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QUOTE (upnorthsox @ Jan 1, 2005 -> 09:06 PM) Hhhmmm....... Ok so you say I can't one game out of many for a pitcher as representative of him but you can take one season at a stadium out of many and declare it Coor's East........ I dunno if I understand what you're saying here. Back to my original post: Road Buehrle 2.63 Garcia 3.25 Home Buehrle 5.02 Garcia 5.37 I'd have to assume that the average Sox fan would cringe when presented with these numbers for the first time. Obviously, Comiskey needs a major facelift. Or we could just blow it off the map. I'll pitch in for dynamite.

QUOTE (Bighurt52235 @ Jan 1, 2005 -> 08:58 PM) Are you a giant douche, or a turd sandwich? Don't you remember who won the Cy Young Award? He meant after Radke in the rotation. You douche. Hey, I'm a Bob Dylan fan. What can I say?

QUOTE (Chisoxfn @ Jan 1, 2005 -> 07:53 PM) I think part of it has to do with him having to step up so much due to the retards lined up around him. Yeah, haha, that doesn't help.

QUOTE (upnorthsox @ Jan 1, 2005 -> 08:03 PM) True you can't just throw out games when you're talking about a pitchers season(though you sure can acknowledge it) but we're not talking about pitchers per se we are talking about a stadium and how that stadium is playing and the conditions such as weather in a handful of games and an over reliance on lousy and rookie pitchers by the home team is as much a conditional factor as the configuration of the fences or UD rooflines. True, but there is nothing that you can do about the weather. Unless you have a dome, there are going to be days when the wind is excessive. Can you configure your park to minimize the effect that wind will have on a particular game? Absolutely. And every team in baseball outside of the Yankees has to fill in pitching staff gaps with rookies or potential scrubs. As the league has expanded and the injury rate for pitchers has increased, it's become that much more common.

QUOTE (JimH @ Jan 1, 2005 -> 07:54 PM) I agree with the point made in your post, but wanted to point out the origin of the phrase Windy City. It's not because of the wind, as is commonly assumed. Back in the 1890's, Chicago politics were a national story ... lots of corruption issues, debates, and verbal mud slinging. Also during the same era, Chicago began to host many national political conventions. Suffice it to say Chicago politicians were frequently quoted, for better or worse. The New York press, commenting on the overall situation, dubbed Chicago the Windy City, in reference to all the "hot air" eminating from Chicago bigwigs. Right about that time, Chicago was in the national spotlight due to the 1893 World's Fair, and the nickname stuck. I remember learning this back in high school and I was like

QUOTE (YASNY @ Jan 1, 2005 -> 07:39 AM) Kruetz felt like he didn't deserve a Pro Bowl nod. But the weak link? I don't think so. Yeah, Kreutz is recognized as one of the three best centers in all of football, but throughout this past season, he has played like he doesn't belong in the Top 15. Just an off-year, I'm hoping. He has been flagged for a s***load of penalties...very uncharacteristic.

QUOTE (upnorthsox @ Jan 1, 2005 -> 07:22 PM) Well there's no doubt the park played alot small last yr but I'm not convinced it wasn't an aberition. Garland: 5.29 home ERA. But take away his one game vs Philly with those hurricane style winds and his home ERA drops to 4.50. Buerhle: 5.02 home ERA. But again, 3 games: KC and NY in the first homestand(when the winds and weather were outrageous) and Philly with those winds, his home ERA is 4.10 in his 16 starts. ELo: 5.94 ERA at the Cell. But he also sucked on the road and at Yankee stadium(5.00 and 7.71 respectively), in fact, he just plain sucked, period. Then there's the rookies Adkins, Cotts, Diaz, Rauch, Grilli, Baj, and Stewart who combined to go 142 IP and 92 ER for a combined 5.83 ERA. That's just too many youngsters and too many IP's. Sometimes you get exactly what you've paid for. I still expect the park to play small but there's also a good chance it could play drastically different with different weather and different pitching. I see where you're coming from, but every pitcher in baseball is going to have at least a handful of really bad starts. You can't just toss them aside. That's baseball. And even without those terrible Buehrle starts, his ERA of 4.10 would still be way higher than his road ERA. A 5.09 home ERA for the entire pitching staff on the season...those numbers do not lie. If not for Coors, we'd have been dead last in the majors.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Jan 1, 2005 -> 07:17 PM) Andre Dawson was supposed to come to the Sox for some minor leaguers. It was so close to being done that Dawson took batting practice in Montreal with a Sox hat on. Son of a b****! I did not know that. Black Betsy and Cheat have two of the best baseball blogs that you'll ever come across. Great stuff, fellas.

I hear that, although... Marte $1,250,000 RP Garcia $8,000,000 SP Garland $3,400,000 SP Buehrle $5,750,000 SP Politte $900,000 RP Takatsu $2,500,000 RP Contreras $6,000,000 SP Hermanso $2,000,000 RP Hernandez $3,500,000 Vizcaino $1,500,000 RP That's roughly 35 million for pitching...and none of it's gonna help us out in USCF. Shootout-style baseball is demoralizing. I can't stand it when Buehrle gives up like 6 or 7 runs in the first inning in USCF. I dunno how anyone could. A lot of people talk about him as though he's a good #3 starter or something, but... Road ERA in the AL (Minimum of 90 IP) 1. Johan Santana 2.58 2. Mark Buehrle 2.63 3. Curt Schilling 3.00 4. Bronson Arroyo 3.06 5. CC Sabathia 3.39 6. Freddy Garcia 3.60 7. Tim Hudson 3.84 8. Kelvim Escobar 3.91 9. Ted Lilly 3.93 10. Jake Westbrook 4.13 95 out of 100 baseball fans would take these guys over Buehrle in a heartbeat: Pedro Martinez 4.61 Mike Mussina 5.25 Javier Vazquez 5.67 So, we have an absolute stud of a pitcher, and nobody knows. Johan Santana is god, and Buehrle is "pretty good". I just came to the realization that Bronson Arroyo is the most underrated pitcher in all of baseball...who knew. The Cheat probably knew, I'm sure.

QUOTE (HAWKisGOD @ Jan 1, 2005 -> 06:06 PM) We have been invovled in basicly all the big trade rumors, not really too surprised. Ayo Hawk, read Bob Dylan's post. The last time that we were popular on a nationwide basis was over 80 years ago.

On the road: Buehrle 2.63 Garcia 3.25 At home: Buehrle: 5.02 Garcia: 5.37 Bring in Sheets, Mulder, Hudson, and Oswalt, and watch them suck it up in Comiskey. Seriously, we have more pertinent things to deal with than the actual players, y'all. And the fact that I rarely ever hear anything discussed on here about eradicating the friendly hitting conditions at home is both disturbing and depressing. Basically, White Sox baseball in USCF at the current time is the equivalent of Arena League football. But when we go on the road (insert 'licking chops' smiley here), then we have our chance to shine.

I didn't purchase anything new in 2004, but I purchased somewhere between 250 and 300 records, traded for close to 200 classic rock bootlegs, and added between 40 to 50 dub reggae albums (what I'm after first and foremost in the past couple years, very hard to track down), so from that pool, I'd have to go with these five: 1. Tom Petty- Live In Tuscaloosa 2CD (1995) 2. Keith Hudson- Pick A Dub (1974) 3. Overton Berry Trio- At The Doubletree Inn LP (1970) 4. Revolutionaries- Dub Plate Special (1974) 5. Dereliks- Change For The Bus Ride (1995)

My bad, Greasy. You have 178 on the season. Also, I must apologize for an error. I gave everyone credit for a New England victory on Monday Night during Week 15 against the Dolphins. Therefore, I have to adjust everyone's scores by 3 points: 1. Hammerhead Johnson 191 2. Knightni 189 3. Danman 183 4. Cali 182 5. Greasy 178

Going into Week 17: 1. Hammerhead Johnson 194 2. Knightni 192 3. Danman 186 4. Cali 185 And there's a sizeable drop-off after that. Oddly enough, we are the only four people who never missed a week.

Doesn't the quote go "Nice catch Hayes, don't ever f***in' do it again"?

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Holy s***, I actually got 18 out of 20. The ones that I got wrong: Oh yeah, by the way...I couldn't figure out what gender this person is: I haven't seen so many ugly people since my last visit to the DMV.

I grew up on Addison and Central. Have you ever been on the Addison bus when it was jam-packed with Cubs fans on their way to Wrigley?

Damn, good thing we signed Buehrle. Although, I'd have to assume that Buehrle just took what was offered. He understood the concept of going rate, perhaps. I'd like to find out more about the specific scout who found him.

I thought that the "In Living Colour" stuff was mostly terrible, just like Chappelle. That Three Champs And A Baby skit from "In Living Colour" is one of the funniest things that I've ever seen in my life, similar to the Blind Black White Supremacist skit on the Chappelle show. And anything that involves Charlie Murphy is pure comedy. But otherwise, I usually just turn it off at the commercial break and forget that it's even on.

Check out them cans! Sometimes they're not in tune with one another: But whatever, it's all good.