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QUOTE(Adam G @ Jun 9, 2005 -> 09:27 AM) Exactly what I thought. I'm an attorney and cant figure out for the life of me what Mariotti could possibly be talking about. Sending JR a check for giving him things to write about so that he can keep his job.

QUOTE(LosMediasBlancas @ Jun 9, 2005 -> 09:41 AM) Take it from someone who has stood near the peak of a volcano, they're awesome and scary. I would love to see one. I am in awe of the power of mother nature, and want to see one really badly.

For all who are interested in a few more details, I did a blog post about it. http://boringtheworld.blogspot.com/

http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/americas/06/...o.ap/index.html

QUOTE(chi-guy2 @ Jun 9, 2005 -> 08:48 AM) one game and everyones opinion is changed, he played great but lets see if he can do this again Carl got 38 RBI's in one game? That's gotta be some kind of record.

Lucky for the Illini. Brown was really starting to slip, especially when he started questioning Weber's helping him for the draft.

Key stat of the series... The Sox pitching only allowed 9 runs in Denver, over a 3 game series.

The quote is too good. You go JR!!!

QUOTE(Texsox @ Jun 9, 2005 -> 06:45 AM) But not all Boras clients are upper echelon players earning multi-year, multiple-million dollar paychecks. Definition time: Boras Player, any player he represents. Boras Player, A-Rod etc. earning multiples of tens of millions of dollars. Or are you extending Boras' negotiations to include a guy near the minimum who may make an extra $100,000 because he had Boras representing him? I hesitate to throw this example on the fire, but doesn't Boras represent Crede? I doubt Crede's contract prevented us from signing any free agent. I think we are in total agreement that committing a huge chuck of your payroll to one or two stars is not a path to the post season. Baseball requires too many players, and any one individual will not have enough AB or defensive chances to make a big enough impact. So yes the Rangers are now the poster child for payroll management. I think YAS brings up an excellent point. In a sense Boras is also helping his clients to winning teams based on some of the smaller market teams passing. I understand the business side of baseball, I just worry when alongside height weight position played is the agent's name as an important tool in evaluating talent. Soon, players will be able to almost hand select what team they are going to based on who their agent is. The effect trickles down. When Borass's big names get huge money, the mediocre guys use that as a barometer to get their money. Ask the Rangers who spent $65 million on Chan Ho Park, the Dodgers who spent $55 million on Darren Driefort, or the Tigers who spend $75 million on Maggs. Those guys aren't the best in the game, but they still used the same agent to get their contracts, and they still have the same ripple effect on payroll. I can't wait to see what Scotty can get Joe Crede in FA so that we can laugh at that team as well.

QUOTE(ChiSoxyGirl @ Jun 8, 2005 -> 10:17 PM) Gross, on all counts: too skinny, bad hair color, gross bleached out freckles, smoking (menthols no less, ick). When she's 40 she's going to look back and be like, s***, what did I do to myself..... No doubt about it. Who is telling these girl that is attractive? :puke EAT A SAMMICH!!

QUOTE(DonkeyKongerko @ Jun 8, 2005 -> 08:27 PM) Hilarious picture? This guy is freaky lookin. Dude the Flock of Seagulls guy doesn't even wear his hair like that anymore...

QUOTE(Texsox @ Jun 9, 2005 -> 07:03 AM) More at this link Did they check eBay? Went missing? Heck with the corruption up there, they probably sold them.

QUOTE(Jordan4life_2005 @ Jun 9, 2005 -> 01:42 AM) Do you despise the Cubs as much as we Sox fans do? And if not, can you learn quickly

I really didn't think so during the trial, but supposedly the longer the jury is out, the worse it is for Jackson... Now where is my sticker?

QUOTE(LowerCaseRepublican @ Jun 8, 2005 -> 03:42 PM) Congrats! And hopefully you can find out the baby's sex and it cooperates -- unlike me when I was in the womb who just kept mooning the ultrasound thingy. Well we ended up having the exact same problem. Imagine that, my kid not cooperating. Heck some doc somewhere is probably ready to label the baby and put it on a drug... Anyways after much maniputation and coaxing, it looks like we are going to have a girl. It is still on the earliest possible time period to make a judgement, but it didn't look like any equiptment was present, and the start of a labia was. It was very cool, and everything looks to be healthy and developing A-OK.

Happy Birthday to Cali And Happy Birthday to Mathew, eh

QUOTE(Texsox @ Jun 8, 2005 -> 05:34 PM) The player and his agent should not be negotiating for the team, any more than the team should be negotiating for the player. Agent "I'm sorry Mr. TeamOwner, but I don't see how you can be competitive and pay my player $10,000,000. Let's make it $8,500,000? Does that sound fair to you? TeamOwner "No, I insist. He's batting .329 and we need a left handed bat. He's worth at least $10,000,000 that's only fair. Agent "Well if you can convince me you can spend it *and* be competitive, I guess we will take the money." I'm not arguing that a top heavy payroll is the answer. I agree that a balanced payroll, is probably a better path to the playoffs. What I cannot see is a player settling for less money on some hope the team will use the money to sign other players, who also would be signing for less, in hopes of getting other players who will sign for less dollars. That's a nice socialist system, but not a free enterprise, American dream way. And just having the extra money doesn't mean you will win anything. The Yankees have an almost unlimited payroll. If players started signing contracts based on lower wages so the team could sign more free agents, like the Yankees, there is no guarantee of winning. But my original question. Are teams hurting themselves when they refuse to sign a player based on his agent? Who said a player should settle for less money? That is a completely different question. You asked if the teams were getting hurt. I think for everyone except the upper escelon teams, they benefit by not signing Borass guys as they are able to sign comperable players for less money, and then have the ability to build around those players moreso than if they wasted that money on one player.

QUOTE(Pauly8509CWS @ Jun 8, 2005 -> 05:18 PM) I hope you're lying. Rules like that arent the problem. Third man in, instigator, and the clutching and grabbing need to go. And contraction is also a VERY good idea. Bettman ran this league into the ground and now he's trying to NBAify it and market it to casual fans. They arent trying to fix the probelms on the ice, only the $$$ off the ice. :fyou Bettman They were also looking at a goal that was 4 inches higher.

QUOTE(OilCan @ Jun 8, 2005 -> 05:22 PM) What's even more amazing is how many pages have been devoted to a middle reliever!!!! Not since the days of Kent Tekulve, a healthy Paul Quantrill, or even a lights-out Scott Radinsky have so much talk have been devoted to a middle reliever. I luv my Sox!!!! We had a 1000 post thread about a guy who said he didn't want to come here, with GM who said he would never trade him, all about how we were going to trade for him. This thread doesn't shock me at all.

QUOTE(qwerty @ Jun 8, 2005 -> 03:07 PM) That really worries me... gload really had to of done something bad that the orginization does not like. Like cheat has said before gload is the sox version of jared reiner. Only difference is gload is actually good and produced some what in the majors. As it stands we don't have a legitimate back up first baseman on this team. So how the hell does ozzie expect to keep konerko rested for the entire year? His silly ozuna, widger, timo options are not comforting. I think Jim is eluding to the fact that he is pretty seriously hurt. The only reason he wasn't called up already is because he shoulder was still so bad that he couldn't throw from the OF. If he is even worse now, I get the feeling he might need surgery or a long rest.

QUOTE(Antonio Osuna @ Jun 8, 2005 -> 02:55 PM) Hey, I'm just repeating what Farmer told me. If you talk to Farmio again, tell him to put on some socks!

BTW I just wanted to throw this out the for the reactions... Since Paul Konerko got his two days off while Timo played first, Pauly is hitting .368 with 2 Hrs, 3 RBI, .478 OBP, 1.215 OPS, .737 SLG.

I doubt we do anything. The roster is full as is, another move would require getting rid of someone we don't want to get rid of.

All you want for this season is a series victory over the Cubs? Who cares about the Cubs... We have the best record in baseball, I want to win this thing. I could care less about the damned Cubs.

And you wonder why they don't do anything about ID theft... http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8145393/