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QUOTE(mr_genius @ Feb 1, 2006 -> 07:17 PM) USE BOTH! ARRRRRR! There is a girl at lifetime that I think is working towards looking like that. I thought she was a guy for the longest time.

QUOTE(SSH2005 @ Feb 1, 2006 -> 09:19 PM) Are you wondering if Floyd would be a better righty option out of the bullpen instead of one of the lefty options? If not, Gavin Floyd is a right-hander incase I am reading your post wrong. But I love the lineup and that's the way I'd set it. I have no clue anything about Floyd. The first time I have seen his name is when it was posted in this thread. Hammels is about the only prospect from the Phillies I know of.

QUOTE(beck72 @ Feb 1, 2006 -> 09:06 PM) From BA's 2004 Prospect Handbook: Phils #2 "Floyd entered his pro career w/ two plus pitches, a 92-95 mph fastball w/ movement and a shoulders to shoelaces hard curveball that rates a 80 on the 20-80 scale at times. His main focus since has been developing a changeup which now rates average. A longtime fan of Kevin Millwood, Floyd tried to emulate his idol's deliberate delivery after wactching him in ST. It cost Floyd his rhythm and deceptiveness and it tool a month to remedy the problem. He must coninue to hone his location and ability to repeat pitches, but he's still ahead of most pitchers his age. Floyd's development is right on track. He'll move up to AA in 2004." Would Floyd be better than what we have as far as second left in the pen? What can Cooper do with him? Cotts walked the world just as recently as the year before. I dont know if we do this. Abreu costs a lot and that scares me as far as retaining Buerhle and other pitchers in a few years. However he does have some speed, and is Ozzie Guillens fellow countryman. Another lefty bat would really balance the lineup. I mean we had problems against righties last year. How would we look this year with the below lineup Pods Lefty Uribe Righty Abreu Lefty Konerko Righty Thome Lefty Iguchi righty AJ Lefty Anderson righty Crede lefty

QUOTE(Soxy @ Feb 1, 2006 -> 03:26 PM) That a church is like a family--and that it should be handled internally because it's really no one else's business. Not a compelling argument. I am a catholic as believe whole heartedly that these predators should be handed over to the authorities for prosecution. The catholic church cannot handle this within. Its too political of a body and favorites, and favoritism gets in the way of investigations. IMO they should de-frock the priest, ex-communicate them, and then give them and any evidence over to the autorities. There are a lot of good men who are priests that have their name dragged through the gutter because of a few morons and some political mess that protects them. The quicker the church outs the evil from the itself, the quicker we can reclaim our priests as a group of holy men who help preach the word of God.

QUOTE(Balta1701 @ Feb 1, 2006 -> 02:32 PM) Personally, if you ask me about our bench, I'm just happy that we've upgraded the abilities of the people on it. Mack, Ozuna, Borch >> Ozuna, Harris, Perez. Just having better guys when Ozzie plays the infamous "Sunday Lineup" will probably win us a few more games. Especially considering how often Ozzie plays his backups. Mac and Ozuna coming off the bench as primaries are 100000000000000% better than Timo and Harris. This years group 4 >> last years group 4.

QUOTE(Texsox @ Feb 1, 2006 -> 01:31 PM) I thought Illinois dropped the death penalty after too many wrongfully convicted? Was this during that time? Why is that Judge not going anywhere? Doesn't he have an elected position? This was in 1993. He has an elected position. However after you are elected retention for judges is a piece of cake. Its a long list at the end of the ballot that says Yes or No on retention. You have about 20 or more names to go through. He always gets a highly regarded from the Illinois Bar. He is a defense attorneys wet dream. Plus he is good friends with Bobby Rush.

QUOTE(Texsox @ Feb 1, 2006 -> 01:06 PM) I'm not certain about activist judges and sentences. Judges are given a min and a max in most states and elected to use their judgement in sentencing. They would be an activist if they tried to go beyond the guidelines. I think instead of activist, incompetent would be a better choice of words. Hopefully they are removed from the bench as fast as possible. I wish that sentencing guidelines could apply without a shadow of a doubt. However my comments that the judge was an activist are on spot. He wasnt incompetent(as much as I would like to believe that). He was calculated in his sentencing. In Illinois if you are in the commision of a felony and murder someone it becomes a death penalty case. The judge knew this, so to get around the sentencing guidelines he threw out the conviction from the jury on the sex assault so he could give the guy a break. This is also the same judge who let a group of guys go because the cops didnt have probable cause on a theft ring that was plaguing the Beverly area. The police were coming down an alley, they saw 4 men carrying out a TV at 3 in the morning on a wednesday. They were wearing ski masks and it was july, they dropped the TV which smashed into a million pieces and ran. The judge rulled that because the defendants were black, that the mere fact that they ran from the police is not probable cause. The TV could of been theirs and he didnt believe about the ski masks. His ruling was black people are naturally afraid of the police and therefore running is not out of the ordinary. This crack pot judge isnt going anywhere soon, he is a friend of Bobby Rush. They were in the black panthers together.

QUOTE(Texsox @ Feb 1, 2006 -> 12:31 PM) Rhetorical or not, we do need to do something with the revolving door concerning sexual offenders. I don't like it when I read about someone committing a second and it always seems worse than the first, crime. Maybe life in prison is too harsh, but much better follow ups, and I'm not even convinced that would eliminate much. I find the idea of chemical castration for males interesting. Seems cruel and unusual, but this isn't working in some cases. Sex offenders need to be put away for a long long time. Pedophiles and child rapists need to be put in jail never to be seen from again. This crime is why I believe in the death penalty. This creature destroyed this little girl, but put her through hell before he did. I could give a s*** about the few psychologists that believe some prozac and some therapy can fix the pedophiles nad child rapists like this. Of course depending if the judge is an activist they can bend the sentencing a bit like that recent goof who basically gave the pedophile no sentence because he wasnt going to get therapy until he got out of jail. Therapy doesnt fix these monsters. Cage them away. An activist Judge in Markham who had case where a 12 year old girl who was raped and murdered. He was so against the death penalty he ruled that the guy murdered her, but he couldnt rule that the sex wasnt consentual. Of course the fact that the guy was just let out for his previous sex assault case against a minor wasnt enough of a basis for the Judge to put 2 and 2 together. That freak who did that case is due out in a year or so. Chemical Castration doesnt stop pedophiles. They still have these desires because they are not instruments of their sexuality. It is something else that is wrong with them. The sex act is just the end result of their affliction. You can give these guys therapy, you can chemically castrate them, and they will still hurt children.

At least we can agree that at least one of the bush daughters is a hell of a lot hotter than Chelsea ever was. Some of the daugthers of the presidents over the years are barkers.

QUOTE(Texsox @ Jan 31, 2006 -> 10:16 PM) From Drudgereport.com Cindy's crime? Wearing an anti-war t-shirt She can wear that at the local McDonalds, but not at the State of the Union. Her 15 minutes are up.

QUOTE(Texsox @ Jan 31, 2006 -> 10:03 PM) This just in from my buddy Howard But if you disturb Rudolph the rednose reindeer we will protest. And you cant build or use nuclear power, and we dont want you to burn coal because it will hurt the environment. Solar Power, some wind, and if we give up technology and go back to the days were peopled lived to be the ripe old age of 35 we will be set.

QUOTE(Texsox @ Jan 31, 2006 -> 09:52 PM) Who is paying those taxes? Show me how $1 cut becomes more than $1 paid in taxes later. Plus the $1 not taken in, and added to the debt, increases. Its not a one to one black and white issue. Its called investment and return. I get a tax break which means that I can create a job where I wouldnt be able if I was taking that money and using it for taxes. The salary on those jobs are taxed. The product I make with those workers are sold and are taxed. Those inviduals are given benefits and a salary which means that the government is not paying for those services. Maybe I dont have to outsource my companys jobs to a foreign country. After all this, my company makes a profit where I can grow and create more jobs and more revenue. These are all extreme examples. But it seems our economy started to grow when the tax cuts were initiated. Rates, money introduced, and other methods didnt work to invigorate our economy. After the tax cuts our economy got better.

QUOTE(Texsox @ Jan 31, 2006 -> 09:47 PM) Kind of like people that claim there is waste in all areas of the government, EXCEPT, the military. Maybe not cutting taxes would make it easier to pay for all this. But that isn't the Republican plan, you have to give everyone a tax cut while spending more money. That's fiscally responsible as long as you can convince people someone else (not anyone wealthy) will pay for it later. Its odd, the money that gets reinvested into the economy to purchase or to invest in your business. That money isnt taxed? People think that the tax break immediately means that Joe Rich guy is stuffing his mattress with money or rolling around in it. Most of that money is reinvested in the economy and that helps to make more money which then allows for more tax dollars to be collected.

QUOTE(Texsox @ Jan 31, 2006 -> 09:32 PM) How is not paying taxes capitalism? How about balancing the budget instead of buying votes by promising you money and benefits? If a candidate paid each voter $50 he'd be in jail, if he promises to give everyone $50 in tax cuts and have someone else pay for it, he's a genious. Somebody had to pay for those cuts, with interest and it's going to be you and me. We pay taxes to pay for our government, we don't collect taxes to stimulate the economy. Let's not pay for anything, let's borrow trillions of dollars, that's the Republican way. Amazing that now it's the Democrats that want to balance a budget and the Republicans that keep promising someone else will pay the taxes in the future. So if someone works their ass off, makes sacrifices to become successful they should be boned because they got ahead. Lets penalize you for being successful. You make more money you can afford it.

QUOTE(NUKE_CLEVELAND @ Jan 31, 2006 -> 09:30 PM) Politics aside, Im most pleased with the President getting serious about ramping up alternative energy research. That, above all, was what I wanted to hear. I am getting a hybrid this year. This and alternative fuels is the direction we should be going into.

There is a better way. How about we leave the tax cuts for those who affect the economy. The small business owner who will get boned if Dems try to repeal Bushes tax cuts. Lets penalize those who make a buck, because its the democratic way. Capitalism and not socialism is the better way.

QUOTE(NUKE_CLEVELAND @ Jan 31, 2006 -> 09:14 PM) The congresswoman who invited her is a real winner in her own right. One of those left coast radicals who advocates a "department of peace". LOL! Make she can meet with Chirac and work towards the French model with the Department of Surrender.

Cindy Sheehan is so off the map, she wants to run against Diane Finestein who is as liberal as hell, because she first supported the war. When you are too liberal for the California branch of the democratic party, you need to check your sanity at the door. The goof who invited her needs to get her invite privileges taken away. Did she really think that Cindy would behave. I am glad that Cindy was stupid enough to try and open that banner ahead of time, if she was a bit more with it she would of waited to pull her attention grabing scheme during the address. They should just issue a restraining order and keep her away.

QUOTE(rbloom03 @ Jan 30, 2006 -> 08:19 AM) And I'd rather be in line with "creepy" or "geeky" adults than giggling, annoying young girls who make it seem like all female baseball fans are only fans because the players are "hot." I saw a few girls with the Scotty Too Hotty Shirts or Mrs. Pods shirts, granted they were between the ages of 14-15, oddly no guys came up with the great idea of Mr. Dergan

I had one of Brandon's minor league cards. He flipped the thing a few times like he never saw it before. He asked me where did I get it, and then signed it for me.

The only person I ran into at Soxfest was Mike(SS2K5) and family in the Brandon McCarthy line. The place was jammed packed. My son didnt get to go because he was sick, so my brother-in-law came instead. He had a hi tech camera with a good zoom lenz. I will be posting the pics he had from soxfest once he emails them to me. Brian Anderson is a funny guy. He was making cracks with everyone. The Widgenator was cool also. Real laid back. BMac needs to eat some more.

Yup, its like you can see the train coming down the tracks. This is going to get real ugly before it gets better. First the Iranian nut, and now this. This is what they ran on. Good lord.

QUOTE(BHAMBARONS @ Jan 28, 2006 -> 09:58 PM) I need to conduct a nationwide poll for my research paper, and I figures this is the best way to get it done. I also need to use some reply's so if you give your first name and state would be greatly welcomed. Please try and keep it civil Thanks Tom I believe in the death penalty. I believe its a way to take the monsters from society and remove them from ever being able to hurt again. Tom, Illinois

QUOTE(LowerCaseRepublican @ Jan 27, 2006 -> 04:49 PM) http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/4652940.stm Good to see a politician asking to take a pay cut and then enacting it for the benefit of the country. He can now afford to cut his money with his new free trade program for coca growers. Good news for Coke users though, with the new flood of product to hit the market the price should drop a bit per kilo.

Gee I wonder what their army is going to do? Here we go