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QUOTE(beck72 @ Oct 27, 2007 -> 07:06 AM) Fields power numbers are great. But if his defense at 3b is only avg at best [that's not to say he can't improve in the future] and LF is a stretch for him, and the sox don't think he'll be a consistent near .300 hitter in the future, with much better plate discipline [better than .350 OBP], I could see Fields being moved in the right deal. Esp. if the sox think Fields may not hit for avg. and OBP much better than Crede, but minus the defense at 3b. I guess it would come down to how healthy Crede is. But that won't be known until the year starts and how well Joe plays. So to answer the question, no I don't see Fields being moved this offseason. But I could if the sox could strike a deal for a healthy, 2006 form Crede. You forget a panamanian who was rotten at 3rd, who moved out to left and looked foolish at times until he learned to play a semi decent left field. Left field is not rocket science.

QUOTE(South Side Fireworks Man @ Oct 28, 2007 -> 10:23 PM) Something tells me that Ozzie and Alex would get a long fine--they'd have one of those relationships like AJ and Ozzie or Frank and Ozzie. Just my hunch... My big concern would be Kenny being able to convince him to play here after losing 90 games this past season. He isnt leaving the Yankees because of his overwhelming commitment to winning. Teams that go to the playoffs 13 years in a row are the best bet. Getting in is half the battle. He is doing this to get a very very large payday. Whomever gives him the largest payday over the longest period of time and has the best endorsement deals is the winner. The winning capability will only factor in on a tie. I dont care what it takes or how many years, you sign Arod. His impact to the financials for the franchise will offset his salary. You immediately trade Konerko to the Angels to restock the system a bit, and put Fields at first. Thome, Arod, Dye, and Fields would be serious power. Arod as he gets older could slip into the DH position, and he will break records in our bandbox of a park. The revenue from him would be silly.

Hello this is AT&T. My house burned down, I just wanted to let you know so we can cancel the billing. Did you save the receiver. Well no, thats not what I was thinking about. Well that will be 300 dollars, how would you like to pay for it. Nice customer service AT&T. You suck.

Yemen free's USS Cole mastermind. Thanks Yemen! Hopefully we find out where he is, and impose the first penalty on him. From Death Penalty, to 15 years to free as a bird. Nice system.

And to think, my silly father and mother went through the immigration process legally. Do you know how much money we could of saved with the taxes we didnt have to pay. Hell if my mother just crossed the border one year earlier, I could of been an anchor baby. Maybe my mother could of hidden in a church. I will have to tell my cousins to immediately head for the states, because they can be citizens in a matter of no time. Just get a high school degree, hide out for 5 years, and try not to get arrested. We could have the entire family over here in no time. My parents obviously missed the memo on how to get over here with the entire family. Damn legal immigration. Look at the money you have cost me.

QUOTE(BearSox @ Oct 25, 2007 -> 04:03 PM) Say what you will, but I think this series can go either way. What hurt the rockies more then anything was that lay over, 8 days is a ridiculous amount of time to have off and try and stay hot. What the Rockies need tonight is a dominate start from Jimenez. If not, then this series is over. The 8 game layoff should hurt the hitting timing, but I am not buying the pitching part. Our pitchers in 05, like Garland sat around for a long time because of how quick we ended our series. Remember Garland didnt pitch in the DS, and then didnt pitch until game 4 in the CS. Freddy also had some time off. The pitched pretty well in those playoffs.

QUOTE(NorthSideSox72 @ Oct 25, 2007 -> 03:55 PM) So, sure enough, as predicted via memo here on Soxtalk recently... CNN publishes an article connecting the fires out west to CCGW. Now, there is one thing in there that does make sense - if the fire season is longer, because spring comes earlier and first frost later... then yes, I'd say that's a good contributing factor to more fires. And since the season HAS been longer since the 80's more often than not, there have been more fires. I wouldn't really debate that. But, I have to call B.S. on the idea that it is necessarily caused by CCGW. One could say that, if CCGW results in longer fire seasons long term (like for many decades), then obviously there is a causation there. But since the spike in fires is only since the 80's, I think there are way, way, way too many polluting factors (in the statistical sense, not actual pollution) there to establish a link. I'd call that a big stetch. Its great when they can't get it straight. Harry Reid, the fires are from global warming. Then he states that he didnt say that, in the same interview. LOL

QUOTE(Texsox @ Oct 25, 2007 -> 10:49 AM) If you forwarded each customer who leaves three months, how much would you have to expand? They would not be able to send, so that cuts their traffic down, presumably in half, and it would not be permanent, only for a limited time. I could also see stripping any attachments. For that matter couldn't the forwarded message be dropped all the way down to a simple text message, Dear Former Customer We rejected an email from [email protected] to your former address. Please advise them of your new address. Plus, if traffic is coming into you with a faulty address, doesn't that take up bandwidth? Your malware and other programs would not change. When someone leaves, they will continue to receive spam mail for quite some time, so I don't see how that would change with forwarding. And if they do forget to inform someone they are changing ISPs when they receive the reminder and change those records, that cuts down on the future mail you have to deal with. Sending those notices out are a bad idea. As friendly and as nice at it seems, the spam reputation filters like senderbase, trusted source, or others will blacklist you based on community activity and how you are preceived. Once you wind up on one of those blacklists, you have to change your IP for the most part because dealing with the appeals process while lots of companies spam devices drop your email is not a good way to go. That impact, costs of losing emails for a corporation or isp outweigh any individual gain. Now on the, well they continue to get spam anyways so why dont you just forward it. The system that we use for email security is the same one that AOL and Yahoo use. Our's will query our email directory for the user, if the user doesnt exist or is no longer active it will drop the email in the midst of the handshake. So in fact we never receive the email. Hanging up on the handshake is quick, and doesnt consume a lot of bandwidth. Eventually even the most hardened bots will stop forwarding to it. This is the recommended way to deal with positive spam results, bots, and addresses that do not exist. The other item that I forgot to mention with this, was cost of storage. The large amounts of email, and spam consume a lot of disk space when stored. Storage happens for compliance, and for law enforcement reasons. That storage also impacts on your backups, and the rest of the infrastructure. The waterfall effect of spam, or storage of non-esential email can add to the large costs.

QUOTE(Texsox @ Oct 25, 2007 -> 10:05 AM) Telephone company does it. Isn't that the same? For my small company. We receive 160k emails for 3000 users, 95.7% of the emails are garbage per day. To limit this, we have to employ a series of security devices and technologies so we are not liable for passing on malware or other items. All of these are at a pretty decent cost. 50k for a email security device, and you need at least 2 for redundancy. Plus subscription updates for virus updates. My T3 is 3500 for the email and browsing, again 2 for redunancy. 30k x 2 for the firewalls that protect the email servers. Then the costs of me to watch it, not that I complain about this. Now take those costs and expand them quite a bit, and you will see the difference in the margin of costs that the ISP has to deal with. Its not like the telephone company at all. The telephone company doesn't transport the phone call to the end, and then relay it across their network eating up their bandwidth and resources. They are able to deal with it via addressing at its perimeter. Phone numbers are also portable. If you really love your phone number, you can port it to another provider. Thats what I did to move to vonage. You can't do that with ISP's and how domain names work with email. There is a slight difference in the size and impact to bandwidth that email deals with. What about troubleshooting when you lose an email. Now you have to deal with 2 companies at least, to find what happened to your email. Each of them will be pointing to the other saying, tell them to fix it. Or we can take some time on our own, and make the changes.

This is a waste of bandwidth and time. 90% of Internet email is spam/malware anyways. So do you really want to setup large amounts of traffic being generated, sometimes in duplicate. Take the 5 minutes, and send an email to your contacts telling them of the new email. Hell, give them a reminder a few days before the switch. Then move on. Anyone using an AOL or freeware email to run their business is asking for trouble. Purchase a domain, use it for your business, and set the email up that way. You can move it as you want. You control it, not the ISP.

Dick Durbin, the great Senator from IllegalaliaIllinois. Thanks for supporting americans Dick.

Wow just when you thought Paris Hilton couldnt hurt the world enough, she has a movie coming out that is basically Hostel with singing. Its a murder based opera.

QUOTE(NorthSideSox72 @ Oct 23, 2007 -> 06:11 PM) SSI - could I have the link for that article/piece? I just want to read the report details. Not questioning it at all, I don't doubt the number in theory. I am just curious about some other aspects. Original quote from the Washington Post quote Original site I found this on Clinton House Report quoted

The democratic comedy hour keeps on rolling. Hurray, we are all saved. Edwards is going to save this country, and turn us into Switzerland. His plan. End the war, by giving up. No F-22. Hell keep the 30 year old jets, maybe we can go back to propeller technology. No missle defense. Who wants to shoot missles at us. Universal health care. College for Everyone. Adequate Housing. everyone has an equal opportunity. Socialism is kewl. Fantasy to control nuclear weapons. He will lead an effort to rid the world of nukes. LOL

QUOTE(juddling @ Oct 23, 2007 -> 11:18 AM) How to be a Boston fan Me -----> I read the link from Gorillamask yesterday. Already in the World Series Thread.

QUOTE(NorthSideSox72 @ Oct 23, 2007 -> 10:18 AM) I haven't seen anyone ask for the kind of massive shifts that would wreck the steel industry (though, honestly, that industry is 75% wrecked anyway for entirely non-environmental reasons). Now, I am sure there are some crazies out there calling for unrealistic changes. But looking, for example, at energy independence, a stronger push for green space and putting a REAL pollution credit market out there... you could do those things in a way that wouldn't wreck any industries at all, and in fact probably make the overall economy much more robust.

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Guide to New England area fans

We have a location that is not that far from you Jas and they just shut the location down. The fires are 3 miles away from the facility, and the winds are blowing in its direction. The sad thing is, this is our hotsite facility for emergencies.

QUOTE(Gregory Pratt @ Oct 22, 2007 -> 10:35 AM) Skinner sends the guy around and things are very different; Lofton's called safe at second and it's very different. It might be a blowout in the other direction. No excuses -- Sabathia and Carmona sucked. Hafner had a crummy season and postseason. I wonder how much it has to do with the forty plus innings he had on Beckett this season (exhaustion) and Carmona? I DO question his mental fortitude, somewhat, considering he sucked at closing and fell apart under pressure in Fenway, but he DID beat the Bank. Their 2 aces didnt show up. It was more pucker factor than exhaustion. When Carmona is pumping in above 96 on his pitches, thats not exhaustion. He was nibbling, getting into hitters counts, and then he got rocked. His undoing was 2 infield singles, then he puckered up and got rocked. Oh and hopefully the white sox were watching, CC gets the sox free swingers to offer at some of those sliders in the dirt. The redsox made CC throw strikes. They turned him into a one pitch pitcher. Hafner was out of sorts all season long. Skinner screwed up.

I wonder if we will have more "lord of the prance" from Paplebon tonight.

This might explain it better.

QUOTE(Brian @ Oct 21, 2007 -> 09:50 PM) Fire Joel Skinner He is the anti Joey Cora.

Anyone who thinks that bringing the best player in baseball on this team is a bad thing, needs their head examined. You bring him on, and you watch him destroy the competition day in and day out at the ballpark. This park plays like a little league field in the summer with how the ball flys out, his numbers here would be insane.