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QUOTE (fathom @ May 25, 2012 -> 08:28 PM) As I pointed out a month or so ago, there was never any indication that Buehrle starting in a game at home led to a greater attendance in that game as opposed to when Floyd started, etc. But how many of the Buehrle jersey people just threw up their hands last winter and said, "It's time. This team blows and now that they've gotten rid of Mark it's easy for me to move on. We'll watch the games on TV this year and save all that money."

QUOTE (fathom @ May 25, 2012 -> 08:06 PM) You have absolutely no proof of this. Maybe Sox fans gave up their season tickets because they didn't bring back Ramon Castro? Letting Mark go was a great business decision, especially if the Sox want to give extensions in a few years to Sale and Viciedo, etc. Look at the attendance figures. How can it be a great business decision? You own a business and you let one of your most popular dividends leave. One of the fans' two favorite players. You replace that ultra popular person with ... nobody. What remains are a lot of unlikeable characters to go with some likeable ones (Paulie, Lexi for starters). Letting Mark go IMO was the dumbest business decision of all time. The Sox deserve lousy attendance after that IMO.

QUOTE (SI1020 @ May 25, 2012 -> 08:12 PM) It's not just here, elsewhere too it seems that every ex Sox player no matter how good or bad he was deserves to be savaged. It continues with Pods, who should be appreciated more than anything for his positive contributions. I'll never diss any player on that 05 team. It took 88 years to happen and now we're already up to 6 and counting without another one. Pods changed the whole dynamic of play from the all or nothing offense of 2001-04 that got the Sox nowhere. I wish him all the best. Me too. Great, great post. There's not one negative thought that comes to mind when I think of Pods. I feel like I'd be an ingrate all the joy he gave me.

Any doctors in the house??? My friend's wife just started chemo in Omaha for Grade One Non Hodgkin Follicular Lymphoma. She had some symptoms before going in for all the tests. She's now on six cycles of chemo one day every three weeks. rituximab is the drug provided. Oh yes, it's also been found in her bone marrow as well as the spleen. She worded it as "hiding" in her bone marrow. Anybody have any history with lymphoma? She was always healthy and fit before this hit. Just a bit concerned naturally and wondered if anybody had any prognosis, etc? Thank u doctors.

QUOTE (Tex @ May 25, 2012 -> 03:11 PM) For 2010, according to Forbes, the team showed a $26million profit. In 2011 they again showed a profit according to Forbes. In fact only three teams showed loses in 2011. Tigers (won division), Mets (sucked), and Red Sox (90 wins). I'd rather be the Tiger's fan winning a division than losing the division but knowing the owners made a few million bucks profit. So what's that done for our Sox? Flexibility to land an aging out of position fill-in 3rd baseman while MB is pitching in Florida? That's something the fans will come out to see. I understand looking for something to feel good about this season. If it's performance to the balance sheet that gets you excited, cool. But I'm just not that excited about returns in someone else's portfolio. I haven't seen years of profits directly leading to years of winning. Hopefully the Sox learned a lesson with the Buehrle fiasco. Think of how many fans just gave up on their season tix last winter (LOTS) when the team didn't sign Mark. Lots of ill will there. Remember how bad a season Dunn and Rios had? Fans were asked to buy tickets for a franchise that would pay those 2 and not pay Mark. Fans on the southside can't be fooled. Letting Mark walk was a BAD business decision.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ May 25, 2012 -> 01:42 PM) My nephew is 10 and he loves to sit back, relax and strap it down. I think Hawk appeals to a lot more people than a lot of this board realizes. Obviously correct. Nice post. This board is overall very negative in regarding to a lot of things White Sox. Example: Blasting Hawk a lot and even a guy like Pods just for making the Red Sox in the MLB thread. You think average White Sox fans off this message board dislike Pods AT ALL? Uh, no. I'd venture to say anybody you ask would have good things to say about Pods and Hawk.

My god we play the Indians again tonight? This is a big series for this time of year. Tribe has to start falling in the standings before the months fly by.

QUOTE (Jake @ May 23, 2012 -> 09:40 PM) Some things never make sense. Prepping for pulled hamstring. So now what did Pods do to piss our fanbase off? My god ... some of your mamas never gave you the speech: "If you have nothing good to say about somebody, maybe it's wise to say nothing at all." I'm all for criticism, but the guy deserves praise just for making it back to the big leagues. And he was a damn fine player for the White Sox.

Dropped Humber from my fantasy team. He's still pretty good but not stat wise anymore. Jinx of perfect game?

QUOTE (sunofgold @ May 25, 2012 -> 05:55 AM) Offense was great tonight. Pitching wasn't. But heck it is kinda nice to win a slugfest. Offense is working. Good way to put it. It was nice to win a slugfest at home. Real enjoyable.

Is Miami's stadium indoor? Retractible roof? Please tell me most games are played with the roof open? I hate domes. Ozzie does too.

Cleveland is for real.

Good win. Hopefully this signals the start of winning some series at home during the upcoming summer months. The Tank is mighty likeable. Nice HR. He's gonna have a lot of at bats this season, health permitting, since he doesn't walk much. Rios with a good game. Paulie is so good it's scary.

Nice win. We know one thing. Twins are the worst team in the AL this year. Royals have a much better team than Minnie.

QUOTE (IlliniKrush @ May 25, 2012 -> 12:26 AM) No, because Paulie doesn't absolutely suck at his job. QUOTE (Chicago White Sox @ May 25, 2012 -> 12:32 AM) Where are you originally from in Chicago and how did you wind up in Lawrence? 1.) Hawk doesn't suck at his job, either. Cmon. He's entertaining which is more than you can say for most of the clowns on other teams' broadcasts. 2.) I am from Mt. Greenwood, went to Queen of Martyrs then Brother Rice, played basketball and baseball. Came out this way for college, moved and returned later for work. Used to hate the Royals, but now I feel sorry for them and enough is enough and I wouldn't mind them winning if the Sox can't. I don't root for them, though. Just don't care enough to do that. Don't like the Chiefs either.

I like all the runs. This is how the Twins used to kick the Sox ass. Just keep putting runs on the Sox and piling it on.

Tank with a blast. Wow. towering.

I kind of like Crain this year. He's not bad at all.

Sox bring the lumber out tonight against this bad Twins team. I'll take it. Loved that DeAza blast.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ May 24, 2012 -> 09:58 PM) Dude, if Sox fans weren't allowed to blast Harry Carry in the 90's because he was with them 2 decades beforehand, then I crossed a whole lot of lines. I'm just saying it's crazy and petty that sox fans on a Sox message board are blasting Hawk Harrelson. The guy may be the face of our franchise now that he is gone. This would be like blasting Paulie. It makes no sense and just seems anti-Chicago. The greatest city in the world and yet Sox fans (some of them) are blasting this legend in this thread. Weird. I just figure out of respect it should be in the filibuster area. Also, Hawk isn't leaving anytime soon, God willing health wise, and it seems dumb to arbitrarily blast him all season long (from now on if this threat lives).

QUOTE (Quinarvy @ May 24, 2012 -> 10:48 PM) Kenny acquired them. We know that. He's been demonized for it. No, he's acquired none of those players you mentioned. He didn't acquire De Aza either, who he could have played over Rios last year. He didn't acquire Viciedo, who he could have played over Dunn. QUOTE (chw42 @ May 24, 2012 -> 10:48 PM) Who didn't want Jim Thome? Oh yeah, Ozzie Guillen. What was the effect of this? Oh yeah, signing Adam Dunn. It's a domino effect. 1.) You don't bench guys making the kind of jack Rios and Dunn make (see Soriano of the Cubs and other overpaid stiffs). You pencil them in and hope for the best and hope they fire the GM who acquired them. Oh wait, the GM said Ozzie was free to play who he wanted. Big deal. Playing devil's advocate aren't you now happy Dunn played all last year considering his finally getting adjusted to the AL? 2.) I knew that would get brought up. Yes, Ozzie makes all the calls for the White Sox. He didn't want Thome and forced Kenny to tell Thome he'd get minimal at bats if he resigned with the Sox. I will never understand this Ozzie hatred. The man is not Terry Bevington; he is Ozzie "I have a ring in a city that does not win baseball rings" Guillen.

QUOTE (Quinarvy @ May 24, 2012 -> 10:08 PM) Throwing games by playing s***ty players and throwing games by being the 1919 White Sox are two different things. Yes, Ozzie is responsible for acquiring all the s***ty players. Ozzie is the devil. Ozzie is responsible for everything that's bad with our pathetic organization. Sorry I can't blame the demise of the Roman empire on Ozzie. He played Dunn. He could have benched him. He played Rios. He could have benched him. WHO ACQUIRED THOSE TWO PLAYERS??? Did he also aquire stiffs like Lilly and Escobar and some of the revolving relief hacks we employ? No but he pitched Jenks. He WANTED to lose. Sure he did. The man was and IS a very very good manager. He threw games? Please.

QUOTE (sunofgold @ May 24, 2012 -> 10:02 PM) I came up with a new nickname THE ADAM BOMB. And it fits well with our Tank and Missile. Feel free to use that nickname or just use DAdam DAnn. That's actually pretty amazing. Send it to the beat writers on twitter.

QUOTE (HickoryHuskers @ May 24, 2012 -> 12:39 PM) Never had more than one beer at a Sox game if I was driving. There's this handy thing called the 'L' that takes people home without having to drive. I'm in favor of having two 'levels' of DUI. As it stands now (in every state I know of) someone who is .09 and someone who is .18 are both committing the exact same crime, but I think we'd all agree that the person who is .18 is much more likely to cause an injury/death and to some extent is making a much more irresponsible decision by driving. Yes but you have to get out of the L somewhere and get in your car and drive the rest of the way home.

QUOTE (Quinarvy @ May 24, 2012 -> 11:54 AM) You really believe what you type? Ozzie betrayed the Sox after 2005. Ozzie in 2012 =/= Ozzie in 2005. He felt like his victory in '05 enabled him to whatever he wanted. You know what that is? That'd be like after WW2 us looking at the Soviet Union going "...nah. They helped us win WW2. We're cool with them." Everyone knows that KW has an ego. You act like Ozzie doesn't have the biggest ego in all of f***ing baseball. KW never tried to let this s*** effect the on field product or complain to the media about it. If Reinsdorf has an ego, he rarely lets it get in the way of his loyalty. Consistently winning? What consistent winning? Here's Ozzie's year by year. 2004: 83-79. Could have done better, but pretty good for first year. 2005: 99-63. We all know what happens, 11-1 in playoffs. Good times had. 2006: 90-72. This team should have won the World Series, but didn't make the playoffs. Record should have been better. This year was a failure. 2007: 72-90. Well, that was a laughably bad year. 2008: 89-74. Stumbled at end, Danks stepped up for once to get them in via Game 163. Decimated in playoffs. 2009: 79-83. Well, this was the beginning of the end. 2010: 88-74. Had far more potential if we had Thome and the Twins didn't. 2011: 78-82. Ozzie threw games left and right. Intentionally. Obviously. That is not consistent and it's mediocrity. You blame the players for the teams effort? Then they get all the credit for over-achieving in 2005. One or the other. Ozzie is the manager, he's supposed to get effort. He also could have played De Aza over Rios, Viciedo over Dunn, etc. Ok, I know Buehrle and Paulie are somehow inhumanly ageless, but other players aren't. Kotsay is a piece of s*** who made a good bench player, that's it. Definitely not a full time DH. My friends who are Brewers fans hated having him last year. Pierre at this point is a bench player because he can't get on base. However, he wouldn't be playing if not for injuries. I liked Juan Dog though, he tried, he was just laughably bad at one point. Wise is a AAAA player. Brian Anderson is the equivalent of DeWayne Wise minus the cool-ass catch. Erstad was an injury plagued season removed from being a good ass player. Rios has been fine this year by the way, you just don't like him because you want a guy who was out of baseball in 2010 starting in RF still. Oh, apparently it is possible to stutter while typing since you forgot Erstad's name and remembered it in the span of a period. And us poor poor fans for wanting good players on our team? Well, f*** us then. Let's just go down to the T-Ball field get 25 kids and as long as they try hard that's OK. And f*** us for wanting someone who puts the team before himself. Like I said before, get that s*** outta here. Yes I believe what I write And your listing of records backs me up. Considering the White Sox history this is a damn fine record you listed of the Oz era. This is a pretty damn good stretch record wise. You say "get that s*** outta here" and yet you say what you said about 2011? Cmon. if Ozzie threw games there should be a MLB investigation and he should be Pete Rosed and his career hosed. 2004: 83-79. Could have done better, but pretty good for first year. 2005: 99-63. We all know what happens, 11-1 in playoffs. Good times had. 2006: 90-72. This team should have won the World Series, but didn't make the playoffs. Record should have been better. This year was a failure. 2007: 72-90. Well, that was a laughably bad year. 2008: 89-74. Stumbled at end, Danks stepped up for once to get them in via Game 163. Decimated in playoffs. 2009: 79-83. Well, this was the beginning of the end. 2010: 88-74. Had far more potential if we had Thome and the Twins didn't. 2011: 78-82. Ozzie threw games left and right. Intentionally. Obviously.