"Marshall Stack" is also an acceptable pun for this trade

they can find a AAAA #7 pitcher and sign him for cheap. finding a reliever of Marshall’s quality is more difficult.

Rolen is older, more fragile, and actually plays defense while playing a tougher position. I’d put Berkman’s number around 130.

I’m not against signing Beltran, I just don’t think they will because of money.

i forgot about Dave.

But we paid him, and he performed as expected.

If Chapman becomes the closer for a third of the money, the Reds will be very happy.

Nationals follow in the foot steps of the Cincinnati Reds by over-paying for a top of rotation starter in Gio Gonzalez.but Nats made gd deal

— JIM BOWDEN (@JimBowdenESPNxm) December 22, 2011

thank goodness that era is over.

But I just got a little bit happy when I saw the word “Arroyo” that close to the words “break down.”

we need Bailey. I’m just not 100% sure how to use them. I reeeeally really wish Homer had options

We can use Reineke in an emergency.

If we really get desperate, Daryl Thompson, Matt Klinker, Tom Cochran.

I have a feeling we’ll sign some SP FA POS that we’ll all hate, but will be a #5 type

Against Mary Kilborn up in Columbus.

this is true.

One of the republicans big problems is that they don’t have a lot of intellectual horsepower.

A big exception to this is Gingrich, who is brilliant, but appears to be completely amoral. Cheney and Rove were also in that camp.

That said, sexsalad has a point. There’s a lot of “tolerate anything except intolerance, which I define to mean people who don’t realize I’m right” out there.

The dude named 4 really stupid politicians who talk like they don’t know how stupid they are. Their stances are irrelevant…these are stupid fools. If there were prominant stupid fools on the opposite side of the issues who wallowed pridefully in their ignorance and stupidity, they would be mocked comparably.

Just in general.

Red Reporter has warned very few people when it comes to political speech. When there are warnings, it’s because people are blatantly trolling or trying to make personal attacks.

While the “you’re tolerant for except towards people whom you consider intolerant” talking point might score well on talk radio, it remains an unproven assertion here.

Just read the thread backwards. We haven’t seen this much Lincoln bashing here since he was coming out of our pen.

I agree with Bill Doran and would take it a step further. The biggest victory of the right in this country over last century has been to move the left further and further towards the center. When Obama—who is very committed to capitalism—gets regularly called a socialist, then the limits of political and economic thought have shifted drastically to the right.

I think it was Fredrick Jameson who said that it is easier to imagine the end of the world than it is to imagine the end of capitalism.

I’ll say, as someone who grew up pretty staunchly conservative, I’m completely disgusted by what the Tea Party has done to the Republican party as a whole.

And while both parties are ridiculous these days, I can’t help but feel like the complete gridlock and anti-compromise sentiment is a direct result of the rise of the Tea Party. Mainly because they blatantly say that is one of their primary goals.