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Are you [expletive] kidding? Why is this bozo still on the roster?

Hockey's cap is based on average annual salary over the life on the contract, so there's no need to necessarily front or back load any deals. Some teams successfully tricked the system by signing guys to 12+ year deals with the final 4 years paying the player $1 million or some small sum, so that the average salary was lower, but the NHL put a stop to that.

Very unlikely this game resumes. Roan got his info from the White Sox head groundskeeper. So unless you have access to a radar that someone who does this for a living can't get, the game will resume.

Relax, Skilling and Roan both said they expect more baseball tonight, probably starting up around 10pm

One positive: If we get a long delay and it resumes, Buehrle won't be in to pitch to Ramirez. An additional positive is that Ramirez has reverse splits this year (.790 OPS vs. RHP, .547 OPS vs. LHP) and its likely a righty will come in to relieve Buehrle.

The only way who is batting matters is if the road team takes the lead in the top of the inning and the home team hasn't had a chance to bat yet. Since the Sox took the lead a long time ago, the game would be called in favor of the Sox if it is in fact called.

If they call the game with the tying run at 3rd and 1 out that will suck.

The point is the topic of Hit 'Em Up isn't about domestic violence. There may be a point where you might be able to consider a sliver of it referring to domestic violence but songs like "Run for your life" are primarily focused on violent behavior towards women. If you want to submit Hit Em Up as an example of derranged violent behavior towards another person, it shoots right up to the top of the list.

What? No. Finish by year: 1999: 6th 2000: 6th 2001: 3rd 2002: 5th 2003: 1st 2004: 3rd 2005: 4th 2006: 6th 2007: 1st 2008: 1st 2009: 2nd 2010: 5th 2011: 5th (currently) Now that's a run of dominance. Finishing 1st or 2nd 4 times while finishing 5th or 6th 6 times. He was talking about the White Sox. Well I'm an idiot then.

What? No. Finish by year: 1999: 6th 2000: 6th 2001: 3rd 2002: 5th 2003: 1st 2004: 3rd 2005: 4th 2006: 6th 2007: 1st 2008: 1st 2009: 2nd 2010: 5th 2011: 5th (currently) Now that's a run of dominance. Finishing 1st or 2nd 4 times while finishing 5th or 6th 6 times.

Yeah they are creepy. Lennon later said it was the song he most regretted writing and was his least favorite Beatles song. Supposedly there were 2 other songs written in the same vein, Set Free and The Good Doctor, that were never released. I read somewhere they are on the German import of Live at the BBC. Who knows if its true, but if it was it was likely just some weird jealous phase Lennon was in.

So according to that, they have 13.7M to spend on 8 players (including RFAs) correct? Much better than last year when we had like 4 million to spend on 12 guys or something. ~45 million on 9 players, and ~19 million on the other 13 players

Wow I got Laura out of hiding! Thanks for the props.

Honestly didn't hear that (ironically i get a lot of my Bulls/Bears/Hawks news from NSBB threads), but that's [expletive] awesome. There are several people here who are avidly following the Hawks. I'm pretty sure not bumping a thread on a baseball message board to report news indirectly about a hockey team during the slowest part of the offseason is not a basis to call people bandwagon jumpers.

Wow, the cap went up to $64 mil today. That's better than I expected. This plus getting the incentive bonuses back is going to give us room to operate this offseason. Anyone want to do a full breakdown of the Hawks cap situation like last offseason?

Written by a White Sox beat writer but still, this is rather harsh. http://www.suntimes.com/sports/6054532-417/crosstown-classic-is-the-only-series-cubs-fans-have-to-look-forward-to.html Please, tell us how you really feel

I'm starting to like Pena. .250/.385/.529/.914 since May 3rd before tonight.

[expletive] RIGHT! Why doesn't he do that all the time!

OK I had to do it since I was bored waiting for my dinner to get here:

I I ain't sayin' it's right......but I understand. I can't think of many bands whose sound changed as dramatically throughout their run as the Beatles. They went from teenybopper pop to psychedelic rock to bluesy rock (Lennon) and in between found time to record mainstream pop, vaudeville, country western, hard rock/primitive metal (supposedly Helter Skelter), children's music, soul, folk and whatever the hell Revolution No. 9 is. Maybe there's a standard stereotypical Beatles sound which I would guess would be taken from the Rubber Soul era, but to suggest all their songs sound the same is either idiotic or ignorant.

I'm a terrible fan and Bartman is overplayed. He might be overplayed, but that's quite different from insisting that it wasn't a critically important moment in an historic game. Calling it a critically important moment in an historic game is overplaying it. IMO. And it ignores that Bartman did what any other fan would have done in the same circumstances -- and every other fan in his vicinity was trying to do. Also the point that, the end result of that play was a 3-2 count. He didn't even lose the batter because of Bartman. In fact, he gained a strike on the play, which very slightly altered the Cubs odds of winning the game. Even if you look at it with the end result of the AB, which was a walk, it is still 3-0 with 2 runners on and one out. Prior still got a double play grounder to end the inning. If you want to argue that Bartman slightly messed with the Cubs composure which tightened everyone up and began a chain of events that led to a collapse as I did above, then you have an argument. Add to the fact that there was a play that inning that had infinite more effect on the game than Bartman's gaffe (Gonzo's error), it seems strange to focus any of our attention on Bartman.

I'm a terrible fan and Bartman is overplayed. He might be overplayed, but that's quite different from insisting that it wasn't a critically important moment in an historic game. Calling it a critically important moment in an historic game is overplaying it. IMO. By itself it can't be a critically important moment. Maybe in hindsight with everything that happened after it.

I'm all over the place on this. On one hand I do think the play had an effect on the collapse, but not because Bartman necessarily interfered. We have no way of knowing for sure how much this changed things, but Prior stepped off the mound and started shouting and pointing at the fan, an odd reaction considering Prior usually had a fairly calm demeanor on the mound. So now a play that doesn't have much of an effect on the game (worst case is a foul ball and strike 2 with 1 on 1 out and a 3 run lead) is blown up by Prior's (and Alou's) over the top reaction. Who knows if that causes anyone to lose composure. If the next pitch is a strikeout, everyone eases up and the play is quickly forgotten. But the result of the AB was a walk. The next batter singled. Now you start to feel the pressure a little and start looking back to what could have been out number 2. A ground ball goes to Gonzalez. He knows he has to get 2 here and takes his eyes off the ball a little. A play he's made with amazing consistency 100 times this year (many thought he could win a GG at SS). This time he boots it and everyone is safe. Bases loaded and tying run in scoring position. Derrick Lee comes up, and a gassed and suddenly aware of the stakes Prior hangs one which is ripped in the gap for a double to tie the game. The collapse is on.

Hardaway has done a lot to try and turn things around. How much of it is purely PR is unknown, but I know he's done something with the Trevor Project. And yeah, it's too bad they couldn't get more players. I'm kind of surprised Carlos Pena wasn't in it. Out of curiosity, why Carlos Pena?