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Austin Powers: That ain't no woman! It's a man, man!

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Sep 8, 2009 -> 03:39 PM) What's Freddy's contract situation? His contract with this product is over after 2010.

QUOTE (robinventura23 @ Sep 8, 2009 -> 03:36 PM) Anyone see "Sugar" ? Saw it last night and thought it was a really nice movie and well written. Queued this one up for near future viewing.

NIUSox, Is Jay hitting that girl up from behind in your sig?

As frustrating as the bullpen has been I'm not too worried about 2010 as of right now. I guarantee at least 1 of the guys we currently have will turn it around next year. That's how relievers are in the big leagues. Mostly unpredictable. My guess is Pena will have a nice bounce back year.

QUOTE (The Critic @ Sep 8, 2009 -> 03:15 PM) Nope. Not aware of that movie at all. Don't waste your time. Awful.

QUOTE (The Critic @ Sep 8, 2009 -> 03:07 PM) And I normally like Zach a lot. His standup is really good. You happen to catch his unexplained cameos in the film 'Gigantic'?

Pods in CF? *shakes head*

Happy Birthday GreatScott82!!!

QUOTE (greg775 @ Sep 8, 2009 -> 02:18 PM) Good to hear, Chris. Maybe Bosox nation are a kind sort of fan. Until you piss in their chowda.

QUOTE (WilliamTell @ Sep 3, 2009 -> 05:12 PM) thanks for putting 2 millionth poster on my name, I was going to ask someone to do that! That's grave stone worthy material if you ask me.

Rodney suspended for 3 games. The curse is slowly starting to work.

First this.... QUOTE (elrockinMT @ Sep 8, 2009 -> 12:24 PM) I question where Figgins fits in on the team we see for the future. And then this... QUOTE (elrockinMT @ Sep 8, 2009 -> 12:24 PM) I would go more defense with a Uribe again.

QUOTE (Soxy @ Sep 8, 2009 -> 12:24 PM) So what would you all think about an upper age limit on the presidency? That depends. Did we stop counting years for Walt Disney?

LOL

Tex would take offense to that.

QUOTE (Thad Bosley @ Sep 8, 2009 -> 10:00 AM) Well sure, I would love to have Carl Crawford on the team - who wouldn't. But the operative phrase here is "viable trade package", and in the case of Carl Crawford, we would have to surrender some very good talent somewhere on the Major League roster as well as some of our better prospects to meet what Tampa would consider "viable". Meanwhile, under my scenario, you sign Thome and Pods which, as I mentioned, is probably not only fairly easy to do and affordable, but you don't give up any talent in the process. And if you can manage to sign Figgins, all you are giving up is a second round draft pick, given where the Sox are in the standings these days. I'm not saying that signing Figgins will be easy, just that if they did sign him, along with Big Jim and Pods, the team would then have a very solid and formidable configuration. Your scenario might play out but I for one will not be happy bringing back both Thome and Pods and overpaying for an aging Figgins who's production will start decreasing, at least speed-wise. If Figgins and Pods are here I just know Ozzie will play the OF rotation game. I would hate to see Pods out there again. DH and pinch runner? Yes. Outfielder? Hell no.

QUOTE (Thad Bosley @ Sep 8, 2009 -> 09:43 AM) What's interesting to me is that if the Sox were able to resign Thome and Pods to be the DH and back-up outfielder (which I would think is quite possible) and somehow manage to make the splashy Figgins signing, you could then be looking at a team capable of stealing between 150-175 bases while also clubbing 175-200 homeruns. Consider: Figgins - 5 HR, 45 SB Ramirez - 20-25 HR, 20 SB Beckham - 20-25 HR, 15-20 SB Quentin - 30-35 HR Thome - 25-30 HR Konerko - 25-30 HR Pierzynski - 10-15 HR Rios - 20-25 HR, 30-35 SB Getz - 5 HR, 30-35 SB You add in expected contributions from the bench (Nix, Kotsay, Flowers, Pods) and I think you get to those ranges of output I noted above. More importantly, though, this would represent a very balanced attack, both from the right side of the plate as well as the left, and one that could beat you on almost any given day with either speed, power, or a vicious combination of both. Somehow I doubt KW signs Thome, Pods, and Figgins. And I can't help but to think that if we re-sign Pods that Ozzie will be throwing him in the OF way more than he should be out there. If we can somehow come up with a viable trade package I'd love to get Crawford over here and just forget about Pods and Figgins all together.

Happy birthday!

QUOTE (Brian @ Sep 7, 2009 -> 09:04 PM) Whatever. I loved that movie. I worked at Six Flags for a summer in high school and it is so close to stuff I experienced. It wasn't all that bad. Just nothing memorable.

Adventureland = meh

QUOTE (knightni @ Sep 7, 2009 -> 05:39 PM) I'm at the Sox game. Me and you both.

QUOTE (everafan @ Sep 7, 2009 -> 05:10 PM) May? The good news is that the way the Tigers are playing right now, we woldn;t have caught them even without the disastrous road trip. Huh? If we went .500 on the road trip we'd only be a couple games back.

QUOTE (whitesoxfan101 @ Sep 7, 2009 -> 05:40 PM) I was surprised at how empty the ballpark was today considering it was a holiday against Boston. The Cell is going to be an empty place the last 11 games if today was any indication. Hawk mentioned during the broadcast that Labor Day typically is not a good attendance game.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Sep 7, 2009 -> 03:11 PM) Good inning for...Tony Pena??? greg775 jumped out of a 4th story window after that.