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QUOTE (WhiteSoxfan1986 @ Oct 30, 2008 -> 05:06 PM) I would love to get Jackson. But not at the cost of Dye + Jenks.

QUOTE (Melissa1334 @ Oct 30, 2008 -> 03:22 PM) ok, u's are all saying that. while i would love to bring him back, havent u guys heard, he wants to start! so if no team wants him as a starter we could resign him, so who knows. So did Toby Hall when we signed him.

Fascinating.

QUOTE (longshot7 @ Oct 30, 2008 -> 02:56 PM) I also hate the argument that if gay marriage were allowed then polygamy would also be legalized. SO WHAT?! If the people engaged are adults, who cares if three people want to get married together? I can see how the government might have additional concerns on that one, in particular because of the benefits it extends. On the other hand, I can't figure out how, if that argument has any merit, the Mormon church would be the ones funding this initiative so hard. Wouldn't they want this to pass so that the slippery slope occurs?

The thing on that team that really frightens me btw is that aside from Price, they have 2 guys who were on their team this year who may very well take BIG steps next year, esp. after their postseason performances. Garza and in particular Upton. BJ Upton looks like he should be a star, and he was held back by injury all season until he let go in the playoffs and hit like 7 home runs. He could be in for a huge jump next year. Garza had an ERA of 3.96 in the first half and an ERA of 3.39 in the 2nd, he was terrible in April but got it together after that.

QUOTE (Wanne @ Oct 30, 2008 -> 02:21 PM) Well maybe not career years...I probably should have said played over their heads. Right off the top of my I'll say Pena, Iwamura, Shields.... and does anybody think Dioner Navarro will hit close to .300 again? Again...not saying they're not a good team or anything...I think they just had a magical year and would be shocked if they did it again next year. Well, on that list, I'll point out that both Pena and Iwamura had better numbers in 2007 than in 2008. They are both around 29-30, so they might be declining a little with age but there's not a lot of wear on those tires I'd say.

QUOTE (Wanne @ Oct 30, 2008 -> 01:57 PM) I'd almost bet they end up in 3rd place next year. Some of those guys had career years this past season. Price will be very nice in the rotation though. Not saying they're not good...but I really don't expect the same results next year. I can understand saying that about Sonnanstine perhaps, maybe Balfour and Wheeler in their pen, but other than that who would you say had a career year for them?

QUOTE (DBAHO @ Oct 30, 2008 -> 11:40 AM) Also if the Dodgers can't re-sign Manny, do you think they'd have a look at JD possibly as a replacement? I've thought the Dodgers and the Sox were a matchup for JD for the last 2-3 years and that move hasn't happened. For that quality of RF power hitter, the Sox are going to want something valuable, and from the Dodgers, the guys that might interest us are most notably Billingsly and Kershaw, and somehow, I REALLY doubt they're moving either of those 2 to fill their RF spot after spending $18 million on Jones. They might be willing to part with Elbert if they get desperate, but I don't know if the Sox would think that's enough.

QUOTE (Jenks Heat @ Oct 30, 2008 -> 12:54 PM) There is no educational opportunity in listening to Palin speak unless you want to hear about how bad the next 4 years will be if Obama wins and how unAmerican you are if you are not agreeing with her policies. Not to mention she will tell the Solar Power folks to give it up as oil is where it is at You betcha there is educational value there. "Kids, if you don't study hard, this is what could happen to you". Taking kids to a rally is an effort to scare them straight, like taking them through jails so they know how bad those are.

I think that Tampa Bay has a shot at putting together the best record in baseball over the next 5-8 years if they're aren't incredibly jinxed by injuries. Upton will be better if healthy and a year older. Longoria probably keeps going up. Pena I dunno, but frankly this was a down season for him compared to 07. Navarro's still learning. Crawford was hurt for a while. With the talent they already have, just having average drafts for the next few years will give them the tools to fill the holes they have. Eventually, when guys like Crawford finally start leaving 2-3 years down the road, either they make another run and take the draft picks or they trade them to keep going. And then maybe a guy like Beckham steps in around 21-22 years old. They need a little bit of bullpen help, but you have to figure they now have a little more money to spend after this year as well, and they have the talent to move guys around or trade guys to find the pieces they need.

QUOTE (Texsox @ Oct 30, 2008 -> 12:39 PM) Like downloads? You need an awful lot more memory than most people have available to get that kind of quality image. If you're buying a blu-ray disk, that's what you're buying it for.

QUOTE (Chisoxfn @ Oct 30, 2008 -> 10:02 AM) Yes I have....but thats why I'm getting my hover car conversion. I'm actually kind of creeped out because it's been so long since we've had an earthquake and I remember growing up as a kid here going through numerous earthquakes. Well, anyway, even if you have some sort of cross between a military hummer and a land rover, I'll have a few other ways to scare you in the coming days.

QUOTE (Texsox @ Oct 30, 2008 -> 11:47 AM) Another reason not to vote for him Lack of knowledge about 1970s sitcoms. Damn, he was about 10 when those shows were on. Now McCain could probably school us on any of the old B&W shows. I see him as a huge Dragnet fan. I'll bet Bill Ayers would have gotten them right.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Oct 30, 2008 -> 10:09 AM) This is the kind of stuff that the McCain campaign missed the boat on. they waited too long to hit Obama on taxes, and the spending stuff was in front of them the whole time. From the promises Obama is making, his budget looks more like a Bush expansion of spending than the guy he has been calling George W Bush derisively since Day one of the Presidential campaign. You'll note from the very graphs you post that a plurality of Obama's spending winds up being his health care package, which is particularly noteworthy because damnit something has to be done about that system because as-is it bankrupts everyone in the country in about 30 years.

They tried these out in Season 5 of Star Trek: Deep Space 9 (Year = 2373). They decided they didn't like them and they lasted a couple weeks.

Stolen thought: Could John McCain do a 30 minute ad/presentation without mentioning Senator Obama once?

QUOTE (Cknolls @ Oct 30, 2008 -> 08:42 AM) FWIW: First exit poll of actual American votes from Israel shows big McCain win [Tom Gross] I wonder what percentage of them are actually employees of the current administration working there?

QUOTE (Chisoxfn @ Oct 30, 2008 -> 09:23 AM) And thats why I have my 4x4 SUV, haha. Ever see the footage from 89 Loma Prieta of the couple cars driving off the section of the bay bridge that just collapsed?

QUOTE (Texsox @ Oct 30, 2008 -> 09:29 AM) Sounds like the major campaign donors are getting taken care of. I think I gave the "Bank robber" reference somewhere early in this thread. It's like a couple of guys have broken in to a bank and have been filling up sacks of money, and off in the distance they hear a police siren. "Quick, grab what you can before the cops get here!"

Ugly. God I hate this regulatory system. This is just a joke right? The Washington Post was bought out by the Onion yesterday?

Handheld GPS Unit Camelbak water pack (Wife had to go & break my last one...argh) Sunscreen Toilet Paper Tupperware for holding lunch Packet of Swedish Fish Claritin IPod Extra layer of clothes Can you tell I do a different style of traveling from many of ya?

QUOTE (greg775 @ Oct 30, 2008 -> 12:16 AM) Would any of you be irate if Nix opened the season as our starting 2B? I'd be a little irate if someone came out tomorrow and said "It's between Nix and Getz and nothing else will be done". If someone offers every other option out there $15 million a season, fine, that's not the worst position in the world. I just don't want us to voluntarily box ourselves in to those 2 by not looking in to anything else. And based on Kenny's history, he won't. Nix is negotiating leverage...now if he's talking about a trade for a 2b, or talking about signing a 2b, he's not in the desperate mode like he was last year with CF.

QUOTE (joeynach @ Oct 29, 2008 -> 08:42 PM) Ok so thats Type B. So for Type A how does it work. I thought type A means that the team that signs our Type A players must give us their 1st round draft pick, am I correct? Type B you get a sandwich pick Type A, you get a sandwich pick and a draft pick from the Signing team. If that draft pick is in the 2nd half of the first round (Picks 16-30) then you get their first round, pre-sandwich pick. If that draft pick is in the top 15, then you get the team's second round pick instead.

QUOTE (Texsox @ Oct 29, 2008 -> 08:41 PM) No one ever likes me

QUOTE (Buehrle>Wood @ Oct 29, 2008 -> 08:12 PM) I can't imagine us offering either of them. I can't imagine us not offering on Uribe. I'm hoping they were smart enough to ask Griffey about his intentions before announcing they wouldn't resign him. They could well have come to an agreement about offering him arbitration and him not accepting or something like that if they knew he wanted to play somewhere or knew he wanted a multi year deal, etc.