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think of all the money we will be saving by not giving aid to china and with all the oil in southern china, wow.

yeah with paulie walnuts leading the team with sb's.

good, then our economy will improve somemore. in addition we can take control over china as well as china.

so he is not calling the dugout during the game.

i am not siding with anyone, but steff, have you heard of kw still calling the shots during the game as he was last yr.

being too religious and classy?

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which all comes back to my point, this trade is stupid and it will not help out as taking that big stud. no matter how many "option" as you said the bears have.

happy b-day

great pict of te fighting, let save it. however oldman you thought we won both of the fight against the tigers?

interesting, but no matter how you write it, the performance of some of the players are not what was one would expect.

do you think that it was enuf to justify the trade.

alot of experts has stated that a stud "dt or de" is the start of where the team make a rebound.

but the sox got their ass kicked in that one.

i have been one of the JM biggest backers, but i have one question. has anyone seen JM getting any calls during the game like he was last yr? b/c i am now leaning toward firing him. i hate to come to this point but something is needed to shake this team up before its too late. my other opinion is to readdress the bullpen and esp white and koch. i was jerry's biggest supporter until how he mishandled the foulke situation..it still bothers me to talk bad about his performance and i want to defend him when i see others who have been ripping him from day one do it in an unfair way...but i think we are almost to the point where the only thing that will make this team play to potential is the firing of manuel.. if the players really like and admire manuel then this west coast road trip should be their chance to save his job...because if we come back with our tails between our legs he has to go...that should be made clear to the players too...and it should also be made clear that player changes will be made along with jerry going should this happen they should all know they are playing for their jobs on this next road trip..then we will see who wants to play and who doesnt other options bench clearing brawl??..somethimes it works but i think it has a less of a chance suceeding with a veteran team...the only thing we do know it will accomplish for sure is getting a bunch of players suspended.. closed door meetings??...how many of those have we had in the past 2 years???...who many division titles have they led too...closed door meetings are the kiss of death.. call up players??...i think borchard in CF would be nice...almonte??..who we gonna send down??..its the righties that cant pitch in the pen right now...the lefties are kicking ass...almonte is a lefty and that would give us 4 of them..harris.maybe, but how much difference would he make??? extended benching of slumpers??... dont think the problem is that they are slumping..its what they are doing within the slump....you can go 0-15 and be real effective if you draw walks and work the counts...bunt when needed..hit behind runners..take advantage of sac fly situations...i would say extended benchings of guys worrying more about their BA then team play..that could mean benching a 300 hitter... rearrange bullpen order...i like this idea..atleast in the short term i really wanted to respond with another smart ass response, but i fugured i would treading in dangerous waters. but you made another great post. esp in the jm part, which i agree with. i like your point of the players now playing hard for jm and lets see who doesn't. time to make some trade of those players with a single minded approach to this team.

the only way i can think off for the trade, that they, the bears are saying they are going to address several weakness on the team vs paying the bonus money. i am sorry, but it does not work in my mind.

on Scott Bikowski (Birmingham), he is doing pretty good so far.

post of the week. great point!!!!!!!! an i am soooo surprise that it was YOU who came up with it.

i like blackman with jose as a player/ asst manager.

they are blackmailing the world. are we suppose to bow to their demands. has anyone looked at their demands. the war is coming there and we would be using the moab at the start. what is china going to do?

but as baggs mention and that is what i was going at. the players picked later may not be the impact that the #4 pick would. the big d-tackle stud would be the impact player that i was thinking about.

i was trying to find some old recaps on the sox minor leagues that doyle has done. i only found one. what happen to the others and are your guys going to add your update to the top 25 prospects?

why does it have to be one who is in a slump?

so what can possibly happen now?

i was trying to find out some more about the trade of the bears and can across an article on the sox. Jose mention some interesting stuff. i am wondering who he was taling about. http://www.dailysouthtown.com/southtown/ds.../pro/251sd5.htm