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QUOTE (The Ginger Kid @ Aug 9, 2011 -> 03:11 PM) who hasn't been a starter since junior college and needs to get stretched out. I think his future lies in the bullpen. He's lights out. Last year counts as Junior College? This kid put 140 innings on his arm 2 years in a row in college and held together. It's crazy not to give him a chance to start.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Aug 9, 2011 -> 03:00 PM) The market seems to love the feds direction. Do you think they were hoping for a hint at more QE happening?

QUOTE (The Ginger Kid @ Aug 9, 2011 -> 02:54 PM) I seriously doubt KW is going to lose his 2 LH starters in the off season, especially given the lineups we face in the division. He gets a free one though. His name is Chris Sale.

Factoid. Apple today passed Exxon as the largest company in the country by market cap.

So, I see that the Fed Statement says growth is coming in above expectation, inflation expectations are high, and in response they're adopting a tightening posture. No wait, that's wrong...growth is below expectations, inflation expectations are low, but they're not doing anything.

I think the right moves for next year are to trade Q and Danks, give Viciedo one of the corner OF spots, and do what needs to be done to find a leadoff hitter. That could be De Aza or a De Aza/Lillibridge combination in LF and I wouldn't be terrifically angry yet without seeing the trade/FA returns. We're still stacked with 5 starting pitchers next year, assuming they do the right thing with Sale, and that's without bringing back Buehrle, which the Chairman might go over budget for. We need bullpen depth for that to work.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Aug 9, 2011 -> 02:17 PM) Everything KW has touched has turned to crap. If this team just stood pat after 2006 (with the exception of the Thome deal) or 2008, we'd be 200% better off than we are today without all of Williams' incessant tinkering and fixing and adjusting. Danks, Quentin, Ramirez, and Floyd have been kinda important, wouldn't you agree?

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Aug 9, 2011 -> 02:04 PM) Do you really think KW would have traded Allen for a middle reliever if he truly believed he would have put up those numbers with the Sox? At the time, there was a TON of uncertainty about whether Konerko would still be with the Sox long-term. And, just as importantly, with uncertainty about Thome going forward, they desperately needed a LH power bat in the pipeline. So if he was really going to put up 25-30 homers per year, why did the White Sox and DBacks give up on him so quickly? Why aren't the A's playing Allen or Carter there (1B/DH) TODAY? Their season is already over, playing Conor Jackson does them no good at all for the future. 850 OPS? Really? Is that in a platoon or with everyday playing time? That's why we still come back to this trade. Even if he had a 1/20 shot of putting up a .800+ OPS at 1b, that was a position where it would have been great to have some depth, and the return for that guy was a "Coop will fix him" level reliever.

QUOTE (kjshoe04 @ Aug 9, 2011 -> 01:59 PM) I would also be interested to know who everyone's favorite side character is. I can't decide between Troy McClure(you might remeber him from such celebrity funerals as "Andre The Giant, We Hardly Knew Ye" and "Shemp Howard, Today We Mourn A Stooge") and Lionel Hutz(aka Miguel Sanchez). Handsome Pete.

QUOTE (chw42 @ Aug 9, 2011 -> 10:34 AM) I don't care if he's the best defensive 3B in the world, even that wouldn't make him a good player since his offense is so damn bad. Morel has so little power that his ISO is the same as Juan Pierre's! Yes, you read that correctly. Did I mention his SLG is lower than Pierre's as well? And did I also mention that his Batting Runs (based on wOBA) is 5 runs lower than Pierre's? I believe that we can all recall last year how Pierre wasn't a terribly below average player because he played excellent defense in LF.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Aug 9, 2011 -> 12:15 PM) Brent is one of the guys Ozzie has done a really good job at protecting. Still thoroughly disagree.

QUOTE (Brian @ Aug 9, 2011 -> 12:36 PM) Skip The Patriot. Bore-fest! Have a beer and watch a guy get stabbed by the flag.

Probably means that your eternal soul is going to have some issues given that you insist on lying about that issue.

$pringfield (Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Legalized Gambling). "The only monster here is the gambling monster that has enslaved your mother. I call him gamblor! And it's time to snatch your mother from his neon claws!"

I'd say calling him out for not fielding a winning olympic team makes about as much sense as saying he's the greatest because the Angels bailed him out of Vernon Wells's deal.

No, he did say things like "Give to Caesar that which is Caesar's" though.

From casually reading this thread, it seems like this Carcillo article ought to annoy a few people here.

Listen to some of those things he says about the poor then.

Hmph. Apparently Dunn lives a short distance from where we hold the yearly lunar and planetary science conference. Anyway, here's what you all wanted to hear.

Just don't expect it to help you either.

By the way, the final CBA included blood testing for HGH. Some players are annoyed, and I don't care.

That index pretty much has to be dominated by the dollar-Euro trade then, I take it?

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Aug 9, 2011 -> 10:08 AM) Wait, what? The dollar is up, energies are down. They had been for days. The dollar is down today, energies are up. Significantly if you look at them from the overnight lows. You understand the relationship is inverse here right? Strong dollar buys more crude, weak dollar buys less. The only one it's up against is the Euro.

Is it worth pointing out how those big moves in oil are almost totally divorced from how the dollar is moving?

Heaven help us.