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Is anybody's mlb.com not working so well today?

Typical corporate America. They spend zillions on effective ad campaigns, get a great one, then some people that have too much time on their hands decide, "You know what ... we're only known for that duck. Get rid of it." Real smart. Somebody's gonna get fired over that one me thinks. GO SOX!

Every teacher in chicagoland should make the detention kids write that on the blackboard 1000 times. It is true.

That's pretty telling that you said KW made a face when asked about Maggs n steroids. The current Maggs is so skinny. I loved him as a Sox; it's been a while so now I'm totally neutral on him. I don't think we should boo any ex-Sox, however.

I think we proved last year it doesn't always matter who you play, it's how we play each series. We need to beat the Indians, Royals and Tigers like crazy and compete like hell against the Twinks.

Not to pile on, but my gosh, do you know what you are talking about? Jones was a DH for the Rangers and not just because he was a fat pig. I mean he may have trimmed down some, but ... I can't wait for the real season to begin when we can see what our new guys are really capable of and not just be talking about acquisitions who always look better in the offseason on paper. I'm hoping they all do well (my cop out line that Rongey effectively called us out on) but my god ... Jones cannot play the outfield better than Rios.

I thought somebody just said our outfield is great with Pierre, Jones, Quentin.

Yeah but he's Brian Anderson. A total nobody. No network would hire him.

Why is Jones our starting centerfielder? I thought Rios could get to everything out there and Jones is pudgy.

Brian was born too late. Lots of good fielding/little hit outfielders played in the 60s. Like Ken Berry.

I love his optimism, but a hater would be able to provide a convincing argument whiy we could suck. Such is the beauty of baseball.

I wonder if Anderson has to rework his contract. He's making too much money to be starting from scratch.

Ah, rock solid starting pitching, the relief work of Thornton and Jenks, plus the godly hitting of CQ, Beckham and Lexi, will lead us to the WS title. Solid contributions from everybody else. That would be awesome.

That would be a good way for celebrities to get free stuff. If he likes to eat at certain Chicago restaurant or says he's going to grab a drink there, you'd think it'd be good free advertising.

Freddy does need to suck it up and just pitch like he can and we won't have to discuss this stuff.

I hope Peavy's intensity doesn't make Oz switch his strategy of when to remove him from games. Not that I trust Oz's feel all the time, but if Coop and Oz think he's done or over a certain pitch count, he's gotta agree with it or his arm might fall off. I think he will cooperate, unlike the Cubs' train wreck Zambrano. But some of these ultra intense pitchers want the ball and don't want to give it up. I do trust Coop.

Wow that is intense. Have you ever had the dream you were a member of the Sox and you were in the clubhouse and you couldn't find your pants or mitt, so the dream prevented you from taking the field? Or the one you are playing for the Blackhawks but you can't find your skates? So you can't play and you can hear the fans in the background, so you know you are missing the big game? Ah the brain punishes us sports fans sometimes.

That's funny he cussed you out after the show about Wise. That was a great moment when you said things happen when you've had a few beers at the game.

We have to keep them out of the playoffs because one wouldn't think our division would supply the wildcard team this year. I hope Kenny has built a team to win its divisional games because we need to own the Indians, Royals and Tigers this year.

Seems like Jake has a closer's mentality. He wants the ball.

To be fair about the foul language, didn't Ranger only say "ass." I didn't hear any real cuss words. I didn't realize the Kotsay thing was a big deal anyplace but Soxtalk. Has it been on the talk shows? It seemed like him batting third was a true controversy.

Very true. And you guys did a nice job as well. The exchange about booing Wise was funny.

I listened to it and enjoyed it. Rongey is the voice of reason. And driving home from work every night I enjoy listening to Les Grobstein (sp) another Score voice of reason. Question to Ranger: Why does Grobstein have a talk show til 1 a.m., then have to wait until 5 a.m. to continue for one final hour. Ouch. Makes no sense unless they are trying to force Les out with such weird hours. I wonder if he takes a nap for a couole hours. I know I would.

Thanks for explaining all that, Matt. It is very interesting and I found it very uplifting and informative. I honestly had no clue about the things I asked you. It makes me feel good to know people step to the plate like that. It's also scary at how quick one faulty outlet can explode and take down a house in a matter of seconds. Scary.

White Sox, first class. How did your house burn down? What do you do when something like that happens? Where do you go? How do the kids go to school, etc? Do people step to the plate to help big time? How do you rebuild a wardrobe in a week? Good luck to you.