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QUOTE(RockRaines @ Sep 10, 2007 -> 05:08 PM) You arent a big fan of lovie? Why. Did the winning rub you the wrong way? You should see Schuerholz coach football. Beauty personified.

QUOTE(fathom @ Sep 8, 2007 -> 07:09 PM) This has got to be the worst announced game I've ever heard. Every single play Clausen doesn't make, they say it was a good decision. Hell, if you want good decisions made by throwing every pass away, put me in the game. I'll run around and throw it out of the end zone. You must have missed the montage where they compared him to Tiger Woods and Sidney Crosby

Minnesota's backup catchers (Redmond, Heintz, and Morales) have 15 hits (in 37 at-bats) against the White Sox this season. The White Sox backup catchers (Hall, Molina, Lucy) have 22 hits (in 117 at-bats) against ALL OF BASEBALL this season.

QUOTE(Vance Law @ Sep 7, 2007 -> 11:06 PM) Remember how Pods' .330 OBP cost us the season last year but the team 4.61 ERA didn't? f*** THAT BULLs*** ARGUMENT! Nobody with a quarter of a brain argued that, and if you don't know that, then I'm sorry for you.

QUOTE(fathom @ Sep 7, 2007 -> 10:59 PM) That was a beautiful effort by Pods. I think jphat just got an erection. Good thing he learned it in his final month with the Sox. He'll probably end up being useful again next year somewhere else... who am I kidding. He'll be out for an extended period before the All-Star break.

QUOTE(whitesoxfan101 @ Sep 7, 2007 -> 10:45 PM) And the man you predicted would be so awesome for us, David Aardsma, ended up with 17 saves for the mighty Knights. What's your point? It's triple a stats, they aren't exactly gospel. If AAA stats aren't gospel, why should I even care about him retiring Brian Bucher and Chris Heintz? Couldn't he have done that in Charlotte?

QUOTE(whitesoxfan101 @ Sep 7, 2007 -> 10:41 PM) Doesn't change the fact his stuff looked pretty decent. Don't, you know, accidentally say anything positive about him though. He was 2nd in AAA in walks.

The two batters Broadway retired entered the game with a combined 22 career major league hits.

QUOTE(whitesoxfan101 @ Sep 7, 2007 -> 10:30 PM) Broadway taken out. Freaking figures. There were major leaguers due up this inning.

QUOTE(SEALgep @ Sep 7, 2007 -> 05:45 PM) Go ahead and debate... The plan was to give at bats for Hall at first base on occassion to rest PK. Was he supposed to learn during the regular season? And that plan seemed pretty dumb when there is a gold glove firstbaseman on the roster.

QUOTE(Jenks Heat @ Sep 7, 2007 -> 12:33 PM) They actually didn't struggle until late May when Erstad got hurt/cub series. Weren't they 7 over at the time due to the lights out bullpen and starters? The polar opposite to the JM days. Let's look at what I had to say over at SSS just days before Erstad went down.... Molina was optioned to Charlotte minutes after the game. The latter quote demonstrates the predictive power of Pythagorean record which Yossarian discounted earlier. The Sox sat 3 games over 500 when I wrote that last quote, 3.5 games out. But they had allowed 13 more runs than they'd scored. They looked like a below .500 team. Even when winning.

Louisville MTSU on ESPN2 have scored 5 TD's in under 5 minutes.

Charlotte's season is over. Collaro rode a .375 BABIP all the way to an .800 OPS! I'm impressed.

QUOTE(michelangelosmonkey @ Sep 4, 2007 -> 05:33 PM) And by the way...Mike Piazza...career .924 OPS. 62nd round. Let's start stockpiling 62nd round picks!

QUOTE(Jenks Heat @ Sep 4, 2007 -> 01:41 PM) My wife said she heard the same thing. I did not notice but I was only half paying attention. Was Baker part of the Nomar deal? If not , who did the cub give up to Minnesota? They were referring to Mike Sweeney, notorious Twins killer, not Baker.

Not that errors are directly indicative of poor defense, but Miranda managed to accumulate 20 of them in about half a season of play. That gives me some pause, and puts his defensive abilities in question until we get a solid scouting report. That being said, the steal of the draft for the Sox. He looks like their second best pick from the '07 draft, and they got him in the 13th round.

QUOTE(DBAH0 @ Sep 3, 2007 -> 10:33 PM) I'd imagine considering how bad Dewon Day was when he was called up, the Sox may have some reservations on Perez making it in our pen before he hits AAA. A good showing in Spring Training however could maybe change that, but I think KW is really going to want some proven guys in there after this season's fiasco. Since the calendar turned to July, Oneli has a 50:6 K/BB ratio in 33.1 IP.... Kevin Towers (the Padres GM) says the most important aspect of bullpen building is finding strike throwers, a lesson we've learned the hard way this season. I'd say that Oneli absolutely deserves a shot this October. He's certainly more deserving than Broadway, who had to be put on the 40-man for his call-up.

QUOTE(santo=dorf @ Sep 3, 2007 -> 04:21 PM) Sheets and Oswalt hardly held up their end of the bargain, and I'm sure fathom is livid for the go ahead run scoring on an Estrada passed ball. Can't spell Estrada without Erstad

QUOTE(Chisoxfn @ Sep 2, 2007 -> 10:25 PM) Couldn't agree more. It was a horrid selection. Than again the guy I wanted from that draft isn't looking too hot either. Who was that?.... I recall you being a big Ian Kennedy fan, but that was before the poor '06... (I thought Kennedy would be the best available for the Sox at the end of the first round thanks to his poor season, but he didn't slip, so I didn't have much of an opinion at the time.) This year I was in a similar boat. Two guys who I thought would be there -- Alderson, I liked him because he reminded me of the type of pitcher the Twins would draft, and LaPorta -- weren't. Though, Poreda looks like a first rounder should against rookie level talent.

I didn't want Buchholz or Taveras... But Burke or Pence (in addition to Hirsh) instead. Woops on Burke... I don't know why he's sucked so hard this season. Taveras isn't very good, but he has an arm and can play CF... I would have done the trade if I knew it meant no Erstad, but I didn't think the FO was stupid enough to bring him in.

Can't believe this hasn't been posted yet

They end the season on Monday. They're a last place team 17 games under .500... at least they're having a good time.

QUOTE(Kalapse @ Aug 31, 2007 -> 10:19 PM) I believe you are correct on this one. Correct. Even if he was called up, he would still have 3 years of pre-arb salary (after the callup), then 3 years of arb-eligible salary. For example, Fields won't be on the roster long enough to effect his arb status. We'll get 6.5 years (assuming he remains on the 25 man roster the whole time) of service before he reaches free agency. Sweeney did, however, burn an option by being on the 40-man roster all year. He should have two remaining. One of which figures to be burned when he fails to make the '08 opening day roster.

QUOTE(Chisoxfn @ Aug 31, 2007 -> 05:50 PM) I actually disagree. Age is very relevant, however it has to be factored in with a few things (is a guy raw...ie he didn't play high school ball or he is being converted to the pitching position, etc). For 98% of prospects you can pretty much rely on age, however, you always have those guys that played college ball, get drafted as hitters fart around and than someone turns them into a pitcher (ocassionally vice versa but it usually happens this way more so than the other) to take advantage of there arm (more often the conversion actually occurrs at the college level but it still leaves the player a couple years behind). Than of course there is catchers, who naturally have a longer developmental period (so its more typical for a catcher to be a bit older than most of the guys on his minor league team). This means that the player is naturally going to be at lower levels at an older age, however, it also means he's more like a high school player than a typical college player (despite age) and nothing says the player won't have a successful career (however, it obviously would be on average a shorter career as he'd reach the majors at an older level). s*** just look at Ryan Howard...he was an older prospect (should people have wrote him off because he was a bit older for a first time rookie or should they have considered the fact he has amazing stats and part of the reason he was old for a rookie was partially because of who he was being blocked by...Jim Thome). It's funny you bring up Howard. I remember campaigning to get him in '04 (I thought we should move Konerko instead of Lee for the salary dump we could all see needed to be made)... The responses were that he was too old and struck out too much... To me the complaints about Howard hold about as much weight as those against Egbert. When you're a little old for your league at AA and putting up ridiculous, highly projectable numbers, there's not much weight to the age issue unless your talking about a players HOF chances. It's dumb to complain about a guy with Howard's power ceiling because he's 24 (hitting 40+ HR) in AA and AAA, or about Egbert's while he's leading the Southern League in FIP... But it's not at all comparable to writing off a 23 year old with mediocre numbers in ROOKIE ball. (For the record, I never would have projected Howard to be as good as he is. I never would have thought he would have developed the batting eye he has... Nor would I have been so bold as to predict a near 60HR season.)

Go D-Rays!