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You keep saying that... how much of that debt is owned by forgeiners?

One of the Nobel prize winning economist thinks Bush's tax cuts weren't enough. http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/a...es_041011212152

This could be the best thing in a long time to happen to the Bears. If the Packers are awful this season, it could make Farve retire if he thinks that the Pack is going to be rebuilding.

http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/10/12/found.alive.ap/index.html

Really if you want to use a Yankee comparision, that pales also. They have a big core of their team that is home grown. Jeter, Rivera, Posada, Jeter, Bernie all came from within. The Red Sox don't have anywhere near that record. The Yanks traded for Brown, Vazquez, Loiaza, ARod. And then your arguement was that anyone could have picked up certian guys on FA. Anyone could have jumped on Lofton, Sierra, Clark, Cairo, El Duque, Wilson, Lieber etc for not too much money. Then the Yankees had their few big signings just like the Red Sox did. The Red Sox went out and gave big money contracts to guys like Foulke and Ramirez. The Yankees went and gave big money to guys like Mussina and Sheffield. I still don't see what the Red Sox do as any different than what the Yankees do. They should never have been able to get most of the guys on their team, just like the Red Sox.

Wow this is completely a no win situation. $450 million is insane.

Good memory YAS. There is a whole school of belief that Mary M was Jesus's most important apostle and he was married to her, and had children, as was the tradition of the day. She also has her own gnostic gospel http://www.gnosis.org/library/marygosp.htm That stuff has always facinated me, because as we know the catholic church would never lie to us

That's because he is O-L-D

Tuesdays are best for me, but anytime after 6 pm Chicago time works for me on a weeknight. Or during the afternoon as long as we were done by 3pm or so.

It would be nice if he could just sit with Crede and give him some of the mental approach to the game. If he could do that, this team would be in way better shape.

That is actually the local HS. I spent three years broadcasting their basketball games The college is the Spartans http://www.manchester.edu/Athletics/index.htm FWIW, My personal favorite was always Logansport

Most likely, Yankees Cardinals. I think the Cards take it as the Yankees have even more pitching problems.

Well then get your butt up here!!! God knows this team could use a lefty swingman out of the pen. What are you doing over the winter Jim? Are you working out in AZ with the boys, or maybe a winter league? Or are you just staying home?

Now be honest with me. Do you really think Curt Schilling would gave accepted a trade to the White Sox? Do you really think that David Ortiz would have taken that little of an amount from the White Sox? Even if the Sox had traded for Pedro, they would not have been able to sign an expensive long term deal because they couldn't afford to keep guys like Ordonez or Thomas. It is much easier to look good as a GM, when you can afford $50 million for 3 players. For the White Sox that would be about 80% of their entire payroll.

That is my point. Any team with the talent couldn't have landed those guys, because they couldn't afford to pay them. Heck the White Sox could have put together a package respective to what got ARod or Schilling, but they couldn't afford to pay their salaries. Heck they could have picked up Manny in the offseason when the Red Sox put him on waivers, but we couldn't afford the 60 or 80 million dollars (I forget if he has 3 or 4 years left on his deal) without destroying the rest of the team to do it. The money is the deciding factor. If it wasn't, teams like Montreal and Minnesota have some of the best minor league systems in all of baseball. If it were that simple, those teams would get those big named players. But you have to have a payroll, plain and simple.

I have a guess who this is.... Are you going to tell us?

'Stros with a 3-0 lead in the bottom of the 3rd. C'mon Roy Oswalt.

I hope so. I love good baseball conversation. Just so you know RW, it isn't anything personal. I like the fact that we have good posters who are also a fan of another team. It makes for good balance on the site. Heck I honestly think it would be cool if we had some decent Twins fans here to talk baseball with.

That is an excellent post. Great detail and depth.

Blues Brothers no doubt. That is one of the greatest movies ever. We're on a mission from God...

Manchester College c/o 1996

You are forgetting one little thing. The Red Sox have a payroll of $120 million and can afford to keep all of these players at the sametime, while pillaging them off of rosters of teams who can't afford them. Why in their right minds would the Diamondbacks have trading Schilling? Or the Phillies for that matter? Because they couldn't afford him. Why did the Expos trade Pedro? Because they couldn't afford him. Why did the Twins nontender David Ortiz? Because they couldn't afford him. Why did the Expos deal Cabrera? Because they knew they couldn't afford to resign him in the offseason. Why did the Twins trade Doug M? Because they had a younger cheaper prospect to replace him with. Why did Keith Foulke ever leave the A's, because they couldn't give a closer $21 million over 3 years. Why did Manny leave Cleveland? Because the Indians couldn't offer anything close to 20 mil a year for 6 years. Have you noticed a theme here? All of these trades and FAs are the result of financial problems of another team. It is easy to look like a genius when only one team in all of baseball can afford to outspend you. To me the Red Sox and the Yankees are the same organization. They make their playoff appreances on the backs of economically poor organizations. That does't impress me at all.

I am not sure honestly...

Did the letters look something like this?