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QUOTE(AbeFroman @ May 12, 2006 -> 08:54 AM) I know... its amazing. I don't know what the Yankees could offer... That said, I really believe the day is coming when George just starts offering money for players. Hypothetically, Steinbrenner could offer: We'll pay a quarter of Johan Santana's contract for Torii Hunter." It would be like the European Soccer League where player trades are rare and money is almost always the bargaining chip. They can basically pick up anyone's bad contract. I.e. a Bobby Abreu type contract. And they can return one of their spare pitchers and pay most of the contract on that pitcher if necessary. I.e. the Yankees send Pavano for Abreu, and then agree to send along like $20 million of the remaining $30 million on the deal.

QUOTE(southsideirish71 @ May 12, 2006 -> 08:47 AM) Those estimates are based on Iran developing all of the technology by themselves. As we have seen with Korea you can get some help from the outside to accelerate your nuclear program. Korea already sends their missle technology over for money, why not some tips and tricks on how to get around the difficult technical problems of nuclear weapons. I have the stomach to sit with the peace process, I hope you have the stomach if we have to detonate a thermonuclear weapon over Tehran in about 5 to 10 years. If we at least try the peace process...instead of sitting around refusing to negotiate...and it totally fails, and we have evidence that they are enriching uranium beyond what is necessary for electricity, we will have to do WHATEVER it takes to prevent Iran from getting the bomb.

QUOTE(southsideirish71 @ May 12, 2006 -> 08:42 AM) I love the tinfoil hat talk. You really need to put down your copy of 1984 and realize that the government really doesnt care about Joe Citizen. I doubt if they care about Joe Liberal like yourself. They care about Joe Bin Laden and his phone calls. Which is exactly why they need my phone call records, of course.

QUOTE(AbeFroman @ May 12, 2006 -> 07:59 AM) I'm not so optimistic that any reliable reliever's will be available... Anybody decent bullpen arm is going to cost a fortune because nobody seems to have a decent bullpen right now. I'm inclined to believe that this is our bullpen for the year Kenny said last year that we need to be ready to use what, 14 or 15 pitchers during the year? Counting Charlie, this Montero person, and Nelson, we'd be sitting at 14.

QUOTE(whitesox1976 @ May 11, 2006 -> 11:04 PM) I would have started McCarthy in the first place after Jose went on the DL I think we've been over this...BMac isn't adapted to throwing more than 60 pitches or so per outing yet, and he just threw on Sunday. He got a nice long game on Wednesday, and he'll be on 6 days of rest for his next outing.

I can't quite put my finger on it, but there's something ironic about that statement...

QUOTE(AbeFroman @ May 12, 2006 -> 08:21 AM) Torii is in the last year of his deal... the Twins will probably deal him if they are still far back in July. Still, I'd rather not see the sox pay Torii Hunter half of his 12 million dollar salary just to hit .265 and play good defense. I'd rather keep BA in hitting .200 (hopefully by then) and playing good defense and see that money appropriated elswhere. The Yankees happen to have a couple of openings in their outfield.

QUOTE(smalls2598 @ May 12, 2006 -> 08:00 AM) i hope he'll be able to play on his homecoming to Chicago That's about 11, 12, and 13 days from now, conveniently enough.

QUOTE(Jimbo @ May 11, 2006 -> 11:21 PM) The yankees will have to settle for a guy like David Delluci or Juan Rivera or Joe borchard :banghead The Angels are not giving up Juan Rivera, especially now that Erstadt's injured.

QUOTE(Controlled Chaos @ May 12, 2006 -> 07:50 AM) I don't really give a s*** about this. It's not like the NSA is listening or even hand looking through who I call. There is a massive computer....just scanning numbers and if they hit some pattern worth looking into then they will look. You think its checking to see if I call my mom?? They most likely have a database of bad guys....and then scan numbers to that list. That's it....Big deal... Of course...when you avoid speaking out against the President or his war, avoid donating to alternative candidates, and never worry that you're somehow going to go to an airport and discover you've been put on a no-fly list, you have nothing to worry about. Oh, unless your name winds up resembling a terrorist, like that guy in Oregon a year ago or so.

QUOTE(FlaSoxxJim @ May 11, 2006 -> 10:24 PM) He always claimed he was a "uniter not a divider." Seems he was on the money after all, as the entire country continues to unite in opposition to the bumbling incompetence and disregard for Constitution and law shown by this administration. And the fact that the government really does want to know when and why you're calling grandma won't help that much either.

QUOTE(Kalapse @ May 11, 2006 -> 09:13 PM) Actually the rumors started at about 10 o'clock central time. Griffey, Dunn, Kearns, T. Hunter, S. Stewart all were mentioned, expect more tomorrow. Buster Olney also fired out Bobby Abreu.

So, according, repeatedly, to ESPN tonight, Crash actually requested that the Phillies install some padding on that section of the fence. The padding was delivered this week, and was due for install next week.

Here it comes, Via the Harris poll... 29

QUOTE(NUKE_CLEVELAND @ May 11, 2006 -> 08:37 PM) Yeah, things worked out REAL good with N. Korea. We got to talking and, oh, they have the bomb now. Guess that really worked huh? How many times have we actually sat ourselves down for 1 on 1 negotiations with North Korea in the past 6 years? How high of a priority was it for us when North Korea announced they were going to build the bomb in late 2002, and then we detected signatures of them reprocessing fuel rods along the DMZ in early 2003? Why exactly were we unwilling to offer up a non-aggression pact with that nation? Neither side has negotiated in good faith in those discussions. And it wound up with NK getting the bomb. Where would the harm have been in actually trying? So here's the one argument I will make on Iran. And saying "It won't work" doesn't even do it damage, because it's so strong. According to the current CIA estimates, Iran is 10 years from a bomb. We won't be invading Iran this year, or most likely next year. Our allies are in no shape to do so, and neither is our army. Even if those CIA estimates are off by a factor of 2, we still have 5 years. So what exactly is the harm in trying? If it fails, so what, it fails, and suddenly we find ourselves replete with allies because we actually tried. If it succeeds, we avoid a war, the price of oil plummets, and thousands to millions of lives are saved. There is absolutely no reason not to at least try to sit down with Iran right now, at a summit, face to face, and try to negotiate a settlement that prevents Iran from getting the bomb. If a year from now it totally fails, then all it's done is take a year that we'd spend trying to rebuild our army anyway, and made us look a lot better in the eyes of the countries who might help out. Right now, the price of peace with that country is as low as its ever going to get. From here on out, the price of oil will only go up, which will make Iran stronger and less willing to negotiate, and make China and Russia even more obstinate. Iran will only get closer to the bomb, which will make them less likely to negotiate. And they know the U.S. can't invade right now, which gives them motivation to settle this now before the U.S. army returns to full force. Things will only get harder the longer we wait. And it is absolutely impossible for there to be any harm done to the U.S. by sitting down and negotiating.

QUOTE(EvilMonkey @ May 11, 2006 -> 08:17 PM) I saw the words 'might', ' possibly linking ', 'impossible to match the tissue DNA with the alleged attacker with 100 percent certainty', 'did not match the other 45 students'and 'no identifiable DNA was found because the hair lacked a root'. It also doesn't say if the supposed match was from one of the players she named, or someone else. And because a pubic hair from a 'white male' was found doesn not mean if was from ANy of the people there. If I recall, she was a working girl, and quite possibly could have been at a party before theirs. There is an awful lot of ifs and maybes, and precious little dna, especially since she insists that she 'clawed at three attackers as they raped and sodomized her'. A little early to start trying to serve crow. Yes, you're right it is, and they may very well still be able to wind up getting off, as they're gonna be able to afford some nice attorneys. But that doesn't mean it wasn't way too early for people to say that the DNA evidence exonerated the Duke players, and that the DA was only bringing the charges to win an election. Which a great number of folks already decided without having a clue what other evidence might have been out there. The only thing I've been saying in this case is that people shouldn't jump to conclusions about the D.A.'s motives until they know all the evidence, and people did so anyway. Now, the case is actually one that is winnable for a D.A. He has some physical evidence, and presumably he has to have at least 1 witness in addition to the attacker before he would have considered bringing a case. Now, the question will be whether or not he'll be able to get one or more of the students to plea bargain their way to a lower sentence by turning evidence on the rest, because he has the makings of a winnable case. So all I was saying, and the point I feel validated on, was that it was too damn early to jump to conclusions. I don't know if they're guilty or not, and a jury will decide that. But a bunch of people here already judged the D.A. to be the one at fault, and it turned out that he had more evidence than we knew about.

So, to all the folks who said that the D.A. had no case, that he was just doing it to get elected, that she was making the whole thing up, or whatever else people said to try to bash the people bringing the charges? Forensic evidence matching a Duke Lacross player. Including DNA. Yeah. Remember how some of us (me) were saying that we should reserve judgement until all of the evidence was back and released? Yeah.

QUOTE(Rex Kickass @ May 11, 2006 -> 05:31 PM) Satire does not equal slander. If someone wanted to sue them...they better get a book out damn quick. Make as much $$ off of it as possible before it's thrown out of court by the first judge who sees it.

So, it appears that The Trib thinks this is a big enough deal to publish tomorrow's editorial by like 6:00 CST today.

QUOTE(NUKE_CLEVELAND @ May 11, 2006 -> 04:22 PM) This is further proof ( as if any was needed ) that the Mexican government is totally corrupt and is only interested in exporting poverty to the United States. Or alternatively, it could be an attempt to pander to the many hundreds of thousands of Mexicans who are currently living in this country but still able to vote in Mexico.

So what you're saying is...I can't wait to join in the class action suit.

QUOTE(NUKE_CLEVELAND @ May 11, 2006 -> 04:30 PM) Rex, those overtures were rejected because they were BS to begin with. Iran is playing the same game North Korea played with us for the last 10 years. They figured if the N. Koreans could get a bomb that way then why not try it themselves. BTW. If we let Iran get a nuke then China will be the least of our worries. So what exactly is the other option? Ignore them, ostracize them, give their regime us as a major scapegoat, and let them have all the time they want to develop the bomb since the U.S. doesn't have the forces or the trust of the world to mount an actual invasion? Or launch some piecemeal strike that won't stop their nuclear program while strengthening their government, unifying the Shi'a population of the middle east against us, and so forth? A great man once said “Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.” We're not going to be invading Iran tomorrow, or this year, etc. The only thing that ignoring their overtures does is make us look like we're the stubborn ones in the eyes of the countries whose support we would need in any future action.

Can a baseball player get by with a Rip Hamilton style mask and still stay in the game?

QUOTE(Gene Honda Civic @ May 11, 2006 -> 02:46 PM) You've gotta love that the defense of the move is that Montero didn't suck in his last 25 innings (his first taste of success above AA at age 28), turning a blind eye to the fact that he spent 10 years of mediocre-at-best pitching prior to the last 5 weeks. So you're saying that Isiah Thomas wants this kid?

QUOTE(kyyle23 @ May 11, 2006 -> 02:34 PM) I have been to games where I didnt recieve a Miller Lite promotion t-shirt because I wasnt over 21 years old. I have also been to games where kids 12 and under got replica wooden bats. This guy is way off base, just because you go to a game doesnt mean you are entitled to what it being given away. Some people will sue for anything. I really liked those bats.