Controlled Chaos

QUOTE (WhiteSoxfan1986 @ May 2, 2008 -> 03:13 PM) Why not Broadway? Broadway has also had problems in Canada.

QUOTE (ROC Sox Fan @ May 2, 2008 -> 01:27 PM) Woah, how'd I become the thread starter? Guess this is my first game thread! I can't get into Canada because I got a DWI 3 years ago and there's a 5 year grace period apparently. Anyhow, big game tonight. Let's snap these losing streak and start off May the right way- with a White Sox Winner! Hey...no questioning on how you became the thread starter....You're it man. Now cowboy the f*** up and get us a W!!!!!!!

I can copy and paste some wiki data on any of my guys. I'm guessing I have one guy ranked higher than anyone else(#3)...I'll gladly do a write up on him if he makes the top 50.

QUOTE (knightni @ May 1, 2008 -> 02:45 PM) AWESOME I have no idea who posted that.

QUOTE (kyyle23 @ May 1, 2008 -> 02:36 PM) LOL, Renneke has thin skin. the comments have all been taken down. Nice job Soxtalk They're still there.

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ May 1, 2008 -> 01:31 PM) CC, You have obviously been 100% against Obama from the get go and have been hammering away on him repeatedly over the Rev Wright issue. How many more articles need to be posted slamming Obama on this one issue? I get the point that you think he is the worst candidate in the history of American politics. What more value is there posting additional anti-Obama perspectives on this one issue? Well this is the GOP thread... When I come across an article I like....I post it for others to check out. I'm not posting it in the main thread to put it up for discussion...so we can all rehash the same things... Just putting stuff I read out there.... EDIT: If people in the GOP sink or swim club...wish for me to stop posting articles...I'll will gladly do so.

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My syndicated column today deconstructs Barack Obama’s pitiful performance yesterday. Try as he might, he simply cannot disown the un-disownable preacher of hate. That press conference yesterday renders the Philadelphia speech from March null and void. And anyone who fell for the Philadelphia speech (unfortunately, there were several on the right side of the aisle) should feel especially embarrassed today. Try not to be fooled again. Speaking of the Philly speech, Jeff Emanuel notes that Obama is actually selling DVDs of the speech to raise money. Yep. At the same time he was attempting to finally disown Jeremiah Wright, he was peddling his speech refusing to disown him. Huckster. *** The Jive Talk Express Michelle Malkin Creators Syndicate 2008 Barack Obama looked pale and wan at what he called his “big press conference” about the Rev. Jeremiah Wright on Tuesday afternoon. Numb. Chastened. Defeated. Extolled for his eloquence, Obama stuttered and stammered his way through the question-and-answer session. It appeared he was having an out-of-body experience. Who knew that the greatest threat to his presidential campaign would come from the preacher who married him, baptized him, and prayed with him? Barack Obama should have known. That’s who. Take that judgment and shove it on a pretty campaign poster. “Yes, we can”? Try “Yes, you should have.” For the past 24 hours, Obama’s campaign too slowly grappled with how to handle the aftermath of Wright’s whirlwind tour of hatred this weekend — from Dallas, where he decried his “public crucifixion,” to Detroit, where he entertained NAACP bigwigs with impersonations of white people, mockeries of classical music and “white” marching bands, and lectures on racial brain theories, to the National Press Club, where he preened, strutted and head-wagged his way through an hour of bitter black liberation theologizing. At first, Obama downplayed Wright’s public appearances. But Obama now tells us he had to wait 24 hours to convene a press conference to denounce Wright’s National Press Club speech because he “hadn’t seen it.” After all this time on the campaign trail, we’re back to the Obama-as-clueless-naif narrative again. When he finally did view the Washington speech, Obama explained, he was “shocked” and “outraged” and “saddened” because “the person I saw was not the person that I’d come to know over 20 years.” What a load of pure unadulterated horse manure. Anyone with eyes can see that Wright’s performances are finely honed, time-tested acts. His anti-white, anti-American, “imperialist”-bashing shtick was not developed overnight or over the past few years. He’s been peddling AIDS conspiracies for decades. He’s been grievance-mongering about slavery for decades. He’s been flirting with the Nation of Islam, which provided security for his speeches, for decades. He’s been a shouting left-wing radical for decades. Obama’s best-selling Audacity of Hope is named after the first sermon of Wright’s that he heard — decades ago — in which the pastor of racial resentment inveighed against an environment “where white folks’ greed runs a world in need, apartheid in one hemisphere, apathy in another hemisphere.” Yet, only now has Obama concluded that Wright’s sermons are “a bunch of rants that aren’t grounded in truth.” Welcome to the Jive-Talk Express. A reader of mine who is a clergyman e-mailed after Obama’s press conference: “As a pastor, I have this take: It is inconceivable that Obama had no knowledge of Wright’s views after 20 years as a member of that church. As a pastor, my heart-held, deepest beliefs and passions cannot be silenced. It is what I am. If I were given a microphone at the National Press Club, I would not speak on something that I had guardedly kept secret for most of my life. No, I would go to my main point, the center of my ministry, the core of my passion, to speak truth as I know it to be. How can Obama actually claim that this is news from his pastor? His mailman, butcher or plumber? No problem. His pastor? No way!” It’s not Wright who has changed his loony tune. It was just last year that Obama was telling the Chicago Tribune that Wright was his sounding board for truth: “What I value most about Pastor Wright is not his day-to-day political advice. He’s much more of a sounding board for me to make sure that I am speaking as truthfully about what I believe as possible and that I’m not losing myself in some of the hype and hoopla and stress that’s involved in national politics.” It was just this March, in his Philadelphia racial reconciliation speech, that Obama was urging us not to dismiss Wright as a “crank or a demagogue” and protesting that he could “no more disown him than I can disown the black community.” Now, realizing how gravely his self-serving association with Wright has wounded his campaign, Obama himself has attempted to do both those things — and expects the American public to believe him when he weakly and belatedly asserts that “when I say I find [Wright’s] statements appalling, I mean it.” As those of us with non-European brains might put it: You be trippin’, Barry.

QUOTE (kyyle23 @ Apr 30, 2008 -> 04:03 PM) What in sams hell made that cat wander into Chicago and just camp out. Thats just crazy QUOTE (knightni @ Apr 30, 2008 -> 04:08 PM) ITALIAN. BEEF. SANDWICHES.

QUOTE (ChiSox35 @ May 1, 2008 -> 10:55 AM) I thought of something similar last night. I'm no Owens advocate, but calling him up and starting some big rotation between Owens/Swisher in Center and on days where Owens starts mix Swisher up with Thome/Konerko (maybe even Dye, but moreso Paulie and Thome) at DH/First/Right to keep our dinos fresh. At least if Owens gets on he could be at second via SB when Cabrera bounces out to short. Throw Nicholas and his walks in front of Quentin, and well... Maybe have Swish exclusively spot Thome and Konerko and Anderson-Dye. Alexei should be great but not this year except as a September callup. That's way too much rotating for me....I'd like a little more consistency. I'd like Owens up here for a couple reasons. We can use a a lefty pinch hitter and a good pinch runner... and I'd like Ramirez to get consistent AB's in AAA. That's it. Once we start talking about Owens leading off and starting in CF...I start thinking...I'd rather him stay where he is. JMO

QUOTE (Melissa1334 @ May 1, 2008 -> 10:36 AM) i wish there was some way we could get owens in the lineup everyday but we obviously cant. i rather have him leading off nd swisher batting lower. uggh....I'm not sure that's what he was advocating.

QUOTE (lostfan @ May 1, 2008 -> 10:23 AM) So for the first week or so once Quentin became a fixture in the lineup, Ozzie was leery of making any changes to the outfield because all 3 of them were murdering the ball. This left Anderson in no man’s land and not much of an opportunity to capitalize on his good spring though, which was unfortunate but obviously the right decision considering the circumstances. However, Swisher and Dye have cooled off, specifically Dye, and I don’t think it’s a coincidence that it started once Dye tweaked his leg either. Most people recognize that Dye is arguably the best hitter on the team when he’s healthy and has a good feel for things, but remember last year when he also had a lingering leg injury it seemed to affect everything at the plate. Bat speed, strike zone judgment, etc. all added up to these terrible 3-pitch strikeout at-bats. On the other side of things, you have Anderson and Ramirez. Ramirez just doesn’t seem to be benefiting from being here right now, to be quite honest. It’s not helping either his personal development, or the player to have a guy struggle with MLB pitching in sporadic at-bats, and there’s no real way to get him in the game and let him get over that hump either. On the other hand, when Dye got hurt that allowed Anderson to step in to get consecutive ABs and get his rhythm and timing back down, and he’s been hitting pretty well albeit with no power (at least yet). I’m thinking now that Ozzie should be more liberal in giving Anderson starts to give Dye some rest. This isn’t exactly unprecedented or a departure from the norm, since we’re all familiar with Ozzie’s managing style where he likes to use his bench guys to keep them fresh, and Anderson needs that as much as anyone. Ramirez should go to AAA to make his eventual step up to MLB easier since it’s a little steep for him right now, and Owens should come up from AAA since he is both a lefty bat off the bench and a pinch runner. I like it, but not gonna happen.

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QUOTE (joesaiditstrue @ May 1, 2008 -> 08:46 AM) We won't be in first place in about 3-4 days, I'd bet money on it. Not with the way these guys are playing, but I hope I'm wrong, maybe the day off will help these guys gather themselves for the toronto series. How much you willing to bet?

QUOTE (Texsox @ May 1, 2008 -> 08:39 AM) I am a little surprised at the make up of my list. Overall, I always felt basketball players are the most athletic, with hockey players close behind. Yet, I think I have more football players than any other category. As far as most athletic I always thought Hockey players were tops...then football, basketball, baseball. I think you can hide some unatheltic players in football and baseball, even a center in basketball and they can still be great players at their positions, but you can't hide it in hockey....every one is a top athelete. Clarification: This convo doesn't have anything to do with the list....just yappin it up

QUOTE (knightni @ Apr 30, 2008 -> 11:10 PM) I may break trend and pick someone else #1 on my list. Actually if we are talking greatest atheltes....IMO they all should be hockey players

QUOTE (chisoxfan79 @ Apr 30, 2008 -> 02:41 PM) Not liking this move hope im wrong wasn't the game over for you quite a while ago

nice!

I'll take it

BA goin yard!

Time to get to Nathan!!

QUOTE (frankie5angels @ Apr 30, 2008 -> 02:27 PM) Great inning guys. Way to make your fans proud!!

Did he just K against a lefty?

QUOTE (southsideirish71 @ Apr 30, 2008 -> 02:18 PM) Make that throw with the guy running his ass off, and the guy in the right handed batters box is 6'3 and 235. He might be a distraction to you. right, but 2 lefty's were up.

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