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Having those guys locked up will be awesome. You are getting the prime years for all of them.

A snub of They Might Be Giants will cause a virtual riot.

QUOTE (Princess Dye @ Nov 18, 2009 -> 11:15 AM) If Flowers is traded it really puts the Sox in a spot. They bring in Blanco and then they risk severing the relationship with AJ. As things stand now, I bet AJ would back for a series of short term cheaper deals........it would just have to guarantee him playing time. It's the same deal if they keep Flowers though. AJ would be gone after this year, I'd bet As opposed to asking him to teach and mentor his replacement? I think bringing a guy in on a cheap one year deal is better for AJ than working his successor in.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Nov 18, 2009 -> 02:52 PM) Really, you actually think their goal is to keep people out of work so that the government can get bigger? Because they clearly won't be punished at the ballot box if people are kept out of work? To respond with a bit of reality, despite the huge growth in debt and the money supply, interest rates paid on government debt are still near historic lows (although they've recovered from the crisis point last year), based on historic estimations the ideal interest rate right now from the fed should be something like -5% (which they can't get to because of the zero bound), we're probably years away from having employment drop enough that consumer demand could genuinely push inflation, the fed has virtually infinite power right now to fight inflation since interest rates are so low, and as shown by the interest rates, there is not even a credible belief in the markets that inflation is in the offing, even if that would be one way to rebuild the foundation of the economy and get out of the trade deficit mess. You mean like they punished FDR?

Now we are doing poetry? Hell, no.

QUOTE (b-Rye @ Nov 17, 2009 -> 10:33 PM) Seems like this deal isn't serious or was just a thought/proposal that went no where fast... nobody else is even reporting about.. Cowley is a d-bag but probably right. Good god. Re-read the first post in this entire thread and click the link. Read that text, and then post again.

Hmm, looks like no one.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Nov 17, 2009 -> 03:57 PM) I know the Bulls are hard up against the Luxury tax and this could cost cap space next offseason, but Hinrich and Ellis's deals do match up. Hinrich + a $1.5 million piece (Aaron Gray or James Johnson) keeps the bulls balanced against the Tax this season as well, I think. The bulls could really, really use a backcourt scorer right now. That would be a huge add, and exactly what they need.

WWII in HD is just incredible.

Egads. We have made 4000 posts out of this? Wow.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Nov 17, 2009 -> 09:56 PM) I have a sudden urge to attempt to do to Cowley what Stephen Colbert has done to O'Reilly and now Beck. Or what Rick Morrisey did to Kotex regarding the 05 Sox?

QUOTE (Athomeboy_2000 @ Nov 17, 2009 -> 08:30 PM) 2 months after I graduated I got married, I needed better money than beginner radio money. So, I went to work as the technology coordinator at my church. It payed better. I got four job offers in sports radio. I turned down all of them because I could make better money in retail.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Nov 17, 2009 -> 07:28 PM) There are many comments we all could make about Cowley's "training" but they all are suspension-worthy. Trust me, it wouldn't happen.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Nov 17, 2009 -> 07:26 PM) You would think a guy who beat cancer and gets paid to do what he does would be wound a little less tightly. I could understand how a guy writing for a paper would really despise any and all bloggers, but if the information is wrong, why would it upset him so much? The only way Cowley is going to look bad is if he gets scooped by a blogger. If anything he just made a lot more people read the blog. He really is a loser. He thinks he's a writer, comedian, talk show host, but all he really is is an insecure hack. He despises anyone who could threaten his job... which is pretty much anyone with Comedy Central and ESPN.

QUOTE (iamshack @ Nov 17, 2009 -> 07:04 PM) One of the rare things we agree on. My issue with Cowley is that as a beat-writer working in a major metropolitan area, for a major news outlet, his work just isn't up to snuff. He doesn't come close to offering out pieces like Gordon Edes, Susan Slusser, or former beat writers Buster Olney, Tim Kurkjian, Ken Rosenthal, etc,. His pieces are uninformed, illogical conjecture which bring absolutely nothing to the table. It does not appear that the White Sox are particularly enamored with his work either, as they certainly don't seem to go out of their way to give him much of anything in the way of valuable information. As fans of a major market team, we deserve better than Joe Cowley. And that ticks me off. We have much better than that in Chicago. Quit reading the D-bag, and start reading stuff that comes out of CSN and the Trib.

QUOTE (JPN366 @ Nov 17, 2009 -> 06:32 PM) Since Jay Hineybird is Jay Hineybird, can we have a vote on Cowley's nickname? My vote is for "Cowleysaurus." Just call him Hineybird Jr. That is all he is. All least Kotex did something original in Chicago. Cowley isn't even smart enough to do that much.

QUOTE (Thunderbolt @ Nov 17, 2009 -> 02:05 PM) Maybe we can arrange a beer summit, so these two can talk it out? Or, hell maybe next time we should just have a dance off? That just makes me want to throw up... THINK OF THE CHILDREN!

Except when their White Sox are insulted...

QUOTE (smalls2598 @ Nov 17, 2009 -> 01:36 PM) And your winner is.. . . . . Zach Greinke! Excellent.

QUOTE (Athomeboy_2000 @ Nov 17, 2009 -> 12:44 PM) ok, just had a chance to listen to the interview, he says Gonzales only wrote about the deal because it was an attempt to "cross promote" the Trib's ChicagoNow blog site which hosts SoxNet.net. What a piece of crap and a low blow. Sez the guy speaking on the Score about his column in the ST.

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Nov 17, 2009 -> 11:22 AM) Huh? She is everywhere. You think it's a small number of people keeping her around? She's all over political blogs, entertainment blogs, 24 hour news programs, talk shows, facebook, etc. How can you ignore that? She's being talked about as a contender for a Presidential run for crying out loud. Mostly because people like you keep eating it up.

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Nov 17, 2009 -> 11:12 AM) But was this just a case where KW called and asked about the availability of a player or threw out an offer that was immediately rejected? Seems like there would be 100s of these types of calls going on throughout the season with several teams. Not sure why this one needed to be singled out and artificially elevated to its current status. I mean look at this 400 post thread. What is it all based on? If it got to the stage where they are putting pieces in place for a three way deal, it isn't a simple phone call about availability. The talks have very obviously advanced to a fairly substantive stage.

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Nov 17, 2009 -> 10:59 AM) To play devil's advocate, what was the purpose of posting something like this if it's in such a preliminary stage and there isn't a any verifiable source to link this to? Wouldn't you expect people like Cowley to laugh at it? Actually I would expect journalists to understand it for what it is. People like Cowley of course will laugh at it because they are an insult to the title of journalist. For great examples look no further than how Mark Gonzalez from Chicago's one real newspaper handled it, and how this tabloid reporter dealt with it.

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Nov 17, 2009 -> 10:52 AM) She's the one in the limelight. Writing books, doing the talk show circuit, writing opinions on political decisions in the White House. There's nothing wrong with fact checking someone like that. Congrats, you are a small part of keeping her relevant by giving her attention.

QUOTE (Wanne @ Nov 17, 2009 -> 10:45 AM) That's exactly what I've been telling my Dad.... He belongs in LF IMO. I haven't seen him play at all, all I have is the reports of other people to go off of.