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QUOTE (Thunderbolt @ May 22, 2009 -> 11:10 AM) Also, we talking Batting Average here? Really? Have you seen Flowers' OPS? The guy's a below average fielder, but he's learning that damn position and giving you a balls out offensive performance, with AJ reaching his twilight years and swinging at nearly everything can we really afford to complain here? 30 BB, 34 K, .444 OBP, .464 SLG, .268 AVG, .908 OPS sounds pretty good to me, though I would like to see that batting average climb a bit. 30 BB/34 K is really encouraging.

QUOTE (RockRaines @ May 21, 2009 -> 05:02 PM) And bashing the Sox and slurping the Cubs. Guess what people, the Cubs are in a worse position than us to win over the next 5 years, their roster is old, overpaid and they have ZERO farm talent.Yeah, I don't see how one of Peavy's preferences will magically find prospects and/or money by July. Also Ken Rosenthal is pretty retarded for saying the White Sox deal was worse than the Cubs.

San Diego has got to be pissed. They need to get rid of him asap, and Peavy seems to be obsessed with being traded to teams that can't afford him or don't have the prospects necessary to get him. Either they get nothing for him, or he sticks around and sucks up close to half of the projected team payroll.

QUOTE (RockRaines @ May 21, 2009 -> 04:49 PM) If still waiting on Heyman, he's much more connected to this than Cowley. Cowley isnt even allowed in the Sox locker room.Agreed. I haven't seen this anywhere else. Perhaps people heard the Sox refused to pay the option and extrapolated that there was no way Peavy was coming here after that.

QUOTE (Jimbo's Drinker @ May 21, 2009 -> 02:50 PM) The Pittsburgh Penguins...DUH DUH DUHPsh, I made that joke first, but someone deleted my post with the enormous Penguins logo attached.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ May 21, 2009 -> 02:49 PM) What are they supposed to do, stop trying?Yes.

QUOTE (kjshoe04 @ May 21, 2009 -> 02:48 PM) They just said on ESPNnews that the sox don't play the Pirates this year. I wonder who we are going to play tomorrow.

QUOTE (SoxFan562004 @ May 21, 2009 -> 02:46 PM) 20-0That's absolutely disgusting. Hopefully the Sox are getting pissed off, because I know I would be, if a team kept pouring it on even after a game was obviously over.

QUOTE (Thunderbolt @ May 21, 2009 -> 02:41 PM) You know in Jake Peavy's funded Jurassic Park I’m sure they'd try to incorporate T-Rex's as servers. That would a poor idea not only are their arms preposterously small, but they'd kill everyone. ...OR WOULD THEY?!?!. (Scroll down a bit to "T. rex: Scavenger or Predator?")

QUOTE (RockRaines @ May 21, 2009 -> 02:26 PM) Arent penguins mean as f***?

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ May 21, 2009 -> 02:12 PM) Its more money per season than the White Sox have ever paid anyone. I don't have my mind made up on anything, I've already said this would be KW's best trade if he pulled it off. I said they were cheap (btw the only time I have ever said they were cheap and I've had season tickets 20 years) when KW cut payroll said he had $.50 and wondered how they would pay the electric bill, and now they have the money for Peavy. Guess who is right? Now I'm saying while taking his contract is a good, bold move, guaranteeing the option, which the White Sox will not do, is stupid, and I agree with them 100% on that. Maybe they will broaden the no trade the last couple of years of the deal, but picking up that money is not wise. They can pick it up after he's pitched here for 3 1/2 years.I said it before, and I'll say it again: don't always believe what the Sox say. If one of the other posters on here is right, Kenny's been working on this for something like 11 months. I think that if the option year is the real sticking point, you do it. It's a risk well worth taking.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ May 21, 2009 -> 01:55 PM) Because we've been through this before when they tried to sign Hunter and then Fukudome. They said they were busting the budget, not that the money was available. If Peavy declines, we will get the same story. If owing a major league pitcher $22 million 4 seasons from now doesn't scream risk to you, nothing will.It's $18 million, not $22. $4 is auto-guaranteed. Also, someone already broke Peavy's contract down in this thread. It's not the horrible albatross you make it out to be, assuming of course Peavy ends up injured or sucking. If you can't see the value in adding a true ace to your rotation via trade, without mortgaging the farm system, for what ends up being a perfectly reasonable contract, then I don't know what to tell you. You've got your mind set on this team being cheap and/or stupid, and nothing will change that. Good luck with it.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ May 21, 2009 -> 01:44 PM) What? Yes to guarantee $22 million for one season 4 years from now is crazy. The $56 million or whatever is left on his contract is a pretty nice committment. This is a guy who has had elbow issues. They have been cheap. They already said they have no money, yet Peavy may be here. If he declines, its not like they are going to spend a bunch of money elsewhere.Yeah, a guy with arm problems who hasn't thrown less than 166 innings since his rookie year, and still managed 173 last year with an ERA of 2.85, then was shut down for precautionary measures. That screams risk to me. How do you know what the Sox going to spend? I didn't see you predicting a possible trade for Peavy in any threads here. What the team says to the media and what they actually do have been radically different since KW became GM; I don't see why this would be any different.

QUOTE (TitoMB345 @ May 21, 2009 -> 01:43 PM) I really can't remember... but didn't we trade Link last year?Nope! Fairly current stats: 2009 Stats G W-L ERA IP H BB K SV WHIP CHA (chw) AAA 15 0-0 2.29 19.2 13 9 24 5 1.12

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ May 21, 2009 -> 01:38 PM) Pitching wins, but to guarantee a $22 million option 4 years from now is insane. If he doesn't want to be here, let him go to play for the Cubbies, I'm already sick of it, although if Broadway is involved .......................................So the Sox are too cheap, but now you don't want them to commit money to an ace?

QUOTE (Markbilliards @ May 21, 2009 -> 01:18 PM) Like an extra point and a half on his ERA once he leaves Petco and comes to the AL at the cell?How do pitchers like Buehrle and 2008 Floyd and Danks and 2005 Contreras and most of our bullpen and so on succeed here, then? Would they all have ERAs below 2 in the NL?

I am refreshing this thread like a madman.

QUOTE (BearSox @ May 21, 2009 -> 11:01 AM) I think Phil Nevin did it a couple years ago. However, I'd hardly consider him a big name. However, oddly enough, he was with the Padres when he declined a trade.I wonder if the fact that this deal is publicized has to do with the chances of Peavy accepting, or just the big name attached to the deal. I also wonder if Peavy is more likely to accept knowing that the whole world knows about the trade now.

Sure, it's probably not true, and I'm trying to temper my enthusiasm, but this would be an amazing deal for the Sox. If you have a chance to get a fair deal with a bona fide ace, a Cy Young award winner who just turned 28, you do it. We're also buying low -- not because Peavy is struggling, but because the Padres need to unload him. We have tons of draft picks in this year's draft, and we have a ton of offensive talent in AA, which helps mitigate the losses incurred in trading for Peavy, and we'll have a stacked (theoretically) pitching staff that takes pressure off the young position players coming up in 2010/2011. Also, if the Sox continue to struggle, we can always trade Peavy, and get much closer to max value for him, since we won't *have* to deal him like the Padres do.

This is not serious. Please let this be serious.

QUOTE (lostfan @ May 19, 2009 -> 12:38 PM) Yes but you have to have the right version, I think they built cheaper models that aren't (someone correct me on this?)None of the newer PS3 models (the ones currently on sale) are PS2 backwards-compatible. It's a shame, really, because the PS2 has probably the largest, most diverse, and overall best lineup of games available for any system, ever. PS1 games are still backwards compatible, I believe, with a number of them available for sale in the Playstation store.

I worked for a hosting company for a while, and the suggestions for Wordpress and Drupal are definitely ones I would second, as well as the suggestion to go with a friend/acquaintance for server space. I would also suggest, however, that you wait until you either have the money to pay for someone to work on your site for you, or have a friend do it for you as a favor or pay him in beer. Don't spend any time on it yourself -- you wouldn't advise a web developer to defend himself in court, right? Focus on practicing and getting customers first.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ May 19, 2009 -> 06:59 PM) Neanderthals are actually not going to be a strong link between Homo-Sapiens and apes. Neanderthals were an offshoot, they were a line that broke off from the developing line and settled in Europe something like 100,000 years ago. They stayed confined to Europe until modern humans emerged from Africa about 30,000 years ago and then they rapidly disappeared. They may have been killed, there may have been some limited inter-breeding, but there's not going to be a "missing link" between those groups. In human evolution, there are lots of false starts...groups that diverged from whatever the main population was doing, evolved to some level on their own, and then died off. Neanderthals are one of them.Or... WE ATE THEM!

QUOTE (fathom @ May 17, 2009 -> 02:11 PM) Gotta love the match-up today of Harden vs Moehler. Harden has some of the best stuff in baseball, while Moehler might have the worst. Isn't it time for Harden or Soriano to go on the DL?Yeah, and the Cubs lost.

QUOTE (witesoxfan @ May 17, 2009 -> 05:43 AM) HOW MANY K'STWO. Well, two based on 18 ABs. Not sure if he struck out any last game, and I don't feel like opening the gamethread and looking.