StrangeSox

Masset is pitching great today. Gotta keep myself focused on the positives.

Uribe is such a good baseball player.

QUOTE(Cerbaho-WG @ Mar 31, 2008 -> 03:34 PM) Two walks, AJ goes after the first pitch and....he drives in a run. Baseball can be quite odd. Well done, AJ! The Sox are pulling an early April Fool's Day joke on all of us with this bizarro-world baseball.

Well that was quick. Thome and Masset are making some people look foolish right now.

I'm still wondering why BA or Quentin didn't get the start in CF.

QUOTE(DrunkBomber @ Mar 31, 2008 -> 12:05 PM) Like I keep saying it is my opinion and my opinion isnt on trial. I absolutely do not need to prove something beyond a reasonable doubt to form my opinion. Just because you think its too much of a stretch to call Wright racist doesnt mean I have to. You also have never sat through one of his rants so you are in no way more credible than anyone else. I will stand by my belief that I gathered more than enough evidence for me to think Wright is racist. Its not like he said something that can be misinterpreted. He is flat out spewing hate and I have a big problem with him or anyone that supports him. Your post is acting as an apologist and if thats your prerogative thats fine. If you want to make excuses for Wright go ahead just know that you havent said anything even close to a defense for such hate and if you want to turn the other cheek simply because youre liberal go ahead. I expect more from a presidential candidate and I am 100% confident in the conclusions Ive drawn about Wright and I think its pretty naive on your part to think you know any more about the subject. No you don't, but if you're going to post your opinion in an online discussion forum, you should be prepared to defend it. Instead, you're just lashing out at anyone who questions whether or not your opinion is well-founded and asks you to explain the apparent leaps of logic.

Signed up for MLB radio last week so I could hear today's game. Hoping things go a bit better than last year's start. Here's weather.com's hour-by-hour forecast for Cleveland today: http://www.weather.com/weather/hourbyhour/...pnav_undeclared

No HDTV, still have analogue cable. I have a hand-me-down Dell MP3 player from my mom that I never use. I had a free Razor phone, but my friend just gave me his Cingular/ AT&T 8525. I don't pay for the data packages to actually use any of the features, though. I have a decent desktop computer (most parts are two years old or so), but no laptop. I do have Netflix, at least.

QUOTE(BobDylan @ Mar 24, 2008 -> 04:13 PM) I actually hate Shakespeare. I can't stand his books(plays). But his influence to literature is unparalleled. The thing about the writers I call great, they have more than one great work. Shakespeare has several. Homer has two (The Iliad, The Odyssey). Joyce has three (Dubliners, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Ulysses). Nabokov has two (Lolita, Ada or Ardor: A Family Chronicle). There are so many great books that I can't give the title to every author that has written a great book. I HATE James Joyce. That's my only input.

QUOTE(YASNY @ Mar 28, 2008 -> 12:35 PM) I have heard enough of what Wright has to say about things without having to read his attempts to minimize his hatred and racists views. Michelle Obama marches the beat of his drum. The letter was about his relationship with Obama and was published over a year ago. It does not mention Wright's own views.

QUOTE(YASNY @ Mar 28, 2008 -> 12:21 PM) No, Obama is married to woman that has her own issues with America. Wright probably had some influence on her opinion. ....and neither of them are former US Presidents who hold an awful lot of political sway and power and recognition around the world.

QUOTE(NorthSideSox72 @ Mar 28, 2008 -> 12:18 PM) So Wright and Obama are married? If so, perhaps we need to merge this thread with the one about Obama and gay sex. And Wright is also a recent two-term president, don't forget.

QUOTE(YASNY @ Mar 28, 2008 -> 12:11 PM) I clicked on your google link, and in the very first link I clicked on, maybe third on the page, I found this: It seems he wasn't always quite the anti-Iraq war he says he is. Thanks for guiding me to that. No substance. I can't think of any realistic support for that claim. He denounced the war in 2002, well before he was in the US Senate. That line just comes from some random blog and has no supporting evidence for that claim. Barack's 2002 speech: http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Barack_Obama's_Iraq_Speech You've been shown substance. If you want to disagree with that substance, by all means, go ahead. There's plenty there that I disagree with myself. I'm just really tired of hearing the same sort of BS about the different candidates again and again.

Obama has given at least two economic policy speeches, a foreign policy speech, and a energy policy speech. People just keep saying "He hasn't said anything!" without bothering to check what he's actually said. Not every speech is going to be a detailed policy speech, but he has given several of those. http://my.barackobama.com/page/content/fpccga/ http://my.barackobama.com/page/community/p...ahamfelsen/Cmzm http://www.barackobama.com/2007/10/08/obam...new_plan_to.php http://www.google.com/search?q=OBAMA+POLIC...lient=firefox-a

QUOTE(NorthSideSox72 @ Mar 27, 2008 -> 03:04 PM) Incomes are not the key factor for cap gains taxes. They are basically unrelated. And in fact, for the few people in low income brackets who do invest, THEY won't notice the differential change in their bottom line. Its the bigger investors that will take notice, and shift their money. They'll also not have that extra 10-13% to re-invest.

QUOTE(BigSqwert @ Mar 27, 2008 -> 02:59 PM) Sen. OBAMA: No, no, no, absolutely. And that's why I think that it may be, for example, that you could structure something in which people with certain incomes were exempted from this increase and it would stay at 15. What are these "certain incomes?" Democrats seem to view anyone making over $75k as rich.

QUOTE(Felix @ Mar 27, 2008 -> 01:37 PM) 84-78, although the upside could be higher. We won't win anything special, and we'll be in third place in the Central. QUOTE(ZoomSlowik @ Mar 27, 2008 -> 01:40 PM) 84. The offense rebounds a fair amount with the Swisher and Cabrera additions, and one of the 3 back end starters comes up with a decent year to complement Mark and Javy (don't ask me which one, just a feeling). I also have a hard time seeing the bullpen being quite as putrid as it was last year. They don't have enough for a huge year without an awful lot of breaks going their way though. My feelings are along these lines. I just don't think we have the rotation this year.

QUOTE(G&T @ Mar 26, 2008 -> 03:15 PM) Well the idea is that the links are posted on forums known for trading in child porn. If a person clicks the link the FBI then has probable cause to search the person connected to that IP. Logically then, if child porn is found then he can be charged. I imagine that if there is no evidence that the suspect ever visited the forum and has no child porn, then the FBI has no case. Simply clicking the link won't be enough. Nevertheless, something bothers me about this if the FBI starts using it for other purposes. As for entrapment, I don't see this this as any different than a cop posing as a prostitute. That's what I thought at first. If you read the article a little closer, it says that simply the act of attempting to obtain child porn is illegal. Relevant law: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/18/2252.html

QUOTE(kyyle23 @ Mar 26, 2008 -> 12:15 PM) Wait, does Rockstar/Take Two have the rights to the 2k baseball games? From wiki: In 2005, in response to EA Sports' exclusive license with the National Football League and ESPN, Take-Two Interactive signed an exclusive third-party licensing contract with Major League Baseball (MLB), MLBPA and MLBAM to produce MLB games. The agreement, which runs from Spring 2006 to 2012, allows for the console manufacturers Sony, Microsoft, and Nintendo to produce MLB titles for their respective platforms, but bars third party developers such as EA Sports from continuing or developing their own MLB games. As a result, the MVP Baseball series now features college baseball, with MVP 06 NCAA Baseball having been released in late January 2006, and MVP 07: NCAA Baseball in February of 2007.

QUOTE(BearSox @ Mar 26, 2008 -> 11:41 AM) oh come on, please sell to EA!!! I am dying for the return of MVP Baseball! You want EA to come out with MVP baseball 2009? Get MVP 2005 and download a roster update, it'll be virtually identical.

QUOTE(Princess Dye @ Mar 26, 2008 -> 11:22 AM) is Swisher your leadoff hitter vs. RHP? Most likely. He'll do a better job of getting on base and driving himself in than Owens will while Anderson is busy providing significantly better defense in CF. If we had a great pitching staff, things might be a little different, but I have a feeling at least two of the 3-4-5 will need all they help they can get defensively.

QUOTE(Princess Dye @ Mar 26, 2008 -> 11:06 AM) Especially when the other options are Quentin and Anderson... 25 yr olds that havent done much at the MLB level ever. I mean, with them, you're content to project favorably.... but for some reason not with Owens who has actually put together some consistently good consecutive weeks at the MLB level. Let me ask it this way: what gets us closer to championship level.... Owens playing his absolute best and making a big jump in offensive ability this year, or Anderson doing the same? Not who would be the better player, but which as best fit for the team gives the team the highest ceiling. Anderson had near-record level defense in CF in his rookie year and put together a solid month or two at the plate. There's no question in my mind that Anderson making a big jump offensively to go along with his GG-caliber defense gives you the best outcome. BTW, just going off of ST stats, Anderson looks more ready to make that jump.

QUOTE(southsideirish71 @ Mar 26, 2008 -> 10:21 AM) Well Owens has to steal bases, because he can barely hit anything but singles. Check the amount of XBH he has had for a "speed guy". I am waiting to see Owens hit the ball out of the infield a bit more and not have the bad groin for more than a day before I am willing to give him a chance. Thats what I was saying. He HAS to be able to steal bases because he isn't very good at most other aspects of baseball.

QUOTE(Princess Dye @ Mar 26, 2008 -> 09:44 AM) A true long reliever is more important than a true leadoff hitter? I doubt that's your intended point, but it kinda comes off that way. The three guys you mention aren't stealing any bases. Now, Owens... if he can have even a .350 OBP, he's going to have a way better chance of taking second regularly than any of those guys. He doesnt have to have an amazing OBP to make us significantly better than a three inning reliever would. Also keep in mind that moving Cabrera and Swisher up to leadoff takes them out of what they do best as well. Stealing a few bases isn't nearly as important as hitting for some power, getting on base at a higher clip, and providing stellar, All-Star caliber defense in CF. Owens might be able to take second if he gets himself on base, but Anderson's much more likely to get himself to second on a hit to the gaps or get himself all the way home.

QUOTE(lostfan @ Mar 25, 2008 -> 09:41 PM) Correct me if I'm wrong but didn't she say it more than once? It's also was written in a speech and I believe that its also in her memoirs. She must be chronically sleep-deprived along with her writing staff.