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QUOTE (kapkomet @ Jun 18, 2010 -> 10:07 PM) Because he has. GM's profitable? Wow, who'd a thunk that? Too bad it's not legit. But, I don't know anything about any of that... Just so you understand, they would have been just as profitable under a real chapter 11... but I don't know anything about that, either. Because there was just freaking boatloads of emergency financing available from the big banks in December08/May 09, and no chance that they'd have wound up in chapter 7 after they found zero banks to offer bridge loans. Hell, the financing offers were just lining up.

QUOTE (kapkomet @ Jun 15, 2010 -> 10:27 PM) Those damn insurance companies! But wait, their plans must be government approved... ohohohohohohohohohohoh nononononononono... where's that cost curve bend gonna happen??!?!?!??!?!?! So, you're attacking the ability of the ACA to bend the future cost curve based on stats from the years before the ACA is passed? Is that the quality of argument that's been happening while I've been out?

Wow, I step out for a few days and Kap and Chi just go all out.

QUOTE (Kalapse @ Jun 18, 2010 -> 05:12 PM) Viciedo will start at 3B on Saturday according to Gonzales. Aww, I was hoping to see him against Stras.

Bring the power in, Dayan.

The Cuban Tank is heading to Chicago.

QUOTE (fathom @ Jun 13, 2010 -> 10:46 PM) It makes sense, especially with Jose Guillen in the last year of his deal. If Gordon turns it around at 3b, then you move Teahen to RF. I also want Alex Gordon and Gordon Beckham batting back-to-back to match the Dodgers with Casey Blake and Blake Dewitt. Great. Dewitt and Blake will out hit them. Gordon and Beckham will hit .220 between them.

QUOTE (Jenks Heat @ Jun 13, 2010 -> 10:46 PM) Why not, he does not make that much. Yes, he does. By my math, the Sox have about $10 million or so to spend this offseason and will have 8+ spots to fill. You offer AJ arbitration, and he takes up $7 million+ of it.

QUOTE (fathom @ Jun 13, 2010 -> 10:45 PM) I would try trading him for Alex Gordon...who knows how much another team likes him. Well, the Royals do seem to think you can't get enough OF's. Gordon plus Kila, just to make NSS happy?

QUOTE (fathom @ Jun 13, 2010 -> 10:44 PM) They would never offer him arb. Better chance they give him a 2 year extension than arb. A 2 year extension would probably cost less than offering arbitration.

QUOTE (fathom @ Jun 13, 2010 -> 10:44 PM) 8500 attempts That's not even creative enough to get a smile out of me. Sigh.

Quentin too.

QUOTE (Jenks Heat @ Jun 13, 2010 -> 10:41 PM) Before the balk the situation called for a bunt. Ramirez can not bunt, Lillibridge can. Alexei had 6 sacrifice bunts last year and has 11 in his career. (I have no idea how many attempts).

QUOTE (kapkomet @ Jun 13, 2010 -> 10:33 PM) And you're out of your mind if you think that this is going to "bend the long term cost curve long term" - oh wait, you mean make it more expensive... Got it. It's already been disproven many, many times based on the current legislation. Which, to that point, we don't know everything yet, because they keep attaching riders to modify the original pased bill. Funny how that gets missed. They keep changing the tax/subsidies/funding. Shocker, I know. Disproven...by every study that the tea party puts out. If I cited stuff a hundredth the quality of your crap I'd get laughed out of here.

QUOTE (kapkomet @ Jun 13, 2010 -> 10:37 PM) NO BLOOD FOR GOLD. Oh wait, doesn't sound quite the same. Keep up the charades. LOL, ok, so you want U.S. soliders to die for mineral rights.

QUOTE (Jenks Heat @ Jun 13, 2010 -> 10:38 PM) Here is my problem with the 9th. If Ramirez is up there to bunt then why no PH Lillibridge to bunt as Ramirez is as fundamentally as bad a hitter as there is in baseball. It just sucks that chad tracey beat them. Lillibridge wasn't a very fundamentally good hitter when we saw him last year either.

QUOTE (fathom @ Jun 13, 2010 -> 10:37 PM) BTW northside and others....do you see why we keep saying that the NL sucks at hitting? I wish I could come out of this series thinking "at least our pitchers had good outings, maybe they're turning it around". Instead, I'm thinking "well, at least our pitchers can beat NL lineups" and it really doesn't impress me as much.

QUOTE (EvilJester99 @ Jun 13, 2010 -> 10:36 PM) I don't know who was more useless there... Lexi or PK.... Alexei. And it wasn't really close.

QUOTE (mr_genius @ Jun 13, 2010 -> 10:34 PM) well, you know what you need to do. DESTROY THE MINERAL DEPOSITS. Don't worry, that'll happen anyway.

QUOTE (Brian @ Jun 13, 2010 -> 10:34 PM) Having an NL line up with Beckham, Nix, and pitcher obviously isn't our strong suit. The pitcher's spot was our only hit tonight.

QUOTE (fathom @ Jun 13, 2010 -> 10:33 PM) Seriously, what's the point of having Kotsay on the bench if you're not going to have him hit against one of the toughest righties on the planet? Lefties hit .116 off of Marmol. Righties actually hit .180 against him.

Soxnet.net game writeup.

Well, we knew how that was going to go didn't we.

That was flat out awful.

Ok Alexei, just a fly ball.