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QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Mar 4, 2009 -> 02:50 PM) Put a fork in Lance Broadway. Say hello to Charlotte, you can join Wasserman and Russell. Matt Cassel's brother Justin coming in for the Sox. Sweeney 7/12 on the spring. Mike Gellinger (sp?) from the front office (never heard of him b4 today) and Daryl Boston the 3rd and 1st base coaches today. Mark Gonzales seems to be a big fan of his. I guess his book about the Sox from 1959-08 is coming out soon, "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly." Link for Gonzales' book. http://www.amazon.com/Good-Ugly-Chicago-Wh...0225&sr=1-2 Cassel not doing very well so far...ugly inning. 4-0 A's now. Another Mike MacDougal sighting. Gellinger is one of the in dugout instructors, I believe he's a fielding coach.

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Mar 4, 2009 -> 02:35 PM) from nhl.com... Also, Sportsnet.ca is saying Samuel Pahlsson has been moved to the Chicago Blackhawks, who were desperate for another center. According to the Score it's Wiz and a prospect headed the other way.

QUOTE (hawksfan61 @ Mar 4, 2009 -> 02:22 PM) Someone smarter than me probably knows for sure, but they may not be able to offer him arbitration after his contract is up. This ends up being part of the contract with a lot of international players, so my guess would be we would have to look at offering Ramirez a long term deal come 2011 if we wanted to keep him. Yep, there's a 99% chance Jaime Torres included a sign/release clause in both Alexei and Dayan's deals. Come 2011, if Alexei isn't re-signed by a certain date in November he'll become a free agent. There's also no free agent compensation for these players.

Jesus, Ozzie didn't leave us much for the televised game tonight. Who of interest is even left? C: Pierzynski 1B: Konerko/Broussard/Myrow 2B: Getz/Nix SS: Beckham/Santos 3B: Fields/Betemit/Castillo LF: Wise/Kroeger CF: Owens RF: Dye/Restovich I assume they'll use mostly players from minor league camp to off the bench in the day game since that's in Phoenix.

He's on the list because the Sox replaced the final year of his old deal ('08: $5.5M) giving him a $350K bump in salary for that season as incentive to sign on for 2 more years a year before he hit free agency. Apparently this is a bad thing? This offseason's top free agent catchers? Ivan Rodriguez (still without a job) and Henry Blanco. AJ would have easily been the most desirable catcher on the market, it was great foresight by KW locking him up a year early rather than getting into a bidding war with another club desperate for a starting catcher.

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Mar 3, 2009 -> 07:31 PM) Alexei Ramirez is white! He's real light skinned on The Show too. So is Dye.

US Cellular Field capacity: 59,345. Huh?

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Mar 3, 2009 -> 03:20 PM) You want to talk lazy? The Wii MLB 2k9 instruction booklet has multiple typos and the game does not display in full 16x9, there's a good inch on either side of the screen that is just black! Ouch. I'm about to pop in the game, I'll upload some video from the first game I play. And no, I don't feel the need to talk s***.

I don't know if he was a free agent but if he was then he was re re-signed to a minor league deal. I don't think he was a minor league free agent, just eligible for the Rule V draft. He's in minor league camp, he was not invited to major league spring training. I think it's fairly obvious that some on this board have grossly overstated his worth. He wasn't placed on the 40 man roster to protect him from the Rule V draft, he wasn't selected in the Rule V draft and even with a huge hole in CF he couldn't even get an invite to spring training.

My first impression of MLB 09? Do they only have 1 picture of Dustin Pedroia? Could they not afford to buy a second shot? You know that follow through shot on the cover? It appears 5 times on the case and in the booklet, that just struck me as weird and kind of lazy.

QUOTE (Cali @ Mar 2, 2009 -> 10:02 PM) Just looking at the box score, when Viciedo goes to the minors he should start learning a new position, and get back to the club in August with Gordon. And as I've said many times Clayton Richards is NOT a starter. Great long man out of the pen for sure. He's good for 2-3 innings then BOOM implosion. That spells Long Man to me. And a DAMN fine long man if I don't say so myself... Ok, Bill.

My copy of MLB 09 The Show shipped a few hours ago form Amazon. It's gonna be tough juggling playing time for that and Killzone 2 which is highly addicting.

QUOTE (kapkomet @ Mar 2, 2009 -> 06:54 PM) So it's ok? I had to re-wire all of my inside phone wires when we added a room. That was fun... Should be. The phone that was causing the problem isn't used too often so leaving it unplugged will not be an issue. This weekend I'll try to figure out why it was causing problems to begin with.

QUOTE (bmags @ Mar 2, 2009 -> 06:44 PM) I agree, but thank goodness it appears that Danks and Floyd worked out. That makes that a lot easier. When your 3 best/most reliable starting pitchers are 23, 26 and 30 and 4, 4 and 3 years away from free agency a lack of starting pitching prospects isn't too worrisome.

QUOTE (longshot7 @ Mar 2, 2009 -> 05:57 PM) saw In Bruges after much pestering from friends - loved it. Even people who dislike Colin Farrell (myself included) have to agree that he was awesome in that movie. Definitely one of my favorite movies of 2008.

Via process of elimination I've found the culprit. There's definitely something wrong with one of the hookups, when I disconnected the phone line from the wall and called the house the internet did not go out. Mystery solved.

QUOTE (kapkomet @ Mar 2, 2009 -> 06:19 PM) I had that happening and all it was was (good english, I know) the DSL and the phone line were plugged in the wrong place on the filter. Check that. Ok, I checked all 3 phones, the filters are all connected properly.

QUOTE (G&T @ Mar 2, 2009 -> 05:45 PM) Do you have a filter on the line? Yes

QUOTE (Thunderbolt @ Mar 2, 2009 -> 04:00 PM) Anyone have the legal logistics on why I can't listen to the game through the Score online? Because the MLB prefers that you use their pay service instead.

I have AT&T DSL. It seems every time the phone rings my internet connection goes out for a good 30 seconds, this can be incredibly annoying when you're doing something that requires a continuous connection to the internet. I know DSL runs off the phone line so that makes sense. Does anyone else have this problem? Is it common?

Well that was fun while it lasted.

QUOTE (ChesterCopperpot @ Mar 2, 2009 -> 03:41 PM) MacDougal and Melton--this should be a fun inning. Well he just compared MacDougal to Goose Gossage.

Slayer's up. Slayer's out.

Brian Myrow

Lillibridge was a 4th round pick by the Pirates, Bill. Not a 1st round selection of the Braves.