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Well he will be banned. I never got the crap..sorry to those that did.

I just put up a bit better of a description of the outage on the main board. I'm also backing everything up right now just in case

Everyone, I'd like to apologize for the outage that occured this morning. We will be upgrading the server at the end of August to a brand new server which should result in even better up time. The reason the boards were out was the harddrive was shot on the server and they had to repair it. I don't know if they have fixed it permanently or not but I just put in a request to get more info. They told me if their is any other problems with the harddrive they will be transferring our site to a different server. If that ends up being the case there will likely be some-down time, but I think right now everything is back and they have things fixed. I'm assuming they are gonna swap in a new hard-drive at some point today with a full backup of this drive. When that happens there will be about 5 minutes of downtime. I'll keep everyone updated throughout the day and I apologize for the inconvienence (excuse the spelling).

Sorry guys...Just put a call into the server company to see whats going on. I've been swamped at work thus far this morning and didn't even know it was out. At the end of August we'll be upgrading to a brand new server and adding bandwith. I'm not sure if the problem was in regards to bandwith cause the site has been setting record numbers on hits each month. Once again sorry about the outage.

Well, I'm not gonna say Colon had master control today cause I think the game would of been quite a bit different had the ump not been calling everything for a strike, but he called it the same way for both teams. Either way Bartolo had an awesome fastball tonight and was moving it all over the plate, instead of his usual hit one spot and keep trying for that spot the entire night. With the movement on his fastball, if he's able to keep a hitter guessing, he'll be amazing.

I was thinking the exact same thing Welcome, Greppson Thanks for pulling out the welcome doormat for me. Started hanging around this board awhile ago. Beats reading all the non-baseball, idiotic talk going on at chisox.com. I can tell this board has a little bit more intelligence, and whole lot more sox fans. Oh, you were doing good greppson until you pulled out the Dave Mathews Band avatar...thats a loss of MAJOR cool points Lets not rip DMB...Welcome aboard Greppson. Great to have another Sox fan here

Part of me believes that there are two Barons that could contribute at the major league level now if given the chance and they are Cotts and Reed. Still, going slower is probably best. No way will Reed be up this year, except maybe as an extra player in September. Its all a question with Cotts of how confident the Sox are of his abilities.

I'll go with Roberto Alomar Jr

No....... one outing isn't gonna kill a guy...... Most of these guys are tough enough to deal with that..... Hell, if they are not, then it is better to find out now. again a great post............ i am ready, bring up the kids. i been high on a lot of them and i want to see them succeed. f***ing a!!!!!!!!!!!!! This won't be popular, but I think Wright is the best option, depending on rest. Cotts goes Monday and if a 5th starter is needed on Saturday (going on what someone else posted, I haven't looked at the schedule) then he would be right on schedule. Watch how he does tomorrow night and it may give you some insight. He is coming off by far his best outing of the year, so if he can double that up tomorrow night, he may be deemed ready. The only catch may be the 40-man roster issue. According to the Sox web site, they only have 38 players currently on Major League roster. If that is the case, then the only issue with bringing up Cotts is do they add him to the 40-man this early. If they are not confident he can be in Chicago next year and may need AAA time, then you are starting the MLB service time clock awfully early. I think Cotts will be the man, although Wright is the safer choice. I got a great feeling about Cotts and I think he can handle himself. Rex, only got one question From what you've seen of Neal does he seem strong mentally. By that I mean can he overcome aversity if he does get hit hard at first.

I've been getting a sneaking feeling that were gonna see Cotts up here for the rest of the season and the Sox will bring up Wright just before the rosters expand and try him out in the pen. I also see them moving Porzio or someone else for someone like Mike Stanton. I think that will be their only move.

Damn it feels good to be a gangsta... Right now I got In the Garage by Weezer on my mind. Ah yes...Damn it feels good to be a gangsta...a great song in Office Space

Colon typically has been so predictable this season. HIs big flaw on lefties is everything has been inside, inside, inside and they just sit on it and turn and burn.

Hands down Suppan makes more sense cause he makes absolutely nothing this year. Question is what would it cost to get him cause he won't be a payroll dump. I'm assuming the Pirates expect a good prospect for him. Maybe they'd take Porzio though

Its been mentioned a few times on the radio. Don't know what would be offered but he makes 3 mill this year, 4.5 next year and there is 2005 option for him at like 5 mill. Been really good this season after coming back from an injury. Don't think the Sox would have to give up anything for him (Like a fringe guy) but would they be willing to add all that payroll or would the Pads be willing to pick up part of next years contract cause it seems pretty steep considering how much other guys are gonna make. Heck you can sign Ponson long term for around 6 mill a year.

Depends on his maturity level. Odds are they would have him in Great Falls, but their is a shot he'd be at Kannapolis all of next season.

1549 sorry about the loss of your mom. That has to be amazingly tough and I wish the best to your dad and you and the rest of your family.

Ya I thought 28 days was pretty solid. Ending was kind of odd. Didn't see the 2nd ending.

His defense will be just fine. Right now he's the best shortstop prospect in the organization.

Good stuff Michelle.

AA is where the best prospects generally lie. If your talking about the White Sox this year, it really isn't the case as Neal Cotts was the only top prospect in AA for a while and then Jeremy Reed joined him there. The Sox also have Bochard in AAA, but most of the Sox talent lays in the lower levels. In general though, the best are in AA. AAA typically is where the best spend very little time (Usually for guys that are more raw on the most part or for guys who are stuck behind someone else at the major league level, as well as for AAAAers).

Weaver is old school and its the kind of pitcher I'd love on this ballclub.

They are going to the bullpen to bring in the righty Backe to face Konerko with runners on 1st and 2nd. Come on PK

Supposed to be the second straight good size crowd at the game. Last night they had 29K, not sure what todays is, but Damon Andrews said its big. Its nice to see the fans coming out in support of the Sox. I hope they get a huge ovation during lineups and such. Lets star a new winning streak

Insomniac and One Hour Photo were very cool.

I think if you don't buy the MLB package then yo ucan't watch the games and they'll be blacked out. Unless your in the chicago area, then you should get all of them. Like when I had direct tv a long time ago, I had the sports package and was all pissed cause the games were blacked out and then I realized I had to buy the MLB package and if I wanted to see Bulls games the NBA package. I just got the MLB package and now that I have cable thats what I still get.