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QUOTE (Jordan4life @ Mar 25, 2010 -> 01:06 AM) WTF? First Grant Desme gives up baseball to become a priest, now Duffy? Was there a specific reason he quit? I can't understand how these young dudes just randomly throw away the chance to make a s***load of money (even if they don't stick in the majors) playing a kid's game. From Rob Neyers' blog:

QUOTE (SoxAce @ Mar 24, 2010 -> 11:31 PM) Just adds to the high BABIP he had. He's probably had the worst luck of hard hit balls only to get outs in this ST. Until the last few games I didn't feel like he was hitting anything hard. Now I do.

QUOTE (Ultimate Warrior @ Mar 25, 2010 -> 03:34 AM) Russell Branyan was pretty cheap too. Branyan hasn't had an at bat this spring and it appears he probably won't. The ideal place for him right now is somewhere like Cleveland...place with an oft-injured DH, place with very little legitimate chance of competing this season, place where he can take it easy for 1-2 months and then maybe they can move him at the deadline to a team needing a DH if he's back to healthy.

QUOTE (fathom @ Mar 24, 2010 -> 11:48 PM) Kotsay could be batting 7th and Pierre 9th, and I would still say the bottom of our order is weak. I will also predict that if Ozzie tries to play Kotsay 4 times a week, he will be on the DL for an extended period. No he won't. He's a grinder. He'll play through his injury.

QUOTE (lostfan @ Mar 24, 2010 -> 07:56 PM) I don't know where this puts me in relation to others on this board, but hate speech laws are kind of dumb. Why would you give the government authority to make a subjective decision to criminalize political views they don't like? What happens when someone new is elected and YOUR views become hate speech? I can at least acknowledge there's some logic behind some of it. I hate to do the Godwin's law violation, but Hell, Germany's probably the best example in the world out there of a country with legitimate motivation for trying to decide what hate speech is and regulate it. However, even if I'll acknowledge there's some historical logic behind those laws, freedom of speech is one I think we genuinely do better than anywhere else in the world.

QUOTE (bmags @ Mar 24, 2010 -> 11:53 PM) i think that faxing nooses, vandalizing and making death threats is the definition of crazy ass...but not to kap. It's always different.

QUOTE (lostfan @ Mar 24, 2010 -> 08:12 PM) A couple of well-intentioned senators could probably come up with a fix for Social Security in a couple of hours if they wanted to. "Do nothing". "Index the cap on income subject to the Social Security tax to Inflation". There's 2 options.

QUOTE (Quinarvy @ Mar 24, 2010 -> 07:02 PM) I wish they had traded him for an expiring contract this year before the deadline, but whatever. I still struggle to imagine any team taking on that contract without the Bulls throwing in a serious sweetener. And a mid-10's pick is not a sweetener. You could probably move him if you packaged him with Noah or Rose, or this offseason if you took back a worse contract and blew all your cap space on that rather than on a FA (and there aren't many that are worse).

Q 3/5.

Ha! Jimmy Johns is a sponsor now! YAY!

2/4 with a HR today for Mark.

QUOTE (jphat007 @ Mar 24, 2010 -> 06:13 PM) HOw much money did Lilli make last year? 450? Less. He'd have gotten 450k if he'd stayed up the full year. He got 450k prorated for the time he was up.

Pierre 3/4.

First "you can put it on the board, YES" I've heard this year. Smile.

Teahen HR. 2/4 on the day.

Kotsay 2/4.

QUOTE (BFirebird @ Mar 24, 2010 -> 05:59 PM) Wow. Ozzie really pulling all the tricks out of the bag today. The Hit and Run is the one "Speed/Pressure" play that I think most of us feel we'd like to see Ozzie use more.

Konerko beats out a ground ball?

RBI Single up the middle TCQ. 8-3 Sox.

Vizquel with a 2 RBI double scoring Castro and Teahen on a hit and run with everyone expecting bunt.

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Mar 24, 2010 -> 05:29 PM) Yes, because the budget is about 100 million. It's also worth noting that each athletic department winds up booking expenses differently. For example, some athletic departments include things like payments on whatever money it was that built their stadium as an expense, others don't.

Final warning.

The line on D1, presumably ending after this inning: 6 IP, 5 H, 3 ER, 3 BB, 1 HR, 3 k's. 92 pitches.

Ok folks...let's cool it.

QUOTE (The Ginger Kid @ Mar 24, 2010 -> 05:29 PM) yaz Yaz!