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QUOTE (TitoMB345 @ May 21, 2009 -> 01:43 PM) I really can't remember... but didn't we trade Link last year?Nope! Fairly current stats: 2009 Stats G W-L ERA IP H BB K SV WHIP CHA (chw) AAA 15 0-0 2.29 19.2 13 9 24 5 1.12

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ May 21, 2009 -> 01:38 PM) Pitching wins, but to guarantee a $22 million option 4 years from now is insane. If he doesn't want to be here, let him go to play for the Cubbies, I'm already sick of it, although if Broadway is involved .......................................So the Sox are too cheap, but now you don't want them to commit money to an ace?

QUOTE (Markbilliards @ May 21, 2009 -> 01:18 PM) Like an extra point and a half on his ERA once he leaves Petco and comes to the AL at the cell?How do pitchers like Buehrle and 2008 Floyd and Danks and 2005 Contreras and most of our bullpen and so on succeed here, then? Would they all have ERAs below 2 in the NL?

I am refreshing this thread like a madman.

QUOTE (BearSox @ May 21, 2009 -> 11:01 AM) I think Phil Nevin did it a couple years ago. However, I'd hardly consider him a big name. However, oddly enough, he was with the Padres when he declined a trade.I wonder if the fact that this deal is publicized has to do with the chances of Peavy accepting, or just the big name attached to the deal. I also wonder if Peavy is more likely to accept knowing that the whole world knows about the trade now.

Sure, it's probably not true, and I'm trying to temper my enthusiasm, but this would be an amazing deal for the Sox. If you have a chance to get a fair deal with a bona fide ace, a Cy Young award winner who just turned 28, you do it. We're also buying low -- not because Peavy is struggling, but because the Padres need to unload him. We have tons of draft picks in this year's draft, and we have a ton of offensive talent in AA, which helps mitigate the losses incurred in trading for Peavy, and we'll have a stacked (theoretically) pitching staff that takes pressure off the young position players coming up in 2010/2011. Also, if the Sox continue to struggle, we can always trade Peavy, and get much closer to max value for him, since we won't *have* to deal him like the Padres do.

This is not serious. Please let this be serious.

QUOTE (lostfan @ May 19, 2009 -> 12:38 PM) Yes but you have to have the right version, I think they built cheaper models that aren't (someone correct me on this?)None of the newer PS3 models (the ones currently on sale) are PS2 backwards-compatible. It's a shame, really, because the PS2 has probably the largest, most diverse, and overall best lineup of games available for any system, ever. PS1 games are still backwards compatible, I believe, with a number of them available for sale in the Playstation store.

I worked for a hosting company for a while, and the suggestions for Wordpress and Drupal are definitely ones I would second, as well as the suggestion to go with a friend/acquaintance for server space. I would also suggest, however, that you wait until you either have the money to pay for someone to work on your site for you, or have a friend do it for you as a favor or pay him in beer. Don't spend any time on it yourself -- you wouldn't advise a web developer to defend himself in court, right? Focus on practicing and getting customers first.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ May 19, 2009 -> 06:59 PM) Neanderthals are actually not going to be a strong link between Homo-Sapiens and apes. Neanderthals were an offshoot, they were a line that broke off from the developing line and settled in Europe something like 100,000 years ago. They stayed confined to Europe until modern humans emerged from Africa about 30,000 years ago and then they rapidly disappeared. They may have been killed, there may have been some limited inter-breeding, but there's not going to be a "missing link" between those groups. In human evolution, there are lots of false starts...groups that diverged from whatever the main population was doing, evolved to some level on their own, and then died off. Neanderthals are one of them.Or... WE ATE THEM!

QUOTE (fathom @ May 17, 2009 -> 02:11 PM) Gotta love the match-up today of Harden vs Moehler. Harden has some of the best stuff in baseball, while Moehler might have the worst. Isn't it time for Harden or Soriano to go on the DL?Yeah, and the Cubs lost.

QUOTE (witesoxfan @ May 17, 2009 -> 05:43 AM) HOW MANY K'STWO. Well, two based on 18 ABs. Not sure if he struck out any last game, and I don't feel like opening the gamethread and looking.

QUOTE (santo=dorf @ May 14, 2009 -> 05:06 PM) Jim Thome currently has .352 OBP and .477 SLG for a .830 OPS and you want him ran out of town. So how is it Holliday's lesser numbers aren't "bad." Ultra :rollyThome strikes out a lot? I dunno.

I'm hoping for either a game I can actually watch that isn't a borefest or an exercise in frustration, or an absolutely horrible abomination of a game that leads to more funny threads on Soxtalk.

QUOTE (kjshoe04 @ May 7, 2009 -> 10:24 AM) Yeah, Jordan never got phantom calls.Yes, he did. Did you watch the video, though? He was consistently double and triple-teamed, and pretty much manhandled.

QUOTE (CanOfCorn @ May 6, 2009 -> 07:23 AM) your unicorn is waiting to take you back to Fantasyland.Yay!

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ May 5, 2009 -> 02:39 PM) The kid has an arm, but much like Poreda, he needs his innings to develop his secondary pitches. It was stupid to bring him up to be a middle reliever. All it is doing is stunting his growth.Don't the Cubs view him as a closer? I'm guessing they're fine with him developing at the major league level. Or they just have a bad bullpen.

I'm in. 3B, 2B, LF, RF are probably the best places for me to play. Possibly RP, if needed.

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QUOTE (Tmar @ May 5, 2009 -> 11:16 AM) Yeah well I can write letters backwards. Watch this: d bOh. My. God.

QUOTE (bmags @ May 3, 2009 -> 01:26 PM) I feel like I heard they were breaking up more than a year ago.Maybe? I don't remember hearing that, but I wouldn't be surprised.

QUOTE (shipps @ May 2, 2009 -> 05:17 PM) Oh s*** I didnt know they were breaking up. I seen them when they opened up for Minus the Bear and they were awesome. Where are they playing at?Yeah, one of their band members died right around the time they finished recording their first album, in 2004. They released another in 2006, and have been silent since, so I'm not surprised. The show is at the Empty Bottle on Friday, May 15 (whoops, wrong about the next week part) at the Empty Bottle. Tickets only $8.

Saw Flight of the Conchords Thursday night. Pretty good show... once you've heard the songs a million times and they cease to be funny, they remain really catchy. Eugene Mirman was also there. Favorite comedian by far. Going to see Chin Up Chin Up (local indie/art rock band) play their last show next week. Had to see them live before they broke up.

The video of her playing is mesmerizing.

QUOTE (Kalapse @ May 1, 2009 -> 02:47 PM) He's even 3 for 7 in his big league career vs left handed pitching. 2/3 vs Brian Tallet (who shut us down) 0/0 vs Craig Breslow (HBP) 0/1 vs Ron Mahay 0/1 vs Dan Meyer (K) 0/1 vs Bill Murphy 1/1 vs Josh Newman (RBI - first career hit last SEPT) 0/0 vs Jaimie Walker (RBI SF) How do you develop as a young left handed hitter against left handed pitching if you get no ABs against big league lefty pitchers? You don't. If we were facing C.C. or Johan or something, I could see giving Getz a rest. But not ALL left-handers. Even if Getz doesn't hit lefties well, he can't possibly be worse than Lillibridge.