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QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Mar 20, 2010 -> 04:20 PM) The Padres also had zero choice but to move that salary, and were probably ecstatic to find a taker for it at 100% in last year's market, especially after Jake got hurt and couldn't immediately help any team that picked him up. Edit: Oh, and there's a new GM and front office in San Diego now, so even if Towers was angry with us, the new folks didn't make that trade. There were plenty of teams who wanted him, but he wasn't willing to play for lots of them.

QUOTE (justBLAZE @ Mar 20, 2010 -> 04:05 PM) Would you say that Padres got ripped of on that trade? If yes, would it make it harder for their GM to deal with Kenny in the future? The Padres would pretty well backed into the corner by the trade demands of Peavy. They weren't able to get max value for sure.

QUOTE (Thunderbolt @ Mar 20, 2010 -> 04:04 PM) I still find it hard to believe that he gained about two MPH's on his fastball about two weeks before we traded him last year. This was a guy who was supposed to throw 91, who started averaging 93. I don't. It is very common actually.

It is crazy that they are looking at Clayton as their #3 or #4 pitcher.

This Butler/Murray St game is another great one.

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Mar 20, 2010 -> 11:33 AM) I was one of these people who was very wrong. Now that I think about it, it wasn't like Hummel carried the team every single game, they do have tons ofother talent. I think the really putrid showing vs. Minnesota, combined with the mid-major hype machine towards Siena threw me off. They played awful down the stretch, usually that is pretty good sign of things to come.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Mar 20, 2010 -> 03:27 PM) We saw with the "Health care summit" what happens when you put things on CNN. Everyone's fanny tightens up so much you could make diamond out of coal yeah, it tends to get a lot harder once you get past the glittering generalities.

QUOTE (justBLAZE @ Mar 20, 2010 -> 12:54 PM) Sure doesn't look like the Teahen that used to kill Buehrle on daily basis. Maybe Mark needs to throw his BP sessions?

QUOTE (Kalapse @ Mar 20, 2010 -> 11:44 AM) What a tremendous clusterf***! When will the madness end? Oh wait, it never f***ing got going in the first place. Well at least Ozzie gets it so all of that Ozzie vs Kenny stuff should be over.

no prob

So after the first round of the tourney, on ESPN.com, out of the 4.8 million submitted brackets, exactly zero are fully correct.

QUOTE (chisoxfan09 @ Mar 20, 2010 -> 07:12 AM) Quin, no it is actually the "QUOTE" button to grab the entire syntax of the previous reply. It just turns red for some reason. I have tried both Firefox and IE 8 and they both display the same behavior. Strange. That is the multiquote feature, it doesn't work like a reply button. If you have multiple posts you want to reply to at the same time, you click the quote button on each of them. Then you hit reply at the end of the thread, and they will all show up to reply to.

QUOTE (SoxAce @ Mar 20, 2010 -> 03:06 AM) He's reminding me of Rios last year on his swing/confidence. Just hope he doesn't feel he as to do too much (changing teams, new environment, etc..). He's used to having good spring training stats, so this is new for him. For a while in these ST games, he was having the worst luck of any hitter on the team. (his BABIP was off the charts) Luckily it's only spring training so he has time to iron out the kinks. I would still bank on him hitting better during the season than some of these guys (including some guys on our team) hitting .400+ right now. He'll be fine IMO. I was actually more interested in his defense at 3B for a while to be honest. Based on what I saw of Teahen yesterday, he seems like he is in the part of the slump where he is closing his eyes and praying his guesses right. Hopefully this is all out of his system in a couple of weeks.

QUOTE (chiguy79 @ Mar 20, 2010 -> 09:58 AM) Ozzie has nothing to be upset about, his son chose TWITTER over the WHITE SOX...it was his decision get over it. If Ozzie wants to make the same choice let him terminate his contract so he can twitter all day long...my guess is the Sox are the only (or small handful) of organization(s) that would put up with Ozzie's antics and if Ozzie is smart he knows that. Oney, grow up and get a real job without your Dad's help, grow out of his shadow into something that you made out of yourself. I know if I was Tweeting bad things about my company I would be fired tomorrow. I can't think of anyone who wouldn't be unemployed after stunts like that.

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/articl...Ra_UqAD9EFOA2O0

That might have been the worst looking buzzerbeater I have ever seen.

QUOTE (bighurt4life @ Mar 19, 2010 -> 08:20 PM) I would suspect that the game is played differently in the US than in Cuba as well. All in all there were a LOT of adjustments that he had to make in his transition to the US, and his performance in May-Sept is probably much more indicative of his abilities than his April numbers, especially considering the sample size. I worked as a person who aided in the transition for kids starting their freshmen year of college, and I know how much that messed up some kids. Multiply that times 10 in the case of someone like Viciedo, and remember that he is very close to the same age.

QUOTE (Rex Kicka** @ Mar 19, 2010 -> 07:52 PM) I'm pretty sure that they haven't run the country like the Republicans. In fact when organizing the Senate in 2009, they went so far as to say that reestablishing the rules of the chamber would take a 67 vote supermajority, to prevent something like the "Nuclear Option" that the GOP proposed doing in 2005 from actually happening. Playing hardball with existing rules and using them in specific, extraordinary circumstances to pass a bill and not to change the way government is run, is not Karl Rove style governance. It's the way Congress works. And its the way its worked for centuries. It's not pretty, its not pie in the sky, but its how it works. What I think is most precious about this argument is that you argue that if the Democrats don't immediately fold into Republican obstructionism, they are clearly as bad as the people you identify with. Funny, I spent eight years of listening to the exact opposite arguments. Back then it had nothing to do with how the government worked, and it was all about government being rammed down our throats. Funny how that has changed.

QUOTE (Buehrle>Wood @ Mar 19, 2010 -> 07:41 PM) Well no duh. It just confirmed that they didn't belong to begin with. The last teams in and the first teams out this year were garbage. It was a tallest midget contest. None of them really belonged.

QUOTE (Jordan4life @ Mar 19, 2010 -> 06:57 PM) Brian Anderson hit for the cycle today. This is not a joke. Its spring training, of course he did. Talk to me on June first when he is fighting .200.

QUOTE (justBLAZE @ Mar 19, 2010 -> 07:32 PM) Well if you work for an organization like Oney WAS, they you probably shouldn't be making some of the comments he MADE. He was told to get rid of his twitter and he decided to resign instead. Ozzie should however realize kid is being a moron. Stepping back for a second, who in their right mind would be allowed to give away potential corporate trade secrets and still keep their jobs. Please raise your hands.

Well for the Ozzie Haters, this could be opening the door. Supposedly you don't mess with his kids, and the Sox pretty much just fired one.

QUOTE (Heads22 @ Mar 19, 2010 -> 06:39 PM) Mine is a smoldering crater now. Me too. My upset picks were today. Oops.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Mar 19, 2010 -> 05:22 PM) Normally out of sarcasm I'd ask you to please give me an example of the Dems b****ing about Republican usage of "Deem and Pass", but having just done a lexis search for both names for the process, I couldn't find a single article talking about it prior to this year. Strange. The Democrats spent eight years saying they weren't going to run the country like the Republicans, yet here you are digging up all of the ways that they are acting just like them. Congrats. You now are the party of Karl Rove style governance.

One swing and Morel had a better day than Teahen.