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QUOTE (Rowand44 @ Feb 13, 2011 -> 10:37 AM) Start Peavy on the dl. Yep.

QUOTE (Jordan4life @ Feb 13, 2011 -> 10:09 AM) You may as well throw me out there. Lucas Harrell couldn't crack the Pirates' rotation. The Sox can't afford to throw games away early, as they've been a perennial subpar second half squad under Ozzie. Your choices pretty much are throw away a few games on a bad AAA pitcher, burn up the pen, or burn up the starters in April. I go with throwing a Marquez/Harrell, or someone like that and wasting just a few games instead off burning up vital pitchers at the start of the season.

Bring along a Harrell or someone to be that swing man until Peavy is ready. Start Sale in the pen and leave him there.

QUOTE (Jordan4life @ Feb 12, 2011 -> 10:00 PM) I've never been what you could call a true Shaq fan. But I have to vehemently disagree with the notion that he was just a 330 pound ape that bullied and overpowered everybody. Sure, he did do that. But Shaq was a physical and athletic marvel for his size in his younger days and prime years. He had a bevy of post moves that complimented that brute force. Jump hooks, drop steps, spin moves, ect. He was also an excellent passer for a center. Shaq's peak, which I would say spanned from 1997 through 2003, was as good a peak as we've seen in the last 20 years or so (save MJ), IMO. I get a kick out of these 15-year olds today that act like Dwight Howard is the greatest discovery since internet porn. He's basically the Walmart version of Shaq. Come on man. You can't watch some prime Duncan and Olajuwon and say that Shaq had anything resembling a post move.

QUOTE (WCSox @ Feb 12, 2011 -> 08:19 PM) By the time the years of wear and tear from playing catcher begin to affect his game, it'll be too late. Mauer has a history of knee problems. It is the reason that they have been talking about moving him away from catching since he got to the majors.

QUOTE (Rowand44 @ Feb 12, 2011 -> 05:52 PM) Not arguing that. That doesn't change the fact that I hate the guy though. The only thing I enjoyed watching about Shaq was when he broke backboards. Other than that, his style bored the crap out of me. It was like watching a seventh grader steal lunch money from a first grader. It was all brute force and size.

QUOTE (juddling @ Feb 12, 2011 -> 06:06 PM) I read this off of MLB the other day about Young..... Young said Monday that he has asked the Rangers to trade him, but his partial no-trade clause stipulates there are only eight teams he will approve a trade to: Rockies, Angels, Dodgers, Padres, Yankees, Twins, Cardinals and Astros. Once again...a major leaguer with a choice of teams doesn't have the Sox on their list and sometimes i really just wonder. Putting my sox bias aside...i would think looking at this team with the pitching staff...the Adam Dunn pickup....as well as retaining AJ and Paulie....and the fact that theSox don't have a proven 3B guy, that it might look rather inviting to him. Looking at his list....he's from California and he's been in Texas for a long time so i guess the Angels, Dodgers, Padres and Astros make sense (does wanting to go the the 'Stros EVER really make sense??) Maybe the Yank-me's cause he knows they would probably overpay for his services. The Twins could use him at third but i wouldn't see them paying him that much. Not really sure about the Rockies and the Cardnials. Personally...i wouldn't like to see him in a Sox uniform but i am always curious why players don't usually have Chicago on their list of choices. Maybe he doesn't play well at the Cell???? Youngs list is odd. Usually they include the biggest teams so that they can control negotiations. They know they aren't getting traded to someone like Pittsburgh, but maybe they can get an option year exercized or something in exchange for agreeing to NY.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/baseb...0,995467.column

QUOTE (iamshack @ Feb 12, 2011 -> 03:46 PM) Yeah, I can definitely understand that point, and I wholeheartedly agree with it. You can never fall in love with a player or allow the fans to dictate what you do as an organization. It has certainly happened here before though. That being said, there is a difference between signing Hamilton because the fans would get frustrated and signing Hamilton because there is a genuine market for him, despite your misgivings. Very few players are perfect or do not involve significant risk when signing them long-term. I think Josh has been professional enough, and has been consistent enough, that I would be willing to go long term with him. It's not ideal, but given that there will be other suitors willing to, I'd do it, as long as there was a clause which allowed me to void the contract, at my discretion, if testing showed he was using illegal drugs (and obviously you'd have to set up some sort of criteria for the testing in the first place). I am sure there would be a market. It only takes one dumb team to bid against themselves and hand out a stupid contract. I also know a long term deal is a risk, but Hamilton has two big strikes of his drug history and his injury history to consider, which most other players don't have. If it were my team, I would sign a lesser player to a long term deal before Hamilton, if they didn't have those two other red flags. Ideally, sure if you can get him to agree to a no drugs clause you do it, but there is nothing saying that another team wouldn't make him do that. There is also nothing saying that it is drugs that derails his career. With what heroin does to your body, he could break down years before a normal player, and no one would be surprised. He could be as clean as could be, but that damage is done already.

QUOTE (Buehrle>Wood @ Feb 12, 2011 -> 04:32 PM) Someone give me an internship for the summer with something relating to Finance. Thanks. What do you mean by "finance"? I know the exchanges always hire interns during the summer month.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Feb 12, 2011 -> 03:46 PM) In this world? Absolutely. Here we are again with the idea that cell phones and internet access for families isn't completely necessary in the modern world, which I think is ludicrous. And anyway...as I pointed out but you brushed off...all those purchases have done is replace other purchases that have either gone down in price or been phased out. Otherwise, the income fractions spent on those items would have gone up, not stayed steady. That's why I keep saying every version of this argument you guys make, where you want to lecture people for buying things you judge to be unnecessary, is tantamount to saying that the Middle Class lifestyle needs to take a step back. The Middle Class needs to stop pretending that they can have a Middle Class lifestyle. Well that explains a lot honestly.

QUOTE (iamshack @ Feb 12, 2011 -> 03:36 PM) The guy just put up an MVP-like season and has been very solid the last few years. Would you be willing to refuse to that if you were Texas, knowing full-well you just lost Cliff Lee for not ponying up enough money, and knowing that some other team is going to be willing to offer Hamilton a long-term contract? It's certainly a roll of the dice, but I think it's going to have to be one they take the risk on. I buy into the Sox theory of putting the team before the fans. It might lead to unpopular decisions, like letting Frank Thomas walk away, but in the long run if you want to be a viable (non-Yankees) franchise, you have to make them.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Feb 12, 2011 -> 03:30 PM) The thing you explicitly criticize as "unnecessary consumer spending" is maintaining a constant standard of middle class living. You're rephrasing it here but it's the same exact point. Middle Class people today need to work harder and make due with less than middle class people in the last generation. If they attempt to get around that using any means that you don't approve of, then you criticize. You don't see there being a difference between middle class and every member of the family having an I-phone spending? That's not maintaining a constant anything. That is spending more on luxury items. None of those graphs you put up really identify that category well enough for my liking. Or do you really think laptops for the whole family fits under "Home furnishings"?

QUOTE (Rowand44 @ Feb 12, 2011 -> 01:47 PM) Rios just really isn't that great of a hitter, Dunn and PK should really be batting 3-4. Rios will probably be a better hitter with PK and Dunn behind him versus anyone else in this line up.

QUOTE (lostfan @ Feb 12, 2011 -> 02:49 PM) It's actually really, really hard to get into the FBI. There is a joke in there...

QUOTE (Buehrle>Wood @ Feb 12, 2011 -> 03:09 PM) I hate rushing the court elitism. I would rush the court against Savannah State if people came with me. Thanks for saying that.

That was just an epic defensive collapse by OSU today. You know Wiscy is going to shoot the three. You have got to defend the stripe.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Feb 12, 2011 -> 02:57 PM) The reason I'm a jerk on things like this is that Y2HH's POV leads to the conclusion that improving middle class living standards is a bad thing. No, it leads to the conclusion that people are responsible for their own messes by their own excesses. Relying on debt for unnecessary consumer spending isn't "improving middle class living standards". That's the mentality of "I can't be broke, I have more checks still!" that seems to be permeating down from our federal government and into our personal lives.

Mitch Daniels is the headline at Drudge with a great speech.

QUOTE (knightni @ Feb 12, 2011 -> 11:20 AM) Yeah. All he did was dunk. Then he had issues at Kentucky and went to Jr College in Texas. Freakish athletic ability and a 40+ inch vertical at that level gets you noticed very quickly, no matter what the rest of your game looks like. A kid can learn a post move, they can't learn a 40 inch vertical.

It's amazing that in 12 votes, 7 players have votes.

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Feb 12, 2011 -> 10:45 AM) I guess i don't feel like im so much older than you. You would have liked Blake griffin 1.0 aka Shawn kemp. I'm old enough to remember the legend of Kemp coming out of Concord HS.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Feb 12, 2011 -> 10:02 AM) Really, it's hard to disagree with the sentiment...and I'll admit I'm always more pumped about our young guys than others, but I think Morel is going to seriously impress this year. I've not nothing against Morel, and I think he will be a solid player. I just think if we have a chance at Michael Young for 2011 remembering the whole "All-in" thing, we take it.

This was the topic of discussion on the Score this morning, and I thought I would steal it.