AbeFroman

Kerry Wood is injured.... In other news, the sun rose this morning, its cold in the arctic, and the harlem globetrotters have defeated the washington generals.

AM1000 is reporting that Kerry wood has fallen out of a hot tub and will miss the beginning of spring training for for pitchers and catchers. This is NOT A JOKE. 4-6 days with bruised ribs. Is there any other appropriate way to respond to this other than to laugh hysterically?

Well, I think we all know this was a mistake.... we got the wrong Perez... Where's Timo?!

Hey nuke, Good luck over there and stay safe. I think everyone here is going to be keeping a keen eye on your posts. There's probably a whole bunch of stuff about life in everyday Iraq that we don't get to hear about. I'm anxious to hear about your encounters with locals, life in iraq, how the military is perceived by different factions... Stay healthy over there.

In the words of Hawk Harrelson: "He Gone!" good luck in the afterlife, barbaro.........and by afterlife i mean being eaten by kindergarteners during arts and crafts

Barbaro regrets that he had but one life to give for drunken, rich assholes to bet on.

Now that Barbaro is dead, Laura Quinn-Hawk is now America's most attractive horse.

I can see the craigslist ad now: NFL Team looking for prominent head coach: Experience with overbearing/intrusive ownership a must. Opportunity to coach the most disruptive prima donna of all time. Must demonstrate ability to handle young, inexperienced QB presently on suicide watch. Expectations will be sky-high at all times. Yup... that should have a lot of takers. Maybe Jerry Jones can lure Nick Saban back to the NFL.

Lots of good ones above: how about every time Boone Logan was brought in to face Travis Hafner

QUOTE(NUKE @ Jan 11, 2007 -> 03:47 PM) It really makes me laugh how stupid, naive and what a massive sense of entitlement some people have. A speculative housing bubble forms where people's homes appreciate to levels they really have no business being at. Of course then when the market corrects itself and prices return to more normal levels people think the world is coming to an end and start pointing fingers of blame. People also love to cry poor after taking out all these exotic morgatges then having it blow up in their face now that interest rates are up. whaa.......whaa......whaa. Nuke!!!! Something we agree on!!! While I don't feel the complete sense of outrage you do, I definitely think this market is the product of some really naive and dumb decision making when it comes to mortgages. There is a speculative bubble.... and its gonna really hurt some people. The ship be sinking for the housing market

This guys gonna get ripped to shreds nationally

QUOTE(spataro51 @ Jan 8, 2007 -> 05:25 PM) I still got the article.... of course why wouldn't I? LOL anyways if you want let me know and i can fax you a copy if you would like to read it. spataro, now you've taken to spreading these vicious rumors by fax also?! just kidding... you and yasny have worked your way into one of the most memorable chapters in soxtalk history.

13.... thats probably about right. I have a few problems with some of those questions though... like the one about whether we should research AIDS because it affects more younger people than Heart Disease. That seems silly. I don't think that question is an indicator of any ideology

i think they're the best... wish they would go to the morning show and boot that hack mike north off the air

Gotta love those USC cheerleaders Note: Probably not safe for work.... but still was broadcast on national tv.

QUOTE(Balta1701 @ Dec 29, 2006 -> 02:43 PM) You know, that's a really interesting point Abe...the Union could really have set themselves up for the fall here. Yes, they did everything they could to try to cover for their steroid-abusing members in 2003. They tried to set the system up so that the system itself would fail...they gave people plenty of warning, everyone knew that the tests would be happening during spring training of 03, everyone knew there would be exactly 1 test and then you'd be done, so everyone in baseball with 1/88 of a brain should have been able to figure out that they should stop using them in December or January, let the body flush out, and then start again after the test was administered. But the Union also made sure that the results of that first test were supposed to be secret. No penalties, no suspensions, no one knows the results. In other words, they removed the best incentive for people to actually get off of the stuff...the penalty. Even with the warning, because the people being tested thought they were safe, a large chunk continued using them all the way through the tests. And that's entirely because the Union did such a good job of protecting the people involved from penalties. I wonder if there's any chance that George Mitchell's failing whitewash investigation might be able to get their hands on this data now that the Feds have it. Every player in baseball definitely should have been cleaned up before the test. They had plenty of opportunity. But by agreeing to secret testing, its real possible that many players just wouldn't care. As a result, they have no incentive to stop until the following year... when testing might be random (if it happened at all). So, consequently, we have a good understanding of who was using the juice. Its just waiting for the government to go out there and get a court order requiring it to be released to the feds.... Now, to be honest, it doesn't change the Bonds case much. If his story is "I didn't know what I was taking" then the results are not actually indicative of his guilt of the crime of perjury. But the league has put its players in the position where 1) players believed the results would be secret; and 2) some players would have been relatively indifferent to the outcome; and 3) the test results actually weren't secret provided the results could have some bearing in a criminal case (which since the conduct itself was inherently illegal seems obvious). In a way, by overbargaining the steroid issue, the player have possibly more exposure than they would have had if they had just agreed to penalties and random testing... provided they could delay the testing for 4 months (which would have been easy) so their guys could get clean.

As an attorney, I have a real problem with way the union handled this "confidential testing agreement". The attorney's representing the union players should have known that these test results couldn't be kept confidential from the government. They never should have advised their clients to agree to these provisions. If I give another my employer incriminating evidence that I committed a crime (tax evasion, laundering, drug use, etc) under a confidentiality agreement, the government can probably get those records provided they will reasonably produce evidence of crime. Attorneys for the players union should have realized that their clients were likely to be under suspicion for violations of federal law. As a baseball fan, i find this very amusing. The union, which had enough balls to make testing a bargaining chip, f***ed up. They NEVER should have entered this secrecy agreement in the first place. Now, making testing contingent on a % of the league testing positive will come back to bite them in the ass. If Donald Fehr and the union received any legal counsel prior to this agreement, then it was very questionable... at best. The best thing to have done was to use their bargaining position to phase in testing over the year. Instead, now hundreds of their own union members are endangered both legally and public relations-wise because of some grade C lawyering. Lastly, I'd also like to know who tested positive because it would enhance my understanding of whether pitchers or batters really benefited more from roid use.

I hope Nifong is investigated thoroughly. I sorta feel that its inevitable that DA's, like Nifon, will abuse their power if given the opportunity and means. I'm glad it became clear that this guy wasn't going to be able to get away with it. I know there's a lot of complaints about our criminal justice system (too much protection of civil liberties), but I feel like we need those protections. Otherwise, we'd have State's Attorneys like Mike Nifong all over the country. Nifong clearly abused his authority. Our system sucks because he got away with it for so long. But the good thing is that these kids weren't convicted, jailed, imprisoned for this bulls***. I know its a weird way to look at it right now, but the system does do a decent (albeit imperfect) job of protecting the truly innocent from being falsely convicted.

QUOTE(LosMediasBlancas @ Dec 20, 2006 -> 10:49 PM) Who was working the zoom on the security camera? I think the zoom is done afterwards... by the guy who put the video up on youtube

Oh man... this is hilarious. world's dumbest criminal

If its true, I like the deal. Sisco fits the model for the team out of the pen. Lots of nasty stuff... and he's a lefty. I like Gload, he will be missed. But I think the deal is alright (presuming its true).

The DA in that case ought to be indicted. This was a political thing for him the whole way. I hope someone from the justice department goes after his ass.

Well, I guess the Dem's hold on the senate is even more tenuous then previously thought. It does sound like he's going to be ok...

All things considered, its turned out to be a pretty good signing by the Red Sox. Basically, its 103 million for six years. Which, when compared to what you pay for gill f***ing meche, is actually fair. (its crazy that 103 mil is fair, but thats the reality now) I think Theo Epstein deserves some credit. When the posting fee was announced, everyone thought he was nuts. But actually, he probably predicted the market very well. He must have anticipated that a pitcher like this could get 100 million or so... so he threw a huge number up there and used his position to negotiate a fair deal. Well, I'm sort of impressed by the red sox prowess. This contract looks actually pretty good given the market. This, of course, presumes that Matsuzaka's career doesn't go the way of Hedeki "Fat Toad" Irabu.

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Dec 13, 2006 -> 12:50 PM) The only other reason I could think of is if he REALLY hates Toronto/Canada, or something like that. or another reason might be that its been his lifelong dream to sign with a certain american league team located on the south side of chicago for which he'd be willing to take a massive paycut. ... i have nothing to back that up.