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QUOTE(Cerbaho-WG @ Aug 29, 2006 -> 03:45 PM) He's a good RF, though, and he has a very good arm. Ya, not enough people talk about his arm, its very strong and its accurate.

Grammatically speaking, I am probably the worst poster on this site.

I learned the secret, you buy them online from places and htan sell them back. There were a few books that I was able to sell back for about the same price I paid for them. Of course it took me till my final year to derive this ingenius plan. However, you alwyas get stuck with books you can't sell back because new editions are always coming out. When thats the case I stick mine up on half.com and I've had some decent luck on there.

I had a semester where I lagged, but even than I would go to at least half my classes and all of my accounting specific ones. In general I probably was in class at least 90% of the time. I got the urge of missing school out of my mind by skipping a lot in high school (I always used up my absences, lol). I dunno, I just felt a lot more comfortable if I were there cause I wasn't missing things if a test was pushed back or we had some sort of quiz in class (cause pretty much all my professors would ocassionally give short notice quizes and if I weren't going to class I'd be missing em).

QUOTE(fathom @ Aug 28, 2006 -> 07:23 PM) I can't see how even the biggest of Red Sox homer fans could think this. I'm always pessimistic about the White Sox chances...but I'd take our position and the way we're playing 100 pct of the time over the Red Sox position. Something interesting I heard the other day is that in LIPS, Manny's OPS is like 1.400, while Ortiz is like .800. Ok, whats are LIPS???

Before someone makes mention, I'd like to point out the reason the totals are so low in 95 is because it was a strike shortened season. Either way, you can see that the AL seems to be the league thats harder to win the wild card in (well more wins anyway) and I guess that coincides with the AL's recent dominance in the All Star game.

QUOTE(Bonderman38 @ Aug 28, 2006 -> 12:05 PM) He's the real deal. I think he can do well. This guy has a great arm, but he wasn't dominate at times against some of the better collegiate teams. I expect him to be completely overmatched and its a joke that he has a clause that would hinder his development (and him pitching at the major league level right now, which won't happen as he'll probably rot on the bench, is going to hinder him because he could have been developing and getting a lot more innings down in the minors).

QUOTE(Tony82087 @ Aug 28, 2006 -> 02:50 PM) Not a fan of Ortiz? I hate the Sawx, but I have a hard time disliking Ortiz. I don't have anything against Ortiz, but no one will ever convince me that he's a better hitter than Manny. Manny may very well be the greatest run producer of all time.

QUOTE(Brian @ Aug 28, 2006 -> 06:59 AM) Congrats to Jeremy Piven for a much deserved Emmy win on the night of the 3rd season finale. He is awesome in that role. Liked the finale. Makes me mad I have to wait til next summer for the next season. Really thought they would go with the "they come to their senses and do the right thing" ending like last season but they did something interesting and new. Almost a cliffhanger? Ya, just saw the finale and it was good stuff. Damn I'll miss that show, its just 30 minutes of entertainment.

I officially miss school. Had I not graduated I would have started last week. Instead I start the real world two weeks from today and with that my existence as a member of Soxtalk will be greatly reduced and if it doesn't it probably means I'm gonna get fired relatively quickly

QUOTE(Steff @ Aug 28, 2006 -> 02:32 PM) Some people never liked him. FTR, I like him most of the time. I think you were pretty dead on when it came to Ozzie. IIRC, When he was hired you mentioned a lot of his positives but than also said there would be times where people would be shaking there heads at what came out of his mouth and some of his actions.

QUOTE(T R U @ Aug 28, 2006 -> 12:22 PM) Rhett Bomar just transfered to my school (Sam Houston State) today.. I am calling it right now (If he can play) we will beat Texas at Texas That be one of the biggest upsets of the year. I assume he is ineligible until next season?

Well Tiger is probalby the strongest guy on the tour, but I was talking to my buddy about this today and he's a scratch golfer whose been playing all his life. He's not at all a strong guy and he said the only thing matters is your swing plane, flexibility and well having long arms/height would help as well (since you'd have a bigger arc which would help you generate more swing speed). His avg drive is in the 260-270 range, which would put him a bit below the pro players but for cripe sakes he's a bit taller than me yet is probably 25 pounds less than me and weaker as well so I'd have some doubts as to how much strength would help (that said, he obviously has a far more efficient swing than me). He says roids wouldn't help, but than again he's not a doctor. Still, I'm sure someone would try it cause you never know if it could help.

QUOTE(Steff @ Aug 28, 2006 -> 02:20 PM) Uhhh... Jason. Mrs BMac, i'm sure, knows all about Paulie behind the scenes so you should apologize for comparing her son to him.... You know that I love Paulie, my favorite player in baseball. Well aside from that MVP candidate we had last year, I think his name was....WILLIE HARRIS

QUOTE(Steff @ Aug 28, 2006 -> 02:10 PM) Jas, I think it's Brandon's "professional" attitude that rubs Oz the wrong way. Mike, please chime in with your thoughts also. No doubt. Brandon has handled the questions as best as possible about him moving into the rotation and everything. But I guess since he's not firey or anything like that it upsets Ozzie. Afterall, it seems like if you say stupid stuff you instantly become a member of Ozzie's inner circle. The thing i don't get is, Brandon seems to be the pitching version of Paulie, a pretty quiet guy whose very serious and professional but when he goes to the media usually (aside from some of the spats with Thomas) its handled with some class. Ozzie never handles the media with class.

QUOTE(kapkomet @ Aug 28, 2006 -> 11:40 AM) That doesn't matter, they're not fighting for the play........ oh wait a minute... They are overcoming a ton of injuries, so its a different situation.

QUOTE(kapkomet @ Aug 28, 2006 -> 09:24 AM) Because there's some things (again) that we all may not know about. I think your making some big assumptions here. The only thing going on is Ozzie being an idiot and I know at least a couple players are upset with there roles on the team. However, to the credit of the Sox things have stayed quiet. QUOTE(kapkomet @ Aug 28, 2006 -> 10:06 AM) I don't think it's a problem to talk about short term and long term approaches. A business manager does both, so why not here? I don't think you force the issue. I'd rather have Walker be the one that is in on this meeting, especially if it involves offense. But he may very well have been there. That said I think its stupid to pigeon hole a guy, especially with the all around tools Anderson has. He could turn into the premiere centerfielder in baseball a few years from now. He'll never be a total offensive force (avg wise) but he could very well be a .280, 30, 100 type of guy while playing gold glove defense and that makes you a premiere CFer. Oh better yet, he could also probably steal 20 bases.

QUOTE(kapkomet @ Aug 28, 2006 -> 08:33 AM) Milkman, with all due respect (and this time, I seriously am not trying to yap at you or be a jerk), unless you know what's going on in that clubhouse every day, you can't possibly know what's best. We can ASSUME what's best all day long (which we're all good at around here). I think I have a pretty good guess as to why this is happening, but honestly, I'm not willing to put it down here on the board. But I will say this - I think that in September, we're going to be better off then some teams, because of the "Sunday lineups". Will it be enough to get us in the playoffs? Time will tell. Its not the Sunday lineup, its playing players in the wrong position and there is absolutely no excuse for that. And having our every day lineup just 6 times is real pathetic. Last season it wasn't that bad and you won't see a good team in baseball that does it. Yes its great to have your bench involved and we have a solid bench (aside from a backup CF/righty bat) but at one point a line gets drawn in the sand because the guys on the bench are there and not starting for a reason. Of course injuries to Paulie and Konerko played some factor in all of this. Oh and I'd have no problem if we saw a lot more of Gload, hell, just threaten it to maybe liven up Pods (who actually had his best game in a long long time on Sunday). QUOTE(kapkomet @ Aug 28, 2006 -> 08:55 AM) That's a good point. However, I still think there's some things that we're all not privy to which would be some reasons why this is happening. Just so I'm clear, I'm for BA over Mack - I agree with you all on that. However, I'm trying to say that there's a reason why BA is being 'protected' if you will. There isn't. Ozzie is putting BA in positions where he doesn't succeed. For example, always throwing him out against LHP which he hits substantially worse than RHP.

QUOTE(Jordan4life_2006 @ Aug 28, 2006 -> 01:42 PM) This offense goes from really good to a friggin' juggernaut if Pods comes out of his coma. If Pods can be the Pods of most of last year, we will be in good shape because his speed will help us win the games where our power is a little dry. So ya that would be outstanding. Obviously eventually the pitching will have to step up, but if Pods can get rolling and stealing sucessfully we should be able to find a way to hit ourselves into the playoffs. What happens at that point, I don't know, but the only positive is I don't see a real imposing pitching staff out there in baseball right now.

QUOTE(Steff @ Aug 28, 2006 -> 12:57 PM) You think Ozzie is the type of guy to be told how to manage the players...? I'm with you on this Steff. From everything I've heard about the situation (and this is one of the few areas I've heard some "inside" sort of stuff) is that Kenny is absolutely in love with Bmac (well maybe not in love, but he thinks very very highly of him, and that should be pretty obvious considering all the positive quotes he's had about Brandon) while Ozzie does not feel the same way about Brandon. My guess is something about Brandon rubs Ozzie the wrong way and Ozzie's the type of manager who seems to base a lot of things on how he likes a player and attitude sometimes matters. I'm not saying Brandon has a bad attitude, by all means I don't think he does, I think he's a constant professional but he may not be as loose as some of the other players and he tends to have a very serious demeanor and a little more "dry" humor so to speak and somewhere in there I think something rubs Ozzie the wrong way. I just know that Kenny is going to have to force Ozzie's hand next year and basically get rid of a starter so we know Brandon is the starter and that will happen. I just wish there was another person calling the shots. Ozzie got us the ring and I think him for that and he'll always be a legend in Chicago for that (just like Ditka is) despite the fact that both Ozzie and Ditka (despite having interesting personalities) were what I'd consider mediocre coaches/managers. QUOTE(fathom @ Aug 28, 2006 -> 01:59 PM) He looked much more decisive and confident. The first steal was all him, as he had a great jump (I'm still confused at the slide he attempted). The second steal was more due to a bad throw by the catcher. Redmond was the catcher, and the best thing you can say about his arm is that he's a good hitter. However, I don't care who is behind the plate. It's nice to see Pods try to get some swagger back. Definately, he seems very tentative and its like he is afraid to go or just hesitating a little more. Plus he's not really practicing his jump like he would last season when he'd get a nice secondary lead (he really doesn't do that as well this year). But hell, he finally stole some bases of someone not named Victor Martinez (cause it seems like most of his steals come when we play Cleveland).

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Aug 28, 2006 -> 12:56 PM) Interesting about Pods, he had two beautiful bunt singles and a couple of steals this weekend... I wonder if he is finally ready to go now, or if this is just a tease? Were the steals impressive ones or were they just awful throws. I mean it looked like he had a 05 Pods like game yesterday.

QUOTE(danman31 @ Aug 28, 2006 -> 01:49 PM) Yeah considering his continued domination in Birmingham he's the one guy I would want on the list now. We made this about a month ago so some things have changed. Egbert would probably get the nod over a few guys, Perez would definitely be on, and Collaro and Brooks would probably be bumped. Collaro and Brooks were the bottom two, and were questionable selections, but the other two have been hot while Collaro has regressed in AA and Brooks continues to be average. The point remains that the list isn't impressive no matter what. Any way you look at it, we really dont have any upper echelon prospects right now and even some of our best prospects have some serious questionmarks and most of the list is full of questionmarks. Some guys have sick numbers, but there is a lot of question whether they have the all around ability to succeed at the major league level while others have the ability but haven't been able to put things together at the minor league level. The moral of this list is that our farm system BLOWS!!!!

Egbert is the guy that really put himself worthy of this list, probably relatively higher up but when we finished the list we didn't quite know. We really had a ton of debating and it was very hard to put together the list.

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At least we have a pitcher out there that can control the running game. I really have no faith against the Twins when I know 2 of our guys really can't hold runners (although Vaz isn't horrible at it, Jose sucks at it but I guess on the bright side Freddy wasn't pitching against them).