SDL_RedSoxFan

If he is that good, tell him to wait on his pro career and come play at Florida State for three years. Our staff needs all the help it can get. :thumbup I agree...tho not necessarily with the school (I'm a Gator Hater, BTW...went there for a sem but that's another story) He may get drafted, but it'll be a low round. HSers from New England (with maybe the exception of a Rocco Baldelli) play a shorter sked and aren't highly regarded. His best bet is to play college ball. If he is that good, Division I schools will be calling. If he plays at a FSU/UM type of school, he'll end up playing the equivalent of High A or AA minor league ball and will get picked higher than if he gets picked out of high school...thus muy mucho dinero. Plus. he'd get an education at the same time...

That was a Riske trade . Rimshot! Seriously...he's been hurt most of the season, so maybe Riske will benefit from a change of scenery. My Sox got him to back up Foulke, but when Riske went down, that opened the door for Papelbon. I got a feeling Theo's just getting started...

I think they believe psychiatry to be a scam, or something. Cruise has looked like an idiot attacking psychology in TV interviews. Mostly he attacked his former wife. The man is an idiot. Wonder if the Jenny Craig diet is Scientology-based? Kirstie Alley is their spokesperson...

I can't stand Ann Coulter's voice. She speaks. With Pauses. And It's. Very. Disjoint. Ed. Carlin was hilarious, Coulter was fairly charming. Ann Coulter would sound better if she had duct tape over her mouth. Note the singer that was on afterwards? The sticker on her guitar? "This Machine Smashes Fascists." I bet that was directed to Coulter

Soon he'll get 3000 k's and he already has 200 wins and probably wont make it to 300, because he's thinking about retirement. Is he a HOF with those numbers? You bet your ass he is... They can start making the HOF plaque now

I think you will like what you see here... http://www.soxprospects.com/players/sanchez-anibal.htm Scouting Report: Sanchez was raised around a lot of pro players while growing up in Venezuela. Throws a two-seam and a four-seam fastball that tops out in the mid-90s with excellent control. Also throws an excellent deceptive changeup and a consistently improving curve. Good confidence and poise on the mound. Previously experienced nerve problems in his throwing arm, which he has seemingly now fully recovered from. Learned English quickly. Front-of-the rotation potential. Losing him hurt just as much as losing Hanley

My wife is a Irish shikse from Long Island (we're a reversal...I'm the Jewish kid from Boston; she's the Irish girl from LI) but she looks more Jewish than me...she grew up with Jews. When my mother first met her, she didn't believe she wasn't Jewish She knows a few words...comes in handy when cussing at a redneck who can't drive...

you'll start to hear someone attempt to explain it, and it starts out not so bad... "ok... self-improvement, sounds good.... clear the mind of all the negative energies, right gotcha... okay I see... individual is not a body but a spirit, sounds good, sure... umm, psychiatry is evil.... yeah.. well, okay I guess but.... okay so there's secret levels of knowledge that only some Scientologists get to attain? hmm, sounds wierd. how come the- eh? what's that? Galactic Confederacy? what the F...? beg pardon? who the hell is Xenu? Alien implants?? now just a damn minute here...." and so on & so forth. A lot of it is pretty secretive, there seems to be almost no real critical studies of the religion so it's pretty tough to even have a discussion about it. The do come after you like a cult. When I was a kid, they'd be near Fenway Park TRYING to literally grab you to watch their "flims" Now THIS says it all about their most famous member http://www.tomcruiseisnuts.com

Bush loves to go back to talking about 9/11, primarily because that post-9/11 period was the best part of his presidency, popularity-wise. Don't forget...when in doubt..BLAME 9/11!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The government has milked 9/11 much more than those widows. Careful...Annie'll call YOU a terrorist now

I just read she will be on Jay Leno tomorrow night. Can't wait to hear what percentage of the audience boos her...

Ann-Thrax Coulter is like a bad car wreck...you know you'll be repulsed by it, but still you look anyway. My friends in Holland have seen her on TV there. They want to know what asylum she escaped from. Yep, ol Annie is infamous worldwide now...

There's so many facacta words You mean verkockte words....

Ohhh...ANNE Hathaway... I thought you were talking about JANE Hathaway...

For those who haven't seen Leonard Pitts of the Herald rip her a new one...here ya go... http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/livin...ts/14796761.htm Conservatives should cringe over Coulter BY LEONARD PITTS JR. lpitts@MiamiHerald.com Apparently, it's news that Ann Coulter is a nasty piece of work. I had rather thought that was the attraction, at least for those people who find her attractive. So forgive me for being mildly mystified by last week's headlines about her most recent spasm of trash mouth, i.e., her attack on four women who lost their husbands in the Sept. 11 attacks. But then, the attack is vicious even by Coulter's standards: In her latest book, whose title you won't read here, she savages the widows as ''self-obsessed'' and ``witches.'' ''These broads are millionaires,'' she writes, 'lionized on TV and in articles about them, reveling in their status as celebrities and stalked by grief-arazzis. I've never seen people enjoying their husbands' deaths so much.'' Evidently, the widow's sins are that they pushed for an independent commission to investigate 9/11 intelligence failures, they are critical of the Bush administration, and they endorsed John Kerry for president. The nerve of them. Coulter's tirade has drawn bipartisan condemnation -- New York Democratic Senator Hillary Clinton called it ''vicious,'' while the state's Republican governor, George Pataki, declared Coulter ''far worse than insensitive'' -- but c'mon. This is all part of the shtick for this chick. I mean, we're talking about the woman who said Timothy McVeigh's only mistake was in not blowing up The New York Times building and that we should invade Muslim countries, kill their leaders and convert the people to Christianity. EASY TO DO Frankly, it's easy to do what Coulter does. Just say the most outrageous thing in the most inflammatory way. Just give moral and mental cover to that small-minded, anti-intellectual strain of the electorate which recoils like Superman in the face of Kryptonite from complexity and incertitude. And when people call you on it, just wrap yourself in the flag and declare yourself a straight-shootin' conservative under siege by that mean ol' liberal media. It plays like gangbusters in Peoria. And never mind that it's a brazen lie. Meaning that Ann Coulter is not reviled because she is conservative. Some of the best and most respected pundits in the country are conservative: George F. Will, Kathleen Parker and Charles Krauthammer, to name just three. They offer smart, snarky, cogent analyses of world and national events and if you disagree with them, as I not infrequently do, you will be required to do some mental heavy lifting to dismantle their arguments. They challenge you. SHE IS MEAN No, Coulter is reviled because she is mean, malicious, the barbed-wire frontwoman for a cabal of bloviators, bully boys, and blowhards (Rush Limbaugh, Bill O'Reilly, Michael Savage and too many others) who are pleased to regard themselves as the guardians of conservatism's soul. Conservatism's soul should sue for slander. But again, it plays in Peoria. And why not? It is loud, simple, stupid. Not unlike The Jerry Springer Show. The nation's political discourse has never been as polite and decorous as we like to think. Abraham Lincoln's political foes called him a baboon; Lyndon Johnson once said that Gerald Ford played too much football without a helmet. LINES CROSSED When, however, even widows (and orphans?) become fair game for a viperous harridan with an ax to grind and books to sell, maybe decent people should wonder at the lines we have crossed and the type of nation we have become in the process. Coulter's victims, by the way, felt compelled to release a statement. It said in part: ``Contrary to Ms. Coulter's statements, there was no joy in watching men that we loved burn alive. There was no happiness in telling our children that their fathers were never coming home again.'' In a better nation, that would go without saying.

Back home in Boston (OK, a 'burb called Newton), we had neighbors who were wacko Catholics...weren't too happy that JEWS were living next door (confirmed by friends of mine who were Catholic and had to go to the CCD classes they taught...they told me in school; they didn't dare tell me while the wackos were around). To piss them off, my mother would talk to our dog in Yiddish...drove them nuts :evil Of course, the punch line now is that my wife's maiden name begins with O'C Getting back to the subject line.. Bush (W or The Jebmeister) Huizenga Steinbrenner (in his case, momzer can definitely apply) Jack Thompson Any FCC Commissioner Limbaugh Michael Savage (Jews like him could make me become atheist..wait, I essentially am!) My list of schmucks is endless...

Yankee fans? Civil? Surely you jest! As a whole, yes they are. Of course there are some obnoxious and rude ones but every team has those. they only truly hate red sox fans. and i think a lot of it is just red sox fans bringing it upon themselves in all situations. They make me laugh many times, especially with the way they are totally ungrateful to former players, feeling as if the players 'owe' something to the Red Sox and the organization owes them nothing in return. Funny stuff! Ahem! I beg to differ! It's only when former players spit in our faces when they leave. We didn't boo Clemens when he returned as a Blue Jay. It was only when he went to the Yankees and began badmouthing the city. Boggs earned our dislike when he said in Spring Training '93 that he was a rookie with the Yankees and he never played for the Sox. Damon said last year that he'd never go to the Yankees and then he pills his little stunt. When Mo Vaughn went to the Angels we didn't boo him; we knew that he was screwed over by Dan Duquette. Think we'ree booing Mike Myers this seasopn? Likewise last year with Embree and Bellhorn after the Sox cut them and they went to the Yankees? No. We only boo those who act like jerks. What the hell are you talking about? The Sox fans booed Myers, Embree and Bellhorn. And Roger Clemens was forced out of Boston as well by Dan Duquette. They had been trying to force him out and Roger told them to go stick it. He later trashed management, which was more than well deserved. While I hate Clemens you cannot for even an instant blame him for leaving Boston, as Duquette was trying to get the man to retire. Don't even try to use that bulls*** excuse. Also -- I assure anyone who goes to Yankee Stadium that you will be treated quite well as long as you don't act like an a**hole (I.E. Standing up and chanting "YAN-KEES SU-UCK" like a loud mouth drunk or the like). I've gone to probably over 100 Yankee games and I've only witnessed 1 instance where 2 fans got into it. We yell "Yankees Suck"...but we do not yell "NY SUCKS"....whereas Yankee fans yell "BOSTON SUCKS"...we don't denigrate the town. Only Sox player I ever booed? Former original Marlin Carl "Clubhouse Cancer" Everett...

Yankee fans? Civil? Surely you jest! As a whole, yes they are. Of course there are some obnoxious and rude ones but every team has those. they only truly hate red sox fans. and i think a lot of it is just red sox fans bringing it upon themselves in all situations. They make me laugh many times, especially with the way they are totally ungrateful to former players, feeling as if the players 'owe' something to the Red Sox and the organization owes them nothing in return. Funny stuff! Ahem! I beg to differ! It's only when former players spit in our faces when they leave. We didn't boo Clemens when he returned as a Blue Jay. It was only when he went to the Yankees and began badmouthing the city. Boggs earned our dislike when he said in Spring Training '93 that he was a rookie with the Yankees and he never played for the Sox. Damon said last year that he'd never go to the Yankees and then he pills his little stunt. When Mo Vaughn went to the Angels we didn't boo him; we knew that he was screwed over by Dan Duquette. Think we'ree booing Mike Myers this seasopn? Likewise last year with Embree and Bellhorn after the Sox cut them and they went to the Yankees? No. We only boo those who act like jerks.

I actually had the privelage of hearing the XM admission and the article is making it out as if he made the admission on Patrick's show on XM. In all actuality he was on XM's Opie and Anthony In the Morning show on XM 202 (High Voltage) Show. If you arent familiar with their style of radio, they are Howard Stern's biggest fear. While I think he was serious that it happened, I never heard him talk about HGH. But the story about Mattingly hurting his back is exactly how Leyritz said it. Leyritz is and always will be one of my favorite players on a team that I absolutly friggin hate. If Leyritz hangs with those two Stern wannabes, I have lost respect for him

Just go read Ball Four. This has been going on for over 40 years...

Next will be free speech..remember....Free Speech makes you a Comunista! Comunista! Jose "El Loco" Carrollo says so...

Lou Pinella participated in a pregame Yankee stadium onfield event as Devil Rays manager last year or the year before. I forget what the event was exactly but he was out there with his 'fellow' Yankees. I think Joe would do it if asked and I doubt anyone associated with the Marlins would be offended or care if he did. I believe that when Billy Martin was the manager of the Twins,Tigers and Rangers, he took part and PLAYED in Old Timers Days. I hate the Yankees with a passion, but I give then credit..they have let Jim Bouton back in for OTDs... I'll be there as well - I always make the trip to NYC when the Marlins play in the Bronx. I'm going to the Friday night game - I assume Old Timers Day will be on Saturday so I will miss that - but it's ALWAYS a pleasure to go to Yankee Stadium - 2 weeks from today.............. So, how exactly do they act to fans of the other team? I'm going to the Sunday game and hoping that Yankees fans don't give me too much sh*t for wearing my Marlins stuff and cheering for them. Just wondering because I've never been there before. You'll be fine. The Yankee fans as a whole are civil in my experiences. Yankee fans? Civil? Surely you jest!

Let's see.... gay marriage - check flag burning - check any other important business we can get to? Liberals want to ban guns and sodomize all Christians. and legalize marriage to animals. Well, my ex WAS a bitch

This douche augmented that little comment by saying that the husbands were planning to divorce them before 9/11 hit. She's also avocated that Timothy McVeigh blew up the wrong building in the wrong state...said he should have blown up the NY Times building instead... I saw the TV interview, and no such comments about the divorces or McVeigh were made. Also, I read the except from of her book regarding the widows online in a story covering these comments (I have no desire to buy any of her books), and no such comments about the divorces are made there. The McVeigh comment does sound like something she would say/write, though. She has made the comments about McVeihgh in the past...I should have clarified that. "My only regret with [Oklahoma City bomber] Timothy McVeigh is he did not go to the New York Times Building." [New York Observer, 8/26/02] and in regards to the divorces... http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/ne...t_id=1002648990 Elsewhere in the book, Coulter refers to the widows as "witches" and asks, "how do we know their husbands weren't planning to divorce these harpies"?

Kerry got shot. The bullet could have been higher and killed him. He was on the swift boats for a year. Those werent used for sissy like missions. How are those getting safe assignments? It baffled me how someone can get shot in a war and still have his service undermined. I guess it's ok to call soliders liars when they are defending a liberal. But put a solider in a clip against Bush and youve committed high treason. He tried to get a safe assignment, was denied and went into the swift boats (since he couldn't be safe, he wanted to pattern his service after Kennedy). I never said the swift boats was a safe assignment (also his tour on the swift boats was about 6 months I believe). 2 of Kerry's 3 purple hearts are in debateable circumstances, one of which was an injury he sustained from shrapnel from his own weapon when he discharged it while not in a firefight. He lobbied for the 2 debateable ones. There are a lot of conflicting statements regarding Kerry's service, including several times he's contradicted himself. I just don't see the point of glorifying Kerry's service when he did everything he could to not serve and lobbied for the ability to get out early. He served, and that is admirable, but his service wasn't really anything to write home about according to most accounts. I also think deriding Bush for not being part of Vietnam when he was enlisted in a branch that didn't play a roll is asinine. That's my only point. The only soldier I'll call a liar is Kerry, and there's documented evidence of that. Moore did wrong by portraying a soldier to have beliefs other than what he actually had. It's not insulting to Bush, it's insulting to the soldier and to the US citizens. But Moore admits such things about the film, so its not like it's a big deal. Really..kind of like the COs who couldn't reemember seeing Bush anywhere on their bases? And where was Cheney? He was getting deferments because he was too busy (he was probably telling people to go F themselves). Getting back to the the thread subject... in August 2003, the head of one of the biggest manufacturers of voting machines, Walden O?Dell, CEO of Diebold INC, wrote a fundraising letter saying he is ?committed to helping Ohio deliver its electoral votes to the president next year.? Funny how all the exit polls in Ohio had Kerry ahead. Also, how did Bush get 16,000 votes in a precinct with 4000 voters? Amd once again, blacks were "accidentally" disenfranchised. Funny, but I heard a lot of Cuban-American felons had their rights restored...