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QUOTE (IowaSoxFan @ Jun 11, 2010 -> 11:16 AM) The SP with the most value is Danks. One of the top LHP in the AL, young and under team control, and inexpensive. I think he would be a good match with a team like the Reds maybe in a package with Jenks or Putz. I dunno if the Reds are going to be looking to spend on that kind of starting pitcher this year. Worth noting is that the Reds have reinforcements for their rotation already available in Aroldis Chapman, and possibly Edison Volquez late in the year.

QUOTE (Thunderbolt @ Jun 11, 2010 -> 11:08 AM) Our offense is 33 points behind the Twins. Every projection system that had us on par with the Twins required our below-average offense to be mitigated by ace-level pitching. Even factoring that in the Sox would still be only just equivalent to, or just behind the Twins. Coming into the season we set ourselves up for failure, oddly we failed in a different way than anyone expected. 33 runs is really not that much, and I'm kinda wondering about that number because it was listed as a lot closer than yesterday. The Twins picked up like 25 runs last night. Either way, this offense would actually be above average if Quentin, Beckham, and Pierzysnki hit like we expected. The Twins offense is actually underperforming, compared to last year. Their pitching has been the difference.

QUOTE (elrockinMT @ Jun 11, 2010 -> 11:07 AM) Question remains if it's to late for this year though Yes.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jun 11, 2010 -> 10:54 AM) I wonder if Wrigley will implode in its presence? No, that's if we brought our trophy along.

Alexei moves back into the 2 hole, Jones faces an NL lineup, good OF defense, not the worst we could do.

QUOTE (Reddy @ Jun 11, 2010 -> 10:51 AM) and I don't think it's KW's either. Then if you want to blame Ozzie, you have to blame Ozzie for not getting rid of someone on that list, or you have to blame Ozzie for those players not performing. Blaming Ozzie for the construction of the roster ignores what the people on the roster are actually doing.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jun 11, 2010 -> 10:46 AM) I think he is pretty clearly saying that ozzie isn't nearly as "responsible" for this mess as it is being made out to be. If that list of players had played to their ability, we'd be right there with the Twins. Our offense has actually been better than last year's. Our offense is right there with the Tigers's offense as it is and only a little bit behind the Twins. If Quentin and Beckham were playing to their abilities...we'd be in the top 5 in the AL in offense. Those 2 being terrible has pushed us into the bottom half, but we're still better than last year's. The reason we're at the bottom of the Central is that we're hanging with the Orioles for the worst pitching staff in MLB. That is not Mark Kotsay's fault, that is not Omar Vizquel's fault, that is not Andruw Jones's fault.

LOL, and yeah, it's Obama's fault that people are mad at BP.

QUOTE (justBLAZE @ Jun 11, 2010 -> 10:19 AM) I just wish Jake didn't speak and threw like the ace he is paid. I wish he threw like the ace he was paid to be, but I'm not going to criticize him for answering a direct question he was asked by the press.

QUOTE (Reddy @ Jun 11, 2010 -> 10:17 AM) Kenny was stuck in the awkward position of wanting to make the team HE thought would compete while Ozzie, with his bestie Jerry's backing, wanted to make the team HE thought would compete. Well Ozzie was dead wrong, but he got what he wanted because KW had no other choice. I blame this season on Ozzie not KW. Which guy out of: Jake Peavy Mark Buehrle Gavin Floyd Bobby Jenks AJ Pierzynski Carlos Quentin or Gordon Beckham Did Ozzie want to get rid of?

Sadly, on this point, I actually have to agree with Kap...there really isn't much that can be done. It's too late now, and it was too late 2 weeks in when people started realizing that BP was flat out lying about the size of the leak. There's a reason why they're playing this one hands off. Even if you'd mobilized an army of people to clean the beaches, every night that you clean them from now on, it's going to come right back the next day. For every bird you clean off, ten thousand die out at sea and never get seen. Now, they still ought to have an army of people mobilized to clean those beaches, but really, the Gulf was lost from the moment that BP started drawing down the drilling mud pressure. Intelligent and correctly done booming would help. But that would require an armada of ships...and not just ships to deploy the boom, ships to collect the oil that gathers at the collection points on each boom. But you know what that would do? That'd take ships away from bringing oil into this country, and you'd likely wind up with a large associated gas prices pike, not just the couple cents that I'm ridiculing Kap about constantly.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jun 11, 2010 -> 09:36 AM) I'm guessing Toronto would be the last place Kenny goes. Yeah, with that shoulder of his...

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jun 11, 2010 -> 09:30 AM) He is so grasping at straws right now. So, you mock him for not talking to them and mock him when he flip flops to do what you want. PICK ONE! Yeah, you're right though.

Wasn't trying to be mean.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jun 9, 2010 -> 03:14 PM) http://www.twiceright.com/2010/6/9/obama-w...us-news/by/alex The BP execs have been invited to a formal meeting at the White House next week.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jun 11, 2010 -> 09:06 AM) When do your paychecks start getting to my house? You're not on unemployment?

QUOTE (fathom @ Jun 11, 2010 -> 09:05 AM) While I wouldn't be sad to see both quit/fired, if KW goes and Ozzie stays, that would be worst case scenario. It baffles me that certain people can't see how out of control Guillen and his family have become. But hey, winning a World Series ring gives you immunity I guess. To be totally fair...the crap surrounding Ozzie's family doesn't necessarily have to affect the performance of the team on the field. It might well be possible for someone to keep everything balanced and keep it from affecting his main job, which is the team on the field. (I don't think Ozzie can).

Vizquel's gone for the weekend? Crap, who do we have that's a cubs killer? Beckham?

QUOTE (Chet Kincaid @ Jun 11, 2010 -> 09:03 AM) Okay got it. Thanks for clearing that up. Sorry to be rude on that, I'm hoping more than just you get the message.

QUOTE (lostfan @ Jun 11, 2010 -> 07:48 AM) I'm reading Lies my Teacher Told Me. Fascinating book. I'm not even 1/3 of the way through it yet and it's already clear that the history we get taught up until college is a dumbed down, sanitized, and sometimes almost completely fabricated version. I wrote an 11th grade term paper on that for History class.

QUOTE (kapkomet @ Jun 10, 2010 -> 07:46 PM) It's always a good thing when you can whore out making laws to your courts and executive branches. Yup. Whores. If the Congress has been completely broken to the point that it can't pass necessary legislation (i.e. if, for example, there was a huge financial meltdown and a couple years later Congress still hadn't done anything to correct the problems), then we're actually better off with the courts and executive branches doing the work, because someone has to do it.

QUOTE (Tex @ Jun 10, 2010 -> 09:35 PM) Working and raising a family. Lock them away forever.

QUOTE (kapkomet @ Jun 10, 2010 -> 09:30 PM) Really? He was just offering cabinet positions for people to GET OUT of Senate races. That is different, I guess. Part of the legal complexity there though is...if you're offering them a job to get them out of a senate race...you're offering them a job, so at the same time, they can't plausibly campaign for another job, because then they'd be failing at the job they were hired at. I had a job offer here and a job offer in Houston. Accepting both of them just wasn't an option.

QUOTE (southsideirish71 @ Jun 11, 2010 -> 01:19 AM) What about the frustration of Mexican troops aiming weapons at our law enforcement agents. Its one thing when you have to deal with the illegal immigrants, but its another issue when you involve the neighbors and their troops. OTOH, the Mexican troops have every right to behave exactly as the U.S. troops do if the U.S. forces are pointing guns in their direction.