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QUOTE (Jordan4life @ Apr 8, 2010 -> 04:27 PM) Teams aren't wasting any time getting their young talent locked up. Smart moves. You have to believe that this recession won't last forever, and every player you can get locked up at a lower scale, the better.

QUOTE (Milkman delivers @ Apr 9, 2010 -> 11:34 PM) I'm sure there are quite a few idiots out there, but it's no reason for him to be saying those things. And I hope you mean "dumb" in the sense of baseball, as I'm sure Ozzie knows more than most in that regard. I'd wager that quite a lot of people are more intelligent than him, though. the last part is 100% true. The guy is like a sixth or seventh grade dropout if I remember correctly. He pretty much quit school to play baseball.

QUOTE (South Side Fireworks Man @ Apr 9, 2010 -> 11:23 PM) Ozzie should be fired for telling his company's customers to take their business to the competition. Also, I thought I heard him say something on CTL before the game about "idiots" that think they know baseball and something like "that's why they have to get up at 4:00 in the morning and I have this bleepin' job." Very condescending to the fans. Couple this with his poor eye for talent, his poor in-game managing and his inability to make out a decent lineup and I think he has finally worn out his welcome. I liked Ozzie but his time has come. He wanted this mess of a roster so now he has to take the blame for wasting this great pitching staff. Yes, it's early, but if he's going to insult the fans who are upset at his team's poor performance it's already time for him to go. Maybe some fans are overreacting, but you don't insult your fans. Compared to what a guy who has been doing this all of his life knows... he is right.

QUOTE (southsideirish71 @ Apr 9, 2010 -> 11:12 PM) He doesn't care about anyones feelings on this, and he isn't resigning. So this is pointless. And thank God for that. Anyone who cares what the fans on a message board think of how to manage a baseball team need to be fired on the spot.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Apr 10, 2010 -> 02:21 PM) Here's a different way at looking at it. It's the job of legislative branches to write laws, and for executive branches to enforce laws (although executives do a fair amount of writing these days also). If it's the court's job to interpret those laws, can't it at least be occasionally useful to have the opinion and perhaps expertise of a person who's spent his time writing and executing laws? Writing and executing laws has nothing do with actually interpreting what laws mean. Anyone can write a law.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Apr 10, 2010 -> 02:13 PM) VDN and Forman are at odds over Noah's minutes. So one minutes he is reviled for playing Noah and endangering him, then when he sticks to the limit, he is in trouble again. This franchise is a mess.

QUOTE (WCSox @ Apr 10, 2010 -> 04:07 PM) Could be sooner rather than later. Unless Jenks returns to his 2007/2008 form this season, I don't see him in a Sox uni next year. Given the payroll that they'll carry into next season, it would make a lot more sense to trade Bobby's rights for a prospect than to pay him $8M+ to be a very average closer. If Jenks doesn't have a good year, they might not even be able to do that much...

QUOTE (Rex Kicka** @ Apr 10, 2010 -> 07:42 AM) If that's a double standard, how is expecting a nebulous movement with no national leaders or direction to have the same respect as national political organizations not a double standard? Like it or not, the good work your Tea Party organization might be doing is always going to be drowned out by the bats*** crazy people who make headlines with their outrageousness as long as your organization has no national face and no national direction but demand national coverage. I don't know it you noticed, but crazy usually speaks louder than good. That's sort of my point. You can't have it both ways. Or they are a threat to the established parties, so there is a large incentive to make the bats*** crazy people their "spokespeople". That is my point. You obviously don't know much of the organization because you keep trying to make the failed point that they don't stand for any one thing. The name of the group tells you their main point. The extra stuff that gets emphasized instead of the thing that is spoken about at 90% of their rally's. Its funny that the same standards don't get applied to the fringes of the environmental movement. You've got people attacking ships and blowing up cars in the name of environmentalism, yet it doesn't seem to suffer at all as a national movement. They appear everywhere in the mainstream, with no mention of the outrageous of a few. Yet here people can take legitimate constitutional issues that folks have, and turn them into some sort of nutjob fringe movement. Yeah, those bats*** crazy constitutional authors, right? Yep, no bias there at all.

So in the people of Wal-Mart theme... our teller tonight got into a conversation about bad customers... at which time she proceded to inform us that "black people are the worst, they think they own the place" To which I replied... "Don't even get me started on the Jews..." She shut up pretty quick. It was excellent.

Great thinking lex.

QUOTE (quickman @ Apr 9, 2010 -> 07:43 PM) remmember what I told you.. Sure, but it really makes it hit home when you see him throw.

QUOTE (Melissa1334 @ Apr 9, 2010 -> 08:19 PM) "a lack of concentration by alexei" good thing we got vizquel to help alexei lol I think it was last year I referred to him as something like a hyperactive hummingbird with ADHD.

QUOTE (Rex Kicka** @ Apr 9, 2010 -> 03:26 PM) I think it has more to do with the fact that the Tea Party "movement" is a "movement" and not a party. The "movement" does not speak with one voice. It does not have one or a few leaders who you can point to and say this is the person who represents the vision of the current state of the movement. Individual "tea party" movements stand for things, but there is no national movement stance on any one thing - I think that's the issue here. I can point to that with the Democrats - Obama, Pelosi, Schumer, Reid, even Tim Kaine. I can point to that with the Republicans - Boehner, McConnell, to a lesser extent McCain, Palin and Steele. Please name me one "tea party" leader. That is an incredible double standard. If they aren't a political party, how are they going to have politicians? As for what they stand for, if the name doesn't tell you what they stand for, there is nothing I can tell you past that.

He has incredible stuff for a guy who has been pitching for less than a year. he is amazing.

QUOTE (Thunderbolt @ Apr 9, 2010 -> 07:24 PM) They're 3-1, hitting really well, and they made one terrible play. Not sure we can make judgements here I really didn't think I needed the green there...

The twins really are turning into the White Sox complete with lack of clutch hitting and stupid base running mistakes.

QUOTE (Rex Kicka** @ Apr 8, 2010 -> 01:52 PM) The problem with this movement is it doesn't have any leaders of any consequence (or at least any supporter would admit to having as a leader), and it doesn't have any real purpose or aim. I can tell you what the Democratic Party stands for and what they would want to do on a substantive level, I can do the same with Republicans (in most cases), I can even do the same with Socialists, the Green Party folks and many other third party and non-aligned party movements. I can't do it with the Tea Party, because I just don't know. I think that makes it easy to say I stand for the "Tea Party" because there's nothing to stand alongside with. Great example of bias in reporting. They stand for lots of things so now they are some how they have no aim. When the Democrats do it, it is called a large umbrella. If you don't know the big things the tea party's stand for, its because you haven't paid attention, or want to dismiss them easily.

Gordo

QUOTE (bmags @ Apr 7, 2010 -> 10:51 PM) Alright. seriously. What the f*** are you guys complaining about. You want the GOP thread to have more posts? Post more. I'm not going to apologize for posting a lot in the dem thread with the posters i like. What are the mods supposed to do? Delete posts in the dem thread? You all seem to equate more posts in the dem thread with more hate...it's not. And there are quite a bit of posts in there with random posts form righters here that are just "hey nancy pelosi sucks! but i hate Bush too, so i'm fine!". We read a lot of blogs. We post them. THey are left leaning blogs. We post them in the dem thread. That's the point. It's the point of the dem thread. To have dem things in it. And not clog up the forum. You want to know the difference? When you guys talk about liberals and dems, we don't take it personally, because there is a large part of it we don't identify with. When we identify the f***in crazy sending nooses to congressman, Kap goes off about OOOHH SO I AM A RACIST RIIIIGHT WELL NONE OF THIS HAS EVER HAPPENED blah blah blah. Honestly I wouldn't have said anything, because this is the exact response I knew was coming. If people hadn't have gotten mocked for thinking that, I wouldn't have even bothered because I knew this was what would be said. Complete acceptance. As for the last part of this, I can't believe you guys actually haven't figured Kap out. That's just funny.

Nice play by Marte to end it.

That curve is just nasty.

Come on Alex, put on into the pen.

Ball 4

Well at least Bobby shut it down after the one run.

OK Bobby, gotta minimize here.