Youk Of The Nation

I do not! Take that back or I'll drive all the way out to Minnesota and punch you!

Hey, Alex, you ever been to Butler, PA?

Exactly. Trust me, weve considered banning every one of you at one time or another. Especially you. Not a day goes by where I dont beg to ban a700hitter. But its always 'fairness' this and 'you cant actually deliver an electrical shock through his computer' that. Buzzkills, I tell you.

The reason this site 'needs more active moderation' is because of stuff like this. Random people signing on and posting disgusting pictures happens to most websties like this one. Normally theyre gone within minutes, unless its at a certain time of night. But the constant bickering, the responding to posts with insults and profanity EVERY SINGLE TIME someone says something you don't like, is the reason this place is the way it is. New people come here and see the way you all act and assume it's okay to do that too. I went back through a couple random threads in the TalkSox forum. I can't even keep track of how many times I saw the words "idiot" and "stupid", not to mention entire phrases devoted to explaining your position on a trade or acquisition that instead of being factual, are filled with curses and shots at the people who disagree with you. We've tried plenty of times to stop this, but every time we do it ends up being ignored. People will send us messages complaining about how someone is harrassing them and how we haven't banned them, and then do the exact same thing themselves to someone else. And when it does become too much for us to allow, and we ban someone for being antagonistic and obnoxious, half of you complain about how awesome that person was, even though they did exactly the same things you were complaining about, only not to you, to other people. In other words, we do the best we can considering every single decision we make is harped on endlessly by half of the people here. It may seem like we're not around, but often we are, we're just looking and not posting. Stuff will be taken care of. And when the regular season starts, it'll all be back to normal, and you can tell people they don't know what the f*** theyre talking about because theyre stupid and then send me a PM explaining that someone should be banned for telling you you dont know what the f*** youre talking about, and feel smug about it, and life can go on. In conclusion, we do what we do for good reasons.

It always gets like this in the offseason. Less baseball discussion, so less posting. I tend not to get very interested in the minutiae of contract negotiations and arbitration and whatnot, mainly because I barely understand most of it. I'm more of a "just the actual baseball" kind of guy. Not very complicated, I know, but that's how it is. Once the season starts, YZ, CD, and I will certainly be around a lot more. Everybody chill out, max, and relax all cool.

I think between Duckworth, Cook, Silva, and Wakefield, they really have a difficult choice as to who to pitch in the first game of the season.

And I bet even he doesn't think Posada is going to the hall.

Damn, they couldn't have grabbed Tulo in the process, huh? Siiiiigh

Welcome to TalkSox, I see you took the name of our site both literally and immideately.

A free agent man a free agent man getting walking papers and takin' away your team

Isn't Oswalt already under contract with Philly?

Or "CC Sabathia Fires, Eats Agent" "Cliff Lee Makes Jerking Off Motion to Roy Halladay Every Time Manuel's Back is Turned" "Pittsburgh Pirates Accidentally Win Game" "AJ Pierzsynski Committs Suicide With Thirty-Seven Bat Strikes to Head and Back, Police Baffled" Any of these would be more believeable than Cherington signing a guy who is already signed.

You are just the worst kind of person.

I see YesZir already beat me to the YH reference. Nice.

Clay Buchholz was not born. Clay Buchholz was forged. Forged in the liquid rock of the world's largest active volcano, by a team of the most decorated geological scientists, baseball scouts, and military commanders (and in the case of at least one man, all three). The process took fourteen days and cost the lives of dozens of technicians and laborers. Unfortunately, a minor flaw was introduced during his creation when the twisted, blackened skeletal remains of a minor technical assistant were molded accidentally into the diamond-tungsten spinal column, thus rendering this present-day terminator susceptible to back injuries. This flaw can never be corrected fully, as John Henry, Larry Lucchino, and Theo Epstien had each individual with knowledge of the project terminated quietly during the following winter. However, there are unconfirmed rumors that Ben Cherington is attempting a similar procedure using the resources and cunning available to him. The reports are that so far his team of Belgian nuclear science technicians, Ethiopian computer programmers, and part-time Grand Forks, North Dakota city councilmen are close to completing a new starting pitcher composed almost entirely of salvaged Soviet Union aircraft parts, soda cans, and public-high school-grade paper towels (including cardboard tubes).

This won't last. Once Reyes finds out Jeffrey Loria pays all of his players in Chuck E. Cheese prize tickets and Ruby Tuesday coupons, he'll back out.

I've been hearing this everywhere. This rumor has legs.

We all missed you a lot, complete stranger.

Yeah it's like a discussion of 'best US Presidents'. After several gentlemen in overstuffed armchairs sipping cognac finish a lengthy debate about guys like the Roosevelts and Abraham Lincoln versus George Washington and whether Eisenhower was the greatest military president, the poolboy pokes his head in through the cigar porch and says "yo dudes, what about my man Buchanan?!"

His complete lack of skill at disguising himself is enough to send up warning flags for me. What's his stolen base strategy? Having the guy on first yell "LOOK OVER THERE!"?

If Bobby Valentine is hired, I will kick Ben Cherington in the nuts so hard, it will retroactively sterilize every male in his family going back seventeen generations, therefore causing an infinitely repeating temporal paradox in which Ben Cherington was never born but I still kick Ben Cherington in the nuts every ten seconds for however long it takes until the space-time continuum implodes and all existence as we know it comes to an end. Either that, or I'll just become a Cubs fan. Oh, wait, no, I already talked about the universe ending.

I like the idea of an equal number of teams in both leagues. It always seemed a little unfair to me that the NL Central Teams have to beat 5 teams to win their division while the AL West teams only need to beat 3. Granted, two of those NL teams are the Pirates and Astros, but still...

Whaaaat? Wakefield got his 200th win this season, he should have been a shoe-in! Seriously though, this is not at all surprising. The MVP is the vote I'm waiting for.

"They've been in that bar an awfully long time. Should we do something?" "Nah, with any luck Wakefield and Lackey will drink themselves to death. Forget it. Now, have you finished scraping Francona's name off of that parking space? I want to relocate the dumpster there as soon as possible. And get Sandy Alderson on the phone, I want to see if he has any Prince Albert in a can." "Yes sir, right away sir."