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  1. David
    Here's a decent breakdown... http://forum.ecoustics.com/bbs/messages/34579/122868.html
  2. David
    That's an important question, but I think David already hit on the even more basic question. If WGN-HD isn't in your HD tier, it sounds like the WGN you're watching is just the regular SD broadcast. The fact that it says "In Hi-def where available" unfortunately sounds like it doesn't apply in your case -- it's probably referring to those areas where the separate WGN-HD channel is available. I thought B was joking, but who knows. :) Actually, I wasn't. Before I got an HDMI cable, I had some channels come in better than others. How much of a difference does an HDMI cable make over normal HD cables? HDMI cables and component cables are no different in picture quality. EDIT - I probably should've worded it different. One isn't necessarily better than the other, although HDMI offers more convenience and will be more flexible if/when resolutions continue to improve. That said, they're both really good and you're not likely to notice a huge difference, if any, and it really depends a lot on your individual set up in terms of which one is better.
  3. David
    Maybe you can, but it can't exactly be anywhere near easy at the major league level. Sliders are supposed to be difficult to read. They're nasty breaking pitches being thrown by major league pitchers. Maybe he just isn't as good as the truly elite hitters at doing it. Maybe he could improve. It's really not easy to say.
  4. David
    Kind of like how everyone continued to report that Geo's thing was his shoulder when it was actually a strained biceps.
  5. David
    You wrote it. Superhuman eye sight is not a defining quality of MLB players. Lots of them have to have lassic surgery or were contact or glasses. Not everybody can be trained to read pitches but baseball players can. The extent to which they can be trained do it is probably not limited by their genetic capacity. I'm not saying that people can't improve from their natural baseline ability, which is what I meant by "case by case." We agree on this. But there's no question that some people's baselines are higher than others and some people's genes allow them to more easily read and recognize pitches more easily and with less training (and potentially to a higher level) than others. That's just life. That's all I was arguing.
  6. David
    But if your eyesight is good enough to make it possible for you to hit at the major league level, it's good enough to allow you to be able to layoff balls. It may or may not be... marginal differences at that level are huge. In the big picture, in the most general sense possible, Alfonso Soriano is only a little bit better than, say, Felix Pie at baseball, but it obviously makes a huge difference in the game.
  7. David
    You're right. What was I thinking? Natural ability and what essentially amounts to superhuman eyesight has nothing to do with pitch recognition and anybody can be trained to read major league pitches. Nobody is predisposed to doing it far more easily, right? I'm an idiot.
  8. David
    http://notqualifiedtocomment.com/wp-content/uploads/jay-greg.jpg teammates already bonding
  9. David
    And I'm not arguing that the guys who aren't as good at it can't improve. Obviously, it's a case by case type of thing, but to say that plate discipline isn't in large part based in natural ability is ludicrous, IMO.
  10. David
    He might not but I do. It's a skill, not a genetic trait like hair color. The type of vision it requires is most certainly genetic. Not as significant, but a patient mindset itself is probably somewhat impacted by genes as well.
  11. David
    Maybe the fact that Cubs fans witnessed Sosa do it makes them think it's easier than it really is? :confused: Then again, I bet there are a ton of fans who never even noticed Sosa's incredibly improved approach and only noticed the HRs (obviously, I'm not suggesting that goony is one of them).
  12. David
    i'm guessing it was just a figure of speech.
  13. David
    Soriano has been a Yankee and a Cub, so I've seen him a lot. I don't even know where Vladdy plays. But he's done better with his tools than Soriano has. He has a career .389 OBP and 147 OPS+, and has been very productive in pretty much every season he's played. Soriano is .329, 117 and has had a few disappointing seasons. They aren't the same player. wat?
  14. David
    Vlad hits for a much higher average, though, and has consistently shown an ability to do so, so his OBP's are still respectable to very good. He's like Aramis pre-2008 with a lot more power. He's a free swinger but he tends to make (good) contact.
  15. David
    Jiggets is a deep thinker compared to high school drop out North. It's North/Jiggetts or Mike/Mike on ESPN. Which one is going to talk more about the Cubs? Or Mulligan and Hanley.
  16. David
    I'm just saying that for every other team in baseball, you don't even have the option of choosing to listen to/watch your team's own broadcast. If you're lucky enough to have a baseball package that allows you to watch your team out of market, you pretty much take what they give you, whether it's your broadcast or the other teams. In other words, it's not all that sad that you might have to tune into another team's broadcast to get a nice HD picture. For a fan of any other team, that's the only choice, anyway. I don't really have a problem watching another team's broadcast. And I will whenever it's an HD option while WGN is not. But it is an option. Most of the games you can watch whichever broadcast you prefer. I wouldn't either. That's kinda what I'm saying. And yea, if I had to choose, I'd go for the picture over the announcing team, 10/10 times.
  17. David
    I'm just saying that for every other team in baseball, you don't even have the option of choosing to listen to/watch your team's own broadcast. If you're lucky enough to have a baseball package that allows you to watch your team out of market, you pretty much take what they give you, whether it's your broadcast or the other teams. In other words, it's not all that sad that you might have to tune into another team's broadcast to get a nice HD picture. For a fan of any other team, that's the only choice, anyway.
  18. David
    Dwight Howard. And the Bulls are bull fighters on defense: they hold out a red shirt and the offense runs right by them. The Suns' style of play (fast- paced, no defense) which the Bulls are incorporating has never won a championship that I can think of. What does this really mean, though? A lot of teams don't win championships. All but one ever year do. They went to the western conference finals with that team. They also got screwed by the league in 2007 with those suspensions. The fact that that team never won a championship doesn't mean they couldn't have. But this is a totally unrelated argument to the thread and the Bulls are obviously nowhere near as good as those teams.
  19. David
    It must be terribly sad for the fans of almost every other team (does TBS still do Braves games nationally or did they phase that out completely with their new package?) that don't have a national station broadcasting a bunch of their games, then. ;)
  20. David
    loool I actually almost rented an apartment in that building. Decided against it since I have to drive everyday.
  21. David
    Million Man March son
  22. David
    Sure is nice to be a fifteen minute walk or one train stop away so I can wait this out. Would suck if I were still in the suburbs.
  23. David
    Sounds like they're still holding out hope. They think the system will move out of here. Pretty much guaranteed to be delayed, though.
  24. David
    Any update? Nothing yet.
  25. David
    The Horseshoe is a beautiful brand new venue with the best poker room in the midwest but tends to be filled with trashy people.
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