LittleHurt05

If he were healthy, I would vote for Jake Peavy, no doubt. But his muscle fell off and there is no telling how good he will be when he comes back. Therefore, I have to go with PK. He had an MVP-like season last year, and is not a defensive liability at all either. He will probably fall off from last year, but until then I have to vote for him.

Happy B-day!!

Central - White Sox (91), Tigers (87), Twins (82), Royals (70) Indians (67) East - Red Sox (101), Yankees (90), Rays (82), Blue Jays (81), Orioles (67) West - Athletics (87), Angels (85), Rangers (77), Mariners (64) Central - Brewers (92), Cardinals (90), Reds (85), Cubs (78), Astros (70), Pirates (62) East - Phillies (99), Braves (89), Marlins (84), Mets (79), Nationals (68) West - Dodgers (89), Rockies (88), Giants (81), Padres (76), D-backs (69) Playoffs - NYY @ CWS, OAK @ BOS LAD @ MIL, STL @ PHI

AL Rookie: J.P. Arencibia AL MVP: Adrian Gonzalez AL Manager: Bob Geren Al Cy Young: King Felix NL Rookie: Craig Kimbrel NL MVP: Albert Pujols NL Manager: Ron Roenicke NL Cy Young: Adam Wainwright

QUOTE (whitesoxfan99 @ Feb 11, 2011 -> 09:39 PM) LOL at the Clippers Big Win! The Cavs will win a title before LeBron!

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Feb 11, 2011 -> 09:55 PM) Hawks 2010-11=Sox 2006. At least those Sox won 90 games and would have made the playoffs in most years. I'm sure flying overnight to Phoenix with 3 guys injured is gonna lead to a victory Sat. night against a team right in front of you in the standings.

QUOTE (Brian @ Feb 11, 2011 -> 05:43 PM) I got my current number 2 years ago and the previous owner was a high school girl at Barrington high school. For two weeks I got a bunch if texts messages about parties and after school stuff. It was kind of funny. I hope you took full advantage of the Barrington party hotline

Turco in net for the first time vs. Dallas tonight. Hossa out with the flu. I've been trying to scoreboard watch for the Hawks playoff chances, but there are too many damn teams in the race! Unless someone is playing the East or Edmonton, I'm not even sure who to root for anymore.

Sox see spike in 2011 ticket sales

Neil Walker = Pirates 2nd baseman. Tied w/ Starlin Castro for 5th in NL Rookie of the Year voting last year

The Cubs aren't "All In"?

I kept reading his name as Anthony Burrito...

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Feb 11, 2011 -> 10:19 AM) Does anyone know if the Skille deal freed up cap space, and if so, how much? I could be wrong, but comparing their cap hits on capgeek.com, I think the move cost the Hawks $400-500k in cap space (prorated for the rest of the season), cause Frolik definitely makes more than Skille.

Congrats!!!

QUOTE (joeynach @ Feb 10, 2011 -> 09:51 PM) This is exactly what a lot of baseball people said would happen and something I defiantly agreed upon at the time. The $23M annual salary for Mauer would have consequences for this mid market team. The Twins are going to have a $110M+ payroll in 2011 and perhaps even higher in 2012. You have $49M committed to 3 players in Mauer/Morneau/Nathan for both 2011 and 2012. This is one of the consequences to signing Mauer (and Morneau) to those large extensions, you cant afford the escalating price for a guy like Liriano. Though hes salary is only about $4M this year it will escalate above $10M+ in the next couple years. Liriano proposed a 3 Year $39M extension to the Twins which they promply said no thank you and have thus being exploring a trade. Twins nation wanted Mauer locked up at all costs, well they got it, and are quicly going to realize that there are consequences to such actions in a mid market team. You can also question their choice to sign a mid-30s closer to a contract worth over $11mil a year. Nathan is an elite closer, but a mid-market team may be better served spending that money on several relievers, or one closer and other players.

Nice win, payback for last years loss in Champaign. How many point blank layups did Minnesota miss though? Bad.

Sounded like Bardo threw D-Will under the bus for the Sloan firing. Typical Illini finish, take a 9 point lead, let Minny cut it to 1 in the last two minutes. Awesome. D-Mac benching seems to have waken him up, still making some bad decisions though.

QUOTE (Jordan4life @ Feb 10, 2011 -> 02:30 PM) I personally think Sloan should've been fired years ago. I'm sorry. You shouldn't get job security for life when you've won absolutely nothing. You would think all the years he's been coaching and all the quality teams he's had he would've won one title by accident. I disagree. The NBA isn't baseball, you don't really win titles by accident. You need all-time GREAT players to win it all (other than the Pistons recently). The only players like that they had were Malone/Stockton. Granted, maybe he should have won one with them, but a certain #23 got in their way. I think he's done well to compete with the teams he has had.

He's BAAAAAACKK!!!!!!!!

Sounds like D-Will is the reason Sloan resigned

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Feb 10, 2011 -> 01:27 PM) The league office has to agree to that, along with the 2 teams involved in the trade. Without the players permission? Thats interesting. That would only be for a certain time-frame, right? After a certain period into free agency, I'd hope he'd be allowed to deal with other teams? That might make him want to avoid the Angels, its not like he HAS to negotiate.

Heyman reporting O-Cab to the Indians. Ugh, that means we have to see that d-bag 18 more times.

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Feb 10, 2011 -> 12:42 PM) Jerry Sloan resigning today via Waddle & Silvy... Bulls = coach killers this year. There's gotta be something going on behind the scenes personally with him. He has been successful there for so long, and they are in the playoff race again. No real basketball reason to resign now?

QUOTE (Harry Chappas @ Feb 10, 2011 -> 12:44 PM) They only make that trade if they know they have what it takes to sign him as will any team that gets involved this year. They trade for the right to deal with him exclusively. Who would decide on that exclusitivity? (is that a word?) The Cardinals or Pujols? I really doubt Pujols would agree to that. He would not want to give up his freedom as a free agent like that.

QUOTE (fathom @ Feb 10, 2011 -> 12:34 PM) Screw the draft picks. If you're out of it at the deadline and know you're not going to go 10/300 million, then you trade him and try to get an amazing package. I liked the package proposed earlier of Morales, Trout, and Weaver. Hell, I'd say the Cardinals would be better with those three than just Pujols taking up 1/3 of their budget. I know the Angels just traded for Vernon Wells, but why would they make that trade for a FA to be who they might not re-sign?