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QUOTE(sayitaintso @ Jun 13, 2006 -> 12:31 PM) Is there a list of all the signings somewhere? I don't know where to look. EDIT: Nevermind i just found it. http://www.futuresox.com/frontpage/modules...article&sid=320 My Bad; 2nd round pick Matt Long also has signed 3 Justin Edwards LHP 18 6-0 180 Olympia H.S. (Orlando, Fla.) 4 Tyler Reves C 21 6-0 212 Texas Tech (Orange, Texas) 5 John Shelby 2B 20 5-10 190 Kentucky (Lexington, Ky.) 7 Justin Cassel RHP 21 6-2 200 Cal-Irvine (Northridge, Calif.) 8 Kent Gerst OF 18 5-10 170 Fort Zumwalt West H.S. (O'Fallen, Mo.) 10 Lee Cruz OF 22 6-2 190 Univ. of Tampa (Dade City, Fla.) 11 Andrew Urena RHP 22 5-10 190 Mercer (San Juan, P.R.) 13 Tyson Corley RHP 20 6-6 200 South Mountain J.C. (Shawnee, Kan.) 14 Michael Grace 1B 22 6-1 215 Fla. Southern (Brandon, Fla.) 21 Matthew Inouye C 22 5-10 190 Hawaii (Honolulu, Hawaii) 22 Kanekoa Texeira RHP 18 6-1 205 Saddleback J.C. (Kula, Hawaii) 24 Michael Rocco RHP 20 6-2 180 Cal St. San Bernadino (Palm Desert, Calif.) 25 Joseph Hunter OF 22 6-1 190 Miss. St. (Germantown, Tenn.) 26 David Wasylak RHP 23 6-3 195 Lubbock Christian (Framingham, Mass.) 31 Stefan Gartrell OF 22 6-3 230 San Francisco (San Francisco, Calif.) 36 Matthew Enuco OF 22 6-0 180 Rowan University (Pitman, N.J.) 40 Andrew Mead OF 22 6-1 190 Cortland St. (Baldwinsville, N.Y.) 50 Brendan O'Donnell OF 21 6-0 175 Texas-Permian Basin (Montecito, Calif.)

QUOTE(ChWRoCk2 @ Jun 13, 2006 -> 12:20 PM) Peanut butter on waffles is damn good

QUOTE(Heath @ Jun 13, 2006 -> 12:15 PM) Reds fan here - You can have Ryan Freel - but don't get him used to Old Style. But, we need pitching in the worst way. Someone mentioned Chris Denorfia, and he's about the closest thing the Reds have to major league prospect. He's around in case Kearns or Griffey goes down. I assume the Reds have pretty much completely given up on Wagner.

Fields/Lumsden should not be getting dealt unless we get the "Brad Lidge" or "Scott Shields" type.

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Jun 13, 2006 -> 12:13 PM) How about people who put ketchup on their brats? I put Ketchup, Mustard, and peppers and onions. I also put peanut butter on waffles...shoot me, it tastes delicious and thats all that matters

The Sox have now came to terms with 19 draft picks, including 2nd rounder Matt Long.

The Brats at the park own. The food at the cell is so much better to that in Anaheim.

QUOTE(RockRaines @ Jun 13, 2006 -> 11:24 AM) would you say that makes us babybearhaters? That was a long time ago when that was your SN right??

QUOTE(PaleHose4Life35 @ Jun 13, 2006 -> 11:59 AM) Growing up I played so many different positions until I got to about 6th or 7th grade then I mostly played 1B but then my 8th grade year my team didn't have a catcher so I jumped in there and liked it a lot. So Freshman Year I tried out as a catcher and made the team and we were real good, then the next year I tried out for the first two days but quit after realizing that if I made the team it would probably be my last year on a high school team and I wouldn't play very much so I thought it wasn't worth it. I still play in local rec leagues and play just for fun with my friends. I was a pretty good player in High School and middle school. In Middle School I hit close to .400 because I didn't play travel baseball, and once I got to high school the AVG went down a bit because it was a big change of pace from in-house leagues to high school. Catcher...the one position I could never play and I got a lot of respect for anyone that does play it. Being a lefty helped, but us pitchers would catch each other from time to time and I had a hell of a time with it. One time my dumb self missed a ball and got drilled in the chest (knocked the wind right out of me).

Heath, thanks for stopping by and passing on that info. Great stuff and aside from this weekend we definately wish you guys the best. I've really been shocked with the Reds staying around, but you guys have gotten a lot out of the Dave Rosses and Brandon Phillips of the world and the rotation has been better than expected. However, I shudder the thought of Griffey coming to Chicago.

The Dodgers always get more coverage than the Angels out there, although that has started to change with the Angels playing better baseball as of late. But bottom line, they don't have to be "fair and balanced" when it comes to sports. Its not like politics, in which case, a paper could really have a major influence on people...its sports. Fact of the matter is, the Cubs are the big boys in the city of Chicago (although the Sox are making things close) and they will get more pub, its the nature of the beast when you are the most popular team. Hell, you think we got it bad, you got to really feel for the Clippers fans. For god sakes the Clips don't deserve the same pub as the Lakers. Of course in the case of the Lakers and Dodgers you could make the case that they are historically some of the best sports franchises in the history of the game. The same can't be said about the Cubs, but they are still the big boys in town.

I played baseball (and soccer for that matter) for most of my life. Starting around 5 or 6 and playing up into high school (for baseball). I played in a few leagues per year (pretty much played year round) and I pitched and played 1st base, although as I got older I moved to the outfield (I was at one point a damn good defensive first baseman) but thats cause early on if you could catch you played first base and I kind of stuck with it for a while until a coach wanted my speed out in the OF (I am not super fast, but am fast enough and get very very good reads on the ball). Pitching was my bread and butter though, I never threw hard, but no matter what I threw (a lefty) it had a ton of movement on it. In the younger levels (when you couldn't throw breaking balls) I was routinely asked to stop throwing (and one time was forced off the mound) for throwing breaking balls (problem was I never threw them, I just had an assload of natural movement on the ball). I went into high school with the expectations of making varsity at a pretty young age, but my arm got hurt just prior to my high school season (did the summer league with a lot of the high school team) and my arm was pretty much shot (it had been killing me a lot up to that point, but I just pitched threw it). I had to have surgery (nothing major) but I never really rehabbed it and pretty much was on the team but didn't play (aside from a few AB's and some defensive substitutions). My arm has pretty much sucked since than and I wish I just worked hard and rehabbed it, but I was really sick of the arm hurting (my shoulder injury got my mechanics all out of whack and it lead to me messing up my elbow, which is fine now). As far as the pitches I threw, I was a FB/Change/Curve guy but I pretty much only threw the FB and change and the curve would be a get me over for a strike (ocassionally I'd snap off a really really good one, but I wasn't at all consistent with it). I was just able to throw my FB and change (which had good sink to it and good arm speed) pretty much anywhere I wanted.

Personally speaking...all I need is a world series trophy, thats the only kind of pub that really matters.

QUOTE(whitesoxfan101 @ Jun 13, 2006 -> 09:57 AM) I'm not a doctor or even close to one, so I ask for the help of somebody that would know about this.....but wouldn't a 9 inch gash on your head be life threatening with all the blood you could lose? Okay, maybe I wasn't crazy, I thought ESPN said a 9 inch gash too (and Steff mentioned it as well). Thats freaking huge, I'd think that would be insanely serious.

QUOTE(DBAH0 @ Jun 13, 2006 -> 06:20 AM) I think he'll end up at the Dodgers anyway. Ned Colletti wants to win now, and they have the prospects to get a deal done. Although if I was the Dodgers GM, I'd be hanging onto my prospects, because Ethier and Kemp are doing a fairly solid job for them. With the way Kemp is playing, I'd have Kemp or Kent starting at 3rd base, cause Kemp has been great as has Ethier.

QUOTE(beautox @ Jun 13, 2006 -> 01:17 AM) Nice, seeing how your from CA, and i've heard old blink on the show before this is good news i take it your big into pop punk? and love the content of the show, good work. Thanks and yep thats exactly the type of music I am into, although I'll listen to ocassional amounts of emo (not too much though).

QUOTE(Steff @ Jun 13, 2006 -> 09:00 AM) 9 of them. Damn.

QUOTE(whitesoxfan101 @ Jun 13, 2006 -> 07:15 AM) Thanks for the thread. Honestly, I thought this revival was all about him playing in Texas, but those splits suggest otherwise. He's always been very fast and a plus defender, and maybe he's having his 2003 Esteban Loaiza year at the dish (if that makes sense lol). He wasn't at all bad last year, he just wasn't this good. I always thought Sarge Jr. had some talent, it was just a matter of a team giving him a legit chance. That said he probably won't be hitting this good at the end of the season, but he's capable of a .270 avg with 17-22 HR's all while playing pretty good defense out in CF.

Didn't they say he had a pretty big gash in his head (a few inches).

QUOTE(SnB @ Jun 12, 2006 -> 10:08 PM) oh c'mon, what do you think. Pods is too pretty for me, I'd be afraid to scratch him. You could really see crede as a cuddler. "Pods is probably a girl" - rowand44 at the game yesterday. That makes Dergan even hotter in my book

Im not even going to ask. This is when the Griffey logic totally makes sense: "Where would he play"

I'm with whitesoxfan101, if Ozzie is defending anyone on roids than he can flat out piss off. Now If I misunderstand what he was getting at, thats one thing, but if he's sitting there saying Grimsley shouldn't rat out other guys or tell people whats really going on than he can piss off as could any other player. I hope people come clean and whoever is using gets busted, even if its Sox players, because I want a clean game. Between now and than I'll still be rooting for my team and booing any sob that gets caught (even if I found out my favorite player, ie Konerko, was roiding, I'd boo him).

QUOTE(SleepyWhiteSox @ Jun 12, 2006 -> 10:03 PM) Anybody know or hear what that red shirt Ozzie wears under his jersey is about? McCarthyism.

QUOTE(SnB @ Jun 12, 2006 -> 10:02 PM) oh man, it probably doesn't work out in cali, but at school, girls love the crede talk. I have the argument of "Podsednik or crede?" almost daily with this one girl. He really is brought up in about 75% of my conversations at bars. I don't know if I should be excited or completely scared. I thought my beard was a part of 75% of your convo's. Now you got me jealous. On a sidenote, who do you choose, Pods or Crede and tell me its Mutton Chops. QUOTE(Rowand44 @ Jun 12, 2006 -> 10:03 PM) This sounds familiar. I only know one thing I will never bring up again at a bar, and thats the Illinois basketball team. Afterall, Alford's recent choke job gives me no ammo.

They are some kind of over-rated.