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QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Oct 20, 2010 -> 01:09 PM) Are you losing your mind? I thought you were a kind-hearted liberal?! Balta like weaponry. Balta buy a new shield. Use shield to beat up non-union voters.

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Oct 20, 2010 -> 12:57 PM) You wouldn't dare! Zenzizenzike that statement. That's how strongly I feel.

Xystons will be my weapon of choice should this thread turn any angrier.

QUOTE (Rowand44 @ Oct 20, 2010 -> 12:51 PM) Philly will still win this series. IF they lose today they're in huge trouble but they still have their 3 pitchers ready to go 1 more time, so they won't be without hope.

QUOTE (Jordan4life @ Oct 20, 2010 -> 12:48 PM) No doubt. It's hard to criticize anything the Phillies have done the last 5 years. But that extension still boggles the mind. If the Phitin's go on to lose this series...does that resume the "Why in the world would you give up Cliff Lee" talk?

QUOTE (fathom @ Oct 20, 2010 -> 12:34 PM) I still can't believe they gave Ryan Howard all that money. Whenever I watch Howard, he seems to be an easy out. Howard only put up an .859 OPS this year? Yowza. I didn't realize his power numbers had dropped off that badly.

QUOTE (Jordan4life @ Oct 20, 2010 -> 12:21 PM) phillies offense ain't been right all year. I assumed it was all the injuries. But even at full strength they're still struggling. While you're somewhat true that they haven't been 100% right all year...the Phillies still were #2 in the NL in runs scored, at 772 runs. For comparison, in 2008, they scored 799 runs (again for #2 in the NL). They've been worse in some ways and probably better in others to offeset that. With the leaguewide gradual decrease in offense, there isn't much of a change there.

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Oct 20, 2010 -> 12:14 PM) Unfortunately things can get heated rather quickly in this thread. Very quick to anger we are. Especially when the X is approaching.

QUOTE (Cknolls @ Oct 20, 2010 -> 11:59 AM) And there must be some extra space on his tombstone...

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Oct 20, 2010 -> 09:30 AM) If he's willing to even do that. One thing that I have noticed in all the articles about this, is that no one is even asking what Sandberg is thinking right now. No one seems to be reaching out to him, or, they are and he isn't responding. He may not take this well. Have you not read the articles I've read, or are you looking for something different that this?

76ers head coach Doug Collins has been suffering post-concussion symptoms since at least Memorial day.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Oct 20, 2010 -> 09:35 AM) I think a better analogy is that the view of the direction of this country is so bad right now that even that sounds more palatable than what we have now. It is viewed as the lesser of the evils. I don't think that's it either...because Christine isn't going to win, barring an epic meltdown on the other guy. For a certain segment of the country, that is the case, because America has turned it's back on its Christian roots in their eyes. It's not what that says about the country as a whole...it's what that says about that part of the country, which I would call the Tea Party, and what it says about their promoters.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Oct 20, 2010 -> 09:28 AM) Its ignorance, no matter how you want to color it. Obviously you're going to get me to agree with that...but the key point I'm trying to make is...this opinion is pervasive on one side. It just never gets attention paid to it. We shouldn't be shocked that a "tea party" candidate holds views that line up with the people who put her on the ballot.

WTF? So, not only does the Thomas family think Ms. Hill has something to apologize for, they think it's appropriate to 2 decades later place a call in the wee hours of a Saturday morning to Ms. Hill to ask for an apology, and they consider that to be an olive branch. Wow.

I think that it will definitely be a long time before anything like this could happen. Again, the Knicks trade would run into the same issue that the Nets trade would have for the Nuggets; it doesn't make them obviously better at any point in the near future. It clears some cap space from Curry, but you're downgrading at SF to do that, and you're not going to be far enough under the cap to do anything with that space other than sign Gallinari. You really need a team like the T-wolves to give up their pick to the Knicks to make it worth while. It's a competitive offer compared with "losing Anthony for nothing", but without what appears to be a legitimate top 5 pick coming, it's not even as good as the last offer.

QUOTE (pittshoganerkoff @ Oct 20, 2010 -> 08:54 AM) Oh my, this thread needed a jump start. Pitts, I appreciate you giving it the jump.

I thought about that remark for a while and in particular how NSS thought it was jaw-droppingly stupid, but I think there's another point here. The farthest right wing of the Republican Party, which I would consider the Tea Party, doesn't consider the concept of "Separation of church and state" to be something in the constitution. Their justification is that although there is the establishment clause, you could conceivably do all the Christian government things that they want to do without establishing an official religion if you were to interpret that clause a certain way. If you took that clause in the way they'd take it, you could have an official nationwide communion time at 3:00 every sunday, but as long as you didn't pass a law saying that everyone had to be Catholic, you'd still be ok because you hadn't actually violated the text saying you can't establish an official religion. Obviously, I don't buy into that line of thinking, but my point is that while you may think that was an insane response by Christine, that is a perfectly normal response for a certain segment of the country...the farthest reaches of the activist religious right...which I would say overlaps perfectly with the Tea Party. They say these things all the time, they write books on these things, the media just doesn't cover it because when they do cover it, it makes them look foolish, and we can't have that done to such a mainstream movement. Hell, the Exalted leader endorsed exactly that opinion yesterday. The difference here isn't that it's what she thinks or what she doesn't know...it's that she wasn't careful enough to cover up her language with code words like most of the candidates who appeal to that portion of the party.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Oct 20, 2010 -> 12:32 AM) This definitely says something bad about Ryno. What do the insiders say? Is he too dull? What? He's definitely qualified. And he wants to do it. Why didn't the Cubs just name Ryno? Weird. I think a large part of it was that they thought he just wasn't ready, he's only been a manager in the minors for a couple years and he's never dealt with major league managing in any capacity. I wonder if they won't try to get him on as a bench coach to get him up to the big league level.

QUOTE (whitesoxfan99 @ Oct 20, 2010 -> 12:06 AM) So far, and I would be feeling great if I was a Rangers fan right now but with Sabathia, Hughes and Pettitte and an explosive offense you can't count the Yankees out just yet. Even if Captain Cheeseburger and Phil Hughes can bring the Yankees back into it...the Rangers have a monster looming for game 7.

QUOTE (lostfan @ Oct 19, 2010 -> 08:49 PM) It's like he is taking cues from Al Davis. If I spot the Raiders and the Bills, I can't think of an organization that's being run worse at the moment. Jacksonville has to be up there, then you can go to the next tier and run into teams like Frisco, Seattle, Tampa Bay, Cleveland, Cincinnati, Carolina, Dallas, Detroit, Denver, you could also make a case for Minnesota, Washington.

QUOTE (Quinarvy @ Oct 20, 2010 -> 01:51 AM) Sonofab****. http://www.csnchicago.com/10/19/10/Korver-...&feedID=661 They're just calling it soreness due to a cyst in his left ankle for Korver right now, that's the only place that seems to be floating the idea of surgery.

QUOTE (J.Reedfan8 @ Oct 19, 2010 -> 07:00 PM) Computer is very slow. I'm not at home since I got this new job, so I'm bouncing around relatives house for a couple weeks to be closer to work. So in other words... no. Ok, at least you've got an excuse. I'll take that one.

I don't know if the Phitin's needed a wakeup call or not...but they officially have one now.

From June 23rd on, Beckham hit .310, .885 OPS. 8 HR, 18 BB 33 RBI, 44 k's, .356 BABIP.

QUOTE (J.Reedfan8 @ Oct 19, 2010 -> 06:47 PM) Someone should pull up Beckham's stats post all-star break. Really? You can't do that one yourself in the time it took to write this post?