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QUOTE(Texsox @ Feb 7, 2005 -> 05:07 PM) Why would he want to come back, he's got his own site now With like 6 members... and knowing Knuck, he is probably 4 of them.

Oven Mitt>>>>>>>>>>Kick in the nads>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Joan Cusak.

QUOTE(GASHWOUND @ Feb 7, 2005 -> 06:31 PM) Agreed..The Twins got no big boppers and haven't had any in years and they've won....We go in the direction of the Twins and all of a sudden all the critics say we suck now cause we got rid of some big thumpers.. Why is it Minny can win with speed and D but we sculpt our team in that same manner and we suck? And we still have I think more pop in the line-up then the Twins ever had even with Maggs and Lee gone. More balance . The Marlins are a great example of not relying on the HR.

QUOTE(JimH @ Feb 7, 2005 -> 06:19 PM) Mike, I don't think that's the case. No arbitration offered = no draft pick compensation if I understand it correctly. Duh... nevermind. scratch the draft picks.

QUOTE(santo=dorf @ Feb 7, 2005 -> 03:47 PM) Jesus Wite, you put a ton of time into this thread, and what happened with hawaiisoxfn? It was a troll who had been banned prior who snuck back in...

QUOTE(Chisoxfn @ Feb 7, 2005 -> 05:47 PM) Booo, SF1, you got me all excited, just went and got the mail but my guess is it takes just a little longer to come out to the left coast, lol. Even quicker than that would have been buying them while you were at the fest

QUOTE(Texsox @ Feb 7, 2005 -> 05:44 PM) Buerhle spoke lovingly about the Cardinals and Frank has spoken about being mistreated and the club not showing respect. The Club alllowed an All-Star player to leave with zero to show for it. You would think the guy single handed stopped the team from a World Series. Geez, he got a better deal somewhere else and took it. No one is calling Hermanson a greedy sob for turning down his last offer and becoming a free agent. Give the guy a break. If Maggs had accepted that 5/70 deal odds are Garcia and Contreras aren't here. The money he left on the table is teh money that got us two more starters. I hardly call that zero. Plus we are getting draft picks for him.

QUOTE(YoungstownIndians @ Feb 7, 2005 -> 03:09 PM) Hey man even in the PM I sent back to you I said you could! I am here to post. Thats it. The sig is just there! And I got the right to say I hate the Sox. Even without a link! hey Jas did this guy just buy Soxtalk from you and not tell us? The only "right" you have here is to go somewhere else if you don't like the rules. It really isn't that complex. This is a troll free board. Period. If you want to talk baseball respectfully, that is great. If you want to go around saying that the Sox "suck" you won't last here at all. And that is the way it is here.

QUOTE(winodj @ Feb 7, 2005 -> 03:04 PM) And how many scandals are going on in our own government? You act like the Bush administration is as clean as the driven snow. If you wanna make arguments about being independent investigations on UN activities and not on the Bush administration, you'll conveniently forget that the GOP Congress hasn't allowed any to take place. The UN has. Apparently, one is more concerned with transparency and accountability than the other... When I have I ever said the current government shouldn't be held accountable? When have I ever said this admin was clean? I am not that stupid. I said many times during the election if there would have been ANY electable canditiate worth a spit, I would have voted for them. I have been all in favor of impeaching anyone in the Bush administration who is connected to illegal activity. Rumsfeld should have been raked over the coals for Abu Grahib. People's heads should have rolled over WMD intel. But much like past Admins, this group did everything it could to stop it, surprise. And a big, big difference between the two organizations is only one represents itsself as a nuetral organization. If you listen to Bush or any other President talk, they ALWAYS talk about the good of the USA first. The whole exsistance of this country is for the betterment of the this country. The whole reason for the UN to exsist to mediate and improve the world as an impartial bystander. That doesn't exactly work when the leader and past leader of the UN are connected to bribe taking scandals.

How about throwing monopoly money at him? That has always been one of my favorites.

If I am understanding it right, the last two years are team options. I think the max they are stuck with is $75 mil.

QUOTE(winodj @ Feb 7, 2005 -> 02:54 PM) You act like the US did something about it when it was happening. I don't know if you understand this, but the US is actually a member of the UN. The US is the most powerful member of the UN, and as a permanent member of the Security Council, it can really undergo no action without the US' support. Yet there was no movement on behalf of the Bush administration to investigate and fix Oil for Food. Even after they were made aware of abuses in the system in 2001, 2002, and 2003. To take a look at 6.5 billion dollars worth of fraud (approximately 7% of the total money raised by Oil For Food) and have that completely invalidate a multinational organization that this government stopped respecting in 2001, is like saying that the election in Iraq is invalidated because the Coalition Provisional Authority can't account for over 8 billion dollars in Oil money raised in its 14 months of existence. Do you honestly believe that this is the only scandal like this going on? Do you honestly believe that all of these countries and UN officials all managed to get wrapped up in this just one bad thing going on at the UN? Come on.

QUOTE(winodj @ Feb 7, 2005 -> 02:41 PM) Actually abuses for Oil for Food were reported to the Security Council multiple times. The Security Council did nothing. And it took the US to start pressing for investigations, and start procecuting people for this stuff. The UN has stonewalled it at every step.

QUOTE(ChiSoxyGirl @ Feb 7, 2005 -> 02:33 PM) And unattractive. That one I DEFINATELY agree with

QUOTE(Purdue129 @ Feb 7, 2005 -> 02:32 PM) Sorry, I'll make sure not to mention it on here again. Trust me I understand... I have used one of the aforementioned sites... It is just for the good of this site, that these things aren't out there.

QUOTE(Chisoxfn @ Feb 6, 2005 -> 11:03 PM) Didn't Andy Benes go there? They also had a pretty high pick a year or two back but forget who he was. Yeah Benes is an Evansville Alum. He was the overall #1 pick in the draft in the late 80's if IIRC. Rexy probably can give you the exact year.

QUOTE(Kalapse @ Feb 6, 2005 -> 11:38 AM) Best sight on the net for stats, player and team info, I use it all the time. Ditto. I use this site all of the time.

So I guess all of the hockey and NASCAR fans should trash this thread with things like Not A Sport and Who Cares????

The Bulls are really hitting the wall right now. I was hoping with everyone except Kirk playing reduced minutes it would take a while for it to happen, but it is here. You can really see it with how piss-poor their defensive efforts have been getting.

QUOTE(soxhawks @ Feb 7, 2005 -> 02:01 PM) jjkl Ummm, any reason you are bumping a 3 month old thread?

Hey guys quick request here. Gambling is illegal and we at Soxtalk want nothing to do with it. You all can talk about it if you like, but please don't post any links to any sites here. We don't want to be seen as promoting any illegal activity. If you want to contact each other privately, that is up to you. Thanks. Mike PS, I am going to remove the specific site references from people's posts.

QUOTE(KipWellsFan @ Feb 7, 2005 -> 01:30 PM) Overpaid probably, overrated maybe, bad actor... NO!!! His performance in Magnolia is one of the best, maybe the best small role I've ever seen. And like the Academy or not, 3 Oscar nominations is impressive. I never said he was a bad actor.

Well since these are all fake, I would have to nominate the old lady who sued the kids who left her cookies instead of going to a drinking party...

QUOTE(Texsox @ Feb 7, 2005 -> 01:11 PM) Amazing how business the world over all operate pretty much the same. If there is money to be made, the deals get done. The US didn't need a UN resolution to go to war against Iraq, yet we keep mentioning this and that UN resolution that was violated. :headshake We really do talk out of both sides of our mouths in regards to Iraq. The UN was compromised as a nuetral party when it got involved in the food for oil scandal. Especially when the countries leading the charge against the US, were the ones who had the most to lose financially from the war. The whole idea is for them to be an international body immune to the influences of politics, trying to aid the world as best they can. Instead they did their best immitation of the US Senate and stuck their hands out for money. The UN is worthless right now. The US does most of the peacekeeping and charity work in the world as is. If the UN is going to decide everything by the highest bidder, we might as well cut out the middle man and all of the waster that goes on at the UN anyway.

QUOTE(Mathew @ Feb 4, 2005 -> 12:24 PM) That was the only shot I've seen in Div III basketball. D3 ball pwns