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Can you find a picture of him popping up El Duque's pitch and edit him into a Yankee uniform too?

QUOTE(Dick Allen @ Dec 21, 2005 -> 02:03 PM) Maybe the Red Sox bite the bullet this season and then go nuts next year when the free agent class is heads and shoulders above this current one. Maybe the Red Sox learn the Lesson that Cano and Wang tried despereately to teach the Yankees last year, and plug in some cheap, young talent at a few spots and then spend their free agent dollars in smarter ways.

QUOTE(redandwhite @ Dec 21, 2005 -> 01:50 PM) http://cgi.ebay.com/Johnny-Damon-Soul_W0QQ...1QQcmdZViewItem I love how it's local pickup only, no shipping.

QUOTE(Greg The Bull Luzinski @ Dec 21, 2005 -> 01:57 PM) Cub Fan's Trade Idea :Patterson for Tejada Reality: Patterson for air fresheners around Wrigely Still unfair. The air fresheners would have to have some sort of smell like "Newly fallen cement ceiling" or something like that.

QUOTE(Steve Bartman's my idol @ Dec 21, 2005 -> 01:51 PM) If I was JG, I'd ask for a 2 year $16 million contract...when that ends he's only 28, THEN...MONSTER DOLLARS!!! So let's say he does that...and gets hurt during the 2nd year. What then? His other option...play for liek $5 million or so this year somewhere, then hit the FA Market, sign a 5 year deal worth $60 million, and then be set for life even if he gets hurt? Or if he has a bad season?

QUOTE(Steve Bartman's my idol @ Dec 21, 2005 -> 01:48 PM) No...but he was a free agent! "Apples and oranges" And at the end of 2006...Jon Garland is...what?

QUOTE(Steve Bartman's my idol @ Dec 21, 2005 -> 01:41 PM) ESTABLISHED Pitchers!!! 1 good year does not an established pitcher make! AJ Burnett: (wins and losses) 2001 11 12 2002 12 9 2003 0 2 2004 7 6 2005 12 12 In the last 5 years, Burnett is 1 game over .500. He has 1 serious arm injury. He has thrown 200+ innings 2 times since he entered baseball. His lowest ERA is 3.30 in his 2002 season. He will be making $55 million over the next 5 years.

Is there a minimum salary that a person going through arbitration must be paid?

QUOTE(Rex Kickass @ Dec 20, 2005 -> 09:04 PM) Interesting stuff in the Drudge Report. Drudge claims to have found executive orders by Carter and Clinton to have agreed to do the same thing that Bush did i.e. in regards to this. (The "centrist" Drudge Report has seemingly neglected to research whether Reagan or Poppy Bush has also issued related executive orders.)

QUOTE(robinventura23 @ Dec 21, 2005 -> 10:28 AM) That's exactly what I was thinking. I thought that Pie was going to be in the majors this year. This is great. With an outfield of Murton, Pierre, Jones...I still think Pie is going to be in the majors this year. Either one of those guys will badly dissappoint (or more than 1 of them) or Pie will be moved because Hendry thinks he has an outfield put together.

The New York Yankees: the best retirement plan Major League Baseball has.

QUOTE(TheBigHurt @ Dec 20, 2005 -> 01:43 PM) Timo I can obviously see, but you'll really have to tell me why everyone is happy that Willie's gone, cuz I don't see what's so great about losing him. How would arbitration work with a player like Willie? Didn't I read somewhere a few weeks ago that there is a minimum salary that people will earn if they go through the arbitration process?

QUOTE(Rex Kickass @ Dec 20, 2005 -> 02:20 PM) You forgot the green balta. Sometimes you just hope it's obvious enough

QUOTE(SoxFan1 @ Dec 20, 2005 -> 02:16 PM) Why? I have been getting the games. Oh, that right, you live in Cali. Yup, I went ahead and added the sports pack, only to discover that the games are still blacked out when you're outside of Chicago. Furious. I just canceled the damn sports pack. I'm also an MLB Extra innings subscriber, and I still don't get the f***ing games.

f*** DirecTV.

QUOTE(AnthraxFan93 @ Dec 20, 2005 -> 02:03 PM) Couple of questions.. do they have a manager yet? IMO that lineup doesn't have enough power, alot of single hitters. Grady Little was hired a few weeks ago.

The NYT Had this story before the 2004 election and sat on it at the request of the White House.

QUOTE(YASNY @ Dec 20, 2005 -> 12:09 PM) There is also the potential for some veteran ballplayers to achieve something. It doesn't happen all that often, as you get injuries and egos as part of the equation. Still, when the Dodgers started last season, you could have looked at that team with ease and said "this team dumped a ton of money on people who will spend half the year on the DL" Right now, you can probably say exactly the same thing. The only difference? Coletti doesn't want these guys for the long term, and he's probably expecting them to hit the DL. He's just hoping they stay healthy long enough that their prospects can have another year or two in the minors.

QUOTE(SSH2005 @ Dec 20, 2005 -> 01:43 PM) Dotel said he doesn't think he will be able to pitch until midseason. The Yankees have the money to toss around. Hmph, when his surgery happened last year they were saying he'd be gone for the full 06 season. Must be some sort of accelerated healing, I guess.

QUOTE(Kid Gleason @ Dec 20, 2005 -> 01:28 PM) Is that flag for him? He's Irish ya know. Well, the Irish have never had a problem with anyone flying the Union Jack as far as I know...

Those who keep bringing up the "Echelon" program...here's a response for you. From CAP. If Tenet's testimony is believable, then this is fundamentally and totally different from what Echelon was doing.

This isnt' the first time this has happened...in 1980 there was a strike that lasted 11 days. I don't think it was in the dead of winter though. I've got a guy I went to college with who I think will be walking like 10 miles today unless he can get a ride.

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Dec 20, 2005 -> 08:19 AM) As if I needed more evidence to dislike this clown Personally, I just love how that's the same Senator who threatened to resign if his $250 million bridge to no where was killed off.

QUOTE(YASNY @ Dec 20, 2005 -> 03:38 AM) If you wouldn't cry "Wolf" at everything that can possibly be twisted to make Bush look bad, I'd be inclined to give some of posts more merit and actually read them in there entirety instead instead of dismissing them as more political rhetoric. There are times when my mind can be changed and I do try and step back and see both sides of the issues, But, when someone ALWAYS is slinging s***, I just duck and get out of the way. Sorry man, sometimes I like to post things that fit in with a topic which haven't yet been confirmed just to see where the story leads. When I do that, I usually don't comment on things at all myself. That's all I was trying to do on that one, just posting it so that people could see where a story might be heading.

QUOTE(FlaSoxxJim @ Dec 20, 2005 -> 04:48 AM) Interesting and troubling to find that the FISSA courts publicly rebuked the GWB administration, Ashcroft and the FBI back in 2002 for providing misinformation to them at least 75 times in their requests for wiretaps. For the secret court to issue such a public statement shows they were pretty pissed at the way the administration was acting in trying to obtain warrants. Here's an archive of the WaPo story that ran at the time: http://foi.missouri.edu/secretcourts/seccrtrebuffs.html The rebuke specifically left open the that the FISA policies can be reviewed and changed by act of Congress if they were truly an impediment to lawful intelligence gathering, and members of Congress sympathetic to BushCo would have been willing to explore that but said Ashcroft was reluctant to do so. Ok, now I find that interesting not in the way you do, in that it suggests a motive, but in that until 2002, the FISA courts said no to a wiretap request exactly 0 times. In other words, Carter, Reagan, Bush 1, and Clinton each got the FISA court to agree to thousands of wiretaps without ever having a problem obtainning a warrant. What the Hell was Bush telling them?