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QUOTE (JoeCoolMan24 @ Jun 5, 2012 -> 01:22 PM) Who are you even arguing with? Obviously a smart phone is 1000x better than a regular phone. Next, can you tell me the advantages a car has over having to take a ox and wagon across the country? lol, im not arguing with anyone you half wit. You were the one b****ing about iPhones.

QUOTE (JoeCoolMan24 @ Jun 4, 2012 -> 11:30 PM) You just described what is known as a "smart phone". In case you are wondering, other companies besides Apple makes these crazy devices. No s*** kid. I was talking about iPhone in comparison to a regular cell phone, not every phone.

lol Anyone trashing an iPhone has obviously never owned one. Its literally one of the greatest things I have ever owned. I can watch my MLB.tv on it, I have legit games, Netflix, a butt load of music.. it does so much, that's why people say "iPhone" and not just cell phone. A regular cell phone is a piece of s*** compared to an iPhone.

QUOTE (JoeCoolMan24 @ May 30, 2012 -> 09:41 PM) Almost all the prospects we have traded away, have been s***. Let's count the prospects we have given away that have actually been GOOD major leaguers. Hudson, Gio, Chris Young........ and that's about it. Ryan Sweeney has been alright, but he isn't anyone special. Brandon Allen had a cup of coffee, De Los Santos had a little stint in the majors. Clayton Richards is still in the majors, but garbage. So of the 20-25 guys Kenny has traded away, 3 of them have been good major leaguers, yes? Are you trying to say that out of 20-25 prospects 3-5 of them being good MLB players is not considered good?

QUOTE (IlliniKrush @ May 27, 2012 -> 08:27 PM) Why exactly did they need shoot him? You can't just remove a naked man from the other guy without shooting him? You apparently didn't see the pictures of the victims face. Still haunts my dreams.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ May 30, 2012 -> 09:32 PM) And yet you are flat out dismissing all of the prospects we traded for, while pining for the prospects we traded away. What prospects? We have a bunch of crap that other teams gave up on. Im not pining over anyone, im just saying weve have traded away legit prospects and have been getting the short end of stick for YEARS.

QUOTE (iamshack @ May 30, 2012 -> 09:19 PM) I think it's because Hudson was immediately successful with the DBacks after we traded him. At least the A's had to develop Gio a bit...he didn't start the next week and begin dominating. A lot of people were against trading Hudson I was for the trade at the time, but its just turned out awful for us.

QUOTE (knightni @ May 30, 2012 -> 09:14 PM) Aw can't it be a guy high on bath salts eating your face? Haha, ill see what I can do about that.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ May 30, 2012 -> 09:10 PM) The position you are taking is ridiculous. If you are going to blast the organization for trading away prospects, you can't blast them for trading for prospects. Im blasting KW for making more poor trades than he does good or even DECENT ones. HOWEVER My original point was you cant compare Marlins or Royals fans wondering what if about Humber and De Aza to us saying S.O.B we should have Gio right now. Or we should have Hudson right now. They were cast off, we traded them away. Its not the same.

QUOTE (iamshack @ May 30, 2012 -> 09:07 PM) That doesn't change the point... Ok sorry shack.. Jackson and Hudson for Stewart.. still bad anyway you want to paint it

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ May 30, 2012 -> 09:05 PM) Trading prospects, bad. Trading for prospects, bad. And 2K5 is right on queue with his try to be funny, add nothing to the discussion one liners.

QUOTE (iamshack @ May 30, 2012 -> 09:06 PM) But Holmberg is just a prospect! Will you kill yourself and put it on youtube if he doesn't end up contributing anything to the DBacks? Of course not, I don't care about the Dbacks organization.

QUOTE (JoeCoolMan24 @ May 30, 2012 -> 08:57 PM) I have been saying this for years, and maybe people are starting to realize it.... The Nick Swisher trade is the worst deal Kenny has ever made. Im going to have to say Hudson, Holmberg, and Edwin Jackson for Zach Stewart pretty much is the worst cumulative deal KW has ever done.

QUOTE (iamshack @ May 30, 2012 -> 08:49 PM) No it isn't...it means at least our GM tried to improve our ballclub with his valuable assets rather than not know which assets he had that were valuable... One could argue that, but then again Gio has been a pretty damn good pitcher now for a while and KW traded him twice. So you could say he doesnt know what assets he has that are valuable. EDIT: Value to your organization, not trade value obviously

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ May 30, 2012 -> 08:46 PM) How can you have any idea what Hernandez and Castro will do for us? The Padres have a $7 million dollar they no longer need, soaking up a huge amount of payroll. Maybe Quentin will get on a hot streak and they'll get lucky to get a better return than what we got...but, remember, there's no Dayan Viciedo developing if Quentin's still here, or Quentin's coming back and Viciedo's being benched/blocked again. We gave Jackson away for free to save money from Teahen's deal and we have a serviceable reliever. Not a net win, but maybe those savings allowed us to hold onto Floyd, Thornton and Crain for all we know, instead of having to deal them, too. And where would we be right now with Sergio Santos on our team? Clearly better than with Addison Reed as the closer? They dealt Santos for a reason, and part of that reason is DL'ed. Yawn. Those "prospects" will never amount to anything for us. Ill kill myself and post it on youtube if any of them make any great contributions to this franchise. You don't give away a front of the rotation starter to "save money" on a stupid deal YOU did in the first place. All we have to show for Daniel Hudson and Edwin Jackson is Zach Stewart, a mediocre reliever. Yowza.

QUOTE (iamshack @ May 30, 2012 -> 08:42 PM) It seems better to me to at least know what players are valued by other organizations and trade them than letting them walk away for nothing. I realize he has made some bad trades in recent years and there is no way around that. But the Carlos Quentin trade and the Sergio Santos trades? How can you say those are terrible? CQ and SS have hardly even played for the teams he traded them to! And we haven't seen the prospects yet because they are still developing. Argue about KW blowing the Hudson deal and the EJ trade and I can't really defend those anymore...they were poor trades. But then you've got to give him credit for a lot of the moves that have worked out as well... I do give him credit, thats why I said he has done a good job getting some of those reclamation projects that no one wants. My main point was, we didnt just cut Gio Gonzalez and let him walk off for nothing. Humber and De Aza were. Comparing us sighing over not having Gio is not the same as a Marlins fan saying De Aza should be their leadoff guy right now.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ May 30, 2012 -> 08:33 PM) But it's the same for every team...imagine how good the Marlins could be had they kept Cabrera? Where are Cameron Maybin and Andrew Miller now? Not in Miami. Or the Johan Santana deal. He was the best LH starter of his generation, and none of the players acquired are with the Twins right now. One of them, Humber, is playing for one of their biggest rivals. That's just the nature of baseball. Had we not been in the pennant race in the middle of 2010, we could have been a lot more patient with both Hudson and Sale (he could have been developing as a starter instead of relieving in the heat of a pennant race). All we can do is say that he put together a better team, spent $25 million less than last year to do, and that's all that matters. In the end, the coaching staff's changes and the steadying presence of Ventura might end up being the most important move of all...as you saw in AZ last year with the DBacks. Now youre just naming situations where said clubs couldnt afford those players and had no choice. Cmon caulfield.

QUOTE (iamshack @ May 30, 2012 -> 08:29 PM) So you're arguing that it's better to let them walk away for nothing than to actually trade them? I'm scratching my head here... cmon man, did you really miss the point? Hes saying not to worry about Gio because the Royals arent worrying about Humber, or the Marlins arent worrying about De Aza. Neither of them showed anything with those teams and were let go. We take legit prospects (Young, Hudson, Gonzalez) and trade them away in stupid deals that end up being worthless. Im so sick of KW and his Stanford educated ego trip. Hes constantly made poor decisions in trading, for YEARS. Yeah he can get some projects and turn them into decent lighting, but god damn when are we going to come out of a trade on the EVEN end. Edwin Jackson trade, terrible. Carlos Quentin trade, terrible. Sergio Santos trade, terrible. Daniel Hudson trade, terrible since we just gave Edwin Jackson away for free anyway. you get the point, but then again I know you love KW.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ May 30, 2012 -> 08:03 PM) Yeah, Gio and Hudson both hurt. But, if we can keep on replacing them with similar production out of unheralded guys like Humber or Quintana, it doesn't really matter. (Or Jenks and Santos in the bullpen, for another example). There's no GM in baseball who hasn't made his share of moves which later look bone-headed. Do you think the Marlins' fans are all going crazy because DeAza has played well for us? Royals'/Twins' fans are upset about losing Humber? Or look at the money the Yankees invest in their starting pitching...even to the point of bringing back veteran Andy Pettite. Are they up in arms they "lost" Quintana or that we seemingly stole him right out from under their noses, or still upset we not only took Contreras, we also got a subsidy back to pay for his salary? And, of course, there's no way to empirically prove they both would have pitched as well in Chicago, or at USCF. Maybe Gio needed the confidence of pitching with a huge park and foul territory to become the pitcher he is...in Chicago, his control issues early in his career and his penchant for surrendering long balls/fly balls might have derailed his career in its early infancy. If anything, the success of Hudson, Gio, Brandon McCarthy or Clayton Richard makes our farm system's productivity look better and makes other teams more willing to trade with us. All you did was name players that those teams let walk away from them, our numbskull GM TRADES these players away for nothing in return. We really are a poorly run organization that lucked into a World Series in 05 which has kept this awful GM in office ever since.

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ May 28, 2012 -> 10:00 AM) Ha! I definitely see the family resemblance, I will look for him now. I wouldn't wish TNA on him though, Hogan will just job him out. Hopefully WWE takes notice and he can move on to the minors(OVW or FCW?) Well you gotta start somewhere, plus he already kind of has a foot in the door with WWE since he has worked with them before so who knows.

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ May 28, 2012 -> 09:41 AM) That is very cool. Does he have any intentions on going long term and trying to make it to the bigtime? Yeah that is the goal. He has been on Raw a few times, not as a wrestler but as security and an EMT. He got to come down to the ring and escort Vicki Guerrero out one time, and then he was an EMT when Nash beat up HHH when he was strapped to the stretcher. This is him in the middle. Creepin on the Divas

My brother has a tryout for TNA on June 6th Would be pretty sweet if he got signed.

Does anyone else feel sick to their stomach when you see Gio Gonzalez and then remember we had him TWICE.. ugh

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ May 27, 2012 -> 01:12 PM) I hate this one...I always used to tip on a delivery, then everyone instituted "Delivery fees". Now I feel guilty if I don't tip, but I also feel like I'm already playing the **** tip because of the mandatory delivery fee. I use to deliver for Dominos and that delivery fee IS bulls***.. The drivers do NOT get that delivery fee.. down here, the delivery fee was 1.50.. we got 90 cents a delivery to cover "gas". The delivery fee is just an extra way for them to make profits and in no way is given to the drivers as a tip. It always sucked when people thought the delivery fee was the tip, its not.

QUOTE (IlliniKrush @ May 26, 2012 -> 11:59 AM) In theory this could be good, but I'm still a guy without a huge rack. They aren't looking for me. And there's no way at a crowded bar they can memorize who each person is and how many times they've tipped, not to mention bars that have multiple bartenders. If you aren't going to give me a attention in a reasonable amount of time for me to buy something from your bar, then I'll find somewhere else, and you just cost your place some business. Agreed. Either way, I haven't run into too many situations where I was waiting forever to get service. Another thing that I just shake my head at is the tip jar at the register at Subway. They don't do anything different from employees at McDonalds, Wendys, Burger King.. you wouldn't tip them.