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Didnt have internet for 2 days and missed all the fun. seriously, i missed all the fun, because this season will be hard as hell to watch.

QUOTE (Ranger @ Jan 25, 2010 -> 07:05 PM) I don't know shack, some of the opinions there are similar to those here. I don't read game threads on the message baords because thsoe are exactly the same as postgame calls. Same tone, same overreaction, very few level-heads. The difference is, in a thread like this, people have usually had time to think about something before they get all foamy-mouthed. I agree that I'd like a better option or somebody that maybe doesn't have the same OPS but it is more useful in other ways and less likely to hurt himself. Thome did a good job last year of staying healthy, given his history and his age. However, that age is very much working against him and as the years go on, the more and more likely it is he'll spend significant time on the DL. The one problem with going into a season with "everything you need" is that if you don't have unlimited resources, you won't have enough room to maneuver when you discover the needs you didn't know you had. Take for example the '06 team: they went into that season in pretty good shape, had a maxed-out payroll, and were the clear favorites in the division. It was unforeseeable that Cotts and Politte were not only going to nothave years like they did the previous year but that they were going to have absolutely terrible years. It became clear they needed bullpen help when it looked like they were set prior to the season. If you are not the Yankees, flexibility is a good thing when you need to be able to react to the holes you didn't know you were going to have because of injury or sudden, unexpected drop-off. It's not that bad. You forget how poor the leadoff situation was because it's not happening now. True, when april 2nd rolls around i'll first be reminded of how awful pierre is before being reminded 4 abs later how atrocious our DH rotation is. And I think its absolutely silly to go into the season knowing you have a gigantic hole at DH just so you know you have some resources to fill it later.

I would not have guessed that jermaine dye is in the top 100 highest paid players of all time. I've always found his deals so reasonable.

I've really enjoyed dwight howard the last few years. Usually for big men it's hard to make their dunks look "cool" because it looks so effortless. The leg-kicking of jordan and smaller plays looks so much more poetic. But Howard's are so creative and damn near violent. I love watching him in the dunk contest.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Jan 25, 2010 -> 03:23 AM) Air dropping in an urban area doesn't work well. They'd have to find clear area somewhere outside town, off some lousy road, and you're in the same place again. Also, MRE's actually require that people in PAP know how to use them - its not obvious, believe it or not, and the instructions may not be in Creole. Then there's the problem where, if you don't control the supply of that food, then the gangs will. Makes sense, but doesn't seem like it'd be that much of a waste to try.

I love hearing about his bat speed, however I'm not so confident our system has shown the ability to make more compact swings. And I'd thought what we'd heard about his being out of shape was overblown, but now, I read again that he was. I don't know how the hell a professional athlete can be overweight, for the majority o f the day they are doing physical activity, and have a workout regimen.

QUOTE (Alpha Dog @ Jan 25, 2010 -> 12:02 PM) WOuld you have an issue with Tebow (or anyone else) using his celebrity as a carrot in a very serious decision when it comes to electing a President? Our votes are secret and personal and very serious stuff. They are individualized based on location, needs and wants. I know there are many on here who have no problem with people using their celbrity to push political choices, just wondering if that extends to this choice? funny enough iis were the case the super bowl supposedly wouldn't air it.

Love this quote Sullivan just put up: ""Do not depend on the hope of results. When you are doing the sort of work you have taken on, essentially an apostolic work, you may have to face the fact that your work will be apparently worthless and even achieve no result at all, if not perhaps results opposite to what you expect. As you get used to this idea, you start more and more to concentrate not on the results but on the value, the rightness, the truth of the work itself," - Thomas Merton, "Letter To A Young Activist""

This is like going into a gun fight with a knife, pez gun, nail on a 2x4 and pillowcase filled with soap because you think it gives you more options.

QUOTE (Ranger @ Jan 25, 2010 -> 06:43 AM) I wouldn't call the DH market a "great" one because there really haven't been that many good DH's available at a cheap price. I don't understand how you can say this. In fact, it was pretty clearly the opposite. There were many pretty good hitters that could play no other position and it drove their price down.

You know the DH situation is bad when it makes me forget how poor our leadoff hitter is.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Jan 25, 2010 -> 05:50 AM) There was a thread presenting 30-40 different options and KW has passed on all of them (so far)...one would have thought that going into 2009 with no legit starting CFer would have taught him a valuable lesson, but perhaps he thinks it's a lot easier to just go out and find a DH at any point in the season or Spring Training THAN an everyday outfielder, especially a CFer. Say he does this though... I can't imagine it will be cheaper in talent and money than the couple of million we are talking about now.

Firefox has spellcheck my good man.

I'm inebriated currently.

QUOTE (Ranger @ Jan 25, 2010 -> 03:40 AM) I thought I was pretty clear in what I said. Most of what I get (caller, emails, texts) is that people wanted Thome gone by midseason last year. Actually they wanted him gone midseason the year before. Now it seems to have completely changed. Actually, the Sox are really only in this position because Thome doesn't have a job yet. And because he said publicly that he would welcome a return, which then piqued everyone's interest and it became a topic. And because it became in issue, they've had to address it. I thought it was fairly obvious they decided to part ways with him this winter. I'm guessing at midseason last year no one was expecting: Kenny and Ozzie to be stupid enough to go into the next season with Kotsay/A. Jones as our DH when we knew going into this offseason that this would be a great buyers market for DHs. And I'm guessing what piqued our interest about thome now is not the fact that he said he would return, but rather we are really going into the season with probably a .750 ops from our DH. That's inexcusable, and who is on the market that is LH and cheap? Thome. And I don't think fans give a damn what was obvious when they parted ways, their plan instead of thome is god awful and embarrassing. This situation is a mess but easily fixable with 2 million. I can tell you it is not going to be fun to say "I told you so" when the platoon DH is a miserable failure that leaves us 5 games behind the twins at the allstar break.

QUOTE (T R U @ Jan 25, 2010 -> 03:26 AM) ide agree with you if Minnesota hadn't beaten themselves.. NO's D relies on turnovers. You said that wouldn't last. It's lasted until the ssuper bowl. I win.

I suppose I win the "New Orleans is better than Minnesota" argument from earlier in this thread?

typical elitist liberal.

i am hoping beckham can put up a .850 ops

I debated whether to put this in the catch all or it's own thread, but I was laughing hysterically at this, so I guess it's own thread. So a wife started to record the ramblings of her sleeping husband and make a blog about it. Here's some samples: "Jan 22 2010, afternoon Lucky us! Adam just fell asleep on the sofa.... "Pleased to meet you? Huh, gotta be a f***ing joke." "I like the balloons. I want one. If I don't get one, I'm gonna squeeze one out right here, right now.... I warned you!" "I want to dance in the rain but without the getting wet bit. Rain! Rain...."" Jan 21 2010 "You know, with you you you, it's all me me me. Well f*** f*** f*** f*** you you you." "Yeah I do. I have SO much to give. Choke on it!" "Deedoo. It's a deedoo. A deedoo...Oh, it's not a deedoo. I have no idea what it is." [chuckling throughout] "I'm trying not to laugh. But your face! Your face! Oh, please look away. Please?" http://sleeptalkinman.blogspot.com

yes, I don't understand why but i just start giggling hysterically at the sight of the fish market. They seem so grotesque. So huge, as well.

Why can't we airdrop MREs and water like we did so many times? Would it cause riots? Are we doing this? I don't understand why the bottlenecking has to destroy all of this.

Flaxx, what fish? I should take a picture of what fish markets look like here.

QUOTE (mr_genius @ Jan 24, 2010 -> 11:47 PM) remember the band 'The Goo Goo Dolls'? i wish they had been aborted. I AM NOT JOKING [poor taste] You have to wonder if it was the lead singer's mother telling the tebow story if abortions would suddenly rise [/poor taste]

pictures for my fanssss http://bit.ly/7h5Jgh Yeah i looked for mushrooms but all that they had were the jarred champignon s***. I find those absolutely revolting.