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Unknown pitcher + lefty + Sox-killer Mike Sweeney now playing for the A's = AHHHHH Seriously Mike Sweeney is the best player either nobody ever talks about, or everybody just plain forgot about.

Richar is still our 2B of the future and I really hope to see him as the full-time starter there before the season's out.

QUOTE (Tony82087 @ Apr 13, 2008 -> 08:12 PM) Granted it was ESPNEWS, but they showed the gun and he never got above 90. I assume as he builds up more strength a few miles could come back, but he was at 96-97 pre TJS. Isn't it true that once some pitchers are fully recovered from Tommy John surgery they can actually have more velocity?

QUOTE (knightni @ Apr 13, 2008 -> 09:07 PM) http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?...ensive+purposes Haha. Mild pwnage.

Unless someone offered a trade that is complete unmitigated rape along the lines of Bonser-Liriano-Nathan for Pierzynski I would find it really hard to justify moving Crede.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Apr 13, 2008 -> 04:15 PM) Good point. I'd rather see that than the BS 21st century apology of, "if I offended anyone, I apoligize." If you are sorry, be sorry for what you said, if not, defend what you said and quit being a little b**** about it. He didn't really take back what he said though, in so many words he said "I don't apolgize for what I said, just how I said it."

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Apr 13, 2008 -> 05:54 PM) Crede has matched his homer total from last year and is only 2 doubles short of last year's total in 1/4 of the ABs. I guess his back is feeling much better. The Tigers look defeated in the first inning. For a team thats supposed to put up 1000+ runs this year, something is horribly wrong, and if they don't stop the bleeding pretty soon, I think it will snowball into a real bad season. Hmm, I wonder what that's like.

Haha Ozzie gets asked in the postgame "how important is it to win games against teams in your division?" That is like saying "Isn't it more important to wear shoes when you go outside as opposed to not wearing shoes?" or "How important is it to have a full tank of gas when you start a long road trip instead of an empty tank?"

QUOTE (Princess Dye @ Apr 13, 2008 -> 03:38 PM) Dude, Daley's a righty at heart. c'mon. Yeah I thought that comment was odd... haha. Hawk is the biggest homer EVER.

Oh, Javy just made Jones look stupid on that strikeout.

QUOTE (mr_genius @ Apr 13, 2008 -> 03:06 PM) yep I just watched the replay. He hit the piss out of that ball.

QUOTE (shipps @ Apr 13, 2008 -> 03:07 PM) How many pitches has Javy thrown? 85

QUOTE (whitesoxfan101 @ Apr 13, 2008 -> 03:05 PM) Great play by Cabrera, who can't field. Very strange. That was similar to the way he robbed Anderson the last series. Probably would've been extra bases.

Damn I picked a hell of a day to sleep in. I wake up, check the score, bottom of the 6th and there is an unmitigated sodomy of the Tigers in progress and apparently there was another Crede slam?

QUOTE (Alpha Dog @ Apr 13, 2008 -> 10:41 AM) Your first line summed it up. You don't want to pay any more than I do. But you do want to pay more, and you explained your reasons. I , however, do not want to pay more, and would like the government to stop spending like drunken frat boys at a strip club to put us in the situation you described. True conservatives (not those in power now) would have given us the tax cuts, and then stopped spending as well. We all know that there are billions in waste, hundreds of programs or departments that are not needed, yet we still get taxed to pay for them. And my post was only a sweeping generalization to those that think we are not taxed enough. If you also feel that we are not paying enougjh, by all means please pay some more. I would rather they stop spending what we do give them until it matches what they take in. And there are several very rich liberals who are on record as saying such. Maybe they could pick up the slack and help ease their guilt? Alpha, we have common ground here after all.

I actually would like to know what is untrue about people being bitter in this country. Is it really that false of a statement or what? He chose his words pretty poorly IMO but he could have REALLY told it like it is and it would've come off sounding even worse. I'm not sure that this country has ever been more "bitterly" divided at any point in my life than it is right now, for a lot of different reasons.

AP articles are written in a hurry, then re-written a few times before you see the final version. So the first version you see might be a simple paragraph, the last version is a full-blown article.

QUOTE (Alpha Dog @ Apr 12, 2008 -> 10:56 PM) So are you saying that unless you served in the services you can't vote for or authorize military action? No. I'm saying that sweeping generalizations are silly and believing a negative concept like hypocrisy is exclusive to one party/set of political beliefs is even siller. Judging by your reaction I think I pretty much got my point across too. I could find fallacy in the "gee, I'm rich, I wish I paid more taxes" argument too if you really wanted but I don't have time atm.

Garland's ERA I guess is about on par with the equivalent performance Cabrera has been giving so far.

QUOTE (DonnyDevito @ Apr 12, 2008 -> 02:35 PM) Check out the Philly board: good read http://www.philaphans.com/forums/showthread.php?t=69339 Quote: Originally Posted by Eaglesguru Standing O for Gavin. i nominate this as "most unlikely post of the year"

However, if I really wanted to try to prove my point, I would point to the ratio of Republican congressman and/or Bush adminstration officials who authorized the Iraq war who have served/have children that are serving and also have tangible service records to those that never came anywhere close to it, but I wasn't really trying to go there. The ratio of Dems who voted in favor of the resolution is probably similar, but you're talking about observable data and invoked "conservatives," so...

I love speaking in sweeping generalizations. edit: yeah I think my sarcasm here might be a little bit borderline for the etiquitte

QUOTE (hitlesswonder @ Apr 12, 2008 -> 06:32 PM) You are inventing a caricature of a conservative hypocrite and I know of no real person that fits that description. I'm not inventing a thing. There isn't anyone like that on this board but they are EVERYWHERE. I shouldn't even have to try to back up a statement like that, it stands on its own. And I'm not talking about people supporting this war and not serving in and of itself, I'm talking generally tough guys who talk about war and don't have a clue what it's actually all about and have no interest in any real contribution either. e.g., someone that says "we should just go ahead and invade Iran" or 2 years ago would've said "we should invade Syria."

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Apr 12, 2008 -> 03:40 PM) Asshole And regardless, BA doesnt have the OBP of Q, I think Q will always be the better player. Quentin might be a better overall player than Anderson at both of their peak levels, but Anderson living up to his potential (assuming he does, and watching him lately, he just might) is still a pretty good player. Hopefully Anderson could stick around for a while and we'd have a OF of Swisher-Anderson-Quentin when Dye leaves, that'd be pretty decent.

QUOTE (mr_genius @ Apr 12, 2008 -> 05:50 PM) I'm sure it's a bit of both. Yeah that. I put this instance of Obama stepping on his crank about the same as the time he said he was going to invade Pakistan. Going too far trying to make a point and making himself look dumb.