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Evan Longoria is on his way to Tampa. Called up after Aybar hit the DL.

QUOTE (max power @ Apr 12, 2008 -> 01:12 PM) Does anyone know what is going on with richar? How much longer he has, how he is, etc? Most recent update I could find.

QUOTE (max power @ Apr 12, 2008 -> 12:43 PM) Well floyd only plays theoretically half of his games at home. He seems to do pretty well at Comerica also.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Apr 12, 2008 -> 10:24 AM) Uribe is just never going to put it together. I hope that the poor hitting of Uribe gets us some Ramirez over there, or maybe Richar. Similarly, I hope MacD pitches himself to Charlotte and we get Wassermann back. And if Owens comes back and is just the 4th OF, if he comes back up at all, we'd have a trifecta of improvements on the team, and the talent will finally be in the right spots. Jerry Owens should NOT replace Brian Anderson unless Richar can't come back at all. I'd rather have BA's defense available than Owens's legs, as long as we can get a lefty bat on the bench.

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Apr 12, 2008 -> 12:33 PM) He should be. Its a nice improvement to have a 270-280 avg and a .350+ OBP in LF. Add in some power and plus fielding and there is no way this kid shouldnt play everyday. Actually, I can come up with a couple ways he shouldn't play every day. If Anderson, for example, could hit like he was in the spring, that gives us 4 OF's for 3 spots, all of whom should be playing. In that case, we're in the enviable position of not being able to play Quentin every day because we're too good.

QUOTE (Tony82087 @ Apr 12, 2008 -> 11:30 AM) Has there ever been a player that has had more of a positive effect on a team in such a short time than Jenks. Think of what he has done in his time in the big leagues. I can certainly think of a few. For example, think of the impact Justin Verlander had on the Tigers.

QUOTE (RME JICO @ Apr 12, 2008 -> 12:23 PM) Wow How many times have managers given him the chance? Ozzie had the quick hook on him last year, and the hook on him in Philly was even faster. And he's something of a strikeout/fly ball pitcher, so he does go deep in counts. But anyway...GO GAVIN GO! Hahahaha. Urge to go to positive thread and brag...

QUOTE (BearSox @ Apr 11, 2008 -> 05:41 PM) Fields 4-4 now with a double, home run (both oppo), 2 singles (both to left), and 2 rbi's. And as fathom said, Broadway with a real good outing. 7 IP, 1/1 R/ER, 5 H, 4 K's, and 3 BB's. Those BB's cost him a run. Looks like he really wants to take someone's spot in the rotation. If things work out well, we can move Contreras this offseason without having to pick up too much of his contract and clear another rotation spot for a kid if that's what we want to do. Just has to keep putting up near quality starts and someone would take him as an innings eater if we sent along a little bit of $.

QUOTE (Jenks Heat @ Apr 11, 2008 -> 06:34 PM) There are 5 guys in the line-up right now that are hitting under .207. Incorrect. Thome was tossed.

QUOTE (daa84 @ Apr 11, 2008 -> 06:02 PM) did he toss him? yes

Fathom, didn't you say something to me like 3 innings ago about how we weren't going to be getting deep in to Detroit's bullpen tonight?

7 pitch, 1-2-3 inning for Contreras.

QUOTE (fathom @ Apr 11, 2008 -> 05:29 PM) It's funny how it seems this way. Willis getting injured was terrible luck for the Sox. When you look at anything over a stretch of 2 innings I bet you can think that. Even a loss in this game...we still manage to eat up Detroit's bullpen.

QUOTE (fathom @ Apr 11, 2008 -> 05:22 PM) Anyone with gameday that can report what Jose's velocity is? And just like that, we're losing. The sooner Contreras is released, the better! Seriously Fathom, did you even bother thinking this through? Is any team going to release a guy with $20 million + left on his contract?

QUOTE (kapkomet @ Apr 11, 2008 -> 05:19 PM) Third, there is no such thing as a conventional war anymore. The first 2-3 weeks of the Iraq debacle don't count? GW1 certainly counts in my book, that's about as conventional as you can get.

QUOTE (BearSox @ Apr 11, 2008 -> 04:23 PM) did I ever say help end the war? No, I didn't. But patriotic, pro-American movies can give the people something to watch and make them feel proud of their country over. Look back at the 40's and 50's, there are probably hundreds of patriotic war movies. Now, you'd be lucky to find one. Couple points. First...um, there might be a reason why there's quite a few "Patriotic" movies being made in the 1940's. Second...if you want movies to be made that portray a war in a positive light, we should stop getting involved in these disastrous occupations we keep doing.

QUOTE (Alpha Dog @ Apr 11, 2008 -> 05:06 PM) How come Obama wants to have free trade with anti-American communist Cuba, but not pro-American capitalist Columbia? Because "Free Trade" is tossed around so much it's totally lost its meaning? It basically has come to mean "Any agreement with any nation that has anything to do with trade in even the slightest detail".

QUOTE (retro1983hat @ Apr 11, 2008 -> 06:02 PM) Imagine how good we'd be if we had any production out of the 2 and 3 hole. The great thing about a balanced attack like the one we're trotting out right now is...Jim Thome is not going to hit .150 and put up a .311 OPS at home this year. He's just not going to. Cabrera is not going to be bad all year. They may take a step back, but these guys aren't scrubs. They'll turn it on.

QUOTE (DBAH0 @ Apr 11, 2008 -> 06:00 PM) Surely Quentin's in the lineup as a permanent fixture now. Nothing against Quentin, but I really hope Anderson makes the decision hard on everyone.

Last year, our OF = outs. But Grindy ones. This year, our OF = Hydrogen peroxide bleached runs. I'll take the latter

LOL, this is why I love the Google. I actually get to cite a piece by Scott Adams, the Dilbert comic strip creator, on torture. I'd just like to point out...the Bush Administration has taken this country to a place where its comic strip writers are writing op-ed pieces in the WaPo wondering whether or not it's effective to torture people.

QUOTE (lostfan @ Apr 11, 2008 -> 01:14 PM) What kind of torture are we talking about btw? Blindfolding someone and beating the s*** out of someone with rubber hoses and then the next day tying their nipples to a car battery just because? I think there's just about a consensus on that kind of torture being wrong. If we're talking about aggressive but legal interrogations where the sissy definition of torture basically outlaws all useful tools in the interrogator's box except sitting in front of them and talking in a calm voice, I pretty much have to disagree strongly there. I believe the exact point that I'm trying to make is that believing something is "the sissy" thing is entirely the problem, because the evidence out there shows that is by far the most effective method for extracting correct information from the prisoner.

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Apr 11, 2008 -> 12:25 PM) I don't think this is an accurate statement. While I agree that sometimes torture would probably only give you the answer you're looking for, that's just simply not an act that can be accurately tracked and recorded. You can count the "mishaps," because they can be made public. You can never know when it works for the good, as 99.9% of the time the government denies that any interrogation ever happened. While there is not and I believe can not be a classical medical study out there of whether or not torture "works", the evidence that is out there, both anecdotal from the people who perform successful interrogations and from the people who simply study them, strongly suggests that it does what I claim it does; gets you the answer you want to hear so that you can invade Iraq. Link. Link. Link 3.

I noted yesterday in the catch-all that MLB and the MLBPA were close to a new agreement on an outside administrator for their steroid testing program. There's a new development in the agreement reached. Everyone in the Mitchell Report is to be given an amnesty. Good ol' MLBPA, always looking out more for the part of its membership that cheats than for the clean part. It's also worth noting that this article so far says nothing about what happens if a player doesn't test positive but is implicated through other means, i.e. having his name turn up on checks for shipments, HGH caught at his door, etc.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Apr 11, 2008 -> 11:55 AM) Well hopefully we have a couple years to question people... And hopefully we don't pick up the wrong person and decide to torture them, because we'll waste time investigating the lies. Even on a short timescale, bargaining with a person is far more effective than torture.