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QUOTE(kyyle23 @ Aug 23, 2007 -> 12:44 PM) IS there any link to Marbury's comments? USA today

Since the All-Star Break, batters are hitting .346 off of Scot Shields, and his ERA is 8.49 over that stretch. Justin Morneau is hitting .237 in August with 0 home runs and an OPS of .613.

QUOTE(Texsox @ Aug 23, 2007 -> 09:26 AM) Of course President Clinton should have known and stopped Binny years before. Ahhh, how we protect "our players" Thanks for playing . . . Well, to be fair...in hindsight, based on what we know from the 9/11 commission report...I think that both the Clinton and Bush admins made serious mistakes in not going after UBL before 9/11 based on the evidence they had at the time. I mean, it sure sounds like guys like Clarke were screaming for about 2-3 years that we needed a genuine effort to do something about Afghanistan before it really hurt us, and all we got was a few tomahawks in 98. I really would like to know how history would have turned out if Mr. Clinton had kept his pants on.

QUOTE(kapkomet @ Aug 23, 2007 -> 05:40 AM) Wow. The whole f***ing population of the United States should work for the government, and there should be caps on what any one person can make. Incentive for no one, yea China! Link

Frickin' Brewers...screwing over Brandon Webb now. I hate that team!

Chris Young is out indefinitely with back pain. Cole Hamels to the DL.

QUOTE(WilliamTell @ Aug 22, 2007 -> 05:33 PM) haha which means if they're anything like the Sox they'll score 1 run the next game. Already up 3.

Wow. Biggest output since 1900.

Pretty simple to my eyes. If we have decided we need 1 additional lefty in the bullpen...now is a good tryout time. You actually get to face big league hitters and aren't fooled by people not being ready in the spring. If he's done for 2007, then there's really no reason to bring him back for the regular season next year.

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Aug 22, 2007 -> 05:59 PM) So will expanding the program by a big mulitple of people is going to make sure that it still runs that way? Medicare already has an enormous number of people in it. That's actually one of the advantages of Medicare; it's sort of the economy of scale thing. So many people use it that doctors just know how it's going to work; you don't have a doctor who has to fill out the forms for 6 different insurance companies to authorize one treatment. Adding more people in might well actually reduce the overhead per person or the overhead per treatment, because the system already exists and is built to handle huge numbers of people.

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Aug 22, 2007 -> 04:43 PM) You can always come back up here... I can honestly say I don't remember the last Hurricane that almost hit Chicago Devin Hester.

QUOTE(kyyle23 @ Aug 22, 2007 -> 03:00 PM) WTF?!?! http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/columns/stor...&id=2986420 Can someone explain to me why Gene Upshaw should be taking any flak for NOT supporting Michael Vick? Because who hasn't just gone out back and decided that it was time to lynch a dog?

QUOTE(CanOfCorn @ Aug 22, 2007 -> 02:33 PM) It's not so much...CAN WE? It's more of...SHOULD WE? And don't forget, the market isn't necessarily dictated by an individual's skill. It's dictated by the individual's counterpart's skill. F'rinstance...if the Twins decide to put Santana on the block...Garland gets bumped down a few notches and the Sox won't get that good of a return. But, if Garland is the best pitcher available via trade, then his value goes up...not to Santana level, but higher than before. Garland has lots of things going for him. Young. Durable (so far). Post season experience. Occasional dominating stuff. Those kinda things mean a lot to GM's. I think it's also entirely possible that the Twins putting Santana on the market could up Garland's value also. Think about this hypothetical...the Mets deal like 3 guys, say Humber, Pelfrey, and that Gomez guy in the OF or whatever his name is, 3 top level guys for Johan. That's something entirely plausible on both sides if the Twins decide to move him. Now, what option does the rest of the NL have? As I pointed out a few posts ago...there's not a team in the NL right now that wouldn't have Garland as it's #3 starting pitcher except for maybe the Dodgers, and in many cases he'd be their #2. Teams like the Dodgers, Phillies, Braves, maybe even the D-Backs, etc., might not want to just concede, and to keep up with that kind of deal, they would need pitching. And beyond that, if someone actually gives up young talent for Santana, it could re-encourage teams to start moving young talent for proven vets again, which it seems everyone except the Braves is loathe to do right now (when even the Yankees are holding on to their kids, you know the market has changed)

QUOTE(RockRaines @ Aug 22, 2007 -> 02:17 PM) still under the mendoza line in close/late situations. But is one of our best with runners in scoring position. Figure that out. It's actually fairly simple. Close and late...he has a whopping 36 at bats coming into today. You take any .250 hitter and look at enough subsets of 36 at bats, and you'll find several where he's below .200.

By the way...tonight we get Barack Obama on the Daily Show, followed by the Colbert/Branson interview trainwreck. Madness! Anywho, I'm really hoping that at some point, one of the Dem frontrunners decides to gamble on a Colbert appearance. That would show some balls, I tell ya what.

QUOTE(RockRaines @ Aug 22, 2007 -> 01:19 PM) Josh fields loves to strike out when its late in the game.

QUOTE(elrockinMT @ Aug 22, 2007 -> 12:33 PM) It might be because Floyd has already shown he sucks as bad as Jose. I sure don't need to see more of that this season, but I do want to see whether Jose and his $10M contract are worth keeping for another year. We are guaranteed to have Jose next year. It's not a question of whether or not his contract is worht keeping. We are not guaranteed to have Floyd next year, so the question is...do we have any reason to want him. He's at least given us 1 good start, which is just about as many as Jose in the last 2 months.

Since there's been quite a bit of discussion here involving the whole general concept of whether or not people will over-spend on health care if it's totally free or whether there should be some sort of cost barrier making it so that people have a reason to be conservative about when they use the health care system to save money, I thought this piece was on-topic.

Last night's Daily Show in Iraq...highly reccomended especially for the Hoosiers in the audience.

QUOTE(That funky motion @ Aug 22, 2007 -> 06:58 AM) He went to the O's Well, if I had my choice of any pitching coach in baseball to work with, that's probably where I'd go too.

QUOTE(DBAH0 @ Aug 22, 2007 -> 06:16 AM) I don't think anyone really doubts that (unless Garland is injured which is a possibility). The question is, are we going to get back to a World Series with Jon Garland around on our team, or would we get their quicker by trading him to fill some other needs and revamp the roster, and create some payroll flexibility to help fill some more needs? And...on top of that...to make sure that we get something of greater value than the 2 draft picks we would get if Jon Garland walked as a FA. It's entirely possible that if he hit the open market, it'd cost us $14-$15 million a year or more to hold onto him, the way the market currently is moving. So, the other thing to look at is...can we hold onto the guy at all?

Freakin' Gabe Gross...that B*stard.

QUOTE(southsideirish71 @ Aug 21, 2007 -> 07:49 PM) Hopefully this will end the discussion of because Myers has a better ERA against righties that ozzie will use him as anything but a Loogy. For the love of god, he throws with a left hand its like God put him on this earth just to throw to lefties. Throwing to righties is unamerican. Keep putting him in against lefties. A roogy has very, very little value to me. If I've got a righty pitcher, I want him to be able to pitch a full inning. A loogy has vastly more value to me. If Myers can't pitch to lefties, I really don't want him next year.

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