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QUOTE (AWhiteSoxinNJ @ Sep 27, 2009 -> 04:38 PM) Because its the Nationals..... All they have to do is hold him through the end of the season and he's cheap enough that they can offer him arbitration. No one will mind a series of 1 year, $10 million deals for him. Therefore, the price you have to beat is 2 2nd round draft picks. That's not something to sneeze at.

QUOTE (DukeNukeEm @ Sep 27, 2009 -> 04:26 PM) That's why we traded for Jay Cutler. The Bears would be 0-3 without that trade.

QUOTE (lostfan @ Sep 27, 2009 -> 03:43 PM) Holy s*** Wolfe is useless. But that was on Turner... what the f*** was Wolfe doing in the game? He picked up 5 yards up the middle on the play before. That was interesting use of him and it worked. Then...yeah.

QUOTE (knightni @ Sep 27, 2009 -> 03:09 PM) What the hell happened to Shaun Alexander? Retired? Combination of Hutchinson going to Minnesota, Alexander holding out and getting a new contract, Alexander probably wearing out after that big season, and then who knows what else. But I don't think anyone's even signed him.

QUOTE (Tex @ Sep 27, 2009 -> 06:22 AM) What are lake shore Condos selling for? If you owned an asset worth $750,000 that would drop to $600,000, how happy would you be? It may be selfish, but people don't want their property values to decline. There are some real hardships in owning real estate that is declining in value. One thing I'll never figure out is how having some windmills far off on the horizon cuts the value of someone's real estate more than things like having shipping in those same lakes, the occasional shipwreck/oil spill (this is a classic one for the ones off of Boston; they don't want the windmills but they keep having oil spills right along shore from the shipping lanes) and the coal fired power plant further along the lakeshore dropping soot on you.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Sep 27, 2009 -> 02:19 PM) NO ONE was going to trust Marquis before this season. And they shouldn't next year either.

QUOTE (son of a rude @ Sep 26, 2009 -> 06:45 PM) I know. I hope they keep researching it. You barely get anything out of corn ethanol when you factor in the fuel used to get it. No one's going to stop doing the research. There's probably a dozen other ways out there that people are trying to do the same thing (ethanol from algae, ethanol from the leftover parts of agricultural processes, etc.). Right now there's just none of them that work well. And yea, corn ethanol wouldn't exist in this country without the government subsidy/mandates. If we could seamlessly use those plants as a way to shift from corn ethanol to genuinely renewable ethanol, that'd suddenly become a great investment, but I'm currently unconvinced.

QUOTE (bmags @ Sep 26, 2009 -> 09:56 AM) are they like, big obnoxious turbines? Because I thought about how many birds get caught up in those things and started laughing at the thought of it raining dead birds all over the lawn. Actually...the big, obnoxious turbines tend to be the best ones for birds, because they're big, obnoxious, and fairly slow moving.

QUOTE (son of a rude @ Sep 26, 2009 -> 01:29 PM) Corn ethanol is a complete waste. It destroys the soil and isn't efficient at all. I can't believe they still subsidize it that much. Switchgrass is where it's at. If they could ever get it to work, sure.

QUOTE (Thunderbolt @ Sep 25, 2009 -> 08:49 PM) We can afford to gamble on Pena as a closer. Why? Because he has the stuff, and taking Thornton out of his current role would be a tragic mistake. LR: Garcia LR: Linebrink MR; Nunez MR: Second Lefty SU: Thornton SU: Carrasco CL: Pena I'll argue til I'm blue in the face that the bullpen is a giant crapshoot and the best laid plans of mice and men will be destroyed by middle relievers...but the one thing I'm not going to believe is that TPain belongs in the closer role until I'm convinced he's worked things out as a setup man.

QUOTE (jphat007 @ Sep 25, 2009 -> 08:40 PM) Scary isn't it. No, it's not.

QUOTE (jphat007 @ Sep 25, 2009 -> 08:40 PM) Probably not. But you can be much better than 07 and still be bad. Certainly. But I can give you a dozen reasons why even if we don't fix a single thing, we're going to be a better team next year. I don't know if I could say that after 2007 (maybe recovery by Konerko there). We have a few holes to fill. And a really creative GM. We're going to have a different team next april, but even without a complete overhaul...we'll be in better shape than when we started this year or when we stared 2008.

QUOTE (Marty34 @ Sep 25, 2009 -> 08:31 PM) DH If the medical staff did their homework on him...and they thought he could give a full season at DH, it'd be a stellar move.

QUOTE (jphat007 @ Sep 25, 2009 -> 08:20 PM) I don't usually take KW at face value with what he says, but I don't think he has a lot of money and he has a whole lot of s*** to fix. Worse than we were in 2007?

QUOTE (Marty34 @ Sep 25, 2009 -> 08:29 PM) Not much middle relief on the market. That's because almost no quality reliever is ever considered "Middle relief".

Convince me he'll stay healthy for more than 200 AB's.

If you can turn Pena around...it could be shockingly good. Alternatively, it could be really bad too. That's kind of how bullpens go.

This was a great read. Did texas execute an innocent man?

The Tigers have a pitcher named Fu-Tu Ni?

QUOTE (robinventura23 @ Sep 25, 2009 -> 06:48 PM) Is Porcello is only real competition? The guy from Toronto too.

QUOTE (beck72 @ Sep 25, 2009 -> 04:58 PM) Phil Rogers had the numbers today that in 60 starts for the sox 4th and 5th SP's, the had a 15-27 reocrd, with a 4.90 ERA. The back end of the rotation was a problem this year. That even included Freddy Garcia's numbers. Is a 4.90 ERA for the 5th starter in the AL really that bad? I'd say that's kind of what I'd expect at the back end of the rotation. The reason you wind up with a losing record though is that your offense and defense on top of that haven't been good enough to do anything with that kind of performance. I have no idea how to compile that data without being paid to do so and spending a few hours on it, but here's some plausible example data from 2006.

Think tank report on the scale of government subsidies to various forms of energy generation over the past 6 years. These numbers of course don't include external subsidies, like building new highways, maintaining the current electricity grid, etc.

I can't use paypal? This sucks.

QUOTE (danman31 @ Sep 25, 2009 -> 02:46 PM) Right, but the 40-man was at 39 anyway. This would be one of those 'Kenny has something brewing' moves if not for the fact that it's the last week of the season. The move isn't odd, just the timing. Trying to slip him through unnoticed?

QUOTE (JohnCangelosi @ Sep 25, 2009 -> 02:39 PM) I'd like to see some fire out of the boys tonight. We still gotta compete and I wouldn't mind sticking it to the Tigers. The bottom line is no team in this division has a PRAYER against the Yankees so I guess its not the worst thing in the world we didn't win. We just didnt have the team D, speed, or offense to make it happen this year. Really? The Tigers go with a rotation of Verlander, Jackson, insert pitcher here (Porcello or Robertson or washburn) followed by Verlander and Jackson again and they don't have a prayer? Supposedly the Yankees series gets the extra offday, so they can do that on normal rest and still fire 2 aces at the Yankees in 4 games, with the odd game being in Detroit. Sabathia is still the Yankees top guy but he's struggled in the playoffs before, Burnett's been his usual inconsistent self, and then Pettitte's had some injury concerns lately. The Tigers could easily knock off the Yankees if Verlander shows up. He pitched 14 innings against the Yankees this year and gave up 2 runs. Jackson pitched 13 innings against them and gave up 2 runs.