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In due time. Not right now. The O's suck right now but they aren't fully developed, especially the pitching.

greg do you copy and paste and manually quote or do you hit reply? Always been curious

QUOTE (greg775 @ Apr 19, 2010 -> 12:11 AM) bmags is right. It's too early to be saying "we're only five out." It's embarrassing that we are five out this early. 4-9 is a Baltimore O's type record. This team remains so damn dysfunctional. 2-2 in Toronto isn't all that bad. Then boom. 0-3 in Cleveland. Team plays a perfect opening game, then loses its next five to Cleveland?? WTF? The only thing more dysfunctional than our season so far would have been in the Hawks lost to Nashville tonight to go 0-2. That would have been insanely dysfunctional and unexplainable. Instead, the nice victory and the Hawks are hopefully back on track to do what we feel they should do. Reach the Cup Finals. And I feel pretty comfortable saying that the O's would actually win our division, if they were in it (I don't know if anyone agrees with me but I suspect J4L does too). They've got a lot of raw players and much more talent than we do (though, granted, their pitching doesn't even compare). Who do we have that compares to Adam Jones and Matt Wieters? We've got... what, Beckham, and then... yeah, that's about it.

QUOTE (SoxFan1 @ Apr 19, 2010 -> 12:10 AM) The Kings were always my 2nd team behind the Bulls and in the early 2000's when they got monumentally screwed over by officials year after year against the Lakers. When they played in the playoffs against Minnesota, I still always wanted to see Garnett do well but for the Kings to win. I remember when he punched Anthony Peeler in the chest and then Peeler caught him with an elbow right on the jaw. He was definitely one of my favorites. Now I hate everything about him. You may have seen on my FB status but I really hate the Celtics now. Rondo is a c*** muffin and Pierce acts like every mild bump is a medical emergency.

QUOTE (SoxFan1 @ Apr 18, 2010 -> 02:37 PM) KG was one of my favorite players of all time before he went to Boston. Now I despise him. He's taken this whole "I have so much passion" bulls*** way too far and it's annoying as hell. You know, I remember there actually was a time when Garnett was one of my favorite players but now I don't remember ever actually liking him.

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Apr 18, 2010 -> 08:04 PM) But it's a very flexible bench. We can plug any one of those guys in to the lineup to GIDP or hit a pop foul to the first baseman. From either the left or right side of the plate! Really though, how many of us were saying this before the beginning of the season? It's not even like we're all jumping off a cliff... a bunch of people said this was going to happen and there wasn't a lot of disagreement.

QUOTE (kapkomet @ Apr 18, 2010 -> 08:37 PM) How do I answer this... they changed the angles of the seats. The measurement between seats are the same but the pitch is slightly different. It gives you something like two more inches. Woot. There are probably a lot of guys that would be ecstatic about this

His point was who WOULDN'T want Grandy? Though it would be suicide for the Tigers to just give him to a team in their division for a couple of prospects, it was bad enough they gave him to the Yankees. Random note: my friend with to high school with Granderson, back when everybody was still using Myspace I saw him on her friends list (his rookie year) and I was like what the hell, you don't know s*** about baseball, why is Curtis Granderson on your friends list?

Actually 9

QUOTE (greg775 @ Apr 17, 2010 -> 12:23 AM) Good points. Being a broadcaster isn't all bad, though. I'd think Oz could do that, but if he wants to manage I'd think he'd get a job pretty quickly. I really believe he'd tone down in another city. Wasn't Ditka relatively calm when he was coach of New Orleans? I seem to recall there weren't as many headlines regarding Ditka in his post-Chicago coaching days, but I could be mistaken. Ozzie is kind of an institution in Chicago, IMO. Ozzie would at least be funny as hell as a broadcaster if nothing else. The main thing that Ditka made headlines for in New Orleans was trading all 7 of his 1999 draft picks plus a 1st and a 3rd for the 2000 draft to get the #1 pick to sign Ricky Williams, arguably one of the dumbest trades in NFL history. Although it was also as dumb for Williams to let his agent talk him into signing an incentive-laden deal with ridiculous production targets when he could've just taken a bunch of guaranteed $$ like any other #1 pick would do.

QUOTE (Jordan4life @ Apr 17, 2010 -> 01:07 AM) lol. Well no s***. For some reason, I'd feel better if our 1B was Ryan Howard instead of Paul Konerko

QUOTE (greg775 @ Apr 15, 2010 -> 10:26 PM) Of course he would immediately get another job. He won the damn World Series. He feels comfortable in Chicago. He'd shut the f*** up if he was the skipper of the Marlins or somebody. He's Ozzie in Chicago; like Ditka. He is comfortable here after being with this organization so long and a fixture in the city. There's a big time comfort level with the owner and media. And Ditka was eventually cast aside, and didn't coach again for 5 years (although he got hired as a broadcaster), but when he did get another shot he was a miserable failure and pretty much ruined the illusion that all those teams were good because of him (Buddy Ryan anyone...?). Ditka may have been an icon because of 1985, but really as a coach he wasn't all that...

QUOTE (Jordan4life @ Apr 16, 2010 -> 09:13 PM) The bullpen. True, but the bullpen is a tourniquet, so far it feels like the most it's doing is preventing us from losing by more than we do

I would love to have to eat a bunch of crow come July when this team is on fire, but right now I'm having trouble finding something to feel good about.

Still, I thought it was pretty funny this past winter when we were having epic blizzards and record snowfall here on the East Coast, and there were people at work saying "see? I they told us about that global warming didn't they?" People that legitimately can't understand the difference between the temperature of the air and the amount of water in it. SMDH.

QUOTE (Y2HH @ Apr 16, 2010 -> 01:19 PM) You aren't "just like" them in the "I'm going to blow up innocent people" regard, but the extremest view on environmentalism IS just like theirs is on religion or hate. I proved that with this thread. By taking an opposite, yet TOTALLY ridiculous stance that embraces the anti-environmentalist movement, I should have been brushed aside as someone joking around, but what I got was equal and OPPOSITE positions to my position, which were JUST as ridiculous. The difference is, I'm not the one taking this subject seriously. Those responding to me ARE taking it seriously. TOO seriously. Such as someone replaying to me with the picture of a starving Ethiopian. My point was made. And it was made well. I truly do not understand a word of this. Reading it, I feel like that 3-4 seconds of total disorientation right after you hit your head really hard on something.

QUOTE (TitoMB @ Apr 15, 2010 -> 08:47 PM) Alexei is awful right now. or QUOTE (TitoMB @ Apr 15, 2010 -> 08:47 PM) Alexei is awful. Take your pick.

What the f***'s that got to do with anything, we are talking about Tom Coburn and what he said about Fox, nothing else

I remember reading comments on that article and people were writing stuff like "he just kissed his re-election goodbye!" lol... oh come on, seriously guys, this is some unimportant s***, and if Tom Coburn is not conservative enough for you, I don't know what to tell you. Like for real, you're gonna vote against somebody because he said Nancy Pelosi was a nice person whose politics he hated and said Fox got overheated with their rhetoric? lol... you shouldn't be allowed to vote, if that's how you treat it

QUOTE (bmags @ Apr 15, 2010 -> 06:12 PM) people are taking this thread way too seriously. I hope we win tonight because I'm watching. srsly

QUOTE (flippedoutpunk @ Apr 15, 2010 -> 04:40 PM) Also i think the catch-all thread would be better if like in the political forums with the republican and democrat threads, there was a sort of a pessimistic ideas thread where any bit of badmouthing can go in, and the other fans that want to enjoy their clubs successes dont have to see it posted all over pale hose talk.. This was tried

QUOTE (ozzfest @ Apr 14, 2010 -> 10:19 PM) kill this thread, what a dumb comment he was joking

Nice first post

That was satisfying. You would think that after we ditch the all-or-nothing offense that we wouldn't go from dominating to pathetic to dominating and back again all year, but I guess that's just the Sox.

I know she knows what she was saying. We had this argument before last year and went in circles, and fwiw I didn't read any op-eds or any blogger's opinion on Sotomayor, I don't know how liberal she is compared to Souter or whatever the hell people were talking about. If I recall, your argument basically comes down to there is only one way to interpret any way legal ruling, and that's "the Constitution" as if it was that cut and dry, and I was saying every judge sees themselves as doing that. Except for whatever reason conservatives think only "conservative" judges actually understand the Constitution - the truth is, everybody is ok playing loose with the Constitution to get to a ruling they like and manages to drum up a bunch of self-righteous indignation when someone else does the same thing. And actually, I can see how the Citizens United decision was the "correct" decision but conservatives don't really care about legal precedent or principle any more than liberals do so it's all a moot point. Oh, and yes or no question here: when a federal appellate judge makes a ruling on something for the first time, does it or does it not set a precedent? If Sotomayor believed she could make up her own new policy, and thought the New Haven ruling she made was wrong, she could've overturned the law, but since she was following another precedent, she didn't... she would've been an "activist"