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Shamrock4Life

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  1. The Doulingo one yesterday on the mlttv stream. jesus.
  2. I'm also around lurking. I'm probably not noteworthy though except for those times we worked to get banned from that other board.
  3. Awesome. As someone mentioned above Thomas and Fisk were my favorites growing up. I am definitely going up for the weekend. You know until reality takes over and I realize I don't have the time/money.
  4. A grand slam onto addision would be considered a foul ball down the first base line. unless of course they rotated the stadium with me knowing.
  5. Its not the Cubs who have promoted fun at thier ball park. It was first the media, in such things as Saturday Night Live and Ferris Bhueler's (I can't spell) Day Off. Then it was the gentrifing of the neighborhood into the socio-economic cetner of the yuppie universe in Chicago. You can also not forget the reach of day baseball on free TV in the Chicago market on kids during the summer. You can't give too much props to the Cubs for that since the city and neighborhood has basically stopped them from playing 81 night games a year at Wrigley. But back to the topic at hand, $30 mil for Albert is a good deal for a few years, but after 5 years, it a no win for either party, imo. Paying a single player $30 mil a year is also not good for baseball. It will only drive prices up for lesser ability players (as it always has) which will further cripple small market / low budget / small(er) margin teams, such as the Royals, Twins, Rays, etc.
  6. Maybe Herm got is diagnosed yet the Sox still felt they had a better shot at the division with Manny than without him. The report just says the Dodgers were unaware.
  7. The State of Illinois should sell it. The Sox shouldn't offer to buy it, unless a third party gets involved to buy it. The article made mention that the Sox paid $2.7 million in 2009, so I am guessing thats the rent. Whether its dynamic (per seat sold) or not, I don't know. When its time for a new staduim, they should keep it in the city and probably just put it where the old one was. When they build the new one, they should have moved it north to the South Loop when land values weren't through the roof. I did like the concept of a new stadium being built on Northerly Island though that somebody posted a little while ago.
  8. When it first opened new Comiskey was cool, until you went to your seats in the Upper Deck. I haven't (and probably won't unless its for a special game) sit in them again. I don't get the address thing. Does home plate really need to be the address of the park. Couldn't they have put the front offices in the LF corner of the lot? I love the "open" concorse design. Where no matter where you are on the main deck you can see the field of play. St. Louis really screwed that up in the new Busch. The rest of the stadium is great there, but the concorse sucks. I would think you would want the northerly island stadium to face NW though so the whole grandstand has a good view of the skyline, though I could be remember the sky line a little wrong from that posistion.
  9. we maintain our position. but you are only allowed so many waiver claims a day and total.
  10. for savings the online accounts are the best and will off terhe highest interest rates because they don't have to pay for the overhead costs of an physical bank. I use two with multiple accounts at each, ING and EmigrantDirect. I would get a checking account at a physical bank in your area. try to shop around and find one with no ATM fees for using other peoples ATMs and, if you are lucky enough, one that will reimburse you for other banks ATM charges. I easily save $50 - $75 on these two things a year. You want a physical bank because A) you can always go to the branch to complain and B) when buying big s*** (say a down payment on a house) most places need a cashier's check. if you have an account at the bank, most banks will do this x number of times a year for free. Its a little harder to get a cashier's check from an internet checking account and western union costs a good deal of money. your best option will be with a local credit union. I use Quicken for my s***, basically the same as mint.com except all my data isn't on the internet. automatic scheduled deductions from paychecks work best for savings, because you usually will never see the money. just tell your employer to make two different direct deposits, one to your regular bank account (checking) and one to your savings. Or you can put it all in savings that way you physically have to transfer the money you are about to spend. using credit cards for all purchases is the way to go. you shouldn't be carrying balances anyways (unless its one of those no finance charges until 2011 type deals).
  11. The reason I am a Sox fan is my Dad and family. The reason I care like I do is because of Frank. He was a beast and I will be in Cooperstown in 2014.
  12. but i believe halladay's valve is $8M greater than Jenks's value.
  13. screw it, lets go with a tandem. let jose start, pitch for 3-4 innings bring in a reliever (hudson?) to finish the game or give it to thorton-jenks. this way hudson doesn't get brought up with any pressure besides being an ML pitcher (as in not the starter that needs to be a stop gap for us to win the division).
  14. From the old thread: Not entirely true. Until the offseason, the White Sox would have been the only team Toronto was able to negotiate with and that was only for 48.5 buisness hours. But according to the Steve Phillips waiver wire arcticle on espn.com from 2005, the team waiving the player, gets to see who put a claim on the player.
  15. Why would you even think about putting any player on irrevocable waivers in August? Thats just dumb. It was reported the 6 teams put a claim in on Rios. Only MLB and Toronto knows for sure who those teams were. Over the past 4 days, I bet Ricciardi has talked to each one of those front offices about what they would give up in a trade in the offseason. Which is another part of the game. Does JP believe these other GMs and try the offseason market with Rios hoping to start a bidding war? Does KW think that other teams are tell JP they will offer more than what the White Sox (or the team that claimed him) are lying or are they really going to offer that in the offseason? If KW thinks that JP thinks that those teams are being truthful, KW has to up his offer. JP's job is to make KW think that he thinks they are being truthful. 12:30pm is the deadline for the transaction tomorrow. So, imo, if we don't hear anything by 1:30pm, the Rios wasn't acquired.
  16. Ok for the record, the Steve Phillips article I am referencing is the one from 2005 and I posted it in an earlier post. In it he describes the process. Since it was written in 2005, there is not reference to this trade. It was my opinoin that the pressure is on Kenny. And here is why. IF Toronto ownership gave JP a directive to clear payroll, then JP has to let Rios go. There is no pressure there. JP has one of two options, agree to whatever trade the claiming team has on the table at the deadline or give him outright to that team. Not knowing if JP got that order from ownership is why the pressure in on KW. And the pressue is proportional to how much KW wants Rios. If its a lot, then Kenny has to gamble on how much to offer up. Does Kenny get nervous at the deadline and up the deal on the table that JP would have took no matter what? Or did Kenny really claim Rios to stop Detriot from getting him. Did JR give Kenny the directive that he couldn't add payroll anymore after the Peavy deal? If so, then Kenny is under pressure hoping JP doesn't just give Rios and his $60 Million contract to the Sox. There are too many variables in here to know how much pressure there is here. Hell it could be just a regular run of the mil August waiver wire happening. But I don't see how JP has any pressure on him to get anything done. Either he got the directive and has to dump salary or he now knows how much demand there is for Rios (it was reported 6 different teams claimed him, iirc, plus Toronto gets to know who exactly made a claim on him).
  17. Once again according to that espn.com Steve Phillips artice: The deadline for an action to be into MLB Offices is 12:30 pm central tomorrow morning. If nothing is in to the office by then, Rios is automatically recalled by Toronto. So if somebody has claimed Rios off waivers, then Toronto's best move is to negotiate up to 12:30 central tomorrow. Especially if Toronto ownership wants the salary shed, JP has no pressure on him at all. Assuming the White Sox won the claim, you wait for KW to make an offer (or if you haven't heard from him you float an offer). If you like KW's offer, you sit on it until 12:29 to see if the pressure is getting to KW and he ups his offer. If KW is really banking on getting Rios all the pressure is on him to make sure he beats the deadline. If JP's orders are to shed the contract, all he has to do is accept whatever KW has on the table or if nothing is on the table just give his rights to the Sox.
  18. Here is an old (2005) Steve Phillps collumn, its an ESPN Insider article, so I won't post the whole article: http://insider.espn.go.com/mlb/columns/sto...&id=2130379 I wonder if that worked. Anyways, looks like Toronto placed Rios on the waiver wire on Wednesday. The Sox (or/and another teams) put a claim on him between 2pm ET Wednesday and 1pm ET on Friday). The Blue Jays were told who made a claim on Rios and who won the claim on Rios at 1 ET on Friday. The White Sox (or another team) were told they were awarded the claim at 1pm ET on Friday. Now the Blue Jays and the Sox (or whoever won the claim) have until Tuesday at 1:30 ET to work out a deal. If not, Rios is automatically recalled back off waivers. Phillips also says if a player has a NTC, he can block this transaction from happening, whether it be a trade or a straight up player transfer. He also states that a PTNL in the trade cannot an "active major league player." He also later says that "Remember, all 40-man roster players must go through waivers in order to change teams even if they are in the minor leagues." So no Fields in the deal. Just to clear up any questions on how "Major League Waivers" work.
  19. If we end up getting Rios, my guess is we resign Thome and dump Dye. Am I right in thinking that we can offer Dye arb. and let him know if he accepts it, he will be a 4th outfielder, hoping this makes him decline to go play somewhere else, thus us getting compenstation for losing him in FA? Or am I completely wrong with that? But hell if we win it all, I can see both Thome and Dye coming back with smaller contracts.
  20. Watching NJ get pwned in this thread (at least player performance wise) is quite funny.
  21. I am going to keep calling him Slayer because you can't pick your own nickname. And once you come up against one given you, that automatically becomes the one you are known by. I mean really its all in the guy code. Since Slayer is a man's man, he knew this and played his cards just right to keep his favorite nickname.
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