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QUOTE(WCSox @ Aug 9, 2007 -> 07:33 PM) Some of the armchair managers on Soxtalk fail to see the massive amount of gray area between "Ozzie's infallible" and "Ozzie's a worthless POS." ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

QUOTE(Steff @ Aug 9, 2007 -> 04:25 PM) It gave me a much needed laugh. Daggummit, whaddya mean by that?

QUOTE(vandy125 @ Aug 9, 2007 -> 04:42 AM) Good to see Jose looking good!! Well, maybe all he needed was a break? That's sort of scary.

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Aug 9, 2007 -> 02:25 AM) Eric Byrnes getting 10 million dollars a year pretty much means the Sox are going to install Jerry Owens as the starting CF in 2008. That was my thought too, because that's what Rowand is going to get with that contract.

QUOTE(GoSox05 @ Aug 8, 2007 -> 08:34 PM) I read a bunch of stuff on this today, mostly by right wing bloggers. A lot of it seem's to be conspiracy theory type stuff. I think if there were even a remote chance that Iraq sent there WMD's to Syria, George Bush would be talking about it and trying to use it to back the war in Iraq and even invade Syria. No he wouldn't. Quit reading your "left wing blogs" to get the "facts" on George W. Bush's policies. There are so many reasons for things that most of us are not even aware of.

QUOTE(NorthSideSox72 @ Aug 6, 2007 -> 01:09 PM) Look. This is a semantic argument, so I'll try one more time and then give up. I was illustrating in my post that this crowd is NOT the same old people we see every time. I pointed out religion/race/gender, but ALSO pointed out differences in approach, background and stances. I am not saying these are all great candidates - I am saying that for the first time in my memory, the crowd has gotten more political diverse and more broad in spectrum of background, instead of the previous trend of being more and more tired and plastic. You apparently both disagree. I think what this comes down to is, we're all disillusioned with the candidates we see for high offices. I'm right with you. But when the negative trend abates, even temporarily or slightly, I think its important to recognize that and grasp onto it. If you just look at it as slightly less but still evil (which it is), and let that dominate your view, then no progress can be made. Its like rewarding a child for going from a C- to a C. Yeah, still not what you want, but if you don't reinforce that, you can forget about B's or A's. That's where we diverge. It's indeed more demographically different, but it's certainly not much different in terms of idealogy. I'm actually not trying to pick an argument, I'm just trying to say that the ideas out there are no different, other then the times which we live. The stuff from 2006 is the same crap we're talking about in the 2008 election cycle, because none of these nitwits will actually have anything to do if they didn't cry about all of the "problems" they will always need to take care of. I don't know if that makes sense or not.

QUOTE(GoSox05 @ Aug 8, 2007 -> 07:02 PM) I was just asking for proof on if Iraq had moved weapons into Syria or any other country. I never heard that before, so I was just asking. About the "attacking America" question, I meant more if you thought that Iraq would attack the people of America. Something like a nuclear bomb or dirty bomb of that sort. I didn't mean military. Sorry not to clarify. I don't think they would have directly attacked the US, but they certainly could have funded such an attack, much like they did to Israel for years and years.

QUOTE(Balta1701 @ Aug 8, 2007 -> 06:43 PM) All this information was out there at the time for people who bothered to look. Even deeper than that, you could tell Mr. Bush had something up his sleeve just by the way he talked. I'll give you my favorite example; the units he used. Saddam produced an enormous amount of chemical and biological weaponry in the 80's. But, the UNSCOM teams in the 90's were able to confirm the destruction of over 95% of the stuff. And given how heavily the U.S. bombed that country, confirming 95% of it was gone was a hell of an accomplishment. But when Mr. Bush spoke, he never gave percentages, he always spoke in volumes. 30,000 liters of anthrax precursers, or whatever you wanted. What he wasn't telling you was that he was talking about like 2% of what was originally there, and that 2% was probably hit by a 2000 lb. bomb in GW1. That's assuming that they never, ever made anymore from when the original stockpiles were "counted".

http://biz.yahoo.com/minyanville/070808/20...st_id.html?.v=2 Interesting piece about the balance game the Fed is playing right now. The one alarm is a link to the Telegraph in London. It talks about China using the "nuclear option" of dumping dollars into the market if Congress passes trade restrictions as punishment for holding the value of the yuan firm. China holds 44% of the US debt. If they decide to dump it in the open market, you will see blood in this country that hasn't been seen since 1929-1930 (yea, you get it, we will have at a minimum a VERY hard recession, if not a depression).

QUOTE(GoSox05 @ Aug 8, 2007 -> 04:28 PM) First, do you have proof that weapons were brought into Syria from Iraq during the time of America's invasion. Your talking about invading three countries at one time. I just don't know how you can think that is a good idea. Sorry but it comes off a little crazy. Right wing or left wing, that sounds kinda crazy. If there were proof, it would be all over the place... but I think there's a lot more to the WMD issue then we are EVER told. As to your second point, I didn't say that we invade three countries AT ONE TIME.

QUOTE(JUSTgottaBELIEVE @ Aug 8, 2007 -> 04:32 PM) i was actually quite surprised with the splits from thome this year better than i had expected with men on late in games By Situation AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI BB HBP SO SB CS AVG OBP SLG OPS On Second 20 2 4 0 0 1 4 15 0 3 0 0 .200 .543 .350 .893 On Third 7 2 0 0 0 0 3 1 1 5 0 0 .000 .200 .000 .200 First and Second 20 7 8 2 0 2 13 4 0 5 0 0 .400 .500 .800 1.300 First and Third 10 6 3 0 0 3 12 3 0 3 0 0 .300 .400 1.200 1.600 Second and Third 3 8 2 1 0 1 6 1 0 0 0 0 .667 .750 2.000 2.750 Bases Loaded 8 8 2 0 0 0 7 2 0 4 0 0 .250 .400 .250 .650 1B Only 50 9 16 4 0 3 6 18 0 17 0 0 .320 .500 .580 1.080 None On/Out 54 2 19 4 0 2 2 6 0 15 0 0 .352 .417 .537 .954 None On, 1/2 out 103 6 21 2 0 6 6 24 2 39 0 0 .204 .364 .398 .762 Close and Late 38 7 11 2 0 1 9 11 1 15 0 0 .289 .451 .421 .872 None On 157 8 40 6 0 8 8 30 2 54 0 0 .255 .381 .446 .827 Runners On 118 42 35 7 0 10 51 44 1 37 0 0 .297 .482 .610 1.092 Scoring Position 68 33 19 3 0 7 45 26 1 20 0 0 .279 .469 .632 1.101 Scoring Posn, 2 out 16 12 6 1 0 2 14 9 0 3 0 0 .375 .600 .813 1.413 Men On, 2 out 28 15 9 2 0 3 16 15 0 7 0 0 .321 .558 .714 1.272 Man on 3rd, Lead Off Inning 52 0 18 3 0 2 2 5 0 15 0 0 .346 .404 .519 .923 Glossary Groundball - results vs. "groundball pitchers." Groundball pitchers defined as such before the season begins based on the past five year's performance. A groundball/flyball ratio of less than 1.0 classifies one as a flyball pitcher. A ratio of greater than 1.5 classifies one as a groundball pitcher. All others are neutral. Flyball - results vs. flyball pitchers. Average G:F - results vs. a pitcher classifed as neither a groundball or flyball pitcher. Finesse - results vs. "finesse" pitchers. Finesse pitchers defined as such before the season begins based on the past five year's performance. If the pitcher's BB+SO/IP is less than 0.93, he is classified as "finesse." If it's greater than 1.13, he's classified as "power." All others are neutral. Power - results vs. "power" pitchers. Average F:P - results vs. a pitcher classified as neither a finesse or power pitcher. Close And Late - results in the 7th inning or later with the batting team either ahead by one run, tied or with the potential tying run at least on deck. Thanks for this. Not bad, actually. Maybe it's just a "lately" thing.

QUOTE(GoSox05 @ Aug 8, 2007 -> 04:02 PM) So your saying that they did have WMD's and they put them in Syria when we invaded or prior to invasion? Are you saying that we should invade Syria and Iran? First question, yes. I do think they had WMD's and moved them out. Second question, if ultimately, over time, diplomatic efforts do not work, then yes, again. The difference this time is you better have a damn plan, unlike this time. It's not this clear cut, but you want fodder to say I'm a right wing nutcase war-monger, there you have it.

QUOTE(juddling @ Aug 8, 2007 -> 03:57 PM) I kind of agree with whitesoxfan101 on this one though. I would have had Owens running as well on Martinez. Sox already had two SB on him and IIRC neither throw was close to getting the runner. Plus the fact it was a night where the Sox hitters weren't hitting a 'hittable' pitcher in Westbrook. They only manage two hits all night...if Owens could get 2B. They could have tied the game without a hit. just a couple sac flies and it's a new ball game. I think the odds were in the Sox favor when it came to stealing. You can guess all night long, but if they pitch out and nail his ass, we would see threads about why "GUILLEN DIDN'T SACRIFICE OMG LOLZ!1!!1!!!".

QUOTE(Dick Allen @ Aug 8, 2007 -> 03:56 PM) Thome is second in the AL in OBP and he hits with power. Yeah, his act is getting really old. They need to bring in someone who never gets on base. What is is OBP with runners in scoring position compared to with no runners on? Can someone help me out with that?

QUOTE(GoSox05 @ Aug 8, 2007 -> 03:36 PM) Does anyone here think that had Iraq had weapons of mass destruction, that the war at this point would be considered to be more successful? One more question. Does anyone here think that Iraq was actively seeking to attack America, with weapons of mass destruction or by other means? First question. Yes. For sure. But you already knew that. And they DID have WMD's - the intelligence was wrong only due to where it was in 2003 (which was not Iraq). Second question. I think there was certain intelligence that suggested that was a possibility. While I don't think it was imminent, over time it was going to become a greater possibility. When you have governments running around saying "death to America", you have to take them at their word. Hello, Iran.

QUOTE(Steff @ Aug 8, 2007 -> 03:53 PM) It's ok if you do it. If I do it there'd be a b**** fest. That's because you know everything. Ms. know-it-all. (This post is not green).

QUOTE(Steff @ Aug 8, 2007 -> 03:42 PM) Have you they tried a stronger dose of Midol...? Fixed that for you.

QUOTE(RockRaines @ Aug 8, 2007 -> 03:39 PM) Frankly I thought that we executed perfectly with the middle of the order coming up. If he got thrown out trying to steal would you have created the thread for Ozzie sending him? Exactly. I get sick of all this MMQB s*** around here. Out of all of them, there might have been about twice that it was legit this season.

QUOTE(LVSoxFan @ Aug 8, 2007 -> 03:31 PM) I know I'm gonna get strafed for this but again last night it happened. Does Thome ever drive people in in the clutch? This is getting old. I haven't seen it much except for the first couple months last year.

QUOTE(WCSox @ Aug 8, 2007 -> 02:50 PM) Wow. Barry may be a complete jerk and the increased size of his noggin clearly shows that he was using illegal performance-enhancers. But I have to give him props for being the greatest position player of my generation (with apologies to A-Rod, who is still relatively young). Even before he began using the juice, he had 400 HRs, 400 SBs, and 3 MVPs... and that's first-ballot HOF material on its own. Too bad that Barry made himself so unlikeable. I was surprised to see Hank give that videotaped message on the JumboTron. That was classy, even if Barry didn't really deserve it. What was lacking in class was the qualifier that Selig put on the end of his "congratulatory" statement. Considering that Selig conveniently looked the other way when steroid-fueled players were making his league tons of money, it was also downright hypocritical. Selig is an asshole. Period.

*sigh* It amazes me how smart we all are around here. We'd be 162+11=173-0 EVERY YEAR with the brain power we have here at soxtalk. Then baseball would be boring because we'd win every single game.

QUOTE(Rex Kicka** @ Aug 8, 2007 -> 06:17 AM) The aluminum tube myth wasn't debunked by the IAEA until January 03. The first time Zarqawi was referenced by the President was in October of 2002. As for the other stuff, Senator Nelson of Florida in 2004 says it best - as quoted in the Congressional Record. If you're being told this in a secure intelligence briefing, and you are John Q Senator - why would you not believe it? It's not coming from the President's speech, it's coming from a secured intelligence briefing. If you are being told this in a secure intelligence briefing, and you are George W. Bush - why would you not believe it? So, again, the data/intelligence all pointed to these issues. Everyone was being fed the same lines of what turned out to be bulls***. Now, having said that, at one time, Saddam had this technology, or the means to make it. That's always conveniently never brought up. Now, next, re: my first sentance, you're going to tell me that it was GWB (or his administration) that was forcing people to lie about this stuff. I absolutely don't think that's true. The intelligence supported it. Period. Once we got in there, our intelligence was proven to be junk, although I still say most of this is sitting in Syria today.

QUOTE(Texsox @ Aug 8, 2007 -> 01:03 PM) I found it to be a sad moment for baseball. Barry, Mark, and Sammy were used by baseball to bring back the fans. Players, coaches, and owners knew these guys, and many more, were abusing their bodies, and spitting on the image of baseball, but it was selling tickets. Barry's *record* is still amazing, but will always be tainted. As noted earlier Bonds can make a good team great, a fitting metaphor for the drugs he was taking. He went from great to the all time home run record by cheating. For memorable baseball moments in my lifetime, I'd prefer September 6, 1995. Another legend's "record that would never be broken" fell, but by someone who kids could look up to and could look himself in the mirror without shame. I remember that game well. 2-1-3-1

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well with aj up the game will be over or tied with one pitch thrown to him.