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Yes, I hate these threads, but I've seen a lot of people request it be brought back. The thread will be replaced each month though so that it doesn't get too excessive. To start off the thread, the buzz out on the west coast is that Adrian Gonzalez is in talks with the Padres on a new contract that would be worth a reported 160M over 8 years. I heard the above on ESPN Radio 710. It was not during a sports center update, rather was mentioned by one of the guests that was on the show (I didn't catch his name) but he sounded like a beat reporter for the Padres. Either way the above was news to me as I haven't read it anywhere on the web.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Apr 14, 2010 -> 11:03 AM) Where are you going to in China? Have you ever been here? I'm in Hangzhou, about 1 1/2 hour train ride from Shanghai. I've never been, I'll be in Suzhou and Shanghai the whole time. I'm there for business and will be staying in Pudong.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Apr 14, 2010 -> 07:19 AM) I never said it was right. This is Ozzie. This is what he does. The sad thing is that it works. And what he said is unaccepatble. I don't give a s*** why he did it. It is wrong. Should I go encourage killing babies to get the attention off of showing up late to work? f*** no. If I my subordinate didn't finish a project on time, should I tell the CEO about how If I didn't finish a project on time I'd get piss drunk and wasted and end up in jail. No, I'd get laughed at and fired. Ozzie speak makes sense and I understand it, but when he crosses the line he crosses the line and this comment said by anyone other than Ozzie would get creamed and probably fired. In fact, outside of some of the most respected people in the game, they'd be gone. When you add in the history of antics there is no dobut that this is a fireable offense. It won't happen but

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Apr 14, 2010 -> 07:14 AM) It would seem like it, but this works. I'll bet if you listen to talk radio, very little is said about the hitting last night, and they spend a ton of time on Ozzie's statments. There are better ways to get the focus off of your players than by encouraging violence. If he wants to get his attention he should blast about how ownership should fire him or something ridiculous like that which has no impact on the young kids that follow and look up to him. And lets face it, Ozzie is the face of the franchise so to many people he is the spokesman of this franchise and as far as I'm concerned these comments are a slap in the face to a shareholder (i.e. fan).

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Apr 14, 2010 -> 07:04 AM) The team won't do anything until people start canceling season tickets because of what Ozzie said. Well I'm blogging about it. I'm so damn appalled at this.

QUOTE (SteveB23 @ Apr 14, 2010 -> 06:50 AM) Who cares? The team is playing like crap, not hitting, striking out WAAAAY too much. That's what matters. You know, call me old fashion, but the conduct of the players of the team I root for and everyone associated with it is important. If Ozzie was the CEO of a fortune 500 company, his ass would get canned or in serious trouble for this statement. He continues to make statement after statement and really at this point his comments have gone too far and he makes this organization look bad. I actually like Ozzie as a manager, but the stupid comments he says/does are getting out of control.

Charcoal isn't that bad. You light the stuff a bit before and get great flavor. At my parents we had gas and it works good too, is very convienient and tends to not have the flareups, etc. However, Charcoal gives great flavor and as you learn to use it, it really works awesome. I got a Weber a couple months back and so far it has worked great. I'm still learning on it though.

I like those ideas Matt, but I'd also like to be able to integrate my phone navigation directly into my car as opposed to needing two separate navigation (I don't actually have nav in my car, but I don't see the need for having two). In addition, I should be able to listen to the radio via my cell phone, opt for satellite radio if I wanted, and be able to stream baseball and football games on my phone if I so choose.

QUOTE (iamshack @ Apr 13, 2010 -> 04:37 PM) Well, I'm at the airport posting on my iPad and the airport WiFi signal is working just dandy! I don't care what you guys say; this is the perfect device for the airport...I have several movies downloaded, some books downloaded, and plenty of battery life to boot! I'm not going to lie, sounds like it would be pretty useful for my 11 and 14 hour flights to and from Shanghai coming up.

QUOTE (Athomeboy_2000 @ Apr 14, 2010 -> 06:25 AM) "evil" Michael was motivated by protecting his son. Michael is now dead. So I think he's being genuin. I believe the producers said that Smokie is locked onto either being the smoke or Locke. Sine Jacob's death, he can not take on another bodily form. Well, I dont' recall Michael ever saying that they should go talk to Locke and I think the plan is going to blow up in there face. But it is also the only way to get the original losties back together and my gut instinct tells me we will finally see most of the original cast eventually work together to try and kill flocke.

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Apr 14, 2010 -> 06:40 AM) Honestly I only read the thread title until now. Sattire at its finest!

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Apr 14, 2010 -> 06:17 AM) I think a guy with Shippley as a name should be fired. He does nothing but b**** about the coffee and fill up the garbage cans And when he's not b****ing at the hospital, he's b****ing on the internet to 1000's of other people.

QUOTE (ChiSox_Sonix @ Apr 14, 2010 -> 06:03 AM) Honestly, yeah, he probably should have toned that down a little bit, but I don't see it as that big of a deal. His overall point of course will be lost but he is absolutely right. And of course since this is Ozzie the media will probably make a bigger deal out of it than it needs to be. We have a manager encouraging people to beat up fans if they talk smack in public. Now lets say Jenks or Konerko or Quentin or whomever gets drunk and a fan rassles them for a bad time and they punch them in the face. Oh well, my manager said it was ok. Clearly it isn't ok and he should keep him mouth shut. You should not condone violence. It would be one thing if Rios was physically threatened but he was not physically threatened, not at all. And I'm not saying what those fans did was ok, but don't condone violence Ozzie. And maybe I'm a little harsh on this, but I think this is one of the worse things Ozzie has ever said publicly. A guy many kids look up to is encouraging violence.

Kirk Hinrich and Derrick Rose have been huge as of late. And of course Noah as well. Come on Bulls, kick some ass tonight and clinch!!!

http://www.chicagonow.com/blogs/soxnet/201...usly-ozzie.html I realize he is defending Rios, but dude, this doesn't look good, not at all.

Bahahaa....and what about me, who was like the 5th person in and office of a few thousand. Oh well...to China I go in 2 days.

QUOTE (longshot7 @ Apr 14, 2010 -> 01:15 AM) He's not dead - he's in the promo for next week. They insinuate he will die in the previews but I doubt it is him that Sayid shoots. Very interesting how in the end of all the people, Desmond tries to kill alternate Locke. However, it would appear that he doesn't do it until after island fake locke tries to kill him, which again shows just how intertwined both realities are. I'm glad I was patient with the alt world because it is starting to be badass.

QUOTE (kjshoe04 @ Apr 13, 2010 -> 09:02 PM) I actually thought it was the most entertaining hour of the season. Putting an episode like that was perfect after the intense Desmond episode. Hugo was kicking some serious ass. I can't say it was the best, but you can see that s*** is about to hit the fan on the island. Desmond's episode kicked it all off and I like Hugo in general.

Oh man, finally saw last weeks episode. One of the best Lost episodes in some time. Gave me goosebumps.

QUOTE (fathom @ Apr 12, 2010 -> 04:54 PM) I'm really not sold on that. The scouts were just bashing his stuff this Spring (not just what we heard in the press). It wasn't his fastball they were worried about, but rather his slider was being thrown at a different plane. I really do hope it works out for him in Chicago though, so by no means am I giving up on him yet. You do realize he pretty much never throws his slider in the spring. I heard an interview with Peavy where he mentioned that he threw less than 15 sliders all spring, so I'm hard pressed to see how scouts could make a judgment on his slder.

QUOTE (daa84 @ Apr 12, 2010 -> 04:47 PM) so thus far out of peavy...hes been throwing low 90s, not mid 90s, and he's not getting the movement on it like we saw last year....not good His movement looked pretty damn good against Cleveland.

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Apr 12, 2010 -> 03:48 PM) Wow, thats a big loss. Yep, he was looking like he was going to be a darn good player. Right now everyone in Iowa is pretty optimistic that the recruits who re-opened will still stay at Iowa, but than again, a week to week and a half ago, it looked as if everyone was going to stick around and play for coach Fran.

QUOTE (whitesoxfan99 @ Apr 9, 2010 -> 03:24 PM) Larson has already asked for his release and I have heard rumors Fuller might be on the way out. Those are really big losses. But if Battle stays in the draft it won't matter because PSU will be by far the worst team in the conference and that is saying something with how bad Iowa and Michigan are likely to be. Ya, for a while it sounded like they were all going to stay and now it sounds like some guys have re-opened there committments and losing Fuller will be huge.

Titans did well this weekend, taking 2 out of 3 at UCI. Record improves to 18-12. Hopefully they keep this up. Pitching seems to be figuring itself out and the offense has heated up. Titans lost the opening game on a walk-off. They re-enter BA's polls today at #22 in the country. I'm hoping they will continue to climb as the season progresses and when the post-season is done they will stand alone as National Champs!!!

QUOTE (Athomeboy_2000 @ Apr 12, 2010 -> 07:07 AM) RIP Palm: Palm Said to Tap Goldman, Quattrone to Find Buyers They have a very nice patent portfolio that I am sure a few companies would love to own. They have a ton of debt and a failing mobile unit. The company is toast, but someone might by them for some patent and some other miscellaneous stuff, but Palm as an independent company is done. There recent phones have been epic failures and there OS just doesn't compete with the Apple OS, Blackbery, Windows or the Android based phones.