Texsox

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Dec 8, 2007 -> 09:45 PM) He didn't automatically get the job. Its obvious to me that Sox management was looking for a certian level of commitment from Brian last spring, and once they got to Tucson, they didn't get it. Its not all about statistics. You know as well as I do that numbers can, and do, often lie. Just ask Anderson's agent how much of a commitment to baseball that Brian has made in years past. For whatever reason, that is important to the Sox. They don't care about guys who can pad their stats in garbage time, they want a guy who is willing to fight it out in the trenches, and Anderson has never given them that. Spot on, although the concept of garbage time in baseball seems weak. I see it in basketball, but not in baseball.

QUOTE(G&T @ Dec 8, 2007 -> 08:21 PM) Plagiarism. Musically it is called sampling It was funny when I was taking a pro Bush position and channeling Southsider WWSD?

QUOTE(BearSox @ Dec 8, 2007 -> 09:26 AM) Yeah, lets sentence a 61 year old to prison for life, even if he isn't a menace to society. What he did wasn't right, but he doesn't belong to be in jail for the rest of his life, which he would get if convicted. A couple years of probation, and go from there. It's not like he goes around killing bad guys, this was his first incident. I'm certain his neighbors feel better, knowing if they have relatives over this Christmas, they could get blown away for leaving with presents. I'd want a guy who ignores direct commands from the cop to not go outside and not to shoot them.

Depends on the salary.

I'm taking a History class on line and the Professor basically created the Filibuster and set us loose. They didn't see it coming. 100/100 for Tex. The Professor asked if I had formal debate training, I explained I got my butt handed to me on soxtalk talking Bush, so this was easy. I basically wound up with both pro and con Bush positions and used some of the stuff from out threads. Sweet

I just received this.

Anderson - parties = Jenks - parties We could lock up Anderson for 5 years for what these other guys want for one!?

QUOTE(Rowand44 @ Dec 7, 2007 -> 06:14 PM) Well, so did we. And we'll win again with Brian Anderson because the other choices are too expensive

The point I was making was use that as a reference when looking at these salaries, in a couple years, they sometimes look like bargains. Teams have to project out what a player is going to do. Maggs was a risk, and the Tigers won.

QUOTE(Balta1701 @ Dec 7, 2007 -> 06:03 PM) Tex, when's the last time I told you how much I despise you? I'm all about the money Who cares if we finish in fourth place, as long as we don't overpay for someone that could actually contribute.

I can't believe anyone would want the team to spend $$$$ on a CFer when Brian Anderson is there for so much less. Screw these $18 mil players, we need Brian Anderson and his livable contract. What a bargain!

QUOTE(Soxy @ Dec 7, 2007 -> 07:14 AM) Not.worth.it. (And nothing like undergrad) All work and no play. We have a smallish program here that looks good to me now. We'll see in a year. I've been invited to take a couple grad level courses next year and will probably take them up on the offer. That way I will get a taste.

QUOTE(FlaSoxxJim @ Dec 6, 2007 -> 02:32 PM) Even faster, I took it from the pile of old Tiger Beats I keep in my sock drawer. I actually really like the earliest Hall and Oates stuff – the 1972-1974 "blue-eyed soul" stuff that KG thinks is a myth. The Rundgren-produced War Babies album is quite excellent. Seriously? If I spend some time finding that stuff and it's Private Thighs stuff I'll get even. Is this like the Bee Gees, great stuff and poor, crap and rich?

QUOTE(KWs OK for Me @ Dec 6, 2007 -> 05:13 PM) I only have 11 more days of college!!! Just typing that scares me. I DON'T WANT TO GRADUATE!!! Grad school

QUOTE(FlaSoxxJim @ Dec 6, 2007 -> 02:23 PM) By the way, GP, if your friend wouldn't bang Hall, as her if she'll at least consider a mustache ride from Oates. I can't believe you got that down off your bedroom wall and scanned it so fast.

Milwaukee Coliseum circa 1980, they opened for ELO worse.show.ever (ELO was masterful) Sara Smile, thirty minutes, both guys withering on the stage, the song took sooooo much out of them to sign.

QUOTE(FlaSoxxJim @ Dec 6, 2007 -> 02:20 PM) Watch out boy, She'll chew you up! they're watching you they see your every move

QUOTE(FlaSoxxJim @ Dec 6, 2007 -> 02:14 PM) I'm still trying to work out how anybody gets involved in a conversation in which the subject is whether you would bang Hall from Hall and Oates. . . And for the record, I would not. I can't go for that. No can do. Cause you know it don't matter anyway

The prices always look terrible when they sign, then in a couple years they are behind the curve. Rowand at $14 or $15 mil could look very cheap in a couple seasons.

To save a few minutes. Down here people park on the tracks all the time. That seems even more stupid.

As I have mentioned before, it is not the amount of the contract for most players, it's how much compared to their peers. They just want a little more than the other guys at their position. If Hunter had just signed for $3 mil a year and that was the top salary, Jones would have been happy at $3.1 mil

Looking at what Hunter and Jones just negotiated, let's look at an outfielder the Sox felt was overpriced just a couple years ago. That most fans said we being a greedy s.o.b. and that the Tigers got fleeced by Bora$$ For $15,000,000 he hit .363 139 rbi and scored another 117 times. .434 obp and .595 slugging. What will Hunter or Jones do for the extra $3 mil? So based on recent free agent signings, how does Maggs look at $15 mil?

Keep smiling Rowand, your price keeps climbing and climbing. If he accepts anything less that 5/75 he's giving someone a discount. Anderson Why pay more?

QUOTE(Gregory Pratt @ Dec 6, 2007 -> 12:15 PM) About a month ago, Flash and I met again for a general conversation about some things outside of baseball and then baseball. When that conversation was ending and we were walking off, someone comes running up to me yelling, "Pratt! You asshole! You asshole!" I turn and we stop to wait for him. "You asshole! You f***ing asshole!" I didn't skip a beat. Just said, "Henry, this is Flash, my Life Partner." ["Henry"'s name has been changed to protect his identity; he is not a SoxTalker. Dude doesn't even like baseball!] (They shook hands and then Henry turns back to me.) "Asshole!" "Umm, what's up?" "Yeah, hey listen, I should run," Flash says, and he was on his way out anyway (we were at our place of departure). "See you Flash," I say, and turn to Mr. Henry. "What's up?" "YOU TOOK THE WORD JACKASS OUT OF ONE OF MY ARTICLES BUT PUT THE WORD 'ASS' IN YOURS! YOU ASSHOLE, I love you, you're so sinister." Was very funny to be walking with Flash and have one of my writers come up to me yelling and then praising me for being "sinister". It was nothing of the sort, but it was certainly entertaining. Didn't see Flash since then until today when I was talking with my Communist friends and Flash came over as I was leaving the building and yelled, "Pratt! Hey Pratt!" I stopped and turned, wondering who it was and it was Flash! "Yo, buddy, what's up?" and we walked and talked about life and baseball. Lots of fun. QUOTE(Gregory Pratt @ Dec 5, 2007 -> 09:08 PM) "you'll have wasted your life," I say to my friend on the phone while discussing whether or not she would bang Hall from Hall and Oates. "No. Won't I live longer?" "What?!" "People who don't have sex live longer, right?" "Umm, I doubt that's true." "I've heard it's true." "Yeah, well -- who did they use as experiment?" QUOTE(Gregory Pratt @ Dec 6, 2007 -> 01:12 PM) What the hell was that all about?!

I feel I lose a couple IQ points every time I read a GP post . . . Yet I am sickly drawn to them.