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QUOTE (Kenny Hates Prospects @ Dec 12, 2010 -> 03:06 PM) I don't necessarily think Putz has a shortage of confidence or anything. He probably just took the most money offered as the safe thing. That happens all the time. Different circumstances, but that would be kind of like saying Longoria had no confidence in his ability to be a superstar and make a quadrillion majillion dollars back when he was still a prospect. There have been many occasions where a player has passed up lots of guaranteed money for a shot at a huge payday and ended up screwing himself. Look at Orlando Hudson, who the DBacks offered a ton of money to. Hudson may not make in 3 years what he'd have made in 1 more year with the DBacks. Longoria gave up 2 FA years as option years worth $11+ million 6 years in the future, and in exchange guaranteed himself nearly $20 million before he'd played a month in the bigs. That's a little bit different than the calculus of a guy taking a 2 year deal rather than a 1 year deal. Yeah, he def. took the most money offered as a safe thing...but I think the only reason he did that was his health. If you disagree, ok, but I bet I'm right.

Review your alphabet sir.

Quick...which minnesota sports figure would you most like to have buried by the snow at the collapsing metrodome?

Oof.

Now those have just moved across town.

You get the point though...dealing Mark Buehrle does pretty much nothing other than save money...and it's saving money that we really won't be able to spend this offseason. It might free up some money to take on salary at the trade deadline, but either way, that's all we get out of it; money, and that money isn't likely to be spent on anything that would help the team as much as Mark!

Let's not forget the role of the snow. If I had to endure that, I might implode too.

I keep wishing Torii Hunter was somewhere in that video...

QUOTE (Athomeboy_2000 @ Dec 12, 2010 -> 02:53 PM) Those are some huge ass holes. I cant believe it would be usable by next monday night. Just run to target and buy a tarp for about $20. It'll probably actually strengthen the roof.

Just because the Bears have to face Brady, who is 9-0 in the snow, doesn't mean this isn't how football should be played.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Dec 12, 2010 -> 02:47 PM) I don't know where to find the video yet but Fox showed a few minutes ago actual video from inside that craphole as the roof tore. It was a thing of beauty. Edit...yay!

QUOTE (Kenny Hates Prospects @ Dec 12, 2010 -> 02:44 PM) I think a fair deal is about a $4-5M base with another $3-4M in performance incentives and a team option with a small buyout. It doesn't appear we could afford even that though, since we couldn't bring back JJ. I think we "Could" afford that...I think that in both cases though there's plenty of reason to think that you'd be highly likely to just wind up out $4-$5 million. I think everyone out there understands that if JJ Putz could have stayed healthy, he'd have been better off taking a 1 year deal as the Sox's closer, piling up 30+ saves for a playoff team, and hitting the market one more time next year to try to score a 3/$30 deal as a closer. But...if you're a pitcher with no confidence in your ability to have a full, healthy season, and someone offers you a 2 year deal...you jump at the 2 year deal.

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QUOTE (Kenny Hates Prospects @ Dec 12, 2010 -> 02:28 PM) If we traded him the best we could hope for would be salary relief and maybe some reclamation projects. Like, maybe we eat about $3-4M and send him to the Brewers for Manny Parra and Carlos Gomez. A deal like that could be awesome if we were able to get another starter via trade, because you could send Gomez somewhere for a reliever and use Parra as the starter until Peavy is ready, then put him in the pen as a Coop project. Or maybe you use Mark in another high-salary swap, the Mets being a perfect fit given their terrible SP staff and both KRod and Beltran (who we could use) making lots of cash in the final years of their deals. But then a deal like that doesn't really serve a purpose, unless you're able to throw in Teahen's contract or something and get salary relief that way. Or unless you get another piece or two in the process. You'll note...none of the deals you wrote actually make us remotely better next year, considering we'd be losing 200-ish innings of pitching with a 4-ish ERA. The only way that any of those deals make us better is if there's so much money thrown in that we could go and buy a big money player to fill an open spot...which basically means to me we need the money available to sign Rafael Soriano, because he's about the only difference-maker left on the market at a position we could use.

Horrible weather for everything but football.

For once, the Raiders are in the playoff hunt.

QUOTE (PlaySumFnJurny @ Dec 12, 2010 -> 01:45 PM) Clooney has done a lot of good work with Darfur, and IIRC has testified before Congress and maybe the UN on the issue. I think its hard for good looking movie stars to be taken seriously on important topics, and he's more than overcome that "handicap." How much difference has any of it made? Everyone has vaguely heard of bad things happening in Darfur, but nothing ever happened about it.

Actually I mean the original name for Eris.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Dec 12, 2010 -> 01:48 PM) Our forecast is as follows 4-6 inches today, 4-6 inches tonight, 5-8 inches tomorrow... all with the possibility of higher local totals, plus blizzard level winds. Yeah, so basically, it's a weak one.

Xena.

QUOTE (shipps @ Dec 12, 2010 -> 01:37 PM) I want to live somewhere that is so mild I don't even get the chance to prove my Chicago weather toughness. San Diego, Miami, Hawaii, or the better part of the nation 30 years from now. Take your pick.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Dec 12, 2010 -> 01:35 PM) Guess you couldn't turn the AC around to blow that out of the ballpark could you!!!

Bon anniversaire!

QUOTE (shipps @ Dec 12, 2010 -> 01:29 PM) I figured everyone would tell me this is nothing. I guess I am just done with the winters of Chicago. My wife has a job offer in North Carolina but that won't even be warm enough for me. I want to get as far away from this stuff as possible. Schools go on 1-2 hour delays or even close here when it just drops to 20 degrees. THere doesn't even need to be snow. I keep laughing.

QUOTE (Felix @ Dec 12, 2010 -> 12:48 PM) It's hard to be the best player in the league when you aren't even the best at your position. Stop drinking the kool-aid, Bulls fans. Rose is great and still incredibly young, and might some day be the best PG in the league, but he's not yet. The best PG's in the league now weren't the best in their 3rd seasons either, were they? That said, he's top 6 in the league without argument. DWill, CP3, Nash, Rondo, Westbrook, and Rose. That's your conversation until Wall moves in.