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QUOTE(Jordan4life_2006 @ Mar 24, 2006 -> 03:32 PM) They won't be interested at this point. By the way, Amare Stoudemire played in his first game of the season tonight. He had 20 points, 9 rebounds and 2 blocks in just 19 minutes. Yeah my money's back on Phoenix for the title, after seeing Amare get back. Of course they'll need Kurt Thomas healthy for the playoffs as well.

QUOTE(longshot7 @ Mar 24, 2006 -> 07:39 AM) I read it - good post. Question: What are transfer fees? Is this a commission on top of the money made when one team sells a player to another? Why don't more teams trade players instead of selling them? btw, I support Arsenal. Transfer fees is how much one team pays to another for a player. E.g Say Brian McBride gets bought by Chelsea from Fulham, and Chelsea would have to pay Fulham 5M pounds, and they still have to pay McBride's weekly wages as well. Trades don't happen, because there's no salary cap and all of the big teams can just buy the players they want.

QUOTE(SoxFan1 @ Mar 22, 2006 -> 08:58 AM) Bolton is by far my favorite EPL team, followed by Arsenal and Chelsea. I don't really pay attention to the location of the teams because I don't live in England lol. Jay Jay Okocha is my boy. Thats the only EPL jersey I have. I absolutely HATE how Bolton plays football, and so does 90% of England for that matter. Long balls to the striker, get as many free kicks as you can, but it pisses me off more that they're actually pretty good at it.

QUOTE(whitesoxfan101 @ Mar 24, 2006 -> 01:51 PM) Yeah they actually do play defense in the NBA, unless of course you know, your team sucks (man I love that no defense in the NBA myth). And I'm not saying he's a poor athlete as in he's white, I'm saying he's a poor athlete as in he's a TERRIBLE athlete, regardless of what color his skin is. Matt Harpring is a triathlete compared to Morrison. Put Morrison at the 3 in the NBA and he's going to give up 30 to whoever he's guarding most nights since most teams have somebody at the 3 that can light it up, oh and they are 6'9 too so Morrison will have to actually create space in order to get a shot. I do agree with you that he won't have to rebound much, and he will have a decent NBA career....but he's not going to be nearly as good as a top 3 pick in terms of how he performs in the NBA. I still think in a half court offense, Morrison could be alright, which is why the Magic will probably be all over him if they can't get Rudy Gay. Just shows how weak the draft is this year though.

I am so back to Glendale if this happens.

Hopefully he doesn't choke for us.

QUOTE(Wanne @ Mar 23, 2006 -> 08:48 PM) No...I do to. I like Uribe at the bottom of the order where he was. This could play out well with somebody on Gooch's ass for playing time. You probably saw Cintron back when he had his good season back in 2003 was it? He could actually be a good #2 hitter if he was given the chance. He doesn't strike out a lot, and moving to the Cell can only help.

That guy must be Tony Batista's cousin or something.

QUOTE(q\/\/3r+y @ Mar 23, 2006 -> 06:18 PM) Why shouldn't cotts become our closer? He is far and away our best pitcher in the pen at this point... yes i know mccarthy and 100 mile an hour fastball is in there. I said it before and i still believe it... he will be the more succesful of the two, jenks and cotts. Didn't i read that jenks has like nine walks to two strike outs? Awful ratio whether he is in ''shape'' or not. He has been brutal from the little bit i have seen of him. 30 saves is still a stretch in my opinion and i have seen people predict as many as 45. If it ain't broke, don't need to change anything. In my mind, until Jenks can't prove in the regular season that he's not fit for the closer's job, don't need to make a move there. People take too much into ST stats still. You move Cotts from the set-up role, then all of a sudden you've got Jenks who you've demoted cos he's not pitching well in ST, a balky Dustin Hermanson, and Cliff Politte who a lot of people think won't be as good as he was in 2005. Well at least Iguchi didn't turn into Kaz Matsui v2.0 for us. He needs to cut down on the K's of course, but I still want to see how Uribe can handle himself in the #2 hole, he did pretty well there in the 1st half of 2004. Whether Iguchi will be back with us in 2007, I don't know. Needs a good season so that we will pick up his option. If they kept Borch instead of Gload, that would probably happen. At least it's better to be safe than sorry I suppose.

QUOTE(Jordan4life_2006 @ Mar 23, 2006 -> 04:22 PM) I don't doubt for a second that the Yankees won't get to the playoffs. But, once they get there, it's one and done. For them to get anywhere in the playoffs they need RJ to get back to the RJ of old, and for one other starter like Mussina or Pavano to pitch amazingly well. I'd give them a 25% chance at best of that happening.

QUOTE(southsideirish71 @ Mar 23, 2006 -> 05:43 PM) This is also about lighting a fire under his ample ass. He is young, came into camp out of shape, thought the job was his. Well under Ozzie, you should realize that none of that is guarented. I don't mind Ozzie playing mind games like this, but there's no way Cotts should become our closer, just because Bobby's out of shape a little. Bobby needs work, he'll get some more of it, and as the last 2 seasons have shown with Koch and Takatsu, if the closer is struggling a month in, then you can make a change. Cotts has been so successful as a set-up guy. As for Iguchi and Uribe, well Iguchi's gotta hit better no doubt. But I wouldn't want to move Uribe away from the #2 spot, when he's done nothing wrong in ST so far. If he produces there, and Iguchi is still struggling, then you can move Gooch further down the order, when you've got A.J and Crede hitting below him. Of course Cintron gives you an extra option as well. And the Thome playing no first base except for an emergency is a no brainer. That's why Ross Gload is the 25th man and why Bucky Jacbosen is down in Charlotte.

QUOTE(WCSox @ Mar 23, 2006 -> 12:24 PM) Oh, probably not. But I still think they would've made the playoffs, given the depth of their pitching staff and how badly the Astros sandbagged April and May. I'm not trying to diminish what Pujols has contributed to the Cardinals' success. He obviously does mean a lot. I was merely debunking this idiotic theory that the Cardinals "slugged" their way to 100 wins last year and that their pitching was mediocre. Nothing could be further from the truth. I absolutely guarantee you that the Cards wouldn't have made the playoffs without their "journeymen" pitchers (Carpenter, Suppan, Marquis, Isringhausen, Tavarez, King, Eldred, etc.). In no way would i call Chris Carpenter a journeyman pitcher. He's one of the top 5 SP taken in fantasy leagues nowadays, and St. Louis are lucky to have him. On the topic of the Cards' so called "journeyman pitchers" though, Dave Duncan has done a great job with the likes of Suppan who haven't had success in other places, but under his tutelage they've come in, found a role and succeeded. I will be interested to see how they do without Tavarez and King this season though.

I preferred the Paul Hogan shrimp on the barby ads myself; http://www.wherethebloodyhellareyou.com/

The whole organization just needs to be blown up.

QUOTE(RockRaines @ Mar 23, 2006 -> 12:06 PM) Where has Yas been? He usually doesn't come on until real late.

QUOTE(WCSox @ Mar 23, 2006 -> 11:46 AM) They scored 805 runs last year, not exactly matching up to the Yankees (886 runs) or the Red Sox (901 runs) and their slugging-heavy rosters. Hell, the Indians (790 runs) almost match the Cardinals. But if you want to believe that St. Louis won 100+ games in consecutive seaons because of Pujols, go ahead. So if the Cards didn't have Pujols, in 2005 do you still think they would have won 100 games? They were without Rolen for a majority of 2005 as well.

QUOTE(Felix @ Mar 23, 2006 -> 11:34 AM) Neither of those two had career years however, and as for Pods, half a year does not make a whole season good. Dye has always been a solid player when healthy, so moving to USCF would naturally improve his offense, if he stayed healthy. He stayed healthy, so his numbers increased. And Dye could have had a career year if he didn't start out so slow in the first month and a half of 2005, he was fantastic after that period. Pods I was still happy with his numbers, even considering the injury he had in the 2nd half, because after his numbers in 2004, you still weren't sure if he was going to bounce back to the numbers he produced in 2003.

Dwight Howard came off the bench tonight. What the hell is Brian Hill thinking? Looks like it might have fired up Dwight though, he has 10 points in 4 mins. And Steve Francis already has 3 TO's in his Orlando reunion.

QUOTE(Felix @ Mar 23, 2006 -> 11:13 AM) Yep, I agree with that thought. But you could argue that Dye had a great year compared to what he's done in the past, Pods had a pretty good year (except for the 2nd half) etc. So I mean our offense will definitely improve no doubt, but it won't be those guys who'll be the main cause of that. Of course I think everyone is probably expecting our pitching to be a little worse and our offense to be better, so hopefully that will help this team in 2006, although we still desperately need the pitching to hold up.

QUOTE(Heads22 @ Mar 23, 2006 -> 10:58 AM) So, I guess, now we're "Soxtalk.com: As mentioned in Sports Illustrated and ESPN the Magazine". And now we're going to take over the WORLD!!! Nothing like gettin more publicity for the site though.

These 2 may not be done (Wayne Krivsky's been reading my posts)

QUOTE(Rowand44 @ Mar 22, 2006 -> 06:47 PM) Here on soxtalk, players aren't given a chance. You should know that by now Yas. So damn true it ain't funny.

QUOTE(Heads22 @ Mar 22, 2006 -> 01:41 AM) DBAH0? DBAH0? Heads? Yeah it was a category 5 that hit, the winds were actually stronger than Hurricane Katrina. But no - one died, but the Banana and Sugar Industry up there is pretty much screwed for the next 2 years, Banana Prices are going to double down here at least for the next few months alone.

QUOTE(Mplssoxfan @ Mar 21, 2006 -> 07:10 PM) Don't choose, say, West Ham and give up on them when they go down it three years. How dare you. Seriously I think things are lookin pretty good on our end, we beat Man City this morning 2-1 to amke it into the FA Cup Semi Final. And I think we've got pretty cool colors in claret and blue as well.

QUOTE(SSH2005 @ Mar 20, 2006 -> 10:03 PM) Maybe, but it looks to me like Darrell May is going to be their lefty out of the bullpen. He's having a good spring so far. Perhaps but considering how bad May's been during the last 2 seasons, can the Twins afford to give him that spot even if he's midly effective during ST? And I do think if Castro doesn't make the Rangers, he'll get claimed by some other team.