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QUOTE (quickman @ Jun 3, 2008 -> 03:52 PM) exactly so why should anyone go to see them if the manager doesn't think we will win, why should we invest? This guy is a real piece of work. The sox org from top to bottom is the laughing stock of the league. Seriously? The laughing stock of the league? They won the world series 2.5 years ago, they are in first place still today, there are teams spending dramatically more money per win than the Sox are right now, and the Sox are the laughing stock of the league?

It'll never actually happen, with good reason, but I read today an interesting suggestion for how to prove this isn't a "Speculatory bubble" in oil prices; start releasing oil from the SPR. If it's a speculatory bubble, the fact that oil prices have been going up is therefore one of the main things that has been driving oil prices up, not lack of supply or high demand or any thing of that sort. If you were to impose a downward correction on the market by pushing more oil out there, that would hypothetically be the pinprick popping that bubble. What's probably more likely is that if the spike keeps increasing, we'll see the same effect, as $4 and $5 a gallon gas keeps pushing people to drive less, thus driving down demand.

QUOTE (elrockinMT @ Jun 3, 2008 -> 02:58 PM) I would like to see Uribe back in there too, but Ramirez hasn't been so bad as a replacement. Maybe Ozzie feels like he deserves to be in there? Alexei having earned playing time...I'm fine with that. But seriously, the big changes, the big move that's going to shake this team up is to move Dye down in the order? I'd rather just see something unexpected than the same old thing over and over again. If guys aren't performing then at least pretend to give them more time off or something.

QUOTE (elrockinMT @ Jun 3, 2008 -> 02:54 PM) It's almost 6 PM CDT and no changes have been made. I say again no changes have been made. Now, I didn't call for any and didn't join in on specualtion or vote in the polls on what I thought the changes should be if any. What we need to do is win and all things will be good again in the World of Ozzie and the Sox. Maybe all this letting off steam will spur a change in the approach at the plate by our heroes. I hope so and that's all I want to see as far a changes are concerned. I am ready for Tuesday night versus KC. Hope to listen on XM tonight for a Sox win. Actually, it appears there was a change made. They moved Dye down in the order.

QUOTE (Athomeboy_2000 @ Jun 3, 2008 -> 02:03 PM) The Flood: It's almost officially over. Almost all the Edwards supporters have switched to Obama. Obama is just 14 away according to MSNBC. He'll net that in MT and SD. It makes me somewhat happy that enough came through today that it seems the last voters will be the ones who put him officially over the top, instead of a few supers on Wednesday when Pelosi, Dean, Reid, et al. do theirs.

So, I'm not sure it's exhaustive, but the Wikipedias have a page that consists of nothing but a list of "TV Comedies" and the years they ran.

Hell then, if you're not going to play Anderson today, take Alexei and put him in CF and stick Uribe at 2nd. Uribe's actually 5/16 with a homer and a .915 OPS against Greinke in his career. (Swisher is 2/5 with 2 k's). Or play swisher and sit Konerko and his 3/28 career against Greinke. Or hell, at least do SOMETHING different.

QUOTE (mr_genius @ Jun 3, 2008 -> 01:57 PM) Poor Hill Hill. looks like it is actually over now. It's pretty crazy how the Clintons went from Gods in liberal circles to total outcasts. While they certainly have their supporters, at what point were they really considered "Gods" in liberal circles? When Bill ran for election, he did so as a "New democrat" and sort of governed that way. His health care signature plan never got off the ground. His big domestic accomplishments were things like welfare reform and balancing the budget. He was so divisive by the time he was done that Gore couldn't campaign with him, and couldn't convincingly win the election outside the margin of error in 2000 despite a seemingly strong economy and period of peace. Hillary managed to win a senate seat in NY, but then voted for the war. What issue or action have they done that would make them "Gods" in "li

QUOTE (fathom @ Jun 3, 2008 -> 01:53 PM) I have no problem with that tonight....Anderson would likely have no prayer against Greinke. And Swisher does?

QUOTE (BearSox @ Jun 3, 2008 -> 12:43 PM) lol @ Ozzie's changes... big change! The good news is that Brian Anderson has been appropriately punished for daring to get a hit or two on Sunday.

QUOTE (DBAH0 @ Jun 3, 2008 -> 12:07 PM) Wade for Hughes and the 1st. I would probably do this as a Bulls fan... but if people are talking about things like Wade missing a good chunk of next season, that'd depend a lot on his health status and physical.

QUOTE (Brian @ Jun 3, 2008 -> 12:01 PM) For some reason, it doesn't make sense for the Heat to trade Wade and the #2 pick for the #1. If I were them, I would rather keep Wade and have him play with Beasely or Rose, whomever we don't draft. I have to believe they would want to trade Wade for the #1 pick so they could get first two picks. If this does happen, I do NOT want to see Starr Jones at the UC. There are only 3 ways that the logic would make sense for the Heat. 1. They're extremely high on Rose compared to Beasley...so much so that they think Rose is massively ahead of everyone else in the draft and is going to rapidly be a top 5 NBA player. 2. They think Wade will never be the same again because of some injury that they know about. 3. They've been told that Wade will not stay with them when he becomes a FA in 2010, so a swap like this would give them a chance to overhaul their roster and pick up a useable contract or two along with a player (Gooden, Hughes, Hinrich, etc.)

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Jun 3, 2008 -> 11:00 AM) For the first time in a while, I'll actually be watching the political coverage on TV this evening. I think the two speeches that will be made should be very interesting. I'll wait until the Daily Show and Colbert Report covert it, and be glad I did, thank you very much good day to you sir!

QUOTE (Alpha Dog @ Jun 3, 2008 -> 10:41 AM) I also have to say that I believe it wouldn't stay limited to those two countries. The US is generally committed to helping Israel, and there are others who are tied in with Iran like Russia and China. Not sure if they still do, but I thought that Iran owed a lot of money to Russia as well, so they would have a vested interest in their survival. I have an awful lot of difficulty believing that Russia or China would be willing to go to war with the U.S. over what are frankly some fairly small financial investments in Iran (small when compared to things like, the business China or Russia does with the West)

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jun 3, 2008 -> 09:30 AM) She HAS to endorse him once he wins. It would be political suicide not to do so. Not necessarily. It's entirely possible she could be thinking "if Obama fails to take out McCain, we have another 4 years of disastrous Republican wars and mismanagement of the country, and there'll be a gigantic backlash within the party against the factions that helped Obama win the nomination and lose the general." In other words, she can play for 2012 and say "haha you made a mistake listening to the kids now vote for me!"

QUOTE (lostfan @ Jun 2, 2008 -> 08:03 PM) He only gets the benefit of the doubt because it hasn't happened and it won't. Talk is cheap, he knows better. The consequences would be ugly, I'm talking World War III. So rather than outright try to "destroy" Israel they try to be slick about it and do things like support Hezbollah (talking out of both sides of their mouth, they always say "you have no proof that we support terrorists" as if there was going to be any). Why do people constantly insist on saying that small regional wars against countries that have what, 1/100th of our defense spending would qualify as world wars? World War 1 and World War 2 litrally involved the entire globe. If a country wasn't directly attacked, it was probably either sending troops or money along. The only way that would be "World war III" is if you were planning on attacking China or Russia while you were at it.

Flip Saunders out of Detroit.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ May 31, 2008 -> 05:56 PM) Actually he came in to PR. I suppose it would be better to you if Crede stayed in and didn't score on a extra base hit and the Sox lost, rather than having Ozuna play 3B. Actually, I asked why Ozuna wasn't in to pinch run like 3 pages ago. I just didn't like the idea of him hitting for Anderson.

God, stop this crap!

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ May 31, 2008 -> 05:53 PM) Shouldn't there be a pinch runner for Crede? Maybe Ozuna's going to bat for Anderson. Because that's just what we'd want to see in the 10th if somehow we tied it. Ozuna at either 1b or CF.

Anderson gets "Grant Balfour". I assume they added this guy when Percival went on the DL?

QUOTE (southsideirish71 @ May 31, 2008 -> 05:49 PM) Again, we counter with a lefty and they counter with one as well. Even if it works, swapping out our hottest hitter for an ice cold one for matchup sake is just ugly to me.

Great, we take out the guy hitting .400 this month and bring in the guy hitting .200.

This might be the kind of time you sub in Ozuna for Crede at 1b if Pablo can still run at all, to avoid the DP and give him a scoring chance.

QUOTE (Soxfest @ May 31, 2008 -> 05:39 PM) You can rip me if you want but JT salary he takes up, for his skill level now is way to high to keep in 2009! Great guy but guys are not paid because they are nice. Unfortunately, with the fact that we're putting him in the lineup every day...so far he looks like he's got a good shot at having that option vest.