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QUOTE (Chi Town Sox @ Jul 2, 2009 -> 08:23 AM) http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/rumors/post/So...?urn=mlb,174256 just the move they've been waiting for! A career .257 hitter, backup infielder basically. Is Aaron Miles gone long-term?

Tear through them like s*** through a goose mark.

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Jul 2, 2009 -> 07:27 AM) I think that remains to be seen. His horrible start and now his crazy streak have skewed his numbers. Im wondering where he levels off Something similar to Ted Williams, 1941, would be fine by me.

You know...here's a random thought...let's say we're able to make it to the playoffs. Hypothetically. If they keep pitching like this...what team out there wants to go through the buzz saw of Buerhle, Floyd, Danks, and Contreras?

QUOTE (SoxAce @ Jul 1, 2009 -> 08:29 PM) I adore Slayer at the 2 hole. That Barons lineup should be a blueprint on what Ozzie should do. Slayer is a gap to gap machine. If Beckham can hit 25+ home runs a year and hit with the kind of average he's doing right now I want him hitting 3rd.

QUOTE (VAfan @ Jul 1, 2009 -> 08:17 PM) If we could only get Quentin back ... our offense could go from one of the worst early to one of the best. Even without Quentin, we were 7th in MLB in runs scored in June (although we played 1 more game than most teams).

QUOTE (JohnCangelosi @ Jul 1, 2009 -> 08:01 PM) With his ability to serve the ball to the right side, is he our #2 hitter of the future ala Robin Yount? Otherwise seems like a #5 or 6 to me when he hits his prime. It certainly would be ironic to see him in the 2 hole tomorrow.... If he develops the kind of power he's showing early he could easily fit in the #3 hole with someone like Quentin, a big home run guy, hitting behind him. Typically you want your best hitter with some power 3rd and your best power guy 4th in a classic lineup.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Jul 1, 2009 -> 07:59 PM) What sort of influence does the makeup of Congress have on the CBO? I know its ideally completely non-partisan, but... edit: typo Congress appoints the CBO Director in this fashion:

Last week, the Senate Committee working on Health care reform received a Congressional Budget Office Score on an incomplete bill not including a mandate to purchase insurance or a public option. That version would cost $1 trillion over 10 years and reduce the number of uninsured by 1/3. Today, the CBO scored a bill including an employer mandate (now supported by Walmart, of all companies) and a public option. The cost over 10 years? $600 billion. Number of uninsured covered? 97%. That's cheaper than Bush's Medicare drug benefit. Basically, it's going to wind up like this; if there is no public option, there will be no health care reform. Because the CBO score without a public option and a purchasing mandate is going to be over $1 trillion for any version of a plan, and it's going to only take out a small slice of the uninsured. The public option is the only cost control measure that will actually produce a good CBO score other than outright explicit government imposed cost controls, and those will never pass. Oh, and the President of the AMA is now saying he supports a public plan.

QUOTE (rangercal @ Jul 1, 2009 -> 07:09 PM) They will be better than us. I really don't believe that, honestly. Gordon Stuckey Villanueva Hamilton Prince That's their starting lineup right now. Ridiculously undersized. Tyrus could drop 35 on that roster. Let's say they re-sign McDyess. Still, they're ridiculously undersized. They have the MLE available, but they are still ridiculously undersized. And if they sign someone else for PF, then they're consigning either Hamilton, Prince, or Gordon to the bench. Some of those guys may not like that. I know one of them doesn't. Basically, if you want to convince me they'll be better than the Bulls next season, they need to trade Hamilton for a legit PF. Boozer, Bosh, or Amare. They do that, and they're better than the Bulls...if the guy they trade for stays healthy (2 of those guys tend to not). Even if they do that, I'm not convinced they're a top 4 team in the East, but that's what it would take for them to even really look like more than the 7th-8th seed if they're lucky to me.

QUOTE (ZoomSlowik @ Jul 1, 2009 -> 07:07 PM) LOL, of all of the ways to add payroll, the Grizzlies finally decide to do it to acquire Zach Randolph. I don't even care that they're essentially getting him for free, that's REALLY dumb. Not only is he making $17 mil each of the next two years, he's a malcontent that is arguably the worst defensive big man in the league. Puts the clippers under the cap but not very far.

QUOTE (DaveBrown85 @ Jul 1, 2009 -> 07:09 PM) is this from the head injury...or something different missed the game tonight He was fielding a ball in the 8th inning and at the least jammed one of his fingers. Maybe worse. They took him out immediately.

OVA!

QUOTE (beckham15 @ Jul 1, 2009 -> 06:12 PM) the sox starters have been going deep into the ballgames here lately looking good i must say The short game yesterday helped also. If nothing else, Carrasco needed the break.

97 pitches for Jose through 7.

Tomo Okha is warming in the bullpen for the tribe. Seriously? And people complain about our bullpen? Wow.

QUOTE (fathom @ Jul 1, 2009 -> 05:41 PM) 5-2 now after two straight doubles. Biggest batter of the game here for Contreras. Gothim.

Godamnit Brian I'm so sick of this...you're the only one on this damn roster I defended who keeps refusing to do anything when given the chance.

QUOTE (maggsmaggs @ Jul 1, 2009 -> 05:24 PM) He is very Rasheed like, so that makes sense for them. But they are still discombobulated team. Yeah, they still need another big guy and they're holding too many SG's though. They may still hold on to McDyess, but that's a very small lineup that is going to be outmatched a lot, esp. against Cleveland and Orlando.

QUOTE (fathom @ Jul 1, 2009 -> 05:29 PM) Not to get into this again, but isn't it amazing how a lineup looks a lot tougher with Lillibridge and Corky Miller not in it, and Fields on the bench? Fields has been raking the last week.

And Beckham continues...

Hey! Castro finally stopped sucking!

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Jul 1, 2009 -> 05:20 PM) Would anyone sign him for $4-6 million for the 2010 season (with maybe 50% of the contract coming via incentives)? If he keeps this up the rest of the year, he'll get more than that.

Pistons also sign Villanueva. 5 years, $40 million.