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QUOTE(StatManDu @ Feb 12, 2007 -> 09:29 AM) With today being the 26th anniversary of the White Sox acquisition of Marc Hill, I got to thinking: Is Toby Hall the typical backup catcher? I can see him getting more playing time than the typical reserve backstop. I love the guy and think he is a great player but AJ Pierzynski lagged defensively a year ago and may be starting to show some wear and tear from his extended action behind the plate over the last few years. On paper, this is the best catching tandem the Sox have had since ... LaValliere and Karkovice? Hill was a solid backup to Fisk but he came to the Sox with nowhere near the resume that Hall has or LaValliere had. I wouldn't be surprised if Hall got 250-300 at bats. I wouldn't blame Ozzie if he used Hall as a late-inning defensive replacement. It will be interesting to see how this all pans out. www.whitesoxalmanac.com Hall should get a good deal of playing time. AJ is still the starter and will handle the load but he clearly tired down the stretch last year. I think Hall will play against the vast majority of Left handed starters and will even come in late in games on ocassion (if we have big leads) to give Aj a bit of a rest. I also think people vastly underrate Hall's defensive abilities. He's got a pretty good arm behind the plate.

QUOTE(RockRaines @ Feb 12, 2007 -> 07:44 AM) I didnt think he looked bad at all. he looked head and shoulders better than BA IMO, and looked to improve in his at bats. IM not sure where "bad" came from. Sweeney may not have had amazing numbers in his short stint with the big club but he looked a boatload more confident and comfortable at the plate. My biggest problem with Anderson, offensively speaking, is how completely lost he still looks. His development may just be similar to Joe's, who prior to last year would look completely lost at times and early on in Joe's career he looked lost a whole lot. Ryan is much more of a guarantee at being a solid every day player than Anderson is and Sweeney also has the ability to be a star. Anderson does have one thing, he should always have a roster spot simply as a defensive replacement but he does have the ability to be an all star centerfielder (if he can figure out how to hit and yes the tools are there, but that by no means guarantees he'll be able to hit).

QUOTE(redandwhite @ Feb 12, 2007 -> 07:48 AM) They were one of the worst Super Bowl teams in the history of the event. No other team has come out and been as embarrassing as this years Bears team since the '85 Patriots. It's been discussed that nearly all teams that made the AFC Playoffs would have been beaten the Bears; outside of Kansas City, I might agree. The Bears are who I thought they were. A team that was successful in the worst division in the league and also the worst conference in the league. Clearly the Jets were better than the Bears...afterall they did beat us in there home stadium right? Oh wait, wrong. For god sakes we out played the Pats in New England and could have and should have won that game. Albeit I give the Pats all the credit for finishing and pulling off the win but the Bear bashing is beyond ridiculous. We pretty much rolled through the season and people still whine.

I take it they upped the number of games on WCIU?

QUOTE(Texsox @ Feb 11, 2007 -> 06:31 AM) My son made Life at 12 and Eagle at 16 almost 17. Lots of fun in-between. Philmont (returning this summer) One of my Scouts made Life at 12 and is wondering which is happening first, his 18th birthday or his Eagle Board of Review. BTW, I have a couple openings for camp staff here Aquatics Director and camp medic (First responder, EMT, nurse, etc.) I was bummed, when our troop went to Philmonth I wasn't able to go because I had a baseball tourney. I heard that was one of the best camping troops/experiences from my friends that were able to make it. That said I wasn't that big on what rank I made, I had tons and tons of badges but just didn't focus much on doing some of the minor details needed to advance rank so I lagged big time. To me it was about spending time with good friends, camping, and learning and while doing all that you were having a lot of fun. To this day my favorite merit badge was the shooting one.

QUOTE(shipps @ Feb 11, 2007 -> 12:28 PM) I seen The Shins last night at the Congress.Absolutely stellar,I liked thier new album but these guys sound even better live,totally made my birthday. s***, I didn't realize it was your bday. Happy belated birthday Jeff

QUOTE(Kalapse @ Feb 10, 2007 -> 09:51 PM) I love skim milk, always have I don't know what it is but the stuff is just so damn good. I can't stand 2%, it's like drinking cream. Disgusting. I just thought you'd like to know this. I am the exact same way. I can live with 1% but anything more than that is just ewww to me. Skim Milk with a little nesquick = the best.

QUOTE(The Critic @ Feb 12, 2007 -> 08:54 AM) Just an "educated guess", but I believe SnR may be ovah. Hope I'm wrong, though, those were some wacky broadcasts. No more Macho Man

I haven't seen any of the SNR guys around in a while but I'm sure as soon as they announce when they'll be doing shows you'll see something posted here.

QUOTE(greasywheels121 @ Feb 10, 2007 -> 01:53 PM) Bastard. Are you serious...did you at least hit the backboard and is there any footage of this anywhere

QUOTE(Soxbadger @ Feb 10, 2007 -> 01:07 PM) Haha I cant believe some one is saying Iowa is better than Illinois. Its almost impossible to win at Indiana and the fact that Illinois stayed in the game shows that they are atleast the 4th best team in the Big 10. As for the Big 10 being down, that is some what perplexing. OSU and Wisconsin are both in the top 5, if one of them was in the 16 range and had loss to a team like Illinois etc that would put 4 Big 10 teams in the top 25. Just because the top of the Big 10 is better than most of the other leagues does not make the middle of the road teams bad. Barring something crazy Illinois is in the tournament. I believe Iowa plays at Illinois to end the season and Im gonna say Illinois wins that game. Considering we've played you guys as good as any team in the conference pretty much (on both basis) I think it is hard to say that Iowa is a bad team right now. Early in the season we had our struggles and we still lack a 3rd scorer but we aren't that bad of a squad. We won't make any noise even if we did by some shocking way make the tourney but I don't think Illinois is that much better than us and lets not forget Iowa didn't lose to Ill by that much (albeit it wasn't quite as close as the IU game).

QUOTE(whitesoxfan99 @ Feb 10, 2007 -> 12:42 PM) Tell you what go through this site RPI and tell me how many major conference teams have been left out of the tourney that had over 20 wins and were over .500 in conference. 4 teams are probably all the Big 10 gets, unless some teams get real hot. Had Iowa won today and regardless of the record they probably have the better overall resume plus the better conference record. Lucky for you guys we pissed it away with a f***ing inability to rebound anything. Wisconsin had a zillion second chance points and again was able to shut down Haluska and Smith (you do it once and I am skeptical, twice and I tip my hat). f***, I don't know why but of all the games this year the Wisconsin ones piss me off the most cause we very well could have one those games (well that and the piss poor blown games against one of the other Iowa schools and ASU). I will say this, Iowa right now is a borderline tourney team (if not a lock) but the problem is they were so terrible early on in the year that they probably aren't good enough to over come that hole (a win today would have been HUUUGE and now they'll have to have a couple big road wins and pretty much win out the big ten for them to have a chance).

QUOTE(Heads22 @ Feb 9, 2007 -> 09:55 PM) I would like Iowa State to beat Texas tomorrow. I would like Iowa to beat Wisconsin tomorrow.

QUOTE(BigEdWalsh @ Feb 9, 2007 -> 11:05 PM) I'll sound like a total nut for saying this but on at least 3 different occasions I've seen UFO's. Go ahead and laugh. The first time was in 1967. I was with my mom somewhere near Crystal Lake driving east. Out on the horizon I saw this light looking much like a distant airplane. All of a sudden, it just zoomed straight south and was gone in an instant. My mom says, "Did you see that?!". So, she saw it too. The second time, about 15 years ago, I was with my wife driving very late at night just outside Lake Geneva, WI . Exactly like the other incident we both saw it and both exclaimed, "Did you see that?!". Then, approximately 6 or 7 years ago, I had a security job in Lake Geneva where I sat in a patrol car and watched a parking lot from midnight until six in the morning. I spent a lot of time star gazing and I saw some peculiar things. One night in particular, I saw not that far away, a light that seemed to be a helicopter. It was only maybe 100 yards away. I unrolled the car window and didn't hear a sound. After a few seconds the "thing" went shooting overhead and disappeared. It never made a sound. When I tell people about this stuff, which isn't very often, people think I'm nuts or making this up. Oh well, who cares? I know what I saw. Just for the record too. I grew up in a very old huge house in Elmhurst. I heard things often and was with a few friends once on the front porch when we all saw this guy who kinda looked like a bum. He was just walking through the yard and suddenly he wasn't there. It was like he walked behind a tree and vanished. It was real weird. And again, I wasn't the only one who witnessed this. We (my family) would often hear footsteps on the front porch but no one would be there when you opened the door. My dad said he saw people on the front porch on several occasions dressed in like early 1900's clothing. That house was totally creepy and very definately haunted. So, yeah, I believe in ghosts too. I won't call you crazy and the stories were neat. Love hearing this type of stuff.

QUOTE(Kid Gleason @ Feb 9, 2007 -> 11:02 AM) On a couple of boards I hit there are quite a few conversations going on about UFO sightings, and this is being triggered by what seems to be a rash of sightings over the past year. I just kind of figured, what the heck, why not let the fine folks of Soxtalk jump on board with the stuff also. So...anybody here believe...have you seen one...or do you believe it to being a bunch of "hooey". If you don't believe, how do you explain the massive amount of sightings of late? I completely believe in UFO's. I may not think we are about to be invaded but I believe in life on other planets. Now whether that would be creatures like us or mere microscopic organisms I don't know, but the solar system is huge with numerous galaxies and I'd have to believe you have life somewhere along the lines. Maybe there are places that are far more high tech than us, maybe there are places far lower high tech but I am very confident there are microrganisms somewhere else in the world at the very least and I wouldn't be shocked if there were civilizations on other planets. I also believe in ghosts. Have I ever seen a UFO, probably not, although when I was camping one time my friends and I saw something that could have been a UFO. We were in Catalina island for boy scout camp and were doing some star gazing when we noticed something moving (as if it were a plane) very high above us. It was moving very slow across the sky, the light than stopped (it was very far away so it was a light bigger than a star, but nothing to where I could tell you what this actually was) and than it shot across the sky another direction, stopped, than shot across the sky again and stopped and than launched completely past our field of vision (and the speeds we are talking about are amazing speeds, nothing humans are capable of). Again, I have no proof that it was an actual ufo but I have never seen anything move like that in my life.

QUOTE(Heads22 @ Feb 9, 2007 -> 03:34 PM) I'm waiting until Jas blames Carroll's dirtyness on Iowa State. No, but I will blame you and Northsider for ISU's dirtyness

She's South African and absolutely beautiful but wow talk about some dumb comments. I don't think anyone, whether democrat or republican (that is sane) would compare our freedoms here to the ones in Cuba.

My ears are starting to perk up to Romney. I like what he's been saying.

QUOTE(chimpy2121 @ Feb 9, 2007 -> 06:49 AM) USC is in trouble again. Now they are checking out if Bush called McKnight. In his recruiting call, Mcknight said that Bush and Carroll were on the phone with him and thats what convinced him. Carrol is now denying it happened. USC is so dirty under Pete and now maybe finally things will come crushing down on them.

QUOTE(Kalapse @ Feb 8, 2007 -> 09:04 PM) Odd, I was nominated for 5 categories and only won 1 of them. There's only one reasonable explanation for this . . . you're all f***ing idiots. The stats show you lost, but luckily I'm a scout and still consider you a top notch posting talent

QUOTE(shipps @ Feb 9, 2007 -> 06:00 AM) Hell is hot for a reason.I choose cold. San Diego doesn't appreciate that answer

QUOTE(SnB @ Feb 8, 2007 -> 06:43 PM) I think michael was the most unlikeable ever in tonight's episode. Michael's character is one of the few on tv that can flat piss me off. He was such an ass and thats why I love it...Carrel plays the part to a T. But Dwight, yet again some more classic Dwight and Jim moments.

Hope you all have a good one, especially one of the funniest posters on Soxtalk...Ribbie.

QUOTE(Felix @ Feb 8, 2007 -> 09:43 PM) Because then, if you aren't a big name or from a big name school, you won't get any big prospects. By approaching everyone, you are spreading more seeds (figuratively of course ), and the more seeds you spread, the more trees you are likely to have. You can approach everyone, its not like guys commit after one day. Its just after a guy commits you should respect it. Obviously there are guys that waver on there commitment and that is there right but I don't think you should have guys whispering in there ear (at least collegiate coaches) telling them to dump the commit and join your program.

QUOTE(Felix @ Feb 8, 2007 -> 09:24 PM) From what I understand, Tim Brewster has been doing the same, but I have no problem with it. He's in a situation where to get the top prospects, he needs to recruit them to no end, regardless of how they stand. Brewster is in a bit different of a situation though but still I just am not a fan of it and I realize some programs do it but why not do it like Ferentz does where you don't actively go after him, however, if the player approaches you than you consider it fair game. Ferentz has also been known to tell his guys to make sure they are ready to committ. But Kirk is real classy and of course I'm biased (that said you already saw me slam the coach of my other team).