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QUOTE (mmmmmbeeer @ Apr 1, 2010 -> 04:58 PM) Gavin looks scared and timid on the mound Last year, maybe you could say that sometimes. Down the stretch in 2008...the man was a rock.

QUOTE (SoxFan562004 @ Apr 1, 2010 -> 04:54 PM) I'm not sure if he's there or not anymore, but Brett Boone is on there now, and in case you forgot, or if you ever forget, he hit a game 7 home run in the '03 ALCS against the Red Sox when with the NYY, they mention it basically every time they introduce him Do you mean Aaron Boone?

Not only the sweetest of all meats...but free range and grass fed...OMG...

QUOTE (greg775 @ Apr 1, 2010 -> 02:15 PM) Wow that is intense. Have you ever had the dream you were a member of the Sox and you were in the clubhouse and you couldn't find your pants or mitt, so the dream prevented you from taking the field?

QUOTE (SoxAce @ Apr 1, 2010 -> 02:45 PM) I'm sure that's who he was talking about. The sad thing is, I never got the impression of Carl being that much of a crazy leader. More an impression of him being crazy. He may have kicked some tails behind the scenes, but he wasn't in that great of shape when the season started, he gave at least one or two crazy, negative publicity interviews that the whole team had to deal with during the year, etd.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Apr 1, 2010 -> 01:42 PM) It'll be funny when he gets prison time. Fox won't let that happen.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Apr 1, 2010 -> 01:50 PM) It really makes me wonder if he is losing some of the nastiness of his pitches. Or Ramon Castro stinks.

Link. I now have 2 running theories. 1. George W. Bush was an Iranian agent. 2. Michael Steele is a plant by Obama's version of the "Plumbers".

QUOTE (ChiSox_Sonix @ Apr 1, 2010 -> 11:23 AM) Jurassic That was my guess, honestly.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Apr 1, 2010 -> 11:18 AM) So the government is still going to lose out on this, right? They'll be taking the loses directly instead of paying out subsidies. I think that's what Mike was getting at. Except...there have been very, very low losses on those loans.

QUOTE (FlaSoxxJim @ Apr 1, 2010 -> 11:21 AM) Dick Clark sorta has that gig now, when they roll him out for the ball drop on New Year's Eve. Except for that whole "having a stroke" thing...

QUOTE (mmmmmbeeer @ Apr 1, 2010 -> 11:15 AM) The last time we had a team leader like Peavy we won a WS. Who are you referring to?

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Apr 1, 2010 -> 10:56 AM) You can't RIP a show that will have a Major Motion picture soon. I think the only reason they keep saying that is that it keeps it as a surprise when the final episode finally kills Jack.

"Oh no, my goo!"

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Apr 1, 2010 -> 09:50 AM) Isn't Obama continuing the program or am I mistaken? Frankly, I don't know well enough what exactly was in "the program" to know whether or not its continuing. We established that they were doing a whole lot of illegal things, but we never figured out what was going on in some of those hidden rooms that AT&T had set up.

I can't figure out a single reason why this would be a bad idea.

BTW, worth noting somewhere...remember how I kept saying that Bush's illegal wiretapping was illegal? Yesterday a court agreed.

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QUOTE (flavum @ Mar 31, 2010 -> 10:19 PM) Then they'll skip the 5th starter, and not need one until 5-18. I'd give him these six starts and if he tanks and Hudson is ok in Charlotte, I think Hudson is up on May 18. If they can push it until May 18th...it makes sense to push 2 more starts and shoot for just after June 1st, where you save another year on Hudson's arbitration clock.

QUOTE (FlaSoxxJim @ Apr 1, 2010 -> 12:25 AM) This needs to be a SoxTalk list. Correct. One commentary on Jack Bauer and 24...it really summed up, defined, and even influenced the political environment of about 3-4 years of the U.S. in a way that I'm not sure any other show has done in my lifetime.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Apr 1, 2010 -> 06:46 AM) Were they given subsidies because they were losing money on the loans or because they weren't profiting enough? That makes all the difference between revenue-neutral or not. At least for the last 20 years, it's been because they had good lobbyists.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Apr 1, 2010 -> 06:51 AM) Even if we accept the premise that "Some random Europeans like our system, therefore it is superior", it still misses the entire point of millions being unable to afford our system. They don't count.

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Apr 1, 2010 -> 08:30 AM) But poll after poll shows much more Republican enthusiasm for likely voters this Fall. Big parts of the base will stay home in November with things like this on the headlines. How about riding some momentum as a strategy? Actually, there was a sharp change in those exact polls last week. I'm not sure what exactly changed, but something big happened in the early part of last week, like Sunday through Tuesday.

QUOTE (SouthsideDon48 @ Mar 31, 2010 -> 06:25 PM) I agree. I think we should have a short leash on Freddy just like the short leashes the Sox had on Contreras and Colon last season. Since we have a clear replacement...the leash should be even shorter.

Thankfully, record snowfalls are great evidence against climate change.