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after the two early SO goals, he really manned up. Really Anderson had a terrible SO. That gave us the two points.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Oct 10, 2009 -> 10:05 PM) I just don't see value in a post berating another poster. Whatever. Oh please. It must be hard to see from sooooo high up on that horse.

That was one hell of a shootout! nice to get the two points out of it.

The officiating tonight is just bad. How do you take the wrong guy to the penalty box with 4 officials on the ice?

Avalanche get a 5 on 3 PP goal to go ahead of the Hawks, but Chicago ties it on a shorty.

ON the bright side, I'll bet his back feels better than it has in a while...

QUOTE (greg775 @ Oct 10, 2009 -> 08:53 PM) Why? Is your opinion that much better than mine and anybody else who dares stand up for Wise? Just asking what you meant by that. I'll never back off on my feeling Wise is a very good option at last man on a roster. If you are saying your opinion is the only one that matters then you are mistaken. Boy you can read into words pretty well...

QUOTE (MHizzle85 @ Oct 10, 2009 -> 01:21 PM) And tonight's game is postponed. They must be expecting some pretty s***ty weather. It was 17 degrees and snowing in Denver.

QUOTE (whitesoxfan101 @ Oct 9, 2009 -> 08:20 PM) I think getting rid of the Rios contract would be the #1 argument Ricciardi had in favor of being retained, so I don't get the thread title. The Halladay fiasco and not trading him at peak value this summer was probably the last straw for J.P., and the Ryan and Wells contracts didn't help him at all either obviously. Ricc is the one who signed him to that contract in the first place.

QUOTE (SnB @ Oct 9, 2009 -> 08:15 PM) agreed. I thought the reception would have been great. And I agree with the above about the dance down the aisle. It was just.....odd Could the reception be next week?

QUOTE (bmags @ Oct 10, 2009 -> 10:36 AM) Really liked Sullivan's piece, who usually has a pretty good pulse on world politics : "I've had some coffee now. Reading through all the reactions, compiled by Chris and Patrick, there are two obvious points: this is premature and this is thoroughly deserved. Both are right. I don't think Americans fully absorbed the depths to which this country's reputation had sunk under the Cheney era. That's understandable. And so they also haven't fully absorbed the turn-around in the world's view of America that Obama and the American people have accomplished. Of course, this has yet to bear real fruit. But you can begin to see how it could; and I hope more see both the peaceful intentions and the steely resolve of this man to persevere. This president has done a huge amount to bring race relations in this country to a different place, which is why the far right has become so vicious in attacking him and lying about him. They know he threatens their politics of division and rule. He has also directly addressed the Muslim world, telling some hard truths, and played a small role in evoking a similar movement of hope and change in Iran, and finally told the Israelis to stop cutting their nose off to spite their face. I like Shimon Peres' statement, reprinted in a useful compendium of world reaction at the Lede: “Very few leaders if at all were able to change the mood of the entire world in such a short while with such a profound impact. You provided the entire humanity with fresh hope, with intellectual determination, and a feeling that there is a lord in heaven and believers on earth.” Mr. Peres, who won the peace prize with Yitzhak Rabin and Yasir Arafat in 1994 following the Oslo Accords, added: “Under your leadership, peace became a real and original agenda. And from Jerusalem, I am sure all the bells of engagement and understanding will ring again. You gave us a license to dream and act in a noble direction.” Right now, we do not know where that direction will ultimately lead. We do know that we were facing a spiral of conflict that, unchecked, could have taken the world to the abyss. I see this prize as an endorsement of his extraordinary reorientation of world politics, and as an encouragement to see it through. In the midst of our domestic battles, and their ill-temper (from which I have not been immune lately), this is an attempt to tell us: look up for a moment, see how far we've come in pivoting away from global conflict, and give this man a break for his efforts and the massive burden he now bears. And, in the darkness that still threatens, know hope." http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_...world.html#more It was a week ago that Obama couldn't do anything to repair our image internationally when we lost the Olympics, now it has turned around soooo much. lol. I wish the media would pick a theme and stick to it.

It is looking more and more like this is the year Detroit finally comes down from the top of the heap in the West.

More reasons to be pissed off at the IOC...

QUOTE (SoxFan1 @ Oct 10, 2009 -> 04:14 PM) You know what's kind of disturbing? I wouldn't mind Milton Bradley DHing and batting 5th... For another team maybe...

QUOTE (lostfan @ Oct 9, 2009 -> 09:29 PM) This just needed to be repeated.

QUOTE (beck72 @ Oct 10, 2009 -> 12:20 PM) Pods supposedly changed his offseason workouts, and he didn't have an injury this year. With him seeing less time in the OF and more at DH, that would give him more rest and lessen the chance of injury. His $5 mill. salary wouldn't bust the sox budget. IMO, it's far more likely to see a Pods signing plus a few low budget deals like a Coco Crisp and a FA bullpen arm for the same price of a Figgins or an Abreu. Though I could see a Konerko trade that would bring back salary relief and a lefty bat, ala Konerko to the Dodgers for Loney. The only way Pods get $5 million is over two years.

Undoubtedly, you won't get enough time.

If we can get something done that is similar to Garcia's contract, I love it.

It just goes to show if you want something done, you have to do it yourself.

Get with it fellow spammers!

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Oct 9, 2009 -> 09:52 AM) It's one game, on the road, against a damn good team. This will be a nice little jolt for the Hawks to realize that even though ESPN and SI pick them to win the Cup, they have to do the work. This isn't the usual Red Wings team.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Oct 9, 2009 -> 03:42 PM) I don't see how any MLB reporter who writes as much as Cowley can be assused of mailing it in. The travel alone means he puts in oh, about 80 hours a week of work for his company rather than the traditional 40. Granted the job is "fun." Oh, wah. He gets to be paid for traveling with a pro baseball team. He has it so hard. Now if he would publish an intelligent column every once in a while, that would actually challenge the "mailing it in" part.

I love how Cowley has to take pot shot at the players for doing half-assed work, when he has pretty much been mailing in columns for years.

Very unlikely you ever had two cousins at the same time...