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QUOTE (lostfan @ May 15, 2008 -> 09:45 PM) So a CQ 2-run bomb would be nice here. So a JD 3-run bomb would be nice here.

So a CQ 2-run bomb would be nice here.

QUOTE (fathom @ May 15, 2008 -> 09:27 PM) I'm so ready for Uribe to be back at shortstop. I guarantee he would have taken control on Iztruis' pop up. Like that time in Detroit around this time last year when he called everyone off and then let the ball drop in front of him

Javy getting knocked around a bit.

QUOTE (WCSox @ May 14, 2008 -> 10:24 AM) I wouldn't completely take velocity out of the equation. If Mark lacks it and he doesn't have Maddux-like command that day, he's going to be far from dominant. He got hammered throughout most of 2006 and it wasn't because his command was terrible. That said, I agree that location is the most important factor. Not only in Mark's case, but for pitchers in general. He was having control issues in 2006 too. I remember him complaining about QuesTec or whatever it's called that measures the accuracy of umps and saying he wasn't trying to make excuses (he kind of was actually) just that the umps seemed to have a smaller strike zone and it'd make him miss his spots. It wasn't that. He was just plain missing them.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ May 15, 2008 -> 04:02 PM) Or you leave service when they demand something from you that you know is wrong and you should not do. He had that option. I guess loyalty played a role.

I do not ever want to see Thome batting 3rd for this team again. Unless, of course, he becomes the .285/40 HR/1.000 OPS version of Jim Thome.

QUOTE (Athomeboy_2000 @ May 15, 2008 -> 02:52 PM) yea. that part pisses me off. If you dont agree, then step aside. He's a career soldier. As long as he is employed by the gov't he does what his boss wants him to do. However, also like a soldier, if you no longer believe in your leadership, you leave service when your time is up.

One thing to keep in mind when considering an American long-term presence there is that in other countries like that, our presence is basically integrated into the host nation's economy. So we are not footing the bill and spending billions of dollars every year for an indefinite period of time. So we would need Iraq to start opening their wallets... and we would have to think about if that's even possible.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ May 15, 2008 -> 12:40 PM) 100 years in the same sense we have had troops in Europe for 100 years. In all seriousness, this is as absurd as the whole Al Gore invented the internet thing. I honestly can't believe people are using it so completely out of context with a straight face. My problem with comparisons between Iraq and Korea/Germany/Japan is that in all of those wars there was a formal end or at least suspension of hostilities and there were conditions adhered to by everyone. That's something that cannot and will not happen here for pretty obvious reasons. The conditions and all might change for the better (or worse) but there is no centralized leadership to give an order to make it all stop. So while McCain's statement certainly doesn't mean he wants the war to last 100 years, it's kind of misguided and irrelevant to begin with so it's all a moot point.

I'm getting sick of talking about how good Carlos Quentin is.

QUOTE (Tony82087 @ May 15, 2008 -> 12:28 AM) http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/24635229#24635229 Man he went OFF. I thought he was going to explode.

QUOTE (SoxFan1 @ May 15, 2008 -> 12:26 AM) Something is terribly wrong. Our lineup makes some sense, CQ hit a grand slam, PK stole a base, Swisher with a HR? What? Oh and Ozzie actually uses Anderson as a defensive substitution. Although it's not a close game. Too much change at once would cause the space-time continuum to implode on itself.

Bahaha is Napoli a narcoleptic or something?

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ May 14, 2008 -> 10:06 PM) .356 ain't terrible. Its not spectacular either, but its more than a Sox leadoff hitter has put up for a number of years now. Given that his career OBP is about 30 points lower than that and it's never been higher than .333 since he's been with the Sox, and only one season where he's ever had an OBP like that (2003, with .360) I would have to say I would not expect him to maintain that for much longer. Maybe he will but if he did it'd be above the norm.

lol so I'm kinda half-listening to Edwards speak and I just heard him borrow a couple words from Reagan i.e. "tear that wall down." Same inflection and tone and everything.

I heard Edwards is picking the Giants over the Patriots in the Super Bowl.

I'm going to stick with my previous position the first time it was brought up, apparently going against the majority, and say I think it's a horrible idea. AJ has wretched plate discipline even when he's good, he is slow, and he's a batting average-driven player. Plus it's a waste of perfectly good RBI opportunities (RBI is a bad metric to gauge a player by, but they are more of a team stat). If you take AJ out of his spot near the bottom of the order, naturally that means you're putting someone that's not hitting there and unless they miraculously start hitting it's going to leave runners stranded just as we are now. And if they ARE hitting, then there's no need to change anything in the first place and it's a moot point.

QUOTE (Kalapse @ May 14, 2008 -> 01:34 PM) So I need a few examples real quick. 1. Can I have an example of a player who falls into your "athlete" category and 2. what's your definition of "leadoff" guy? I know the question wasn't directed at me, but as far as players currently on this team/40-man roster that fit the "all-around athlete" mold: Carlos Quentin Josh Fields Brian Anderson Danny Richar (possibly) However only one of those guys is in the everyday lineup. So it seems like we have nobody.

QUOTE (MEANS @ May 14, 2008 -> 01:02 PM) that has always been my problem when we went out and got him after the WS in 05. We really didn't need another slugger, heck we just got rid of Carlos and Maggs a bit before, went out and got some speed and look what happened-WS Champs, then we turn around and get another slugger...seems like we don't learn. Once Frank got hurt again the 2005 offense was really sucky.

My 2 cents: Let's look at this galaxy we live in. I'll be conservative and say we have 200 billion stars in this galaxy, so who knows how many planetary systems. So yeah that's pretty big. We're just a tiny, tiny speck in the galaxy, so there's 200 billion other possibilities out there. Now, if that's not convincing enough to someone that other life could exist for whatever reason, there are 200 billion other galaxies (again, being conservative, that's only what we can actually see and all we know of). So assuming ours is an average-sized galaxy, that's... umm... 4 with 22 zeros behind it, so... 40 sextillion stars or 40,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 stars. That we know of. It's literally incomprehensible how big the universe is. That number may not be convincing and it isn't proof of anything, but if it isn't mind-opening I don't know what is. And let's assume that one day we get the ability to travel beyond our solar system in a timely manner. If other life is discovered it will be so far away we won't find out for generations (and that exploring party will have become a mini-civilization in and of itself). Bottom line, my position is that it's totally irrational to rule out the possibility of other intelligent life because of an unfounded "faith" that "God only created us."

BigSqwert = Obama Boy

I'm not sure but probably somewhere between 4000 and 5000. Mostly from the Napster days when it was all free, and/or before they started cracking down on peer-to-peer file sharing. I download a lot less than I used to.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ May 14, 2008 -> 12:01 PM) When I was in Haiti, I remember seeing a kid with a beat up batter-man style Sox shirt walking down the street. He probably had no idea what it meant. Also saw a woman who had to be 80 years old, trundling down the road, with a shirt that said "HOT MAMA" on it. Isn't it a different country they give the losing SB shirts to every year?

QUOTE (Athomeboy_2000 @ May 14, 2008 -> 11:52 AM) hahaha Several months ago I thought about buying some Obama gear. Maybe a hat or something. Then I though, this is still wide open. If he looses, I look like a real ass wearing this. It's like buying the championship shirt of the team that LOST the super bowl. So what you're saying is we should give Hillary tattoos to kids in Africa?