Mathew

I don't mind Loaiza so it's no bother to me, but it is a bit strange to give him a job after 4 innings of work. My big point is that even without Wright, I am just as comfortable with 2 of the 4 pitchers we could use as #4 an #5, than I am looking at free agency because Rogers and Finley aren't that good.

I posted this a week ago but since this issue seems to be bubbling to the surface again I'll go again. Loaiza is an adequate #5, he was #1 in Toronto at one point. I seem to think that Rauch is pretty close to as good right now(an opinion that was popular last week and not as much now but whatever) he'll get his chance one day. This notion of Rogers I do not get though. The Kenny Rogers who did this? Year Team League GP GS W L SV CG Sho IP H R ER HR BB K ERA 2001 Texas AL 20 20 5 7 0 0 0 120.2 150 88 83 18 49 74 6.19 Hmmmm.. I'll pass thanks Here's ritchie last year. Year Team League GP GS W L SV CG Sho IP H R ER HR BB K ERA 2002 Chicago AL 26 23 5 15 0 0 0 133.2 176 104 90 18 52 77 6.06 Looks eerily similar, and not many defend Ritchies performance so why so many to defend Rogers(granted not after he stiffed us) but why would we even want to offer? I don't care if he's left handed or ambidextrous f*** him. Finley is 40yrs old and had an ERA higher than Loaiza in 2001, there are no more relevant free agents, unless somebody is better than Josh Paul out there.

Alomar will walk less times than he will homer, does anyone know how patient Miguel is?

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Trade Ginter for anything, what chance does he have. He's not getting any younger and we signed free agents like white, flash, cause ginter is like putting out a fire with gasoline.

In the last 23 games easily. 3-16-2-2 The irony is that this post was started by a Flames fan.

Steve Nash, Dirk Novisky, Caron Butler, Kovalenko or whatever the Jazz dude is.

It's just one of those things you hear beginning in LL. One of my other favorites is when you hear coaches and dads yelling at the batter to "get his elbow up", which is exactly the wrong thing to do. What they should be saying is get your elbows down and your hands up. No relevance here, just one of those things you always here that happens to be incorrect. I make the kids I coach try batting with an orange under their armpit to keep their elbows down. Also irrelevant, just if anyone needed something to try at home

We should hire Dale Torborg. He played in our system didn't he?

With baseball's unlimited rounds I don't think he wasted much of anything. Didn't they draft the sibblings of Crede,Paul and whoever else, those 50th rd picks don't matter a lick.

Is it Jason that really likes Ponson, I wonder what he thinks on that rumour?

Thanks, I'll probably just stand pat.

What is Graffy's status and it's bearing on the roster?

I never said China was a better military, but again I ask how do you fight a war against such a nation, and the others that would join them? You can't take hostages because they would be to great a burden on your country, you can't nesscessarily slaughter them all with subs and tanks and planes. Capturing or killing 1 million people a day would not be sustainable for the U.S. With regards to my Israeli post there was no typo, I mean if they were hit they would not let their ally America retaliate for them, in a calculated perhaps less globally damaging way, they themselves would retaliate swiftly and would quickly further the destruction of the planet as you know it. Further I reiterate that I don't see the fall of the American empire for quite some time, but these are the only 2 scenarios I can see from todays world.

The fall of the U.S. embire will occur, but not near any of our life times. On your point of the U.S. is more stable than them, I disagree, you population split about 25% right 25% left and 50 that didn't care enough to vote that isn't the most united there is. If the U.S. is to fall in our lifetime I can only think of 2 ways that aren't a giant meteor or something like that. I think this question has come up before and I gave the same answear. A war against China would be very difficult. If the U.S. captured 1000000 Chinese on the first day,2nd,3rd,4th,5th the sixth they would have to look at surrender. Maybe not that fine a time line but you understand the theme, to kill that many people would be equally cumbersome. I'm sure tactical neutron stikes would that millions at a time, but 1.5 billion is a good deal to overcome. 2nd manmade possibility in our lifetime is a nuclear strike perpitrated by anyone on a city like Tel Aviv, the Irealies would not wait for an American response they would lauch their own nukes on the half hour, and the fallout from all that would follow would be unthinkable. Your life would not have anything to do with U.S. empire any longer.

I am here in Canada and am travelling to the U.S. in June to have my 21st in Vegas and the to Comisky(the cell) for Either September or ealier not sure which is best. Any how the question is should I be looking to exchange money now while the CDN Dollar sits at 67.62 US or do I wait till then? Will a war impact it in either the positive or the negative? Any help would be great since I need all the money I can get to drink as much of your watered down beer, with as many of you as I can.

I saw the news today and Chicago had a low of 1f or -17oC here in Canmore it was -27oC or I think -18f, but on the bright side for us it's really cold in the east and just a little below seasonal here they said. I wasn't convinced, butt cold is butt cold period.

I'm sober now, still no guilt all's well other than the headache I had this morning, I didn't even realize I'd used the computer last night untill I read this.

I bet a lot on sports, some people spend most of their time on school, I have lots of time for sports, for now it makes sence in my life, but I'm too cheap to ever be a real addict.

I've gotten stupid offers so far so I haven't bother to counter. I don't see any holes in my team, I have 4 closers Escobar,Looper,Stewart,Baez only need two or three to get it together. Ishii,Simontacchi,Wood,Buehrle and Kaz pitched great today. C Loduca-good 1b Sweeny-good 2b-Biggio-we'll see has been great before 3b-Alfonso batting with Barry will boost his stats SS Nomar- a bad year of his is still good OF-Walker,Stewart,Winn Winn may not bo as well but still hitting in the 2 hole Util-Olerud or See Hop Choi (we'll know very early) Bench Leiberthal,Borcherd,Cirillo and the Util reject Barring injuries I don't see any holes, hence the quiet trading front on my part.

People are believing the Jesus hype. Prior's potential might be something amaising but on the other hand, I've seen Prior pitch like s***, ummm us thumping him comes to mind. How can we speak so lightly of a 19 game winning pitcher? There have been some "the next one's" that have dissapeared, Burly already is the one? Like CW said, no hesitation, Prior may end up better, but to award him the gold metal before the race is unsettling.

G AB R H 2B 3B HR TB RBI BB SO SB CS AVG D Holt 57 201 18 56 10 0 4 78 25 15 50 1 4 .279 That is his breakout season in the minors? That isn't very good AA#s as far as I'm concerned, am I looking at the wrong information?

I'd probably give even more.

Holland isn't it? They have a more Right Wing government now so I think they are looking to reverse the legalized pot and prostitution.