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I looked up the stats in one of my first blog articles and based it off 3 runs or less and compared them with hte other top teams in baseball. The Sox were higher, but if you took out that stretch without Maggs/Frank where the Sox offense flat out took a dump you'd find out that they would of essentially been quite near the rest of the other top offenses in scoring 3 runs or less. Our offense was one of the 5 best in baseball and if we lost Konerko it would be a loss, but at the same time, adding a top of the order threat would at least help spell it out.

Ya, he could get a 200 million contract, but I think its more likely he gets a 7 year deal. This could be a very risky proposition, but if the Sox could defer some of the money it may be something they consider. JR has a tendency to tab players as above and beyond the payroll guys, its quite possible either Beltran or RJ are those type of guys.

One thing I did notice was Fox's ticker was a little more up to date time wise. They usually had a few percent higher with the precincts. I also noted that part Potus. I thought Fox's coverage got stronger as the night went on but for most of the early part I was on CNN. Plus everyone says Fox has bias, but Greta is a democrat and O'Reilly is doing everything he can to remain fair and balanced. I think both sides wanted to do as much as they could to make sure they were balanced for the election.

I heard on the radio that Israel is reporting that he's dead (that he has no activity in his brain) but that his heart is still working, so technically he's alive. The hospital he is at is denying this report though. I'm assuming he's in a comma. Either way this is going to be very interesting to see how this situation is handled by Palestinians and Israelites.

Wow, shockingly California is moving on up. My state is freaking retarded.

Just want to throw a little unlikely to happen scenario out there, but how would this be for an off-season. Sox sign Carlos Beltran Sox sign Omar Vizquel Sox Trade for Kevin Brown (pay a very minimal amount of his contract) and give up Arnie Munoz, Felix Diaz, and Joe Borchard Sox probably have to trade one of Lee/Konerko (i'd rather deal Konerko cause Gload would fit in just fine) and they get prospects in this trade plus a good reliever (maybe Juan Cruz and prospects from the Braves). Either way it fills shortstop, it fills the rotation with a potential ace, and gives us a stud cf to market for a long long time. Rowand Omar Beltran Thomas Lee Gload/Everett Crede Catcher Harris/Uribe Rotation Brown Buehrle Garcia Contreras Garland When you think about it, that rotation has a lot of groundball pitchers so maybe it could work out. Brown should pitch well in Chicago, although its a given he'll miss at least a few starts, but as long as he's heatlhy most of the year he gives you a guy thats an ace.

The only commercial that just doesn't seem to get tiring to me is that Mike Vick experience commercial. Man thats just a cool commercial. That and that old beer commercial with the two girls fighting

Umm, I don't know how you say the un-educated vote republican, considering the more money you make (which typically correlates to education) the higher the likelihood that you vote republican. We could talk all day about the reasons why. Is it really because they are smarter or does it have to do with hte fact that republicans tend to be for low taxes which realistically gives the rich a nice windfall (in my opinion rightly so, since they pay the highest amount to the government).

I thought that too, but they were really over-dramatizing. I mean if you want to talk close, lets look at Wisconsin, Iowa, New Mexico. Ohio really wasn't that close, especially when the precint numbers were showing Bush increases in comparison to 2000 in the majority of counties. Just like I was surprised how slow certain stations were to call Florida.

In my opinion Edwards is toast. His seat was up this year in North Carolina and the republican ended up winning. Despite some reports on how loved Edwards was in North Carolina, quite a few polls showed that he was no guarantee to win in fact I heard a few stations yesterday say he wouldn't of won his seat back anyway (hard to say though). I honestly don't think Edwards is going to get re-elected in the senate and I think he'll end up going back to working on law (he is a practicing trial lawyer). Kerry is a lawyer, but I don't think he's a practicing one nor has he been one for a long time (someone can correct me on this if I'm wrong). As far as Edwards goes, he had a lot of momentum in the primaries, but that momentum really seemed to go the other way, especially the more Edwards talked. Remember though, I'm not a democrat so I don't know how their parties supporters feel in regards to Edwards.

I don't know where to post this and if anyone even cares about this. But I was going to see how everyone judged the election coverage and wht station they ended up watching. I figured i'd be watching FoxNews, but to be honset, I thought they did a lousy job on the election. In the end I was shocked to say I watched CNN the most. I thought other then Bill Bradley, and the red head person in CNN News booth (god was she biased) that they did a pretty unbiased job. The only thing I didn't like is how they made a huge deal about making Ohio a green state and how its "Too Close to Call". Anyway just want to give CNN credit. Hell I caught a little CBS and they weren't that bad either. ABC was solid and surpisingly MSNBC did a very good job as well (I'm not a Chris Matthews fan).

I like Blue Moon. Just had it for the first time last week.

Haha its all good kev. I'll merge it right now

From the sounds of this, their may be some truth to Peter Gammons talking about Omar Vizquel and that being the first moved. I also gotta say I'm hoping somehow Maggs signs a long term deal before Dec. 7th, that way the Sox dont' have to worry about offering arbitration and automatically get the picks, lol. The article also mentions that Kenny is going to take a little bit of a different approach this off-season, letting clubs come to him more often in terms of trades.

Article The article mentions that the Sox will look at Beltran, Vizquel and potentially dangle Paul Konerko as trade bait. It also says that Ken Williams is hoping to have a payroll in the range of 70 million, mabye even higher. Its funny how you have some quotes of Kenny quoted as saying it will remain 65 and then a trib article stating the same last week and now this. I think the Sox will be agressive, like they usually are, and its interesting to now hear Konerko's name coming up considering earlier in the year we all suspected Lee (I'm sure his name being mentioned in this article had nothing to do with Rosenthals rumor). I think the fair thing to say is that Kenny will be agressive as usual and that realistically any of Konerko/Lee could be traded and I find it likely that one will be gone. Hopefully the payroll finds itself in the 70 mill range this year.

If Houston keeps losing I think we'll start to see less Tmac commercials.

Wasn't Randolph one of the early names mentioned last year with the Sox?

I don't care how the media is spinning it now, their is no way that Guillen is an Angel at the start of next year. I've heard it from a few people in the Angels org (on the radio) that they will be pursuing Carlos Beltran. They want a centerfielder and they want Anderson back in left field.

Hey, I can't agree more with your statements. I see absolutely no reason why gay people can't get equal rights. If somehow something is on the ballot, as a republican I will vote to support civil unions and to support gays to be able to receive equal rights. In fact, if people can't be fired because of race or being handicapped, I see no reason for why they can be fired because they are gay. The only thing I differ in the gay issue is that I feel marriage is something between a man and a women. But I believe two gay people should be able to live with their partner and get every single benefit that a married couple gets. I think a civil union is just a different word for marriage, but it leaves marriage as something between a man and a women. Thats just my stance and I respect your opinion as always wino. Also, I didn't commend your comments in the thread where you talked about volunteering in the election and I want to say they were classy.

Boozer is playing good too. No doubt that Kobe is good, but I also believe he's an ass. One nice thing is that he has amazing work ethic.

With that curve ball I completely predict Zito will react positively and pitch much better next year. I don't know what happened with Zito, but he's still a good pitcher. I do agree that his numbers should go up if he pitched half of his games at the Cell, but any of the big 3's numbers will go up leaving Oakland (a pitchers park).

Its so damn hard to get in the gang wars. Right now I'm on the mission where you start running drugs and you got to get the harvester. The first two times I did it I rolled the harvester trying to take my own special shortcut through the mountains, lol.

Finally some of my laziness has passed on to ya Thats the spirit, GTA is way more important then school. Were going to be at school for a few more years, but this GTA is only gonna be new for a few months

Miguel Olivo wasn't called corky for nothing. He was caught with it down in the minors. I don't think any of us held it against him. IT may not be at the major league level, but cheating is still the same, imo. And I consider myself an Olivo fan, even though I thought he was over-rated with us. I still wish him the best though.

The guys a selfish, asshole prick, but no doubt he's a hall of famer. He had some absolutely monster seasons and has had a good career. Of course its on the downside, but no doubt in my mind he's first ballot.