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QUOTE (Tony82087 @ Jul 14, 2008 -> 10:43 PM) Two years older than Floyd, whats your point? It's incredibly naive to think a guy like Cabrera, a guy with world class stuff, couldn't succeed in a different environment, especially when Cooper has had insane success with pitchers with poor control but plus stuff. Agreed. How old was Jose Contreras when he came to the Sox? Or for that matter Esteban Loiaza1.0

QUOTE (jackie hayes @ Jul 15, 2008 -> 12:59 PM) That makes no sense, but you keep on thinking that if you like. It's more like thinking that LTCM didn't really have investments of $1.25 trillion. Its makes absolute sense. That one trillion dollars has to come from somewhere. Those obligations are as real as any other obligations we have. The only thing that doesn't make sense is why people seem to be more upset about $4 gasoline than losing their houses.

Ah, another day in first place!

Key things to keep in mind working against Mark... -He has never won 20 games -He has never placed higher than 5th in the Cy Young voting. -His lowest single season ERA is 3.12 -He doesn't strike out a lot of people -He doesn't play in NY, BOS, or Wrigley Field The Hall of Fame requires something sexy. Even with a guy like Ozzie Smith whose numbers weren't great, he was a national fan favorite, and playing just incredible defense. Mark is perfectly content hiding in the backroom somewhere. Mark Buehrle really doesn't have that wow factor anywhere in his numbers or his career. He would need a stretch where he wins about 100 games over a 5-6 year period, or the Sox make a few more deep playoff pushes with Mark as the leader, or He wins a Cy Young or two, and he pitches until he is at least 40 and wins close to 300 games.

QUOTE (Kalapse @ Jul 15, 2008 -> 10:54 AM) For what it's worth George Offman mentioned on Sunday that the Phillies will be on the hook for half of Jim Thome's 2009 option. He seemed pretty adamant about it. If they pay exactly half, then the Sox would be on the hook for $6.5M of Jim Thome's 2009 salary. If he finishes out the year strong, I don't see how they could pass that up, hell they'll be paying Jermaine Dye $5M more next year if this is the case. Even the "bad" Jim Thome is a bargain at 6.5 million.

QUOTE (SoxUK @ Jul 15, 2008 -> 12:16 PM) One is premeditated and aims to cheat fans, clubs and peers for personal gain. The other is an often tragic tale of addiction and loss that isn't cheating anyone but themselves. I see a massive difference between the two. Personal gain is what drug use is about 100%. Any they are cheating a lot more than themselves. Hamilton cheated his family, his friends, and the Tampa Bay Devil Rays to start with...

All of the days in first place dispite all of the "expert" predictions otherwise.

Something pretty close to zero unless he goes crazy for about a five year period.

QUOTE (jackie hayes @ Jul 15, 2008 -> 11:40 AM) The S&P report is not available for free, so I can't look at what they are referring to. The other links are talking about $1 trillion in financing, not cost. Bernanke (back in November) guessed that the final cost of the whole shebang would be in the "ballpark" of the S&L total (he said ballpark of $150 bil, though it's $250 bil or so after adjusting for inflation, so figure the ballpark is about $100 bil down the lines and $500 bil to straightaway center), http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21694890/ Fannie and Freddie guarantee about $5.5 trillion in mortgage loans. Given the relatively high quality of those loans, it is absolutely ridiculous to believe the final cost will be $1 trillion. Hell, even IndyMac's most recent default rate was only 8%, and that's one of the most subprime-heavy lenders anywhere. The default rate on Fannie and Freddie's prime mortgages would have to be many, many multiples of that to approach $1 trillion. It's not even remotely plausible. If you want to use those standards there is no social security crisis because of all of those IOUs we have on file.

QUOTE (knightni @ Jul 14, 2008 -> 11:57 PM) It didn't. In fact, in 2004, the Red Sox got the cover while Brady/Manning got the tiny box. There is a joke in there somewhere...

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Jul 15, 2008 -> 07:28 AM) He managed to top that with his "this is a bad night to be an atheist" comment imo. What the hell are they paying this guy so much money for? He is awful. Hamilton's performance was awesome. I was thinking about his situation when they were glorifying him and calling him a role model, though -- as a society, we seem to celebrate people who fall and pick themselves back up and reach great heights more than people who just perform from the get-go without the whole redemption storyline. Seems sort of odd to me. People hate Giambi, a juicer who cleaned up and pretty much admitted what he did, yet Hamilton is a hero after nearly killing himself on something way more dangerous. I don't get it.

QUOTE (Gregory Pratt @ Jul 15, 2008 -> 11:16 AM) Are you seriously alleging that Josh Hamilton is on steroids or performance-enhancers? The same Josh Hamilton who is drug-tested ten times a month and has a coach/friend with him at almost all times? And are you alleging this without a willingness to back it up with something more forthcoming, or is it just an innuendo? HGH can't be tested for by MLB...

QUOTE (DBAH0 @ Jul 15, 2008 -> 11:36 AM) I think I am going to go to Giordano's here for the Deep Dish Pizza, seems to be well rated by mostly everyone, even if it isn't the favourite. Is there 1 in the Loop which is better than the others, the one on South Wabash is probably the closest for me. I can vouch for that locale, it is solid.

QUOTE (jackie hayes @ Jul 15, 2008 -> 10:30 AM) Laughable. And you're the one talking about faux outrage. Show me a credible source of your claim that Fannie and Freddie will cost the federal government $1 trillion. Not that they'll have financing available, blah blah blah, but that the END COST will be $1 trillion. You are comparing it to other costs, so unless you're just being flagrantly dishonest, that's what you should mean. Can't wait. If you look at what IMB itself said in the wake of Schumer's comments, the worst case version of the story goes like this -- IMB was already teetering on the brink of failure, and Schumer's comments triggered a fairly small number of withdrawals which pushed them into an area where automatically-triggered additional regulation prevented them from being able to raise capital. They certainly would have failed anyway (they'd been losing money for a long time, reflected in the stock price plummeting 80-90% over the last 6 mo; the default rate on their mortgages was most recently at 8%, and there was little hope it would get better soon). A think-tank report blasting IMB that came out the following Tuesday would have been enough, or a moth flapping its wings in Sacramento. Can't wait for you next post of Republican cant: how this all could have been avoided with lower taxes and less regulation. Google trillion dollar bailout and tell me how many hits you get. How credible is CNN money and Standard and Poors. Keep in mind, this was 3 months before Fannie and Freddie were allowed to hit the discount window, and this is JUST for these two "banks". That doesn't include the money given to other banks, nor does it include the bailout that is coming down the pipeline. http://money.cnn.com/2008/04/21/news/econo...sion=2008042217 About.com adds it up to $1.2 trillion http://useconomy.about.com/b/2008/06/02/fe...-it-working.htm And to even give you some liberal love... How about the Huffington Post? http://www.huffingtonpost.com/henry-blodge...ve_b_93052.html And I am still waiting for you to start carving up all of the blatantly partisian, misleading, and blatant lies elsewhere.

We have a slightly cheaper, less walking version of him at AAA named Josh Fields.

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Jul 15, 2008 -> 08:42 AM) Yeah, he must have meant Lincoln Park. By far my favorite place to get crazy. I sure as hell know he didn't mean Dolton!

QUOTE (DBAH0 @ Jul 15, 2008 -> 08:22 AM) Is that all the way in the Southside (just had a look on Google Maps for kicks) and it came up with a place named Dolton? I think he is drinking, because he probably meant Lincoln Park.

QUOTE (mr_genius @ Jul 14, 2008 -> 04:00 PM) Schumer is a hack and has no business being on any board of consequence. The Dems are neck deep in this banking scandal, a lot of them have major investments in predatory lending. It's one the reasons the MSM won't do any real substantive coverage, they know that their party is involved heavily. The MSM is just pro-bailout, hoping it will go away. Everyone talks about the Republicians being in the back pockets of the energy companies and it is front page news. We have Congressmen pretty much taking bribes from banks who are about to get a bailout that would end up being twice as much as we have spent in Iraq or ONE TRILLION DOLLARS. Add up all of the oil company profits, plus the Iraq war, plus all of the oil company subsidies and you still don't approach one trillion dollars. Yet no one seems to care. We have Congress people in positions of power who should be minding their words knowing that they can move markets, taking down banks. Another key figure in this scandal was helping to pick the Democrats Vice Presidential candidate. Yet no one is mentioning the effect that this will have on the debt or deficit the way that they are anything connected to the republicians like this did with Bush's $140 billion stimulus plan that today costs one third of what has been allocated for this mess so far ($400 billion). Shouldn't this be front page news? Shouldn't this be something people are angry about? I'm sorry no one liberal enough for you all cares to make this a big deal. Its too bad the mainstream media hasn't dug into this story, and I'd really love to know why. It has everything they seem to like... Politicians knee deep in corporate interests, huge amounts of money, scandal, power abuse etc. Yet, this is essentially regulated to the business pages except for a headline or two. But I will bet Exxons next record profits will be front page news, again.

QUOTE (jackie hayes @ Jul 14, 2008 -> 03:38 PM) Wow, talk about a total s*** article. If you wanted to post IndyMac's release or Reich's comments (which are stupid enough as-is), you could have linked any number of mainstream press articles. Instead, you chose the most incendiary, baseless, downright stupid take you could possibly find. Shameless. Save the faux outrage for the New Yorker. I get treated to the same and worse in many threads, so unless you are about to carve up the Democratic thread, save it.

QUOTE (SoxAce @ Jul 14, 2008 -> 05:50 PM) If your pitching, soxtalk will be screwed. Not to mention your English teacher

Schumer runs his mouth, the bank has a run, fails, and its not his fault. Yet another politician who doesn't understand that words mean something. http://mensnewsdaily.com/2008/07/11/chuck-...ailure-results/

QUOTE (Athomeboy_2000 @ Jul 14, 2008 -> 01:03 PM) If Obama were the Republican nominee and this was run, the GOP would be on every major news outlet and every talk show decrying this and saying how dare the "liberal media" libel a presidential candidate. They don't seem to think much of it either... http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9...;show_article=1

http://rasmussenreports.com/public_content...l_tracking_poll

ATT DSL, we will upgrade once we get a new computer.

The corners look like the hardest places to fill (LF, RF, 3B, 1B) and then someone can catch.