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QUOTE (ChiSox_Sonix @ Jul 27, 2011 -> 09:38 AM) Yeah I saw it this morning and couldn't believe what I was seeing. Just atrocious. He's got the 3B assignment in the game today. Think he'll be hearing anything from the Pirates bench over there? If that happened to your team, wouldn't you just keep your mouth shut about it? The ump has to know he made a mistake already.

QUOTE (kapkomet @ Jul 26, 2011 -> 10:36 PM) OK, that literally made me laugh out loud. We can't even defeat Libya. So, we got some big ass balls. BIG BALLS. FIRE! (Oh, that was big guns, or something, wasn't it?) maybe it would help if we had the military watch video of Ben Affleck's street gang getting ready to beat someone up.

QUOTE (JPN366 @ Jul 27, 2011 -> 02:09 AM) Do it. That would possibly balance out my disgust over the Tarvaris Jackson signing. Really, you think a guy who missed half the season last year with debilitating injuries that might come back is worth $10 mil a year?

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Jul 27, 2011 -> 08:04 AM) Seeing that I'm no expert in these matters, do I have to worry about my 401K right now? I'm on the verge of possibly accepting a job offer in another state and I'm worried that by the time I transition over, my 401k might take a huge hit because of the aftermath of this situation. Should I be transferring the funds into an international fund within my plan or anything until this situation is resolved? If the U.S. misses a bond payment, there will be no survivors. Here's the way my brain finally processed it. In 2000-2008, financial firms spent enormous amounts of resources coming up with AAA assets that they could keep in their portfolios but that gave higher returns. Mortgage backed securities, etc. These funds are often required to hold AAA graded assets as a backstop against losses, so if they have higher returns from their AAA stuff, they make more money. Turned out that in 2008 they learned all of that was a joke and they had invested in a pile of s***. $8 trillion in wealth vanished. Probably more than that...trillions, maybe tens of trillions worth of assets that used to be AAA were no longer AAA. There was suddenly a rush to get to actual AAA grade assets that wouldn't lose money, basically, stable bonds, with no craziness or math or anything else. Here is a graph I saw yesterday of the AAA graded assets available in national holdings right now; This doesn't mean we're more in debt that other countries, our economy is just 10 times bigger than them. We still haven't produced enough Treasuries to satiate the 2008 demand for legitimate, AAA graded debt. That's why the interest rate on the 5 year T-bill has been negative for the past year. People are still so desperate for things that won't lose a ton of money that they'll take a few percent loss on it to avoid larger loss risks. Now..imagine this scenario...that 59% suddenly is no longer AAA. No one can hold it any more as a backstop. What is the world's stable asset? Where do people go to avoid losing money on stuff? Frankly, I don't know. That's why people compare this to Lehman; it'd be a sudden shift to believing that the only safe asset out there is fully unsafe because of Congress.

QUOTE (Jordan4life @ Jul 27, 2011 -> 08:44 AM) A "decent" package? The Phillies aren't trading any of those guys for CQ, let alone two of them. Especially with all the wear and tear on Oswalt's arm and Hamels hitting FA after next season. See, on this one, that's a difference...those guys are solid arms but are several years away. The Phils have already established they'll move talent and arms to get better now. They're not going to give up on all of them and they'll play hardball, but if they think it's the deal that puts them over the top they'll do it. I actually think a bigger issue for them is money. They've already spend a fortune, Howard's contract only goes up from here, and they're only about $1 million away from this year's luxury tax threshhold. If they acquire Carlos straight up, they're paying the tax.

QUOTE (Jordan4life @ Jul 27, 2011 -> 08:47 AM) It still makes no sense. Give up good prospects closer to the Show for unknown draft picks who will undoubtedly be further away than the guys you're giving up? I've really started to hate the trade deadline the last few years. Twitter has given the entire world a license to be stupid. I've accused you plenty of times of overvaluing prospects/draftees. I think you're right on here...that kind of idea is way overvaluing draft picks.

Even for a team like the Yankees, Jackson would be worth at most 2 wins this season over throwing some other scrap out there. He's not cliff lee-ing some team to the series. Teams are too smart about player evaluations to give away guys who could be worth 20 wins over the next 5 years for 2 wins this year. Well, most teams.

QUOTE (onedude @ Jul 26, 2011 -> 11:23 PM) Wasn't Atlanta rumored for Pierre? They were at least rumored to be interested since Jordan Schafer hasn't been very effective leading off for them, but I seriously doubt that they'd give up much beyond taking on his remainig salary for him.

I'm somewhat surprised that so many people think "but Jackson is worth so much!" is a reason why this can't be true. Guess it kinda reminds me of the people who were mad that we didn't get more for Vasquez, as though teams really wanted him

QUOTE (Soxbadger @ Jul 26, 2011 -> 10:28 PM) I guess Ohmans got this Planning for the game to go 14 isn't really the worst ozzie move of the night.

QUOTE (FlySox87 @ Jul 26, 2011 -> 10:26 PM) I obviously think Ozzie sucks as much as anyone. But that doesn't excuse Peavy being an uber expensive five inning pitcher.probably 1/2 of his contract has been paid by insurance since we acquired him, fwiw.

So do people realize that we have a shutdown deadline in September if we somehow get through this, for passing a 2012 budget?

QUOTE (kapkomet @ Jul 26, 2011 -> 09:42 PM) We sure got some big balls now, don't we? Wtf? Are you Bon Scott level drunk?

QUOTE (FlySox87 @ Jul 26, 2011 -> 10:23 PM) A 5.26 ERA qualifies as "pretty damn well"? How many runs would we knock off if the manager could see what 7 year olds watching the game can see?

Hawk almost got excited

QUOTE (FlySox87 @ Jul 26, 2011 -> 10:15 PM) Your shoulder better not fall apart if you're making $16,000,000 a year. This is just being silly.

Hey Cabrera didn't homer

QUOTE (Soxbadger @ Jul 26, 2011 -> 10:07 PM) We have ridiculous standards. Peavy is coming off an one of a kind injury, where no one really knows how durable he is. He goes out and throws 5 innings and gives up 1 run. You may not accept it, but its going to take Peavy more time to get back from injury. I don't think were mad at Peavy. Were mad at Ozzie for not paying attention o anything you said.

QUOTE (Unknown @ Jul 26, 2011 -> 09:58 PM) If he was taken out without completing the inning he would have no chance at a win. He needs to finish the inning and the Sox need to take the lead right now for him to get a win. Not if he was pulled before Cabrera hit, like he should have.

QUOTE (Soxbadger @ Jul 26, 2011 -> 09:57 PM) Right so youre saying that because hes only played 1/2 a season in 2 years his body is messed up? You said the exact same thing just didnt use the word messed up, because quite frankly Im not a Dr so I dont know if its his back, his arm, or what is really bothering him. I just know he cant seem to get really deep in games. And I guarantee forcing him to pitch more (like Ozzie did tonight) is only going to further wear him down. Its just so bad. I'd just say weak/needs conditioning.

QUOTE (mmmmmbeeer @ Jul 26, 2011 -> 09:54 PM) Betemit and Martinez are the only two that have hit him hard. Ordonez has hit him hard too.

QUOTE (Soxbadger @ Jul 26, 2011 -> 09:53 PM) Everyone in the world knows Peavy is not able to go really deep. My guess is that hes still messed up from the injury and that by next year he should be able to go much deeper. But for right now you let him go 5, tell him great job, and let your pen get 12 outs. The sad thing is, even with the worst manager Ive ever witnessed, the Sox still have a chance to win the division. Hes not "messed up", he just doesn't have the arm strength right now for 100 good pitches. He tires at 75. That's what happens when you pitch 1/2 of a season in 2 years.

QUOTE (fathom @ Jul 26, 2011 -> 09:52 PM) Hey guys, don't worry...we benched our best starting pitcher so Peavy can continue to pitch with his ERA shooting up to 5.5 If Humber were pitching, the result would be the exact same thing. He'd hit 85 pitches, tire, and give up 4 ins before Ozzie had the pen up.

QUOTE (JohnCangelosi @ Jul 26, 2011 -> 09:51 PM) This one is on Ozzie. The whole board knew he should have someone READY in the 6th. Jake had nothing left in the 5th, but got through the inning, and they have 2,3,4 coming up. And now we got Ohman loosening? LOL, it's like we don't see how important this game can be. What a joke of a manager we have, 80% of this board would have had someone else starting in the 6th. Ohman would have been a good option against VMart.

QUOTE (Reddy @ Jul 26, 2011 -> 09:46 PM) there ya go. Ozzie insisted on a loss.