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I meant to say one of you should send him that text message. I didn't send one cause I don't know his number. My typing just sucked as usual but I think it would be hillarious. I even though something stupid like Milledge for McCarthy would be hillarious cause he'd be ridiculously pissed.

That is super cool. I love that type of stuff.

Cool story and welcome aboard Roland is an interesting man. He sometimes goes on talks that are a little too long but he's a very kind man that loves the game of baseball.

Sent him a text. McCarthy for Gaithright and the 3rd baseman the Royals have that was kicking ass last year Crede for Figgins (no Santana in the deal).

QUOTE(Rowand44 @ Dec 2, 2006 -> 06:37 PM) GATORS FOR TITLE GAME QUOTE(Rex Hudler @ Dec 2, 2006 -> 06:41 PM) Is Danielson doing enough to promote Florida right now? f*** him. I could care less if people vote for Florida, but listening to him campaign makes me want to puke. To act as if Michigan doesn't even deserve consideration is assinine. Let the SEC whining begin. This next week will be hell living down here, dealing with the whining if Michigan does go to the championship and with the Bama coaching search and a different rumor every hour of the day. Spurt in the winter meetings and it makes for one hell of a week

More specifically we didn't want him at that price and now the Sox have the option of potentially bringing him back for less. No one was going to give up draft picks for him and Kenny wasn't about to be stuck with this guy (which is going to happen). I love draft picks, but this isn't the type of guy you offer arbitration to. A lot of the other relievers that didn't get arbitration offered to them were better than Riske too, so all those GM's must be horrificly stupid as well.

QUOTE(IlliniKrush @ Dec 2, 2006 -> 05:44 PM) Urban Meyer calls his third timeout and then punts. Results in a touchdown. I still have no clue what Urban Meyer is doing on offense, he's running with Leak, and he's burned all his timeouts. But the timeout apparently froze Arkansas return man. What a genius strategy

QUOTE(Rex Hudler @ Dec 2, 2006 -> 04:38 PM) I'm pretty convinced that should USC fail to come back, that Florida will jump Michigan and go to the championship game. I just think there will be too many people that will argue against a rematch and that will give Florida credit for their schedule, regardless of how they struggled at times. They got it done, and I think that will be enough. That said, I still think USC finds a way to win this game. Well now its looking good for Michigan fans. I still say if Florida wins they should be the team that plays OSU though. But Arkansas has all the momentum. What a f***ing idiot. Arkansas guy calls for a fair catch at like the 2 and fumbles it and we have a Florida TD...YESSSS!!!!!! What a dumbass, bahahaaaa. Oh and U....C.....L....A....UCLA...FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT!!!!

Working on Saturday's sucks ass. I logged 62 hr's of work this week. Thank god I get to enjoy the night tonight and than get to enjoy Sunday before having an 11 hr day on Monday (WOOOO). On the bright side the Bruins WON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

QUOTE(Rex Hudler @ Dec 2, 2006 -> 06:08 AM) I do enjoy it as well. I like the fact that they don't give you full information about what is going on and who everybody is. Except of course that frustrates me too. And how do you guys know it's not realistic?? There is nothing to compare it to. Is it difficult to believe? Sure. But then again, it is TV. True, I will admit you never know....a nuclear war isn't the farthest thing in the world from happening. I just hope it never does. Sucks we got to now wait till February to find out what happens. Are they doing something online in between?

QUOTE(DonkeyKongerko @ Dec 2, 2006 -> 03:10 PM) I have a 60 priest on Zul'jin and had alot of fun getting there, but now the game feels repetitive. My new pastime is Xbox Live if anyone wants to play Gears of War. I'm gonna be bumming that in a week (was playing it next week) so count me in on that. The game is ridiculously fun (I also must admit the coop is badass too).

QUOTE(Steff @ Dec 2, 2006 -> 02:58 PM) He looked strange doing the golf with the remote thing. Not holding an actual club was somthing I didn't think he would like. He seemed ok with it though. The thing I am worried about is that he would get bored with it fast and it would end up collecting dust. And at that time you mail it to me and we can get someone banned

This isn't that awful of a move. Considering the FA market if we have Pods and than find a way to pick up another speed guy via trade and we should be in decent shape at the top of the order (since we'll have given Ozzie speed). I also think we'll see Pods have a better all around season (even If he's not my first choice, I don't expect him to be near as brutal and I could see worse options at the top of the order).

QUOTE(SuperSteve @ Apr 14, 2005 -> 06:24 PM) It is awesome. I do not play it, but I watch it all the time in my neighbors. He is a level 45. Three of my other friends are 60s. I would play it, but costs alot of money. I don't like alot of stuff like that, but there is so much to it, you can't help but watch it. I give it a thumbs up, and that is from a guy who only plays baseball and grand theft autos. Good to see ya around old fella. You still living the life at MSU? On a sidenote, for Xbox 2k hockey...for 360 EA NHL....those games = amazingly fun on multiplayer.

Happy Bday to STOA's biggest fan. Had I known your bday was coming up I'd have given you a shout out on the show. Hope its a good one!!!!

I just started watching it about 2 weeks ago and after seeing just one episode I decided I had to catch up and downloaded the prior shows and am slowly starting to catch up. I was curious as to whether anyone else is enjoying this show? Obviously its not realistic but don't ask me why but I like these world coming to an end drama's. Plus for some strange reason it reminds me of Red Dawn, one of my favorite favorite movies when I was a kid (that and Under Siege). In a matter of week's its become one of the few shows on my DVR, aside from pretty much all of NBC on Thursday nights.

QUOTE(ChiSox9 @ Dec 1, 2006 -> 08:58 AM) I wouldnt understand trading away a key role player set to make $4M next year and bring in a "Slow as Mud" FA looking to make at least $4.5M plus. Not to mention their BA/OBP/SLG are almost identical... only thing Molina brings is a higher average against Lefties .358 vs .270. not to mention... from the San Fran Chronical: Those who watched Molina in Toronto say he has declined defensively, in blocking pitches and throwing out runners, but still calls a good game and handles pitchers well. A career .275 hitter, he batted .284 with 19 homers and 57 RBIs in 2006. AJ's Defense is there, can throw out runners but more importantly can handle OUR pitching staff extreemly well. I'm one of AJ's biggest fans, but I'd be the first to also say that Molina is one of the few catchers in the game I'd take over him. Now if he's not healthy or something like that, thats one thing, but the guy is superior in every defensive category to AJ and offensively they are close (although AJ is the better avg guy) and overall offensively I probably take AJ over Bengie. AJ does have attitude though which I love.

QUOTE(Buehrle>Wood @ Dec 1, 2006 -> 08:48 AM) Meh, I like that idea. It's better than most others to decide home-field advantage. I still think best record in baseball should decide it, but this is the next best alternative (way better than it used to be with it rotating). And I must agree, it definately makes the ASG more interesting and the last couple ASG's have been pretty damn good.

I think the MVP (if the numbers are similar) should go to the guy that helps his team win and get into the playoffs (afterall, how valuable are you if your team doesn't get to the playoffs....the real goal). You think your the best hitter, you get a silver slugger award or the AP Offensive player of the year award. The MVP is more than that and I was stunned when Howard won it cause Pujols should have won it.

QUOTE(WhiteSoxfan1986 @ Nov 30, 2006 -> 10:44 PM) Fields isn't replace Crede's production. But that being said third is one of our strengths. We can afford to deal Crede more than say AJ, in that we have no capable starting catcher. Crede's value might be higher than it will ever be right now. Technically we could deal AJ and just sign a stud defensive catcher like Molina whose as clutch as it comes with the bat (he really is). He's just slow as mud.

QUOTE(shawnhillegas @ Nov 30, 2006 -> 07:04 PM) You can say Anderson was competent or mediocre or good-enough-for-a-rookie, but you cannot say he was solid with the bat. Seriously. The only thing you could say is awful or brutal or terrible because anything less would be far too nice and a big fat lie (I don't care what his latter splits said because he was still an awful hitter with some serious holes in his swing). Defensively he was a stud, but later in the year his defense wasn't as good.

Overall Selig has been a damn fine commissioner.

Ya and you can do that without trading for a zillion prospects. I don't understand everyone that thinks we need to get a ton of prospects now or we will suck later. We don't have to move guys. Have you heard the Sox complain about not having the resources to spend 115 million? No, you haven't. We don't have that old of a team, we already have 3 of 6 starters on the right side of 30 and two of ones over 30 are consistent 200 innings a year guys to boot. We have a first baseman, 3rd baseman and SS that should be here a while, we have tons of OF prospects, a young closer and a few relievers under our control for a while. I don't give two s***s about 5 or 10 years down the road because the best way of taking care of 5 years down the road is by fielding a good team now. With that the Sox will be able to have a high payroll and will be able to consistently retool here or there and stay good for a long time. Just look at the Braves, how often did they actually trade there better players for prospects (not often?). They usually let those guys walk from time to time. However, they got draft pick compensation for those guys and were able to develop a player here and there while also making trades for new guys that may be able to fill the holes of the guys that left via FA that may not make as much money. By the way, I should say I'd gladly be the Yankees. They consistently field a team that is capable of winning the world series and thats all I ask. By making some of the trades you guys suggest we destroy our teams chances of winning now and bank on those guys all developing as planned to win later. The odds are not in our favor to win on that theory and thats why you see very few bad teams figure things out and become good. If it were that easy every team in baseball would have small payrolls and consistently dump guys for prospects while still winning.

QUOTE(DBAH0 @ Nov 30, 2006 -> 02:22 PM) Rafael Soriano and Jeff Clement would be 2 guys I could see us certainly being interested in if we traded Garcia to Seattle. Maybe if the Sox decided to trade Uribe as well, they could go after either Lopez or Betancourt. Don't know if Lopez is capable enough defensively at SS though, but he's the better offensively out of the 2. Not worth it. That deal makes us a lot worse. I'd like Soriano a lot more if he wasn't so damn prone to injury. And yes Clement was a top pick, but he's still a long ways away and I wouldn't consider him an upper echelon prospect as of this moment. Plus I am not a big fan of acquiring catching prospects considering there success rate is absolutely horrendous. You guys got to understand...crappy teams trade their better players for packages full of prospects that will have little effect on this years roster (and future years rosters) and most of the time those crappy teams stay crappy because those deals never pay off (plus they do lose a lot of those guys once they become good due to salary limitations). Ken Williams job right now is to make the Sox better. To make us a better team you do not get prospects a few years away from helping us. Now if you get prospects that could help us a bit this year as well as every day players that help us now, I can see that move making sense (helps us now and later) but none of these deals do that. Soriano would be nice out of the pen but I'm not trading Garcia for him.

QUOTE(Tony82087 @ Nov 30, 2006 -> 01:24 PM) Did Durham leave on any bad terms? I know it was the trade for Adkins, but was it on bad terms? The reason I ask is even last year I remember seeing Mrs.Durham in the crowd, and remember DJ talking about how they still live here. Steff would be the best to answer this, but I thought he was very sad over leaving the club. I don't think the Sox handled his trade very well, IIRC (based on comments I think steff has posted in here in the past). However, I also remember him really liking the organization and I definately think he'd like coming back here (but again, Steff is the one who'd have superior idea on this subject). But Ray's wife still comes to games and I think they still live here (at least part of the year) so I could see him coming back at 2 yr 15 mill or so with options for a 3rd year or something along those lines. Maybe he'd even take a bit of a discount (well an up front discount that could be made up with incentive clauses that could reward him nicely).