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Olney's blog today stated that talks had cooled. Unless we coudl work out a deal for Peavy (and Peavy is not going anywhere) I wouldn't move him. His defense is easily the best in the AL, and his bat has been productive. Seems to me like a case of someone piecing two and two together (Padres need a 3B...Sox need pitching) and running with it. Trade would weaken us in too many ways. Things like this are why I have such a love/hate relationship with this time of year. I would NOT trade Lowell. Foulke, yes. Lowell is playing great for us; why mess up the chemistry? As much as I like Brandon Moss down at Portland, I look for him to be moved in a deal. Harris could be packaged as well, since he's been DFA'd...

Why is it a bad thing that he curses? Big deal. There's much more important things to worry about than whether or not our President says sh*t or f*** from time to time. Kind of hypocritical when the fundies and other right-wingers praise Bush & Cheney as MEN OF GREAT MORAL CHARACTER and blame all the world's ills on Clinton's penis, Marilyn manson and Howard Stern, but they excuse something like THIS happening... "Go f*** yourself!''- Dick Cheney to U.S. Sen. Patrick Leahy [D-Vt.] on the Senate floor, June 22, 2004

aww.. how cute... I don't think thats acting like a leader whatsoever. He has got to be able to show a little bit of class... expecially the 'some of these guys talk too long' thing.. common, they are the most powerful people in the world, theyre right nextto him, and he is one of them.. keep it to yourself. Yep...King George certainly has a gift for gab... "There's Adam Clymer, major-league a**hole from The New York Times." - George W. Bush, before a speech during a Naperville, Ill., campaign rally, Sept. 4, 2000 "You f***ing son of a bitch. I saw what you wrote. We?re not going to forget this." - Bush to then Wall Street Journal Washington bureau chief Al Hunt in a Dallas restaurant in front of other diners, including Hunt?s wife, Judy Woodruff, and 4-year-old son, 1986 "In interviews with a number of White House staffers who were willing to talk off the record, a picture of an administration under siege has emerged, led by [bush] who declares his decisions to be ?God?s will? and then tells aides to ?f*** over? anyone they consider to be an opponent of the administration?. [bush] who says he rules at the behest of God can also tongue-lash those he perceives as disloyal, calling them ?f***ing a**holes? in front of other staff, berating one cabinet official in front of others." - Doug Thompson and Teresa Hampton, Capitol Hill Blue, June 4, 2004 From http://home.att.net/~howingtons/gop/bushjr.htm At the Republican National Convention in 1988, George W. Bush was asked by a Hartford Courant reporter about what he and his father talked about when they weren't talking about politics. "p***y," Bush replied. Yep...a great gift of gab...

Guy has always been a hothead. Padres have to be a near lock to be at the top of the list of interested teams. Well, Theo has said trading Shea was one of his biggest mistakes...

per sportline.com rumurs page "According to the Providence Journal, the Red Sox may be willing to move Wily Mo Pena in exchange for a pitcher. The Cubs and Nationals have contacted Boston about the outfielder. " Considering this had to be Theo's worst deal ever, he damn well better geta good package for Wily Mo...

Olsen>>>Brandon Moss I think Beinfest knows Theo's cell number and vice-versa

Austing Kearns is on the block. According to cnnsi.com: "The Reds are offering outfielder Austin Kearns for pitching in hopes of repeating the Wily Mo Pena trade that put GM Wayne Krivsky on the map. Krivsky would be wise to try to resurrect the Kearns-for-Jake Westbrook deal that was discussed earlier this season, though that may be difficult because Westbrook's value has continued to rise while Kearns' has not. Krivsky might have no choice but to try to dangle Adam Dunn, perhaps as a DH to an AL team, to get what he needs." How does Scott Olsen for Austin Kearns sound ? For Brandon Moss, I'd consider it

its not like the astros really gave up anything to get huff. if anything he is an improvement over lane. Yeah thats whats sucks Tampa bay just like ripping off NL East teams what? The astro's didnt give anything up to get him and thats sucks because if it was a team from the NL east they would want a Dontrell or a Kazmir for him Keep an eye on Zobrist. He showed me something in Holland last year...

Rays may come out ahead with Zobrist. I follow the international game..last year, he played for Davey Johnson at the IBAF World Cup in Holland. In the 9 games the US played, he was second in hitting on the US squad going 10 for 20 for a .333 average. Had a solo HR and 5 RBI. Johnson wanted him again for the Olympic pre-qualifier in Phoenix last November, but the Astros said no. Don't be surprised if whoever is managing the USA at the COPABE Olympic Qualifier in late August wants Zobrist on the squad again. He's good.

as most people with a brain won't sign up to get involved in the quagmire better known as Iraq. You are such a moron. Let's see The First Twins and Jeb's kids go... Jeb Jr. should fit right in..he likes to beat up on cops...

Oh, the neo-Nazis are at it about this as well http://www.stormfront.org/forum/showthread.php?t=307931 Here's something to keep in mind. On 9/11, quite a few of there were saying that they wish they had done it and they saluted OBL. Supposedly they';ve received some covert help from OBL. They share a common hatred of Jews. How do we know that overseas we won't see acts like fragging on the rise?

Education and not condemnation. Telling kids to go out and buy condoms and get birth control. Not to encourage, but to say, "Look, you're if you're going to do it, don't be retarded. Wear a rubber, take birth control, etc., etc." But, a lot of weirdos are against this for a lot of reason(s), none of which rings true as a reason not to educate. Those same weirdos now want girls to get cervical cancer. Seems there's a vaccine that can prevent the Human Papilloma Virus that is a cause of cervical cancer but it has to be given at a young age. James Dobson and his merry band of Neanderthals are having a fit. They are convinced 12 year old girls are going to turn into sluts... http://www.thenation.com/doc/20050530/pollitt http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2005/10/6/173031/715 http://www.tnr.com/doc.mhtml?i=w060306&s=groopman031006 http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/052206HB.shtml

I wonder what the marlins top 10 would look like (not including firesales)? I'd say the day it was announced Huizenga got the franchise... Agreed. How about the day we lost Dombrowski? The man is a genius. And he's showing it in Detroit. He showed he was a genius by getting the hell away from Huizenga. Had Old Baldy left him alone, you would have had a contending team...one that might have even made Wayne...MONEY!!!!!!!!!!!! I only wish the Sox had Dombrowski instead of his successor, Duquette. The Curse would have been broken a hell of a lot sooner...

C.I.A. Closes Unit Focused on Capture of bin Laden By MARK MAZZETTI Published: July 4, 2006 WASHINGTON, July 3 ? The Central Intelligence Agency has closed a unit that for a decade had the mission of hunting Osama bin Laden and his top lieutenants, intelligence officials confirmed Monday. Skip to next paragraph Threats & Responses Go to Complete Coverage ? Readers? Opinions Forum: National Security The unit, known as Alec Station, was disbanded late last year and its analysts reassigned within the C.I.A. Counterterrorist Center, the officials said. The decision is a milestone for the agency, which formed the unit before Osama bin Laden became a household name and bolstered its ranks after the Sept. 11 attacks, when President Bush pledged to bring Mr. bin Laden to justice "dead or alive." The realignment reflects a view that Al Qaeda is no longer as hierarchical as it once was, intelligence officials said, and a growing concern about Qaeda-inspired groups that have begun carrying out attacks independent of Mr. bin Laden and his top deputy, Ayman al-Zawahiri. Agency officials said that tracking Mr. bin Laden and his deputies remained a high priority, and that the decision to disband the unit was not a sign that the effort had slackened. Instead, the officials said, it reflects a belief that the agency can better deal with high-level threats by focusing on regional trends rather than on specific organizations or individuals. "The efforts to find Osama bin Laden are as strong as ever," said Jennifer Millerwise Dyck, a C.I.A. spokeswoman. "This is an agile agency, and the decision was made to ensure greater reach and focus." The decision to close the unit was first reported Monday by National Public Radio. Michael Scheuer, a former senior C.I.A. official who was the first head of the unit, said the move reflected a view within the agency that Mr. bin Laden was no longer the threat he once was. Mr. Scheuer said that view was mistaken. "This will clearly denigrate our operations against Al Qaeda," he said. "These days at the agency, bin Laden and Al Qaeda appear to be treated merely as first among equals." In recent years, the war in Iraq has stretched the resources of the intelligence agencies and the Pentagon, generating new priorities for American officials. For instance, much of the military's counterterrorism units, like the Army's Delta Force, had been redirected from the hunt for Mr. bin Laden to the search for Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, who was killed last month in Iraq. An intelligence official who was granted anonymity to discuss classified information said the closing of the bin Laden unit reflected a greater grasp of the organization. "Our understanding of Al Qaeda has greatly evolved from where it was in the late 1990's," the official said, but added, "There are still people who wake up every day with the job of trying to find bin Laden." Established in 1996, when Mr. bin Laden's calls for global jihad were a source of increasing concern for officials in Washington, Alec Station operated in a similar fashion to that of other agency stations around the globe. The two dozen staff members who worked at the station, which was named after Mr. Scheuer's son and was housed in leased offices near agency headquarters in northern Virginia, issued regular cables to the agency about Mr. bin Laden's growing abilities and his desire to strike American targets throughout the world. In his book "Ghost Wars," which chronicles the agency's efforts to hunt Mr. bin Laden in the years before the Sept. 11 attacks, Steve Coll wrote that some inside the agency likened Alec Station to a cult that became obsessed with Al Qaeda. "The bin Laden unit's analysts were so intense about their work that they made some of their C.I.A. colleagues uncomfortable," Mr. Coll wrote. Members of Alec Station "called themselves 'the Manson Family' because they had acquired a reputation for crazed alarmism about the rising Al Qaeda threat." Intelligence officials said Alec Station was disbanded after Robert Grenier, who until February was in charge of the Counterterrorist Center, decided the agency needed to reorganize to better address constant changes in terrorist organizations. Our Commander and Our leader has shown us this Independence Day he is making progess on the War on Terror front. No longer do we need to focus on small fish like Usama Bin Laden but now we are going after the head honchos the guys who are driving this War on Terror and the War on the War on Terror. People like the NYT. You see the NYT has brainwashed nearly half of this country with their far left propoganda, convincing well meaning people to believe Usama Bin Laden had something to do with 9/11 while convincing them Iraq was innocent on all accounts. Well now King Bush has made it clear NO MORE. And I for one applaud him for his progess and our progess. God Bless America this Fourth of July. And by America I mean all those who support our President the rest of you are nothing but Bennidict Arnolds. "I don't know where bin Laden is. I have no idea and really don't care. ... It's not our priority."- G.W. Bush, 3/13/02 Source of the quote? Where was this said, and to whom? I searched Google and the only place I was able to find the quotes was on windbag liberal blogs. Well, if they haven't gotten him by now...that tells me something. Six Gun Ronnie managed to bomb Qaddafi's place, they found Saddam in a underground spot. Bin Laden is on dialysis...you mean all our spy satellites can't DETECT one of those machines? And here's another quote for you... "We have no evidence that Saddam Hussein was involved with the September 11 attacks." George W. Bush, September 18, 2003

C.I.A. Closes Unit Focused on Capture of bin Laden By MARK MAZZETTI Published: July 4, 2006 WASHINGTON, July 3 ? The Central Intelligence Agency has closed a unit that for a decade had the mission of hunting Osama bin Laden and his top lieutenants, intelligence officials confirmed Monday. Skip to next paragraph Threats & Responses Go to Complete Coverage ? Readers? Opinions Forum: National Security The unit, known as Alec Station, was disbanded late last year and its analysts reassigned within the C.I.A. Counterterrorist Center, the officials said. The decision is a milestone for the agency, which formed the unit before Osama bin Laden became a household name and bolstered its ranks after the Sept. 11 attacks, when President Bush pledged to bring Mr. bin Laden to justice "dead or alive." The realignment reflects a view that Al Qaeda is no longer as hierarchical as it once was, intelligence officials said, and a growing concern about Qaeda-inspired groups that have begun carrying out attacks independent of Mr. bin Laden and his top deputy, Ayman al-Zawahiri. Agency officials said that tracking Mr. bin Laden and his deputies remained a high priority, and that the decision to disband the unit was not a sign that the effort had slackened. Instead, the officials said, it reflects a belief that the agency can better deal with high-level threats by focusing on regional trends rather than on specific organizations or individuals. "The efforts to find Osama bin Laden are as strong as ever," said Jennifer Millerwise Dyck, a C.I.A. spokeswoman. "This is an agile agency, and the decision was made to ensure greater reach and focus." The decision to close the unit was first reported Monday by National Public Radio. Michael Scheuer, a former senior C.I.A. official who was the first head of the unit, said the move reflected a view within the agency that Mr. bin Laden was no longer the threat he once was. Mr. Scheuer said that view was mistaken. "This will clearly denigrate our operations against Al Qaeda," he said. "These days at the agency, bin Laden and Al Qaeda appear to be treated merely as first among equals." In recent years, the war in Iraq has stretched the resources of the intelligence agencies and the Pentagon, generating new priorities for American officials. For instance, much of the military's counterterrorism units, like the Army's Delta Force, had been redirected from the hunt for Mr. bin Laden to the search for Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, who was killed last month in Iraq. An intelligence official who was granted anonymity to discuss classified information said the closing of the bin Laden unit reflected a greater grasp of the organization. "Our understanding of Al Qaeda has greatly evolved from where it was in the late 1990's," the official said, but added, "There are still people who wake up every day with the job of trying to find bin Laden." Established in 1996, when Mr. bin Laden's calls for global jihad were a source of increasing concern for officials in Washington, Alec Station operated in a similar fashion to that of other agency stations around the globe. The two dozen staff members who worked at the station, which was named after Mr. Scheuer's son and was housed in leased offices near agency headquarters in northern Virginia, issued regular cables to the agency about Mr. bin Laden's growing abilities and his desire to strike American targets throughout the world. In his book "Ghost Wars," which chronicles the agency's efforts to hunt Mr. bin Laden in the years before the Sept. 11 attacks, Steve Coll wrote that some inside the agency likened Alec Station to a cult that became obsessed with Al Qaeda. "The bin Laden unit's analysts were so intense about their work that they made some of their C.I.A. colleagues uncomfortable," Mr. Coll wrote. Members of Alec Station "called themselves 'the Manson Family' because they had acquired a reputation for crazed alarmism about the rising Al Qaeda threat." Intelligence officials said Alec Station was disbanded after Robert Grenier, who until February was in charge of the Counterterrorist Center, decided the agency needed to reorganize to better address constant changes in terrorist organizations. Our Commander and Our leader has shown us this Independence Day he is making progess on the War on Terror front. No longer do we need to focus on small fish like Usama Bin Laden but now we are going after the head honchos the guys who are driving this War on Terror and the War on the War on Terror. People like the NYT. You see the NYT has brainwashed nearly half of this country with their far left propoganda, convincing well meaning people to believe Usama Bin Laden had something to do with 9/11 while convincing them Iraq was innocent on all accounts. Well now King Bush has made it clear NO MORE. And I for one applaud him for his progess and our progess. God Bless America this Fourth of July. And by America I mean all those who support our President the rest of you are nothing but Bennidict Arnolds. "I don't know where bin Laden is. I have no idea and really don't care. ... It's not our priority."- G.W. Bush, 3/13/02

It's no secret that the Pentagon will take just about anyone into the military these days, including people with criminal pasts and mental instability. It's the Pentagon's fault that their recruiting numbers are low, as most people with a brain won't sign up to get involved in the quagmire better known as Iraq. I don't think that is true. I don't think they willingly recruit mentally unstable people. http://www.oregonlive.com/news/oregonian/i...ll=7&thispage=1 They do

I wonder what the marlins top 10 would look like (not including firesales)? I'd say the day it was announced Huizenga got the franchise... Agreed. If it didn't go to Huizenga it wouldn't have gone to Miami. Typical Huizenga haters FTL. This song says it all http://sounds1.neilrogers.com/sounds/bonr1995/18.mp3 I seem to recall some other groups going for it..the name Abel Holtz seems to be in my head. And as for His Woyal Highness..he tried to buy the Heat using his brother in law as a front. Luckily the NBA was wise and blocked it... Anybody remember the pizza place on Andrews Avenue he put out of business because it was called CLOCK BUSTER PIZZA?

It's funny how the Yankees losing in the ALCS to the Red Sox is WORSE than a walkoff home run to lose the WORLD SERIES, a walkoff hit to loser the WORLD SERIES, and being SHUT OUT to lose the WORLD SERIES. Unless you are a Red Sox or Skankees fan, you can't really grasp the situation...

I wonder what the marlins top 10 would look like (not including firesales)? I'd say the day it was announced Huizenga got the franchise...

Guardado sux. I got talked into trading for him earlier in the year for JEFF KENT because I needed a closer. I got FLEECED. There is a picture of him in the encyclopedia next to the word "Useless" Wait..I thought that was my divorce lawyer from 20 years ago Actually, we could've given ya Keith Foulke... just give us back BRONSON :crying

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2006/writ...mike/index.html http://www.miamidolphins.com/pressbox/pres...D=4539&lid=4539 The man should never be forgiven for 1997. I wish he would sell the Dolphins so I could root for them again. As long as Wayne owns them they will be cursed like the Bambino for treating South Florida like a piece of trash. Imagine if the Dolphins won a Super Bowl with Dan Marino, Zach Thomas, and the Marx brothers then turned around by Pro Bowl Sunday and traded them for Trent Dilfer, Jeff Lageman, David Boston, and a Gatorade Water Cooler. Then then he would tell us all he could not afford them because he was charging his own team too much rent. Hope he gets taken out with the "garbage" that made him rich. :thumbdown Even before '97 he was showing people what a jerk he was...he manages to get Jeff DeForrest canned from WIOD, tries to control WIOD programming..he had a problem with Hank calling the then-PPS "The Stadium Formerly Known As Joe Robbie"..I think he browbeat management into suspending Hank. No sectret he had this lackey Dean Jordan calling IOD when Neil was there and demanding that Neil shut up about Huizenga or WIOD would lose the Dolphins...which they did to QAM...and then when Neil went to QAM, Wayne had a shitfit over that. As for '97...who can forget that on the first day of the '98 season, some fan in the upper level seats (Fish Tank I think?) had a sign that said "Wayne $uck$" (yes...there were dollar signs on it). Old Baldy (a Neil Rogers term) went up to the fan with security..told the fan he ought to be grateful he (Wayne) gave him a championship and then had security throw him out. And look at the lie he told the hockey fans http://sounds1.neilrogers.com/sounds/dat001/107.mp3 And when he sold the naming rights..who was the owner of National Car Rental? Himself. To salute Crater Face, I present...The Guitar Man from The Neil Rogers Show http://sounds1.neilrogers.com/sounds/bonr1994/06.mp3 http://sounds1.neilrogers.com/sounds/bonr1995/18.mp3 http://sounds1.neilrogers.com/sounds/dat001/114.mp3 I'm not a Dolphins fan, obviously...the fact I'm a Red Sox fan should give you a hint as to who I follow in football (as well as my tattoo on my right arm and the fact that three of our cats are named Grogan, Bledsoe and Brady). Yeah the Pats had some bad owners in the past...but I thank my lucky stars we got the Krafts...who you could say are the new Robbie Family...they CARE about the fans and the team. If the Robbies didn't sell out to Sieg Huizenga (who as a Dutchman, I'm insulted that he and I share the same heritage), they sure as hell wouldn't be this messed up...

I don't want to turn this into another Lowell sucks thread. I intend on clapping for the guy when he steps into the batter's box the first time, in appreciation of his many productive years here and the joy he brought me as a key part of a WS champion team. If you want to stand and jeer him all game like the jacka** in Tampa Bay does to a player on the opposing team...go ahead. It's a free world. I hope and think the majority on hand tonite will be clapping. You can blame this a**hole over here in Tampa..Steve Duemig of WDAE. He encourages hostility towards visiting teams...also rants on the air that when you move here you HAVE to cut your ties and become a Rays/ Lightning/Bucs fan or move back. When John Lynch came back with the Broncos to play the Bucs, Duemig said Buc fans (I'm a Patriots fan) should not applaud him..he's a VISITOR and whatever he did in the past...was in the past. He also says that visiting fans..if they get attacked..they deserve it for wearing visiting apparel. So when you hear Rays fans (those that actually exist) doing that..they are Duemig fans.

Johnson, enjoy the souvenir uniform, cap, and socks as you exit the field tonight. Hope he enjoys McCoy..if he's lucky... Tito..please....GET THE BULLPEN GOING NOW!

Welcome back. There is your ovation. Now strike out. Get a life. Yeah, I shouldn't root for my team. And I shouldn't root for mine?

So are you Red Sox fans enjoying the game so far? Ain't over until the fat lady sings...and my ex (who was Reubenesque) is up there so I can't hear her... We ain't dead yet, pal...