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QUOTE (Melissa1334 @ Mar 20, 2011 -> 12:46 PM) i think it was over before it even started. i knew there was no way it would be tehean, we know ozzie is a defense type guy Teahen might have had a shot had he shown some growth with the glove this ST. He had something like an error a game.

The response of course to that is that Cleveland, for example, was screwed either way...because they let Lebron James decide all their trades for a couple years in an effort to keep him. Utah's coach resigned and that wasn't enough for Williams. The Nuggets built a legitimately solid team around Anthony and that wasn't enough for him.

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QUOTE (thxfrthmmrs @ Mar 19, 2011 -> 09:47 PM) It's hard not to envision Howard in a Laker uniform. In two years, Kobe would be 34, going into his 16th season. With the Kobe on the verge of retirement and the Laker in need of a superstar, I would assume they will go all out of Howard. The Lakers has always had a superstar/hall of famer on their squad, from Elgin Baylor to Jerry West, to Wilt, Kareem, Magic, Shaq, and Kobe. Howard would have the personality, style of play, and impact to be the torch bearer to a Laker great and play in front of the most popular basketball team in the world. He could be the face of the Lakers for the next 7-8 years. For Howard, it would increase his already great popularity, and possibly cement his legacy if he can win with that team.It's going to be a different league in a couple years. 2/3 of the league doesn't want to be a minor league organization for the Lakers, Knicks, Heat, and Celtics. If Howard wants to be a Laker, he's going to have to deal with some sort of a franchise tag to get there.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Mar 19, 2011 -> 06:47 PM) That is a huge role out of the pen. Really the beginning of the end for the staff last year is when certian guys ran up too many innings out of the pen to compensate for others. I wouldn't say it was innings that did the pen in.

QUOTE (sircaffey @ Mar 19, 2011 -> 09:49 PM) What's the criteria? Keep in mind Thornton has had a better WAR than Soria each of the past 3 seasons. Might want to choose something other than a Bieber tattoo, just in case... Is that because Thornton has been better or because Thornton has pitched in higher leverage situations?

Yeah, clearly, air strikes in Tripoli = totally hitting battlefield targets. You guys are right. No hitting of targets associated with the regime, just military forces in the field.

Quite simply, Chris Sale has not yet pitched like a guy who is up to the job.

Former Clinton Secretary of State Warren Christopher has died.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Mar 19, 2011 -> 01:15 PM) No, Balta. The correct answer is that the Libyan army is nothing like the Taliban. They're much better equipped and have a much more densely populated city to fight in with vastly more civilian targets around them. You're right. It's much worse.

Constant guy Soxtalk wanted to trade for Scot Shields calls it a career.

XYZ cocktail?

QUOTE (Kalapse @ Mar 19, 2011 -> 12:41 PM) No, we claimed him off waivers so he's on the 40 man, he's gonna have to make the team out of spring training or be put through waivers once again. All along I've thought of him as a lock to make the club as the long man for this very reason, it's not like the other choices to take the final spots in the pen are all that exciting, if Cooper likes him as much as we've been told then they're gonna want to keep him around. Last time he was put on waivers he didn't make it out of the AL without being claimed so why risk it? Yeah, if he can't be sent down, as well as he's pitched this spring, he's almost certain to wind up on the roster.

Feel better Jake

I love the headline on principle. The article is good, but headline is gold. Does Moore's law apply to solar cells?

Radioactive food. Radiation in food is quite a bit more deadly than skin exposure, because it gets past your skin.

QUOTE (JPN366 @ Mar 19, 2011 -> 12:24 PM) Isn't it redundant to have both an iPhone and an iPad? At this point, an iPad is really just an indulgent gadget. If you did a lot of work on the go, an Ipad would make quite a bit of sense along with the phone for business purposes, and in fact you can now team them well together, if you use the iPhone as a hotspot to go with the wifi only iPad. If I had a couple more conferences/travel tasks on my list, I could totally find a ton of use for both, to the point where it made financial sense.

QUOTE (juddling @ Mar 19, 2011 -> 12:32 AM) Under what circumstances does my wife think i would possibly enjoy going to a karaoke bar???? In the 20 plus years we've known each other i've never given any indication that karaoke is something i'd like to do or like to listen to others do Very likely alcohol played a part in that

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Mar 19, 2011 -> 09:33 AM) Does the Taliban operate in the same way that a standing national army does? Fighting in an urban area? Absolutely.

QUOTE (JPN366 @ Mar 18, 2011 -> 11:49 PM) Don't know if it's been posted, but for everyone's information, the players out of options are Philip Humber, Sergio Santos, Brent Lillibridge and Jeffrey Marquez. Humber is on a minor league deal though, correct?

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Mar 19, 2011 -> 11:06 AM) Does he have the same agent as Alexei and Dayan? I believe Viciedo swapped agents to the destroyer of worlds payrolls a year or two ago.

QUOTE (JPN366 @ Mar 19, 2011 -> 12:26 PM) Yep, he is a good enough athlete to play a corner outfield spot. Question's going to be whether his bat is good enough to hang in the bigs.

If you're counting Richard, you may as well count Gio as well. McCarthy's borderline on the innings thing. Daniel Hudson will move his way onto that list this year. Let's look at this another way...you hold the rights to a starter you promote from AAA for 6-7 years. If you don't resign him, that means a group of 10 starting pitchers developed by your team alone will net you 12-14 years of pitching. If you brought up 1 group of 5 in 2000, didn't resign any of them, you'd need to replace them in 2006-2007, then you'd be fine until 2012-1013. 7-10 starting pitchers out of a single system in 10 years covers most of that team's needs for starting pitching. Now of course, we can find ways to play the "Danks and Floyd don't count" game, but then you add in other guys that we drafted and traded away and the fact that occasionally you do extend a guy like Buehrle, and 7-8 young starters over the course of a decade from your minors fills most of your needs until people get hurt.

I'll offer up another version of the effectiveness of airpower...our current air/drone attack campaign in Pakistan. If you want to argue that strategically it is working and effectively damaging the Taliban, you might be right, I don't know. But there has been a hell of a lot of civilian "collateral damage" associated with that campaign.

QUOTE (knightni @ Mar 18, 2011 -> 06:09 PM) How is the Libyan dictator's name spelled anyway? There is no generally accepted single translation from the Arabic to English. Pretty much, whatever version you use, you're right.