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If anyone remembers...a few months ago SarahPAC released this image that I want to post but I can't even convince myself to insert into the post.

There are now conflicting reports saying that she is alive and in surgery.

QUOTE (Jordan4life @ Jan 8, 2011 -> 02:35 PM) Santos isn't a product of the Sox system. We lucked into him. And his peripherals scream regression. I have no idea why you threw Carter and Infante at me. They've proven next to nothing. And even Carter's minor league numbers were mediocre. Thing is I was more than willing to give both a shot at the expense of handing out 2-3 year deals to relievers. The other thing is that KW has traded a lot of our relievers off too. Adam Russell is a big league reliever. Boone Logan, like him or not, is a Yankee.

QUOTE (Jordan4life @ Jan 8, 2011 -> 02:26 PM) And there's certainly no guarantee that they bounce back. And PK will most certainly regress. And I'm really worried about Sale and the pressure that's going to be on him since Peavy had to act like a tough guy and pitch when he clearly shouldn't have been. There's no guarantee for anything man, this is baseball. I can give plausible reasons why the Phillies will struggle next year. The Sox are in the best possible place they can be. I'm thrilled about that.

QUOTE (Jordan4life @ Jan 8, 2011 -> 02:23 PM) Well when I see a team like the Braves spit out Johnny Venters and Craig Kimbrel in one season or the Padres seemingly piecing together a solid bullpen every year without having to overpay in years and money in free agency, yes, it would be nice if the system could produce a competent arm every now and then. The system is regularly producing competent arms! Santos! Infante! Carter within a year! And that same organization you're praising has a number of retreads from other teams in its bullpen. Scott Linebrink, George Sherrill, Scott Proctor. Peter Moylan, their closer, they signed as a free agent 25 year old following his showing for an international team in the 2006 World Baseball classic.

CNN also confirming that the Congresswoman is dead.

Her Husband, Astronaut Mark Kelly, is scheduled to fly as the commander of the space shuttle Endeavour on STS 134 later this spring.

NPR is now stating that Congresswoman Giffords is among 7 people dead.

QUOTE (Jordan4life @ Jan 8, 2011 -> 02:14 PM) Sounds obvious. But it seems like many around here think this team is 10 wins better or something. They're still a lot of question marks. This team could EASILY be 10 wins better. Adam Dunn instead of Kotsay...3.5 ish wins. Remove Mark Teahen and replace him with an average player would be 1.5 wins (since he was worthless)...replacing him with an above average defender would be more than that. Getting rid of Randy Williams and replacing him with Ohman is half a win. Replacing Jenks could be worth >1 win. Then Pierzynski, Quentin, and Beckham all had very much down years.

QUOTE (chw42 @ Jan 8, 2011 -> 02:07 PM) Well yeah...Not having arguably your most talented pitcher and having two of your better offensive players totally flunk will definitely put us in a bad position. I'm still amazed at how well this team performed last year given the fact that they willingly went into the season with such blatant roster holes.

Ed Reed's brother is apparently missing.

Her Wikipedia page is saying she is dead.

Fox gives a little mroe details. If this was a public event, it sounds like this was an assassination attempt.

It's hard to interpret but it sounds like they may have been holding a town hall meeting at the store, I can't tell for sure yet.

Giffords is a Democrat from Tuscon, first elected in the 2006 election.

Source on CNN is currently suggesting up to 6 killed.

The only link I have to the type of injury is currently not loading so I'm not including a link.

QUOTE (Rowand44 @ Jan 8, 2011 -> 01:45 PM) Sale, Santos, Thornton, Crain, Ohman, Pena, and probably Infante. Look, I'm not a huge fan of multi year deals for relievers but this is anything but crippling and people have NO right to be angry about anything this offseason to be perfectly honest. Minus the Phillies and Red Sox I'll put our roster up against anyones. Even if he winds up struggling for 1 of these 2 years, it's not a huge writeoff/loss.

QUOTE (sircaffey @ Jan 8, 2011 -> 01:01 PM) If this means they are going to groom Sale as a SP this year, then I'm all for it. Well, if Thornton departs after 2011, there's still need for LH pitching in the pen for 2012.

I blame this on overpaid public employee unions.

QUOTE (Jordan4life @ Jan 8, 2011 -> 12:41 PM) Jesus that draft was sick. I forgot Eric Hosmer went in that draft. I was thinking he was from the class of '07. In hindsight...yeah, there were worse years to have a top 10 pick.

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QUOTE (Jordan4life @ Jan 8, 2011 -> 12:22 PM) Yeah, I see that he's 27. But so was John Jaso. And he was a 2.5 WAR player last year. And Chirinos supposedly has more power. This screams Cubs getting butt-f***ed all over it. But then again it's not that surprising considering this is Jim Hendry vs Andrew Friedman. Not much of a contest. I'd say it has a possibility of this turning into a Pierzynski/Nathan type deal for the Cubs...but that's almost true with every 3/4 player for 1 deal. The Cubs, I think, got what they needed out of this deal, at least for now.

QUOTE (Jordan4life @ Jan 8, 2011 -> 12:34 PM) Also makes you wonder what the Rays think of Tim Beckham's long-term prospects. Lee's supposed to be a defensive wizard. And the only position he would obviously play is SS. I suppose Beckham is athletic enough to move to the OF. But he loses a ton of value, as it doesn't look like at this point he's going to hit for much power. The Rays are going to rue the day for eternity for not taking Posey or Alvarez. Or Beckham