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QUOTE(AirScott @ Mar 21, 2006 -> 07:02 PM) now that's my major problem with this. Soriano is a TERRIBLE second baseman, yet he refuses to try his hand at a new position on a team that already has a good second baseman. ridiculous. It's funny to think that Soriano was traded for ARod -- someone MUCH more talented, both with the bat and in the field, who immediately said he'd change positions because the Yankees already had a fixture at ss. Even though ARod was a bettter ss. But Soriano is such a brat he won't move even when the position's occupied by a much better player. I don't see why he'd be eager to torpedo his fa value so early, but it makes for good television.

QUOTE(redandwhite @ Mar 21, 2006 -> 05:10 AM) I don't really understand whats wrong with what I said. Arroyo had been figured out, he was being hit hard at the most inoppurtune times last season, and everyone who followed him agreed he would be far from a solid pitcher this year. Schilling is Schilling. Beckett is Beckett. Dustan Mohr is Dustan Mohr. Spring Training statistics don't change that. So st stats are meaningless? Or just for everyone but Arroyo? I've seen a number of analyses which say that Arroyo could be good in 2006 (eg, HBT). I don't know where you're looking, but it's far from unanimous. Meanwhile, I have yet to see one analysis which says that Pena could be a good full time starter in the major leagues. The guy has never shown an ounce of patience. Look, you're right on the splits. But Pena has never been anything but mediocre at best as a full time starter. JC, he can't start in Cincinatti. He's a temp boost at best, and imho, it only pays if the rotation stays healthy -- a 70-30 bet, imho. But not at all a long term solution.

QUOTE(q\/\/3r+y @ Mar 21, 2006 -> 04:57 AM) Weird that you are getting so many pop ups from it... expecially considering the version of netscape i use is a pretty old version... It wasn't THAT many. Just 2, but since I started using Mozilla I hardly get any, so I get ticked easy now. So I flipped out and closed every window. The NYT doesn't do me like that! I should say, the NYT doesn't do me like that! Or else Flash'll take me serious...

Okay, I give up. I'm gonna use green on this site. Mostly I was just trying to close all the f'n popup windows. But I figured it was a sim of some sort. B/c it was much, much, much, MUCH better than any of the minor league stats I had seen.

QUOTE(redandwhite @ Mar 21, 2006 -> 04:17 AM) Pena has an incredible amount of upside. More than Marte at a similar age and they gave up a player that wasn't perticularly needed. More than Marte -- okay. That's a compliment? Ortiz and Ramirez will eventually come off contract -- you're gonna replace them with Pete Incaviglia II? As for Arroyo -- if his st numbers confirm that he's a waste, that doesn't say much for Schilling... But it's different for him, I'm sure.

QUOTE(southsideirish71 @ Mar 21, 2006 -> 03:17 AM) What everyone forgets is the coop factor. Neal Cotts -- Couldnt hit the side of a barn if you put it 5 feet in front of him. Kind of had some Rick Ankiel type throws here and there. Bad Control. Coop fixed him Bobby Jenks - Couldnt hit the side of a barn if you put it 2 feet in front of him. Supposedly was a head case, picked up for nothing. Coop has him throwing strikes, he was on the mound for the last out. Now we have Thorton. Lets be honest, the Seattle coaching staff is not exactly known for their pitching prowess. In fact they have a new pitching instructor. Lets see what Cooper can do with him. I think he can be serviceable as a mop up guy. C'mon... Cotts wasn't half as bad as you suggest. In the minors, at every stop, he had a k/bb ratio of 2:1 or better. Has Thornton ever managed that? Jenks was a classic up-and-down headcase ($1 million arm, $0.10 head). Sometimes good, sometimes couldn't hit the side of a barn etc. Thornton has never been good after the injury.

QUOTE(SoxFan1 @ Mar 21, 2006 -> 03:00 AM) It wouldn't make sense. The whole point of the show was saving Lincoln. If you are talking viewers wise, the show could definitely go on without him but it would have a completely different plot though. Yeah, the whole plot would shift, but that doesn't mean it wouldn't make sense. Lincoln is a good character, but Michael is the most compelling one. They'd be giving M an extra angle (guilt, if-I-only), which could really help the show.

QUOTE(CrimsonWeltall @ Mar 21, 2006 -> 03:04 AM) does jack bauer have to choke a b**** The one Chapelle SHOW quote that I can't stop laughing at...

Just wanted to clarify. I registered, but would it be possible to cross-register all the posters here at the other sites? I mean, you talk about moving the chat here to the other sites -- that's nice, but online names are meaningful. They become entirely separate sites if I don't see the same people there. For example, I don't have a clue if Balta1701-A or Balta-1701-B is the REAL Balta. If Balta on one site is not Balta on the other, it's a pain in the ass. Not that Balta isn't a pain in the ass anyway...

Whoa... Nice twist there.

QUOTE(CrimsonWeltall @ Mar 21, 2006 -> 02:50 AM) Sucre has to do something. No way they're going to let Lincoln die. Nah, the series could go on without him. I think he's gone.

Okay... "...the majority of the NFL Off-Season/Draft talk will be moving over to TalkBears.com..." Does that mean that we won't be able to post Bears news here? That the actual threads will be moved to the new site? What?

This is stretching credulity, when the Germans won't share terrorist intelligence with the US.

QUOTE(SSH2005 @ Mar 21, 2006 -> 01:49 AM) It wasn't a good trade. It was simply a lateral move -- one team's trash for another team's trash. But Thornton gives us a microscopic twinkle of hope that Cooper could turn him around into a decent reliever to help replace the loss of Hermanson in our bullpen, our main area of weakness. Okay, but any random waiver wire trash gives us a "microscopic twinkle of hope." It's not saying much. Osuna would give me more than that...

QUOTE(witesoxfan @ Mar 21, 2006 -> 01:47 AM) No, host ultra is just a b**** like that. That's why sim leagues should never be done on host ultra. Imagine actually trying to sift through players in that. Thanks. Firefox is usually pretty good -- most popups I get don't take over the screen. To get 2 on one screen just worried me a bit.

QUOTE(q\/\/3r+y @ Mar 21, 2006 -> 01:39 AM) All the thorton haters...are just that. http://free.hostultra.com/~WSBLeague/p1480.html He beats the Sox once in his last 10 games. At least we prevented that. 2 years ago. And wtf w/ the popup? Is my computer gonna implode now?

QUOTE(SSH2005 @ Mar 20, 2006 -> 11:11 PM) I like his bat. His glove at 3rd looks atrocious though. Just saying that, yeah, there's Henson, Borchard, etc. But I'm not gonna write off Fields cuz of some supposed rule about football players playing baseball. Bo could play, Deion...well, somewhat, and we had a pretty good Auburn tight end on our team. There are tons of busts among top prospects. It's not surprising that football stars bust like the rest of them.

QUOTE(Jordan4life_2006 @ Mar 20, 2006 -> 11:10 PM) Agreed. I see us going with what we've got for now. It's really gonna be on the starters to get us 7 solid innings a night. Hey, man, did you watch the playoffs? They give us 9 a night, every night. Bullpens are for pussies.

QUOTE(winninguglyin83 @ Mar 20, 2006 -> 11:06 PM) joe Borchard. drew henson. Chris Weinke Josh Booty Quncy Carter Kenny Kelly. How many football guys have to go bust before baseball folks figure out they're not going to make it to the big leagues because they miss too much developmental time in college? That's $5 million of Reinsdorf's cash out the window. Thanks, Duane Shaffer. So you're saying you're high on Josh Fields, is that it?

One challenge to the Dante 7th circle theory -- he's registered as Finnerty, who defrauded the monks. It also makes Tony himself an imposter. That would be the 8th circle. Once you've started on the psycho babble, may as well go all out, right?

QUOTE(RibbieRubarb @ Mar 20, 2006 -> 07:51 PM) You're right 9 circles. But the 7th circle is still for the violent, like Tony. Yup, I'm just wondering how this can really be considered something like hell. Tony's hanging between life and death, and in the dream he's waiting for some resolution, which both seem a lot more like purgatory. But there are some interesting similarities, definitely. What you mentioned...the opening line of Inferno, 'In the middle of life's journey' (or something like that), and Tony's insistence, 'I'm only 46!'...and the idea that this show, with the tension between Italian and American identity, would throw together Tom Petty and Dante isn't surprising. It'll be interesting to see if there's anyone 'guiding' Tony in some sense. Btw, what does Junior yell when he shoots Tony (from the first episode)?

Nice. 9 circles in Dante's hell, though. Edit: Okay, but, 7 levels of Purgatory. Wikipedia tells me they go 1. Pride, 2. Envy, 3. Wrath, 4. Sloth, 5. Avarice, 6. Gluttony, 7. Lust. I've never read Purgatorio, so any good Dante-ists want to weigh in?

Good point on the splits. He still strikes out a ton against lhp, but makes up for it. As long as he's used this way, he can be an asset, but he shouldn't be a regular.

QUOTE(Balta1701 @ Mar 20, 2006 -> 05:37 PM) Wells rescinded his trade demand a week or two ago, and has said he'll probably play out this season then retire. The concern with the BoSox shouldn't be Wells wanting to pitch, it should be whether or not their guys can stay healthy. Schilling and Wakefield are 39, Wells is 42, and Beckett has well-known injury problems. Wakefield isn't much of a worry. Knuckleballers aren't stressing their arms much. But I would add Clement's patented 2nd half tailspin and Foulke's injury to the list of concerns.

QUOTE(Frank the Tank 35 @ Mar 20, 2006 -> 05:22 PM) Is Wells resigned to playing for the BoSox this year? I don't like this trade for the Reds after all the hype around Pena. Arroyo will never be better than a 3rd starter for a bad team. He certainly has an affordable contract though. (What happened to the gentleman's agreement between Arroyo and the Sox not to trade him?) I don't understand all the hype around Pena. He'd strike out 200 times a year if he played full time, and he's never shown any signs of improving his patience. He wasn't even a full time player on the Reds -- why would he suddenly become a star with the Red Sox?