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Iguchi is under contract for this year, with an option for 07. Crede is under our control until 08, but there's an obvious replacement for Crede in the minor leagues in a year or so should Joe's name hit the trade market. I might say wait a season and see how each of them wind up with their deals next offseason. If Iguchi goes into the 07 season without a contract extension, odds are he won't be back.

QUOTE(aboz56 @ Feb 27, 2006 -> 09:29 AM) I love it. At least he never corked a bat. Or deflated.

QUOTE(Cknolls @ Feb 27, 2006 -> 09:26 AM) Why isn't it a violation of the Hippocrtatic Oath for a doctor to kill a baby in the third tri-mester? Because they call it a fetus?????????? Your objection to the comparison between the death penalty and abortion, that the unborn are innocent while those on death row are not, does hold some water IMO. However, this comment is fully, 100% open to that line of attack. The hippocratic oath requires, in its fullest form, doctors to take life under no circumstances.

QUOTE(TheBigHurt @ Feb 27, 2006 -> 09:20 AM) Imagine what Crazy Carl would be saying if he was still here This argument with Kenny and Frank isn't mentionned in the Bible, so that means it's not actually happening.

Ok, so auditors look into Halliburton. Auditors suggest about $250 million of payments to Halliburton should be delayed. Governmend decides to withhold $10 million and pay the rest. You think someone has some good lobbyists?

Rick Santorum runs a charity which has donated a whopping 40% of the money it has taken in over the last 4 years. Several people in his Congressional office have received decently large salaries from the charity.

Wow, all this over little-ol me. Ok, on the "On a respirator" issue. I'll agree that the person cannot survive on his or her own in that case. So, what does happen in that case? Well, hopefully, the person has at some point indicated his or her wishes. That is something which obviously cannot happen with an embryo. But, I think an even more interesting line of thought is this one...in the event that a person has not indicated their wishes...if a person cannot survive without life support, to whom does the decision fall as to whether or not life support should be continued? The closest family. So, in some cases, we do make legal exceptions which would allow for the termination of life without the consent of the actual person, when the actual person cannot give his or her consent. Unless of course Bill Frist passes a law giving the woman's uterus the right to challenge its case in federal court.

Whatever it takes to get him 450-500 at bats.

QUOTE(DBAH0 @ Feb 27, 2006 -> 04:04 AM) And suprise, suprise (you Bulls fans would be loving this more by the day); Don't you have to find those guys before you can lose them?

But the grey snow in NW Indiana is sure safe.

Shame...the Pirates looked like they might have at least been able to stitch together a pitching staff this year. Well, at least we wont' be h earing his name as much on the trade market.

QUOTE(southsideirish @ Feb 27, 2006 -> 07:57 AM) He was a very divisive person in the clubhouse which really hurt a team atmosphere. That could be a big reason why a lot of the teams with really good/great players on it have never won a thing. Well, to be fair that certainly isn't the only reason, nor is it even one of the main reasons in a lot of seasons. In '93, for example, the Blue Jays were just the better team. That's hard to deny. '94 was probably more Reinsdorf's fault than Thomas's. In a lot of the years after that, we didn't have the players around him to make a run, especially on the pitching staff. And then in the last few years, we've made plans with Thomas healthy, but then his body couldn't hold up. That's not his attitude either.

Couple good ones not from politics...the usual "a billion people are watching" the Super Bowl or the Oscars. Usually it's like 10 million outside this country for both of them. A billion people have it transmitted to television sets that they can watch. Most don't. Quite a few people sleep through it, for example. Here's one from the left we talked about a few days ago...The American Prospect seems to have come out with a study trying to say that Abramoff's tribes gave less to Dems after he was working with them than before, but they screwed around with the number of years they sampled on each side to make it look better. Oh, there's quite a few obnoxiously misleading ones about ANWR from both sides. The left has a habit of saying that ANWR could only supply 6 months of oil for the U.S., but that's if you could possibly pump the whole thing out in exaclty 6 months and have the U.S. use no oil from anywhere else. In reality it would last for decades, but not at nearly that high of a rate. On the other side, there's a few others. Like how the Republicans like to say that the bill only allows for development on 2000 acres of land in ANWR or something like that. Yeah, that's fine, but that's permanent development. They don't count the area in-between buildings, they don't count temporary frozen roads, they don't count all the other area that animals will suddenly not go because they're surrounded by oil rigs, etc. They also like to say that it'll displace our oil imports from Saudi Arabia for decades...which is true, but is only true because only a very small sliver of Saudi Arabia's oil actually comes to the U.S., most of it goes to countries closer to the Middle East, like Europe or Asia. Saudi Arabia would still export almost exactly as much oil per day whether or not we drill in ANWR, and they'll still get almost as much money, just a question of how much each side is buying.

If its the one near Tampa, I've been to it. Nice water park across the street too.

My personal favorite is the unemployment percentage numbers, which don't really reflect how many people in this country are actively looking for work very well at all.

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Feb 26, 2006 -> 04:03 PM) Then Theresa Heinz Kerry lent his campaign a few million dollars, he unleashed some particularly nasty attack ads in the early states, and the rest is history. A decent chunk of those dollars which helped finance those early anti-Dean ads in Iowa also came from a guy named Steinbrenner, I believe. Just something to note. Yes, that Steinbrenner. Actually, there were a lot of reasons why Dean fell apart, not just the scream. While Dean was able to raise a ton of money and put a lot of ads on the air in Iowa, the people who he had running his campaign were quite terrible at actually making ads, and it's generally thought he had the worst ads of any of the major candidates in Iowa. On top of that, their ground game was incredibly disorganized. They bused in thousands of people who were willing to help out on the ground, going door to door, etc, and then the only places they put them was in the cities...they never mapped out anywhere out in the rural areas. So you had people in cities in Iowa having Dean people come to their door 5-6 times, and people out in the rural areas never hearing from them. And strangely, it turned out that Dean performed a lot better in the cities, while the rural areas helped Kerry and Edwards carry the state. And on top of that, there's all of the different avenues he gave the press to attack him. He never had good handlers to check speeches and make sure he didn't say anything they'd focus on. I mean, come on, why the Hell is he even alluding to the "theories" that the President knew about 9/11 before it happened. So yeah, there were a lot of things that brought him down, not just Kerry's money, not just the scream, but a whole mess of organization too.

MY GOD...MATT DRUDGE HAS A TIME MACHINE!!!!

As long as he doesn't take that bat and try to beat up Konerko...standing O. Without question.

At this point, I only care about this for 1 reason: our entire team is going to get asked about it. For days, this is all we're going to hear about. When the A's, the team that annoys us the most, comes to town, again, this is all we're going to hear about. I really hope this doesn't cost us games. That's the only thing I care about. We got through the Magglio thing last year because the team rallied around each other and let Ozzie deal with it. I just hope our locker room, which has had a lot of turnover, is strong enough to do so again. If our team holds together through this, I could care less what KW and Frank have to say to each other, and Frank will still get a nice statue about 510 feet from home plate some day. But if this costs us games...i will be very, very, very angry about it, and that anger will be directed at KW, since he's the one escalating it now.

Please Guys...we have a damn trophy to defend. Shut your damn mouths and get ready for the season. Let the other team be the nasty guys. Frank can b**** all he wants...Kenny, you built a championship team, just shut your mouth and let your team speak for itself through its play.

QUOTE(Rex Kickass @ Feb 26, 2006 -> 12:31 PM) In 1994, nobody was talking about Dole. Is that seriously true? He was the Senate Majority leader, he'd made a big push for the nomination in '88 and '96 was the first chance without an incumbent. I figure almost everyone thought Dole was going to win then. Hell, if you go back to the reruns of the series "The Critic" which aired in 94 and early 95, there's an animated clip of Bob Dole telling one of the characters that the nomination is his. Also, Until Dean came onto the scene with his fundraising, before his implosion, Kerry was the prohibitive favorite on almost everyone's scorecard in mid 03. And I'm pretty sure GWB had a very solid power base in his party built by at least 99. It was all those funds that Bush raised in 98-99 that helped him beat McCain in 2000. Hell, there are quotes out there asking Bush what he thought about the Kosovo operation, so clearly he was being talked about in national politics by that point.

QUOTE(KipWellsFan @ Feb 26, 2006 -> 12:30 AM) Democrats have to run on a 100% anti-corruption platform. It doesn't matter if they made money off Abramoff or not they just have to have like 4 or 5 main points to eliminate corruption, and run on those points. It's better to run off a 100% bulls*** platform than no platform at all. It would be very, very nice if somehow they could run on an anti-corruption platform and actually, you know, not have it be B.S.

QUOTE(Rex Kickass @ Feb 26, 2006 -> 05:18 AM) Most Democrats supported the war. Most Democrats got angry when they found out the President they trusted was wrong and might have lied. Small difference here...I think you're wrong in saying that most Democrats trusted the President and supported the war at the start. Yes, the majority of Democrats in both houses of Congress voted for the "Authorization for the use of force", but that doesn't mean that every one of their constituents believed in it. I sure didn't think the facts I knew supported his words at all in 02-03. If I had believed him, I would have supported the war on those grounds.

QUOTE(Chisoxfn @ Feb 26, 2006 -> 10:00 AM) Now I'll quickly highlight a few things that will be coming in the near future: - Wallpaper page (this way you'll be able to find all the great Wallpapers that the people on Soxtalk have made) - Salary page (this was already mentioned, but it will detail the salary each player makes as well as there contractual status) - US Cellular page (talking a bit about the stadium and the area around the park; this one will take a little more time to put together) With that said, is there anything else people would be interested in? I don't know how doable this would be, but would it be possible to keep either stats for the team available somewhere on the page itself? Or at least game results?