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This is going to be an interesting week for sure.

QUOTE (Ranger @ Feb 16, 2010 -> 05:27 PM) Well, you'd likely still have to pay them, which would completely defeat the purpose of getting rid of them so you can create salary room. If no other team wants to pick them up off waivers, then the Sox would end up being responsible for their contracts. You can't just release a player or outright a guy without having to pay him. Again, unless somebody else wants to pick them up. I highly doubt the sox would whine about releasing 500K of Andruw Jones if it comes to that. QUOTE (Kenny Hates Prospects @ Feb 16, 2010 -> 10:59 PM) And somehow I doubt a woman who uses words like "cosmopolitan" to describe ideal living situations drives a truck for a living. Just a guess, but I imagine she's used to being pampered and as a result doesn't exactly jump for joy at the thought of sleeping in a cardboard box somewhere in West Baghdad. Well just by looking at her... I'd pamper her myself.. She can continue the "hot wives club" we usually get every year with sox players (Lisa Dergan-Podsednik, Jaime Kotsay, Michelle Damon hopefully) And I would say 40% as well.

Jeremy Reed.. :wub: Oh.. nevermind.. 5 years. WILLIE HARRIS, Sweeney, B-Mac, Swisher, or Chris Carter.

I gotta say.. reading what I missed theres some gems in this thread.. Some of you posters crack me up.. "I believe", "I heard" this and that about Damon and A.J... Yes you did... I just said the same damn thing what came out of A.J.'s mouth on CTL 28 pages ago in this same thread! Oy.....

Wang will thrive much better in the NL (esp. in that park) than he would in the AL. (esp. in new Yankee Stadium) Nice low risk, potential high reward for Nats.

Very nice win for the USA.

Down to 160 on the nose right now. Feel stronger than I was a month ago for sure (couldn't even do 1 set of 20 man pushups a month ago.) Now I'm doing 2 sets of 40. I got all year, so I'll probably be in the hundreds come summer time. I gotta do somethin with these stretch marks though..

QUOTE (SoxFan1 @ Feb 16, 2010 -> 12:13 AM) RicBucher Source says Clippers have dealt Marcus Camby for Travis Outlaw and Steve Blake. Details and deeper confirmation to follow on the mothership. Wow.. Great trade for Portland.

QUOTE (Felix @ Feb 15, 2010 -> 09:50 PM) I'm not saying VDN is a good coach, but Mike Brown isn't exactly a great coach or anything. He gets away with a lot just because he's got LeBron. Your correct, but he is still miles better than VDN. Sucks to hear about Karl, but I would love to see us land Byron Scott. (job he did with CP3 from his rookie year on, was amazing and even CP3 credited Scott) I still feel Derrick has lost some development from the VDN regime, especially playing in a half court set.

QUOTE (nitetrain8601 @ Feb 15, 2010 -> 07:32 PM) It sounds pretty dumb to fire DePaul if he really was involved in getting good players to the Bears. He was the one who also advised Pace, Omiyale, Shaffer, Manning Jr. etc.. Like any personel guy, he did have his faults.

f*** qwerty.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Feb 15, 2010 -> 02:19 PM) A general question I was thinking about Re: Damon. Hypothetically let's assume the Sox sign him. That makes our bench/DH rotation Vizquel, Kotsay, Jones, Damon, and Castro, if they go with 12 pitchers. (12 pitchers, 8 everyday players, 5 man bench/DH rotation). Are people comfortable with a 44 year old Omar Vizquel being our only backup IF for 3 separate positions? At least to my eyes, we're pretty much required to carry either CJ or Nix just so we have 2 backups to cover the IF. That limits us to an 11 man pitching staff, and I'm not sure the org would be thrilled about that. Anyway, you don't avoid signing Damon because of that, but I'd say it ought to be something they think about beforehand. I would think they would have Vizquel manning 3B and SS and Nix to handle 2B (though I know a bench player only playing one position isn't ideal, but that's the only one he's good at defensively though I'm sure Ozzie will have him play some SS [maybe corner OF] and Vizquel some 2B) and you have Kotsay play 1B and the OF (preferably corners) and Andruw (if he makes the team) to play all the OF spots and of course Castro is the backup. Though Ozzie likes carrying 12 pitchers even though the rotation is really good, so I would say Andruw or Nix could be gone in ST IF we sign Damon. I don't think they have a problem with Vizquel (dude still looks like he hasn't aged one bit) backing up 3 IF positions especially considering he won't be playing every week and the whole rotate DH thing to give a guy (or two just for rest) a day off from the field. This also means KW could make a move trading Nix before the season starts to get a more versatile backup IF for Ozzie.

Indeed. I'll be watching.

All-Star game was alot more competitive than in recent years, though there wasn't as many "spectacular" plays/dunks as well. Nice to see Derrick have a strong game, and I'm sure I wasn't the only one drooling seeing him assist Bosh and Wade.. :wub:

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Feb 15, 2010 -> 01:04 AM) I grew up in the late 70's and 80's, and many of those players had Chris Berman/ESPN nicknames. Theres your first mistake....

QUOTE (SoxFan1 @ Feb 14, 2010 -> 09:45 PM) I voted for the 2nd option, though I think "satisfied" is a bad choice of wording. I'd say I'm content with what we've got, but craving more. We can succeed with this roster, but we can also improve. Very well said Slav. I gotta say I hope our rotation and bullpen can hold down 1-0, 2-1, 3-2 games at the moment. Not that Damon would drastically improve our overall offense, but he would certainly help it. Hopefully Teahan, Rios, and Alexei have big years, Pierre gets a serviceable OBP etc..

QUOTE (MattZakrowski @ Feb 14, 2010 -> 03:40 PM) This is critical. I think he's the 2nd best pitcher in the division, but he's been Dusty Baker'd most of his career. Now this I agree with.

QUOTE (SoxFan1 @ Feb 14, 2010 -> 03:29 PM) Verlander has got to be one of the more overrated players in the AL, imo. Soon to be 27 year old pitcher who (besides one season) has been putting up 3 eras and finally figured out how to destroy people last season (+10.1 K/9 IP) with filthy stuff and a power arm? I'll take him if you don't want him. He'd probably be the ace (maybe #2 if Peavy is really good in the AL) on our staff. Now Scherzer... he is way more overhyped.

QUOTE (chw42 @ Feb 14, 2010 -> 02:20 AM) Off topic: What comic does your avatar come from Ranger? I know it's by Skanberg, but I can't seem to find it... Knight would probably know the answer to that since he had it up (and put it in the avatar) for Ranger.

Since this is the off-season thread as well....

QUOTE (kjshoe04 @ Feb 13, 2010 -> 10:37 PM) The Dunk Contest was really lame but everything else was a whole lot of fun tonight. This is one of the my favorite sports nights of the year. Just plain fun. I have to agree with this. Though I was mad my boy Stephen Curry didn't win the three point contest. I hope Dwight, LeBron, etc.. save the dunk contest next year. DeRosan just gave Nate Robinson the title.

QUOTE (Quinarvy @ Feb 13, 2010 -> 02:43 PM) Rose will not defend his Skills challenge title. Just got a text from the Bulls saying it. Deron Williams is happy.

QUOTE (Sonik22 @ Feb 13, 2010 -> 02:14 AM) Seriously I'm going on 20 straight years of being single on valentines day, w t f. I need to find a girl, soon. This is my 3rd year. (broke up with my ex a couple years ago, 3 days before Valentines day) The first two were good (when you single, you get alot of love from da ladies ) but this year is really gonna suck.

QUOTE (Kenny Hates Prospects @ Feb 12, 2010 -> 08:05 PM) I don't think anyone would be shocked if the Twins had Kubel in LF, Span in CF, Cuddyer in RF with Thome as the fulltime DH by the time it all ended. I hope they do for our case.. That would be a brutal OF defensively. Rock and shakes are right in this instance.

QUOTE (GoSox05 @ Feb 12, 2010 -> 03:56 PM) I never realized that sex with Jiminy Cricket would cover almost all sexual fetishes. Just let your conscience be your guide!