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QUOTE(knightni @ Oct 12, 2007 -> 01:59 AM) I wonder what's going to happen to Palehose 7? I hadn't thought about that... I wonder if there will be a PH8? He seemed to burnout this year as the team got worse.

QUOTE(knightni @ Oct 12, 2007 -> 02:41 PM) Where's Lance Johnson when we need him? Baines and Boston are about the last guys you'd want showing the kid the outfield. (Baines was "ok" before his knees gave out, I guess.) Kittle might be a decent LF trainer, but he got DH'ed fast after Luzinski retired. Harold was a really good defensive RF before he got old. He had a great arm and played solid positional defense along with good reads off of the bat. He wasn't fast or anything, but he played a solid RF.

http://itotd.com/articles/598/micronations/

Who knows if it is true or not, but the Yanks have said if ARod opts out, they are done talking to him.

Brandon had a much better year this time in Kannapolis after repeating this team. http://www.baseballamerica.com/today/stats...r.php?id=450315 He his .283 with 18 Hrs and 93 RBIs, plus 39 doubles. He had an .819 OPS, .483 SLG, and a .337 OBP' He scored 84 runs, but still had a problem with the strikeouts totalling 124 Ks in 516 ABs. Allen still is only 21 years old.

Interesting... I can't wait to get some real info on the kid.

QUOTE(Brian @ Oct 12, 2007 -> 12:49 PM) "2 weeks away" High 5! [sLAP]

QUOTE(Chisoxfn @ Oct 12, 2007 -> 12:51 PM) Duh (boy am I slow, lol)...I'm kind of assuming Arod will be completely off limits when it is all set and done. Borass has said he will opt out, meaning that he will be a free agent.

QUOTE(29andPoplar @ Oct 12, 2007 -> 08:49 AM) I am hearing there's some gallows humor going on at 1901 W. Madison, sort of a "who's next" dead pool. Frontrunners: DeMaria, scout Rob Pulford, and sales guy Jim Sofranko moving over to Peter Wirtz's Bismarck empire from wence he came. By the way Barry Rozner is on a high right now. Just wait until Rocky Wirtz makes a move he doesn't like. Translated: one of Rozner's buddies gets moved out. Then his columns will take a different turn. Hopefully R. Wirtz makes the right choices, the one he made yesterday was a huge positive. As for some or all of the home games on TV, it's just a matter of time now. What is this feeling I feel? Is it called optimism? Wow.

QUOTE(RockRaines @ Oct 12, 2007 -> 12:30 PM) Soxtalk ranks #51 on top 100 baseball sites. http://www.top100baseball.com/www.soxtalk.com.html Actually when you look at that list it is really impressive because almost all of those sites are either MLB sites, or general baseball sites. There literally less than 5 actual fan sites on that list.

QUOTE(Chisoxfn @ Oct 12, 2007 -> 12:21 PM) Is Rodriguez Pudge?? His option was picked up. I agree with Bonds, but I don't think the Angels are interested in him. In fact I'd be quite surprised if they went after him (they will force explore all other options and even if all of them fail I'd say there is just a small chance that they would go to Bonds). Alex Rodriguez

Mike Huckabee interview... http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21252944/site/newsweek/ There is much more at the link...

QUOTE(Brian @ Oct 12, 2007 -> 12:04 PM) I just started watching "My name Is Earl". Gotta watch the first 2 seasons now. "He has an El Camino! That's like the Cadillac of cars!" Earl is a very underappreciated show. I love NBC Thursday night TV, and I can't wait for Scrubs to start again.

No one is going to trade for Joe Crede. Not after back surgery.

QUOTE(jasonxctf @ Oct 12, 2007 -> 11:43 AM) absolutely, thus my production cost comment is accurate. but you've got to believe that in cost-analysis of product distribution, companies certainly take disposable income or income levels in general, into equation. I think you might have your cause and effect backwards. It is those factors that cause disposable income, and not the other way around. If you aren't make a high wage, you aren't going to have disposable income. If a company is in a high income area, they are going to have to pay higher wages to get people work for them etc...

QUOTE(BigSqwert @ Oct 12, 2007 -> 11:18 AM) You're really stretching this one. Like I said, NASCAR fans come from all walks of life. Personally I don't think it is a big deal. I truely believe the US and the world would be in much better shape if people could laugh at themselves instead of just laughing at others. Unfortunately the PC world we live in doesn't exsist n that form. The whole "all walks of life" thing is a bad excuse for a double standard. We all know that the NASCAR crowd is by and large white, dispite the best efforts to expand into other walks of life. Would you have made the same joke if I had made the same post about rappers or orange pickers? I doubt it. Like I said it goes back to a double standard, and the fact that you don't see this as a big deal just reinforces my point that some groups are OK to make fun of, and others are not. Big picture if we got upset everytime this happened, or laughed everytime this happened we would be a lot better off than just picking and choosing who to laugh at based on an artificial set of stereotypes and popular conception. The more lines we draw just reinforce divides instead of erasing them. Race/Class/Sex warfare will be a part of American society until our attitudes towards different groups change. Either we are all the same, or we aren't. Random codes of "correctness" don't fix these problems, they only exaserbate them.

QUOTE(Balta1701 @ Oct 12, 2007 -> 11:19 AM) We invade them, duh. You've got it backwards... they invade us.

QUOTE(jasonxctf @ Oct 12, 2007 -> 10:55 AM) i certainly agree with this point 100%. I think the two are tied closely together though. On one hand, if "the rich get richer", manufacturers and designers of high end goods, say Coach purses or Mercedes cars for example, will start charging more and more for their products since their "targeted" consumer base can afford to pay this higher cost since their income levels are skyrocketing. On the other hand, people who are living outside their means, trying to keep up with the Joneses, and buying this purse or car, will be digging themselves further and further into debt. it's funny, i was talking about this concept with my wife the other day (even though I think it went over her head) why does McDonalds charge $5.50 for a Big Mac Meal in d-twn Chicago, but the same meal was $3.89 in rural Wisconsin. Certainly production costs are higher in Chicago, however I'd argue that McDonalds has determined that disposible income in Chicago is higher than rural Wisconsin and can thus charge an extra .25 per meal to account for this. why does a bottle of Coca Cola cost the equivilent of $0.35 in S. America but runs $1.29 in the US? Higher wages, higher rents, higher delivery costs are also involved in the differences between costs in different settings.

QUOTE(BigSqwert @ Oct 12, 2007 -> 10:25 AM) I didn't realize NASCAR fans are a persecuted people. Are you their Al Sharpton? Actually you are kind of proving a point here... Some groups it doesn't matter what is said about them, other groups are protected against any critizisms or even jokes. Who determined that white southerners are fair game for racism and stereotypes? Seriously, stop and think about the reaction of a group of GOP congressmen had got immunization before going into a set of the projects in Chicago? Would there be jokes being made about the inhabitants being some creatures that we should be wearing spacesuits to be protected from? The message of understanding and peace kind of gets lost when there is a doublestandard that big to overcome.

QUOTE(Dick Allen @ Oct 12, 2007 -> 10:40 AM) He won't get that much, but he will get more than a lot of people think. I wouldn't be surprised if someone gives him $12 million a year. $12 million wouldn't surprise me. 6 years would floor me.

Game two of the ALCS was the single greatest sporting event I have ever been too.

Duh? The rich get richer and pay a higher percentage of taxes pretty much every year.

QUOTE(BigSqwert @ Oct 12, 2007 -> 10:13 AM) NASCAR fans represent all walks of life so I don't think it's a big deal. Sorry if I offended you. I was just surprised at the source.

QUOTE(BigSqwert @ Oct 12, 2007 -> 09:34 AM) Have you seen what NASCAR fans look like? I'd wear one of these: Pretty stereotypical don't you think? I don't think anyone would think that was funny if I subbed a few other groups of people in there... Why is it this OK here?

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/2007/10/09...d_to_find_.html