StrangeSox

QUOTE(southsideirish @ Mar 2, 2007 -> 01:26 PM) Sisco doesn't? He is a 6'10" lefty that consistently gets his fastball to the 95-97 area. He also has a very good curve. He has some control issues but his stuff is pretty damn good. You are in very good shape anytime you have 3 lefties with the potential of Gio, Danks, and Sisco. It seems as the Yankees always have big time prospects that get sent elsewhere and don't pan out, so I would be a bit leary of calling the Yankees minor league system very good. The Yankees and the media seem to talk up their prospects quite a bit. How do you know the Sox won't be able to buy an ace on the FA market? That sounds like a bunch of pessimism and "grass is always greener" attitude to me. You will probably use this great line by negative fans and pessimists that I love: "I bet they don't, but if they do I will be pleasantly surprised." Maybe their farm system isn't very good, but if they're able to trade over-inflated prospects for good players I think it works out for them.

I'm in.

There haven't really been too many cliffhangers lately because the plot has gone nowhere.

QUOTE(Middle Buffalo @ Mar 1, 2007 -> 09:47 AM) Lost is beginning to resemble so many of Stephen King's books. Great characters, great premise, and then somewhere along the way the story kind of fizzles and comes to an unfulfilling ending. I hope that doesn't happen here. Good analogy, hopefully it doesn't end up like that. Any of King's really long novels usually have an awesome story and great character development for about 3/4's of the book, and then he just seems to get bored with it and tacks on a cheesy ending. Lost is starting to get that feel. Last night's episode wasn't bad, but they really need something great before they throw us some filler material like this. If this had come after a few very good episodes, I'd have liked it much more. The previews for next week look very promising.

BP isn't staffed by idiots, but the overuse of statistics in baseball is pretty obvious with stuff like this. Too much changes from year to year for each individual player for these models to be anything more than entertainment.

Its looking like it, unfortunately. I haven't enjoyed an episode since before the break, and even those 6 weren't that great.

QUOTE(whitesoxfan99 @ Feb 28, 2007 -> 10:29 PM) I missed the last 5 minutes tonight. Can some one send me a message telling me what happened? Spoiler: (details in white font) They push-start the car and get it running. Everyone seems "uplifted by it." Jin gives Sun a flower. Flash to Kate in the jungle, Locke and Sayid find her. They're following a compass heading based on the way light reflected off of Eko's "jesus stick" when he was being buried. Kate came looking for Roussou and convinces her to help them find the Other's settlement. Overall, it was an ok episode, but definitely a "filler." Entertaining, but it didn't really advance the story much. I won't even start on how it would be nearly (if not entirely) impossible for that van to actually start up.

QUOTE(Balta1701 @ Feb 27, 2007 -> 08:47 PM) I would say last night's Special Comment was particularly good. (my favorite part is the Marshall plan stuff) Wow, he really ripped into her. It could have been done more professionally and his point would be better-received, though. Sometimes politicians manage to amaze me with the stupidity of the rhetoric that comes out of their mouths.

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Feb 28, 2007 -> 02:00 PM) That is a falsehood. The writers have plans for this show for seven seasons worth of episodes according to what I have read. This show is way too complex to just throw together week to week, or even season to season. The frame of these episodes has been figured out for years in advance. They have said the show will go 4 or, at the absolute, very most, 5 seasons. They don't want it to end up like the X-Files. And they keep claiming that they have these grand ideas, but it isn't adding up right now. I'm still willing to give them the benefit of the doubt, but I wouldn't be shocked if the ending winds up seeming patched together.

One of the few things Blago has done right, IMO, is to give every child medical coverage in this state.

China's markets holding steady right now.

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QUOTE(vandy125 @ Feb 27, 2007 -> 03:37 PM) Time to buy! Yeah, but what?

QUOTE(Soxy @ Feb 27, 2007 -> 03:16 PM) So, what does that mean (I know what a drop means, but I'm thinking more globally and more big picture)? Is this a blip or the start of a trend? From what I've read, probably just a little, quick self-correction. The market was out pacing the economy.

FWIW, renewable energy and other forms of non-fossil fuel energy cost significantly more per kWh than energy from a coal or natural gas plant. So, really, you'd need to compare the total energy usage (not $ amount) and where that energy is coming from.

http://money.cnn.com/2007/02/27/markets/ma...dex.htm?cnn=yes

Damn you Ozzie and your playing favorites.

QUOTE(Texsox @ Feb 27, 2007 -> 11:30 AM) It's sad when great ideas get discredited or bad ideas get credited based on who says them. But I guess that is our society, get the best spokes models and you have a winner. Style over sustenance. There's no more common a logical fallacy in modern rhetoric than the ad hominem. "Mr. X says Y! But Mr. X also does Z bad thing! Therefore, Y is also bad!"

The producers have stated several times that there is absolutely no time-travel.

I'm just glad to see Babel get mostly shut out. That movie sucked big time. Departed was great, though. Deserving of the win, I think.

QUOTE(SoxFan101 @ Feb 25, 2007 -> 03:31 AM) I watched 23, it was interesting but the movie itself was way over-done and it took away from being able to enjoy it. Hard to get in specifics without giving away parts of the movie. I thought it was pretty good up until the last 25 minutes or so. After that it was pretty terrible and cliched.

I thought this episode was a little better than last week, but not much. And I thought last week's was the worst ever. The pace of this show has stalled big time. They're not telling us much of anything, the characters aren't going anywhere, and, in general, nothing is really going on. This used to be an adventure/ mystery/action/drama show, now its just become a lame drama. QUOTE(RockRaines @ Feb 22, 2007 -> 02:33 PM) If you arent used to the commercials by now, dont watch tv. They revealed that the survivors that were captured were not killed, but made to "watch." They revealed that only work is done on the small island, and they usually dont even like coming there they revealed that Ethan was their old surgeon they revealed that there was someone other than Ben in charge of certain things they revealed what Jack's tat means and where it came from they revealed many of those people grew up there and didnt come from or have never seen the "real world." i cant even think of what else. I thought it was an awesome episode with a great lead in to the next one We pretty much knew that they didn't kill people they took We knew they didn't live on that island Ethan is irrelevant The woman was revealed but nothing about her or what she does. We knew where his tatoos came from. We knew that some of them had lived their entire lives on the island. Why didn't Jack ask the stewardess, or Juliet, or anyone else about 1000 questions? What are they doing here? Why? Why did they take Jack? How do they know about him? etc. Instead, he just flips out and yells at people so that they can stall on giving an explanation for anything.

The only way to protect our liberties is to make sure we don't use any of them.

QUOTE(Iwritecode @ Feb 23, 2007 -> 09:37 AM) That's really all it's ever been. The only thing that really evens it out is the ability to play the stock market and the fact that they give you money for each kid at the end. Still a fun game though. Now they don't even give you money for kids and there's not stock market.

I hope he does better (I think he'll need to), but I won't hold my breath.