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QUOTE (ZoomSlowik @ Oct 27, 2012 -> 10:13 PM) I don't think they do. They got scared of future luxury tax payments (not even current luxury tax issues) and made their team worse. K-Mart is likely gone after this year (otherwise, keep Harden), so then they have Lamb and draft picks for one of their key players. The only way they can win this deal is if they strike gold again in the draft, and I don't think Houston will suck enough for them to get top-5 picks out of this. How is Martin that much worse than Harden? I love Harden. But I doubt he'd be nearly as efficient as he is in a featured role. The Thunder are not looking at just 2013.

QUOTE (Quinarvy @ Oct 27, 2012 -> 10:10 PM) OKC just got better now and in the long run. Damn Presti is a good GM. I mean, he got lucky hitting on Durant, Westbrook, and Harden. They could have all been busts, but damn they hit. And then stole PJIII. Scouted and got Ibaka. But the Perkins trade, getting Thabo (though Taj is fair value) and now Lamb? God damn Presti is good. Yup. Harden wanted max money. After the Ibaka extension, that just wasn't happening. The Thunder are in this thing for the LONG haul. I love it.

Outstanding move by the Thunder. That organization knows what the f*** they're doing.

QUOTE (Iwritecode @ Oct 26, 2012 -> 02:14 PM) Positive thinking I guess... Kind of like when I walk into a store and see a bunch of Cubs stuff and no Sox stuff at all. I just say to myself "Well, they must have just sold out of the Sox stuff already." Brilliant.

QUOTE (witesoxfan @ Oct 24, 2012 -> 03:41 PM) Just so we are aware, I am no longer going to talk about Ozzie Guillen on this website unless it comes up organically and is not disputing how terrible he is. Like, I might talk about him, but I'm not doing this anymore. At this point, I believe masturbation is more productive than continuing this argument with greg because then atleast I feel good (or shameful and guilty, depending on what I watched) afterwards. This is nothing more than aggrivating. So I'm going to end it with this: OZZIE GUILLEN IS A HORRIBLE MANAGER The end I'm just gonna do what qwerty did like 5 years ago. I can't take greg anymore. He's more annoying than honey boo boo.

QUOTE (Quinarvy @ Oct 24, 2012 -> 12:26 AM) Is anyone else enjoying the irony of Greg taking shots at a fat closer who failed to get the job done for Ozzie? Also, the Castro comments would be akin to Ozzie saying something along the lines of "f*** the Irish people" in Chicago. I personally think greg is reveling in his newfound celebrity. He's become the most popular person on the board. Even moreso than the awful kalapse. greg doesn't really care for ozzie THIS much. oh and q, happy late b-day. i saw that you had just turned 20 but was too drunk too send a pm.

OMG, greg. You're my dawg. But you're getting f***ing annoying as f***.

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Oct 22, 2012 -> 08:22 AM) Drugs much? Chris Young's OPS+ by season. 2006: 73 2007: 88 2008: 91 2009: 83 2010: 108 2011: 103 2012: 95 All tha for only $8.5 million (2013) or $11 million (2014, or $1.5 million buyout)! WHAT A STEAL! BEANE IS A GENIUS! Not sure he's a steal. But Young's ++defense in CF the last three years cannot be ignored.

QUOTE (JoeCoolMan24 @ Oct 18, 2012 -> 05:02 PM) My god, Detroit is on point right now. I'm legitimately worried they are going to win this whole thing. It's a shame, they aren't deserving at all. Why are they undeserving?

QUOTE (witesoxfan @ Oct 16, 2012 -> 01:59 PM) Yeah, it's probably over the top. I deserve what I have coming to me I think you should be sentenced to watch the Saved by the Bell episode where Slater's pet chameleon Artie died and they held a funeral for it. God that episode is f***ing awful. But it's a suitable punishment.

QUOTE (chw42 @ Oct 15, 2012 -> 08:37 PM) Unfortunately, for those of us who think Mike Trout is 100% deserving of the award, he's not going to win. Some idiot Tigers fan on FB thought Cabrera played above average defense. I just stopped reading from there on. That's like saying Jermaine Dye was a good outfielder during the last few years of his White Sox tenure. He was. /greg775

QUOTE (RZZZA @ Oct 14, 2012 -> 07:37 PM) If I stop, this thread will have like 2 replies per month :/ Don't flatter yourself. The NBA thread was one of the most active on the entire board last year. Wait until the season starts. And dude, Kirk Hinrich sucks.

It still hasn't hit me that Pau Gasol is arguably the Lakers 4th best player. How the f*** does that happen? And Rizzy, please stop.

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Oct 14, 2012 -> 07:09 PM) The 7th best team in the AL is probably gonna advance to the World Series. You're probably right. And which is why the Sox inability to get to the playoffs more frequently in what is routinely the weakest division in the AL is inexcusable. I'm not that pissed about '12. I expected 95 losses and they did some good things this year. But this was KW's "free" pass year, or whatever you want to call it. The Tigers are not as good as I thought they would be. And they still got by with a meager 88 wins and they're now feasting in the playoffs. Which again shows if you get there, you've got a shot. We just can't get there enough. Starting next year, some folks (KW) truly need to be held accountable. Can't blame Ozzie, one of the worst baseball managers I've ever seen, anymore.

This thread should answer greg's question about topic starting.

lol. I don't get the Peavy hate. He's sucked nuts against the Tigers. But without him, we're nowhere near first place.

QUOTE (hammerhead johnson @ Sep 3, 2012 -> 05:45 PM) No kidding. FIP Jake Peavy: 3.49 Mark Buehrle: 4.14 WHIP Jake Peavy: 1.18 Mark Buehrle: 1.28 K/9 Jake Peavy: 8.75 Mark Buehrle: 5.09 K-to-BB Jake Peavy: 3.17 Mark Buehrle: 2.50 BAA Jake Peavy: .234 Mark Buehrle: .273 Peavy was looking like a hall of famer before he got injured. Nobody would ever mistake Mark Buehrle for an HOF caliber pitcher. Not even his own mother. The wallpaper comment was very clever, by the way. To be fair, Jake has spent a large portion of his career in an inferior league in a ballpark tailor-made for pitchers.

QUOTE (sunofgold @ Sep 3, 2012 -> 05:33 PM) Tiggs never took over sole possession of first. Just tied up. But they blew their game today and we are in first by ourselves. Hopefully we tired the Tiggs out and they will lose at least 2/3 of their remaining games. Then 85-87 Wins would be enough to snag this division. Didn't we used to have a suicide emoticon? Or was it abolished for unknown dumb reason?

QUOTE (JoeCoolMan24 @ Sep 2, 2012 -> 12:52 PM) Sale has had 2 or 3 bad starts. Not really. Unless you're going back to late July. Sale sucked in his last start. No argument there. But he's been either filthy or given us a chance to win since Aug.

Damn. I thought Tex was like 75.

QUOTE (Rowand44 @ Sep 2, 2012 -> 12:18 PM) Sale had one bad game and just dominated the Yankees the start before that. People overreact big time when it comes to Chris. He's only been just as good, if not better, than scrubs like David Price, CC AND Cliff Lee. Jake Peavy has been better than a couple of other scrubs named Hamels and Cain. But the Sox somehow only have half an ace.

Replace catch-all with fili. /Thread

QUOTE (RZZZA @ Aug 31, 2012 -> 06:31 PM) Yeah but you do understand that Earned runs are not necessarily incidicate of how much or how little a pitcher struggles, right? Take last inning as an example. Peavy gave up 2 but his struggles were a lot greater than the final tally indicates. He walked a couple and loaded the bases too. He's had exactly one bad start in his last 6. I have no idea what you're talking about.

QUOTE (RZZZA @ Aug 31, 2012 -> 06:28 PM) that was earlier in the year, he's struggled in his last handful of starts. False. He hasn't allowed anymore than 3 ER since July 20.

QUOTE (RZZZA @ Aug 31, 2012 -> 06:26 PM) I don't see it recently, he's not been dominating in his last many starts He's only been buttf***ed out of like 6 wins this season. Jake has been spectacular this year.