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He's the guy I'm most excited about and like I said before.. has the most potential of any player currently in our system. I'm talking superstar potential if he puts every damn thing together.

Bulls are on a nice roll. 4 game win streak ON THE ROAD?! (not to mention against over .500 teams) Very nice. 22-22 now.

QUOTE (DirtySox @ Jan 27, 2010 -> 03:15 PM) Crasnick said Boras is also trying to engage the Reds. Reds are also looking into Jermaine Dye (flashback.. Dye for Bailey.. ) right now as well who might be even cheaper at this point.

If the Bulls lose tonight, we'll know why.

QUOTE (MurcieOne @ Jan 27, 2010 -> 02:05 AM) uh-oh f***ing Cannucks. Link to Story: http://www.chicagobreakingsports.com/2010/...-road-trip.html From what I heard, the photos were seriously photoshopped. But if the team is contacting the site, then maybe not all of them were...

QUOTE (JoeCoolMan24 @ Jan 26, 2010 -> 10:53 PM) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqXRtchhDsk I love you man.

QUOTE (iamshack @ Jan 26, 2010 -> 04:02 PM) Who are you, Yogi Berra now? :lolhitting

QUOTE (MurcieOne @ Jan 26, 2010 -> 12:19 PM) This OC job is the equivalent of Sofia Vergara wearing nothing but Heels and Honey. Though not nearly as attractive.. :wub:

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Jan 26, 2010 -> 08:27 AM) Seriously, is there a cooler player in the NBA than Joakim Noah? I struggle to find someone out there who you can tell loves the game as much as he does and loves to win as much as he does. I don't think we give the organization enough credit for this draft pick. He is playing through a lot of pain, and this quote makes me giddy. ''When you get caught up in the game, you start forgetting about it,'' Noah said of the pain. ''It was pretty painful. It just feels good right now because we beat three solid teams in a row." He doesn't care about personal stats which is why I respect him more. That is why I take jabs at Luol Deng a few times when Joakim had a quote after a game. Something like "He (Deng) was mad at me cause I stole a rebound away from him. But I don't care about statistics and all that stuff, I play to win."

QUOTE (Soxbadger @ Jan 26, 2010 -> 03:28 PM) The rest of us should just take what they say as canon. Which is what I'm doing to your post in this thread badge. Luuuuv youuuuuu.

QUOTE (Flash Tizzle @ Jan 26, 2010 -> 01:59 PM) Beastly and CubsSuck1 spoke well of them, too. Which makes it all the more strange that someone can have this alternative personality on the internet. I'm sure if his career is anywhere near the intensity of his rants he is living successfully somewhere. Never had a problem with him when he was here. In fact.. at times we used to agree on alot of subjects. Dunno if it's age (the whole caps wearing backwards, get off my lawn approach he's doing is sad) or just anger, but he's changed from his style of posting over the years.

QUOTE (The Ginger Kid @ Jan 26, 2010 -> 02:36 AM) I wouldn't be so quick to put a fork in Andruw Jones. Power can come from more sources this season than last, esp if Q and Rios rebound. It'll be interesting to see how he does. As Gonzo said on CTL, Sox feel he's got something left in the tank. Texas thinks he is flat out done. We'll see who is right this comming season.

Keep reading past replies on other soxnet threads.. It's even better.

QUOTE (iamshack @ Jan 25, 2010 -> 11:59 PM) I thought you were arguing that Jones/Kotsay could be a good platoon because last year Jones hit RH better than LH and Kotsay hit LH better than RH. I was pointing out that last year's numbers go against the career numbers for both of them. Not arguing at all. This is more or less me trying to be optimistic about this whole thing. (like I said earlier, even with .330 OBP prior to 2008, Pierre hitting leadoff just to take a jab ) Ozzie wanted this lineup, we'll see if it works. A strict platoon could be right if Ozzie does it.. right. It'll be nice what badge said to give a few guys a day(s) off from playing the field.

QUOTE (iamshack @ Jan 25, 2010 -> 11:52 PM) I know Jones had some solid numbers against RH last year, but his career numbers show that he favors hitting against LHP (.859) rather than RHP (.815). Kotsay has historically hit RHP (.758) better than LHP (.726). Kotsay should only play when he relieves Konerko. Obviously your pretty much reiterated what I (and ptatc) just said. And obviously I agree with you being a Thome backer. Not sure where you are going with this, or if this is just another "make a point cause I want to" moment.

QUOTE (iamshack @ Jan 25, 2010 -> 11:38 PM) Look, I really like Jones. I think he will flourish here. But come on now. This offense is nowhere near talented enough to preclude the addition of Jim Thome at $2M. I'm going by what Dr. ptatc () said which I never really looked into. It was just one year, but both have had better history versus a pitcher with whatever hand they pitch with. I was in the Thome/N. Johnson/etc.. camp for quite sometime. But I'm trying to be optimistic here as it's already hard enough to have to watch Juan Pierre's .330 OBP (prior to 2008) hit leadoff for us everyday. QUOTE (ptatc @ Jan 25, 2010 -> 08:51 PM) Last year jones had an OBP of 367 and more walks than K's against LHP and Kotsay had an OBP of 347 and 15/17 ratio of bb/k. They aren't going to hit for power like Thome but if Ozzie goes with a strict platoon, these two should get on base at a good clip. This should be an interesting situation and make this even more fun towatch during the season.

Great win tonight. Derrick Rose you sexy SOB!

Ugh... I thought when we all heard about this months ago that it was more or less a bluff by KW. (and A.J. I was hoping you wouldn't have posted Jim's crap on here, but hey, I don't mind alittle fuel to the fire) A few guys in our lineup better have very good to career years. If Ozzie sticks to a STRICT platoon of Kotsay and Jones with LH/RH pitchers and if alot of guys hit well, it won't be THAT bad of an offense. Probably not top 10 in the league, but average to serviceable. With our pitching staff, that is good enough.

God I hate Mike Hampton. Easiest 124.5 mil you can ever make.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jan 25, 2010 -> 02:32 PM) Let's hope the Noah injury doesn't become something more serious. Both he and Taj Gibson are battling with Plantar fasciitis, not to mention the shoulder injury with Noah as well. Dude is just banged up. BTW, that Flu bug that's been around the Bulls locker room... Derrick Rose now officially has it. And I changed my avatar. (Slayer will come back when ST hits)

Ya.. don't have a facebook... BOOOOOOO.

QUOTE (chw42 @ Jan 24, 2010 -> 11:38 PM) Vizquel's only value is his defense, his offense is Yuniesky Betancourt bad. You are pretty much right, but I'll give Vizquel this.. He is good in the clutch, the basepaths and can bunt. Pretty much what I'm saying is he better be doing alot of bunting this season, but he will deliver the big hit late.

The thing that makes it even more dumb, is not even about their offense as a DH. Vizquel is still very good defensively. You can't field when you are the DH in the lineup. Andruw Jones is still good in RF (serviceable in CF) You can't do that when you DH. Kotsay is very solid at 1B (meh to blah.. at the OF spots) you get the point. I would love this if say we got a solid LF/RF and Quentin was mainly the rotating DH guy who plays the field spelling guys. Or even Konerko in the infield if we got a very solid 1B (I was clamoring for N. Johnson all winter and it sucks that we missed on him) and you can rotate one of those guys spelling the other, just for their bat. But that is not the case.

QUOTE (iamshack @ Jan 24, 2010 -> 10:52 PM) I actually really like what Freddy brings. I think it's very clear that he has really learned since his stuff deteriorated on him, and he has a very solid mental makeup and attitude. No doubt he was very solid in his short stint with us last year, and think he'll be very solid at the 5th spot. Hmmm... well that could be good and scary. That means either he's pitching his ass off and having a career year (or went back to his early Seattle/2005 days) or we are really in trouble/couple other guys had sub par years.

He better pitch as good as he talks (and sweats). Hudson might be the one facing the Cubs (and saying f*** the Cubs) in interleague play middle of the season.