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Ripken already proved it is all about durability.

QUOTE (Kalapse @ Oct 31, 2010 -> 09:22 PM) You're 100% correct; if he's traded this offseason the team that picks him up will only be on the hook for his $14M 2011 salary. The escalators and option year were just added in lieu of giving him a full no trade clause, now that his 10/5 rights have kicked in those are no longer in effect. While not making it likely that he gets moved, it makes it a lot more possible, that's for sure.

Oh I would say you read about 69696 of them.

Let me just say that I now have seventy thousand posts.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Oct 31, 2010 -> 07:49 PM) Good to hear. Now the question will be whether or not Thibs recognizes that. Our previous coaches would respond to the games when a young player did something right with a benching. I think he is the kind of coach that will appreciate that, just judging by what has been said about him.

QUOTE (Soxbadger @ Oct 31, 2010 -> 05:57 PM) Itll be impressive if Farve can play next week, he may have suffered a broken jaw. If there was ever a fitting injury for a player to get...

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Oct 31, 2010 -> 07:52 PM) Bar is keeping score. I caught that. I am constantly amazed at how few people know how to do that anymore. There are only a few of us on my softball team that can do it.

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Oct 31, 2010 -> 04:33 PM) way to go cah ray zee buhbuhburrrrlz. Congrats. ^ Yeah, crazy to go from 4 to 1 in a week. Should we do another round and start all over?

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Oct 31, 2010 -> 12:24 PM) Really? Johnson had a solid game last night? That's good to hear, I still want to get something out of that guy. He did a lot of things that didn't show up in the statsheet. He had a very solid game.

QUOTE (J.Reedfan8 @ Oct 31, 2010 -> 04:55 PM) We stress it enough (same with Tyrus) over the years Balta. When a young player actually plays consistantly, he can succeed. JJ has a much better future than Tyrus though, because his BBall I.Q. is much, much higher. JJ was really good last night. This is also why I was very vocal on the Bulls acquiring another shooter. Pre-season is much different than the games that matter. Those shots Bogans and Deng were making in the pre-season when no one was guarding them.. won't happen as often when players actually give a s***. I would say it was more just a bad game for them (though that is the inconsistancy with Deng that were used to seeing) than them not hitting what they can't hit. Still costing Rose 3-5 assists a game. So is my two year old's...

Hopefully Obama was taking notes on how to throw out a first pitch...

Justice comes only to the meek.

Helens, Saint, wasn't a very major eruption in the grand scheme of things.

QUOTE (TheBigHurt @ Oct 31, 2010 -> 12:25 PM) That's a lot of unnecessary analysis over a very simply concept. So you've never seen us (or anyone else) make a trade and thought, "WOW, we/they actually think they are getting something good here???" I didn't make any mistake, I don't have anything I need to admit, there's nothing to really thin through here; I'm making a very simple observation. You're being over-analytical. AGAIN, I'm not saying it's embarrassing that someone might want him like you and others keep insisting. I'm just saying that it's embarrassing to tack on the fact we're willing to trade our MANAGER and that this comes after a clusterf*** season of bad managing and bad behavior (which includes him and his son). I don't know how many times I have to repeat myself. Again, where are you getting that we were willing to trade our manager? The Marlins asked to talk to Ozzie. If you believe this story, the Marlins approached us about a trade, not the other way around. No one at any point said that we were willing to trade him. There is nothing that said we will trade Ozzie for X. Florida isn't saying that. Kenny isn't saying that. Ozzie isn't saying that. No one has said that, but yet you keep repeating it. Where the heck are you getting that from?

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Oct 31, 2010 -> 09:30 AM) This. My post had a bit of drunken homerism attached to it, but it wasn't meant to dis Matta. I think Weber is a slightly better X & O coach, but Matta obviously knows what he is doing too. Either way, I would gladly take either of the two as the coach of my college. Don't worry about it... Rock is about as objective with OSU as Ranger is with the Sox...

Unsurprising to see you defend the snowbirds.

QUOTE (maggsmaggs @ Oct 31, 2010 -> 10:44 AM) Noah is my favorite player in the league. Always plays like there is a chip on his shoulder. He will probably deserve an All-Star berth this year. Rose is the consummate superstar. Always about the team, no ego whatsoever and always plays hard. Can't wait til we get Boozer back, it is gonna make this team dynamite. Three All-Star-caliber players. That's when Korver/Deng will be most dangerous when we have that low-post scoring threat to help spread the floor. The extra scorer is going to be really important. They have struggled scoring when Rose isn't since Gordon left. Boozer will be a huge add for this team.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Oct 31, 2010 -> 10:13 AM) One thing some may not realize about Ramon Castro is that he's about a year older than AJP. So if you think AJ is old for a catcher, I don't know how you would expect Castro to hold up for more than about 40 games started considering his age and physical condition. I also believe one big issue the White Sox have with re-signing Konerko or AJ regardless of what they say or will say publicly is if they are re-signed they automatically have no trade clauses. I think if things went sour, KW would like the flexibility to move salary if he wished, and move it where he could get the best deal. Well for starters... AJ 1365 games played, 5207 PA, 11088 Innings caught Castro 544 games played, 1528 PA, 3326 Innings caught

Sucky tourists ruin everything for us locals.

I know it won't be on the list anywhere, but the movie that scared me worse than anything growing up was War of the Worlds. That used to freak me out for days.

QUOTE (witesoxfan @ Oct 31, 2010 -> 08:02 AM) You have a banana. Norberto has pudding. You generally prefer pudding to bananas. Norberto prefers bananas to pudding. You trade your banana for Norberto's pudding. You believe you have improved yourself through this trade, and Norberto believes the same. You do not know if you have improved yourself - hence, the reasoning behind a trade. You see that the pudding is tapioca, and nobody likes tapioca pudding, not even people who claim to like it. Why would a team make a trade that they believed they lost the second they made it? When you go shopping, would you buy spoiled bread that is expensive or non-spoiled bread that is cheap? Obviously, the non-spoiled bread, because you believe it will improve yourself. Turns out that mold on the bread was penicillin, you have a major respiratory infection, and the cheap bread you bought actually contains a meningitis bacteria, and you lose the ability to lose your legs due to the ingestion of that bread. Initially, you believed you had made a good trade of money for product, but instead you made a poor one and did not know it. How is this hard to understand? --- Are you just trying to justify a point that you know was wrong and now you don't want to admit a mistake? No matter your feelings about Ozzie Guillen, if the Marlins tried to trade for him, then he has value. If Ozzie Guillen were viewed as a mediocre or bad manager around the game, such as Ned Yost, the Marlins would not ask to talk to him. Is that hard to understand? --- I am not arguing whether he is a good manager or not - I believe he is a terrible in-game manager who gets outmanaged about 75% of the time and that his non-game skills have eroded due to family issues - but instead about his value. If the Marlins asked to talk to him about their manager position, then, according to the precedent set, he is a well respected manager. They would not ask to talk to him if they believed he was a bad manager. Is that really that hard to understand? Exactly.

QUOTE (witesoxfan @ Oct 31, 2010 -> 08:33 AM) You've never explained yourself with actual facts as to why you hate management so much. Instead, you've held onto this pre-2005 philosophy that management doesn't spend money to help the team, nor do they really spend money at all. Why? Yeah, 88 wins is chopped liver. GMAFB Eh, he's really good at spouting one liners and then ignoring questions about them.

The Bulls looked like they really missed Kirk as they couldn't defend Ben to save their lives.

Technical question. It is possible to put an OOTP file in a shared drive so that I can play it on the PC and on the laptop, so that I can always play the same franchise?

QUOTE (JoeCoolMan24 @ Oct 30, 2010 -> 06:11 PM) And a smaller butt, and no Homer hands. I disagree with the smaller butt. I think they have never been at the same buffet at the same time, because there would have been a fight.