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QUOTE(Kalapse @ Nov 30, 2006 -> 09:18 PM) I still don't understand why Bud Selig gets so much credit for bringing the Wild Card to Major League Baseball, it's not like he invented the damn thing he just took the idea from the NFL. He may have come under fire when he did instate it but anyone with half a brain could see that it was a good idea. There were a lot people with under half a brain out there at the time.

QUOTE(redandwhite @ Nov 30, 2006 -> 12:24 PM) Yea, but White Sox fans think... Oh wait. Congratulations, Nomar. http://people.aol.com/people/article/0,26334,1563617,00.html I seem to recall some Red Sox homerism from somewhere ... can't quite put my finger on it. Hmmm. Where did I read that?

QUOTE(beautox @ Nov 30, 2006 -> 12:33 PM) As seen at SSS Fields, Age 23, SL, 133 games, 358 TC, 24 E, 22 DP, .933 FPCT Crede, Age 22, SL, 135 games, 328 TC, 19 E, 20 DP, .942 FPCT Those numbers on Crede were from when? 6 years ago? Do you want to wait another 5 years to get Crede calibre play from Fields? Maybe!? As I said. Not yet, anyway.

QUOTE(WhiteSoxfan1986 @ Nov 30, 2006 -> 11:06 AM) Besides the fact that one of our top 2 prospects plays third. Exactly. Fields at this point in time is a shadow of Crede. Defensively, it's no contest. Offensively, Fields is totally unknown and Crede has proven he can be a productive ML hitter. Anderson couldn't replicate Rowand's production, I damn ain't betting that Feilds can replace Crede. Not yet, anyway.

QUOTE(kapkomet @ Nov 30, 2006 -> 06:30 AM) YAS, you're wrong. HATE AMERICA FIRST! Please? And before you crazys even say it, I'm kidding. Typical Liberal! Relax! I'm also kidding.

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Nov 30, 2006 -> 07:26 AM) OMG, so a free marketplace is actually paying a higher rate than the union ones? I thought that wasn't supposed to happen?!?!? I bet the benefits are better too!

To easily remove dirt and dust from artificial foliage, put it in a plastic bag with a liberal (there's that word again) amount of salt. Shake well.

QUOTE(Texsox @ Nov 29, 2006 -> 03:21 PM) Is it truly possible for a society our size to pay attention to and react to each and every episode to have any single instance be examined? Richards should get a pass because the other 1,000s of episodes that happen everyday in this country does not elicit the same outrage? And let's not pretend there is simply a moral lesson here, the entertainment value drives this story. We care, and create a thread with over 150 posts, because he's a celebrity that people actually know and care about. The reaction is as much about entertainment as it is values and morality. ... and the perpetrator was white.

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Nov 29, 2006 -> 02:16 PM) I get the feeling between this stuff with the divide in who should be the next Presidente and the riots in Oaxaca, they are on the verge of revolution down there... http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15951114/ Great! Now the illegal immigrants will instead be called refugees.

QUOTE(Texsox @ Nov 29, 2006 -> 10:16 PM) I don't believe there is any denying that the mood in America was hatred for the "Japs". Just as later there was hatred for the "Krauts" and the "Gooks". I also don't believe we can deny that we have changed dramatically in less than a generation. I agree that this is a propaganda piece and not realistic, but to claim the violence and hatred could somehow be hardwired into human behavior is something I can not agree with. You seem to be forgetting that Japan drew first blood. It's also a common belief that an invasion of Japan proper would have cost millions of Japanese caualties in addition to a million or so of our own. It was all out, no holds barred war.

QUOTE(EvilMonkey @ Nov 29, 2006 -> 05:18 PM) So Yas's comment comes off to you as an insult to the military, but Kerrry saying only stupid people join is not? Here's an insult to the military .... Above quote courtesy of none other than the man in the thread title. Military service is not a 'decent career'? No bright, young individuals wants to .... ? I'd be willing to bet that most Americans hold military personel in higher esteem than say, oh ... politicians. Texsox ... Yes! There are ways to GIVE back. It's called volunteering. It's entirely different than mandated service. PA ... Your friend volunteered his service and is receiving his training as a result. Great! That's the way it should be. However, conscriptees would necessarily get the same type of deal. More than likely, they'd be doing the grunt work.

QUOTE(Chisoxfn @ Nov 29, 2006 -> 07:10 PM) Both of these trade proposals would be absolutely brutal. We get worse in the immediate future with the possible chance of maybe breaking even (if that) cause I don't think either of these guys are superstar prospects nor do they fill any major needs. We shouldn't just be trading for prospects, now if we get prospects fine, but we better be upgrading our major league roster as well because there are deals out there that make us better now and in the future and this sure isn't one of them. In fact this is the type of deal that could completely blow up in our face. Not that Gonzalez doesn't seem good, he is, but I'm not giving up a front line pitcher for him (and yes Freddy is that, whether us Sox fans think that I don't care cause the rest of MLB still considers him that especially when you factor in today's market). Agreed. Freddy is still a horse and will be for a few years.

Sentiments aside. I don't want to trade Crede because it would so damn difficult to find a quality replacement.

Interesting. So if Boston doesn't think they make a deal with Boras, they can try and undermine the system and have it fall to next bidder. Thereby, making sure the Yankees don't get him because the Mets were next in line. Lovely.

QUOTE(daa84 @ Nov 29, 2006 -> 09:12 AM) http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/baseball/294010_mari29.html Rotoworld:

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Nov 29, 2006 -> 01:16 PM) So out of curiousity, if things don't work out with Boston, and they do go to the Mets, are the Mets still obligated to honor that posting fee? From what I understand, if things don't work out with Boston, he goes back to Japan for a year and then becomes a free agent.

QUOTE(Rex Kicka** @ Nov 29, 2006 -> 12:57 PM) No offense, Yas, but that kinda comes off like a backhanded insult to the military. The military ought to be a great way to better yourself. And if it isn't, then we ought to reconsider how we treat and pay our men in service. I'll agree that our military personel are not treated with the diginity and respect they deserve, nor are they paid enough. But then I've thought that since I was old enough to know that this same Mr. Kennedy sent out boys to fight and die, and not to win, in Nam. Of course, the esteemed Mr. Johnson intensified the carnage. Nixon was a douchebag too, though.

QUOTE(Balta1701 @ Nov 29, 2006 -> 12:45 PM) Fixed that for you. It just sounded to me like Webb made an ass out himself with that remark, yet you posted it as worthy of praise. To each his own. Signed, Snidely Whiplash

QUOTE(Texsox @ Nov 29, 2006 -> 11:46 AM) No it is not a legal mandate, perhaps a moral or ethical one. We could either chat about the nuances of a word or we could discuss the differences between feeling entitled to take whatever one can from this society or the feeling of a debt to give something back. I believe, strongly, that we have raised a generation that believes public service is a punishment for doing something wrong. It's the "Me Generation". The only thing about that is when Kennedy got done serving his country, he was still wealthy to the gills. Whereas Joe Citizen might need that time to better himself and his family.

Ask a man how his son is doing, then duck.

So where is all the indignation about this racism, along the lines of that which Richards inspired?

QUOTE(Texsox @ Nov 29, 2006 -> 08:17 AM) Your Quote: i don't think the government should have authoratitive power to forcefully mandate service to the coutry unless there is a relevant and immediate threat to the survival of the country. Kennedy's quote: Ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country. Which is the better suggestion? Which is better for our country? Kennedy's quote was not a mandate.

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QUOTE(whitesoxfan101 @ Nov 28, 2006 -> 10:42 AM) Our amazing pitching staff contributed a lot more to it than Pods did, as did Paul Konerko, Tadahito Iguchi, and Jermaine Dye. Even in 2005, Pods was a waste of running with all his steals considering how much he got caught, and his OBP was very pedestrian for a leadoff hitter. Combine that with the fact that he's a journeyman who seems to have forgotten how to run, can't field, and won't hit for any sort of run production....and I say no thanks. Since it seems to me that people think I'm blindly pro-Pods, I'm going to repost my original post in this thread for the sake of context.

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