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QUOTE (Marty34 @ May 19, 2012 -> 03:28 PM) What is your point? You should despise Cespedes. He was a big signing by a GM who can't build a team who can succeed unless he's handed a great pitching staff.

QUOTE (Marty34 @ May 19, 2012 -> 03:15 PM) The A's would not have gotten Cespedes without offering him that deal. If he's any good, he's likely to be gone in a couple years used as a chip in the A's building process as they get their stadium situation sorted out. The A's have 1 postseason appearance in the past 8 seasons.

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QUOTE (Quinarvy @ May 19, 2012 -> 10:15 AM) I've tried posting there, but just no activity. I've done all I can to keep it alive, but I'm usually there talking to myself. Often while clothed.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ May 19, 2012 -> 10:36 AM) It was Ozzie's idea, but he supposedly was Ozzie's boss. He eventually overrode him in September when he claimed a fresh off steroid suspension Manny, in what was perhaps the biggest waste of $4 million in his reign, and he's blown some money. Manroid was KW admitting Ozzie's Kotsay idea was crap.

The one thing from that 2009 list you can't hold against him is letting Thome walk, because that clearly wasn't his idea.

QUOTE (justBLAZE @ May 19, 2012 -> 02:25 AM) Why not have a separate Bulls Thread / NBA Thread ? Hell, we have a godd*mned separate Bulls Forum.

QUOTE (Marty34 @ May 19, 2012 -> 10:00 AM) That World Series was great, wasn't it. Yes. Now tell me why you get to draw the arbitrary dividing line right after it and say that nothing beforehand counts.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ May 19, 2012 -> 04:45 AM) http://www.suntimes.com/sports/12583507-41...guillen-is.html Except from new Rick Morrissey book on Ozzie Guillen... H. Christ. Someone wrote a book about this?

QUOTE (Quinarvy @ May 19, 2012 -> 07:23 AM) I hate Kerry Wood. ESPN: "After the game, it was all about Wood." Yeah, let's celebrate a mediocre, overrated career that produced absolutely nothing. To be fair, it's not like this is a matchup of obvious playoff teams here.

QUOTE (Marty34 @ May 19, 2012 -> 09:50 AM) 1 post-season win in 6 seasons, Dick. KW's record is what it is. 2 postseason appearances and 12 postseason wins in 7 seasons.

QUOTE (Marty34 @ May 18, 2012 -> 10:55 PM) What are you suggesting with that Hahn comment? That every single post you make and every single opinion you ever express can be explained fully by a desire to have KW fired, and you judge players performances solely through that frame of reference. Thus, if someone else had signed him, you'd love him because then KW wouldn't get any credit if he has success.

QUOTE (Marty34 @ May 18, 2012 -> 10:51 PM) Any way you plot it, Vlad Guerrero he isn't. But for a 23 year old in the bigs, he's putting up a .781 OPS in May, his numbers are improving now that we stuck wtih him. And the sky is the limit.

QUOTE (Marty34 @ May 18, 2012 -> 10:39 PM) Not young enough to make up for the descrepancy in numbers. Can you please plot for me the appropriate relationship between how young a person is relative to average for a particular level and how far above average their performance needs to be to satisfy you.

QUOTE (kapkomet @ May 18, 2012 -> 09:58 PM) Sheeple = you wonderful people who will ultimately vote for Barack Obama blindly because you don't give a damn where the country goes as long as everyone is "equal" and the marxist/socialistic reforms that are gradually making us more like Europe every day continues. You know, "for the little people". Your freedoms are being taken from you every day, yet you want more of it. There you go, sheeple. If the shoe fits, wear it. If not, go back to blindly giving away your life to your government, you know, for fairness and all. Yawn. It's really not even worth acknowledging this crap. The worst part is, there's a chance you actually think that.

My wife just changed the channel over to the TV Guide Channel which is currently showing Look Who's Talking. The ad on at the exact second she turned that channel on? Justin Verlander, talking about Bayer Advanced. Creepy.

QUOTE (flavum @ May 18, 2012 -> 09:31 PM) Should have just thrown the heater up to that kid. Did you see how bad he looked on the first couple breaking balls?

HOW THE HELL DO YOU HIT THAT?! WOW!

QUOTE (Soxbadger @ May 18, 2012 -> 09:24 PM) I cant even comprehend the post, I think hes going Tracy Morgan 30 Rock with his comedy. With a hint of Tracey Morgan in Nashville thrown in.

QUOTE (kapkomet @ May 18, 2012 -> 09:11 PM) Well, it is interesting how his own "Kenyan born" self just now comes out of the wood work. If this guy had an ® behind his name, he'd have every line of coke molecule uncovered. But you see, he's what people want him to be at the time. And you sheeple love it. WTF, did you just go birther?

QUOTE (flavum @ May 18, 2012 -> 08:54 PM) Looks like Dan Johnson is getting some balls hit to him tonight. I hope he's at Wrigley tomorrow night. I hope he's not, that would mean we're going to be missing a 1b for a long time.

Strikes out the side in the 8th.

The announcers are at the "That's unfair" point.

QUOTE (Leonard Zelig @ May 18, 2012 -> 06:38 PM) The manager is not on the mound, it is up to the pitcher to act. Who was the guy Ozzie sent in to retaliate and the guy couldn't hit the batter. Didn't he get sent down after that game? That was not in the last 4 years. Sean Tracey.