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QUOTE(kapkomet @ May 31, 2006 -> 02:42 PM) Mr. Wile E. Coyote, Genius ™ would like to order a black hole, a pole vault stick, and a couple of bricks for Congress. Oh, and don't forget the birdseed. Why? Is someone getting married? Throwing that stuff at the end instead of rice? But I didn't think there were any women left in the Senate. Oh wait...so that explains that amendment...

QUOTE(The Ginger Kid @ May 31, 2006 -> 02:04 PM) interesting that gooch is taking a seat tonight. wonder if that foot's still bothering him. He was ice cold yesterday too. Some time off probably would do him good.

QUOTE(Dick Allen @ May 31, 2006 -> 01:49 PM) Doesn't Nevin have a no trade clause? He was supposed to go to Cincinatti a few years ago for Griffey but invoked it I believe. If he doesn't want to play in Cincinatti, maybe he wants no part of the urinal. He had to waive his no trade clause to go to Texas from S.D. Do those things come back?

Well here we go, as requested, my first game thread of the season...last time out, I won in ST. Freddo...this is a surprisingly big game. We can't give Cleveland the chance to take 3/4 against us...and with JC on the mound tomorrow, a win today gives us a great chance at winning the series. Time to take out the trash! The lineup: Pods, LF; Cintron, 2B; Thome, DH; PK, 1B; Dye, RF; AJ, C; Crede, 3B; Mack, CF; Uribe, SS; Garcia, RHP.

QUOTE(JenksForPrez45 @ May 31, 2006 -> 01:35 PM) If this has been posted in another topic im sorry, but i dont feel like searching 4 hours to find what im looking for. Not much has been talked about with Owens or Sweeney to come play CF for the Sox and I was wondering why. Owens looked really well in ST from what I saw and his baserunning ability is great. I knew he was in the final 2 in ST between him nd Brian for the last OF spot. I would really like to see him up here soon. Also, Sweeney is hitting 300 and would be interesting to see if he could fill the hitting role that we have been waiting for Anderson to fill. He may be a not so great fielder, but i havent seen enough of him. Any feedback would be great from you guys. Sweeney has also been on the DL recently. He's played very little CF, and had even less time because of that DL trip. Owens is hitting what, .230 at AAA right now? He also should basically never play CF, he'll be quite bad there defensively.

So, if I don't want a wall, would the proper thing be to mail them one of those Acme portable holes?

Pitching to Pujols here = insanity.

QUOTE(TitoMB345 @ May 31, 2006 -> 01:16 PM) If Crede isn't voted in by the fans, you know the entire thing is flawed. But who cares? Ozzie will put every single one of them on the team anyways! I keep saying this...the manager has Far less control over the roster than he used to...most of the backups are now chosen by the players.

QUOTE(Melissa1334 @ May 31, 2006 -> 01:13 PM) wow, who would vote for uribe and why? World Series Game 4, bottom of the 9th inning is worth a few votes.

Looks like it's actually done.

QUOTE(Kalapse @ May 31, 2006 -> 01:06 PM) Yes, Boers and Bernstein are confirming this. Confirming the deal or confirming that there's speculation?

QUOTE(MSHAWKS @ May 31, 2006 -> 12:49 PM) I agree with you mostly, except for Crede. Lowell is having a better offensive year AND he is a gold glove winner. If I took a dump and handed it to Derek Jeter on a plaque, it would mean roughly as much as a gold glove award does these days.

QUOTE(winninguglyin83 @ May 31, 2006 -> 12:31 PM) Nobody asked for Anderson. Yes, Chris Young was a better prospect than Anderson, and I'd have asked for him too. That doesn't mean B.A. will be a .160 hitter his whole career.

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QUOTE(kapkomet @ May 31, 2006 -> 12:06 PM) France put public posturing on the front burner of its agenda at the time. Why? Because damn near every weapon system in Iraq had a made in France or a made in Russia stamp on it. They had to play that card. Meanwhile, all the backroom meetings that took place before the invasion started... everyone knew what was coming. If there were something that should have stopped it, it would have stopped. That all depends on how determined our side was to go to war. If there were people on this side who really, really wanted that war, and there certainly were many of them, then France would have had to say or do something in the back rooms strong enough to overcome that. Given how badly Bush and his associates wanted to do that war (hell, they were doing prep work for it in April of 02), the only thing I can see which could have been done by any country to stop that war would have been to threaten to come to Iraq's aid militarily. Unless of course France had some real dirt on the President they could have released publically, but that's about it.

QUOTE(GreatScott82 @ May 31, 2006 -> 12:10 PM) KW and OG have to be getting fed up with BA's hitting. I know for a fact that KW is looking for other CF options right now. I've heard Tori Hunter is available. If this is so go for him! The Twins GM told a reporter that he isn't afraid to trade within his division. If this is the case KW should be all over this. Bring Hunter over. He at least has one friend in AJ. I know he doesn't have a good history here on the southside. But either did AJ and we all know how that turned out. Going to give us any more than that?

QUOTE(winninguglyin83 @ May 31, 2006 -> 12:14 PM) I just fear this kid is going to become a stud we're going to be talking about for years. He will. The big question is going to be whether or not Javy makes that trade worth while.

QUOTE(kapkomet @ May 31, 2006 -> 12:01 PM) I still say that there is waaaaaaaaaay more to Iraq then any of us will ever know. I know that most in your camp still subscribe to the theory that GWB had a hard on to get rid of Saddam just to get rid of him. I do think that, however, it was for reasons that we still don't know about. And no, it's not oil. I think that there's a stronger influence of the world community as a whole, even though the French played the "against the War" card. If everyone was really against it, it would not have happened. edit: in general, though, I agree with what you say about the "real war" leaving Iraq out of the equation. We need to focus there, but we can't, because of Iraq. Ok, this is going to take this thread off in one hell of an odd direction...but man, it seems to me you're sneaking into Iggy territory there. What exactly do you expect a country like France to do that they didn't do? Threaten to use their nuclear arsenal against an ally if the invasion goes forward? France did everything that was practical at the time, short of offering actual assistance to Saddam.

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ May 31, 2006 -> 11:53 AM) Of course the state with the most to gain from this would be the one leading the way... Yes, but interestingly, the bill passed with the support of only 1 Republican, despite the fact that this would be about the only method of making it such that CA's electoral votes aren't firmly in the hands of the Democrats every time.

QUOTE(Heads22 @ May 31, 2006 -> 11:22 AM) American colleges are wasting a lot of trees this way. Actually, as I understand it, currently paper manufacturing is to the point where it really doesn't chew up that many trees...the majority of the raw material consumed in making paper is actually the leftovers from producing lumber for various purposes...i.e. the sawdust and the leftover wood chips from turning a tree into a piece of wood.

So, this is a very creative bill, and probably a step in the right direction. Bill would still have to pass the state Senate and get signed by Governor Ass-Grabber, but that's certainly one way to kill off the electoral college, and it's one that doesn't require a constitutional amendment (since the states are allowed to proportion their electors however they please). If you could get a few states, just some from each side of the aisle, to agree with this, then it would almost eliminate the possibility of another 2000 type election, coming down to a few hundred votes in 1 state, with the loser of the popular vote winning the election.

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ May 31, 2006 -> 10:57 AM) And millions of people weren't subjected to images of these protesters in Europe? There are many leaders, including the President of Iran who believe what these wackos had on their signs. Yet Robertson's words get portrayed there too, and we see nothing of protests advocating our genocide. I'd bet if the samethings were done in Iraq or Afganistan it would have been frontpage news. Just out of curiosity, were the riots in Kabul that hurt 100+ a few days ago front page news in Chicago? They made the A section of the LAT, but as far as I can remember they never moved past the "World news" section. QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ May 31, 2006 -> 11:23 AM) Do we get the same quotes after a Klan rally, or those bastards to protest the funerals of the war dead? The closest we get is coverage of the biker gang who tries to shield the families from the protesters. We never see a mainstream Christian leader get equal face time to say that Christ told us to love one another and what these people are doing is wrong in God's eyes. How much time is given to Muslim religious figures saying the same thing about their faith?

QUOTE(J-MAN @ May 31, 2006 -> 11:26 AM) Kenny Williams is on the SCORE with Murph right now - doesn't sound like Brian Anderson is going anywhere! Did he specifically say BA wouldn't be demoted? If so, given that negotiations had broken off with Garland's people and Contreras's people, and we had confidence in Boone Logan and he wasn't going anywhere, I'd say B.A. has a few days left.

QUOTE(Friend of Nordhagen @ May 31, 2006 -> 11:08 AM) I see I'm not the only one who thinks that Erstad, evaluated for the next month or two for health and batting ninth in our order, is a possibility on the cheap. I brought it up in another thread, knowing that he's always been a favorite of Kenny Willams's, is a "grinder," and is in a walk year. Nevertheless, I agree with folks here that settling our bullpen problems is a bigger concern than centerfield. 2006 salary for Erstad...$8,750,000. Prorate over 3/4 of the year, and he still costs $6.5 million. Getting the Angels to pay part of that would cost actual talent, given that they can just let his ass walk at the end of the year. He is not "Cheap".

That is the worst idea in the long, sad, history of bad ideas.