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Timo could be really expendable when Thomas comes back. Gload and Harris both play the OF as does Everett.

QUOTE(DBAH0 @ Mar 29, 2005 -> 06:22 PM) What's the cap hit San Diego would take by trading Rivers? I don't think you take a hit by trading someone do you? Doesn't the other team assume the hit of the contract?

QUOTE(Palehosefan @ Mar 29, 2005 -> 06:15 PM) Its just odd, Howard wasn't even considering Duke. Its almost like he just pulled it out of his ass. I think in general you all are taking this a little too seriously. There are quite a few lines in there that struck me as kind of a joke. I don't think it was meant to be super serious, just something to give you a new thought to ponder.

QUOTE(AddisonStSox @ Mar 29, 2005 -> 04:44 PM) Makes a whole lot of sense to me. They could probably plug Rivers in as the starting quarterback immediately. The Niners don't have to make this move, but if they feel more comfortable with Rivers than either Rodgers or Smith, they should do it. Personally, I really like what Rivers brings to the table and I think he could do very well in SF. They really need the new face of the organization, Rivers could work. Plus they are a year ahead in this guys learning curve.

QUOTE(AddisonStSox @ Mar 29, 2005 -> 03:19 PM) We'll see if that makes a difference in a court of law. It might, but I just don't see it happening. If it is a collectively bargined item, it doesn't matter.

QUOTE(Jabroni @ Mar 29, 2005 -> 05:34 PM) WILL HE EVER STOP HITTING?!? With the Sox luck, that will happen about April 4th.

QUOTE(AddisonStSox @ Mar 29, 2005 -> 03:11 PM) They try this every other year or so and it fails time and time again. I see no reason to believe they would get it pushed through this time around. The big difference this time is that the players now want it. Funny how your attitude changes when you lose your million dollar a year job to an 18 year old.

http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/rssstory.mpl/front/3106365

QUOTE(Grebeck Fan Club @ Mar 29, 2005 -> 02:39 PM) I just bought an adjustable 'green sox' St. Patty's day hat. It's my Sox purchase for the year. I do have the 2001 "1917" Sunday throwback jersey. Number 31 on the back (guess who that is). I got the green hat last September during the halfway to St Pats. game.

Then my work here is done

QUOTE(He_Gawn @ Mar 29, 2005 -> 02:24 PM) Would Jared Jeffries be a senior this year or last? Jeffries would have graduated last year.

I'm not sure if we match up or not Zero, but make me an offer if you are interested. I'd definately be interested in one of the closers, and I do have some starting pitching to offer. I also would be willing to deal Maggs and Giambi.

QUOTE(Texsox @ Mar 29, 2005 -> 02:10 PM) Like all other manufacturing jobs, we would go overseas. Like shirts, tvs, computers and everything else, foreign production is cheaper and when US producers cannot compete we will see more and more food items from places like Nicaragua. How much can they produce? The scale that the US produces on is unmatched in the world. I doubt they would be able to pick up THAT much of the slack as to keep price increases that low. Not many countries have the wide open expanses AND the technology to utilize it, like the US does.

QUOTE(SleepyWhiteSox @ Mar 29, 2005 -> 01:57 PM) I doubt it would come to that extreme. The fact of the matter is that workers deserve to be fairly compensated for the work that they do. Economically something would have to give way. If wages went from way less than minimum wage, to say $10 an hour, the costs have to be absorbed somewhere. Either prices have to go up, or farmers would quit producing. If farmers were to quit producing prices would go up anyway, as there would be no change in basic demand. Food is an inelastic item in general. You HAVE to eat. Price increases would be passed on. Heck if wages went up 4X, we would probably be lucky to only see a 2X increase in prices.

QUOTE(SleepyWhiteSox @ Mar 29, 2005 -> 01:50 PM) They sure as hell could. You believe that everyone could afford to pay double for the same amount of food?

I have been to the NCAA finals with my team while I was in college, granted it was D3, but the excitement level might even have been higher on this campus. We were undefeated, playing against another undefeated team for the title. The whole town was into it. Nothing like this had ever happened at Manchester College. All that, and I would trade every second of it for any seat at a World Series game at Comiskey Park.

QUOTE(Texsox @ Mar 29, 2005 -> 01:29 PM) And they are preyed on by landlords, farmers, ranchers, shop keepers. No one likes the system. Not the people who risk their lives crossing wilderness areas with little water for $5.00 per hour, the people who employ them, or the people who buy the cheap food that the illegals produce. The system needs to be fixed, but the fix is not paying field labor $21,000 per year. Which is the median income that most agriculture experts pick as the salary needed to get Americans to take these jobs. McDonalds pays close to that for indoor, year round work. I doubt the industry could support $10.50 an hour for a prevailing wage. But definately something needs to be done.

QUOTE(Gene Honda Civic @ Mar 29, 2005 -> 01:36 PM) '77??? Were those the shorts? Those were a little before my time.

QUOTE(LosMediasBlancas @ Mar 29, 2005 -> 01:25 PM) How about this, every year, the U.S. gov tracks down (and they can) those illegals who have been the most hard working and grants them citizenship. The same number of welfare and aid recipients get deported, deal? lol You would see our productivity numbers shoot through the roof.

I know the whole Retro 1983 jerseys are in right now, but god those were ugly. I was never so happy with a uniform as when they went to the late 80's look and dumped that horrid 83 jersey.

QUOTE(SleepyWhiteSox @ Mar 29, 2005 -> 01:19 PM) What % are felons and what felonious activities are being supported? I missed that part... All of them. Being in the USA illegally is a felony.

QUOTE(LosMediasBlancas @ Mar 29, 2005 -> 01:12 PM) I see your point, but we already 'reward' lazy American asses with welfare and aid. Which I am totally against as well. No able bodied person should collect aid like that long term. At worst those systems were meant as temporary holdovers for people down on their luck. At best they were meant for the unemployable.

QUOTE(Texsox @ Mar 29, 2005 -> 01:07 PM) You are missing my point. Canadians wanting to take an extended vacation in the US are treated different than Mexicans. That doesn't seem fair. Which will harm the economy more, $2.00 gas or a 15% increase in the food bills? Like it or not, or agricultural economy is running strong because of illegal labor. We need to find a way to utilize this labor pool in a legal manner, not try and just cut off the border and do without. That it terribly short sided. If you actually go back and read what I posted, I am very much in favor of streamlined immigration and/or a big expanded guest worker program. I have no problem with legal means being utilized. I do have a problem going for my tax dollars supporting felonious activity. Why should we reward illegal activity, that doesn't make any sense. Especially when the jobs they are taking are most likely being taken away from from new immigrants who have historically worked the least desirable jobs. What kind of reward is following the law then? What kind of message are we sending?

QUOTE(SleepyWhiteSox @ Mar 29, 2005 -> 01:01 PM) Why??? So all hard-working illegal immigrants having a positive effect on the economy while working hard in the true American spirit should be deported? Why should a person who commits a felony be rewarded?

QUOTE(LosMediasBlancas @ Mar 29, 2005 -> 12:55 PM) http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7293186/ What if it proves otherwise?...oooops. Good to see Jesse Jackson finally made it down there, better late than never I guess.