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So does that mean the trade isn't happening or not? I'm confused.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jun 24, 2011 -> 03:11 PM) It's be more fun to do it all at once though. How about starting next weekend? I'm All In.

QUOTE (maggsmaggs @ Jun 24, 2011 -> 06:36 PM) When tickets are as astronomically high as they are, you gotta go for the bargains. I'm getting the best deal I can. Period.

QUOTE (ptatc @ Jun 24, 2011 -> 06:40 PM) Don't forget to blame the players association. Selig started drug testing in the minors long before the players union agreed to it. He isn't innocent by any stretch but he tried and it took congress to get the MLB players to agree to it. There will also never be a blood test due to the union unless congress acts again. HGH will continue to be used by the players who can afford it. It takes a greater quantity and frequency to achieve the results with HGH as opposed to anabolics. I know the players association fought this, but Bud Selig has one thing in his pocket that makes him the most to blame here. He has the ability act unilaterally "for the good of the game". With the anti-trust exemption granted to baseball, it really couldn't be stopped. Granted he can't do it during a contract with the MLBPA, but there is nothing to stop him from saying that the day after the CBA expires, there will be Olympic style testing. He has instead hid behind the MLBPA. Bud Selig is spineless when it came to drug testing.l

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jun 24, 2011 -> 02:57 PM) Going from 11 under to 3 under is climbing. And in a fairly short amount of time. Something like six weeks or so.

QUOTE (JohnCangelosi @ Jun 24, 2011 -> 02:39 PM) Aren't we taking things a bit too seriously here? I'm sure if you met J4L in person he's probably a good guy just like the rest of us. And secondly, everyone should understand that you cannot always read into the tone of someone's words when reading them off a monitor. No way. I saw him kick Juan Pierre's poodle.

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Jun 24, 2011 -> 02:44 PM) Jim Parque Or Pablo Ozuna

Good chance

Eventually your spine will give way.

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Jun 24, 2011 -> 02:00 PM) lol, no gold chain. that was actually a direct reference to what jimh thinks of me. he thinks of my as a backwards hat wearing punk because, you know, a 33 year old father of two is totally like that. thats ok though, i think of him as a younger version of Carl from the movie Up, so we are even. That's OK, now instead of a young asian girl, I think of you as Vanilla Ice.

QUOTE (bigruss22 @ Jun 24, 2011 -> 01:42 PM) Did you start twirling a gold chain too? I was thinking the exact same thing.

QUOTE (bmags @ Jun 24, 2011 -> 01:47 PM) but that insurance is already subsidized by being tax free. And adding more people onto exchange would make it cheaper, you'd have more buying power the more people are on it. Unless the people you are adding are the most expensive...

Crack for me.

QUOTE (chw42 @ Jun 24, 2011 -> 12:52 PM) Next thing you know, Hawk will be telling you Paulie's house in AZ is 12K sq. ft. Not 16k. Nah, this is Hawk. It will be 20,000 sq ft by next opening day.

QUOTE (GoSox05 @ Jun 24, 2011 -> 12:45 PM) If Konerko is gonna take a PED, he should be taking one that makes him faster. I'll take whatever is making him a triple crown candidate instead, thank you.

QUOTE (Thad Bosley @ Jun 24, 2011 -> 12:34 PM) Pena was simply a September call-up for the Rangers in 2001, and that was it for his time in Texas. He was traded to the A's the following January. Oakland isn't exactly a place with a clean reputation either...

QUOTE (ZoomSlowik @ Jun 24, 2011 -> 11:59 AM) The odds are not in the Bulls' favor, but a sampling of some quality guards that have gone 23rd or later since 2000... Monta Ellis (high school, so not totally fair) Michael Redd Gilbert Arenas Kevin Martin Tony Parker (though may not totally be fair since he was a foreigner) Josh Howard (guard/forward) Mo Williams Aaron Afflalo Whether or not anyone in this brutal draft turns out to be that good is an entirely different story. 8 out of what, a couple of hundred?

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Jun 24, 2011 -> 12:22 PM) People argue just to win Also just another form of tribalism etc. That article is BS.

QUOTE (SoxFan562004 @ Jun 24, 2011 -> 12:15 PM) I had the same thought, but like you point out about them winning and losing a manager, this is such a bizarre situation it might have the opposite effect. We did beat Oakland in the same situation FWIW, which really isn't much.

QUOTE (SouthSidePride05 @ Jun 23, 2011 -> 08:45 PM) If the Sox have a chance at winning the BP Cup in Game 2 or 3, will they open up the Cell so Sox fans can watch it on the jumbotron? I'm going to Daley Center today to save a spot for the rally.

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Jun 24, 2011 -> 12:11 PM) Give me an article. Give me rumors. Don't give me idiot caller from Springfield on the Score. Oh I know. But it isn't the first time it has happened here either. I am pretty sure I remember someone attributing the health of what was supposed to be a degenerative hip condition to being on the stuff.

QUOTE (Stan Bahnsen @ Jun 24, 2011 -> 11:48 AM) 2 under is as close as we've been since 11-22. Need a better performance from EJax tonight. Yep. We got to three under a few times, but always lost the next game.

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Jun 24, 2011 -> 12:09 PM) This is irresponsible and shouldn't even be a post. If we make a thread on what every moron speculates, this.board.is.dead. I don't like it, but this is all about Bud Selig refusing to take control of this situation in MLB. NO ONE is above being accused.

QUOTE (MAX @ Jun 24, 2011 -> 12:00 PM) I did say "good poster" so maybe that doesn't include me. BUT regardless if its one moderator, or a team of moderators making terrible decisions, it has happened. Sometimes a group comes to a worse decision than an individual. 'One of us can never be as stupid as all of us' I will testify that the mod/admin here does way better than any of us would do individually, myself included. I am proud as hell of the work that people put in behind the scenes at Soxtalk. The fact that this thread is even a conversation, instead of closed and pinned thread tells me a lot.