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QUOTE (scs787 @ Mar 20, 2014 -> 05:06 AM) It's looked turrable in the 2 games I've seen. A fight would be dumb. QUOTE (Eminor3rd @ Mar 20, 2014 -> 01:40 PM) It's been pretty bad, from what I've seen. Damn. Our defense is looking lousy again? Still debating whether or not to get mlb.com. I don't think I could stand watching a season where we are owned by those Central Division teams again. If we can hold our own with those Central bums I might buy.

How is the Sox defense this spring? No diss on Robin, but let's say our team is horrible defensively again and full of mental errors on the basepaths again. Do you think he'd be in trouble job-wise, considering the Sox have a lot of young players? I just hope the Sox make it clear early in the season they are not going to be the patsies of the Central and are gonna show some fight. In fact, maybe a bench clearing brawl early on vs. KC or Cleveland to set the tone? I know some people on here don't like baseball fights, so I will say that in advance lest you think I'm pulling a troll. I just want some fight in our team this year and I want to see good, fundamental baseball under Robin.

QUOTE (Baron @ Mar 20, 2014 -> 12:41 AM) Davidson is going to make it hard for them to send him down They shouldn't send him down. Why do the Sox owe Gillaspie anything?

It's sad if Danks doesn't make the team and one of the DeAza, Viciedo tandem has to sit because of Dunn. I don't like DeAza or Viciedo much, but I haven't given up hope on either just yet. I'd rather see either of those 2 play than Dunn.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Mar 17, 2014 -> 03:36 PM) #1 catching the ball. It's amazing someone has the occupation of catcher, yet cannot catch the ball consistently. Is he catching it this spring?

QUOTE (Rowand44 @ Mar 1, 2014 -> 03:22 PM) I think they'll be in the Wild Card race until the last 3 or so weeks of the season. Over. That would be amazing. That would mean some of the young guys are excelling and Dunn and Viciedo and Flowers and Lexi are doing average to very well. Bring it on.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Mar 7, 2014 -> 07:42 PM) Serious Q in reply...why should we expect the defense and baserunning to be "cleaned up"? In many cases we have either the same guys in those positions who were bad last year, or potential downgrades (Rios down to Garcia, Davidson supposed to be pretty rough at 3b, Eaton was below average in CF last year although maybe injury and short time to blame). They're younger and that could very well raise the risk of silly mistakes even higher. I took the under just because I feel like there are a lot of alarming trends that need to be corrected. Maybe the presence of Abreu will add the new life the Sox need to forget about all the blunders the team had last year to cost them games. If Robin can turn this baby around and start winning series after series, I'll be amazed and happy.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Mar 17, 2014 -> 02:20 PM) Hahn said you don't get many second chances and both are getting them this year. They either take it and go with it or become Jake at State Farm. You said it all. From what I can tell, at least Flowers is pretty good throwing out runners, isn't he? So he deserves the first shot. If by late May he's under .200 or something ridiculous, it's Phegs time. Hope Flowers doesn't mind cold weather since he's the first to get the call in a season where he's on life support so to speak.

QUOTE (HickoryHuskers @ Mar 16, 2014 -> 04:29 PM) No, unless the father is 100% out of the picture, the potential of becoming a stepparent creates a real mess. I've been through it as a child, and it made me 100% certain that I am not going to go through it as a parent. I'm not saying that this needs to be the position of everybody, but I feel that it is justified. Yeah if the dad is totally out of the picture, at least the age of the child is conducive to pleasant experiences. She's only 1.5 so she's not going to yell, "Shut up; you are not my daddy!" She'll just be a nice cute little kid who treats you with respect, etc., as she grows up. Now if there's some asshole dad in the picture, not good.

QUOTE (raBBit @ Mar 16, 2014 -> 05:51 PM) I feel like I should hate Hawk but I can't. He's been the one mainstay in White Sox baseball in my entire life besides the ownership. As a very competitive person who takes White Sox baseball very seriously on game day, I enjoy having Hawk because he is one of the only people as excited as I am. I like Hawk as well. And Stone, also. I'm telling you guys, at least they have something to say. These Royals announcers, except for Denny Matthews who is outnumbered by lousy broadcasters, do nothing but praise KC's team and try to sell tickets. If Butler comes to bat ... "Wouldn't it be nice if he got hold of one and hit a home run, it'd be his third of the season?" Or "Konerko hits into a lot of double plays; that's in order right now. Wouldn't it be nice if Chen gets the double play?" I'm telling you, announcers are supposed to back the team nowadays and what you get is some pretty bad announcers. Hawk is Hawk. I'll take him any day.

QUOTE (whitesoxfan99 @ Dec 16, 2013 -> 09:03 PM) b****es be crazy. So girl I've been seeing for close to a month now (so obviously not serious but potentially seems to be heading in that direction) tells me last night that she is scared about how fast the relationship is moving and is kind of freaked out and wants to try to take things slower. Not exactly what I wanted to hear but I kind of get it because we have been hanging out a ton despite not knowing each other very long. However, when we hung out on Saturday she was the one who asked me to come over to her place to watch a movie on Sunday night and we also have plans on Thursday (at her suggestion) for her to come to my place to cook dinner. So yeah, have no idea what to do with that one. Just tell her you agree with her if she mentions it going too fast again.

QUOTE (pittshoganerkoff @ Mar 13, 2014 -> 03:26 PM) Someone needs to put that on greg775's profile. If anybody knows how to put that in place of Rongey fan club I'd be all for it. Rongey isn't paying me to praise him so much (kidding). I do tend to like the Sox of 2005 a lot, but I will say I do despise a lot of Sox, Dunn at the top of the list. By despise, I mean as players, not people.

1.) All about those who served our country. Wounded Warriors Also families of those killed in war. So many good causes out there, though. Children's hospitals. Feeding the poor/homeless.

Thanks caufield. Do any of you think the economy will flourish ever again, enough that everybody is fat and happy again?

QUOTE (pettie4sox @ Mar 10, 2014 -> 08:33 PM) I will actually feed you if you vote for me. What if you made a mistake upon entering the polling booth and actually did not vote for the 100 percent winner? You'd be dead hours later I presume.

Has the horrific winter in Chicago made any of you make any life decisions? By that I mean ... a.) you have now decided that "someday" in the future you will retire somewhere outside of frigid/snowy Chicago or b.) you've decided to immediately, at this stage of your life, look for work in a warm weather climate (Cali, Texas, Nevada)? It just seems you've gotten snow after snow; arctic blast after arctic blast. Our winter sucked here as well. I do hate the cold and ice.

QUOTE (MEANS @ Mar 11, 2014 -> 01:45 PM) Being the poster boy for his fan club, surely YOU of all people would know what he is up to...... Not really. I only follow him when he appears in the news in Chicago. QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Mar 11, 2014 -> 03:44 PM) He has been kissing up around baseball for a few months now. In the last month or so he got in the papers for saying something about how good he had it working for Kenny and the White Sox. Interesting. If you are going to run your mouth incessantly as he did, you have to make the playoffs a lot more than he did to keep a job. --I hope Beckham gets off to a good start this year. Even though I don't like him at this stage, I'm willing to give him a (another) chance.

Flew Southwest to the East last weekend. Once again, no real complaints except the new planes are too cramped. Got in an exit row coming back from Pittsburgh to Chicago and it still was cramped. One hour delay at Midway flying the connection from Chicago to KC. Couldn't get my pizza at the food court because the scoreboard didn't show the flight delay and I had a long way to walk to dreaded gate A4A to make the original connection time. Was literally starving so got a turkey panini (sp?) the lady heated up at gate A4A. It actually was 'moderately' tasty, better than I expected. I was going to stop at Manny's on the way to A4A but there was a pretty big line and no pizza. In retrospect I should have gotten a brisket sandwich or meatloaf at Manny's.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Mar 10, 2014 -> 09:27 PM) If you had invested 10,000 dollars in an SP 500 fund 5 years ago, today you would have made $20,871 profit. The same investment in gold would have netted you $4,086 in profit. In a money market you would have made an entire $26. I know a guy who confided in me he has $200,000 total. He is divorced but wife remarried and he has to pay no money to her. He is employed and currently healthy but we know how health can change in an instant. He wants to know what he should be doing with the money to make some rapid gains in his total wealth with about 10 years left to retirement. I had no idea what to tell him because my brother the tax lawyer has mapped out a plan for me. He wants rapid gains. What should he do?

Are u guys really expecting 16 inches in some parts??

Is Micah any good? Is he gonna make the team? I kind of am getting excited about him for no sane reason.

I'm DEFINITELY not trying to troll here, just asking ... Where is the mouth that roared? Where the hell is Ozzie? I didn't think he could shut up this long. Is he consulting, broadcasting, doing anything?? You'd think by now he'd be working for Jerry in some capacity. I know a lot of you don't care what he's doing, but I'm really curious as to what the mouth is doing??

I like the pizza at Midway Airport. Any soxtalkers gonna be at midway tomorrow? you could meet me and see I'm not a troll.

QUOTE (buhbuhburrrrlz @ Mar 4, 2014 -> 05:21 AM) he introduced Idina Menzel as "Adele Dazim" lolz Damn. Was he drunk or just have a brain freeze?

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jan 31, 2014 -> 02:41 PM) Why should RG3 be able to sell jerseys using the Baylor license and colors? Michael Jordan can't market his own line of Bulls material. Cause it's his name. If you flip flop the situation, how can Baylor sell RGIII's name on a jersey? It goes both ways IMO. It'd be bad pub for Baylor to sue RGIII over this matter if he decided to sell his own Baylor RGIII jerseys.