MrRain422

How do you know? And what does it mean to finish the job there? Who cares if they declare victory? Declarations are meaningless. I'm more concerned with people dying. Terrorism will grow and prosper so long as we keep invading countries that don't want us there under false pretenses.

Because there are no terrorists now.

Also, a lot of the GOP base is weary of Huckabee's occasional populist sounding rhetoric. The party is looking pretty fractured at this point.

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Someone who knows that it will be useful later.

The Michigan blogs are all saying that he's now leaning towards Penn State. His dad doesn't like RichRod and he wants to be close to home. At least we got Justin Feagin. He's not nearly as good as Pryor, but he'll be adaquate and way better than Threet or whoever was going to be starting next year.

Considering what the polls looked like a couple of weeks ago, it seems clear to me that things are swinging towards Obama.

I don't want that man anywhere near my anus.

In principle I don't have a problem with political parties (which are, after all, private organizations) having their own rules to determine who their candidates are. However, the fact that it's impossible to be elected to anything other than local offices if you aren't the candidate of one of the two major parties make their nomination process more of a public concern.

John Peter was better in 2004 than in 2003, and even then just good and nothing special.

Yeah. It's probably because of that Juan Pierre tattoo you have.

Just read this awesome article about OBP.

I guess I agree that bunting is more exciting than seeing a lot of walks, but the guys who take a lot of walks often also hit a lot of homeruns, which are way more exciting than bunts.

Supposedly 500,000 people voted early in California, though. So even if the state swings heavily toward Obama on Tuesday, it may be a situation like in Florida where a ton of people voted back when Hillary was favored, and so even though more people may favor Obama now, the votes have already been casts and he's stuck in second place.

I could talk about Johan forever, but it would be nice to have something else to talk about too. Unfortunately, there really isn't anything else to talk about. Spring training starts soon though, thank god.

It also occurs to me that the Yankees may have thought that, with the deal with the Red Sox dead, the Twins were going to end up not trading Santana after all, and that they may be able to just sign him as a free agent after the '08 season. He's not really a threat to them pitching in Minnesota, and though they'd miss out on having him for one season by not pulling off the trade, they could easily outbid everyone else in the free agency market and not have to give up any prospects.

I'm not saying that the Yankees were smart to turn down the deal. I agree with you that it would have been a good trade for them. I just meant that, if their only concern was keeping Santana away from the Red Sox, they could tell from that offer that the Red Sox were no longer in the running.

They knew that the Red Sox deal was dead because the Twins were coming to them with an offer that would require them to give up less than what they'd discussed before, or what was rumored in the Red Sox deal. Why would the Twins be coming to them with that offer if they still had a better offer on the table from Boston?

Unless it's true that they were only in talks for Santana in the first place to raise the price and keep him away from the Red Sox. If they knew that the deal with the Red Sox was dead, then they don't really have a reason to accept the offer.

A trade can be good for the Mets without being bad for the Twins. Some trades are good for both teams (see the Miguel Cabrera trade to Detroit earlier this offseason). Also, as was addressed by...um...someone earlier, there is a little bit of added value by trading to the National League instead of to Boston or New York, because the Twins won't have to face Santana as much (if at all) during the regular season, and are less likely to have to face him in the post-season.

I guess they could have kept him for another third place season, let his contract expire, and gotten nothing for him. They definately overplayed their hand and ended up with a little bit less than they were hoping for, but its not a terrible deal considering their chances of re-signing him were zero.

I'm changing my prediction: Pats 5 Giants 4

Nah, I just pulled that number right out of my butt. But sure, 4 FGs. Or a touchdown, a missed extra point and 2 FGs. Or six safeties.

I predict 28-12 Pats.

Bedard actually isn't a free agent until after the '09 season, not '08, so that complicates value a bit here, but I'm inclined to agree with you still. It's not as though the Orioles are going to contend in '09 even if Bedard is still around.