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QUOTE(southsideirish71 @ Dec 21, 2005 -> 03:16 PM) As long as I can get my gallon of milk for $1.98 at Walmart instead of shelling out 4 bucks at Jewel, they can keep that model going. Wow, I still beat that.

QUOTE(CanOfCorn @ Dec 21, 2005 -> 01:42 PM) There's an Arkansas Tech? There's an ar-Kansas?

QUOTE(Texsox @ Dec 21, 2005 -> 05:57 AM) We know this whole tack it on is a bi-partisan ploy. But it is a gross misstatement that by tacking it on and needing 60 votes it somehow made it more difficult or even wasn't trying to subvert is a joke. By tacking it on to something that had to be passed, they made voting against it almost impossible. Personally, I think that an even more disgusting misstatement in there is saying that drilling up there has anything at all to do with "Energy independence".

That's what, 3 starting running backs who have wound up on IR for Green Bay this season? Yipes.

QUOTE(Gene Honda Civic @ Dec 21, 2005 -> 02:18 PM) This is why you trade Garland. -- Nobody is going to debate that Garland is better than Buehrle. We have to keep MB beyond '07. The Sox should extend MB instead of picking up his '07 option. He'll easily be worth $9+M he's scheduled to make. They should extend him for 4/52 or something like that. 4/52 is much better spent on MB than say the 5/55 it would take to lock Garland up right now. Personally, if I were in KW's seat, sometime this winter I'd try calling up MB's agent & saying "We've got mark for 2 years right now at a bargain price, what do you think about turning that into 5 years?"

QUOTE(Steve Bartman's my idol @ Dec 21, 2005 -> 02:12 PM) Let me ask...IF garland is worth $9mill per, what's Buehrle worth? $15mill? $17mill? He may very well push that, depending on how FA prices on pitchers go this coming offseason (when you have big names like Garland and notably Zito potentially hitting the market). I think he'll probably wind up signing for roughly Konerko money, maybe with another year tacked on. And I'd pay it too.

QUOTE(Cknolls @ Dec 21, 2005 -> 01:08 PM) God forbid we limit the rate of the increase in spending on entitlements.

QUOTE(YASNY @ Dec 21, 2005 -> 02:07 PM) Come up with a point that has some balls. That's garbage. Garland has no reason whatsoever to take a package of 8 per for 2. Hell he just turned down 8 per for 3. Here's the question...if the Sox tried offering him $9-10 mil a year for 2 years, do you think he'd bite? Delay FA for 1 year for more money this coming year?

Can you find a picture of him popping up El Duque's pitch and edit him into a Yankee uniform too?

QUOTE(Dick Allen @ Dec 21, 2005 -> 02:03 PM) Maybe the Red Sox bite the bullet this season and then go nuts next year when the free agent class is heads and shoulders above this current one. Maybe the Red Sox learn the Lesson that Cano and Wang tried despereately to teach the Yankees last year, and plug in some cheap, young talent at a few spots and then spend their free agent dollars in smarter ways.

QUOTE(redandwhite @ Dec 21, 2005 -> 01:50 PM) http://cgi.ebay.com/Johnny-Damon-Soul_W0QQ...1QQcmdZViewItem I love how it's local pickup only, no shipping.

QUOTE(Greg The Bull Luzinski @ Dec 21, 2005 -> 01:57 PM) Cub Fan's Trade Idea :Patterson for Tejada Reality: Patterson for air fresheners around Wrigely Still unfair. The air fresheners would have to have some sort of smell like "Newly fallen cement ceiling" or something like that.

QUOTE(Steve Bartman's my idol @ Dec 21, 2005 -> 01:51 PM) If I was JG, I'd ask for a 2 year $16 million contract...when that ends he's only 28, THEN...MONSTER DOLLARS!!! So let's say he does that...and gets hurt during the 2nd year. What then? His other option...play for liek $5 million or so this year somewhere, then hit the FA Market, sign a 5 year deal worth $60 million, and then be set for life even if he gets hurt? Or if he has a bad season?

QUOTE(Steve Bartman's my idol @ Dec 21, 2005 -> 01:48 PM) No...but he was a free agent! "Apples and oranges" And at the end of 2006...Jon Garland is...what?

QUOTE(Steve Bartman's my idol @ Dec 21, 2005 -> 01:41 PM) ESTABLISHED Pitchers!!! 1 good year does not an established pitcher make! AJ Burnett: (wins and losses) 2001 11 12 2002 12 9 2003 0 2 2004 7 6 2005 12 12 In the last 5 years, Burnett is 1 game over .500. He has 1 serious arm injury. He has thrown 200+ innings 2 times since he entered baseball. His lowest ERA is 3.30 in his 2002 season. He will be making $55 million over the next 5 years.

Is there a minimum salary that a person going through arbitration must be paid?

QUOTE(Rex Kickass @ Dec 20, 2005 -> 09:04 PM) Interesting stuff in the Drudge Report. Drudge claims to have found executive orders by Carter and Clinton to have agreed to do the same thing that Bush did i.e. in regards to this. (The "centrist" Drudge Report has seemingly neglected to research whether Reagan or Poppy Bush has also issued related executive orders.)

QUOTE(robinventura23 @ Dec 21, 2005 -> 10:28 AM) That's exactly what I was thinking. I thought that Pie was going to be in the majors this year. This is great. With an outfield of Murton, Pierre, Jones...I still think Pie is going to be in the majors this year. Either one of those guys will badly dissappoint (or more than 1 of them) or Pie will be moved because Hendry thinks he has an outfield put together.

The New York Yankees: the best retirement plan Major League Baseball has.

QUOTE(TheBigHurt @ Dec 20, 2005 -> 01:43 PM) Timo I can obviously see, but you'll really have to tell me why everyone is happy that Willie's gone, cuz I don't see what's so great about losing him. How would arbitration work with a player like Willie? Didn't I read somewhere a few weeks ago that there is a minimum salary that people will earn if they go through the arbitration process?

QUOTE(Rex Kickass @ Dec 20, 2005 -> 02:20 PM) You forgot the green balta. Sometimes you just hope it's obvious enough

QUOTE(SoxFan1 @ Dec 20, 2005 -> 02:16 PM) Why? I have been getting the games. Oh, that right, you live in Cali. Yup, I went ahead and added the sports pack, only to discover that the games are still blacked out when you're outside of Chicago. Furious. I just canceled the damn sports pack. I'm also an MLB Extra innings subscriber, and I still don't get the f***ing games.

f*** DirecTV.

QUOTE(AnthraxFan93 @ Dec 20, 2005 -> 02:03 PM) Couple of questions.. do they have a manager yet? IMO that lineup doesn't have enough power, alot of single hitters. Grady Little was hired a few weeks ago.

The NYT Had this story before the 2004 election and sat on it at the request of the White House.