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would be pleased if the mizzou fans let me know how they do vs. kstate today.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jan 9, 2010 -> 04:02 PM) Frankly, I wouldn't be surprised if 1-2 of them had solid seasons. ugh, that means we'll trade for them next year. BUt I highly doubt it, okay, maybe Pods, maybe Getz - but solid by such low standards.

i hope this wasn't an incentives clause

QUOTE (greg775 @ Jan 9, 2010 -> 04:30 AM) Great, now we have to play Scotty Pods 18 times a season ... and Getz ... and Brian Anderson ... and Fields. All guys who will want to kick our ass. Good luck to our pitchers keeping Scotty off base. He had a lot of multi hit games last year. Greg, surely, surely you jest with this one?

QUOTE (Jordan4life @ Jan 9, 2010 -> 01:03 AM) Peanut butter and jelly. I just smoked a Cecil Fielder sized blunt and I have the munchies. My answer as well.

QUOTE (iamshack @ Jan 9, 2010 -> 01:25 AM) I'll admit, you are a very intelligent poster, but when it comes to baseball, you just don't know all that much. This thing could have gone to 2/$8 in a heartbeat just by having another bidder involved. Have you never seen a negotiation? An auction? All it takes is two bidders to drive the price exponentially higher than had there been just one. You have to have 2 parties willing to pay that much on Pods and it clearly doesn't seem like there was a case. Otherwise, when the White Sox were negotiating with Pods early on, and there were other suitors, Pods clearly would've gotten that better deal right? You don't just need suitors, you need suitors willing to pay an amount for their services. It appears that no one was willing to pay this 2 for 8 million for pods OR HE WOULD HAVE GOTTEN IT. Lucky for us, we are willing to pay 8 million for Pierre plus two tradeable pitching pieces. Rock and ROLL!!!

QUOTE (iamshack @ Jan 9, 2010 -> 01:04 AM) How can you find that irrelevant? It's absolutely paramount to the argument. It really isn't, it's like saying you were right in declining on a house because their initial offer was too high, so you bought an equal-sized house for 4 million, and it turns out the other house sells for 1.75...and then you rationalize it with Welllppp, their initial asking price was too high, I showed them. Other suitors dropped out, so it's us and K.C., you think that two teams going after a mediocre player drives him up to a 2 year 8 million dollar deal rather than a 1 yr. 1.75 mill? Really? We dropped out, found another piece, and now for an equally s***ty player we are paying double, and have another year to watch his slappy ass. You can "drop out" and still revisit. But yaayyyy we are paying 6 million more for pierre plus 2 mid-level pitching prospects. Yayyy, it's okay because of the initial asking price we can't be pissed that we are paying for a really s***ty player when we could be paying much less for an equally s***ty player.

Yeah, anxious to see David Haugh's next story... Apparently Carrol WAS ready to pack bates bag and drive him to the airport...to take him to seattle with him.

go ahead and look around at other rotations and then say ours isn't great then. Is it the late 70s orioles? No, probably not.

QUOTE (iamshack @ Jan 9, 2010 -> 01:05 AM) This has been said more than once already, but to make it clear: It is almost absolutely certain that his demands were much higher until most or all of the suitors went in an alternative direction. THIS IS NOT WHAT THE PRICETAG WAS WHEN KENNY WAS NEGOTIATING WITH HIM Ok, sorry. and i find that irrelevant.

oh f***, that was the price tag? s***...I'd rather have pods for that than Pierre for two goddamn years.

QUOTE (watchtower41 @ Jan 8, 2010 -> 05:54 PM) I very much support this opening, but I'm having a tough time figuring out how they are gonna get approved for an "incidental bar license" Are they really gonna try and pay off ...? yes

Not being aware of the actual bar, I thought Sammy Sosa and Kerry Wood were going to buy Jimbos

Completely agree. I don't recall this stuff happening before...say jan. 20, 2009.

it was truly shocking how bad Betemit was on defense. Uggla's performance in the all-star game would've been a good day for him.

QUOTE (GoSox05 @ Jan 8, 2010 -> 02:56 PM) Off topic a bit, but Portugal is getting close to legalizing gay marriage. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/01/08/p...v_n_416005.html On weekdays I forget that Portugal is still a country... But congratulations to them, Go Portugal! I hear their portuguese is harder to understand than Brazil...on the other hand the No reservations episode at the Azors was the rams!

Royals fans are pretty awesome.

He's busy coming up with more glittering generalities, I assume manifest destiny will emerge.

Kick her ass.

but now you are just conglomerating other peoples work and writing a sentence or two. It might piss some people off.

god shut up

sorry Rex.

motown?

taking on the filibuster would have to be a deal where it gets phased out some time down the line when nobody knows who will be in power. Really, I think it probably should be taken out, we have so many checks, it's just not necessary, and it tends to lead to bills that are completely defined by senators from...well, states that aren't the most populated.

wow.