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The contract is definately odd, but even if Frank has a good year, I don't see him getting any offers bigger then whath he's already due. My logic for this is first of all, free agency really seems to of changed and most teams aren't out there throwing money all over. Secondly, of those teams throwing money around, The Yanks don't need a Dh, Boston could use one but they didn't have much interest this year and I doubt they would next year. The Dodgers could go for him, but they act like they don't have the money or at least they didn't have the money to sign Cliff Floyd this year to play first. Plus, I don't see teams wanting to give Thomas a long term deal considering how inconsistent he has been the past 4 years, especially one where they owe him a lot of money.

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I was in the website when it happened...I tried to post something and it did that...so then I hit the back button an a page of gibberish came up. I left the site, put www.soxtalk.com in the url blank and got the same thing you did. Is that the problem that has been bugging the server? It must be. I haven't experienced it. I think the harddrive error is causing the sites to show funny error messages.

Unfortunately, YES, a lot of people are total sheep and live and die on every move that these people make. This "culture" is so full of star-crossed followers that some idiots don't even know the name of our Vice President, but can rattle off the title of every movie Tom Cruise has ever been in. A huge segment of the American population is a complete embarrassment. The Kennedys are royalty, people chased another country's princess to her death, and we're more concerned with Michael Jackson's nose, Britney Spears' inflating and deflating tits and where R. Kelly's allegedly sticking his meat than we are with a potential global crisis. It's the lowest common denominator at an all-time low, and it's sad. I cant remember the exact numbers but in a poll for 18 year olds I think it was, a good majority of them could not locate the Pacific Ocean. That is just sad. Fortunately there are enough smart kids to keep this country dominant in the future... And just thinking about it, can you imagine the current generation running the country? Like me, wsc, wsf and bighurt as Americas leaders? Thats kinda insane. Some of the vocabulary they may use and such... I believe it was locating Iraq and/or Afghanistan. You'd have to be in a coma not to be able to locate the Pacific. Umm, no, there were American teens who couldnt find the Pacific. Like 18 percent I think. There was like 60% who could not find Iraq, which is still pretty bad. That just can't be right. I know America lags behind other countries but there's no way a bunch of 18-year-olds can't locate the Pacific unless they are doped up, not taking the test seriously, dead or something. hell, I can drive to the pacific Takes me 15 minutes.

I'd trade Konerko for Glaus any day of the week. Glaus is an unbelieavably talented player.

I agree that Jose should do really good in the 2 hole, but I also think last year the team did really good once Rowand was inserted in the two slot. The big reason I want Manos in the 2 hole is because he's a veteran and its better to have at least one guy in the first 2 slots thats you can kind of get a read on what he's going to do. We don't know what Jimenez will do and we don't really know what Rowand will do either.

Well if Crede fails then you have Manos or Daubach at 3rd with Hummell, Miles and Harris fighting for the other job in the infield. If Olivo goes, then we definately got nothing unless that Burke guy is something. Still, Crede can play really good defense and has a live bat, so I'm not worried. He can hit the ball to all parts of the field and even if he hit .240 he wouldn't be completely terrible because of his defense. I don't see him hitting .240 though. I think he could have an Albert Pujols like year.

Oh ya, I'd agree. Karros and Konerko have always been pretty similar players in my mind. Konerko is a better hitter with more power though. There styles of play are still the same. Solid defensively, slow as molasses type players.

How the hell does he get off calling Bush a racist?

Mark my words, within 3 years, basketball will have the same problems. I think basketball solved there problems with there last labor agreement. Salaries were out of control. Hockeys problem is real simple they are playing players ridiculous salaries and they have no way to compensate them with Tv revenue and other things because there tv contract sucks and there is no salary cap. They don't have the draw of baseball nor the tv contracts of the NFL or NBA or even MLB. Hockey will probably see around 4 or 5 teams go under within the next year or two. When I say go under, I mean dissapear. Hockey has some serious things to fix when the next labor agreement comes up in two years. If they screw this one up, then hockey could be done.

This will be an interesting thing to watch. North Korea can be dangerous because they have nuts running that country and pretty much no fear. Whenever that happens you got to worry. Japan has to be worried because North Korea has the weapons and I don't think there is a country that would be more effected by some type of military attack on a major city then Japan, considering how heavily populated and dense their cities are.

Lol, we'd never do that I'm glad I got the email because once its fixed the server should be working better then ever!!!!

What exactly is the problem Konerko has with his hip? Did he bruise it or does he have like a degenerative hip or whatever they call it?

I don't think there is any negotiating with Ken Williams. I'm guessing if they come back and are willing to sign for the original offer then the Sox would have a deal, otherwise, I don't see anything happen. Rogers isn't looking too smart right now, especially considering the Red Sox don't seem too interested in him anymore.

I just recieved an email from the company the hosts the message board and I've been told they will be doing some work on the board sometime in the next couple days. I'll know the exact time by the end of the day or should. They have discovered a bad hard-drive on our server and it has led to some problems the past couple days, most of which wouldn't of been noticed by us, other then a one or two minute outage. What they need to do is replace all the harddrives and in doing so there will be a 6 hr downtime or so. Once again, I'm talking to them and trying to get the exact time and hopefully it will happen during the late late periods of the night till the early morning. Everything should be working faster and better then ever once its done and the server should be even more reliable. As I get more information, I'll pass it on to everyone. Sorry for the inconvience, hopefully it will be fixed very quickly as the 6 hrs is what they told me was a maximum downtime. From everyone at Soxtalk.com Soxnet will not be effected by this outage

Don't blame the country because most of the time its just one f***ed up asshole that's f***ing everything up. NK's leaders don't care what happens to there people and if they go down they want to take a lot of people with them. Don't worry, the US wont attack North Korea. Bush won't have that kind of support needed to take down a country as powerfull as them. In the end NK will promise to shut down there nuclear weapons program, and the US (and UN) will buy them off in some way. Its the few in control that have all the power over there. Its pretty sad in North Korea.

I dunno, if they get some 14 year with a broken arm that can throw 105 mph then they are definately going to the series.

I think he's just slow, just like Bengie Molina is on the Angels.

They made a mess and they have absolutely no talent in there farm system. They do have a good looking 2nd baseman that is supposed to start this year. They'll be decent and they got a darn good manager. If Brown and Dreifort are healthy they could be pretty good.

Thomas was really cool the one time I talked to him. Well, it wasn't much of a conversation. It was befor the 2000 season at spring training. I looked at Frank and said your looking ready for a monster year, how do you feel? Damn Good...then he was cool signed my ball and then Gary's ball and he went onto have what should of been an MVP season. Just cause the media says bad stuff about him, dont' mean he's an ass. It just mean he don't like the media.

Thats just what I keep hearing out here. Yes they raised the payroll, but it wasn't by some big time free agent signing. I think it was simply contracts going up and they don't have many marketable players. They could of had Floyd to play first, instead went cheap. They let Daal walk, couldn't deal Jordan, couldn't deal Beltre. This is a team that definately has a lot of problems, namely all the money invested to Brown and Dreifort. Brown, Jordan, Greene, Beltre, and a couple other players all combined to make quite a bit more this year then they did last year if i Recall. I know my dad is pretty pissed at the Dodgers right now, so is most of the media. They got themselves into this mess though.

Well a new pitching coach would of worked better with Kip, but a bit more time would of definately helped him. I like the fact that the Sox aren't rushing there players anymore. Olivo is kind of getting rushed, but he has the defensive abilities to fall back on, plus he isn't in a high pressure spot. Plus, it isn't too difficult to out hit MJ.

LA won't pay him any money unless there is a new owner in charge. Fox is pretty much content on selling the team and if they can't sell them you'll see them continue to lower the payroll till it is around 70 million or so. Thats a big drop off from what it currently is. If the Dodgers were willing to pay the money they'd already have Frank. Supposedly they offered him something, but it wasn't good enough to make him leave JR. The two of them really respect eachother.

Tell my story Jason, because I don't even know it. Well, Ian joined up a week or two after I joined up. He was here for a while and then resigned. About 4 or 5 months ago, he came storming back and he's been here ever since. Anything you want to add Ian?

It won't let me see the results of the poll for some reason. I know one thing, the Sox are a better team then the Cubs, then again, I think when everything is over the Sox will be wearing the rings.