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QUOTE (RockRaines @ Aug 27, 2010 -> 09:08 PM) Sucks for this guy but seriously, how many of us called this? You could tell immediately the guys elbow was going to blow up. Hell, people were suggesting this back in 2009 when Boras was asking for $50 million.

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Aug 28, 2010 -> 05:25 PM) no, what happens to them? Do they become pretty princesses? I guess that's an accurate description of John Rauch.

Are you guys crazy? You know what happens to bad pitchers when they go to the Twins bullpen right?

Bring it D1.

A discussion of the Conservator's report on the GSE's.

QUOTE (chw42 @ Aug 27, 2010 -> 06:03 PM) It's a debatable topic. At the least, you can call the A.J. incident extremely controversial. Everyone will agree on that. I just think there's zero way to say that AJ cheated

Very true, and in any legitimately close race you can point to a thousand things and say "change that detail and it goes the other way". But look...this thing went from being down 20 to being up 5 in the space of literally 2 weeks, and those 2 weeks just happened to coincide with the massive Mormon ad buy with the "The Gays are coming after your children!!!" ad. Edit: man, the Pollster embed code totally screws with this board. Here's a link. You don't get more blatant than that. That's a >20 point swing from 1, hate filled ad.

QUOTE (chw42 @ Aug 27, 2010 -> 05:58 PM) He could have. I'm not in his mind, but knowing A.J., it's not entirely impossible. Even if AJ thought for sure the ball was caught...it was close enough that running towards 1b was the right call.

QUOTE (chw42 @ Aug 27, 2010 -> 05:50 PM) Or struck out and pretended he didn't... So, you think AJ knew for sure that the ball was caught and still ran? How many times do we see that happen anyway? I think it's pretty often, a guy comes anywhere close to trapping it and the batter forces the guy to throw to 1b just on the off chance they throw it away.

QUOTE (lostfan @ Aug 27, 2010 -> 05:49 PM) Any other election where there wasn't such a huge black turnout and that campaign might not have been enough. Link

QUOTE (chw42 @ Aug 27, 2010 -> 05:49 PM) There was no overwhelming evidence either way about that call. But you can definitely argue either way and still have a legit point about it. So no, you wouldn't be absolutely wrong. I was just making a point. Cheating in sports is everywhere. Rejecting somebody because they cheated one way or another while rooting for another person who cheated, or is cheating is contradictory. Cheating would be if AJ knocked the ball out of Paul's glove and then pretended he didn't.

QUOTE (chw42 @ Aug 27, 2010 -> 05:47 PM) We can be semi-objective when we look at the dropped third strike controversy can't we? "Cheating" is about as far from an accurate description as I'd give. AJ didn't break a rule there. At worst, it was a very close play that AJ forced the ump to make a call on, and if you think Paul caught the ball cleanly (I'm still totally convinced the video is inconclusive), then it was a blown call.

QUOTE (Jordan4life @ Aug 27, 2010 -> 05:38 PM) A small part of J4L just died. Your right elbow?

QUOTE (lostfan @ Aug 27, 2010 -> 05:45 PM) For a while last year I was wondering who was in more danger of going to the IR, Rodgers or Cutler. The turnaround in the Packers line was absolutely amazing last year. I can't recall ever seeing a line turn around like that mid-season.

QUOTE (lostfan @ Aug 27, 2010 -> 05:38 PM) If you can point to one thing as the linchpin that got Prop 8 passed, that's probably it. Disagree. They may have played a part in it...but the "The gays are coming for your kids!" ad campaign was what really turned things.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Aug 27, 2010 -> 05:13 PM) Why not just chant it when every hitter comes up? I don't think it will help anything, just make it seem like the Sox are insecure and want a cheater on the team. They ought to be insecure. They're several games back and they've gotten their tails handed to them by the Twins repeatedly.

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Aug 27, 2010 -> 04:39 PM) I wonder why none of the announcers ever call him that. Well, his first year in the bigs he didn't make a big deal of it, possibly because of the language barrier too. I first heard of him telling people that the s-sound was correct prior to 2009.

QUOTE (justBLAZE @ Aug 27, 2010 -> 04:36 PM) About $3M in deferred salary from what I know. However, I believe that money would have to be set aside this season.

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Aug 27, 2010 -> 04:37 PM) Why does Gene Honda still call him Al-i-say when announcing Alexei? I believe that's actually what Alexei prefers as the pronunciation of his name.

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Aug 27, 2010 -> 04:27 PM) Why would you even think this is possible? Our minors are pretty much filled up with garbage. The few good players we have can't be traded. Well, Thompson, Mitchell, and Phegley could be.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Aug 27, 2010 -> 04:26 PM) That is a pointless reason to keep Kotsay around. Viciedo will be up in September, and you are going to worry about having a backup 1B for 1 friggin' game? You know as well as I do that they'll send Harrell down for a day rather than cut Kotsay.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Aug 27, 2010 -> 04:25 PM) Ned playing the game here. He wouldn't have put Manny on waivers if he didn't intend to try to deal him somehow. To be fair though...aren't all players put on waivers at some point? (not that I believe him)

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Aug 27, 2010 -> 04:22 PM) Hopefulyl it means Kotsay is just gone entirely, with Teahen rotating through RF, DH and maybe the corners to get his LH bat in the lineup regularly. Jones as the true backup OF, Lillibridge the equivalent IF. That's the ideal. We'll see if that is what they do. I don't think Kotsay is going to be gone, just because it keeps them having a backup 1b. If the Dodgers do wait until Tuesday...the Sox will only have to clear a roster spot for 1 day before the rosters expand.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Aug 27, 2010 -> 04:22 PM) Are you serious? They call Ozzie a classless jerk? I have seen NO EVIDENCE of that besides Moronotti. Fans in Kansas City I talk to love Ozzie. What has he done to be deemed a classless jerk? Are you fricking serious? Ozzie says f*** a lot ... so do a lot of managers. The anti-gay rants aren't a good start?

QUOTE (chisox2334 @ Aug 27, 2010 -> 03:56 PM) ubaldo goes for rockies tonight vs dodgers and they get phillies and roy halladay mon = eek dodgers Those same Phillies just got swept in a 4 game series at home by the Astros.