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USA not moving on to the second round would have been an embarrassment.

QUOTE (kitekrazy @ Mar 8, 2013 -> 09:07 PM) You must be one of great patience to be silence among this cesspool of baseball stupidity. When did this Ramirez stuff get started? I'm going to assume it's because he didn't belt 72 HRs. It's the epitome of b****ing just to b****.

QUOTE (Marty34 @ Mar 8, 2013 -> 08:41 PM) Why pay Ramirez $26M over the next 3 years when they aren't going to the postseason? Why pay anyone $26M over the next 3 years when they aren't going to the postseason? See, with that kind of pessimistic attitude, you might as well just end life as we know it right now.

QUOTE (Andy the Clown @ Mar 8, 2013 -> 07:20 PM) I can read fangraphs too. Thanks though. No, see what it is as in how many WAR he had in 2012. I'm not saying you don't know what it is.

QUOTE (Andy the Clown @ Mar 8, 2013 -> 09:19 AM) I don't care about his WAR. Put Sanchez at SS, and you would get a similar defense-enhanced WAR. Big deal. You should at least see what it is before you call his contract the worst on the team.

QUOTE (Andy the Clown @ Mar 8, 2013 -> 05:04 PM) His minor league track record. Right, because a decent minor league track record is somehow more important than a decent major league track record (like Alexei's). We're talking about guys who play in Major League Baseball here right?

QUOTE (Andy the Clown @ Mar 7, 2013 -> 07:33 PM) Gillispie >>>>>>> than Alexi offensively. Gillaspie's had a total of 48 ML PAs and he's been awful in them. What makes you think he'll be better than Alexei?

QUOTE (Andy the Clown @ Mar 7, 2013 -> 07:34 PM) Absolutely, he has turned into a terrible offensive player, and he is entering the decline phase of his career. He is easily the worst contract on the team. Alexei Ramirez is a worse contract than Adam Dunn? Even in the worst season of his career last year, Alexei had a higher WAR than Adam Dunn. Alexei had nearly a 5 win season in 2011. He doesn't need to be a great hitter to be valuable, because he plays the second most demanding position on the field and plays it really well. He sucked ass last year at the plate, but that's not a guarantee to happen again. Almost all projection systems have him putting up .270/.310/.380, which is perfectly acceptable from a very good fielding SS.

QUOTE (The Ultimate Champion @ Mar 7, 2013 -> 02:42 PM) This. Sale's good years, if he's healthy, are $20M pitcher years. 1 of those makes this contract a steal, 2 and it's a mugging, 3 it's... well, you get the idea. He gave the Sox a $20 million season last year. Even if he does get hurt, if he gives you 2 more of those seasons in the first 5 years, he's already giving you your bang for your buck.

QUOTE (flavum @ Mar 7, 2013 -> 01:33 PM) If it's just locking up his arb years, and maybe a year of free agency, then it doesn't sound like it would be bad deal right now. It's not like this will be a 7-8 year deal. Lol it is a 7 year deal. Very very nice deal. If the Sox think Sale will hold up (this is the best medical staff in baseball we're talking about here), then I have some faith that Sale won't be Tommy John material.

QUOTE (MexSoxFan#1 @ Mar 7, 2013 -> 10:13 AM) Obviously he's not at 110%. He clearly never will be. Otherwise, he'd be 10% more of what he was at full strength.

QUOTE (Eminor3rd @ Mar 6, 2013 -> 11:44 AM) I heard somewhere that they were trying to get 4 or 5 years for $30m. That's a bargain for Sale, even if he isn't completely healthy.

QUOTE (justBLAZE @ Mar 5, 2013 -> 11:17 PM) That would be huge. I'd be sad for Grandy, I like him. Granderson is a real good guy from what I've heard.

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Mar 5, 2013 -> 01:28 PM) lol David Lee. I wonder what Boozer's looks like.

QUOTE (DrunkBomber @ Mar 5, 2013 -> 02:33 PM) I just picked up The Show for Vita, Ill report back after I get some time to play it. Im trying to get Tomb Raider from gamefly. It sounds like Far Cry 3 but with a female lead and I was a big fan of FC3. The frame rates this year are definitely better. But the baseball still looks like a softball in the fielding cameras.

QUOTE (SoxFan1 @ Mar 5, 2013 -> 02:12 PM) My Samsung laptop won't recognize my iPhone anymore. Won't charge it, sync, nothing. Doesn't even show up as a removable device. Tried re-installing iTunes, restarting the computer, the phone, etc. Nothing works. I plugged it into an old desktop to see if it was the phone or cable and it worked fine. Any advice? Samsung deployed some malware on the laptop to have it purposefully malfunction when an Apple product is plugged in.

QUOTE (Y2HH @ Mar 5, 2013 -> 01:22 PM) Google has updated Google Chrome (V25) and Google Maps (V1.1) for iOS. Jailbreaks, be warned, the new version of Chrome has a bug in it that for some reason it REQUIRES you to have anonymous usage data turned on, or it will crash after loading it. If you have this happening to you, uninstall, reinstall and enable anonymous usage data, and it will begin working. Google is aware of the bug and said it will be fixed in the next version of Chrome they release on iOS...but when that will be, who knows. This happened to me. I had Chrome Download Manager installed and it kept crashing even after I reinstalled. After disabling it, everything works again.

QUOTE (kev211 @ Mar 5, 2013 -> 02:07 PM) Anyone picking up the show today? Just picked it up, I skipped 12 so I'm excited. Played 3 innings vs. Chapman and the Reds with the Sox. Needless to say, I got like one hit off him.

QUOTE (Cali @ Mar 4, 2013 -> 06:43 PM) So the offense is gonna struggle in 2013 because last year it was inflated by the home park they're, what, going to somehow not play in anymore? What a dumb argument. I think his point was that the fact that the Sox scored the 4th most runs in the AL last year might have been inflated by our home park.

QUOTE (Y2HH @ Mar 4, 2013 -> 06:36 PM) Hilariously incorrect. They just don't bother.

QUOTE (TaylorStSox @ Mar 4, 2013 -> 04:28 PM) Finding seeders isn't really an issue unless your into some seriously weird s***. I pretty much only get movies though. I buy the majority of my music. I listen to some obscure stuff, so the artist actually see the money I spend. If you want something at release time, good luck getting good speeds. I mean, torrenting is good in that it's 100% free, but it comes with its disadvantages. I tend to stay away from P2P in general.

QUOTE (Jake @ Mar 4, 2013 -> 03:50 PM) RapidGator? It's a file sharing site. I'm not going to tell you guys how to pirate or anything, that's against the rules...so I'll just leave it at that.

The Giants have Cole Gillespie. We have Conor Gillaspie. So confusing.

QUOTE (TaylorStSox @ Mar 4, 2013 -> 03:35 PM) I guess it depends in your definition of fast. I had the new episode of Walking Dead 10 minutes after it aired. I average 1.5mb's a second for most movies. It literally takes minutes to download a 2gb file. Piracy is like steroids, the authorities are always a step behind. Plus, I'm on a shared wifi connection all the time. Good luck with that. It also depends on your internet connection. The problem with torrents is that you depend on other people to seed it. You don't have those issues with file sharing sites.

Torrenting is slow as hell. If you really want to download something without consequences, go get yourself a RapidGator account.