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put them in alphabetical order...

I saw no pop-up... but why are the Twins ahead of the Sox in the 0-0 standings? I know that was last year's finish but that is so 2002 and this is a new year.

didn't everyone?

the offer stands if ever needed

I take it Scott Boras is not his agent.

does your kid pitch? For the $5 a game, porno, PS2, and mountain dew he is asking for, worth a shot. Hell, maybe we can toss in a game boy too.

And the right thing, and the thing that a real man would do.

I remain convinced that he is not under that much pressure to dump payroll, as Ncorg has stated, there need to be assets there for a new buyer and Colon could well be one of them, and if not Colon, assets equal. No buyer wants to gtet a 50 win team, they will wanmt something competitive. Vidro is who I like on them most anyway and while we don't need Vidro, I'd take him in a heartbeat with a multi-year contract and get some stabilty at 2nd, I mean, when you can upgrade that much... I'd do it. Any pitcher will imporve with Vidro behind him.

I have a good feeling for the Sox in 2003 but it creeps me out that Grammons does. Howver, if the Sox got talked up in some of the preseaon stuff, it might help the team mentally to start believing in themselves.

are they? Not challenging your statement, and hope it is true, I know that it was an issue and I never did really hear what was decided on that in the new contract.

I'd offer him $1 m to make up for the cheapo thing from last year as a gfood faith gesture to get that long term contract signed. A little sweet money may adjust some attitiudes after past hurts and enable a deal to be worked out.

I doubt he was a juicer if he is now managing. Not likely he would be hired.

do we need to raise some funds here somehow? I'd take that project on if there is any interest, and apply for 501[C][3] status for contributions to be tax deductable. I mean, we share in an educational process of transmitting Soxness from one generation to another - I can get us through the IRS s*** if there is interest and a need to raise some $$ to defray these costs, but we'd have to set up a non-profit corporation and guess what, I can do that too. It is good to have a friend who does these things regularly in a law office.. and that friend would be me. Let me know what you think.

By the way, the next day, Labor Day Monday, September 3rd, I went to Comiskey by myself and say the Sox lose 6-3 or whatever, it was so bittersweet to be alone at Comiskey the day after the wild times with the largets group that we ever had put together the day before. But I also enjoyed my solitary commune with my most beloved Sox, after a long day of seeing Chicago relatives and knowing I would return that night straight from Comiskey back to Michigan for my nonSox life. I sat in the upper deck alone and just felt so good about what being at Comiskey Park means to my life. I am more comfortable there than in my own living room, every noise, every thing that happens, as familiar to me as anything in life, this is the place that I go to be happiest. I didn't know then it was my last game of the season. 8 days later, September 11th. When sports resumed, I had tickets for the Western Michigan game at Ann Arbor against my beloved Wolverines, originally set for the 15th, now chnaged to the 22nd, that I was taking my grandson to. And I also had tickets for Comiskey for the 22nd. It was a tough decison. I took my grandson to Ann Arbor, the largest gathering of people in America anywhere since September 11th. 114,000 of us in an area with by far the highest Islamic population in the US, in nearby Dearborn. If anyone were to try and make a statement of any kind by terrorism, pro bin Ladin or antiIslamic, it would be a likely site. Damned if we were going to be intimidated. My grandson and I bought flags to wave in honor of his father, my son the Marine. So I never got back to Comiskey in 2001. The service of remembrance held in Ann Arbor at the UM football field, a place where there were real fears of a statement of violence being made by people who hate (be it antiAmerican terrorists or bigots who would lash out at innocent Muslims simply because they were Muslim). The unfurled American flag at halftime as about half the size of the football field and most of us were crying. The two school's bands combined on playing America, including the 2nd verse "thine alabaster cities gleam, undimmd by human tears... confrim thy soul in self control, thy liberty in law." Waving our flags for my son, my grandson's father, at Michigan Stadium with 114,000 others was an event that I will never forget, nor has my grandson. Show him a picture of the Big House and he will tell you exactly where we sat.

That was Labor Day Sunday 2001, September 2. We had quite a group at Comiskey - HSC, hotsoschildMiguel, hotsoxchildTonio, awesome, GUG, joeybatters, Jason Buehrle, and others that I cannot think of off hand, but probably the largest tailgate of the year, and I'd have to dig out the scorecard because it was one of those games where I got everyone to autograph my scorecard. iMadman, hoosiere, and imadmanson were there too as I recollect. I mean it was just everybody we possibly could find for a Labor Day blowout. The game went as you said. We were down 6-0 and we started incessently cheering and the tides changed and we won 19-10 We were sitting behind home plate, thanks to GUG, the large group of us and we just had a wild time, one of the most fun games ever. There was a great picture taken of Joey, HSC and HSCMiguel and HSCTonio, and me before the game which makes me cry when I look at it, such a great picture, and that was Monday, September 2nd, 2001. 9 days later our innocence and baseball as it were was all shattered by September 11th. And in those scary days after September 11th, I was thankful to have been with so many people who mean so much to me the week before. I email that picture with the caption, "in happier times" since it recalls one of the those last moments when our biggest concerns were the Tribe and the Twins, not terrorists.

well f*** it all go get the domain name - with all the Italians involved (including me) we have no muscle, no juice?

Frank doubled in the 1st, Frank doubled again in the 1st, walked in the 3rd, homered in the 6th, and flew out to right in the 7th, went 4-2-3-4 on the day. The next question wsf, is who did you go with? Another great thing about Sox games is who you are with. On the September 3rd game, my best friend from high school and I had the time of our lives watching the momemtum swing back and forth like a clock. And did you save your scorecard? I have all of mine - never know when you need to know that baldwin gave up 7 earned runs in 2.1 innings against the As, Ginter likewise sucked (4 runs in 1 inning) and that Wunsch got the win and Foulke the save. Romon Ortiz gave up 9 runs to the Sox in .2 inning, but Hasegawa gave up 4 runs in 2 innings, the last 3 we needed to come back and win.

The game that I was rememberiong was September 1st, and we won 9-8 after trailing 8-2. The key was a 6 run 8th, with Frank and Mags going back to back. The last runs were Valentin singling in JP and Ray. On September 3rd we won 13-12. we trailed 4-0, then went ahead with a 9 run 1st, then trailed 12-9, and won with two in the bottom of the 8th, Lee doubled, Perry tripled, PK with the sacrifice. I was exhausted after that weekend at Comiskey. And I am glad I keep all my old scorecards for these things!

then it is two different games, one in July and one the Friday before Labor Day - everyone wins!

hey Dave Pyscho Letterman you may remember it like it was yesterday but it was 8-2 when we came back - I was there, with imadman and hoosiere (ms imadman) and what a time it was. We had games like that over that Labor Day weekend - the following Sunday we had a huge lead, lost it, and came back to win.

would that work better than in a Hyatt room?

I still doubt they will cut 10 mil and lose Colon, since the team needs a few name players for the presumption that they will be competitve for the new buyer. I know they weretold to cut the 10 mil, but nothingis consisent from Selig's office. Just a hunch. I could be wrong. Wouldn't be the first time.

Not sure about that - as the Michigan resident who watches so many Tigers games only because I get so few Sox games on tv - I don't know. He is not bad pitcher. He equaled Ritchie in losses, but then his offensive backup was the Tigers so maybe he would have done more for us. This one is a real question. I missed that the Tigs were shopping him. Marlin paid two minor leaguers. Wonder what we might have been asked for in exchange, and would it have been more. But I am puzzled that the Tigers traded away Redman to begin with.

that is who I mean, I am sure he will sign for 50¢ when KW says he just doesn't have $1.

and when he has a bad game, Colon loses control on mound; Marte called in to clean up.