Send someone (not Dave Wilder!) to Beijing, along with personal entreaties from The Grand Titan de Bronze and Alexei for the best starting pitcher and reliever from the Cuban National Team, and get them to defect after the last game in the Olympics. (Hey, that's the least The Count can do to help us out...and maybe a note from Oswaldo in Spanish or an e-mail from hotmail.com wouldn't hurt). Then they can take some Russian billionaire's "stealth" yacht to the coast of California and ask for political asylum (of course, they will already have been secretly signed by KW, who will announced the Danks and Beckham signings at the same press conference from Santa Monica Pier). I'm not sure what would happen if we tried to book them tickets (if that would be allowed by MLB rules) or what would happen if they landed in an American airport without a proper entry visa. Maybe the Homeland Security officer would be a strategically placed Sox fan.

 

Okay...well, my imagination is getting away from me!

 

http://sea-fever.org/2008/07/17/has-that-s...street-journal/ (for a picture of the yacht I picked out for this secret Sox mission)

 

I like this guy's style...nothing like marrying the former Miss Yugoslavia, Aleksandra Kokotovic..."Russian billionaire tied the knot in Cote D’Azure with lavish ceremony, entertainment and everything luxurious fit for a billionaire wedding reportedly worth £20 million. The wedding featured performances by Whitney Houston, Julio Iglesias, Enrique Iglesias and Christina Aguilera, who were all flown to Cannes on a private jet. Rumours circulated that he even had a church dismantled, shipped and rebuilt in France for this extravagant wedding day.

 

Since there seems little hope for the rest of the season, I thought it would good to think positively at least.

Edited August 10, 200817 yr by caulfield12

little hope?

 

last time i checked were 1/2 game out.