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QUOTE (GreatScott82 @ Mar 10, 2009 -> 06:50 AM) It seemed like we started winning when Ozzie put AJ in the 2 hole.... A .307 OBP isn't impressive at all, but it was the little things that helped, like getting the man over, taking pitches etc.... I'm sure there are #s to refute those things, but sometimes its more than #s to change a lineups production and outlook. Alexie and Quentin are our best players but i think Alexie has more tools than CQ. Speed, defense, power etc... Quentin is pure offense! Not that he's a bad defender. I guess you can say they are pretty much equally important to our team. It's not so much numbers to refute those things so much as the fact that it didn't happen... AJ simply does not take pitches, period. Never will. He just happened to be on fire when he first got put in the 2 hole, but that ended a few weeks later, then we had nobody else that could do it (Cabrera, but he was leading off). AJ is great to have batting 6th, 7th, but not 2nd.

Kidney stone maybe?

QUOTE (bmags @ Mar 10, 2009 -> 12:24 AM) They are proposing a spending freeze kap. That's not an idea. That's a joke. What are you hearing and seeing that i'm not. If they were actually in power they wouldn't be "proposing" a spending freeze. They have the advantage of not really being taken seriously right now so they can say anything they want to without any real consequence. They can come up with cute slogan-like ideas that sound nice and have a certain connotation to them i.e. "spending freeze" = "fiscal responsibility" even though it's horrible economic policy. And they know that intentionally reducing spending is disastrous, because they always talk about how raising taxes during a recession is a bad idea. So in a nutshell they're just trying to convey a certain image for the dumber 25% or so of moderates that don't know any better.

QUOTE (whitesoxbrian @ Mar 10, 2009 -> 08:42 AM) Link? Link? I don't know about the first one, but the second one is kind of common knowledge by now.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Mar 10, 2009 -> 08:05 AM) I can't tell if this is sarcastic or not. It is.

QUOTE (kapkomet @ Mar 10, 2009 -> 12:03 AM) Really? That's one opinion. And even when they do propose something, it's "useless". You're even using the same language the honorable Ms. Pelosi and Mr. Reid do. Those Republicans are "useless". Their ideas are "useless". Hell, they are so useless that I don't want them in the room for debate! Well, it's one thing to have ideas, and it's another to not have a s***faced clue how to present them, which I contend is the Republican's issue and has been for 8+ years now. Re: your italicized points, yes, I do think they are presenting some of those ideas, but unless they REALLY work, they won't see the light of day unless the Messiah can get some credit. The reason Obama has been really quiet on all of this is because no one knows if this will work. He's betting a lot on something that's not proven, that's for sure. So, there are polar camps, just like always, which is frustrating. Why is it that Limbaugh jumped out to front page news? Be a Dem strategist here. Why is that? Hint: this is all tied together. It's easier to b**** about things when you have a boogeyman. Actually this strategy made sense and I was laughing at all the Republicans apologizing but they took this one too far.

QUOTE (BearSox @ Mar 9, 2009 -> 10:17 PM) This only promotes it, and it is sickening to think that the government is funding this crap. Promotes what? Doing something with the existing embryos besides tossing them in the trash?

QUOTE (Athomeboy_2000 @ Mar 9, 2009 -> 12:36 PM) Very weird... and completely inaccurate: Albert A. Gore, Jr. - March 31, 1948 Hillary Rodham - October 26, 1947 John F.. Kerry - December 11, 1943 William J. Clinton - August 19, 1946 Howard Dean - November 17, 1948 Nancy Pelosi - March 26, 1940 Dianne Feinstein - June 22, 1933 Charles E. Schumer - November 23, 1950 Barbara Boxer - November 11, 1940 It was supposed to induce chuckling, you totally killed it.

E-mail I got today:

So my office is, shall we say, well-represented in the female department. There is one in particular who is extremely attractive. I guess we were on backup power early this morning and the main power had just switched back on, so the UPS my computer is plugged into was beeping. It sits underneath the partition below my desk. Anyway the office hottie comes over to investigate the noise and I hear her voice on the other side of the partition telling me my UPS is beeping. She was squatting down trying to reach over to my side through the open part and press the button. So I go under my desk to look, and when I get down there I see her calves, knees, and thighs staring me in the face in all their glory. She was wearing a skirt, fortunately she couldn't see my face because that would've been awkward.

QUOTE (Reddy @ Mar 8, 2009 -> 11:28 PM) um, the name is pronounced the way we americans decide it's pronounced. Grassy-ass

QUOTE (dmbjeff @ Mar 8, 2009 -> 06:28 PM) Well thank you for letting us know this was your opinion and not something official. When you write that the Sox are going to make Beckham the starting 2B and you learn something new everyday about MLB, it appears to be something that is real. Unfortunately, it's not real and irresponsible. If you think Beckham should be the 2B, go ahead and post that. Hell, I even agree that he should, but don't write things that are false. He phrased it as a question, I didn't see anything wrong with it.

QUOTE (GREEDY @ Mar 8, 2009 -> 12:15 AM) This is prolly something better suited fot it's own thread but has anyone noticed Coop has had success taking "stuff" pitchers and getting them to "dial it back a bit" and throw strikes? It is like he has taken the same approach with every new pitcher he gets his hands on. Yeah, this has been noted on this board a few times. Seems to be Coop's MO. Worked with Floyd, didn't work with Vazquez.

He really can't do any damage to Buffalo, they're already a train wreck. What's the worst that can happen, he goes there, destroys the mess that's already there, and then the Bills coaching staff gets fired and they have to start over? That's probably going to happen anyway with or without TO.

QUOTE (mr_genius @ Mar 7, 2009 -> 04:04 PM) http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090307/od_af..._20090307074740 wow, talk about stupid. Yeah I saw that this morning. Who the f***...?

QUOTE (Chet Lemon @ Mar 7, 2009 -> 02:56 PM) It wasn't even that many Republicans were bringing the opposition. Lott, Burr, Hatch, McCain, etc. all supported funding. Bush vetoed that bill twice. Then, you saw a lot of those Republican Senators who opposed the funding get the boot from voters (e.g. Talent, DeWine, Allen, Sunnuu, etc). True enough. I really should've said "social conservatives" instead of Republicans. Generally I cannot stand social conservative talking points in national politics (it directly clashes with the logic of "limited government," though that's another topic) but I agreed with that one, that we shouldn't be creating stem cells solely for the purpose of research. But there was a very reasonable middle ground and Bush's opposition to it just didn't make any sense.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Mar 7, 2009 -> 02:18 PM) It has been a problem for sure since Rowand's 2004 season. We haven't had above MLB average production (offensively and defensively) since then from that position. Heck, I'll go all the way back to Lance Johnson to the last time we had a CFer I really liked...or Mike Cameron, warts and all. Lofton was good for six weeks in 2002. We've run through Jeremy Reed, Chris B. Young, Anthony Webster, Rowand, Ryan Sweeney, etc. One of the biggest miscalculations KW ever made was thinking Brian Anderson would be ready in 2006. Whatever he was doing in the minors (and he put up some good seasons statistically), they should have realized his swing has significant holes that would be exposed, especially to breaking balls and sliders low and away. Not only that, but he's a horrible players in terms of fundamentals and execution...hitting the cutoff man, bunting, baserunning (sometimes), hitting to the opposite field, shortening up his swing for contact (it seems like he's still taking some god-awful cuts up there that leave him with no chance of even hitting the ball). He's just a very talented athlete right now at age 26 still trying to figure out how to play. Like Borchard, he'll hit some balls that make you think he's a natural...or when he got Felix Hernandez twice out in Seattle, where for some mysterious reason 75% of his homers come from (of all MLB parks!). When you compare him at the plate with the presence of a Beckham or even Viciedo, it's like night and day. With Uribe gone, he's the batter that opposing pitchers would MOST want to face in our line-up, it's not even close for 2nd place at this point. Owens might at least put some pressure on the defense with the idea he will bunt or force the infield to make a play...most of the time the defense can just sit back on their heels with Anderson at the plate. That's not on Kenny Williams. At his level, he should be able to rely on the people who see him every day to give him accurate information or to correct that early on before it becomes a problem. Clearly that didn't happen and nobody noticed until he had been in MLB for half a season already.

QUOTE (kapkomet @ Mar 6, 2009 -> 11:17 PM) In general, that's my stance too. I think that embryonic stem cell research allows certain types of cells to be researched that are not present at a full term baby forward. There's so much we don't know. As I said, where DO have a problem with it is if humans just make these embryos for testing purposes... I have a HUGE problem with that. If the government is going to fund that, I have serious issues. I agree with this. I sort of agreed with Republicans in principle on their opposition to it like you just said, but Bush's ban was too strict and it was annoying the hell out of me. It felt like an arbitrary symbolic ban that prevented so many potentially good things from happening, and prevented reasonable compromises.

QUOTE (Cknolls @ Mar 6, 2009 -> 03:43 PM) But it is kind of funny for someone to always have to read what he is saying, don't ya think? I do think it's funny actually. His "unscripted" voice is pretty easy to imitate. "Uhhhh..." "Aaaand..."

QUOTE (ChiSox_Sonix @ Mar 6, 2009 -> 02:35 PM) Which is where it should have stayed... One of the 2 takeaways from that post, yes.

QUOTE (Athomeboy_2000 @ Mar 6, 2009 -> 01:50 PM) OOPS! Balta put that in the dem thread last week.

QUOTE (Markbilliards @ Mar 6, 2009 -> 12:34 PM) The sample size I was refering to was how much time you've had to watch him live in person or via tv to see his pitches speed/break/location. I didn't mean his career stats. I think I've only seen him twice on TV. The first time I saw him was when he got called up in I think '07, I was kind of excited to see him hoping he'd do well enough to stick around. He looked kinda unmemorable.

QUOTE (shipps @ Mar 6, 2009 -> 10:41 AM) Have I told you,lately,that I care? You fill my heart with gladness,take away all my sadness. Did you ever know that you're my hero?

I rarely agree with whitesoxbrian but in this case I'm agreeing that T.O. would do more harm than good for the Bears and turn Chicago into a circus sideshow. I'm not interested. Although I still think T.O. can play... but it's really just not worth it.

QUOTE (Y2HH @ Mar 6, 2009 -> 10:33 AM) You are all murdering the loving tone of this entire thread. THIS THREAD WAS FOR f***ING LOVING EACH OTHER NOT FOR HATING ON CHICAGO'S WEATHER, NOW DAMNIT SON OF A MOTHERf***ER START LOVING EACH OTHER BEFORE I START KICKING ASS#$@!!#@$