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They are playing in Washington now so we should start soon in Baltimore.

I had a poll but it didn't post. Mods can you delete this so I can re-post?

I know it's early but I just wanted to see what everyone had in mind. If we didn't sign any of them that woudl shave $41mil off the payroll.

Gavin was all over the place but so was Miner. It looked cold there so maybe that affected them both. Plus having to sit in the dugout through Miner's long innings probably didn't help much. He loses a gem and wins a nasty game. Go figure. Here is to all you Wise haters out there.

We won so stop whining. I'd rather have Wise go 0-4 and win then go 4-4 and we lose. Do you own his baseball card and that's why you are worried about his stats?

QUOTE (Chet Lemon @ Apr 7, 2009 -> 05:03 PM) Anyone know if there is site that streams today's game for free? Thanks! http://tvants.en.softonic.com/ You should be able to watch any channel

I'm optimistic. I predict 90 wins and a world series ring Here are my entire MLB predictions http://www.fan-exchange.com/mlb/standingsp...s.asp?userid=53

Here are my standings predictions: http://www.fan-exchange.com/mlb/standingsp...s.asp?UserID=53 White Sox hitting: http://www.fan-exchange.com/mlb/teamhittin...W&userid=53 White Sox pitching: http://www.fan-exchange.com/mlb/teampitchi...mp;franchid=CHW I have some tweaking to do on the stats as I realized some of them are high. We should have a soxtalk.com competition for predictoins on www.fan-exchange.com Any interest?

I'm sure he'll get ~400 abs

I would rather see a youngers in there than Colon.

Does anyone know where you can find a downloadable schedule for the mlb season? Something in excel or csv format.

I setup fan-exchange.com so fans could post their preseason standings, awards and stat predictions. I'm going to host a head to head competition with Soxtalk members for White Sox hitting and pitching predictions. Only the top 5 scores for hitting and top 5 for pitching counts (top 5 most accurage predictions). $25 mlb.com gift card to the top scorer. Let me know if you have any questions. Send me a message in Soxtalk with your email if you are interested and I'll email you an invite. striker

I've never heard of Kroeger but he had solid AAA numbers. I'm really liking Marquez. Hopefully he can continue his success.

You gotta go with the lefty

I'm rooting for Contreras on this one.

Gotta love Spring Training pics

Good Article

I created a site that allows you to post preseason predictions for standings, stats and awards. Check it out. www.fan-exchange.com here is more info: http://www.soxtalk.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=69984

Good idea. Thanks. Was the usability easy?

First of all I got permissions from the admins to post this. I started work on this site last year but my baby girl was born three weeks into it so it got shelved til this year. I wanted a way to store our pre-season predictions then actually go back at the end of the year and measure our accuracy. I'm sure you are all like me and get hyped up for the season so this may be fun for some of you. The links below aren't necessarily my predictions, just something I entered for display purposes. 1. You can post your pre-season standings and champ predictions. http://www.fan-exchange.com/mlb/standingsp...s.asp?UserID=53 2. You can post predictions for award winners http://www.fan-exchange.com/mlb/prediction...s.asp?userid=53 3. You can post predictions for offensive stats http://www.fan-exchange.com/mlb/teamhittin...W&view=view 4. You can post predictions for pitching stats http://www.fan-exchange.com/mlb/teampitchi...mp;franchid=CHW I tried to make it like facebook to where it shows activity and you can comment on what users post. I get the historical data from baseball-databank.org. That's what I'll use at the end of the season to measure accuracy. If I get enough users I'll give away prizes for the top finishers. Help a fellow Sox fan out and sign up and post your predictions. Let me know what you think. Let me know if there is something you'd liked added or changed.

QUOTE (Sec101Row1 @ Jan 16, 2009 -> 03:32 PM) Is it me or does it look like the White Sox are the only large market team struggling with the economy ? Makes you wonder, is it: A) The millions to fund the new Glendale facility B) The legal fees and the $5 million dollar buyout of the 3 years left on the Tucson lease. ($5 million would get you a nice player this off season) The Yankees have spent alot of money but they also had alot coming off their payroll. Attendance may go down but they have alot of other revenues that help pay the bills: television, xm radio, mlb.com media.

If we pickup Lyon I'd have to think KW is doing it to add depth and possibly make Jenks expendable.

They must be smoking and I'm not joking...

QUOTE (beck72 @ Dec 20, 2008 -> 03:32 PM) The more I look at Jeff Marquez's writeups and numbers, the more I like him. It's not just the latest young arm Kenny has acquired after giving us Danks and Floyd. [Though the sox do seem to target and follow certain pitchers and see if they can acquire them. Like the sox had been targeting Booby Parnell and Kunz from the Mets, in trade talks.] It's the way he seems to fit into the sox rotation. He'd give the sox a different look from the current 1-3, esp. with his sinker and changeup from the RH side. • Classic sinker ball pitcher, though w/ above avg. velocity and plus movement; • Power change up • Yanks expected him in ’07 to pitch in the bigs; http://mariners.scout.com/a.z?s=318&p=2&c=347065 • Comparison to Chien-Ming Wang; but should get higher K rate http://thenewyorkyankeesbaseball.blogspot....ey-marquez.html Add in this nugget from the Trib. when the trade went down: "Sox scouts William Young and Gary Pellant scouted Marquez, 24, for the last two years". These are the same guys who gave us Danks. At the time, that was controversial, giving up a pretty solid #3 SP in BMac for a guy a year or two away from the bigs. [Of course, they also like Masset. But the key was Danks]. Kenny made the deal based on their work. I haven't seen who were the scouts who gave us Floyd. Marquez was on target in 2008 to throw in AAA a mid 3's ERA with solid k and BB rates after having success in each level prior last year. The only blip was last year, when he had a shoulder strain. With the Yanks, you can't experience failure. As the sox had scouted Marquez previously, when he was available, they landed him. Make no mistake, Marquez was the key to the Swisher deal. Betemit is a UTL guy and Nunez is a wildcard. It lands on Marquez to make the Swisher for Gio, DLS and Sweeney a wash. So, I'm looking at Marquez to at least give the sox in 2009 what Vazquez did in 2008--ERA wise. Marquez won't go 200+ innings, as the sox will make sure he's pulled early from games. I'd expect 170-180 innings, with a 4.50 ERA. For 2010 and beyond, I could see Marquez being a sub 4.00 ERA pitcher. Projections, thoughts? I like your optimism but when you ask fans for their opinions 90% of the time it's going to be pessimistic. I think Marquez seems to have good tools for success. Whether that happens in 2009 or 2010 I'll reserve judgement for spring training. Remember that Floyd had good tools but spent a full year in AAA with the White Sox before he contributed at the major league level. Of course Danks impressed right away and made the jump to the major league level. I think the tools are there, the opportunity is there, now it's up to Marquez to take advantage.

don't they also get a cut of MLB's contracts with Fox, ESPN, XM Radio and MLBMedia?