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QUOTE (FlaSoxxJim @ Sep 13, 2009 -> 10:13 AM) Happy belated birthdays to both of you. Congrats on making another year. DBAHO's in Australia, so I would just blame the international date line.

Come on Cleveland... Let's put a big hole in this Farve crap right away.

Come on Mark, let's get back into the W column and keep this thing rolling along!

Wow. That is like Hershel Walker to the Vikings bad.

Contreras being gone really helps that number out.

So the carrot didn't work, now they are trying the stick...

QUOTE (CaliSoxFanViaSWside @ Sep 13, 2009 -> 11:43 AM) Beckham has dinner with Ernie Banks. http://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/baseb...,3885235.column Hopefully he knew who he was...

QUOTE (FlaSoxxJim @ Sep 13, 2009 -> 11:04 AM) Yes, this is terrible. And likely it is the reason you are a HUGE music fan — you have been trying your whole life to compensate for the big hole left by the lack of Beatles music and nothing is cutting it.

QUOTE (BlackBetsy @ Sep 13, 2009 -> 10:43 AM) That Julio Cruz deal didnt even come close to the dent the Rios contract is making. Baseball teams were wildly profitable in the 80's based on the low salaries they were paying. Remember the minimum salary in 1987 was something like $67,500. You could field a team for $8-$10 million comfortably. That's less than the MLB teams were getting from the national fund during that period. Tickets also didn't cost $50, parking wasn't $23, beer wasn't $7, and there weren't sponsors for everything. The entire cost structure is different.

Or Jerry being the business man that he is recognized that there was going to be a time that the prices on these players dropped a lot, because the economy was going into the dumper and he knew there were going to be franchises in trouble. So instead of going after some guys for one year fixes, he waited to see if he could find guys that could be a part of the franchise for years to come.

QUOTE (T R U @ Sep 13, 2009 -> 01:37 AM) Sadly, I have. I guess that makes two of us...

QUOTE (WilliamTell @ Sep 12, 2009 -> 09:21 PM) lol and I thought Northern Iowa's 66-7 victory over South Dakota was bad enough. Bonus points for anyone that has ever actually been in NACOGDOCHES, TX.

QUOTE (PeavyTime @ Sep 12, 2009 -> 10:39 PM) 100% disagree. The second part of you statement is just wrong, why would Toronto pick up any of the contract? That just makes no sense. As for the first part about KW not wanting to pick up his contract, well, that's just wrong too. If Kenny didn't want to pick up his contract, then he never would have claimed him. You don't block a guy from being claimed by another team (which is what you are implying I think) when they have $60 million-ish remaining unless you are cool with being "stuck" with that player. Not to mention, KW admitted trying to trade for Rios before the deadline, so you know he wanted him. The Sox do not take risks like that. Again, this would have been the biggest free agent contract ever handed out by the Sox, if it had been on the open market, and not a waiver cliam. If they didn't want the guy, why would they make a $60,000,000 gamble? That is not the JR method of operation.

QUOTE (chw42 @ Sep 12, 2009 -> 09:32 PM) Have none of you learned anything about this team yet? Just when they give you hope, they start sucking. What happens after Mark Buehrle throws perfect game? We go 1-5 on an awful road trip. What happens after we win a big series against KC with a matchup of Greinke vs. Contreras? We lose a series to the Orioles and win 2 of our next 10. This team will give you hope and suck it away. It's been doing that all year. Would I like to see it not do that? Of course. It's not about who's right or wrong, it's about this team being absolute crap when it matters most. That's why I don't see it winning this division. BTW, Kazmir has been much better since joining the Angels. He's not the same guy we faced earlier on in the year with the Rays. Knowing this team, Ian Snell might cause some trouble. Thanks for pissing in everyone's cheerios!

QUOTE (lostfan @ Sep 12, 2009 -> 10:29 PM) That's a little different because we're talking some more open space around Grant Park and such. How many were there for Obama's acceptance speech? A couple hundred thousand wasn't it? I also don't think the distance lengthwise is anywhere near as much as is shown there. We are talking about something like half a mile of length. That pic looked longer than that to me judging by the building sizes there.

QUOTE (knightni @ Sep 12, 2009 -> 10:15 PM) You'd figure that a slumping player would seek out his coach for advice, or at least be more willing to listen. Like Nick Swisher? We don't know how Rios handles slumps yet. We have no idea who has approached him or what has been said to him.

QUOTE (lostfan @ Sep 12, 2009 -> 10:19 PM) Having been to Inauguration Day I can say that unless you're looking at a satellite image you really can't get 1-1.5 million people in one shot. DC was basically shut down for Inauguration Day. Was the Mall full? If that is the case, the estimates for Taste of Chicago are about a factor of 10 too high, because that's about how many people get called a million for the fireworks.

OUtside of that... forget it.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Sep 12, 2009 -> 05:20 PM) There are 2 things that are going to be required for the trade deficit to go down. First, stop using oil. Second, there needs to be a reorganization of the global currency system; eventually China and other places in the developing world are going to no longer be able to prop up the dollar as a method of stimulating their own economies. When that happens, the value of the dollar will fall some relative to those currencies and that will be a huge boost to U.S. manufacturing. Well that and quit coming up with stimulus plans for the Japanese and Korean economies...

QUOTE (mr_genius @ Sep 12, 2009 -> 04:12 PM) WOW QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Sep 12, 2009 -> 08:46 PM) Supposedly the DC Police have released an estimate of 60,000-70,000 people. LMAO!

QUOTE (knightni @ Sep 12, 2009 -> 06:57 PM) Poodles are great dogs. Quick learners and very friendly if you get them used to kids early on and gently. Too bad you can't say the same thing for Shipps. He never learns.

Sweet

QUOTE (knightni @ Sep 12, 2009 -> 09:32 PM) Walker needs to step up and work with Rios on his leg and foot work at the plate. The assumption there being that no one has tried to tell him to fix his technique already...

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Sep 12, 2009 -> 02:51 PM) Let's say this...if KW didn't realize that if he put a waiver claim on Rios, there was a very good shot Torotno would let him go, then he screwed up big time because everyone here realized it the moment we read that a claim had been placed on Rios. The entire planet knew that Rios wouldn't get pulled back, and there is no way random people on a message board knew that, and Kenny didn't.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Sep 12, 2009 -> 02:49 PM) What I am saying is they certainly expected Rios to contribute THIS season and I'm saying if he were a free agent after this year, I don't think there's a chance in hell he would get the contract the White Sox were obligated to assume. I am also saying I'm not so sure KW really wanted to take on the entire contract. They may have wanted him before, but perhaps they wanted Toronto to eat some money or take back a contract like a Linebrink that had some money left. KW said he only had $.50, and Rios cost a lot more than $1.Don't you think its at least slightly possible he didn't think Toronto would give him up for nothing and put a claim in to block him from a team like Detroit? It would have made a lot of sense for Detroit to claim him as they would have saved some money the first year. As I stated before, Rios isn't a bad player and will be much better when he gets out of this funk, but he's not a $60 million guy, and regardless of all the money coming off the books, its still $60 million that is now committed and I feel they could get a bigger bang for their buck than Alex Rios. I also stated this at the time of the claim. There is no doubt they expected him to contribute this season. That doesn't mean this deal was made for this season. And really? The 50 cent line again? Can we just bring up White Flag too?