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This has gotten way more attention than it should have by the media. It isn't THAT big of a deal, especially with other strong personalities (Ocho Cinco, Shaq just to name a couple) who use twitter.

Wow... Tomas Kopecky just knocked out Sweden with the winning goal. Yes.. thats right.. Kopecky.. The defending "gold" champs go home on the upset. I thought Sweden would have advanced no problem. Good to see a couple of Hawks in the finals though. USA-Finland Canada-Slovakia (Hossa/Kopecky vs Toews/Keith/Seabrook)

QUOTE (3E8 @ Feb 24, 2010 -> 11:25 PM) The best was when Richard and Sal pretended to make out with each other during the financial crisis :lolhitting

Deng had a "quiet" 31 points. At least for this game, he looks like he "gets it." Shoot the open shot when DRose (or whomever) passes you the ball (assist for him, 2-3 points for you) and drive when you need to. And I'm sick of VDN now dicking around Noah. If he's only playing 6 minutes a game, (especially when he wants more playing time) then just sit him out and have him rest the foot. (not to mention VDN is costing him the most improved player award with Noah's stats drastically dropping now) I love when a reporter asked why Noah played 6 minutes Vinny said "uh" about 4 times trying to create an excuse. (not to mention putting the starters back in, taking some PT away from guys like JJ, a minute left up by 10)

QUOTE (Ranger @ Feb 24, 2010 -> 09:27 PM) I just want to make sure I get this right: you would be satisfied with the contributions of an individual Sox player that hit .225 with an OBP below .300 over only 90 games as long as his defense was good? Since when did defense become overlooked? I thought that and pitching is what win championships.

PARISE AGAIN! USA will WIN IT!

Damn Parise hit the goal post! Has to be the second or third time that has happened for the U.S.

That is a bulls*** call on Kesler. Should be 2-0 USA. QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Feb 24, 2010 -> 03:45 PM) That looked like a goal. Luckally it went off the post.

PARISE!!!!

Figures Hiller plays like crap yesterday, then has his A game today.

QUOTE (justBLAZE @ Feb 24, 2010 -> 01:21 PM) Ozzie confirms it is him behind the feed, his sons only helped to set up the account. Yup. "After saying earlier tweets are 'my kids,' Guillen says his sons set up the account, tweets are his and that he's not making money off this." http://twitter.com/MDGonzales

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Feb 24, 2010 -> 10:06 AM) Yeah, I thought the same thing. I guess maybe because Slav sounds like Slov? Exactly. USA plays Switzerland in about 15 minutes FYI. Game is on actual NBC.

AVG - Pierre - .299 HR - Quentin - 36 (yes he will be healthy) RBI - Quentin - 118 (KW gets a bat by the deadline helping CQ in that department) SB - Pierre - 47 2B - Beckham - 42 (Rios, Teahen close 2nd around 40) 3B - Pierre - 7 (Rios #2 with 5) BB - Quentin - 87 HBP - Quentin - 27 H - Pierre - 201 (assuming he gets his usual 700+ PA) Wins - Peavy - 19 K's - Peavy - 197 IP - Buehrle - 224.1 Starter ERA - Peavy - 2.94 Reliever ERA - Thornton - 2.27 Saves - Jenks - 42

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Feb 24, 2010 -> 12:26 PM) 2B Beckham SS Ramirez CF Harnden DH Quentin 1B Konerko 3B Teahen C Pierzynski RF Rios LF Pierre If wishes really do come true when you blow out the candles, anyway. If only we did have the great Steven Harnden. What I think the lineup will be.. 1. Pierre 2. Alexei 3. Quentin 4. Kong 5. AJ (ugh Ozzie..) 6. Beckham (Ozzie said he wants him lower since the winter) 7. Rios 8. Teahen 9. Kotsay/Jones What I personally like.. 1. Pierre 2. Alexei/Rios 3. Beckham 4. Quentin 5. Kong 6. Teahen 7. Rios/Alexei 8. AJ 9. Kotsay/Jones or... 1. Pierre 2. Beckham 3. Quentin 4. Kong 5. Teahen 6. Rios 7. AJ 8. Alexei 9. Kotsay/Jones And I'll fill out the rest.. Bench -- Castro © Vizquel (2B/SS/3B) Kotsay/Jones (whoever isn't playing that day) Nix (2B[w00t!]/SS[ugh]/3B[ugh]/LF[ugh]) 1. Buehrle 2. Peavy 3. Danks 4. Floyd 5. Garcia CL-Jenks SU-Thornton SU-Putz MR-Pena MR-Linebrink MR/LOOGY- R. Williams (ugh.. though he aint that bad as a loogy) LR-Santos (politics wins out)

From browsing through the past threads, we have a thread like this every year here. Some earlier (last year it was Feb. 1st) some later (couple years ago March 22nd) so I figured this is a good date to do it, since we don't have one. Unless KW brings in another bat before the season, this will be the team we see opening day. This year might be the least amount of holes/guessing I think I've ever seen here, but there are still unknowns (DH still, though Ozzie said Kotsay-RH Jones-LH and the long man/possible 12 man pitchers etc..) Have fun making your lineups. I'll post mine a bit later. I'm sure there will be the usual AL prediction/breakout player thread(s) soon as well.

Slovakia wins (Slavko is happy) but what an effort by Norway. Very classy of the fans to give them a standing ovation after that game.

:lolhitting For a guy who has not played a single game for us, Teahen is quickly becomming one of my favorite sox players already.

Happy B-Day guys. I hate and love you Steven.. :wub:

BA had a nice prospect chat with Jared Mitchell today. I just submitted a question to Jared as it is still going on I think. Hopefully he can answer it, but I'm not holding my breath...

I like the list. Glad to see my boy Trayce Thompson getting some love though I'm shocked Clevelan Santeliz is that high on the list.

QUOTE (scenario @ Feb 23, 2010 -> 05:46 PM) Santos making huge strides on the mound (mlb.com article) I'm anxious to hear about Sergio Santos' development this spring. If they can harness him in a little, he could be really really interesting. He was rated as having the second best fastball in the Arizona Fall League... only behind Strasburg. Well.. he's out of options. So the sox are going to give him every opportunity to make the big club, because they like him alot. I wouldn't be surprised if it was another Masset/Wassermann situation as far as Masset making it cause of the no options reason. We'll see who pitches well in ST. (ala the "Wassermann" guy)

QUOTE (Thunderbolt @ Feb 23, 2010 -> 02:28 PM) Spring Training Invitee. Switch-hitting power bat who couldn't cut it for the Rangers. He was once a big time prospect. He was dicked around with the Rangers, though who knows how his "psyche" per say is.

QUOTE (Kalapse @ Feb 23, 2010 -> 04:01 PM) He's been in America for 2 years, how the hell do you find a year to year pattern from that sample size? Well... it's two years Kalapse. There you go. If he goes back to his 08 stats in discipline then you can comment on it/bump this thread back to me. But as of right now he's improved.

I like it, but Ozzie makes me hate it.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Feb 23, 2010 -> 03:24 PM) I'd be willing to bet that, all things considered, Rios and Teahen both put up better offensive numbers in 2010 than Alexei does. Agreed completely. And I like Alexei as he's improved his discipline (and SB) each year. QUOTE (Thunderbolt @ Feb 23, 2010 -> 03:07 PM) I understand resting players, but by no means should this scenario end with Vizquel at designated hitter. It's ridiculous and of course it's Ozzie. Having a stud defender (still) at DH in games for his bat??? Ugh....