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QUOTE(redandwhite @ Jun 19, 2006 -> 03:52 PM) With Snow being DFA'd, and Texiera not performing to his abilities, perhaps a Snow for Weaver and cash trade would work. If the Angels were giving up Weaver for a backup, I don't see why they'd send along any cash. It's not exactly like the Angels need another 1st baseman, they have like 3 guys who have had playing time there already this season, all of whom are young.

QUOTE(jackie hayes @ Jun 19, 2006 -> 03:33 PM) You know that won't work. No law will use a word as general as "desecration". The exact wording of the amendment is "The Congress shall have power to prohibit the physical desecration of the flag of the United States." The question will be how that gets defined in laws when they are written. Considering that there's been discussion about whether or not bathing suits with parts of the flag on them are desecration or not, I have very little confidence that the elected officials who would pass that amendment would keep the definition narrow.

QUOTE(SnB @ Jun 19, 2006 -> 02:32 PM) seriously, i don't get rooting against the cubs at this point in the season. If they're in a pennant race, fine, but as for right now, their season is lost and they shouldn't matter AT ALL to us. We still have 3 more games against them. The last thing we want is for them to go into that series having hope.

QUOTE(Athomeboy_2000 @ Jun 19, 2006 -> 12:58 PM) Best Show: LOST 2nd Best: The Daily Show The Colbert Report.

Jeff Samardzija signed a 5 year, $7.25 million deal with the Cubs. The deal will allow him to play for ND football in the fall, and is also backloaded, so that it won't cost the Cubs too much if he ditches them for football.

QUOTE(heirdog @ Jun 19, 2006 -> 11:42 AM) We traded away a guy that could have brought back a lot more in return in Carlos "El Caballo" Lee in order to get Pods (along with Viz) so I think there was at least some point in time when the organization was high on him. How soon we forget the 2005 post-season with his clutch hits...now Pods is supposedly waiver fodder for the organization. So that they can bring up someone else from Triple A and let them "learn" how to field a new position and battle through a sub-.200 BA while getting used to the majors. Not going to happen. We also made that trade to free up about $7 million in salary for 2005, salary which turned into Tadahito Iguchi, AJ Pierzynski, Dustin Hermanson, and I think a couple of others.

QUOTE(RibbieRubarb @ Jun 19, 2006 -> 08:56 AM) Don't we have Crede under contract through 2008? As for Fields, you have a better chance seeing Pablo being our starting LF next year. No, Joe Crede is not under contract through 2008. Joe Crede is on a 1 year deal signed last offseason. Joe Crede is however arbitration eligible through the 2008 season, meaning he is under the White Sox's control until the end of that year. Therefore, we have him, but we don't know how much he'll cost, and w edon't know if we'll be able to hold onto him beyond that time.

QUOTE(SoxFan1 @ Jun 19, 2006 -> 08:44 AM) Who becomes our leadoff hitter? Pablo? Whoever, outside of Thome, has the highest OBP on the team.

QUOTE(Mplssoxfan @ Jun 18, 2006 -> 10:44 PM) Let's not forget that if and when the prospective amendment passes, the Congress has to pass a law which defines "desecration". The amendment probably could not be ruled unconstitutional, but the constitutionality of any law passed could be challenged. And that might take a while See, if this foolish thing ever passes, that's the part I'm going to have some fun with. Do you know how many incidents of flag descration happen every single day in every city in America? Dozens, if not hundreds. People flying tattered flags. People letting the flag touch the ground. People flying flags (and not necessarily the Mexican flag or a church flag) equal to or higher than the American Flag. People leaving flags out at night or in the rain. They happen all the bloody time. I biked to a sports store last week to pick up a few supplies, and counted 6 things I could have reported. If this amendment ever passes and the nation does ban "flag desecration", I'm planning on making people regret not paying attention to how stupid their representatives are. "Ban flag desecration? Sure! Can't let them hippies hurt my flag. Wait, whaddya mean I get a $150 fine for laying my flag on the ground?!"

QUOTE(BobDylan @ Jun 18, 2006 -> 10:41 PM) Cleveland had a terrible offseason. Wait until we see Andy Marte in the big leagues before proclaiming this a terrible offseason.

QUOTE(beautox @ Jun 19, 2006 -> 08:13 AM) Yeah, i don't think Papelbon will ever see the starting roation again. He has made comments that if he were to close games for the rest of his career he would be happy with that. I don't think if he went into the rotation and then tried to close games again he would pull a Danny Graves, but why ruin a good thing, esp since elite closers are rare. Well, I understand the desire to keep him in the Closer's spot, but right now, I think if the BoSox had another option at the back of their bullpen, Papelbon would be in their rotation. Their bullpen has been all right, but the thing that is really killing them is their starting rotation. They have no idea about Wells and Clement, who have both been ineffective, Beckett has been disappointing, they have another rookie, Lester, in their 4th starter spot, and their rotation as a whole has an ERA of 5. If Papelbon could give them a starter with an ERA of under 3.5, which he probably could right now, then they'd probably put him there, just to get him throwing as many innings for them as they can. Problem is, if they put him into the rotation, they go back to that disasterous end of the bullpen situation that cost them in 03.

While the Tigers can't gain ground on the Sox by winning, perhaps more important in the Tigers' heads is that 1-5 record against the Sox, which is the reason why they want to gain ground now, because if they can't beat us head to head, they can't beat us.

QUOTE(NUKE_CLEVELAND @ Jun 18, 2006 -> 05:31 PM) The attention whore strikes again. :puke Yup, Ann Coulter is in the news again. Oh wait, you meant the other one.

QUOTE(Wedge @ Jun 18, 2006 -> 06:53 PM) Yeah, those two series against KC and Cle that started the year 2-4 are killing us now. We really need to improve, especially against Cleveland. That 1-5 record in those 2 series against Chicago's AL team is really killing Detroit.

QUOTE(SoxAce @ Jun 18, 2006 -> 03:46 PM) Garland's era went from 6.01 to 5.58 (-.43) lower thanks to this outing. Fixed.

QUOTE(Kalapse @ Jun 18, 2006 -> 03:39 PM) The Sox have an amazing habit of missing the best players of thier opponents, it happened non-stop last year and it's continued thus far this year. You know, on some level, I'm just a little bit sad, it would have been quite fun to see him going against Jose, just to see who would win that one. I won't lose any sleep over it though.

QUOTE(NUKE_CLEVELAND @ Jun 18, 2006 -> 03:33 PM) That kind of thing has been going on with the military for years and years. Troops get out, then take a high paying contractor job doing the same job they did as a soldier for twice the money. Yup, it's been going on throughout most of our government. Just interesting to see the test case of a brand new department and how rapidly the supply of "Former DHS Employees getting rich working with the DHS" has appeared. By the way, this was supposed to be a 2nd post, since it's on a totally different topic, but it seems that the system decided to combine them, so don't blame me for the rapid topic shifts. PBS Interview with new top White House Domestic policy advisor Karl Zinsmeister (i.e. the guy with the President's ear about any domestic policy):

QUOTE(NUKE_CLEVELAND @ Jun 18, 2006 -> 03:30 PM) I know he's been on the DL with that oblique strain. Anyone know if he's gonna be around for the Sox series? They say he's ahead of schedule, but I think we're getting lucky in getting them right now. I wouldn't be surprised if he's in the lineup with 2 weeks. He just started swinging without pain on Saturday (30 swings off of a Tee), he was scheduled to take some more swings and play some long toss today. Hasn't started facing live pitching yet. Edit: Here's the kind of headline I like to read: Detroit Free Press, "Pujols may return in time for Tigers"

Fascinating look at the DHS from the NYT...according to their report, over 90 of the guys who originally started off as officials within the DHS when it was created have now gone on to careers in private industry where they're doing billions of dollars of business with that department.

QUOTE(henry wiggins @ Jun 18, 2006 -> 03:14 PM) So does this (homerun) make Garland a pinch-hitter option for Ozzie now? You know the interesting thing? The Cardinals have a guy, Marquis I think, who they use for that. I sort of wonder sometimes whether or not there might be a couple of pitchers in the AL who might be able to hold together a .250 average if they were given the chance to hit every now and again. I mean, usually in places like little league, the guys on the mound were the best athletes on the team, some of that stuff has to carry over for a few of these guys.

QUOTE(3E8 @ Jun 18, 2006 -> 03:15 PM) Uggla, what a beautiful Rule 5 steal he's turning out to be thus far. Matching Prince in offensive production. That team may not have money to spend, but they sure seem to have some damn good guys makin' decisions in that front office.

Oh f*** No. Maybe if they tossed in Ryan Howard.

QUOTE(zygoat @ Jun 18, 2006 -> 03:00 PM) MB throwing a perfect game and hitting a homerun are two completely different things, but your right about the bragging rights Mark could always just shut us all up at his next time in an NL park, throw a perfect game, and hit a couple of slams.

Heck of a game Jon. Keep that up through November.

I'm embarassed to be posting at a message board based in the same city as that team.