BrandoFan

Edgar Martinez was easily as good as Maggs was in 2003 and he signed for 3 Million. Are Maggs's declining/unspectacular defense and baserunning worth extra 11-12 mill? How many 950 OPS seasons does Maggs have? I ask because guys like Bonds, A-Rod, Manny, Sheffield, Vladimir, Giles, Sosa, Edmonds, Pujols, Helton, Thome, Sweeney, Giambi and other super stars who may indeed command mid-teen salary even in the face of declining market trends...can put up that kind of production in their sleep. Hell, even Thomas who most people left for dead, at 35 busted out for 955 OPS. Again, I COULD understand the steep demands IF Maggs was a rising star whose best years lied ahead of him OR if he was coming off career-best a 130-RBI campaign. Unfortunately, MANY buyers are going to think Maggs top-out in 2002, and as such, given post-CBA market, is NOT worth anything close to 5/75, incentives or not. I would offer him 4/42 deal with incentives, but the problem is: 1) if he has a great 2004, he won't take it 2) if he has a 2003-esque 2004, he won't be worth it to money-less Sox.

Oooh, did he cheat on her with Arancha Sanchez-Vicario?

Drinking orange juice while typing......Fem' Five attachment photo....mixture of hilary and nauseating disgust....keyboard and shoed ruined....you reimbursting the costs. Self-explanatory.

. Come to think of it, it's not booze or crack. It's called "Slowly allowing JR's bargain mentality penetrate our very essence".

What do you call it when orange juice gets mixed up with vomit and comes out of your nose?

Dear Wayne Tolleson, Please wire payment for keyboard and Floresheim shoes. -Sincerely, Brando

I didn't know piercing intelligence and erudition were pre-requisite to Has-Been Pop Princessdom. The more pressing question is...are they real and/or spectacular?

It's funny, I too think castrating socialist child murderering lesbians should not be afforded that privilege. Besides, who said anything about "women"? Feminists, right...

I don't undersand your request. Clarify how?

Yeah, but you gotta admit the hairy little dykes can haul a mean piano!

You better believe it. But nevermind that, what do you think about feminists?

Damn right. Not that I view the world through the burned American flag, mind you.... But could you teach me the neat I-am-the-immaculate-center-of-the-universe; f***-em-all philosophy?

Precisemundo, senior reformista! Not as easy as you make it out to be.

How do you figure?

Sweeden's population please?

Clement is not worth 8 mill. Not even close. Anyone who would pay 15 Mill for Wood is a FUKING MORON. Wth his delivery and injury history, he'd be lucky to get 9-10 Mill. In 2 years, Sammy will be 37 (if that's his true age). Who is going to pay him 18 mill a year again? Zambrano is a ONE pitch pitcher- turbo-sinker he cannot afford to leave up. When his slightly-above-average splitter doesn't work, he gets smoked. He worked out A LOT of jams in 2003, but will he be as lucky in 2004 and beyond? Plus he is an uber-religious psycho to end all psychos. You can't have heart-attacks after every other strikout in a marathon baseball season and expect to be OK.

Ok, I have little-to-no sympathy for the monopolitic Big Music. But that's SO besides the point. Really now, let's not pretend we are all entitled to something just because it's ill-protected, or better yet, are helping in liberation of ______ from ______ as though downloading is the act of civil disobedience.....Those kids (no longer includes me happy to report) are STEALING, majority of the time with a glee and a smirk, knowing there is no reprecussions. It's profoundly sad to see people my age act like they are 10yo kids who should never be held accountable for such little, cute mischief as piracy and/or illegal distribution with intent to profit.....Makes me laugh, and laugh and laugh hearing all the wide-eyed, self-righteous excuses, most of which I myself was making just a short whole ago. And, no, I don't think personal use offenders should do hard time for it. A huge monetary penalty and a permanent record will suffice. Those who make a living selling them and or make the enabling software, on the other hand, deserve to have their ass taxed.....by Bubba's bigger bipolar cousin.

Opportunist. Apu's timing sucked paris hilton ass, but he was mostly factually right. US are not nor ever were angels. The only flaw in his rhetoric was (surprise, surpise) in ovedoing it, and the underlying assumption, sometimes explicitly stated, that US and capitalism as a whole are inherently and unilaterally evil. Gray area and necessary evils abound in life and politics. A thinking person should recognize that simple and unalterable fact. And, please, until you've lived under communit/fascist/fundamental monist/military dictatorship/etc, please ease up on the barocco moralist expounding and the rabid anti-Americanism. Just a bit maybe.

Bye Robbie. Mary Pierce is one ugly chick.

I totally agree, Dick. Many Sox fans are unloyal hipocrites, and it's because of our tiny (paying) fanbase, we have these payroll and winning issues EVERY.DAMN.YEAR. JR may be a cheap liar, but does anyone honestly think that if Sox were averaging 3,000,000 fans a year and high TV ratings and merchandise sales, he WOULDN'T spend at least 75-80 Mill? Oh and non-attending Sox fans....SHUT UP. You spend $150-200 a month on local Cineplex but you can't take your kids to see the Sox couple times during the summer? f*** you. I am poor and I go.

Mucho boozo?

Oh rafa, don't be coy. I know you love me.

One thing that concernes me about Guerrero is the herniated disk. If he was a Edgar Martinez-type DH, I'd be worried. But considering his no holds barred style of playing, I am a bit scared of him.

. To be fair, Magglio's OPS over last 5 years has been significantly higher than Carlos's. Carlos is only arbit eligible, so he shouldn't be making that kind money anyway. There is no doubt in my mind that Maggs didn't hustle on grounders as much/was a step slower compared to previous years. Defensively? If I had a nickel every time Maggs missed a cutoff man/airmailed it. Towards the end of the season John Rooney was on his case big time, especially during the Twins series at HHH....He is still good, but I don't see the kind of defense he displayed in 1999-2000

Count Magglio? LMAO! Say, during the trial, didn't Ligue Jr claim he was a slayer of some sort?