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QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Apr 8, 2011 -> 06:05 PM) I hate that the GOP is taking this stance without even questioning defense cuts or medicare/medicaid/ss cuts, but at least they're doing SOMETHING. Wtf have the dems proposed? As usual, nothing. Well, the Democrats proposed several hundred billion dollars in cuts from Medicare and in fact passed them last year. Of course, we're not allowed to count that.

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Apr 8, 2011 -> 06:03 PM) Ok ok ok. Can we just bump any thread dealing with any player (let's go A-Rod) and not have this conversation again!!!! Give me some credit for consistency here Steve...

QUOTE (SoxAce @ Apr 8, 2011 -> 06:13 PM) What made him great was his outstanding intellect in pitch recognition and tendency to "guess right." Steroids don't enhance that. There are plenty of reports that they do.

QUOTE (Chicago White Sox @ Apr 8, 2011 -> 05:59 PM) I really hope this a joke. Did you ever see him when he first came up? He would have been a great hitter regardless, but steroids made him one of the best in the game. Please prove to me that he wasn't juicing in the minors. The stuff was already all over baseball in the early 90's.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Apr 8, 2011 -> 05:56 PM) Don't get me wrong, glad to see the cheating SOB go and I'll be glad if he never makes it to Cooperstown. I just don't think juice can elevate you that much. Even if Manny had a little less power, he'd still have been a great hitter. This is all I have to say in reply.

QUOTE (The Ginger Kid @ Apr 8, 2011 -> 05:40 PM) Hate to see him go out like this. He should be remembered as one of the best RH hitters of all time, not this. He might have been remembered as "AAA ballplayer #2740865" if it weren't for the juice.

QUOTE (Milkman delivers @ Apr 8, 2011 -> 05:29 PM) People hated on Vazquez because he was an overpaid underachiever. Don't get that wrong. Until the moment that Jackson was acquired by the Sox, you could say the same thing about Jackson.

Well, we're 7 hours away, so either it's gonna be a big deal when we fail to get an agreement or it's gonna be a big deal when someone caves on Planned Parenthood. Either way, this is getting split out.

This probably means he was juicing with us, btw.

I wonder if he'd even have made the bigs if he was clean.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Apr 8, 2011 -> 01:29 PM) I haven't see anything out of these Boston match ups that tells me they have another gear they haven't been using yet. Perkins being gone, and them having essentially no second unit is really going to be there undoing. They get 1 more matchup with the Heat in a few days right? That's gonna be a good test to see if anything is really different for them.

QUOTE (Jordan4life @ Apr 8, 2011 -> 01:25 PM) Wait a minute, there's a role on a Major League baseball team to be bad at everything? I can fill that role. I'm cheap, too. I'll do it for $50 G's If you need this level of hyperbole to make your point, there's no reason for anyone to agree with you.

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Apr 8, 2011 -> 11:57 AM) Spring training in Glendale. 2011 Where he got a similar number of A-game at bats to Rios, Quentin, Ramirez, and Morel?

QUOTE (Milkman delivers @ Apr 8, 2011 -> 11:47 AM) After two seconds of research, it was easy to see that you only looked at total numbers. I'm talking about how he performs against lefties, and he hits them very well. Except for in what was his only full season, 2008, where he put up a .757 OPS against righties and a .671 OPS against lefties.

QUOTE (hawksfan61 @ Apr 8, 2011 -> 10:04 AM) He was getting shelled in the NL before his pixie dust run in St. Louis last year, the AL will eat him alive. Luckily for the Tigers he won't hurt them that badly because he will end up on the DL eventually, the last time he pitched 200 innings in a season was probably 4 years ago. Well...he might not personally hurt them that badly...but that's not a deep rotation even with him.

QUOTE (Milkman delivers @ Apr 8, 2011 -> 11:39 AM) Because sometimes you need more than a roller between 1B and 2B, or a bloop just over the head of the SS. And you're expecting Lastings Milledge and his career 1 HR every 50 at bats to be the difference there?

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Apr 8, 2011 -> 11:35 AM) You can't envision a scenario where an elite Loogy is on the mound late in the game and we need a good RH bat off the bench to hit for AJ or Pierre? If you're PHing for AJ, then use Castro. If you're PHing for Pierre....well, why are you PHing for Pierre? He hits righties at .298 in his career and lefties at .305. Last year he hit .268 against righties and .297 against lefties.

QUOTE (Milkman delivers @ Apr 8, 2011 -> 11:30 AM) And now we have zero RH power off of the bench, as Ozzie won't take his back-up catcher out of the equation by pinch-hitting him. What guy in our lineup would we actually pinch hit for using a RH power bat? We have 3 lefties, Pierre, Dunn, and Pierzynski. You're not going to want a RH power bat to pinch hit for Dunn anyway. Pierzynski, you're not PHing for because he's the catcher, unless the game is out of hand. And Pierre...let's just face it, Ozzie's not PHing for him with anyone in a close game, and I'm not sure he should anyway.

The December-February temperature anomaly in the arctic was so big that NASA had to add another color to its maps to express it.

Bryce Harper went 2/4 with an RBI, stolen base, and bunt single in his debut.

Brent Morel has an 11 game hitting streak going.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Apr 7, 2011 -> 07:45 PM) Yes. This is all aftershocks. IIRC, after the Boxing Day Tsunami, they said aftershocks would technically happen for years afterwards. Someone was nice enough to make a graph.

QUOTE (lostfan @ Apr 7, 2011 -> 07:38 PM) Aren't earthquakes more likely after having that massive 9.0 a few weeks ago? That this is basically normal (although it's like seriously Earth leave Japan alone)? These are entirely expected. When you get a magnitude 9 event, you can't be surprised if you get a few magnitude 8 aftershocks, a dozen magnitude 7 aftershocks, a hundred magnitude 6 events, etc.

QUOTE (witesoxfan @ Apr 7, 2011 -> 11:17 PM) Within the next 48-72 hours I thought the waiver wire window was ~10 days?