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QUOTE (knightni @ Mar 4, 2010 -> 05:18 PM) Try fitting any of those statements into the Jacksonville Jaguars, Tampa Bay Buccaneers or Tennessee Titans. When you remember that the Titans were the Oilers, you start talking about AFL championships, Warren Moon, being on the opposite side of "The comeback", winding up 1 yard short, and you'll find some history

QUOTE (Thunderbolt @ Mar 3, 2010 -> 11:07 PM) Poor Padres fans have to wait a month to here how their team will lose 90 games. You have impressive confidence in them.

David Eckstein.

QUOTE (nitetrain8601 @ Mar 3, 2010 -> 09:23 PM) And people here and other places were bashing VDN for taking it easy with Noah to win a few more games. Obviously the guy is hurting enough where he couldn't make it past a few 6 minute games without feeling the ill effects. VDN played him what, 27 minutes for a game last friday, right before he had to start sitting out again?

Cubs sign Cuban Defector Serrano.

QUOTE (JohnCangelosi @ Mar 3, 2010 -> 06:15 PM) If Vizquel gets ONE start at DH it's one too many I think he'll be DHing a lot, probably most of the times time Pierre is hurting or needing rest against a LH starter.

This is not a commentary on anything.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Mar 2, 2010 -> 11:40 PM) Yeah, there are some people in this world that aren't slaves to their party. But the things he's stopping increase the deficit, and isn't that good on principle? And you've argued to me that extension of unemployment benefits or hiring of people by the government is ineffective as a stimulus measure.

Yay I can post in this thread now! And the Hawaii party is tonight and I have yet to go. I kinda like these planetary people.

Remember that weird "Platelet therapy" we've heard a few people talk about now? That's the same doctor going down in the case that's involved interviews of ARod and Beltran so far.

QUOTE (SoxAce @ Mar 2, 2010 -> 06:50 PM) I have to agree with this. I'd rather have Olsen's development as far as blocking take a step back and have him as a WR occasinal TE set, than to trade him, and get older. I'd rather trade Hester if I had to choose, but I'm sure this org. won't do that. Although I've been the one saying "if you look at the numbers, Olsen is actually a pretty good TE", I wonder if there's behind-the-scenes stuff that would motivate that.

Anderson/Fields: Alex Rios Danny Wright: JJ Putz Pablo Ozuna: None, no open roster spots even if someone kills the ball.

QUOTE (flavum @ Mar 2, 2010 -> 01:32 PM) Add Justin Upton to the list of young players getting locked up. http://twitter.com/Ken_Rosenthal/statuses/9884571381 Worth noting for comparison...Beckham came up after the super-2 deadline last year, so Upton is somewhere in the neighborhood of 2 years further along the arbitration clock than becksy.

QUOTE (Milkman delivers @ Mar 2, 2010 -> 05:36 PM) Can someone compare that amount to an amount I might comprehend? Like the size of some other body of water on Earth? The total Earth's oceans together contain approximately 1.4 * 10^18 metric tons of water. The moon's surface would therefore have 4.29*10^-8 percent of the water in the Earth's ocean on it. Something like 0.0025% of the great lakes.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Mar 2, 2010 -> 02:58 PM) Someone should take away his federal salary, pension, and social security, because those are adding to the debt and all. Wait a sec, you have a problem with this?

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Mar 2, 2010 -> 04:54 PM) The Nationals will do the predictable thing and keep Strasburg in the minors to start the season to give his arb clock a later start, thus telling their fans that winning still matters not. In other news, the sky is blue. Would bringing Stras up earlier translate to more wins?

QUOTE (bmags @ Mar 1, 2010 -> 09:19 PM) I thought maggs came up in 98 not 96...that would have put him at his 6 in 2004 and kenny came in at 2000 He had 72 PA's in 1997, so 1998 was his rookie year.

That's a lot of weight loss.

Depending on how you structure it an how much you have to guarantee to get the guy to sign it...the other side of this is a deal like say, Travis Hafner, like we were discussing a few days ago, and how much that hurts his team.

Step 1. Edit tapes. Step 2. Fox News. Step 3: Blame Democrats.

QUOTE (Jordan4life @ Mar 1, 2010 -> 02:19 PM) Those are team options, right? Longoria is going to be getting butt-f***ed for quite a while. But...if he came up and tore up a knee his first season, he'd still have guaranteed himself $15 million.

QUOTE (chisoxfan09 @ Feb 28, 2010 -> 11:51 AM) Maybe whoever gets him can extend him for 4 years at about 23-24 per year. If you're not willing to give him Tex money...then he's a 1.5 year rental for you.

I wonder what's going up faster. The estimated cost of a new nuclear plant, or the estimated cost of the LA/SF rail project.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Feb 28, 2010 -> 10:07 AM) And with the way Rose has grown up this year, I wouldn't change a thing. Why risk it? Including the head coach?

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Feb 28, 2010 -> 11:05 AM) The US is going to set a record with 37 metals in this Olympics. And considering the periodic table only contains 40 total transition metals, that's a solid haul.