consistently. End of story.

QUOTE(Al Lopez's Ghost @ Jun 16, 2005 -> 04:42 AM) Houlton pitched real well vs. Minny on Sunday. Big righty. The quote from Jim Tracy was that after his first start, he'd earned another one. We've had plenty of guys this year get lit up in their first or second starts and then come out against us looking like Cy Young. It's about time we made a rookie look bad. Just out of curiousity, anyone know if Jose is traveling with the Dodgers?

It's nice to see Kelly Wunsch pitching again. I was at a end-of-school-year party for my division at Caltech 2 weeks ago - wearing my Sox replica jersey of course (we beat Cleveland that night), some lady came up to me & asked if I knew who Kelly was. Seems she's fairly good friends with him. He's a good kid, always like those crafty relievers. Glad to see he's back healthy & in the big leagues.