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Glad to see the platoon that has worked all year long is doing really well. Ozzie has been 100% right at second base this year.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Aug 18, 2009 -> 09:27 AM) and when its a monopoly, you can't leave the private corporation if you want that service. Except that there is no monopoly. As was stated earlier in this thread, there are tons of other companies out there.

QUOTE (lostfan @ Aug 18, 2009 -> 09:21 AM) It's completely legal in Arizona. But making a threat of any kind towards the President is grounds for instant arrest, even if it is a joke, under federal laws... which is kinda what the author was trying to insinuate in his article.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Aug 18, 2009 -> 07:09 AM) Is it really freedom to be beholden to a private corporation instead of a government you at least have a vote in? You can leave a private corporation. Under this plan, you can't leave the government.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Aug 17, 2009 -> 05:17 PM) About a dozen people were carrying weapons outside of President Obama's event in Phoenix today. They reported on GMA this morning that no one was arrested, which is strange. They also reported that Obama gets as many threats as both Bush and Clinton did at this stage of their Presidency.

MOrgado has on his facebook status...

QUOTE (fathom @ Aug 17, 2009 -> 11:50 PM) Wow, Padres tie it in the 9th on a 2 out, 3-2 double! Nice delete on the previous post...

QUOTE (Thunderbolt @ Aug 17, 2009 -> 11:40 PM) We tend to hit Greinke well. More importantly, Pods tends to hit Greinke well. And the entire planet is hitting Contreras well...

QUOTE (DBAHO @ Aug 17, 2009 -> 11:38 PM) Ugly win, but a win is still a win. Offense played well, Linebrink needs to be much better going forward. This is a series we really need to sweep. There isn't a chance of that with Grienke versus Contreras coming up.

QUOTE (fathom @ Aug 17, 2009 -> 11:36 PM) Jacobs slugs nearly 200 points higher against RHP than LHP. At that point it is either Randy Williams or Scott Linbrink. If you are answering Williams, you are full of hindsight.

QUOTE (Thunderbolt @ Aug 17, 2009 -> 11:30 PM) Chapman isn’t an immediate option. 21 years old, with all sorts of control problems. He’d be minor bound until next spring. He is also going to command eight figures and above. There is no way we put that into a starting pitcher right now.

QUOTE (CryptviLL @ Aug 17, 2009 -> 04:02 PM) We currently have --> A&J Sports Bar Forum here on Soxtalk Yall could make 2 or more (depending on how much sports you wanted to add) SUB forums to the A&J Sports Bar Forum entitled --> 1. Bulls talk 2. Blackhawks Talk (or however yall want to word it ) Then you have gamethreads in there, news in there, and you can close down the useless talkbulls.com and talkbhawks.com It would make for 10x more talking about each respective sport as the sites (talkbulls + talkbhawks) are absolutely dead and useless, and it would offer the bulls / blackhawks fans here some fun during the winter talking to each other / pick to clicks here. The Hawks site has already been shutdown. As for the Bulls, I am not quite sure why it matters to you if we maintain another site or not. Again, what is your motivation?

QUOTE (Thunderbolt @ Aug 17, 2009 -> 11:11 PM) If we were to come out of this with Aroldis Chapman you’d never hear me speak the name Morgado again. The Sox aren't even going to be thinking about starting pitching with the rotation they have at this point.

QUOTE (TheBigHurt @ Aug 17, 2009 -> 11:19 PM) You shouldn't enter an argument if you aren't going to take it seriously. So far your attitude is so immature and ignorant I honestly laughed when I read this post. But saying a manager doesn't even know what a scouting report is totally is respectful and aware of the game of baseball in 2009...

QUOTE (SoxFan1 @ Aug 17, 2009 -> 10:53 PM) I liked the platoon we had with Getz vs RHP and Mix vs the lefties. It worked perfectly as far I am concerned.

QUOTE (mr_genius @ Aug 17, 2009 -> 09:57 PM) And the racist, definitely white male, hate monger whom created the Obama joker picture is found out.... http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington...ker-artist.html Firas Alkhateeb, a senior history major at the University of Illinois But whyyyyyyy and more on this racist right wing hate monger lol, so true. I am sure he is white, male, and from the south...

QUOTE (gatnom @ Aug 17, 2009 -> 03:01 AM) So, hypothetically speaking, if the system proposed by democrats worked as well as they say it would, you would not want it based on personal freedom alone? I'm not saying it will, but it seems like the only positive to having that personal freedom is the ideal of having more freedom. You basically said yourself that it really makes no sense to exercise that freedom. There are many freedoms that we do not have. Where do we draw the line? I never made any judgements about what freedoms were worth more than others. As a matter of a fact, I was the only one to mention the things that no one talks about.

Does anyone revel in the wins?

QUOTE (Athomeboy_2000 @ Aug 17, 2009 -> 10:24 PM) JonHeyman- Dont buckle! Dont let Boras win! Kevin Goldstein- Its not a big surprise. They floated fifty million dollars, and we are talking about twelve million? Yeah, Borass isn't going there.

So Kal, how is our full year payroll projected to be at this point, with the inclusions of Peavy and Rios?

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Aug 17, 2009 -> 09:28 PM) Frankly, yeah, it's funny how everything is not as bad as we thought only a month or two ago. Almost as if the government did some sort of stimulative program. Even funnier when you realize that the only things that could have affected the economy at this point are the tax cuts as the vast majority of the pure spending plans are still on the sideline.

Between Bill Hall and Chris Young, there are a couple of good lessons on why you should be careful about big contracts too early in a players career.

We need this one with Grienke versus Contreras coming up in this series.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Aug 17, 2009 -> 11:10 AM) Kinda sad we see a superhuman feat and immediately that's what we think. Yeah, it wouldn't surprise me at all.