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QUOTE(Texsox @ Jan 24, 2007 -> 12:00 PM) I have a project that required a bunch of photos and decided to try one of the on-line photo printing services. Holding my breath that they won't f*** it up. It was nice not to have to go out in the cold and rain this morning. Living in Texas has really turned you into a sissy

QUOTE(Chisoxfn @ Jan 24, 2007 -> 11:08 AM) It makes too much sense. He's almost the perfect fit and compliment to Wallace. Now the only thing left is getting Memphis to accept a fair offer. Read the latest update at Talkbulls.com http://www.talkbulls.com/forums/index.php?...ost&p=21983

QUOTE(Jenks Heat @ Jan 24, 2007 -> 08:37 AM) $18M a year for 6 or 7 years is what they want per Comcast last night. Yikes. The cubs better suck this deal up. To be honest, that is lower than they could be asking for.

And of course... they aren't trying to get nuclear weapons at all, their program is totally peaceful... http://time-blog.com/real_clear_politics/2...vil_update.html

I'll give my thoughts more later, but I got a kick out of this...

I am surprised no one has really said anything yet. Thoughts? Opinions?

1 more point I missed on NK especially, which I have 100% confidence will happen again with Iran is that there are two distinct steps on the road to having a nuclear bomb, only one of which the UN actually has the ability to monitor. Just because you enrich uranium or plutonium, doesn't mean you have a nuclear bomb. It takes more to make a bomb than to strap enriched materials on a bomb. All that makes is a dirty bomb. If a country is able to get a nuclear bomb built, that means not only did they highly enrich nuclear material, but they went out and got the highly specialized materials need to turn that into a bomb. Not only was NK enriching uranium under the worlds nose for years, they were also aquiring bomb making materials, and no one bothered to stop either one. Guess what, now we have one of the worlds most unpredicatable and desparate men with a nuke. I'd be willing to be money we have the exact samething happen in Iran within 10-15 years after we appease them.

For 3/4 of a million, one year, and as a back up OF/1B, I have no problem with this deal. In todays market, I am surprised he didn't get a 5 year deal at about 20 million dispite his skill set.

20-0, that's close

QUOTE(whitesoxfan101 @ Jan 23, 2007 -> 01:11 PM) Well, if Weber isn't on the hot seat yet (which based on the chatter of the only people that matter in college athletics, the boosters, he is) he's certainly be after a loss tonight. A loss tonight to the team that outdid him for the only good recruit he ever had, on ESPN, on the home floor, eliminating the Illini from the tournament, officially starts a clock that may reach zero by the end of next season. I wouldn't mind it pesonally, I'd love to see a coach that can actually bring in players that can do something. Only guy worth a damn Bruce has brought in is Pruitt. I haven't posted in here much this year, because it has been kind of a cesspool this year, but Bruce Webber on the hot seat? Come on. The guy is going to get fired because of a mediocre half season, filled with injuries? I thought Sox fans were demanding. Also with that signature... I wonder how many people are saying the samething about recruits signing up by the boatload to be on Illinois's 2-9 football team?

Why should we bribe Iran to NOT nuke somebody? I don't get the mentality that we can just talk the rest of the world into doing something that is against their entire exsistance. There are people in the world who are dedicated to our destruction, no matter how much money we offer them to go away. Talking to Iran isn't going to prevent anything, and neither is bribing them. We have tried that all over the world, it doesn't work. Just look at Pakistan today. We have tried bribing them to help us out with the Taliban, what did it get us? They ceded over control of their territory to them. We got nothing. Appeasement doesn't work.

QUOTE(knightni @ Jan 23, 2007 -> 01:37 PM) Who won the silver slugger award at DH in 1994? Julio Franco

QUOTE(Tony82087 @ Jan 23, 2007 -> 01:26 PM) I agree. I am really excited to see 1.Danks 2.Floyd 3.Gio 4.Sisco 5.Aardsma 6.Masset, probably in that order That is an interesting group. It will be interesting to see 3-5 years down the road who makes it, and who flops.

QUOTE(knightni @ Jan 23, 2007 -> 01:21 PM) Since 1980, how many WS managers have won Manager of the Year, who were they? I believe it is 3 TLR JM OG

QUOTE(Balta1701 @ Jan 23, 2007 -> 01:15 PM) The plutonium which was used in the device North Korea test-detonated last summer was under U.N. lock and seal and monitored by cameras until 2002, and was reprocessed during early 2003. They were only able to build that bomb because the U.S. ignored them for around 4 years, and so they threw a tantrum. North Korea did not do whatever it wanted; it did not produce anything remotely successful on the line towards a nuclear weapon until they pulled out of the Nonproliferation treaty and the accords agreed to with the Clinton Admin. So this tought us what? That if we let a madman refine plutomium, they can build a bomb whenever they get pissed off, right? So why would we ever let a man whose sole purpose is the destruction of other people, have a facility where he could begin doing just that??? NK always had their weapons program going on, which is why they had the ability to turn it into a weapon as quick as they did. If we had actually stepped up and stopped them years before they accumulated plutonium, they wouldn't have been able to to build a bomb in the first place. I am sorry but I don't see giving a man bent on destruction the means to do so, and then sit and try to convince him that he should not blow people up. It leaves us up the the whims of people like Kim Jung Il. We cannot appease Iran, I just won't buy that.

QUOTE(Chisoxfn @ Jan 23, 2007 -> 01:02 PM) How else is somebody supposed to snort a line off you I guess we know where the name "crack" came from now

Well now we know how guys like Gil Meche are worth $10 million per season.

QUOTE(Dick Allen @ Jan 23, 2007 -> 12:15 PM) A couple of Tribune writers have picked up on the Lovie to the Big D rumors. I had no idea it was his mother's dream for Lovie to coach the Cowboys. Must be hard to fill two weeks worth of hype of when you are checking out the net for rumors

QUOTE(Balta1701 @ Jan 23, 2007 -> 12:19 PM) And considering that Iran does have its own supplies of uranium-ore, I think that means we desperately need some sort of inspection regime in that country. Dispite what they say, they are going to be doing whatever they want to be doing, just like North Korea did. They were bribed with everything in sight, complete with a Michael Jordan autographed basketball toted over by Bill Clinton himself, and they still had an undergroud weapons program going on all along. Talking to them, has not, and will not solve anything. This is a country that gets together every Friday after prayers and chants "Death to America" and "Death to Israel". Iran doesn't want a biscuit, they want our disctruction, and have been quite clear about it. Its not like this is a product of the evil Bush either. The Iran nuclear program has been going on since the 1950's. Besides even if they do get inspectors into the country, however we have to bribe them to do it, they will play the same shell game that Saddam did in Iraq, by moving stuff around, and stalling inspectors until they could tidy up the facilities that they wanted to visit. Appeasement does not work. Historically it hasn't worked, and it won't work today.

QUOTE(Balta1701 @ Jan 23, 2007 -> 12:07 PM) Which is all the more reason, to my eyes, to keep them from getting a nuclear weapon, something which is not happening with the current policies. The best way to be kept from making a nuclear weapon, is to not have any nuclear material in the first place. Its kind of hard to fire a guy without any bullets.

QUOTE(Balta1701 @ Jan 23, 2007 -> 11:55 AM) Is it even worth pointing out in reply that under the nonproliferation treaty (to which both the U.S. and Iran are Signatories) Iran does have the right to develop nuclear technology for energy purposes, and inspections in the past have done a very good job of containing countries when they're actually allowed to proceed? Just as much as it is worth pointing out Iran's repeated overtures towards the destruction of Israel, and their leaders religious beliefs that they destruction of Israel begins the rapture.

QUOTE(Chisoxfn @ Jan 23, 2007 -> 11:13 AM) I want to point out one rule I have for these awards. There will be absolutely no spamming of members for votes or anything like this. There is no self promotion, this is not like running for president. This is meant to be a fun off-season thing and it is something that has become a bit of a tradition here at Soxtalk. Hopefully we have some new winners this year and I'll be excited to see who gets to join me in the Hall of Fame Class, but for any of you members posting on roids, I will petition to have you removed from the hall [slinks away, quietly]

"Increasing transparency" isn't ending the nuclear program. A nuclear Iran is a danger to the world. Period.

QUOTE(Balta1701 @ Jan 23, 2007 -> 10:52 AM) Iran has been making overtures to talk to the U.S. about a permanent settlement since 2003 according to one of Colin Powell's former deputies. Those overtures have been rebuked each time they hit the Vice President's office. How many included them dismantling their program?

QUOTE(maggsmaggs @ Jan 23, 2007 -> 10:44 AM) Ryan Bukvich's name got cut off, he was the third. Bukvich is interesting as he is now in the "fully recovered" time frame from Tommy John surgery. Is there a scouting report on this guy?