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Cool...suite booked at the Encore. See ya!

To the Moon Alice!

QUOTE (MattZakrowski @ Nov 28, 2009 -> 06:10 AM) Also, I'm curious if people want us to release/trade Flowers due to his PED use. Frankly, it's the biggest mark against him in my book, and if he is ever caught not being clean, he'll be booed relentlessly by me.

Now get off their lawns.

Back to those unemployment claims and how the seasonal adjustment fits in... Link

Zoology. That's what Lou Dobbs thinks Tex's shopping trip counts as.

Vizquel also wouldn't last the year as an everyday player without injury more than likely.

QUOTE (Rex Kicka** @ Nov 27, 2009 -> 07:51 AM) It also has the potential to be good news for the dollar, at least temporarily. Almost all the exposure from Dubai World has to do with European banks instead of US ones. And the debt on Dubai World is 100 billion dollars, roughly 100% of Dubai's GDP. 2 points. 1. Good news for the dollar could be bad news for actual recovery in terms of job creation. 2. 100% of GDP as debt...why, people in this country are freaking out over quite a bit less than that here.

Xenophobia is the answerl

Silent office here...

God won't allow that to happen a 2nd time

Decapitated santa claus mug in the Kohls ad today.

QUOTE (bucket-of-suck @ Nov 26, 2009 -> 12:09 PM) "Right now he's just a bad DH." 17HR/43RBI/.782OPS in 82 games is not a bad DH. Surprisingly, last year, that OPS would be the 6th highest DH OPS in the AL. Problem is, Sox got an .809 OPS out of the DH spot last year.

Wha?

QUOTE (kapkomet @ Nov 25, 2009 -> 06:11 PM) People are only hiring temps so they can fire them all after the holidays. I know that's a part of the number of the falling unemployment claims, "seasonally adjusted" or not. BUT...that's how turnarounds in the job market typically start...with increasing temporary work hiring.

How many 40 man spots do we have available still?

Bills meet with Shanahan. They might be serious about this.

Until the end of the world

QUOTE (iamshack @ Nov 25, 2009 -> 03:59 PM) I think you are overestimating the same. If we were to acquire AGon, we'd have to give him the same type of extension were we to keep him around. Would you be viewing that extension the same way? Frankly, yeah. Unless we have a ton of young guys coming up to take over 6-7 positions, giving AGon $20 million means that we'll have bargain basement guys filling other positions. And he wouldn't be the only one around then getting expensive: Quentin, Danks, $10 million already for Rios, Floyd, Beckham would be hitting arbitration. You could do it if you had a lot of young guys coming up...but you'd have just traded away all your young guys for Gonzalez! So basically, you're going for everything in the next 2 years, and you're expecing that you're going to have to blow it up once AGon hits FA unless you nail a draft or two

QUOTE (Thunderbolt @ Nov 25, 2009 -> 04:11 PM) D-Wheezey was signed by the Phillies. What? Don't everbody slow clap at once. YAY!

QUOTE (lostfan @ Nov 25, 2009 -> 03:22 PM) Questionable vaccine isn't it? Silly tea-bagger.

QUOTE (Tex @ Nov 25, 2009 -> 05:13 AM) Anyone I have off of school . . . So that Memorial Day - Fourth of July - Labor Day stretch is pretty cool I love being in the Chicago area on the 4th of July. Between the baseball, fireworks, and you throw in the Taste and the free XRT concert on the 4th...those are good days.

QUOTE (Princess Dye @ Nov 25, 2009 -> 03:27 PM) Using 2mil on the bench might mean no more expenditures for backup catcher. Flowers is in? The difference in price between flowers and any other backup C should be miniscule.

QUOTE (elrockinMT @ Nov 25, 2009 -> 12:47 PM) I thought so too. Q being healthy will be a major plus don't you think? And Rios settling in and working with Walker hopefully spells a productive Rios. If you can give me the Quentin of either the first 2 weeks of last season or of the last week...he's liable to go for 50 HR and make a lot of our offensive problems go away. It just remains to be seen how much the injuries might nag at him

Probably a good thing I got the swine flu shot.