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QUOTE(Spiff @ Feb 27, 2006 -> 06:46 AM) He's been really good the last few games, after Al and Kendrick went down. 5, 7, and 5 o-rebs the last three games in his 3 double-doubles. I was never a huge fan of him in college because while he put up good numbers he never led his team anywhere. They always got bounced early in the Big East and NCAA tourneys. But he's got a good basketball IQ and he's a good role player. And you guys beat the Lakers. Pierce had a monster game with Kobe fouling him with 3 seconds left. I loved it.

Its true...I sent that email out. You all understand how retarded I am already, but Heads is a little slow so I had to tell him in a memo format.

QUOTE(Balta1701 @ Feb 26, 2006 -> 05:22 PM) At this point, I only care about this for 1 reason: our entire team is going to get asked about it. For days, this is all we're going to hear about. When the A's, the team that annoys us the most, comes to town, again, this is all we're going to hear about. I really hope this doesn't cost us games. That's the only thing I care about. We got through the Magglio thing last year because the team rallied around each other and let Ozzie deal with it. I just hope our locker room, which has had a lot of turnover, is strong enough to do so again. If our team holds together through this, I could care less what KW and Frank have to say to each other, and Frank will still get a nice statue about 510 feet from home plate some day. But if this costs us games...i will be very, very, very angry about it, and that anger will be directed at KW, since he's the one escalating it now. Hey if this is all they are asked, than I'll be happy. In fact getting asked questions about a guy on another team should shield away the pressure from the current team (ie the Sox). Just my 2 cents.

QUOTE(whitesoxin' @ Feb 26, 2006 -> 04:41 PM) Let's see what everyone thinks. I think he's done a lot of wrong, but I'd still give the man a standing o.

QUOTE(Mplssoxfan @ Feb 26, 2006 -> 05:18 PM) Looks fantastic! Thanks guys. Now I have to try some other skins. The other skins = horrid to this point. They don't even have any banners. The next goal is to get a wider skin up thats good and after my midterms on Tuesday Ill make sure to get the logo up in all the skins on the new site.

QUOTE(AddisonStSox @ Feb 26, 2006 -> 05:04 PM) ...now we're getting somewhere. Ya, kevhead is dead on, imo.

QUOTE(Jordan4life_2006 @ Feb 26, 2006 -> 04:46 PM) I get all that. But you used the word "slammed". I don't agree with that at all. I think at this stage of his career all that stuff was a direct slam at everything JR did to help him. Just my 2 cents.

QUOTE(AddisonStSox @ Feb 26, 2006 -> 04:41 PM) To be honest, I don't quite understand why people are surprised to see things unfold like this. Frank Thomas has always been this way...from day one. Now, I know Steff tells me otherwise, and, I really do tend to believe her, but, Frank has seemingly gone out of his way to alienate himself from the White Sox fan base from the get-go. Now, I can't quite pinpoint the when and where, but, for awhile there, it finally seemed to turn around. Around the 2000 season, Frank seemed to have finally endeared himself to this fan base. I don't know if that has anything to do with the Sox front-office letting off Frank about his adopting a "leadership" role, but, Frank finally seemed to come around. It really is disappointing to see things unfold like this here at the end, but, I'm genuinely not surprised. He has been an egotistical prick since his major-league call-up. The Frank Lovefest that happened here again around 2004 would have to be the exception throughout the course of his career. Also, the bad relationship between Frank and Kenny has been known for quite some time; these two have never seen eye-to-eye, and, I'm sure Frank could have had his wish to be traded come to fruition if Kenny could have found the right package. As far as I know, the Thome move was not the first in an attempt to finally rid this team, this clubhouse, of Frank Thomas. Disappointing? Yes. Shocking? No. Frank and his time with the Sox is now full-circle. He came into this organization alienating himself from the fan base, from his teammates, from the Sox brass--the noted exception would have to be, of course, Jerry--and that is how he is going to leave it. Believe it or not, Frank, you STILL are not above the team-concept in baseball. It looked like you understood that for awhile there, but, your true colors have shown themselves once again. Its no secret the only reason Frank was here during Kenny's time was because of JR. Kenny has long wanted Frank gone and he's not the only one in the org that has felt that way. That said Kenny seems to treat his fans well and I know I'll root for him in that A's uniform despite the fact that he's royall ticked me off over the recent years by his selfishness and me attitude. I'm convinced he's playing only for the record books at this stage and because of it his average has suffered.

QUOTE(Jordan4life_2006 @ Feb 26, 2006 -> 04:37 PM) He slammed the team? Care to be specific? I'll be the first one to admit that I'm not a Frank fan, especially for the way he's handled himself as a teammate and a member of the team. All that said he's a decent person, but not a good teammate and part of me is glad the truth is finally coming out cause so many people pretty much thought he could do no wrong. I also think he's going to prove why we got rid of him in the first place. Ie, the fact that he hasn't been healthy in years.

QUOTE(greasywheels121 @ Feb 26, 2006 -> 04:38 PM) Where? http://www.soxtalk.com/frontpage/html/modu...?name=Downloads I am waiting to put up the official link on the main page, but theres the sneak preview.

A War of Words: Kenny Fires Back at Frank By Jason Gage Soxtalk.com Would anyone believe that Frank Thomas isn’t a member of the White Sox anymore? The future Hall of Fame slugger and the single greatest player to play for the White Sox has done nothing but berate and slam his former team since joining the Oakland A’s. The War of Words had been a one army battle, until this weekend when GM Kenny Williams fired back...More

QUOTE(KevHead0881 @ Feb 26, 2006 -> 03:29 PM) Nice work fellas. Looks awesome! One thing, and this isn't a complaint in any way. Any chance we can get a link back to the front page from the forums? It's purely a convenience thing, so its obviously no big deal. For instance, clicking on the banner (like the one currently on the top of the page) will take you directly to the front page instead of the forum listing. Just a suggestion. Either way, it looks fabulous! Ya, what would you all prefer. Do you like it how right now the banner on the main page takes you back to the main page, yet the banner on the message board takes you back to the main part of the board? Or would you like them both to take you back to the main page (the news page). I could also put a Front Page link next to the FutureSox.com link that would take you back. You all tell me what you think would be best and consider it done. It was one of those things I forgot to do in the process of getting the site up.

Just wrote a commentary on this, really glad Kenny stood out and shut Frank up. If Frank's smart he'll be quiet cause the more he blathers like this the worse his chances get for the hall.

QUOTE(SnB @ Feb 25, 2006 -> 01:25 PM) The book is so much better. I was dissapointed with the movie. Ya, but who needs to read. Seriously, my beard does the reading for me.

QUOTE(SoxFan1 @ Feb 26, 2006 -> 02:43 PM) Sounds sweet. Thanks to Jas, Heads, Kap, and everyone else who keeps SoxTalk up and running....and expanding. Looking good guys. Keep it up. EDIT: Uuum, no Serbian under the language selection??? We did that just to spite ya

QUOTE(SnB @ Feb 26, 2006 -> 02:17 PM) I completely understand where KW is coming from with all of this, but man, I really didn't want to see this situation get this ugly.....and so fast. I really hope this stuff cools down, but with the media probably already on it, this thing is going to get even uglier. Not exactly what we need going into ST. Last year it was Maggs and the team somehow won a World Series, now Frank. Hopefully we can win one again, lol.

QUOTE(aboz56 @ Feb 26, 2006 -> 02:09 PM) http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=2345972 Thank you Kenny. I couldn't agree more with the Good Riddance quote. ROFL. Its kind of how I started to feel about Frank later in his career. It stinks too cause he was such an amazing player.

QUOTE(Heads22 @ Feb 26, 2006 -> 11:22 AM) I don't like it. Alex deserves a lot of credit. He was the person who would push me and say this looks bad or this looks good. Especially the last day or so, he forced me to get rid of some things that I was too lazy to do cause of the complications of the coding. Somehow I figured out how to do it. Wouldn't have been the case if Heads didn't just annoy the hell out of me to get it accomplished

IU takes care of business.

Ya, its an awesome commercial.

Now I'll quickly highlight a few things that will be coming in the near future: - Wallpaper page (this way you'll be able to find all the great Wallpapers that the people on Soxtalk have made) - Salary page (this was already mentioned, but it will detail the salary each player makes as well as there contractual status) - US Cellular page (talking a bit about the stadium and the area around the park; this one will take a little more time to put together) With that said, is there anything else people would be interested in?

By the way, I updated the links so now when you click the ones that take you to the board they won't open in a new window but directly take you there. We still have one more link section left that will be something like ST Favorites and I'm going to leave that up to you all. What type of links would you like up to take you to some of your favorite baseball/whitesox related pages?

It is now set as the front page of the site. One thing I'd like to point out is that if you want to get to the message boards directly, just bookmark: http://www.soxtalk.com/forums Also note that it may take a little bit of time before you start getting the new redirect to the front page simply due to cache stuff.

QUOTE(JDsDirtySox @ Feb 26, 2006 -> 08:52 AM) Do I have to re-register my user name. I am trying to log in to the main page and it keeps telling me there is an error. The registration is completely seperate. I'm debating for not even having it up or for leaving it up. If you do register I think you can set it up where stories get emailed to you and stuff like that. I have no idea if anyone would even be interested in that. So you guys tell me cause aside from that there is no reason to register there and I don't want people to be confused cause the logins and usernames would be different. It would have been cool if I could have tied it in.

QUOTE(whitesoxin' @ Feb 25, 2006 -> 10:54 PM) That looks great Jason. So is that going to be the site we're directed to when we go to "soxtalk.com"? I'm assuming so, but when I just typed it in again I still came directly to the forums. Most likely yes...although I own soxtalk.net so I may just point one to the forums and one to the site so people can directly link to each.