Balta1701

Raul Ibanez is leading MLB with 17 home runs. B*tch tits has 7 home runs since coming back...and 10 hits overall. Hitting around .200 with a 1.000 OPS.

QUOTE (The Ginger Kid @ May 23, 2009 -> 02:50 PM) damnit, i want anderson in there, not pods. (oz is in Ven, so this is on joey) We all do. But we all knew it would never happen. We won't even get Anderson as a defensive replacement to end games. We all know this, so why should we pretend otherwise?

Today's OF: Quentin, Podsednik, Dye. Hate to say I told you so, alright.

QUOTE (GreatScott82 @ May 23, 2009 -> 03:06 PM) That goes to show you how much our farm system has improved over the past few years. KW will get things done before the deadline. I think he'll find an OF and a SP not named Peavy. Its not even June. Given where Seattle is currently sitting, I'd say the odds are Bedard is the top name on the trading market this deadline. You don't give up near as much as you would for Peavy (he's a FA this offseason - but you get 2 more draft picks) but I'd imagine Kenny will be in on that.

QUOTE (Kalapse @ May 23, 2009 -> 01:20 PM) Alexei's in the 2 hole today. Sounds hot.

QUOTE (Soxbadger @ May 23, 2009 -> 12:32 PM) I assume that he is like most humans in that his interests are self-serving (like Obama), so maybe its fame, fortune, religion or who the hell knows. Link. Just sayin'.

KW will make another move first. Because that's how he rolls. He doesn't wait on others.

QUOTE (SoxFan562004 @ May 23, 2009 -> 09:48 AM) http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/h/harderi01.shtml His ERA+ this year is 96, meaning he's about 4% worse than an average MLB pitcher (Crude stat, but quick and informative). Usually with him you get a well above average pitcher while he's playing, then he gets hurt, this year the Cubs didn't even get that so far. You can take a guy who looks like a hall of famer, injure him 8 times, and suddenly he won't look like the same guy.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ May 23, 2009 -> 04:00 AM) The other reason I think Flowers is important is because Brandon has Dayan Viciedo and Tyler himself as "insurance" at DH/1B in case things don't work out for whatever reason with him in the future. If Tyler Flowers doesn't stick as a catcher, what plan do we have at that position for going forward? Pretty much none! The idea is...if you stock up enough prospects, the odds are some of them are going to succeed. So let's hypothetically say Flowers is the one who just doesn't cut it for whatever reason...at the same time though, Beckham takes SS, Viciedo, Allen, and Poreda take spots, and we pick up a player or two from this year's draft. Then what happens? Either KW swaps one of our guys for a catcher we didn't see coming (Seriously we never see these things coming) or KW has 5-6 cheap guys playing the field that saves him enough money to go out and buy a catcher (When does Mauer hit FA? )

Another football player? Well there's no way around it, he's our pick.

QUOTE (Cubano @ May 23, 2009 -> 09:21 AM) The White Sox will have the arbitration years to keep Viciedo. Good job Balta! Don't thank me, I'm totally stealing from others.

QUOTE (rangercal @ May 22, 2009 -> 08:44 PM) 6 championships still separate them. On the other hand, Lebron is only 24, he can get there. And he can also do that in another city too.

OK, Peavy's about to finish his 6th scoreless inning. Now...someone hit the ball off of him.

Ouch.

OK, i'm impressed, they actually called a travel on Lebron in the last 1 minute of a game.

QUOTE (Felix @ May 22, 2009 -> 08:14 PM) Not that anyone cares, but the Wolves announced the hiring of David Kahn today as their new GM. He didn't make a prediction on wins, but did say 40-50 were possible within the next few years. I struggled to not laugh in the middle of the press conference KHHHHHHHHHHHHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

QUOTE (kapkomet @ May 22, 2009 -> 08:06 PM) Before you sit there and say "prove it", prove they didn't know. It's all a political shell game. I'll say it one more time. Move the f*** on. If you want your policy to be this, you've done it now, move on. I can't prove it. But I'd love to be able to. Which is why we need an investigation. And no, we're not going to move on, because all that will happen is that some other President will decide that he wants to start a war with someone for some other B.S. reason and he'll decide torture is the easiest way to get there, and he'll realize that the last time a President did that, he and everyone involved got off scot-free.

QUOTE (mr_genius @ May 22, 2009 -> 07:30 PM) I'll let you in on who knew about it, all the Dems and Republicans. Then they ought to go to jail.

QUOTE (joesaiditstrue @ May 22, 2009 -> 07:22 PM) Do you guys or some of you guys, think maybe Williams/JR going after peavy was a desperation move? Going after Peavy strikes me as classic KW. Striking early, going after the biggest name on the market.

QUOTE (mr_genius @ May 22, 2009 -> 07:23 PM) lol the dems voted for the Iraq war, they knew about waterboarding... blinders Actually, more Democrats voted against the Iraq war than voted for it, by quite a bit IIRC. I'm still not exactly sure who knew what about the Bush torture program or what they could have/did do about it, but I'd be happy to support an independent investigation by someone who could bring charges against anyone involved in the conspiracy to do so or cover it up.

Thanks G!

1:50 on the game time.

yay. Thanks G!

Both of tonight's FDIC meals were in Illinois.

Thankfully Jenksy is in.