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If the Yankees eat enough salary, he can become a utility infielder the last 2-3 years or maybe he'll just retire.

Do the Sox get some time to work on that or do they have to submit their opening day roster tomorrow?

This is why Sox attendance sucks--their fans expect to be able to sign elite pitchers for middle reliver salaries.

Source was the Press Release issued by the Sox. I'm guessing it's true.

Peavy still gets his $4M buyout but it is deferred until after the end of the contract.

http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory...72#.UJAzI64jzRQ

No TM fees if you buy at the box office.

Schools can make scholarships contingent on graduating from their school, and force the student to repay if he/she doesn't. I don't know how many schools actually do that, but they could if they wanted to.

I think the #1 priority is to either retain Youkilis or find a good replacement and the #2 priority is to retain Peavy. If there is enough dough left in the cash register to pay AJ after those two things are done, that's great. If not, I'm OK with taking a chance on Flowers.

Nobody forces you to watch ESPN if you don't like their content. My life is filled with other channels or stuff from the DVR while ESPN is running Tebowmania and Heat Index.

20-25 HRs probably puts his SLG at about .425 so that's an OPS of about .750 which isn't terrible for a catcher. I wouldn't be surprised if Flowers did that, I wouldn't be surprised if he was 100 points worse than that, and I wouldn't be surprised if he was 100 points better than that. He clearly has the potential, but potential isn't a sure thing.

Obama should have used that excuse for the first debate. Would have been a better excuse than altitude.

There used to be some subjectivity in what was in bounds via the force-out rule. There were too many complaints that the refs weren't being consistent, so the rule was changed and now it's 100% objective. In a game whose TV ratings are fueled by massive amounts of gambling, the NFL is going to make rules LESS subjective, not MORE.

Wait a minute, if you catch another guy who catches the ball, that's a catch, right?

Since leaving Chicago I have lived near DC and Cincinnati, and I do root for those teams, though the Sox are still far and away my favorite team. It's easier though since those teams are NL teams. I don't think I'd root for another AL team, and definitely not another AL Central team. I think one of the reasons the Cubs get the majority of the transplant fans is that a lot of them are coming to Chicago from other AL Central areas, especially Michigan, so they adopt the Cubs as their favorite Chicago team since it doesn't conflict with their home team.

Am I the only one here who would pick up Youk's option?

Many NFL players have also learned that there's no such thing as "a little pregnant"

Federal offices in Washington/Baltimore/Philly/NYC are closed. My 3 teleconferences with people in those areas have been cancelled.

White Sox are still the only AL Central team to win a World Series.

I thought about that too since it's only about 3 hours for me, but I scored ND tickets for Saturday.

Touchdowns by the same team 6 seconds apart. Is that a record?

DuPage County = 900K people Orange County = 3M people Comparison fail.

I know there are Missouri fans here, so I thought I'd pass along that down here there are a lot of people thinking that Kentucky wins tomorrow. I'm thinking they need to stick to basketball, but then I haven't seen either team play this year.

Got a chuckle out of these back-to-back posts, even though the second one really wasn't about the first one.

I don't see that as being very likely. Hahn would certainly have gotten a GM job somewhere else within the next year or two. I don't think giving him the title of GM without the power is going to keep him from pursuing those other jobs. It seems from what has been said publicly that KW is going to be taking over a lot of duties from JR, so he isn't going to have time to be puppetmaster on top of that.