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QUOTE(Gregory Pratt @ Dec 8, 2006 -> 04:20 AM) Uh, the players have more to do with that. It's not Bill Veeck's fault that the 1959 White Sox didn't beat the Dodgers and Reinsdorf doesn't deserve anymore credit for the Starting Four of 2005 especially now that he's crying poor and reverting to his true form. I'd wait to see if he spends that 10 million elsewhere before saying that. We're still looking at a payroll at about 90-100 million, which puts us near the top of the league.

QUOTE(RX Bandits @ Dec 7, 2006 -> 09:19 PM) This point was on B&B and it should shut up people complaining about the trade. Remember when KW traded "untouchable" miguel olivo (sucks now) for freddy garcia and sure some people on this board hated that trade. Fast forward to last year where he traded the greaest CF of all time Aaron Rowand for JIM THOME. Then turns around and trades Garcia who people b****ed about getting ini the first place, for prospects. In short, If you fall in love with players, it is costly, and baseball retarted. This point was on B&B and it should shut up people complaining about the trade. Remember when KW traded "untouchable" miguel olivo (sucks now) for freddy garcia and sure some people on this board hated that trade. Fast forward to last year where he traded the greaest CF of all time Aaron Rowand for JIM THOME. Then turns around and trades Garcia who people b****ed about getting ini the first place, for prospects. In short, If you fall in love with players, it is costly, and baseball retarted. I heard it too, but I think they missed the point. The problem here was not losing the player as it was in all those other cases. Everyone knew either Freddy of Javy would be gone by April 1st. What everyone here wants to know is wether we got enough in such a crazed market. Although I don't mind this trade so much, I don't think there is an argument against that.

It doesn't have to be one or the other. We can have a WS caliber ball-club and still have a solid minor-league system. The loss of Garcia is not too big on paper. We have guys who can fill that void. The only criticism of the trade should be on wether we got enough or not.

Is it going to be turned back on? Maybe I missed it, but was it just turned on to save traffic? Or has it been off for awhile now?

For Barry

The TB deals are making more and more sense. However, Floyd is still no replacement in a deal for McCarthy. I guess Floyd makes McCarthy more expendable for us, but I highly doubt we go into 07 with Floyd in the totation.

Where did this talk about getting Rowand start?

So earlier KW talked about a potential Wednesday deal that would be "full circle and come back to us". He means Gio?

http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/hotstove06/n...tory?id=2688380 Freddy for Gio and Floyd. That's it.

How did Gio fare last year anyway?

Heard it too.

Best news of the offseason.

QUOTE(Flash Tizzle @ Dec 6, 2006 -> 12:56 AM) Only 6800 votes? And he came in third?! lol. /voted. 2 times. With so few votes, Soxtalk may have made the difference on someone getting on the HoF ballot and someone not getting on.

JD Drew to Red Sox for 5 years, 70 million? Anyone got further confirmation on this yet?

Zito should be getting about 100 mil a year based on this.

QUOTE(kyyle23 @ Dec 5, 2006 -> 03:50 AM) Tell me, from a pure Nintendo fanboy Zelda addict perspective: How good is Twilight Princess? Orgasmic. The game is absoluty fricken huge. It takes minutes just to travel across Hyrule field. Its certainly long too, I heard about 70 hours. I'm 20 hours in and have only beaten 2 temples. It's a bit like OoT, but that's not a bad thing. I'd say OoT is only slightly better, but it's close.

I'm addicted to Zelda.

If John Cena breaks this, I will throw up.

One of those three does not belong with the others.

I played against Budinger on the volleyball circuit. Kid was amzing with his 40 inch hops. Awesome to see him tear Illinois up today, although I do believe he should have stuck with volleyball.

QUOTE(knightni @ Dec 2, 2006 -> 06:35 AM) ND has played Tennessee the last 2 years. They've played Florida St., Pittsburgh, Ohio St, Nebraska and Boston College in the past as well. Notre Dame has teams locked in as traditional matchups. USC - every year since 1926 Navy - every year since 1927 Purdue - every year since 1928 Michigan St. - every year since 1936 Stanford - every year since 1988 Michigan - most years since 1978 beginning in 1887 Pittsburgh - most years since 1930 Air Force - most years since 1969 So, they play 6-8 same teams every year. leaving maybe 3-5 extra games a season - not much room. They played Army this year because the NCAA allowed a 12th game and Army had an open day. Future schedules show Duke, San Diego St. etc because of agreements ND had to make in order to move a game a few years ago. What point, exactly, are you trying to make? Are we supposed to pity them now because they like playing the same teams for most years? And by pity, I mean reward them with a BCS bid. I really don't follow CFB all too much, so I shouldn't say who gets a BCS bid and who doesn't. However, the schedule argument for Notre Dame is, well, dumb. "But they try to schedule hard" is a lame argument that makes no sense for why Notre Dame deserves a bid. The same goes for the argument stated in the quote. I don't care if you schedule thousands of years in advance. If it turns out weak, you still do not deserve a free pass.

QUOTE(IlliniKrush @ Dec 2, 2006 -> 01:15 AM) Wow, talk about missing his entire point. It's simple. It doesn't matter how much effort they put into scheduling tough teams and its their own problem that they have to schedule 12 games of their own. If those teams turn out bad, then they have played a weak schedule and (based on their results this year) do not belong in the BCS. They could schedule USC, OU, OSU, LSU, Florida, etc all in the same year. If those teams were to all turn out bad for whatever reason, then they have played a weak schedule. This is not hard to understand. "But they try to schedule hard" remains the least convincing argument on why Notre Dame should be in a BCS bowl.

QUOTE(Rex Hudler @ Dec 2, 2006 -> 01:01 AM) Teams in conferences have to schedule three or four games. Notre Dame has to schedule 12. I'm willing to bet it's not as easy as one might think. Again, their own fault. Again, they did not win against tough competition this year to belong in the BCS.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewP1zfm_Yqg I guess this is kind of bad, but funny no less.