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Bulls are getting drubbed. They just look awful. Turnovers galore. I guess if they were going to look bad, tonights the night it might as well happen since I don't think they had much of a shot against Dallas anyway. Bulls have just thrown the ball everywhere (leading to a ton of turnovers and easy fast break buckets already). Plus offensively we look horrid. Malik Allen decided he should take this long ass jump shots and we are missing any open shot that pops up.

QUOTE(maggsmaggs @ Jan 31, 2006 -> 05:50 PM) And Illinois moves into sole possession of first place in the Big Ten. Although, Iowa will join as they take on Purdue tomorrow, I believe. No guarantees. Got the dvr set to record tomorrow's game. I'm pumped that this game is somehow televised.

I'm sure at least a few of you have noticed it, cause i've been playing around with the ads a bit today, but I'm making some changes to the layout. If I can figure out how the hell to get the google adsense to pick up the sponsors (for some reason I don't think its picking up the text or something) than I'll have one of those on the top, followed by a graphical ad for the White Sox Picture store. I've noticed at least a few of you have used it so I figure I'll make a little nicer add (a portion of the sales on that site go back to us, which helps pay the bills and will allow us to add some cool new features). There will also be a text link going in the spot of the current link and than as you can see I've added two new spots below the posting area. Hopefully its not very intruisive. My goal of those two other spots is for me to be able and actually get a little sales experience via the site. I've long used this site to help myself grow and do things I haven't done (from getting ocassional press credentials, to actually learning a little something about building a website...despite Gaging it a few times in the process). So if anyone knows of anyone looking to advertise to Sox fans (whether its a local restaurant or a memorbilia shop), please have them shoot me an email at [email protected] . The ads are priced very moderately, considering the site gets double digits (in millions) of hits per month. I'm hoping that eventually I'll be able to pool together funds to make this place way better (got some ideas in mind) and we've been working on them as well. But I just wanted to make everyone here aware of whats going on. And if anyone ever has any complaints, you know how to get a hold of me (via PM or Email or you can post them here).

QUOTE(SnB @ Jan 31, 2006 -> 03:04 PM) Starting to get excited. If Randle can contain tucker, I think we have a very good shot. But saying that, I'll take a loss ok as long as we don't play "Iowa style" Should I even ask what that means?

QUOTE(LosMediasBlancas @ Jan 30, 2006 -> 07:48 PM) My wife enjoys vodka. She loves Ketel One, not sure on the spelling. Vodka all tastes the same to me, but I'll have an Absolut with Snapple pink lemonade once in a while. That's like a summer time at a cookout kinda drink. Ketel is also really good. I've had that drink (with the lemonade, except I used some italian lemonade from Trader Joes...whatever the hell that is I don't know) and its tasty. Girly but tasty so what do I care, lol.

QUOTE(NUKE_CLEVELAND @ Jan 30, 2006 -> 05:12 PM) I think this one oughta be interesting. Drinks involving Vodka. If I had my choice on type it would be grey goose, but unless I'm getting it for free or really cheap, I'm usually stuck mixing it with something.

QUOTE(Rowand44 @ Jan 30, 2006 -> 05:13 PM) ^ ^^

QUOTE(DBAH0 @ Jan 28, 2006 -> 08:28 PM) Right now if you were the White Sox all things being equal, would you rather have Adam Dunn or Jim Thome? Dunn...your way more likely to get the type of numbers he's put up the past couple years. Thats still a major question mark with Thome (whether you like it or not). This is coming from someone who thinks that Dunn is very over-rated in general too.

QUOTE(IlliniKrush @ Jan 30, 2006 -> 11:13 AM) We've found the GM for our all-gangsta team Come on, Its Iowa...don't you associate that with the hood?

QUOTE(Heads22 @ Jan 30, 2006 -> 01:28 PM) Spidale was regarded highly after 04 but had some regression issues last year and went to WS. It's anybody's guess as to wehre he ends up. He was long thought of as a platoon outfielder at best. He's a good guy and he had a major regression this past year, but he should find himself higher up on the charts now that a few more outfielders are gone (Young in AZ; Anderson in CF and potentially Owens as a 4th outfielder).

I think Heads beat me to it, but its been removed. I didn't realize the stuff was premium but I had only browsed through a couple of the threads. So if any posters ocassionally notice another poster post something along those lines, please shoot us a PM that way we can remove it/edit the thread and allow for the discussion to continue. BA does a great job as do other premium sources and they are entitled to making money on it. Without that we wouldn't have them available and they are by far the best on the net when it comes to being a minor league/draft resource.

Guys I think its pretty clear Ozzie and Kenny plan on having Contreras around. I don't think Kenny was bs'ing when he said he'd have to get a guy that could pencil into the rotation this year and the next few years and would have to be a good starter. Unless he gest that he isn't making a deal. He went on to say nothing like that is on the table and its unrealistic to expect anything. What we see is what we have. Only possibility is if our lefty relievers don't impress (the ones fighting for the final spot) and Kenny goes out and fortifies it with a trade during spring training. I've been wrong before, but I feel very strongly about this and all these Contreras talks are flat out BULLs***. Maybe the other teams want em, but none of them have what Kenny wants.

Amazing...right during finals week. Otherwise I'd be there.

Another big week for Iowa. It starts of on Wednesday (i think its on ESPN 2, so I hope it doesn't get dropped for some other game cause I'd like to watch it). Its in Purdue and while Purdue is definately one of the wores teams in the Big 10, Iowa seems to play down when they play a not so great team. Plus its a road game and I'm sure Purdue will be busting their ass to pull off the upset. Than on Saturday we got a game against Red hot Michigan at Iowa. Thats the type of road win Michigan would love to have and its the type of home game Iowa must win.

Oh well...2 wins against ranked opponents but we stay unranked. Its all good in the hood. We'll just have to keep kicking butt.

QUOTE(IlliniKrush @ Jan 29, 2006 -> 10:37 PM) That's because i was in Iowa rushing the floor Whoa....we didn't do that on Saturday

QUOTE(Rowand44 @ Jan 30, 2006 -> 12:41 AM) I thought his girlfriend was going to kick your ass friday night. Ya, I would have said something to her on Saturday about an Iowa win, but I like living

A teaser or short details are fine, but we are infringing their copyright by posting the full articles and that puts this site in a spot it doesn't want to be. In case you wonder where the longer thread went, I had to delete it. Just an FYI, so please be careful with what you post.

QUOTE(SnB @ Jan 29, 2006 -> 08:44 PM) that's the best advice i've ever given anyone. BTW, you should have come up to our room last night, keith was........"not feeling well" It was hilarious. Where was my damn phone call. Seriously, next year, i'm thinking some poker action is called for. Oh and the whole hair thing...I guess you'll have to wait till next time

QUOTE(SnB @ Jan 29, 2006 -> 01:23 PM) soxfest = crazy, fun weekend. There will be plenty of inside jokes and stories to go around in the next few days. Skimming over the comments, I can understand the complaints. The lines were crazy, the whole thing was jam-packed. So if you were going just for the fest, I could see the dissapointment. For me, it was just a weekend to hang out with a ton of good friends and just have a blast, with soxfest as the backdrop. Seeing Keith's disguise = priceless

QUOTE(Dick Allen @ Jan 28, 2006 -> 06:44 PM) They really didn't mention Crede's back, but KW said Thome's back is a non-issue, that he was a lot more concerned about a couple of other guys backs which I guess would be Crede and Hermanson. As to the bullpen, KW seems to like the minor league free agents he signed, thinking one of them may be the next Kelly Wunsch, or Marte. Ozzie did say Munoz has good stuff, but no guts. And Kenny basically said his no guts comment was more no balls comment. Didn't sound like Ozzie thought much of Munoz. Talked about how great he thought the kid was a few years back, but that he's just never stepped it up.

QUOTE(Dick Allen @ Jan 28, 2006 -> 02:26 PM) Today he expanded on it and said Owens had some sort of arm injury that has or will soon heal. They are supposedly going to stretch his arm out in spring training. KW said today that Jerry Owens is ready to play in the big leagues. Sounded like BS to me, but Kenny seemed to say CF. I think it was more in a bind. He did say that Owens can hit major league pitching right now and he sounded really confident about that. On Friday I remember him immediately saying that Anderson is the #1 option in CF.

QUOTE(IlliniKrush @ Jan 29, 2006 -> 01:35 PM) Wow, what a brutal loss for IU at Minnesota, didn't expect to see that one I didn't see ya last night otherwise I'd have had to make some sort of Iowa comment to you.

QUOTE(Steff @ Jan 26, 2006 -> 04:57 PM) It was a headband.. not a hat. And I'm sorry.. but that was not even close to as hysterical as someone having to have EMS called on them cause they couldn't handle their liquor... :rolly Very true. And thank goodness for White Palace runs where we turn a normal car into a clown car How we manged to fit everyone I still don't know, but it was worth it.

QUOTE(Heads22 @ Jan 25, 2006 -> 05:55 PM) I just hope the Hawks go somewhere where I can keep hating them. I do remember you telling me how you've grown to like Sanders and Clark.