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QUOTE (CQMVP @ Aug 19, 2010 -> 03:31 PM) I'm sorry, but does noone see anything wrong with this picture? Baseball in February? It would be like starting football training camp in June.... Hockey camp in July... NFL Workouts and OTA's start in May.

Some national discussion of this deal.

Link with official documents.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Aug 19, 2010 -> 03:15 PM) We have to play them three more after tonight? So even if we got back into it somehow the Thomes again would knock us back to earth. Amazing. If we could tie them, we'd have 4 more left against them.

QUOTE (witesoxfan @ Aug 19, 2010 -> 03:07 PM) Yeah, that's a pretty common phenomenon. Players usually perform better when they're winning, and perform worse when they're losing. It's not rocket science. The other way to look at it is..."If I stop Carlos Quentin/Joe Mauer/Josh Hamilton/Albert Pujols, I have a good chance to win this game...so now what can I do to stop those guys."

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Aug 19, 2010 -> 02:44 PM) Wow. With splits like that, maybe he should be in the MVP discussion. I think it works out for a lot of players like that. Just checked Hamilton for example: wins, OPS = 1.229, losses, OPS = .767.

QUOTE (PlaySumFnJurny @ Aug 19, 2010 -> 02:43 PM) I can't believe those hearings were two and a half years ago. I had to look it up to see if that wasn't a mistake. Perjury charges flat out take forever.

Link, reccommend you check out the full link for a lot more details I didn't excerpt.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Aug 19, 2010 -> 02:26 PM) Has he ever had any? He sure gave the impression that he did in 2005.

QUOTE (CanOfCorn @ Aug 19, 2010 -> 02:06 PM) Yeah...cuz we did so well with last year's KW team. I'm not sure which part is sarcastic so I'm not sure if this is the appropriate response...but if I'm reading the sarcasm correctly...the appropriate response is that "Dewayne Wise was the leadoff hitter to start the season last year".

QUOTE (Rowand44 @ Aug 19, 2010 -> 01:56 PM) The thing that seperates Sale from our other top pitching prospects that Kenny has traded away is that Sale is a pure power arm. McCarthy and Huddy weren't the flame throwers that Kenny always has had an infatuation with. Sale will be a member of the White Sox for a while. I know there's other reasons why he wasn't doing the job, but Poreda certainly qualified as a flamethrower.

QUOTE (CrimsonWeltall @ Aug 19, 2010 -> 01:56 PM) Don't you mean Imam Wright? No one could forget about his plans to build 2 giant, 110 story Mosques in the middle of downtown Manhattan.

QUOTE (Soxbadger @ Aug 19, 2010 -> 01:48 PM) People who commit violent crimes are often given less time than what the govt wants Blago to do. I just dont believe they have their priorities straight. Really...we're actually going to get an argument here that white collar fraud is punished too harshly and violent crime is punished too leniently?

QUOTE (witesoxfan @ Aug 19, 2010 -> 01:43 PM) My biggest problem with Ozzie's rant is that he said that the Sox finished in 3rd 3 times when Thome was here, as if it was Thome's fault. How much do you want to bet we'll never hear the phrase "Mark Kotsay? F*** Mark Kotsay, he was here for 2 years and we never won a division with him".

Based on anonymous sources, the New York Times is reporting that the Department of Justice is ready to indict Roger Clemens on charges that he perjured himself while testifying under oath before Congress.

QUOTE (Jordan4life @ Aug 18, 2010 -> 01:47 AM) Is Aroldis Chapman dead? It sounds like he'll be up in Sept. as a reliever.

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Aug 19, 2010 -> 12:49 PM) Can we get a Mark Teahen sighting tonight??? Well, Vizquel does need a day off.

QUOTE (DirtySox @ Aug 19, 2010 -> 11:11 AM) He is also pushing up against his innings limit this year. He won't be starting any games this season. I think he actually will be...but in the AFL. He pitched some extra innings last year in the Cape Cod league, so his total innings number still has a way to go this year. I just don't want him beaten up by MLB hitters yet.

QUOTE (Cali @ Aug 19, 2010 -> 11:56 AM) Now that the Sox are completely out of it, and chance Morel get s cup of coffee in a few weeks? It's possible but I'd rather have him start resting/rehabbing. Then again I'm no doctor. Well, actually I kinda am, but not a medical doctor.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Aug 19, 2010 -> 11:02 AM) That is pretty much exactly what happened. The stimulus has exploded the governmental payrolls, and has done nothing to really get the private sector going, even though 2010 is the year that the biggest dollars of stimulus spending is happening. Yet here we are backsliding. The private sector is adding jobs right now while the public sector is cutting jobs.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Aug 19, 2010 -> 10:12 AM) Lately, yeah. My point is they don't need to pass legislation to get rid of the Bush cuts for the top brackets as opposed to actually having to pass a law that benefits someone other than the upper echelon. They'll pass an extension. Hell, if I was in the Senate I'd probably even vote for it...it's the only way I can do anything to apply an inflationary pressure through fiscal policy right now. It'd be 20% as effective as NSS's jobs program...but that's better than nothing.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Aug 19, 2010 -> 10:09 AM) The Bush tax cut one will probably happen, though, since "do nothing" will result in that and that is what Congress does best. Dude, you really think that "Do nothing" is what Congress does best...and that it's not "driving dumptrucks full of taxpayer dollars to make sure very rich idiots stay very rich"?

QUOTE (Milkman delivers @ Aug 19, 2010 -> 10:07 AM) It seems that this has already happened. I don't know if Ozzie's lost the clubhouse, but he's definitely lost something.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Aug 19, 2010 -> 10:07 AM) Or are you simply saying it will never happen? Because that's probably true. There ya go. Not a one of those could muster 50 votes, let alone a 60 vote supermajority, and that's before November. The idea that we're suddenly going to stop doing really stupid wastes of taxpayer money that happen to go to preffered interest groups like oil companies or the top wage earners for a jobs program? LOL. We won't even be able to do that to accomplish the wonderful goal of reducing the deficit.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Aug 19, 2010 -> 10:03 AM) --No more governmental monetary support for oil, coal and gas, period. --Close the capital gain as income loopholes in the tax structure for individuals whose employed income comes from those sources --Remove all tax credits or other incentive programs that pay anyone anything for building new homes --Whatever the amount of tax credit per employee hired is, have the reverse done for each job removed if replaced overseas - a tax penalty --Allow the Bush income tax decreases for the top few brackets to expire