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That was funny back in April. Oh, September 20th, I see...

QUOTE(Jordan4life_2005 @ Oct 12, 2005 -> 03:12 AM) We executed horribly. ^^^^^ We also gave them... off the top of my head, two outs (AJ CS, and Rowand bunting). Plus, Podsednik's two failed bunt attempts put him in a hole that he likely wasn't going to get out of. Mark, we need you tomorrow.

Giles OPS+ (148) also ranks better than Konerko's (136, IIRC). More than anything, though -- 119 walks. That's amazing.

W/r/t giving big money to guys like BJ Ryan and Billy Wagner -- like, uhh, eight million (or more) -- no thanks. Going into next year, our bullpen looks like this: Politte (option will be picked up), Hermanson, Cotts, Jenks, Marte, Vizcaino (possibly), Bajenaru (dependent upon Vizcaino). El Duque also might be part of that group, and, he could be pretty effective if allowed (like Kelvim Escobar is doing now) to throw two innings at a time, still rack up a lot of innings (80-100), and at the same time, keep Jose's head in the right place. Kenny Williams, among others, have shown that you can find good arms off the scrap heap for cheap. Will they be better than Billy Wagner or Eric Gagne? No, but they'll probably cost a million bucks or less, and it saves you an extra $7-9 million to spend elsewhere. Actually, both Chicago GM's have done a decent job of doing this -- Hendry found Rusch, Dempster, Fox (really good until Dusty overused him and screwed him), and Williamson. I'd do this -- sign Brian Giles (lol, for about the tenth time). I totally agree with BlackBetsy and 3E8 that he's pefect for this lineup. Move Dye to first, or if Giles can handle it, move him there. Don't pick up Thomas' option, but sign him to a one-year, incentive laden deal. And, for the time that he's hurt, sign someone like Matt Lecroy who can hit lefties well, and platoon him with someone like Ross Gload. I then come up with a package including Damaso Marte and Brian Anderson to trade for Chad Tracy. I doubt his defense is on-par with Crede's, but his bat more than makes up for it.

QUOTE(Rowand44 @ Oct 11, 2005 -> 02:23 AM) Ya..going a little to far there. Soxtalk is becoming more and more enjoyable by the day...

QUOTE(Nokona @ Oct 10, 2005 -> 10:39 PM) Millah for DH? Hehe, good one.

It's pretty clear that El Duque has a lot more arm-strength right now as opposed to when he was starting down the stretch. He was hitting 93 on the gun yesterday -- it's debatable whether or not he was really hitting 93, but you could tell that he was throwing harder. That was such a ballsy move -- two of them actually. One, throwing Graff a breaking pitch on the inner half. And, next, throwing Damon one helluva slider 3-2 in such a crucial situation. Speaking as a White Sox fan, that's the best performance I've ever seen in my 17-year life. That's one of those performances that everyone here will remember for a long, long time.

For a moment, let me be critical. First, this was Ozzie's worst managerial game on the series. It was pretty clear that Garcia shouldn't have started the sixth, sitting on the bench for such a long time, along with the signs showed in the fifth that he was running out of gas. He shouldn't have started the sixth. Next (and really, my only other complaint), is about Marte, but that's been beaten to a bloody pulp already. That is all. I haven't been this happy in a long, long time. Keep goin', Sox.

Did anyone hear what time they'll be arriving at Midway airport? I might like to go... (I thought I heard 1 AM, but not 100% sure...)

Vorobiev, two goals tonight. He looked really impressive in the preseason, and Tallon sounds extremely impressed. Like I said, two goals tonight (so far), and I believe an assist. Finally showing some of that scoring touch that we heard so much about!

I saw this over at Baseball Analysts, and thought I'd post it here. Baseball America has a new feature, a Player Finder. On the surface, that doesn't seem like such a big deal, but they've added a stat that a heckuva lot of people have been waiting for (in the minors, at least) -- GB/FB ratio. I'm really glad that they added it, and I'm surely going to use this in the future. Hurray!

Thanks, El Duque. Really nice to see him come through. I've wanted to root for him, throughout the year, even when he was giving us all heartaches. And now there's reason to. Regardless of what happens in the ALCS, that's a performance that will be remember by everyone. Thanks, Orlando.

QUOTE(Rowand44 @ Oct 6, 2005 -> 09:50 PM) You would think so but they didn't for whatever reason for the alds(i accidentally wrote alcs in my previous post) so hopefully they will for this series if we get there, I just don't think they will cause I want them to. The whole 'don't sell them at the box office' is bogus, IMO. Like you guys were saying in the pinned thread, some guy who says, "Hey, the Sox are good, lets go to a game!" has the same opportunity of getting tickets that me and you have. I certainly would have had no complaints staying outside the Cell last night, regardless of the cold.

QUOTE(White Sox Josh @ Oct 6, 2005 -> 08:52 PM) I will throw out a name for you: Chris Widger. The guy was playing softball a year ago and now he is back in the big leagues. :banghead What has ATH come to... :headshake

QUOTE(Rowand44 @ Oct 6, 2005 -> 09:46 PM) They didn't for the alcs so I doubt they will for the alcs. I would snatch those up in a second if they did. You'd think that there'd be room for SRO on the outfield concourse, right?

Did/will they be selling standing room only "seats"?

Alex Ovechkin with two goals in his debut. Might this be the best Calder Trophy (I believe that's ROY) race ever?

QUOTE(RockRaines @ Oct 5, 2005 -> 10:01 PM) You werent saying that before this season. They looked pretty bad on paper, and made a nice run with a team that wont be ready for another 2 years. I would say it was a good job by him. Two years? Not with Blanton-Haren-Harden-Zito... Wite, I'm sort of interested to see what Beane is going to do with Zito. He could quite possibly ask for, and get, an arm and a leg for him -- if Zito were a FA this year, he'd be one of the best, certainly the top lefty. The Mulder trade looks spectacular -- the Huddy trade, not so much. Meyer is going to have to come back from his injury, or that trade will look pretty bad...

QUOTE(chitownsportsfan @ Oct 6, 2005 -> 02:42 AM) I don't see what the big problem is with Berman. I think the team of Berman, Sutcliffe and Piazza is surpingly easy to listen to. I hate to say this, but if you think that Sutcliffe is even a halfway decent announcer, then you don't know good announcing. I know it's mostly opinionated, but Sutcliffe is awful. I was at the game -- and, when Graff made the error, did he seriously say that he made the error because he lacks post-season experience?

QUOTE(Chisoxfn @ Oct 5, 2005 -> 02:42 AM) Oh ya, you were on there. Wish I recorded it for ya, but I'm guessing someone here DVR'd it. Nice grab, you were going insane with your buddy. Heck the whole area was going crazy. Only problem with HD is that you can't delay the radio broadcasts to go along with it. I'm sorry, the HD picture is gorgeous and all, but it's not worth it to have to sit through Berman and Sutcliffe -- I gots to hear the last broadcasts of Rooney.

QUOTE(fathom @ Oct 4, 2005 -> 03:38 PM) I'm strangely calm for this game. I think I was a lot more nervous for the Indians series two weeks ago. Ditto. Excited, but calm. Just got home from school (went to two periods). IlliniKrush and Snb about to pick me up... Go get 'em, Jose.

QUOTE(SnB @ Oct 3, 2005 -> 08:55 PM) burres just had a ridiculous week..... I got real lucky this week -- my running backs barely got me 11 points this week. But, 77+ points from three guys? You could actually still win this week -- just need a big night out of Delhomme, all while Steve Smith lays an egg. It's certainly possible -- no lead is safe when Jason Elam can singlehandedly (last week) win a game by getting something like 12 points for me.

That's all fine and dandy about Harris being able to pinch run off the bench, but we still don't have anything resembling a good bat who Ozzie could turn to if the situation called for it...

Geoff Blum is 'the suck'.

QUOTE(greasywheels121 @ Oct 2, 2005 -> 07:54 PM) MANning w/ 4 TDs in the 31-10 victory over Tennessee. Chargers are walking all over the Pats in NE too. Peyton Manning, Terrell Owens, and Plaxico Burress -- those three absolutely carrying my fantasy team this weekend. I'm gonna have to start playing brother Eli, too -- 4 TDs today, I think.