BrandoFan

Don't spray your shorts, 'twas a play on slender-slandar...Ah forget it. BTW, it's nice that an upstanding polit-sci major such as yourself didn't speak up when people were comparing Israelis to Nazis a few pages back. I am glad I never went to college.

Translation: a) go into deep red (say...payroll of 80 Mill plus a bloated marketing budget) b) field a 100-win team c) Enjoy watching 2.5 Mill Sox fans (many half-pricers) lazily stroll through the turnstiles. PS. Those who diss South Side ladies....I am sorry, I didn't realize that Italian, Black and Hispanic women cannot be considered "hot". I didn't know that one needes 100 inebriated Jessica Albas sashaying around as a prerequisite to enjoying the f*** out a good baseball game or ballpark experience. I would think if you have your g/f with you (and I realize most complainers are in fact no-life dorks only good for stealing peeks) and maybe some friends with theirs, then who gives a flying f*** about other people at the park/neighborhood? Seriously, from all the usual excuses for not coming out to the ballpark, this one has GOT to be the most pathetic.

If Federer plays at even 90%, Hewitt, a very good player in his own right, should forfeit the match. He is that good. If Safin plays like he did against Pete in 2000 USO final, he will beat Roddick. Which is to say he has 1 in 5 chance of winning.

I am an ass? That's two counts of slander right there! See you in People's court, buddy... And since when do I speak for the entire site? I am the lone ray of dissent. As for the rest of your insensitive diatribe, anon. once remarked

Who is JYD? Build around Curry, Chandler, Crawford, Dupri and Heinrich. Chandler will be good, hard-nosed and big. Curry is a puss, but one of these days (ok, years) his scary talent will begin to take over-- maybe not in a 1st ballot HOF way, but in a top 5 center in the game way......Dupree is looking all kinnds of athletic and as long as he knocks down that jumper and generally stays within himself, he'll be productive. Heinrich is already productive and might finish top 5 in rookie voting. And Jamal is just a solid SG, who will be better if his supporting crew is better. Or Bulls fans can keep on smoking the free agent Kobe crack pipe.

Oh yeah?

right now on TV.

You could say God has earmarked the Jews....like the large bills they hold so dear.

I guess me and Baseball America have different ideas of what the 2004 list should. I think 2 out of Borchard, Rauch, Pacheco, Munoz have a fairly high chance of contributing on the ML level as early as 2004. Going by combinaton of talent and polish here. Whereas out of Young, Nanita, Sweeney, Anderson, Valido, Mcarthy, Bounds, King.....2 will be lucky to be on 2006 roster. I reserve the right to be wrong, of course.

Wouldn't suprise me one bit. Grosjean beat him in the Rolan Garros quarters in 2000 after Agassi took the first set 6-1 and then Bill Clinton showed up early in the second set and Agassi unraveled. That alone is enough to confer the Worst President or King of All Time totle on Slick Willie. IMO Agassi has not played his A game (against a strong opponent anyway-- it's easy to rout qualifiers and rookies) in 2 years-- since that amazing match against Pete in 2001 USO quarters where not a single serve was dropped. Plain and simple: if Andre plays like he did against Pete in the last few USO's, then he will beat Grosjean. If he plays like he did against Coria, Phillipousis or Ferrero (last 3 GS losses), with two many unforced errors, not enough winners and a low breakpoint conversion rate......he will LOSE. Fingers crossed.

Settle down. I know Carlos is an average bunter, but the point is, WHY on Earth would you want your #5 slugger bunting! Same with Jamal: penetrate and score or penetrate, draw double team and kick it out to an open Heinrich or Eddie for the dunk. And so forth. Did I mentin Bulls are idiots for getting rid of SF Artest?

Closer-schmoser....all I ask of Zeroes is a sub-3.50 ERA and good inhereted runner numbers, and I am content. Obviously, we weren't getting Mariano Gagne at 1 Mill....Duh.

......Wunsht, Foulke back in 2000, Buerhle, Bradford....the list is long. And Zeroes doesn't throw an "84 mph", but 86-89. But even if he DID only throw in mid-80s.....give me funky delivery, unusual release slots and lots of movement at 86 than Billy Koch arrow fastball at 91. YMMV.

You don't like Heinrich? I see him as a more athletic, better defending and rebounding version of Stockton: once the dude learns the art of penetrating off the screens and actually HITTING a 2-pointer (he was 1 for 8 again today), he'd be a good-to-very-good point guard. 15pt-10as-4reb guy with solid D. Also, there is no way Crawford handles the point. He is a natural #2 if I've even seen one. One of the quickest first steps in the game. Mediocre streaky shooter who needs to penetrate more, distrupt defensive schemes and get to the line. Asking him to set-up and distribute is like asking El Caballo to bunt.

In all seriousness... I know it's the Baseball America Sweepstakes.... But how some of you can rate Mcarthy, Nanita, Valido, Young, Sweeney, Anderson, etc OVER Borchard, Rauch and even Pacheco I will NEVER understand. Sincerely yours, Perspective.

Just caught the 3rd Q. Heinrich is by far my favorite player even thhough he doesn't have a fraction Eddie, Dupree or Jamal's talent-- if only he could beat people off the dribble and penetrate, he'd be muc more dangerous and the defense would be stretched.

What about millions upon millions of Jews who don't practice Judaism? I have a ton of secular Jewish friends, some of them immigrants. I consider them to be of Jewish RACE or ETHNICITY, or at least to have parts of that race/ethnicity in them because many of them are "mixed" with all sorts of lineages. Maybe I just dont understand sometihng. I've always thougt you are a Christian if you believe in the Bible/Christ/Church. You can be of Jewish persuasion but a Christian because of your beliefs. Where is Soxy and CW when you need them?

I see. Being Jewish has NOTHING to do with RELIGION anymore than being Black-- with Christianity or Islam. So Jewish religion considers you a Jew because of your mother, so what? You don't subscribe to Judaism....and Christianity (and many secular nations btw) considers you a CHRISTIAN because they care about FATHER and not mother. And also because you are I presume a BELIEVER. At the very least, now you know you share sometihng with Christ other than his teachings. No big deal if you ask me.

If I didn't know any better, I'd say you sound a bit dejected at this I am sure stunning revelation.

Didn't like about Agassi match: -Only 31 winners. Unless unforced errors are under 20, it's not gonna do against Roddick or Federer or even Grosjean, next opponent......2:1 ratio is a magic number. -Only 3 of 14 in break point conversion. I am sorry, but that's unacceptable against Pete Sampras and his amazing serve that gets him out of jams. Against Srichaphan, an average server at best, it's downright pathetic....50 % is a magic number.

I don't follow tennis nearly as much as when I was a kid, but I still love the sport and my idol Andre Agassi. (Perte Sampras was a Darth Vader or the Cubs to Andre's White Sox, lololol) I love tennis (of the last 15 years) for these reasons: 1. It requires tremendeous skills. Amazing hand-eye coordination, not unlike baseball. 2. But skill alone is not enough. Edgar Martinez couldn't crack top 100,000 in rankings because it's extremelyathletically demanding-- and not in short, NFL RB bursts kinda way--, but flatout agility-taxing grind for 2, 3, sometimes 4 and 5+ hours......That's why what Agassi is doing at 34 is down Barry Bonds-esque...sans steroids of course. 3. As in boxing, it's all on YOU. Wanna win the tourney? Beat 7 challengers in under 2 weeks and it's yours. But truth be told, unless Agassi or Federer or Safin circa 2000 USO are playing I have some difficulty maintaining interest. I'll root against Roddick or Hewitt any day though And of course PLAYING tennis is awesome (though cheap asphalt courts can seriously f*** up your knees and back so beware) if only for it's awesome execrise value.

No, but I did. Literally. Brobe = past tense of 'bribe' PS You may forward money for the lesson to my secretary-in-waiting.

I still say he brobe his way to the top of Sox Analyst poll. Hell, in the biggest showcase of his life (Futures Game at USCF), Ring gave up a couple of missiles, one for a hit and one at SS for an out, topping out at 91mph on a generous ESPN gun, and his breaking pitch while way above average was not what I was told it would be. Unless he discovers his inner Foulke (1 in 4 chance that will happen), I don't now nor at the time think we lost a special player in him. Time will tell.

I don't know much about this Rosemblum fella (other than he is a Jew and that's all I need to know) but this a very poor analogy for a couple of reasons not the least of which is the FACT that for Reindorf, in light of all the contractual nuances and balance sheet-related issues that have been debated over and over on this board, Sox are a low risk, fairly high reward set-up: 1. if the team loses and the fans don't come, his losses are within reason if not totally neglegible. The current situation is a comfy tax shelter if anything else. 2. if the team wins, fans come out in droves; concessions, merch sales go up; rolling value of his media deal/franchise/real estate increases; AND he gets from 2 to 11 playoff home games of pure MONEY gravy-- I am sure he would have no qualms about setting up a hugely profitable SCALPING service not unlike what the Cubs did. So even from the business standpoint, poker parallel is ill-applicable IMO. 3. Reindorf is a bonafied baseball fan-geek. Sox hold a big sentimental value. Unless he is losing his ass or gets an awesome offer, he will not sell, content with "playing poker" with "$20 in his pocket" until he dies.

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