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Not really. Honesty do you know how little it takes for a product to be labeled Made in the USA? It could be as little as the final assembly.

Put em in general population at the prison and tell everyone why they are there...

This is what it boils down to. Either Americans have to accept cheaper wages, or they have to be willing to pay more for American goods. If they don't companies HAVE to go outside of the US borders to stay profitable. If the government passes ways against this we are still paying more, because then we are paying whatever it takes to enforce these laws in taxes.

Just as much as you can practice religion after advocating killing people... Remember all sins are equal under God's eyes. And by advocating a sin you have committed a sin under God's eyes.

Don't buy that far into the hype. The Astros offense is still way better than anything the Cubs can throw out there, and so is their bullpen.

Meh like I said the only thing worth anything is the strength of schedule rating, and even that is overrated because of the whole good confrence bad confrence differencial. Basically RPI=BBS-human votes.

Do you honestly think that Trump would get into the pro sports business just to make money? Whatever he does he is going to try to win. I believe whereever he goes he will try to make a big splash, quickly.

The guy won't be an effective pitcher until 2005 at the earliest, probably 2006.

Seriously it is easy. Just look at a post you made. At the top there are a bunch of buttons such as "edit" "delete" "quote" and "report" just click delete.

St Joe's at number one? Can we all agree that it is an interesting strength of schedule componant, this poll isn't worth too much? Espesially with UConn at #11, Stanford at #7, and Texas Tech being overrated at #8.

Feel free.

If you duplicate a post you can hit "delete" within the post and it will erase.

I would imagine that either Blache didn't want to change his system or Smith wanted someone imparticular.

When it comes to the draft or FA's the Bears are much like KW. They won't say anything about anything because they don't want their guys taken.

Now if the Sox did this, his whole family would be on WGN right now, crying for the cameras.

Don't get me wrong, by no means do I think KW is anything special as a GM. I blame Kenny for a lot of things, the biggest being mulitpling the culture of distrust to where players have no interest in staying in Chicago. That is why we have had to give ridiculous contracts to guys like Koch, Konerko, etc, because no one wants to play here for a normal salary. And that is because of the assine BS going on in our front office. Offers disappearing, he said, she said crap, lies being told to and about players etc. No one trusts this team. Granted that stuff started before Kenny got here, but it sure has gotten much worse since he took over. It says everything to me when Graffy and Robbie leave for less money somewhere else. The big point of this thread was for all of the arm chair GM's who seem to know how to run this team, to show their stuff. Operate within the perameters that JR has laid out, and see how they would fix this team. There have been so many posts about how bad this off season has been, but I have yet to see a feasible solution to what to do. I really want to see one of the people screaming about this off season come up with a realistic solution within the guidelines of JR.

I can't wait to see this. I want to know what session you are going to be at.

BHBG- take charge. Tell people to be around at a certian time. If it doesn't work, change it. Pissing around and waiting for someone to do something is the whole reason that this hasn't happened yet.

obviously they didn't participate in GW's marriage program or they would still be together.

Brady is a product of a good system, and has a great D to help him out. Manning is by far and away the better QB.

So every coach we are looking at would be doing his job at the NFL level for the first time in his career? Just write off 2004 now

KW is responsible for the fact that his player development has been horrible over the last 5 years or so? If we had even an inkling of our prospects coming out anywhere close to what they were predicted, half of KW's bad deals wouldn't have been forced. If Kip Wells had done half of what he did for Pitt, Todd Ritchie would have never been here. If Rauch hadn't had the major injury, or come back strong from it, we wouldn't be worrying about a 5th starter, same with Danny Wright and Rocky Biddle. If Borchard had developed anywhere near what he was predicted it would be easy to trade Maggs or Lee.

I wonder if Blache was unwilling to work with Smith or vice versa?

I didn't say impossible, I said "near" impossible. But what I am trying to prove is that there isn't going to be a miracle cure for this team before openning day, because there isn't one!

In the context of the thread, I think he is saying that they over paided for WV. Take a deep breath.