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QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Feb 21, 2010 -> 08:56 AM) It will all come down to July 1. I just hope the Knicks don't win the lottery. I think its the only way Lebron goes there and probably takes someone with him. The Utah Jazz hold the Knicks pick this year. Unprotected.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Feb 21, 2010 -> 02:24 PM) And yet when you get actual conservatives in the room, it all goes by the wayside. Strange huh? So you're saying that you believe a self-selcted group of Ron Paul supporters at a conference in D.C. is a better representative sample of the Republican Party than randomly polled samples who volunteer over the phone that they'll be Republican voters. And you're proud of this?

The Tiger Woods apology flow chart.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Feb 21, 2010 -> 02:01 PM) Except in this case she actually was the leader in the polls and the early primaries. Sarah Palin has led NOTHING. Not even the right wing of the party that supposedly loves her so much, let alone the entire party. Link Gallup Research 2000/Daily Kos CNN Rass, Romney 25, Palin 24.

QUOTE (Quinarvy @ Feb 21, 2010 -> 02:05 PM) Come on, you know how Ozzie switches LHPs and RHPs That still sets up LRLRR, it just brackets Garcia with the 2 most likely guys to go deep into the game.

QUOTE (chw42 @ Feb 21, 2010 -> 01:10 PM) With all this heart warming stuff coming out, we shoulda given Jones a team option for 2011. xD Bah, worst case scenario, if he winds up being good enough that we'd want him back next year, we can offer him arbitration and steal an extra pick or two.

QUOTE (flavum @ Feb 21, 2010 -> 01:57 PM) I hope it's Buehrle, Peavy, Floyd, Danks, Garcia Without looking at the schedule/matchups, I'd put Danks ahead of Floyd. Floyd tends to eat a few more innings than D1, so it makes sense to have him next to Garcia to try to use him to rest the bullpen a bit.

QUOTE (Ranger @ Feb 20, 2010 -> 08:39 PM) His teammates liked him. Sometimes the guy everyone likes is exactly what a team does not need.

QUOTE (3E8 @ Feb 20, 2010 -> 08:49 PM) Blalock would be a poor full-time DH. His plate discipline has been steadily worsening and he would bring our already weak team on-base skills down even more. He can play a few infield positions, but not particularly well. Do not want The question is...which guy makes us better as the last guy on the bench, Blalock or Nix? Nix gives better middle infield defense, which we need. Blalock gives power from the LH side, which we need.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Feb 20, 2010 -> 05:40 PM) So much for the Sarah Palin favorite garbage... Yeah, how about that Dems, we showed you, our straw poll didn't pick the crazy woman from Alaska, it picked the even crazier gold-standard guy from Texas!

QUOTE (WCSox @ Feb 20, 2010 -> 02:55 PM) It'll probably end up being somebody like Blalock or Branyan. Branyan signed a 1 year deal with the Indians.

Astros extend GM Ed Wade through 2010.

QUOTE (maki @ Feb 20, 2010 -> 12:01 PM) tough to predict anyone having an effect over the course of a full decade if they're not yet in the majors. beckham's already a ridiculous stretch. Which is why predicting players of the decade at the start of the decade is so silly.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Feb 20, 2010 -> 09:56 AM) Then in 2001 Albert Pujols would be saying "hi!" That was my point. They didn't predict anyone new appearing.

Sorry Tex, I swear I don't even remember being in that state!

QUOTE (jasonxctf @ Feb 19, 2010 -> 06:47 PM) funny you posted that. I was just saying to a co-worker today, that the Marines are really kicking butt recently in Afghanistan. Didn't they just capture #2 Al Qaeda in Pakistan too? If by they you mean "A combination of U.S. and Pakistani intelligence services", you're correct. There were other, possibly related captures of what have been described as Taliban-state-governors in Pakistan last week as well.

QUOTE (Cknolls @ Feb 20, 2010 -> 08:07 AM) Lmao. Like the way Lautenberg was put back in office. Winning an election? (Yes, I know there were some minor hijinks to get him on the ballot).

If you were doing this in 2000, I think you would have picked either Todd Helton or Carlos Delgado as your 1b of the decade.

QUOTE (striker @ Feb 19, 2010 -> 06:27 PM) Shows you the GMs to bite on the rumors that are probably manufactured by Boras. Frankly, I think the rumors the team heard about what Detroit was offering were probably legit, as was the Sox's offer. Boras just wanted to continue playing his game to try to push both teams upwards, and the Sox didn't want to deal with that.

Conan's severance contract with NBC keeps him off TV until the fall. Conan, therefore, is considering a live stage show. Potentially touring the country soon.

QUOTE (fathom @ Feb 19, 2010 -> 05:47 PM) I'm thinking they'd also possibly want John Danks also. Why? In like 1 year they'd be dealing him for prospects anyway.

QUOTE (fathom @ Feb 19, 2010 -> 04:51 PM) We should probably wait before we start patting KW on the back for his strategy. If Damon ends up signing a 1 year deal for 6 million with the Tigers because the Sox pulled out, then KW's move will have backfired. Unless, as some of us do...you think Damon is a terrible fit for the Tigers.

They're just tryingot make a good reality show.

Newsweek has some tidbits coming from former treasury secretary and GS head Henry Paulson's upcoming tell-all/cover-my-tail book.

QUOTE (scenario @ Feb 19, 2010 -> 01:22 PM) Is it my imagination... or have the Nationals gone way out of their way to sign every piece of garbage nobody else seems to want? Except for former Sox. They went to K.C. Anyway...when you're a bad team trying to rebuild through the farm system, that's exactly what you should do.