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  1. He could actually demand a trade tomorrow (well, this offseason, because we're past the non-waiver deadline) if he wanted to. All he has to do is publicly waive his no-trade clause. That would have the effect of forcing management to trade him.
  2. Apparently, Chris O'Leary saw this coming. http://www.chrisoleary.com/projects/PitchingMechanics101/Essays/PitcherElbowInjuryEpidemic.html In terms of other pitchers who I think could fall victim to the elbow injury epidemic, the picture below of Jose Fernandez was recently brought to my attention by a reader. Jose Fernandez Unfortunately for Jose Fernandez and Marlins fans, this picture shows both premature pronation and a resulting timing problem. While this arm action may improve both Jose Fernandez's velocity and his stuff, it will most likely also lead to elbow and shoulder problems. And so did Justin Orenduff: http://baseballrebellion.com/jorenduff/did-jose-fernandez-change-his-pitching-mechanics/
  3. If that were the case, everyone missed it, not just the Marlins. It's not his mechanics, he has a smooth, easy, repeatable delivery and uses a huge stride to produce power with his lower body. It's just unfortunate. Did Jose exhibit the "inverted W"? That was a big factor in how Jameson Taillon developed his tear, and people are concerned about Chris Sale essentially being a walking TJ waiting to happen.
  4. You want the list? This is supposedly it, and you aren't going to like it: http://www.rotoinfo.com/read_article.php?articleId=380
  5. This list was found at http://www.rotoinfo.com/read_article.php?articleId=380 and explicitly says UNCONFIRMED. However, it does make you think. Two members of the team at the time were on the list: Pudge and Derrek Lee. Other players who played in previous years were also listed: Gary Sheffield, Antonio Alfonseca, Matt Clement, Livan Hernandez, Moises Alou, and Cliff Floyd. On the other hand, the Cubs got slammed harder with players on their 2003 team: Alou, Sosa, Corey Patterson, Aramis Ramirez, Clement, Mark Prior, Kerry Wood, and Carlos Zambrano. That's right, the ENTIRE Cubs' starting rotation AND ENTIRE OUTFIELD for the 2003 NLCS was rumored to be juicing! It's gotta make you think.
  6. “Mark my words. It will not be six months before the world tests Barack Obama like they did John Kennedy. The world is looking. We’re about to elect a brilliant 47-year-old senator president of the United States of America. Remember I said it standing here if you don’t remember anything else I said. Watch, we’re gonna have an international crisis, a generated crisis, to test the mettle of this guy.� Biden isn't the sharpest knife in the drawer, but this is an interesting quote from the campaign in retrospect. I don't see any great insight here by Biden. It's fact. It's the norm for any new POTUS to be tested. To me at least, this is not "an interesting quote from the campaign in retrospect". Maybe true, but he was getting pilloried for it as another example of a "Biden gaffe". All the while Mark Sanford was trying to solve a problem like Maria.
  7. I gotta agree with you guys on this one. Savage is a slimeball and a douchebag, but come on! Only question now is whether he would sue under American or British libel laws. I would say he has a better chance under British, because they would have to give a VERY compelling reason why they did what they did. And I'm not even a fan of the British libel laws!
  8. I'm proud to say I read the whole article. :arms I think it took 45 minutes. I lost track of time even though the clock is right in front of me on the taskbar. :blink: Yeah I'm real interested on what it had to say, since I have my own thoughts about the place. So? What did it say? Anything we didn't know? Building code violations up the wazoo? Buildings will fall appart spontaneously? What what Slave labor, debt servitude, seizure of passports from migrant labor, Emiratis don't care and just look the other way. That's the article in short.
  9. I know it was done on opening day. By Yaz, last time in 1967. That's been the story so far. . My question is different. first home run=inside the park hr It doesn't matter what day of the season it happens on. Like when Hermida hit a granny as his first hr. There's only so many times this has happened. First game=rare. First AB, I believe. Much rarer. The first HR being an inside-the-park home run... yes, I'm sure that's happened tons, especially in the old days. Robert Clemente did it though... I think it's April 17th, 1955 - at the Polo Grounds in the first game of a double-header... - not sure if it was his first AB, but definitely his first home run, obviously Edit: Note, I typo'd the crap outta this, I've since revised it several times. It would have been against the Dodgers, and thus at Ebbets Field that day. And yes, 4/17/1955 was his major-league debut. I do know that he hit the only walk-off inside-the-park grand slam in MLB history the next season.
  10. Not only is he not the first one to do this, but he's not even the first Marlin! Marlins @ Cubs on May 24, 1999 - Kevin Millar hits his first homer, a 3 run inside-the-park home run to put the Marlins ahead 7-5 in the top of the 9th. Kevin Millar was called up in 1998. Don't know whether he hit any homers that season.
  11. Wow, this board REALLY has gone down the crapper the past month.
  12. I got Louisville, Pitt, UNC, and Marquette in the Final Four. Louisville and Pitt in the Championship game with Louisville winning it all. So far, so good for me though. Only blemish is picking Butler over LSU, but I had Butler losing next round anyway so no huge deal. I had Butler beating UNC, but I think LSU might take care of that job. It hurt, but not as much as LSU beating UNC is going to hurt everyone else's brackets.
  13. On the other hand, the base in Okinawa served as a lookout on China and the Soviet Union moreso than a check on Japanese tensions. A base in Iraq may act as a lookout on Iran, but what good is that going to do when (not if, when) the Iraqi government cozies up to Iran? Japan was never going to do that with China or the Soviet Union.
  14. It would be too funny if Morrison makes it to the majors before supposed "best prospect in all the minors and former top first-round pick" Andrew McCutchen. What are the odds of that happening?
  15. Probably for the best. I never really liked Daschle. I thought he was a weakling, as shown by his tenure in the Senate.
  16. Yeah, and a third of them have left since Chavez took power.
  17. http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3664599,00.html Caracas synagogue vandalized Venezuelan Jews alarmed by increasing anti-Semitism after vandals daub 'Jews get out' on synagogue walls Maya Lecker Published: 01.31.09, 16:42 / Israel News "We don't want Jews here" and "Jews get out" were the slogans daubed on a Caracas synagogue's walls Saturday. David Bitan, vice president of the Jewish community in Venezuela, told Ynet that late Friday night a number of assailants broke down the synagogue's door and threw scripture books on the floor, then proceeded to graffiti the hateful slogans on the walls. "We found the guard on the floor, he had been threatened with a gun," Bitan said. "Until 3 am they destroyed the offices, opened the Ark of the Covenant, and threw the Torah books on the floor." He said the Jewish community had filed an official complaint with the police. "This is a very complicated situation for the Jews in Venezuela. The slogans were not against Israel but against the Jews," he said. Bitan added that the community has been troubled by numerous anti-Semitic acts over recent years, and a spokesman for the Federation of Jewish Communities in Venezuela, Daniel Ben-Naim, said the incident testified to the increasing hatred of Jews in the country. "We've never had such an incident. It looks well-planned," he said. "We were afraid something like this would happen. The official press was becoming more and more anti-Israeli and anti-Jews. There are hundreds of anti-Semitic articles, ads, and fliers." An Israeli residing in Caracas said images from the ravaged synagogue had been displayed in the local media. He said he had seen that another slogan, "Death to the Jews", was also sprayed in the synagogue. Relations between Israel and Venezuela became strained over the IDF operation in the Gaza Strip. Caracas severed its diplomatic ties with Israel after Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez slammed Israel's actions as "inhumane". On Wednesday the Foreign Ministry in Jerusalem announced that it had ordered Venezuelan diplomats in Israel to exit the country by the end of the week. In response, Caracas stated that the country was proud its diplomats had been expelled, and called Israeli leaders criminals. And allegations are that Chavez ordered the hit himself (or, at the very least, someone took a cue from his rantings).
  18. I'd rather have moral troops than the schoolyard bully in my army. Then maybe we wouldn't see as many Gitmos or Abu Ghraibs.
  19. Yenta = nosybody in Yiddish. Also, the name of the shadchan (matchmaker) in Fiddler on the Roof. And no, we're not calling you anti-semitic because of whatever BS reason you gave. We're calling you anti-semitic because you deny the rights of defense bestowed upon any other country to be utilized by Israel.
  20. New White House Staff! So far we have: Rahm Emanuel - Chief of Staff - Jewish David Axelrod - Senior Advisor to the President - Jewish Ronald Klain - Chief of Staff to the Vice President of the United States - Jewish Admin Summers - Economic Advisor to the President - Jewish Paul Volcker - Economic Advisor to the President, Former Head of Federal Reserve - Jewish Tim Geithner - Treasury Secetary - Jewish Peter Orszag - Head of Budget - Jewish Am I the only one noticing that Obama and Biden are not so much assembling staff as gathering a minyan? OMGJewishInternationalConspiracyLOL!!!!!!!
  21. BullDurham

    Israel

    I was trying to think of some way to respond to this 1938-like thread, but instead, I'll let my old friend Abe Foxman do it for me: http://www.adl.org/Israel/mearsheimer_walt.asp http://www.adl.org/Anti_semitism/deadliest_lies/ EDIT: There's more. Someone on here made a weird claim about casualties. However, I would not trust that number. It's been done before with Jenin, and it's happening again. This link will tell you more: http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=ODY1N...MDE=&w=MA==
  22. BullDurham

    Israel

    Israel should just attack them themselves... If the US was not controlling Iraqi airspace they would. I am still surprised they haven't attacked Egypt, Jordan, Syria or Lebanon. They seem like they are itching for an all out war and want to be the centerpiece. Put down the haterade. . . Israel doesn't want to be the centerpiece, and it doesn't want a full scale war in the middle east.? It asked the US to attack Iran!! For no reason. At least they have border disputes with those other countries. That have tangible ties to Iran. So while I'm not going to pass judgment on whether that was wise or not, I am going to say that Iran's actions have turned that into a border/existential dispute.
  23. BullDurham

    Israel

    Is it me, or does it feel like it's 1938 all over again, between this site, Digg, and the Western mainstream media?
  24. True, and this position is probably the one place in government in which having a celebrity is a good thing. Remember that the Surgeon General does not really get involved in proposing policy, but rather in public awareness.
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