It's just a flesh wound.

Brentz tried to keep this quiet because he heard Josh Reddick "had a gun" and he didn't want to get traded.

Can't trust him with a beer, but a dangerous weapon is just fine. What a country.

Can't trust him with a beer, but a dangerous weapon is just fine. What a country.

I'm not sure I follow.

If under 21, one can't buy a drink, but can legally own/purchase a weapon

If under 21, one can't buy a drink, but can legally own/purchase a weapon

He's 24.

I understand the objections to that issue in general, but it doesn't have anything to do with Brentz.

My brother-in-law was 19 when his state's liquor laws jumped from 18 to 21. Don't think it changed his drinking habits any.

If under 21, one can't buy a drink, but can legally own/purchase a weapon

I'd be more worried when those activities coincide rather than when they're exclusive.

He's 24.

Yeah my bad. Skimmed the excerpt, and somehow got age 19 stuck in my head. I'll try and read for comprehension next time.

If he's 24, he can't be much of a prospect though.

If he's 24, he can't be much of a prospect though.

He is a pretty good prospect, not any kind of a future star or anything but a RF with a strong arm who can hit some homers.

I took a gun safety class when I was 16 that had an instruction sheet for the fundamentals of cleaning your gun. It was basically, "Check that the firearm is unloaded. Get your cleaning rags. Check that the firearm is unloaded. Get your cleaning rod. Check that the firearm is unloaded. Get your cleaning solvent. Check that the firearm is unloaded..." If you're shooting yourself in the leg you're doing something very, very wrong.

"I shot myself cleaning my gun" is code for "I shot myself doing something stupid, and i'm going to pretend it was while i was cleaning my gun."

He is a pretty good prospect, not any kind of a future star or anything but a RF with a strong arm who can hit some homers.

I mean, he's a better prospect than most minor leaguers, but I'd put Brentz's odds of actually contributing to a major league team at 1 in 5 at best. He's rough in the field, he strikes out too much, his only really good numbers came in low-A when he was way too advanced for the competition. But he has major league power and hasn't embarrassed himself in the high minors, so he's a bit of a prospect.

He's certainly enough of a prospect that he shouldn't be such a ####### dumbass to shoot himself in the leg.

This terrible tragedy could have been avoided if only there had been a gun in the home.

"I shot myself cleaning my gun" is code for "I shot myself doing something stupid, and i'm going to pretend it was while i was cleaning my gun."

Ayup.

Can't trust him with a beer, but a dangerous weapon is just fine. What a country.

Yeah, because gun-related deaths are so prevalent compared to alcohol-related deaths.

A lot more people drink vs. the people who own guns.

He was cleaning a gun and it accidentally went off.

I am not a lawyer, but it appears(after two minutes of American Googling) only the military legally differentiates between an accidental discharge(AD) and an unintentional negligent discharge(ND). Even treating ADs as preventable NDs. Shooting wildly into the air exemplifying intentionally negligent. If a worn sear leads to a loaded firearm going bang, you'd have an AD. If you wrap your booger hook around the bang switch and make the gun go bang without counting on a bullet coming out, that's an ND.

Spoiler Warning. NSFW Warning.

Retroshoot? Negligent discharge play-by-play.

Rocco in Boondock Saints. A mechanical "failure", but still negligent. ? NSFW

Vincent in Pulp Ficiton. ND NSFW

Policeman in La Haine. ND unless you think it was deliberate. NSFW

Rumor has it he was actually washing his truck instead.

A lot more people drink vs. the people who own guns.

30% own guns and 67% drink. I think I would have guessed higher on the drinking and lower on the guns, but that's likely a product of being in the Northeast.

Unfortunately, I suspect there's a fair bit of overlap between the group of gun owners and drinkers.

I'm still stuck on the phrase "gun-related injury". As if "shot himself" was too graphic a headline. Or too close to the truth.

I guess I'm too "old skool" for this over-hyphenated obfuscated vernacular which has taken over. nvm.

Wayne Lapierre says that the only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun. Is Brentz schizophrenic?

If you're shooting yourself in the leg you're doing something very, very wrong.

I don't think you need to take a gun safety class to figure this out.

Perhaps he caught himself committing a crime, and should be applauded?

I just checked Window's Task Manager. IE takes a freaky amount of Memory Usage to run a given browser window. No wonder their market share is plunging. They have more resources than anyone. What's going on?

I think MC has it right about Brentz. Interesting pop in his bat, great arm, but Ks a ton. I could see him giving up hitting in a couple years and trying to make it as a pitcher.

I just checked Window's Task Manager. IE takes a freaky amount of Memory Usage to run a given browser window. No wonder their market share is plunging. They have more resources than anyone. What's going on?

How much does it show IE is using?

I've got three pages with a total of 18 tabs open, and task manager shows ten iexplore.exe's averaging 210,000 K each.

Fwiw, when I use chrome, chrome averages well under 90,000 k per chrome.exe.

So the Bosox avoided their own Stratton story.

I've got three pages with a total of 18 tabs open, and task manager shows ten iexplore.exe's averaging 210,000 K each.

Fwiw, when I use chrome, chrome averages well under 90,000 k per chrome.exe.

When I was using Firefox, it still had that annoying glitch of sucking up any virtual memory it can get its hands on. On a computer that had only 2 gigs of memory, it would take 1.5 gigs of it if it ran long enough. Switching to Chrome makes more sense.

When I was using Firefox, it still had that annoying glitch of sucking up any virtual memory it can get its hands on

This depends at least as much on what's in the pages that you have loaded. Weather Undergound's personal weather station map was notorious for leaking memory, but they must have repaired it because it is well behaved now. Crappy script coders can make your browser do lots of undesirable things. NoScript keeps certain sites from loading and running scripts, which saves bandwidth and cpu cycles where judiciously applied.

But the days of Firefox being "smaller, faster, better" are in the past.

Given Congress's deep concern for the health of Major League players, I am sure we will see hearings on widespread gun ownership in MLB. Schilling will testify that he thinks it's probably only about 7 players that own guns.

I shot myself doing something stupid

As opposed to shooting yourself doing something smart?

I'm still stuck on the phrase "gun-related injury". As if "shot himself" was too graphic a headline. Or too close to the truth.

C'mon. "Shot himself" will have everyone thinking he committed or attempted suicide or at least shot himself intentionally. Granted, "prospect accidentally shoots himself" or "prospect involved in gun accident" would be smoother than "gun-related injury" ... which presumably also includes getting hit in the head by the gun after the bad guy throws it at you because he's out of bullets.

Weirdest, most abrupt hijack ever.

I also have memory leakage problems and while Chrome is better, it's not significantly cleaner than IE or FF. Of course this is probably because I'm using a 5-year old poorly maintained laptop running Vista.

I've got three pages with a total of 18 tabs open, and task manager shows ten iexplore.exe's averaging 210,000 K each.

What are you doing with 18 open tabs? I go crazy if I have more than 3.

I keep running into glitches on the various browsers I've used on my 5-month-old laptop; in semi-desperation, a few days ago I downloaded Opera, which I hadn't used since my dial-up days. So far, so good.

I've got three pages with a total of 18 tabs open, and task manager shows ten iexplore.exe's averaging 210,000 K each.

What are you doing with 18 open tabs? I go crazy if I have more than 3.

50's more my speed, but I'm having trouble tweaking Opera so it accepts voice commands, so I'm taking a break. IE can't handle 50, but Chrome often can. Opera was very good at simply bookmarking idle pages and dumping the memory involved from cache when I had a lot of tabs open. I've usually got three research projects going at once, with input from other folks, so it's useful to be able to move between one and the next and keep all the tabs handy. There are another five tabs I keep open for frequently used pages, like BBRef, which I assume everyone does. I have a project, building a cabin with a FPSFoundation, and that takes around eight tabs to nudge the various aspects forward, including three semi-live comment exchanges... That and odds and ends usually gets me to around 50 tabs.

What's weird about IE is that it keeps some pages cycling. A BTF
thread does that. A few other sites do that, too, though not all of them allow comments, so it isn't commenting that keeps them permanently loading.

By the way, where can I send a money order to support this site-- Anyone know a physical address?