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Great! The Cubs should have him back right around the time Mark Prior hits the DL again.

QUOTE(minors @ Jun 18, 2006 -> 02:27 PM) There you go again with that liberal bias clouding your judgement if you really think that Killing Zarqawi and seeing the letters of desperate insurgency isn't a turning point then I don't know what will. All I'll say on this topic is this one item: in 6 months, someone needs to bump this thread. Maybe even 3. Maybe even 1.

QUOTE(GoRowand33 @ Jun 17, 2006 -> 08:24 PM) sounds like a missed a great game Yup. Some more good news I'd say? We've given Big Jim 2 days of rest, and it hasn't cost us one iota. And after tomorrow, we only have 6 more games at NL parks until October, and those games are against the bottom dwellers in the NL Central.

QUOTE(chisox23 @ Jun 17, 2006 -> 07:31 PM) "GOD" he's probably the only other one who would be better. His son can't hit a curve ball.

Washington Post guy tears Leopold a new one over the Rove mess.

QUOTE(LowerCaseRepublican @ Jun 16, 2006 -> 05:54 PM) I have my ax to grind with Lieberman because he is a pro-PMRC, pro-censorship douche. But that said, I don't care who the politician is, but they need better commercials than a negative bear cub ad: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7jDn4McAXr4 If connecting oneself to those Godless killing machines through using them in an ad isn't political suicide, I know not what is. The New threatdown: #3: The Chicago Cubs #2: Joe Lieberman #1: Da Bears.

QUOTE(Dam8610 @ Jun 17, 2006 -> 07:49 PM) Now we simply play the waiting game. What are we waiting for? A. Their pitching to fall apart (Not very often do 5 starters and most of a bullpen all have great seasons, plus rookies in Verlander and Zumaya are bound to hit a wall). B. 10 head to head games in July and August. Either way, it won't be much longer. Or...we could just be waiting for them to play someone other than Tampa and CHC.

QUOTE(NUKE_CLEVELAND @ Jun 16, 2006 -> 03:27 PM) You're freely assuming the lightbulb would get changed at all. You'd have the gang from the Filibuster arguing back and forth constantly about the spiderweb that is attached to the side of the fixture. The liberals would claim that the species of spider making its web there is endangered and that several dozen environmental impact statements would be required to determine whether the heat and light emanating from the bulb would cause that species to go extinct. On the other hand the right wingers would be advocating a strategy of clear cutting all spider webs within a 10 square mile area saying that spiders are not worth saving and that their presence interferes with commerce and costs Americans jobs and the government tax money. Not to mention that the big nasty spiders were probably planted there by terrorists who are looking scare the bejesus out of housewives. The court case would last for years and the house would remain dark that whole time. I blame Bush for the Spiders.

QUOTE(DBAH0 @ Jun 16, 2006 -> 10:24 PM) Rob Machowiak can play 1B, he's done it a couple of times in his career. I don't think having a backup 1Bman is a huge deal when you've got Paulie who will pretty much play every game for you there. And Gload only has 45 AB's this season and we're almost halfway thru the season. If nothing else, it is still nice to be able to give PK time off on nights like tonight where it's a blowout by the 6th inning. Remember like 2 weeks ago where JT had a series off and Gload started 4 days in a row at 1st, giving Paulie extra rest? he's been tearing the cover off the ball since then.

Jose Contreras >>> (blank) Insert opposing team/pitcher's name in blank and proceed. Go get em Jose.

1st inning sucks Freddy > every inning sucks Freddy. I'll take it.

Looked pretty damn good to me. Just keep that up.

QUOTE(Jordan4life_2006 @ Jun 16, 2006 -> 04:39 PM) I don't even think Jphat can come up with anything positive to say about Freddy right now. At least at the current pace he won't be in there very long! 30 lousy pitches in the first for Freddy. He must have admired Claussen's number.

QUOTE(fathom @ Jun 16, 2006 -> 04:33 PM) Garcia is so f***ing terrible. He can't go on the DL soon enough. Where's the dumbasses arguing how many quality starts he has, etc. If he shuts them down from here...

There's the first inning Freddy we remember.

34 pitches that inning for Clausen.

QUOTE(Jordan4life_2006 @ Jun 16, 2006 -> 04:20 PM) I'm an idiot. See, you missed 1 key detail. Claussen's ERA coming into this game was 5.26 or so. The usual conversion I do is add .9 to an ERA to guess how the average pitcher would do if they switched leagues. In other words, Claussen's pitched roughly as well as Jon Garland.

QUOTE(Jordan4life_2006 @ Jun 16, 2006 -> 04:19 PM) No, I mean scoring runs at all will be tough. Uribe/Anderson/Garica/Pods=all outs. Not having Thome sucks as well. You're funny.

Crede 4/9 with a slam this year. (SLAM SLAM SLAM, if you're Ed Farmer) And as I type that, he makes it 5/10 with 2.

Ok Claussen...here you intentionally walk Crede...and you'll get to Widger and the weak part of our order.

QUOTE(Jordan4life_2006 @ Jun 16, 2006 -> 04:14 PM) Runs are gonna be hard to come by this night. We need to get Gooch in. Claussen does still have that 5.26 ERA.

Upton, Young...man they're gonna have one hell of a character team in Tampa in a few years.

QUOTE(PaleHose4Life35 @ Jun 16, 2006 -> 01:00 PM) With the Sox facing two lefties this weekend do any of you think we'll see Pablo in the starting line-up one of those games with Pods struggling right now? I'm not too confident in Cincy and Freddy pitching tonight. If he manages to not give up the long ball I don't think the Reds will be able to manufacture many runs so the Sox should be able to win. Short answer: Yes.

QUOTE(redandwhite @ Jun 16, 2006 -> 10:21 AM) I'm just glad I'm not a Cubs fan. As a 12 year old, those bright colors, and that cute little bear are extremely enticing, especially when all your classmates and peers are rooting for the Cubs. You just need to remind your peers that those little aminals grow up into godless killing machines.

QUOTE(Rex Kickass @ Jun 16, 2006 -> 09:44 AM) A convention is not a requirement for changing the constitution. There has only been one constitutional convention in the history of the United States, and that's the one that wrote the constitution and bill of rights. Everything else has been done through supermajorities in the Congress, Senate and ratification in the state house. However, according to Novakula, there are some people who are actually considering trying to call a constitutional convention to pass the "gays are icky" amendment.