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QUOTE (SoxAce @ May 15, 2011 -> 10:28 PM) Infante with a decent outing in his AAA debut. NSS's boy Remenowsky just has amazing peripherals in AA. HOLY s***. I just looked. Those are unwordly. I would honestly promote him right the f*** now and dump Tony Pena's lame ass. Yes, straight to the big leagues.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ May 15, 2011 -> 05:19 PM) I certanly haven't gotten that impression, he's been just as wild/struggled to get people out as he was in the 9th. He just has had fewer Juan Pierre drops. Yeah I would like to retract that statement. I looked at his stats and he really hasn't been much better.

Is it any wonder Thornton has started to become the usual Matt Thornton since he was put back in his 7th/8th inning role?? JUAN CAUGHT IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

QUOTE (The Ginger Kid @ May 15, 2011 -> 04:49 PM) my favorite is still Sean Casey getting thrown out from left. Pablo got him in Detroit right?

QUOTE (The Ginger Kid @ May 15, 2011 -> 04:41 PM) fail on the suicide by our best bunter Our best bunter is actually at third.

Look how a good bunt can be quite beneficial.

QUOTE (fathom @ May 15, 2011 -> 03:56 PM) Hawk, please don't say "there's your run Mark". Sox are 0-267 in games he's said that. Odds that Mark gives the run right back?

QUOTE (Tex @ May 15, 2011 -> 03:20 PM) It's called stating the obvious, year in and year out posters here have outperformed Williams. There was some great stats earlier in the thread, with all that salary, there should be a string of playoff appearances, yet there isn't. His roster moves have been so obviously bad, more posters than not, could have done better. Again I am not saying I could do better, but I am saying there are lots of other highly qualified baseball minds that could with the inherent advantages the White Sox have over others in our division. Is that concept really so hard to see? It's like telling me that I cannot criticize Keith Bogans for his play as the Bulls starting 2-guard because I, myself, could not go out there and outperform him. Yet anyone can ostensibly see that he is not a good 2-guard.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ May 15, 2011 -> 03:17 PM) 6/15 Somebody seriously needs to go Tonya Harding on him.

QUOTE (Paint it Black @ May 15, 2011 -> 03:09 PM) It doesn't tell me anything. I remember people b****ing about the Danks/McCarthy trade and wanting to crucify KW. I'm sure the people from that thread are still holding to their belief that it was an awful trade. Oh wait. It's easy to play arm chair GM and have revisionist history at the same time. Juan Pierre has a .316 OBP and is our leadoff hitter. He is also 6/14 on stolen bases. I think most smart GMs/managers would realize that dude is not a leadoff hitter anymore. Baseball is perhaps the one game where statistics can tell you so much more about the game than watching. Runs scored is predicated on on-base percentage not batting average. And steals are pretty much a horrible idea unless the runner is successful about 80% of the time. These are proven statistic statements yet our management did not get the memo. It is stuff like this that irks me so much about KW and Ozzie.

QUOTE (Jordan4life @ May 15, 2011 -> 02:22 PM) So did Chris Carpenter and Josh Johnson. Strasburg is a once in a generation type talent. But part of his talent is an 80 fastball and curveball. I have a hard time believing that curveball will be an 80 after TJS. And who knows what kind of velocity he will have after TJS. Yes, some pitchers do come back and become top-tier MLB pitchers, but some don't (Liriano, Nathan, etc.). I think the skepticism of his stuff coming back completely is valid. Harper though is sick. Great intangibles. Out-of-this-world talent. I can't foresee a way he doesn't become at least a All-Star level player.

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ May 15, 2011 -> 10:04 AM) Feces leaks out of my anus slowly in preparation for the s***ting of myself that is going to happen in anticipation of tonight's game! This series will be EPIC.

When I criticize KW, it's not because I think I am smarter baseball-wise, because obviously I don't believe that. My criticism manifests itself because he is a lousy general manager relative to others in his business. Some facts since he took over: Record: 866-795 (.521%) Playoff appearances: 2/10 years Salary rankings: 2011: 5/30 (1st in division) 2010: 7/30 (2nd in division, Detroit) 2009: 12/30 (2nd in division, Detroit) 2008: 5/30 (2nd in division, Detroit) 2007: 5/30 (1st in division) 2006: 4/30 (1st in division) 2005: 13/30 (1st in division) 2004: 15/30 (1st in division) 2003: 22/30 (2nd in division, Minnesota) 2002: 18/30 (2nd in division, Cleveland) 2001: 14/30 (2nd in division, Cleveland) So we have won TWO DIVISIONS in 10 years with the highest payroll in the division 50% of the time and the second highest in the division the other 50% of the time. We are not smarter than KW, we just realize that there are plenty of baseball people smarter than KW yet somehow we are stuck with him for eternity it feels. The AL Central for most of the 2000s has been one of the worst divisions in baseball coupling horrid teams (Royals every year, Tigers early 2000s, Indians late 2000s) with incredibly miniscule payrolls (pretty much everyone besides us and the Tigers who only recently boosted up their payroll). Given these immense advantages, we still have been to the playoffs only twice under his reign. Any GM would get flack for his paltry success rate, but add in the lack of strong competition for most his tenure, it makes those two division titles look trivial. And one last point, for any GM you would rather have teams that made the playoffs year in and year out than a flash-in-the-pan World Series title year. Yes, the glory may be awesome that one year, but making the playoffs year in and year out is a sign of a great organization.

That was awesome. I especially love all the fans' reactions.

http://harvardsportsanalysis.files.wordpre...ckers-costs.jpg This was the Packers' expenses from 2009, approximately $230 million. I would venture to say a baseball team costs a lot more money to run, so you can see how much expenses are even if you are bringing in a lot of revenue.

QUOTE (Soxbadger @ May 14, 2011 -> 11:06 AM) Youre probably overestimating revenue and underestimating costs. The White Sox have employees and staff 365 days a year. The Sox have a spring training facility that costs money. We just have no idea how much it costs for things like transportation, travel and other operating costs. That stuff adds up very quick. Maintaining a professional baseball stadium is extremely expensive alone.

QUOTE (kjshoe04 @ May 13, 2011 -> 10:55 AM) I think the strange thing about the schedule is the huge break between games 2 and 3. That is going to be a LONG 3 days off. Hopefully we can use that to get Boozer closer to full health.

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ May 13, 2011 -> 08:09 AM) Me too. If I were putting money down, I'd take the Bulls, though. This line had me confused. Five games does not = "barely" no matter how you slice it. Whitlock is just an idiot. Plain and simple. 8-man rotation for the Bulls? They go 10 deep every night.

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ May 13, 2011 -> 08:36 AM) Yes, I played the first game of the ECF last night and can confirm that. I did in fact beat them 88-85. That's probably the score range where most of these games will be played.

QUOTE (kjshoe04 @ May 12, 2011 -> 03:22 PM) I'd take Dirk for one game in a heartbeat. The guy is maybe the best player on the planet right now. False. He isn't even in the top 5.

Omer f***ing Asik is dating Ms. Ohio. http://www.terezowens.com/chicago-bulls-ba...ting-miss-ohio/ FML. Omer probably smells awful, too.

Ok god Matt, please don't blow this.

QUOTE (Soxbadger @ May 11, 2011 -> 03:15 PM) I just think its pretty hard to predict next year, let alone 3-5 years from now. If the Heat are in the finals the next 2 years, Id start to agree, but as of now, they havent even made 1 NBA final. Its just way to speculative for me. Definitely agree, but basketball is probably the easiest sport to predict of them all in the future.

QUOTE (JPN366 @ May 11, 2011 -> 03:24 PM) I asked David Cook to hit a homerun to left field, he hit a homerun to left field in his third at bat today. I haven't though about Cook is so darn long, haha. Great name from a couple years back.

http://deadspin.com/5800796/patrick-kanes-...ome-from-a-club New Patrick Kane news. For once I won't bash the guy, but rather the girl. So what you slept with Patrick Kane? You don't need to go through his s*** and take a picture of him sleeping. But how stuff comes full circle, her name is now out there and she will never live this one down. Nice one dumbass. I actually feel bad for Kane in this instance; he did nothing wrong and people are gonna trash him over it.