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QUOTE (bigruss22 @ Oct 15, 2010 -> 02:47 PM) Buehrle and prospects. I can tell you one thing that isn't happening with the Cardinals this year. They're not taking on salary. They have something of a large possible commitment coming up to a guy who plays 1b for them. Their total salary has bounced between $90 and $98 million the past few years. Simply signing that guy is a commitment to instantly go beyond $110. Adding Buehrle would push that to $125.

Brown haired guy who's not Steve Doocy quote of the day:

QUOTE (MexSoxFan#1 @ Oct 15, 2010 -> 01:54 PM) and the Phillies would be hands down the favorites to take the WS with those 2 studs... Aren't they pretty much that with a well rested Roy, Oswalt, and Hamels?

QUOTE (Tex @ Oct 15, 2010 -> 01:49 PM) Need a place like that by me since Chicago Dogs closed down Obviously, a good deep dish pizza facility is appreciated as well.

Must visit that place again.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Oct 15, 2010 -> 01:24 PM) They couldn't have done it. Why? They didn't give up any of the Lee trade people in dealing for Halladay, did they? The only issue would have been $.

Kinda nice to have someone else choose a lunch spot in Knoxville, TN, walk into it, and see a 2005 White Sox banner on the wall.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Oct 15, 2010 -> 11:26 AM) Hell of a left wing tree hugger you are... I'm sorry, I just like gouging out people's eyes. It's a hobby.

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Oct 15, 2010 -> 09:32 AM) Awesomeness. I sorely wish that The Simpson's had either stopped 10 years ago or continued being hilarious. Last week's was really good and entirely baseball-focused.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Oct 15, 2010 -> 09:05 AM) I'd like him to be a starter. I just won't call him a "wasted pick" if he ends up as a stud in the pen. ON that I'll agree, but I'm still allowed to be a little disappointed. Especially if we traded away another starting pitcher recently (augh, that again!)

QUOTE (Jerksticks @ Oct 15, 2010 -> 10:14 AM) Is it safe to say Quentin will be the cheapest 30 HR 100 RBI guy in the league next year? No longer Votto, he's gonna make a ton of cash. Couple problems with that. First of all, Quentin hasn't gotten to 30/100 since 2008, and he's never gotten more than exactly 100 RBI in a season, so there's certainly no guarantee that he'll get there next year. Second...There are a lot of guys who have come up who might well argue with that number while still being pre-arb. Mike Stanton. Carlos Santana. Buster Posey. Jason Heyward. Then you can start adding names who if they have a really good year could get there. Jay Bruce (Super 2). Chris Carter. Pedro Alvarez. Justin Smoak. Hell, Gordon Beckham could go crazy and do it.

Mark Buehrle is 5th in WAR among all pitchers in the 21st century. I felt like noting that somewhere.

Fools around my apt. have no control over their dogs. Constantly barking at all hours. As far as we can tell, their choice of discipline is violence. It saddens us.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Oct 14, 2010 -> 09:46 PM) Did I cite the same survey you did? Bah. Oops.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Oct 14, 2010 -> 10:22 PM) If he becomes our closer, and puts up solid closing numbers, that won't bother me a bit. I dunno, if I'm drafting a guy in the 1st round...I really want him to at least be tried as a starter. I want him to be moved to the bullpen because I have 5 reasonably priced guys signed for several years and no where else to put him.

I'm glad I had a hand in coming up with the idea for that.

Barney's movie had heart, but football in the groin had a football in the groin.

That is Godly.

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Oct 14, 2010 -> 09:38 PM) Stop painting tea party supporters with a broad brush!! Here's a broad brush social issue poll question.

QUOTE (lostfan @ Oct 14, 2010 -> 07:14 PM) Z is something you throw softballs on? Come on now. Yes, I kind of cheated with this post, so what Although, "Zee" is an acceptable term in Boggle and Scrabble.

The Ball! His Groin! It works on so many levels!

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Oct 14, 2010 -> 05:25 PM) I'll try to find some polls tonight that ask self-identifying tea party supporters their positions on social issues. You may very well be correct. You can check the one I just posted. Tea partiers are more strongly anti-abortion than a general sample, 65% think Global Warming isn't a serious problem or doesn't exist, 16% support gay Marriage (national number = 40%). Interesting thing I note...only 28% of self-identified Tea Partiers have a favorable impression of Ron Paul, while 65-70% have favorable opinions of Glenn Beck and Sarah Palin.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Oct 14, 2010 -> 08:23 PM) Here's a report on one survey that indicates the tea party is largely just Christian conservatives. If I point at another poll that says 89%+ of self-identified Tea Party respondents are White, can I add that adjective? I think it's important. (only 3% self-identified as another group).

QUOTE (lostfan @ Oct 14, 2010 -> 07:01 PM) In order to believe the following (after Obama ditched his horses*** idea to bill veterans' private insurance for injuries sustained in combat that he ditched almost as soon as it was thought of) you'd have to have literally never heard Obama speak on any topic related to the military, ever, and only gotten your information from Sean Hannity or somebody. It's pretty obviously satire and people forward it in e-mail and say/believe it's an actual quote. Fail. The stuff getting forwarded on emails makes Glenn Beck look like a philosopher king.

QUOTE (Jordan4life @ Oct 14, 2010 -> 08:02 PM) Unless we're talking Mariano Rivera clones, I don't want to use critical first round picks on relievers. I don't care how good they are. Especially in our current position. And there's no such thing as a Mariano Rivera clone. There just isn't.