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I had a dream where a hamburger was eating ME!.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Mar 21, 2009 -> 07:14 PM) Gammons says the rumor is Boras wants $50 million for him and will send him to Japan if he doesn't get it. The draft must be slotted. Yeah. Bad feeling he could end up with the Tigers, if he starts slipping. MLB draft is the only draft (well NFL sometimes this happens, but not like MLB) where the best players do not go to the worst teams. That really needs to change.

Soxbadger and I tied for first. I had a slight advantage because I have all the Elite 8 teams left. But we have the exact same final four, terrific two and one-derful one.

Cuck the Fubs even if it's only ST.

QUOTE (Kalapse @ Mar 15, 2009 -> 03:22 PM) According to Cowley Contreras was sitting between 90 and 93 for that first inning. If this is his velocity for the first time out, I see no reason he can't be 93-95 during the season. His recovery has given me lots of optimism for this team. Now, we need Bartolo to do the same, and I am confident he will to.

3 OT!! EPIC GAME.

This game is amazing. Cuse with a chance to win the game now.

Great finish in the Cuse game. So close to being a good shot.

The best player should play, and he has been the best by far. Sure his OF instincts could be better, but he isn't bad. I think in a full season, he could hit .260, 20 HRs, 20 SBs. That would not necessarily be leadoff numbers, but I think he could definitely be a solid starter.

This is the big reason why Richard might be best served as a reliever/spot starter: teams seem to get to him the second time around. Obviously, small sample size, but that's what happened in the majors last year and today.

QUOTE (Cowch @ Mar 12, 2009 -> 03:41 PM) Is Kansas City really thinking of going with 5 right handed starters? If those are your five best, why not? No point in just sticking a lefty in there for the sake of having a lefty.

I coached travel baseball teams from my hometown in the summers and one year we went to a tournament in Cooperstown. We were a really good team, I mean we lost two games the entire summer. We had some big kids, too. One was 6-feet, but lanky. So we thought we would be competitive there and we were, but we got blown out by one team from Texas who had a kid 6-2, built with facial hair. Seriously, these kids were 12 and 13 and this kid was enormous. He won the HR derby and set a record for most HRs and hit moon shots. Funniest thing is that kid has nothing on this kid. I still can't imagine how big kids are getting at such a young age. Why is this kid catching? If his future is hitting, why hurt his knees. It's already stunted Mauer's growth.

QUOTE (Y2HH @ Mar 11, 2009 -> 10:26 AM) It's not our job to keep a business moving along with the times, it's the job of the business itself to recognize that print media is dying and find a way to move into the future. We don't still use horses/carriages because cars were invented -- I'm sure the carriage makers back in the day were quite disappointed, too...but such is life. I won't miss these papers, I haven't read a newspaper in years. By the time they're printed/distributed, the news is already old. There is this misconception that the print media is dying. It isn't. Community papers, which make up at least 80% of newspapers, if not more, in America are doing fine with many having steady and rising circulations. It's only the big newspapers that are struggling and that's why it gets reported as a print-wide epidemic. Fact is most newspapers are still very profitable, it's the new owners of papers have too much credit debt from when they bought the papers and need to cut labor to make it all back. The print media is going to change, but die it won't.

QUOTE (Jenks Heat @ Mar 11, 2009 -> 10:13 AM) The Owens thing is not a negative in my mind. HAHA.

You probably just buy a 1983 jersey personalized with Quentin's number and name, then get him to autograph it and save a lot of money.

QUOTE (Thunderbolt @ Mar 10, 2009 -> 11:58 PM) Did Keith Law even seen the Poreda game? Poreda threw the slider ALOT. After his first inning of work he consistently got it over, and it looked good. What looks good to you and me might not to a scout. Although I don't like Law all that much, you gotta think he knows more than us. I thought Poreda threw his slider well, too. But he is a guy with ML experience as a scout and managerial type, so I would trust his gut more than ours.

Seriously, I would take Pujols. Best hitter in the game by far. Non serious answer, Jeff Smardizja, we need another WR to compliment Jerry Owens for the flag football team. We are already two deep at QB with Fields and Richard, but we need that second WR.

For me, I have to take a leak. I can't go to sleep thinking I might have to go to the bathroom. Second, I have to make sure my door is locked. Any other things you guys have to do before the sleep? PG-13 please...

From Baseball America when the Sox signed him: http://www.baseballamerica.com/blog/prospects/?p=698

QUOTE (DBAHO @ Mar 10, 2009 -> 10:42 AM) Either way, it's nice to have some depth for those 4th/5th starter jobs right now, and hopefully Colon and Contreras continue to impress, because it sounds like they're impressing everyone over in Glendale ATM. Yeah it is. Marquez has really done well, so i have changed my opinion on him. I though he would suck, but he has really impressed me with his natural movement and location. He looks like a solid pitcher. Richard can be a great reliever and spot starter. I love the depth we have right now. Poreda looks like a stud in the making, Egbert even looks solid so far. KW deserves a lot of credit for his moves this off-season, he kept the team in good shape payroll wise while still having a great future and a solid change this year. We haven't had this kind of pitching depth in awhile.

QUOTE (witesoxfan @ Mar 8, 2009 -> 01:35 PM) When he's throwing it well, Gavin's best pitch is his changeup. I would say his curveball. He has true 80 deuce when he locates it.

Seriously, Corky Miller batted sub-.200 last year in the majors, Stewart sucks, Armstrong is a lefty. Makes perfect sense to me. One-year deal worth a $1 million maybe with some incentives about ABs in case AJ got hurt. We really should sign this guy, it would solve a huge weakness of this team: back-up catcher. We haven't had a solid one in many years and Toby Hall sucked horribly the past two years. Despite Miller doing well in ST, there is a reason he has sucked so much in his career, he doesn't have ML talent.

I really liked Harrell, always have. He's got two really good pitches, and he can throws a solid breaking ball. He's got a good chance to be on this team in 1-2 years.

How are you guys watching the game? LA feed or something?

Are we sure this is a web cast game? I can't find it...So if it is, can someone link me up please. Thanks.