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Probably Torres. Hopefully not Colon or Sweaty Freddy.

All I can say is how pumped I am for the wall-to-wall Dallas Cowboys, TO and Tom Brady coverage over the next 6 months,

Okay, I can accept that long term. I don't want to see him get comfortable in that and JUST pull everything but it makes sense as he's getting his timing back.

QUOTE (Special K @ Aug 1, 2009 -> 01:48 PM) I was looking on Friar Nation, the Pads message board, and some of those clowns don't even know what they got from us. A lot of them think Richard has been relieving for us all year long and at best he'll be a long reliever or back of the end rotation guy. They said Poreda is not an impact guy, and Dexter and Russel won't see the big leagues. Poreda, Richard, and Dexter all have the potential to be something real solid and i'm excited to see how all of them do. Does anyone know when Richard is scheduled to start? He should fare pretty well in that big park. Richard will be great in PETCO, but do you really think Poreda projects as anything more then a setup man/reliever as he still only has 1 pitch and proven that his secondary stuff is nothing to write home about?

Only if they are self inflicted trainrecks.

Hahaha Kenny actually got one of his guys IN THE SAME YEAR. see: not Kotsay, Erstad I'm with ya sin city. I can't wait for the Chone Figgins/Carl Crawford connection in 2014.

Plus kids fly free on some major airlines. He just sits on someone's lap most likely.

As others mentioned he hasn't been going opposite field much and he still appears to be laboring on the basepaths but if he continues to hit dingers it won't really matter

Yeah, I think it was announced as 2pm today.

Which is something that is going to inevitably happen, unfortunately with the live cut-ins. Obviously, it's last minute stuff, there's no way to do a teleprompter read or anything like that, but wrong names are inexcusable.

QUOTE (Flash Tizzle @ Apr 28, 2009 -> 03:12 PM) LETS BRING HIM BACK! EVERY FORMER WHITE SOX MEMBER WHO HAS EXPERIENCED ANY TYPE OF SUCCESS MUST BE RUMORED TO RETURN HERE! FORMER WORLD SERIES MEMBER! COOP WILL FIX HIM! WHY NOT? LOW RISK, HIGH REWARD! HE HAS THAT SPICY LATIN PERSONALITY GUILLEN LOVES! Nothing against you bschmanranz, you were just reporting the news, but I have to throw out these lines before anyone else does. It's good to get them all out of the way now. VETERAN LEADERSHIP COULD HE BE WORSE THAN CONTRERAS RIGHT NOW? IT WON'T COST MUCH IT CAN'T HURT anymore?

QUOTE (Jordan4life @ Apr 27, 2009 -> 12:49 AM) Anybody notice that the Red Sox are emphatically debunking the myth that you can't have a contending ML team while maintaining a productive farm system at the same time? Since 2005, their farm has produced Papelbon, Ramirez (who they turned into Beckett), Lester, Buchholz, Pedroia, Youkilis, Ellsbury, Delcarmen and Lowrie. Lowrie goes down a couple weeks ago and they insert Nick Green, who at his age doesn't qualify as a true prospect, but is putting up a line so far of .302/.375/.488/.863. Daisuke Matsuzaka, who's overrated as hell, but still a big part of their rotation, goes down and all they do is insert Justin Masterson, who in 6 games (the last two as a starter) is sporting a 2.70 ERA. They just called up Michael Bowden (who's ranked #83 on BA's top 100 prospects list) for one day, I guess. And he looked f***in' awesome in two innings against NY last night. It won't be long before he's back up to stay. I don't even know who the hell Hunter Jones is. But he looked good as well. They've got Lars Anderson, who's ranked the 17th best prospect by BA, waiting in the wings. Daniel Bard, who's ranked the 98th best prospect by BA, is putting up filthy numbers at AAA right now. That just gives them more quality depth pitching wise. Say what you will about the Red Sox and their fans (who I despise), but that organization has got it's s*** together. They've blown right by the Yankees as the premier franchise in baseball. Yes, while I don't like the Red Sox I'm glad they are debunking that myth. We always heard that about the White Sox farm, that it's tough to produce a great farm system when you're drafting low. I always thought that was the most ridiculous argument to make, especially in baseball, but people pointed to a majority of the Rays top guys as being high picks. So I'm glad there is an organization out there that's proving winning and developing are not counter to each other.

QUOTE (Brian @ Apr 27, 2009 -> 04:57 PM) Keep him on with promos. The stuff last night, pleading Jeff to not put him through a table was very good heel stuff. That's one thing I'll never understand with today's WWE. A guy gets hurt, they completely take them off TV. Why? Imagine if in 1997, in the midst of Stone Cold's rise when he was injured during Summerslam they took him off TV for 6 months? Some people didn't even know Stone Cold was legitimately hurt because he was always on TV. Hell, they played an angle up where McMahon told him he couldn't wrestle and the fans ate it up even more.

QUOTE (Jordan4life @ Apr 28, 2009 -> 02:09 AM) And let's just pretend that Kevin Garnett guy being out is no real factor. Never heard of him. I thought Mikki Moore/Kendrick Perkins/Brian Scalabrine and Glen Davis were their normal frontcourt rotation.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Apr 27, 2009 -> 02:53 PM) Getting past the C's makes a solid argument that this team is closer to championship material than we thought. True, but as long as LeBron James is still in the Eastern Conference we aren't at that level. I'm not really stating an opinion either way on the Gordon thing because it's irrelevant. The way the NBA salary cap is structured there is little or no way a Gordon deal gets done. Jerry does not want to pay a hefty luxury tax, we don't know for a fact but we can probably guess. If Mark Cuban tries to toe around paying a luxury tax, I have a hard time believing Jerry is ready to take that leap.