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QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Oct 22, 2007 -> 10:43 AM) -On MacD, How can you have confidence problems, and an oh well attiutude? Aren't those kind of contradictory? If you are having confidence problems you are obviously worrying about your preformance. I am not sure that makes sense to me. It's really not that hard, as I think you can tend to notice it in every sport. If you constantly try to succeed, continually fail, and you can't figure out why you are failing, you just stop caring. You don't stop trying, but at some points, the concern is not there.

The results, thus far, are about as perfect as a guy can ask for.

QUOTE(RockRaines @ Oct 22, 2007 -> 10:11 AM) Umm, its located at the base of the brain, it just so happens that the base of the brain can be accessed through your nasal passage, or even behind the upper lip in that procedure. As far as I can tell, it looks like both of you are right. Base of the brain and behind the sinus cavity aren't like mutually exclusive locations within the human body.

QUOTE(BurlyMan56 @ Oct 22, 2007 -> 11:14 AM) Paul Byrd looks like the Undertaker Except at 1/4 the size.

QUOTE(Gregory Pratt @ Oct 22, 2007 -> 10:57 AM) As I learned last night/today I will share with you First, a Q: Who, would you guess, was baseball's first "steroid"/"Performance Enhancing Drug" user? Ty Cobb or Mickey Mantle. I say Cobb just because he was a psycho f***, and Mantle because playing drunk and hungover always makes you better than playing sober, everyone knows that.

If the Red Sox win, am I to still be under the impression that there is a God? It is said that the Rockies are God's team right now - self-proclaimed by the Rockies themselves, and I think the results prove themselves - so that has to make the Red Sox Satan's team, right?

QUOTE(knightni @ Oct 22, 2007 -> 12:11 AM) Wite, with you, that goes without saying. LOL Atleast I have to pay for my right to get drunk and dance like a moron; Jonathon Papelbon made $425,000 this year.

QUOTE(southsideirish71 @ Oct 21, 2007 -> 11:01 PM) I wonder if we will have more "lord of the prance" from Paplebon tonight. I like to get drunk and dance like a complete moron.

I really, really, really, really hope that the Rockies light the s*** up out of Beckett.

Go Rockies

QUOTE(Gregory Pratt @ Oct 21, 2007 -> 06:32 PM) I hope you're not insinuating I'm an Orton guy. I've long maintained that 1. all three of our QBs are lousy. 2. Orton is the worst. 3. Grossman is second worst, and still very very bad. Griese's just better than them, but still sucks. So, you are trying to say Griese sucks less than those 2. I think that sounds cooler. Theres no real point to this post, other than that Willis McGahee can shove it up his ass.

Sage is a rager

QUOTE(kyyle23 @ Oct 21, 2007 -> 02:10 PM) I have been sitting on Wes Welker on my fantasy league, he has paid off huge in the past 3 weeks, as of right now he has 6 for 100 yards and a touchdown. It was inevitable that all of the attention that opposing defenses are paying to Moss was going to open up all of the other recievers, and Welker is so good at finding space in the middle of the field and taking off. Not stopping Moss from destroying everybody all the same though.

Anybody who sees the word Paco, doesn't relate it to Norberto, and says he is not the s*** is kidding themselves. Seriously, you say Mario Valdez is the s***, and nothing about Paco? RUFSrious? GTFO PACO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

QUOTE(sox4lifeinPA @ Oct 20, 2007 -> 12:11 PM) Those two now have the NAMBLA stamp of approval... What does the National Association of Marlon Brando Look Alikes have anything to do with this?!

QUOTE(DBAH0 @ Oct 20, 2007 -> 07:56 PM) Now what is most interesting to me here, the 3 guys that we have signed, they all are Shortstops. I think KW has seen the lack of talent in the minors at this position, and with these signings, he's trying to do something about it. And if we're going to draft a LOT of pitching in the early rounds, so long as we can sign these type of positional prospects from regions such as Latin America, it's certainly not a bad strategy at all. At least I have more faith in our minor league operations than I have since I've been part of this site for almost 5 years. And if he can play shortstop, there's a good likelyhood he can play CF or 2B as well.

QUOTE(scenario @ Oct 19, 2007 -> 08:50 PM) If the Sox decline the options on Pods, Erstad, and Uribe that will open 3 spots on the 40-man. They will definitely protect Egbert and Russell, even if only to trade them later. Egbert > Myers

QUOTE(Gene Honda Civic @ Oct 19, 2007 -> 12:59 PM) So what you're saying is we should wait another three (crappy) years until we offer him a contract. You have to mention his football career too, whether or not it actually existed.

QUOTE(Dick Allen @ Oct 19, 2007 -> 06:54 PM) Obviously not if he is healthy. His struggles were notorious his first 4 or 5 playoff appearances, although he did draw some walks. The year they went to the WS he hit a ton of homers IIRC. I think he would be walked a ton if he ever is in the playoffs again. That is exactly it. Up until 2002, the year he put up like a 1.550 OPS with 8 jacks, he had a career OPS of like .618 in 140 PA's or so. And then in 2003, which was his last year in the playoffs, he walked 8 times - 6 intentionally - in 18 plate appearances. So if you really think about it, ARod has had more good postseasons than Bonds; yet ARod is a choker?

I always make an appearance, but I usually have to actually force myself to say something ridiculous like that (unless of course I am talking about Bonds)

Question for everyone...do you consider Barry Bonds to be a liability in the playoffs?

QUOTE(rockren @ Oct 19, 2007 -> 05:02 PM) Garland did it before with us and signed that 3yr/29 million dollar deal. Could he have gotten a longer more lucrative deal on the open market? Of course. We did just win the World Series, but I think Garland is a lot like MB in that regard. Those were actually quite different circumstances with Garland; at the time of his signing, he was going into his 6th year of service, and was close to but not on the open market yet; thus, the reason his salary in 2006 was $7 million. In what would have been his first year of free agency this year, he made $10 mill and next year he'll make $12 mill. Also of note is that the market for players was not nearly as crazy as now; a year earlier, Jermaine Dye signed a 2 year, $10 mill deal, and Jose Contreras got essentially the same deal Garland did when coming off a year where he did not lose his last 8 starts and was a horse in the postseason. I have yet to see it; Buehrle could have easily tested the market and signed a ridiculous deal, whereas Garland has not had that opportunity yet. He did take out his first two years of that, but at what he and his agent probably felt was market value at the time of the signing. We'll see, or we won't see; if he's not comfortable in the situation he's in, nobody will be proven right either way.

QUOTE(rockren @ Oct 19, 2007 -> 04:08 PM) That's what Zambrano got. If Garland put up those kind of numbers for a team in the NL next year (which I think is totally possible) they could resign him in season for around 5 yr/50mil IMO. Garland is the type of guy who'd rather re-sign into a situation he likes rather than just test the market where he could make more money. That's totally up to the eye of the beholder however. Zambrano got $18 mill a year; Garland would get $15 mill. And if he got $50 mill after putting up a sub 4 ERA season, I'd probably s*** my pants. I also don't think Garland has reservations about staying somewhere where he's comfortable; not sure why, probably against just eye of the beholder. He just doesn't seem to have a different personality than Buehrle.

QUOTE(sircaffey @ Oct 19, 2007 -> 01:17 PM) The problem with that from a business standpoint, is that you aren't getting the meat of the return on investment within 3 years. The most money that Arod will produce for your team will come in years 5+ when he's approaching multiple records. From a pure baseball production standpoint, a 3 year deal makes the most sense, but to JR that's probably not the case. It has probably crossed JR's mind that he brought the greatest basketball player to ever live to Chicago, and now he has the chance to bring in and keep probably the greatest baseball player to ever live to Chicago. Reinsdorf would be a god in this city. Whether it all makes sense to us is a different story, but there are issues past the bottom line on a signing like this one. I'm definitely not saying it will happen, but I wouldn't be so quick to dismiss it. but I thought bringing Bonds was a bad idea

QUOTE(RockRaines @ Oct 19, 2007 -> 11:59 AM) That bring up a good question. Do the phillies stay longer in the playoffs with a healthy Freddy Garcia? Not with the train they ran into.