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QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jun 30, 2011 -> 12:53 PM) But...he's taken a fairly unique pounding. We've all seen that. I don't want to see that ever.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jun 30, 2011 -> 12:54 PM) I really don't want to see it happen. It'll screw me massively when I go to try to buy a house in a couple years. Think of how cheap the houses will be though!

QUOTE (flavum @ Jun 30, 2011 -> 12:35 PM) Phil Coke as a starter is over. 1-7, 4.82 ERA. Charlie Furbush is in the Tigers rotation, which will make Terry Boers very happy. It makes me sad!

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jun 30, 2011 -> 12:48 PM) I'm not sure what this means. Our debt crisis day.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jun 30, 2011 -> 12:48 PM) Ahem...(Clears throat)...Wade? Wade at least played all of those years of college, which kept him at 40 games instead of 80.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jun 30, 2011 -> 12:47 PM) If we're anywhere close to hovering, KW will be a buyer and not a seller, you know that. It will take a major change in the standings to make us sellers. Do you see Detroit/Cleveland putting out a 20-5 run this month or the Sox going 5-20? No chance at being a buyer this year. With attendance being so s***ty with a record payroll, there isn't any money for it. honestly those factors make it more likely that a sell off could happen, even if we are "close". The logic being that this team wasn't going to win it anything anyway, which is sure what most of Soxtalk believes.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jun 30, 2011 -> 12:46 PM) I'm convinced that Greece will wind up defaulting eventually too. Or at least some version of a default...maybe set up in such a way that they won't call it a default. The politics of this are even worse than those in the U.S. right now. Basically, the European banks loaned Greece a ton of stupid money that Greece will never, ever pay back. If they admit that they won't pay those funds back, then the European banks are in trouble and a run begins, probably hitting the other PIGS countries. Instead, the Europeans have spent what, 4 years now, with successive Greek bailouts where they impose conditions on the Greeks that will never be met so that they can pay back the European banks. Then, when the conditions aren't met, they wind up having to figure out another way to bail out Greece, when what they're really doing is trying to prevent a bank run on the European banks. At some point, a Greek Politician is going to get elected by saying "screw the European banks, we shouldn't have to suffer because they were stupid" and that will be that. Can't you wait until it is us?

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Jun 30, 2011 -> 12:44 PM) FWIW, there is always risk in getting a guy coming off the type of injury Parise had... though a torn meniscus shouldn't be career-altering by any means, but in the end I'd rather be out the 2 or 1 mill per year in cap space and get the much more talented player anyway. Yeah, essentially you sacrifice a guy on the 4th line to get Stamkos. I am good with that.

QUOTE (Greg Hibbard @ Jun 30, 2011 -> 12:41 PM) Aha! Poll added! Thanks! No problem.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jun 30, 2011 -> 12:41 PM) Unless Detroit or Cleveland suddenly hits a 10 game winning streak, or the Sox hit a 15 game skid where they go 2-13, we're not going to do a full selloff. It's too late in the season and we're still in the race. We have a whole other month to make claims like that.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jun 30, 2011 -> 12:39 PM) Except I care about it a lot more for a guy like Rose...came into the league as a college sophomore, lotta miles on the odometer early, guy who is more effective when he is drawing contact and who always has the ball in his hands. It also means that someone like LeBron or Kobe could get the most millage out of this.

Hey, try some Chinese!

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jun 30, 2011 -> 12:40 PM) Do you honestly think that Greece will follow through with even a fraction of that in order to keep bailing out the German banks? This "Agreement" is just kicking the can down the road another year. Just like the last agreement was. And the agreement before that. And however many others there were. This from the person who is worried that the Republicans are going to let the US default? Odd.

Funny interpretation right there, though not the oddest.

QUOTE (fathom @ Jun 30, 2011 -> 12:07 PM) MLBTR's "expert" thought that Jackson is the one we're putting on the market. With the reality that Peavy is all but untradable, Jackson doesn't surprise me at all. If we go into a full sell off, Danks has to be #1.

QUOTE (Greg Hibbard @ Jun 30, 2011 -> 12:38 PM) sorry for not making this a poll, guys. Was up very early in the AM. I think you can go back and add one if you wanted to.

QUOTE (BigEdWalsh @ Jun 30, 2011 -> 11:55 AM) Scary. Not as scary as the trip to the OF which was talked about.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jun 30, 2011 -> 12:32 PM) It's possible that an extra 6 months off from competitive, 100% give it your all basketball will wind up being a good thing for his health years down the road. The problem is it will do the same for everyone else as well.

QUOTE (bmags @ Jun 30, 2011 -> 12:02 PM) and we'll get there by making sure we steal the elections, got it. Ah, gotta love the hyperbole.

I can't figure out where the post was now, but someone wanted to know about Greece. It is not pretty. http://www.cnbc.com/id/43577308?__source=o...|&par=otbrn

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/06/30/...E75T2MI20110630

QUOTE (justBLAZE @ Jun 30, 2011 -> 11:12 AM) Again today! Sweet!

Dogs would be very interested in nipping some cats

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Jun 30, 2011 -> 10:03 AM) 82 games 93 games

QUOTE (Milkman delivers @ Jun 30, 2011 -> 09:55 AM) Whoa, who's at 2.98? No one that I can see. Oakland leads the way at 3.10 in the AL.