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QUOTE(Balta1701 @ Sep 15, 2006 -> 02:06 PM) I will never eat at that f***ing place. It's ads are the only ones worse than Burger King. But the taco's are absolutely delicious. I'm sure its grade F products in there, but damn are they tasty.

QUOTE(fathom @ Sep 15, 2006 -> 10:14 PM) You don't trade Thome. However, you need to give him more rest throughout the season, and it would be wise to have a righty on the bench who you can put in the lineup against guys like C.C., Randy Johnson, etc. Actually, I think moving Thome could be a ingenious move. We could get very good value for him and use the chips we got for him to restock our system while trying to find a bat (much easier to find than top notch prospects that we could use to get us starting pitching, which is the real tough commoddity out there). So Yes, I'd be a huge fan of moving Thome. I think he's a great guy but I also think his numbers make him look better than he's actually been.

Do most schools teach CPR? I know I had to take a CPR course while I was taking my health class. You wonder if they could one up the level of expectations that middle schoolers (thats when I took it and than obviously again in Boy Scouts) would really be better prepared and hopefully remember it for the rest of there lives should the unimaginable happen and they need to use that skill on a friend, loved one, or stranger in need.

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Sep 12, 2006 -> 12:46 PM) Wow, you have to pony up an extra $75 if you are staying at the hotel? Damn, I don't think I will be going either. Per person to boot. Oh well, I figured I wouldn't be able to make it anyway since its during busy season so I guess this just seals it. It just means when my busy season ends I'll have to come out to Chicago for opening weekend or something.

QUOTE(SoxFan101 @ Sep 11, 2006 -> 11:16 PM) The way I figured it is have both Bobby and Thornton warming up in the bp... if Jenks didnt look like he had his stuff put in Thornton if he did give him the chance. And he had his stuff out there.. unlike last time. And thats exactly what Ozzie did, Thorty was up and ready.

QUOTE(greasywheels121 @ Sep 11, 2006 -> 07:36 AM) It should be remembered, but it shouldn't become a holiday for the same reasons December 7th isn't one. Took the words right out of my mouth. A tribute or a day of rememberence, of course, but a national holiday I think not. In fact I think that would trivialize the day.

QUOTE(SoxAce @ Sep 11, 2006 -> 10:41 PM) You can say that about 4 of our 5 starters. As a matter of fact when will we see our starters not named Garland actually put up a 0 against the opposition? Hell Count was the last to do it and he did it on Aug 11 (1 month, 1 day from now) But as of right now, I'll settle a TON for our starters to pitch well (1-3 earned). See, I can say that when Javy, Count or Garland are on its nasty. In fact when Javy or Count are on its more than nasty and when Jon is on its fun to watch cause he doesn't get hit hard at all, but he's not dominant in the sense of the strike out or anything like that. Either way, right now my confidence meter is on the rise and maybe thats because I'm real excited that they actually played a good all around game (its happened before this year and they've than went on to tank it). Hopefully Mark can come out tomorrow and pitch good and if needed the offense can bail him out.

QUOTE(qwerty @ Sep 11, 2006 -> 10:48 PM) I agree, we should have all the faith in the world because jenks saved game four of the world series. He gets a free pass along with ozzie because of his genius managing in the playoffs. One difference, Jenks has been one of the 4 best closers in baseball THIS YEAR. I realize his ERA isn't jaw dropping amazing, but he's converting saves and you know what in the end thats what matters. As far as his stuff, I thought he looked good and he was throwing strikes. When Bobby throws strikes he's pretty tough to hit. You can see some rust and he still has to work on improving his consistency with the breaking ball, but bottom line he did the job and stuff wise looked good (even though he did give up 2 hits).

QUOTE(Milkman delivers @ Sep 11, 2006 -> 12:41 PM) Crank was exactly what it looked like. Crap with a lot of action. But was it hillarious. I can't wait till my friend goes back to working at the theatre on Wednesday so we can mooch free tix off him and see it. I'm thinking it will be better than Transporter 2 (and thats like my favorite movie of the past couple years). Based on the previous it looks ridiculously awful, which means it will be ridiuclously funny.

QUOTE(Heads22 @ Sep 11, 2006 -> 10:39 PM) I think it's 3 days. I know Jason is a fan of anything that puts green in the blue. Blue being his pants. Hells ya, anything that gets me a closer to getting out of the red zone is cool with me. So if anyone wants to pay like 1000 bucks to go to a Sox game with me, well just shoot me a PM cause I'm down

When does this thing end?

Questionable move, for cripes sakes Bobby is our closer. What the hell are you all talking about. Sure he's been rusty since coming back from an injury but I think he's proven himself over the course of two seasons that we should have faith in the guy.

QUOTE(GoRowand33 @ Sep 11, 2006 -> 10:13 PM) I agree, although freddy seems to at the very least keep us in the games, while Buerlhe has been the most inconsistent The thing is, I can't see Freddy shutting anyone down and I like to know if we have a guy on the mound that he's capable of shutting a guy down when he has his A game. Freddy's A game right now consists of 3-4 runs in 7 innings. Thats a good game right there, but I'm spoiled (hell I'll admit it) and when one of our pitchers throws an A game, I think they are capable of it being a 8-9 inning game with 0-3 runs (usually 1-2).

On a sidenote, just want to point out that I was really surprised, I saw very very few White Sox fans at the game this year. In fact I think this was the fewest I've seen at a Sox Angel game in my lifetime. But I didn't really wander too far around the stadium, I was in my seats part of the game and than moved down into the club level later on and both sections are mainly filled with season ticket holders so maybe its the wrong sample size to see.

Thats what I call winning baseball. We played defense, had the timely hitting (we crushed lackey more so than the box score would show, although he got strong after giving up those runs) and got a stellar pitching performance out of Contreras (who was using the fork ball a lot more...THANK YOU). Thats playoff type baseball and we are going to need to see a whole lot more of that if we want to make some noise.

Its better and I got to admit, I'm feeling a lot better because Vazquez/Garland/Contreras when pitching like they have been the past couple starts give us 3 formidable guys to throw out in the playoffs. When it comes to Buehrle/Garcia I got very little faith. Same can be said for anyone in our pen not named MacDougall, Thorton or Jenks.

QUOTE(Heads22 @ Sep 11, 2006 -> 01:32 PM) Gage's Rally Beard? Nah, I'm corporate now, which means I'm cleanly shaven every day starting today. The sweet thing is it was a short day so I'm heading to the game in like 15 minutes.

Keith, feel free to pimp SSS as much as you want here.

I remember that day, being woken up by mom who said a plane crashed into the WTC. I assumed it was an accident and a small prop plane that must of hit it but than turned on FoxNews just before the 2nd plane hit and than the first tower fell. I had my 2nd or 3rd week of college that morning so I listened to it in the car and went to my first class and than the campus was closed so I went to my dad's office where we all watched the news for the entire day. Prayers go out to all of those that were effected on that tragic day :prays

QUOTE(Queen Prawn @ Sep 11, 2006 -> 06:40 AM) It died again. I hope it just needs more dry time. We made calls and went through his phonebook and it worked for 45 minutes before dying. Mine survived the ocean once. It acted really funny when it first came back, but after it dried completely (took like a day) it somehow worked fine so maybe Brian's phone will make it.

Well I guess I should be happy that Peyton won (even though I hate him). I was rooting for the Giants, but in the big picture its good for the Bears that both the Cowboys and Giants lost (afterall, while I expect the Bears to win the division, its always good when two teams that will likely be in the thick of the playoff race lose).

Gonna sit down and watch it right now.

QUOTE(elrockinMT @ Sep 10, 2006 -> 07:48 PM) But, I would be quick to add not for Freddie Garcia. I think Freddie should be the trade bait next year. I am also quite concerned about Buerhle and his inconsistent pitching. Garland is the ace, Javier is showing back to back to back good outings but pitching in bad luck and Contreras is at least a 50/50 toss up when he pitches. I completely agree with you. I think Garcia has to be gone and than its either Buehrle or Contreras. I really don't see us moving Contreras because he has such good stuff and well I really do have concerns about Buehrle. Plus I think Buehrle still has very very strong trade value and we could maybe swap him in a 3 way deal for another starter that the Sox may like.

I'll be there, hopefully getting the Sox back on the right track!!!

I figure people may not see Wharris's post in the catch all anything thread so I thought I'd make a thread about it. The Sox appear to have made there final callups as Josh Fields (3B/OF), Jerry Owens (LF), Sean Tracey (RHP), and Razor Shines (Coach) have all been called up and will be in the dugout starting today.