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Who hits after Pujols, was it Berkman?

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Oct 3, 2011 -> 04:24 PM) Treason is a different animal. What you're suggesting is that people that scream "Death to the USA, I am now a citizen of France, the mortal sworn enemy of the US, and I will publish various state and military secrets to aid them in their quest to destroy America" couldn't be tried for treason because they were merely exercising their Constitutional right to freedom of assembly/speech/publication. If the wikileaks guy (but American citizen version) had given up actual state secrets/intelligence, don't you think he'd be tried for treason, despite exercising his right to publication? I'm not suggesting that someone should be tried for treason for complaining or arguing against the US. But at some point that stops being politically protected speech and starts being treasonous acts against the state. Let's be clear about a couple things on Wikileaks. The Pfc who supposedly leaked the material to Wikileaks, Bradley Manning, has been in jail for a year now awaiting trial and kept in pretty harsh conditions. However, he leaked that material while it was classified...if he did so, then he was violating actual laws of classification by being the one who released the material. He will not be tried for treason, but he may at some point be tried for violating classification laws. If I'm a newspaper editor and that material appears in the mail, and I publish it...that is not Treasonous by my standard. If I'm Assange and I receive that material and publish it, same deal. That's why this country hasn't charged Assange with anything.

Tyler Flowers Alejandro De Aza Dayan Viciedo Chris Sale Sergio Santos Brent Lillibridge Addison Reed Zach Stewart Dylan Axelrod Brent Morel Gordon Beckham Philip Humber Hector Santiago If nothing else, it's a good list of pre-arb guys from this team.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Oct 3, 2011 -> 02:07 PM) I am DVRing the mini-series. Kids keeping you up all night I take it?

QUOTE (HickoryHuskers @ Oct 3, 2011 -> 02:27 PM) Nobody wanted Ozzie fired after one bonehead move. They wanted him fired after the 5,000th bonehead move. When Charlie M gets his tally up to 5,000, he'll likely be gone as well. Unless he's also winning games.

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Oct 3, 2011 -> 02:25 PM) But my point is that process is just as useless as having no process. Assume for the sake of argument that they change the law as you suggest. Obama (or whichever President) seeks to kill a citizen abroad. They do so. The ACLU files a suit claiming the same thing - lack of due process. SS and others like him will argue that the only information used to establish the guy has sworn his loyalty to some other group/nation that's an enemy of the US is information from the US government. He can't defend himself in court. He can't do anything to clear his name. At the end of the day the government is still basing that decision on government information that will never be reviewed by any independent tribunal or administrator (since that information would fall under state secrets/national security exceptions). I think you're just creating process for the sake of a process. The fundamental issue remains. The fundamental issue, IMO, is that there is no process for this. It's that the law says you can't do this. If you create a process, even if the hurdles are difficult, then you've satisfied me.

Oblivious.

Maybe like this

Once he has whatever surgery he needs I'd consider it. If he doesn't need surgery, then no, because that means the velocity drop was "real". And maybe driven by other things in his system.

Keep your fingers moving.

For once I got you!

Eat this.

Can you type more than your name?

QUOTE (Marty34 @ Oct 3, 2011 -> 01:44 PM) They can say they could deal Ramirez because their #1 prospect is Escobar. And they'd be scoffed at deservedly unless the return was stellar.

QUOTE (Marty34 @ Oct 3, 2011 -> 01:38 PM) Easier to explain trade to fans. I don't think that's the case as Mayo doesn't work for the Sox, but it would make a lot more sense than trying to build Escobar's trade value. The Sox aren't in "trade prospect" mode. WTF?

QUOTE (mr_genius @ Oct 3, 2011 -> 01:39 PM) yes, a very strange coincidence. There is a reasonable explanation...if for example someone was tweeting earlier in the day that they were going to march to location x, then that would be a reasonable response, since the police would know it was coming. I'm not sure if that was the case or not.

Ugh!

Really, I thought I got beat on that too. Crud.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Oct 3, 2011 -> 01:34 PM) Exactly #anarchynow Don't you have champagne to drink?

QUOTE (Jordan4life @ Oct 3, 2011 -> 01:33 PM) How so? There's a game tomorrow no matter what. But if the Rays win, they are up 2-1, and the Rangers backs are against the wall. Reverse is true for the Rays.

Quicker than me.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Oct 3, 2011 -> 01:31 PM) You already answered that yourself. Then you're agreeing with me that Omar has nothing to complain about and is being a b****?

Must you?

Keep quiet then.