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And that is exactly my point. Even the teams that get 3 million fans to show up, haven't signed anyone yet, why is it a suprise that the Sox haven't?

The Yankees for one.

My sentiments exactly. The Sox are not going to have a top 5 payroll, so basically it comes down to catching lighting in a bottle. And frankly, the odds of getting struck by lightning are a lot better with clouds in the sky. Randy Johnson is one of the best pitchers in all of baseball, until proven otherwise. The Dbacks proved that you can win a WS on the backs of pitching. If the Sox get him at the top of the rotation, and move everyone down a notch, this team becomes an instant world series contender, no doubt about it. Forget the future, forget conservative. If Randy saids he will accept a trade here, you get him. Period.

How many guys have the Yankees signed? The Red Sox? The Angels? The Cubs? The Dodgers? No one has done anything yet. There has been one decent trade made, and no big free agent signings. Why is everyone going nuts already? Go eat some leftovers and relax people.

Which is really funny considering how many people b**** when the Sox don't pay them EVEN MORE money

LMAO

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Sing it loud and sing it proud!

They barely had any cap room left, and Warner got a 2 year $9 million deal.

They didn't have the cap room to get Warner...

Gammons note on Nomar

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Not even close. Shea has been handcuffed by having two horrible back up QBs, terrible WR's, and an injury depleted O-line. Bill Walsh himself couldn't coach this sorry-assed bunch.

This is the best post on this whole thread. Neither guy had any time to throw or even think. Who knows if these guys could be decent, if they are picking their asses up off of the turf after every throw. And the drops and bad routes by the recievers... :puke

And the sad thing is that if we really wanted to reduce emissions, this should be the kinds of projects we should be trying to push. Even past Amtrak, they should be working on high speed trains to reduce the time travel needed.

I honestly figured that most people had no idea what it was. If I didn't work in the futures markets I would have had the same WTF reaction.

2 years $12 mil is not a bad offer, but I don't think I would outbid the Yankees for Lieber.

So are you KW, JR, or ncorgbl?

So what should everyone be doing? Freaking out? Kicking the dog? Cancelling their season tickets? Being irrational on a message board? Pretending to psychoanalize people? Take it for FWIW?

With the holiday weekend, why don't we make the deadline something like Monday or Tuesday. Potentially there are a lot of people away from home with family.

Sing it Critic. Today symbolizes everything that is wrong with this country. We spend a day as a nation, giving thanks and helping people less fortunate than us. We spend that day with family and friends, reflecting on memories and life. Then the very next day we go out and engage in an orgy of greed and dangerous consumerism. People literally fight to be first in line to spend their money on things they don't need. They charge themselves into debt levels that lead them into bankruptcy and ruiniation of the credit. And for what? A cheap DVD player? A new computer? Bah. There is no reason to bastardize Christmas for this crap.

Read up on freedom of speech. It has nothing to do with a privately owned message board. A spot like this can be held liable for the content that appears on the board, so they have the right to stop what they deem as unfit. And as to your last line of your post, an ignore feature on the board is actually much more representive of real life. If there is a controversial author that you don't like, no one forces you to look at their writings. But if you just happened to be scrolling down a thread, there is nothing to stop the writings of someone you have no interest in reading from popping up on your screen. An ignore button fills a service for the posters here. Also if used properly, it could prevent problems, as people don't like each other and look for reasons to argue, can now ignore each other, and never know that anything was said.

Footnote on Jeff from Baseball America at the end of AFL

THe crazy thing is he actually had an 8 foot eagle put for a 58 and missed it by about 8"

Actually I am going to knitpick a bit, but the Soybean rust could be a huge deal. What it is a a fungus that destroys bean crops. It has destroyed a big percentage of the crops in Brazil, and was just found for the first time in the US within the last month, down in LA. Something like this if it spread here, would be a deathknell to many farmers who are already getting by on tiny margins.