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Finally its Grossman time and the dumbass band of coaches can start packing their bags.

Portis is a stud. Best back in the NFL.

Thanks for the info Jim. I think I'll try that out over the summer. I wanted to get an intership with the Angels this past season, but they wanted you to be a Junior in college. Don't know what I would of done, but scouting would be cool if it was on an assignment basis. I'm definately going to write some letters to a few organizations during my christmas break and try get my foot in the door

Thanks, after making the post I realized I wasn't counting the original picks the Sox had. This should definately put the Sox in a good position to get some stud pitchers and some other stud prospects. I think the Sox will have a pitcher heavy draft this year. And my guess is that Shaffer will be running it. I Think Shaffer still ran last years draft too, but I could be wrong.

Penn, aka The Wharton school of business is constantly ranked as the top business school. Amongst Penn other Top 5 schools are Michigan, Northwestern, University of Chicago, and your Harvard type schools. Indiana's is pretty good. As far as MBA programs, Northwesterns is supposed to be top dog. But for public Schools, Michigan is probably one of the best in the country. Thats hopefully where I'll be going in a year and a half. Joint MBA/Law Degree here I come...first up my undergrad

How do you figure 7? I got two for Gordon, two for Colon and I think Sully is a B so one from him. That be 5, but I could be missing someone.

I just use this site and read the tribune. Typically though, I just read the articles from here cause usually people have them posted.

That bs...it should be LSU vs USC

BCS is so much better then the previous system. Their ain't no ties in sports, ties are bulls***. At least the BCS gives a clear cut winner. I don't want to see join national champs. I would like a playoff system, but one with about 8 teams max and you got to still involve the bowls for other teams. I think the best way to do it would be to use the BCS bowls as the playoffs for the national championship and then set up a few more bowls as playoff games. This way those 8 teams still get big bucks and the other teams get bucks and you only force two extra games. I'd probably dump championship games for the leagues to clear it and have the playoffs during the players Holiday break.

Doublem...I thought Tyrone would be sucessful, but the thing that has me is the fact that this years recruiting class (His group) isn't even ranked in the Top 25 and they will barely get in the top 50. When your Notre Dame, you should always be in the Top 25 recruiting wise. I don't care what anyone tells me about them not able to be a dynasty. They may not be able to land some players because of grades, but they offer great tradition, have a ton of former professionals (Them and USC are the most I think) and they offer a great education for those guys that don't make the NFL. Its bs if you can't sell Notre Dame. I know someone said its cause its cold, well my response is Michigan plays in the cold, Iowa plays in the cold, Penn State plays in the cold (Although they played like crap as of late), Ohio State plays in the cold. Colorado (While having a down few seasons) plays in the cold. Heck, Nebraska plays in the cold. There are a lot of top schools that play in the cold and they are able to find the recruits. Oh ya, what other school can offer their players the opportunity to be seen on TV pretty much every week...NONE. That should be a HUGE sell on its own. I'm sorry, but this years team, although they played a tough schedule, didn't show improvement and it took Tyrone so long before he finally started to make Julius the feature back. Two years ago they drastically over-achieved, this year they under-achieved a bit. The problem was I didn't see improvement. This team didn't get better as the season went on and it showed when they got their asses handed to them by a crappy Syracuse team. s***, they almost lost to Navy.

Thanks Kark...hopefully one day I'll be able to run a baseball team. I think it would be pretty cool and I'm confident if somehow I meet the right person, it will happen and hopefully I could lead the Sox to greatness

Washburn is a one pitch pitcher. He's alright, but thats it. He throws 90% fastballs and I still can't figure out how no one gets to him. As far as this deal, supposedly Colon is all but set to sign the offer after the Angels pull the trigger on the deal. Thats what is being reported out here anyway.

I switch around. But if I play with the regular teams, I use the Eagles or the Dolphins.

Mine are on whatever the normal is. But I do use pass sensitivity on deep routes or a gun if I have my receiver coming back.

Not Yet...but the Sox still have money to add other people and i would argue that if the Sox had Colon, added a starter, brought back Sully, brought in Hasageway or Grimsley and then added Lightenbery while dealing Koch. Then I'd say they have a shot, a very good one at that. Of course like everything, u still need a little luck.

If I am reading pastime right, what the two of us are implying is that Kenny needs to dump the guys that make big bucks on offense for younger guys that can be productive and then use the free payroll to add pitching, pitching and more pitching. First off, get Colon in here...3 yr 30 sounds good to me. Lets see if it works for Colon. If that happens and we have Colon...then everything really gets a lot more stable. The Sox should still add a 5th and then add at least 2 relievers, I'd like 3 because I'd like to see Koch go. After that fill the necessary holes with vet fa's. Look at Boston, most of that offense was veteran guys that they signed relatively cheap last offseason. Well maybe not most, but at least a few. Todd Walker, Kevin Millar, David Ortiz, Bill Mueller.

I should really pay attention to these things. Chalk him down as the type of player i wouldn't mind seeing the Sox go after. I know he struggled last season, but he has great stuff, has had sucess in Coors field and has closer experience. I bet you can get him for quite a bit less then he got last season.

Well remember, if the Sox were to pull of some of these moves, I think we should expect at the very least two of the big boppers to be dealt. Most likely would be Magglio and Konerko in my opinion. Although I have my own feelings that we'll see more then that dealt. But to start things off, I think the Sox will go with Maggs and Paulie.

The difference is the Dodgers were absolutely atrosious at the plate. Not only did they have crappy hitters, their hitters had crappy fundementals. This team would still have some bats, and vet fa's...it wouldn't quite have the power of previous teams, but what good has that done the Sox. I think the Dodgesr last year were a HUGE fluke. Teams with that kind of pitching almost always go deep, very deep. They also had a terrible manager and still have one. And I won't begin to speak of their coward of a GM.

Agreed, must of missed that on Florida. I know I kept reading that it would likely be Tenessee. Either way they are going to be playing a good team and its going to be a good game. I hope they are better prepared this time, but I must say I really hate how Iowa's season always ends so early because it leaves them with this huge gap in between the bowls and I firmly believe that gap led to them getting their asses handed to them by USC last year. The team the played in the BCS game against USC, was not the team that had played all the other games. And ya, Iowa has awesome fans. They have party buses and all this stuff. They will sell out a place, thats for sure.

One other thing a team with a smaller payroll can't do, is they can't get attached to players. Sometimes you have to make moves for financial reasons and by doing so you may already have depth in that area with another guy that can step in or can pick up another guy that can do an admireable job and improve another area as well. Beane doesn't get attached. I am not the biggest Beane guy and I don't worship the ground he walks on, but one thing he's not afraid to do is move guys. He realizes its a business and its a game and he can't keep a guy just because he's a fan favorite. Sure it will piss off the fans, but whne the team wins because of the trade, they will quickly forget, imo. As long as their is logic behind the moves...now if its trading Vazquez for Nick Johnson cause your just too cheap to give him the money and you are hosed because MLB is running you, then thats another story.

I couldn't agree more. This team has mismanaged their money, but so has pretty much every team in the majors over the past 10 years or so. The amounts of money the owners/gm's kept giving was ridiculous and it drove the market up and up and up. Now its finally coming down and the good teams will be the ones that unload their salaries on other teams (If you can, dump them on the Yanks and BoSox) and then go out and spend their money in this downturn market on players just as capable for less money. A team can win with a 60 mill payroll...I firmly believe that, but it can't make many mistakes and it definately can't have big bucks tied up to such few players, especially when the one guy that could of won the Cy Young...didn't even make that much. Fact is you can't be spending the money the Sox are on offense, they need to be makinga trasnisition and spending it on pitching. I think Kenny sees things this way and that will happen, although a lot of the blame for the crappy salaries goes to him.

Tennessee is all but a lock to play against Iowa in the Outback Bowl.

He'll get 4 mill. If he was available for that (500k), I guarantee you most of the majors would be after him.

I think it will be on a national level. Well, national in the sense that if you have the ability to pull in outside sports channels you should be able to get this one. And national in the sense that if you have MLB XTRA Innings you should be able to get the games on this channel. I know that when the Orioles games are on Comcast I get the games on XTRA Innings, so I don't see how this would be any different.