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QUOTE(nitetrain8601 @ Jun 20, 2006 -> 09:43 AM) I already thought Rowand was a mod. Oh well, Kudos to all the promotions guys! That just goes to show just how obvious the decision was.

BALTA has been added as a mod at SLAP.

QUOTE(Balta1701 @ Jun 20, 2006 -> 09:34 AM) The Angels aren't going to both pay his entire contract and trade him away without getting anything in terms of prospects in return. Not when he's only on a 1 year deal and they can just hold on, maybe win a few more games, and possibly get a draft pick in return for him next year. Well the Angels won't offer him arbitration because that would mean he could accept and get like 7 million (since your contract can only go down a small amount each year via arbitration). So I think you could get the Sox to pick up about 2 million (over the final few months) which means the Angels probably pick up 2 mill as well and in return the Sox don't have to give up much anything.

If you look at his collective numbers at his age, the guy is doing things better than a lot of great players in a number of categories (including Bonds).

Weaver could turn himself into a pretty darn good reliever. If the Angels are willing to pay pretty much everything and we don't have to give up anything much in terms of prospects, I'd be bite on this and work on using him out of the pen. Him and Riske could make this pen a lot better.

QUOTE(Milkman delivers @ Jun 20, 2006 -> 09:24 AM) The reign of terror begins. Ya, we need all these new mods to ban all of you so the site will have no posts, but also no problems It should be sweet though cause its always great to have more help and all of these new mods have been oustanding posters of this stie for a long time. I kind of think of this place as something where everyone is almost an owner in a sense since everyone adds something with there unique analysis, ideas, and personality. All of us together make this one of the best fan run sports sites on the web.

With Goldy being promoted to the position of Global Mod, we'd like to welcome Balta as a new moderator at SLAP. Balta has been an oustanding poster in numerous forums of this site since he joined. He offers lots of intelligent new ideas, while refraining from personal attacks. He's also been a positive poster on both the Bears and Bulls site and will be a tremendous addition to the mod ranks. So please give him a warm welcome and we should have a few new names over here in the next day or so

QUOTE(Rowand44 @ Jun 20, 2006 -> 09:09 AM) I gave him little jabs all weekend for liking Dunn, so I made it up for you. Excellent, I was hoping you would, since I know we pretty much think the same way on most players (I'm sure its cause we hate doing math, lol).

Ya, it'll be back pretty quick. I can turn it on in a few. I'm just working on an upgrade.

QUOTE(RockRaines @ Jun 20, 2006 -> 07:11 AM) Oh, and I was surprised how much some reds fans hate Adam Dunn I hate Adam Dunn. The guy is so freaking bad and over-rated. I forgot to tell CWS that cause i didn't see him SUnday. The guy was pretty much hitless the entire series with like 6 strikeouts and about 0 hard hit balls. Oh and he's a total fatty that can't play any defense. Little did I know our left fielder is better out in the field. Dunn is the absolute worse defensive left fielder in the game.

We have another new mod of PHT to congratulate as Kalapse will be here. Kalapse is another guy thats been a very long time poster on this site. He's also helped us over on the Bears and Bulls sites along with doing an awesome job running the YNot contest over here. We'd also like to thank Witesoxfan for being a damn good mod and a damn good poster (he will still be a damn good poster). However, he no longer has the time to be around much as a mod so he will be stepping down from his post at PHT. So to wite...thanks for all the work you put in and we look forward to all those great posts that got you the position in the first place (definately one of the best posters on the site) We got some more for ya: Goldy has been promoted to global mod. He's done a ton of awesome work here, from modding over at SLAP, to creating tons and tons of buttons, banners, wallpapers, calendar wallpapers. The guy's been a total horse and the site will be better with him having a bit more control.

QUOTE(NUKE_CLEVELAND @ Jun 18, 2006 -> 03:30 PM) I know he's been on the DL with that oblique strain. Anyone know if he's gonna be around for the Sox series? I read in the USA that at the earliest he'd be ready later this week and most likely at the start of next week. He won't be playing against the Sox.

Wow thats a lot of dough.

Happy Bday Stevo. I haven't shaved since Thursday and its my gift to you. At least thats what I'm telling ya, little do you know of my sheer laziness to shave during the summer. Hope you had a good one.

QUOTE(LowerCaseRepublican @ Jun 19, 2006 -> 10:10 PM) I'm going to make a case for a cult show "Wonder Showzen". It is pretty humorous for the type of people that would enjoy this really subversive type of humor. It isn't for everybody and you're either going to love it or think it is terrible. Wonder Showzen is one of those shows where some episodes I'm in stiches the entire time laughing so hard, while other episodes I find completely horrible. QUOTE(Heads22 @ Jun 19, 2006 -> 10:40 PM) I'm disappointed that you didn't mention Futurama. For me, The Daily Show, Colbert, Family Guy, Earl, PTI. Its not new, so I don't DVR it, but its a very good show.

Soxtalk is in the midst of making some changes to better the site for the stretch run. With that we'd like to announce that YASNY, TONY8207, and SNB have all been promoted to global mod duties. In the immediate future we plan on announcing a few new mods to be named later as well as potentially a few more global modships. With a few of us being busier with work and all the new mods/global mods being incredibly qualified (ie great posters who treat others with respect) we feel that Soxtalk will continue to remove inappropriate posts and troll stuff ASAP to make sure the board is clean and well maintained for all of us that enjoy this great site. So I say to the new global mods. We'd also like to welcome Rowand44 as a new moderator of Palehosetalk. He will be one of the new mods that replaces Tony and Yasny. Rowand has been an oustanding poster on this site for a long time. He adds a lot of baseball knowledge to the site and always refrains from personal attacks. Welcome aboard Rowand

The 1st 5 minutes are solid...wil listen to the rest on the car ride to work tomorrow.

QUOTE(Controlled Chaos @ Jun 19, 2006 -> 01:20 PM) With the exception of SnB, has anyone else even seen Rescue Me?? Curb Your Enthusiasm, The Office, Entourage are all great comedies. I look at Rescue Me in the same light as like a Sopranos. There's a lot of funny parts, but the show is much more than the comedy. It's almost like it's funny in spite of itself. Give it a shot. Rescue Me is about the only series I actually watch over the summer. Usually during the summer I'm rarely around the house aside from watching the Sox game. But ya Rescue me is a damn fine show, but doesn't come close to the Shield, Lost, 24, House, and Prison Break.

QUOTE(Heads22 @ Jun 17, 2006 -> 03:13 PM) The WS notes that their media director had sent out say FB, slider, change. He has really good sinking action on that FB and his slider gets him a lot of GB's. Changeup has improved with time.

QUOTE(aboz56 @ Jun 19, 2006 -> 07:02 AM) I have to say I was at all 3 games and we owned the place all weekend. I even brought my broom to the park yesterday. Yep, good times were had and that sweep was awesome QUOTE(SnB @ Jun 19, 2006 -> 10:59 AM) please tell me you're not serious. I've gotten numerous comments from some very casual baseball fans on how many sox fans there were at the game........they figured that out from watching the game. You really can't be happy with anything huh? We were loud and thats all that matters

QUOTE(knightni @ Jun 14, 2006 -> 09:43 AM) You can't cheer for Switzerland. You're supposed to be neutral towards them. Meh Switzerland. He just likes the cheese.

QUOTE(Rex Hudler @ Jun 16, 2006 -> 07:07 PM) Gage has got to be going nuts right now. Fullerton has a runner picked off at 3B (yes 3B) with one out in the bottom of the 11th inning. UNC gets the next hitter to strike out, but the catcher can't handle the pitch and allows the runner to reach 1B, extending the inning. UNC gets out of the inning with the bases loaded on a nearly missed fly ball to RF. On to the 12th inning, tied 5-5. Tough loss, long game, and we are in deep crap since we used our #2 starter in the game as well.

QUOTE(Rowand44 @ Jun 14, 2006 -> 10:21 PM) ^^^ Steve, you asked me to remind you to bring our gloves to cinci and since I probably won't remember later on tonight, I'll just stick it in here so one of us is bound to remember. You guys can throw??? We'll be there pretty early and we'll have our gloves today as well. Probably be there around 4 or so. QUOTE(AssHatSoxFan @ Jun 15, 2006 -> 08:04 AM) i looked and i have no clue Its that broad from Laguna Beach, I think.

I'll be there all 3 days

Interiew is in progress, thanks for all the good questions. I Think for the most part anyone that put up a question will get it answered in some way shape or form (some of them were similar so I molded them into one question). Oh and Steff, your just gonna have to test your luck on whether he's single or not.