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Because it is not the off-season any longer!

QUOTE (bucket-of-suck @ Mar 3, 2011 -> 03:39 PM) Seriously, Melton needs to go away. Ventura would be such a better analyst for this team going forward. Ventura has publicly said he doesn't want to work right now.

Damn, I want to know who screwed up Green Eggs and Ham!!!

QUOTE (Kalapse @ Mar 3, 2011 -> 11:16 AM) He is out of options. Do you need an option if you sign a minor league deal?

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Mar 3, 2011 -> 08:04 AM) Say what you want about Tommie Harris's play, he always seemed to be a fun, good guy. Opened the paper this morning and saw this full page ad. It is always nice to see an athlete understand his station in life and how lucky he really is.

QUOTE (flavum @ Mar 3, 2011 -> 10:17 AM) Elijah Dukes at it again. Can they just castrate this guy, and throw him in jail? http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=6177350 Not many guys can hit their way out of baseball...

QUOTE (JorgeFabregas @ Mar 3, 2011 -> 09:59 AM) I don't get the Tiger hype. I like their lineup, but their starting rotation looks to have two excellent pitchers and a lot of backwash. I'm with you. I see a team that finishes around .500

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Mar 2, 2011 -> 02:19 PM) Phillies might disagree, I'd imagine. The best part of that is AJ saying his teammates would take up a collection to get the cops to taze AJ.

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Mar 2, 2011 -> 08:31 PM) It doesn't get any better than Sharp-Toews-Kane I came on here after watching that highlight just to say pretty much that. Seriously that was one of the best goals of the entire season in the NHL.

That last 30 seconds looked like a bad high school team running around with its head cutoff.

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Mar 2, 2011 -> 04:25 PM) Packers cut AJ Hawk. is there some kind of roster bonus or something to justify that?

Well that was as bizzare of a first quarter as I remember for a while.

Is it to soon to start planning my 104 party or do I have to wait for 103 to be official first?

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Mar 2, 2011 -> 01:55 PM) How exactly is drilling even a short term solution? Ignoring the startup times...we've been drilling like f***ing madmen for the last decade. There are huge supplies that have already been tapped and drilled but which aren't being deployed because of either a lack of pumping resources or the fact that it makes good economic sense to wait and sell the product in a few years when the price is even higher. Combined with the fact that despite all the drilling that has been done, domestic production continues to decline and will continue to decline...this is a joke. And anyway, if we're concerned about the impact on the poor, when you pump more, it just gets consumed by the wealthier people and the poor people get very little. Start up times is a piss pour excuse. We have had the same problem for years now, and we keep ignoring it for some uptopic ideal, that is probably not going to happen. This cloud hanging over the oil industry is all of the reason that they need not to advance at all. Why would you invest billions if the whole idea was to replace you? The answer is you wouldn't, and that is why we have $100 oil now. That is why production continues to decline.

QUOTE (Lillian @ Mar 2, 2011 -> 01:57 PM) I wouldn't describe his effort as "toiling" in the minors. He dominated during his time there. The explanation for why he has not had more time in the Majors is quite simple. He has had one hip and two back surgeries. It's reasonable to question his health, which I do as well. However, is it really fair to say that he has already demonstrated that he can't play in the Majors? Still same question, different form. How many people establish themselves as major leaguers at 31?

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Mar 2, 2011 -> 02:11 PM) I was in 11th grade, 9th period physics at the time. Teacher's name was Yan Wolfman, mad Russian who would occasionally run out of the classroom to trade stocks. People in class managed to convince him to turn TV on. At the time the shot went in, the entire class erupted in cheers. From down the hall, you could hear a similar eruption from just about every classroom. Whole damn school had that game on. I had a special connection to Drew anyway. I got to broadcast his high school state finals from Indy the year that team went down there. I got to meet Homer and interview him and everything. Talking about a special sports moment for me personally, that was it.

QUOTE (Lillian @ Mar 2, 2011 -> 01:34 PM) Is that really fair? He's only had 371 Major League at bats, all but 11 of those were before he turned 26. Don't you think that it's a little premature to judge his ability to play at the Big League level? Ted Williams used to say that it takes about 1,000 at bats for most guys to figure it out at the Major League level. What better source of wisdom on the subject can you consult than Ted Williams? You tell me... How many guys toil in the minors until they are 31 and then become starters at the major league level in some productive capacity?

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Mar 2, 2011 -> 12:58 PM) So what is your answer? Additional production? Tax credits so that the government pays for energy rather than the poor people? How about quit acting like not drilling in the short term is a solution?

Jalapenos would be a good idea.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Mar 2, 2011 -> 10:23 AM) Wait, what? If we were to accomplish the "Huge win" of getting off of oil, that would be a boon to those poor families, because that would theoretically stabilize transportation/energy costs for the future. Sure, and how many decades down the road would that actually take to be anything near reality? In the meantime we have oil shortages and electricity delivery problems to deal with because anyone in those in industries would do anything because they know it would be throwing money down a drain.

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Mar 2, 2011 -> 12:17 PM) Interesting comment during a video being shown at Apple: Where is CPS getting money for iPads? If you look at it as getting a deal in bulk, and thinking of the books and supplies they wouldn't have to buy, it actually makes sense. I'd love to see education move away from a books and paper format into a computer format.

I'd have to throw in some random March Madness moments. Bryce Drew's shot in the tourney to win an opening round game and Tyus Edney going end to end to win a game at the buzzers' were legendary.

QUOTE (YASNY @ Mar 2, 2011 -> 09:25 AM) Morel is hardly a sure thing, Teahen is not the answer and Vizquel is too old to hold the job through the season. Tank is, well, lacking defensively. I'm not saying it'll happen, but the opportunity for DM is there if he can grab it. Just by your list, that makes him the 5th person in line.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Mar 2, 2011 -> 08:36 AM) Still amazes me that people don't see the huge win in getting off oil, and making it a moon-mission level agenda item. So many jobs to be created, so much long term savings in energy costs, so much less pollution. There are few things the federal government can spend money on that would get a better multiplier. The "huge win" comes with a huge price. This is going to kill poor families who can afford to have their transportation costs potentially multiply. That has been my biggest problem with all of this so far.

QUOTE (Lillian @ Mar 2, 2011 -> 08:31 AM) Well, with the condition that he were healthy, and adequate defensively, third base. That would give the Sox one more big left handed bat, which they still lack, with Dunn providing the only real left handed threat. They're much better balanced in that regard than they were last year, but they are still very heavily weighted with right handed hitting. If they are still considering Teahen as a third base candidate, then why shouldn't they consider McPherson. He is probably better defensively, and has much more potential offensively than Teahen. If they simply want to go with the best defense at third, then Morel is the obvious choice. Vizquel should be a late inning defensive replacement, and their first option as backup at 3rd, SS and 2nd. I love Omar, but at 44, it just isn't realistic to expect him to be much more than that. If there was even a hint of an opening, it would be different. But there are so many people in line in front of Dallas, who don't have near the questions that he does, it would take something crazy for him to be a realistic option. It isn't like we are talking about a bullpen spot where there is legitimate competition right now, or the 5th starter spot where Peavy is still a question mark.