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IU got jobbed on a bunch of calls near the end. Anyone breathing near Wilkinson was called for a foul, yet he mugged whoever it was under the bucket w/ about 35 left...No call. Note to Patrick Ewing Jr., Box out. Signed, The state of Indiana He looked like friken Eddy Curry on that last play.

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http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/news?slug=ap-w...vations&prov=ap ...Tickets for the new seats will be the exclusive rights of Northside Ticketco. (a wrigley subsidiary) and sold at auction to the the idiot willing to pay the most money.

Note to Carl: Give up hitting from the right side. Signed, The Cheat

Phil Rodgers: Guillen two-faced in ripping Ordonez

This thread reminds me of a joke.... Why didn't the two tampons get along?

This is not a piece of criticism on your writing Alex, rather just an observation on the entire way games are reported nowadays. Back in the day, you read a sports piece like a book, in chronological order. But now they practice "pyramid" type journalism. Read the headline, and you know the outcome of the game. Read the first paragraph, and you've gotten the most pivotal moment in the game. Want more details, you have to read further. If you haven't actually seen the game, there's no real sense of the tension or the build up of the Game. Most good games are see-saw affairs that build to an ultimate cresendo. Yet when they are reported they go Crescendo, see, then saw, with some key statistics thrown in for good measure. Anyway, that's just a pet peeve of mine. I know I'm not the only one who still wishes games were written about in the old fashoined way. You will be able to find some old fashoined game reports for the white sox 2005 season in the months to come.

QUOTE(santo=dorf @ Feb 27, 2005 -> 11:26 PM) Uh oh, Anthrax has a new sig.

Jenks has been given #45 Players who start with 6 -- 60 -- Kris Honel, RHP 61 -- Paulino Reynoso, LHP 62 -- Pedro Lopez, INF 63 -- Casey Rogowski, 1B/OF 64 -- Eduardo Villacis, RHP 65 -- Dave Sanders, LHP 66 -- Pablo Ozuna, INF 67 -- Jorge Toca, 1B 68 -- Tony Alvarez, OF

"Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt." -- Abe, Honestly

QUOTE(silver and black @ Feb 26, 2005 -> 11:09 PM) "That was last year, this is different..." Cubbies?

QUOTE(qwerty @ Feb 26, 2005 -> 10:36 PM) Can the crazy ass duke talk be split into another thread? If not i don't think it will ever end. dook sucks .... let them all b**** about it now. They're gonna finish the season with a loss.

QUOTE(whitesoxin' @ Feb 26, 2005 -> 11:51 AM) David Wright is a great pick. I was hoping to grab him in the later rounds, but someone else drafted him so now I'm stuck with Boone at 3b. Mota is another guy I was hoping the steal in the latter rounds, but that didn't work out. Your team should be pretty good. Mora was taken in the third round, and I took Wright in the 7th(Glaus and Lowell were the only other real options left)

QUOTE(qwerty @ Feb 26, 2005 -> 02:37 AM) Doesn't adkins have some stamina issues? Must... fight.... urge.... to.... make... bad joke.

QUOTE(DBAH0 @ Feb 26, 2005 -> 02:16 AM) Some questions, where'd you draft Pedro? Did you have the 1st pick and drafted Pujols? Did you draft Lew Ford before Jermaine Dye? Overall it's a pretty good team, but there's some guys on that team I'd be worried about like Kent and Otsuka. Pedro = next to last pick in 3rd round Pujols = Second pick in the first round Dye = 21st rounder Ford -- High teens, I drafted Jason Lane ahead of Dye too... I knew Dye would be there at the end, because he was f***ing buried on Yahoo's rankings... I'll start dye over lane and Ford for sure, If for no other reason than he's gonna be in a better spot in the order. There's no BB's in this league, so I avoided guys who would have lower avgs, but make up for it with good plate discipline. Hence Rowand/Uribe/Kent/Wright?/etc.

QUOTE(whitesox91403 @ Feb 26, 2005 -> 01:16 AM) Are they planning on drafting a RB or WR or other with their pick? WR Train>Jones Edwards= Terrell Why not let Jim Miller give it another try Agreed

Looks like the demise of the Rumors thread is near. We need a replacement... What should it be? Something like Flying under the Radar in the sports bar where you can post minor things that happened in other games, (like Loaiza's 1-hitter ) but that don't necesarrily need their own thread... Anyway I didn't wanna be the one who killed the rumors thread, so I'm leaving it. But I'm anxiosly awaiting the new thread that rises from it's ashes.

Here's the team I just drafted.. Categories are what's listed, except AB's. (don't ask me why fld% is a stat) - I didn't figure out the team's OPS beacuse that would have required looking up SF BB HBP data for everyone.. It was easier just to drop it into excel and get this. Pos Batters H AB R HR RBI SB TB FPCT AVG OPS C J. Varitek (Bos - C) 137 463 67 18 73 10 223 .998 .296 .872 1B A. Pujols (StL - 1B) 196 592 133 46 123 5 389 .994 .331 1.072 2B J. Kent (LAD - 2B) 156 540 96 27 107 7 287 .989 .289 .879 3B D. Wright (NYM - 3B) 77 263 41 14 40 6 138 .942 .293 .857 SS J. Uribe (CWS - 2B,3B,SS) 142 502 82 23 74 9 254 .982 .283 .833 OF M. Cabrera (Fla - OF) 177 603 101 33 112 5 309 .968 .294 .878 OF A. Rowand (CWS - OF) 151 487 94 24 69 17 265 .975 .310 .905 OF L. Ford (Min - OF) 170 569 89 15 72 20 254 .986 .299 .827 Util J. Lane (Hou - OF) 37 136 21 4 19 1 63 .974 .272 .811 BN N. Swisher (Oak - OF) 15 60 11 2 8 0 25 .935 .250 .769 BN J. Dye (CWS - OF) 141 532 87 23 80 4 247 .992 .265 .793 BN P. Polanco (Phi - 2B,3B) 150 503 74 17 55 7 222 .995 .298 .786 H AB R HR RBI SB TB AVG SLG 1549 5250 896 246 832 91 2676 .295 .510 Pos Pitchers IP W L SV H HR K ERA WHIP SP P. Martínez (NYM - SP) 217 16 9 0 193 26 227 3.90 1.17 SP T. Hudson (Atl - SP) 188.66 12 6 0 194 8 103 3.53 1.26 SP B. Webb (Ari - SP) 208 7 16 0 194 17 164 3.59 1.50 RP B. Lidge (Hou - RP) 94.66 6 5 29 57 8 157 1.90 0.92 RP G. Mota (Fla - RP) 96.66 9 8 4 75 8 85 3.07 1.16 RP A. Otsuka (SD - RP) 77.66 7 2 2 56 6 87 1.75 1.06 P J. Westbrook (Cle - SP) 215.66 14 9 0 208 19 116 3.38 1.25 P S. Shields (LAA - RP) 105.33 8 2 4 97 6 109 3.33 1.30 P D. Marte (CWS - RP) 73.66 6 5 6 56 10 68 3.42 1.22 P B. Madritsch (Sea - SP) 88 6 3 0 74 3 60 3.27 1.22 BN T. Ohka (Was - SP) 84.2 3 7 0 98 11 38 3.40 1.39 BN J. Blanton (Oak - SP) 8 0 0 0 6 1 6 5.63 1.00 HR/9 K/9 ERA WHIP AVG/Total 1458 0.759 7.53 3.31 1.24 Because the league had R HR RBI AVG and OPS, I pretty much ignored SB's -- There's no need to take a faster guy who puts up a low numbers in 5 categories for a few extra SB. I drafted too many OFers, and prolly should have picked up a 1B/DH to help with both OPS and fld% -- Frank went undrafted I think so I'll pick him up. Oh, this was a 12 team league.

QUOTE(El Piervizdyeguchansodnik @ Feb 25, 2005 -> 01:57 PM) Anthrax, while I may not agree with your opinion of Kenny Williams, I will defend your stance. I am f***ing sick of posters antagonizing you. If you want to keep bashing KW, so be it. It's not their place to stop you and call you names. f***ing christ, you'd think original opinions are becoming illegal. coughcoughinvitehimcoughcough

I'm taking up a collection for it to be named the Buckner Center.

QUOTE(Bullard @ Feb 25, 2005 -> 06:53 PM) The pic is of Chris Young. The other 3 in the cart are Rogowski driving, Anderson sitting shotgun, and Sweeney on the back with Young. You guys are lucky I am here!!! LOL -- Thanks bull to all of you I was right.

QUOTE(Tmar28 @ Feb 25, 2005 -> 05:00 PM) the Nike underarmour ripoff one. why the hell is delgado a venus fly trap? i mean honestly, who wants to be a venus fly trap? Ummmm.... Delgado's not in that ad. Torri Hunter is the fly trap