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QUOTE(Capn12 @ May 5, 2005 -> 05:52 AM) Konerko is doing his best to make Franks return back to first base smooth...down to .194 now, and hitless in last 22 ABs....

QUOTE(Brian @ May 4, 2005 -> 08:51 AM) I still don't get how you get that thin black border. I use the stroke option but it always seems that one of my pics is on top of it and looks like it is outside the box. make a new layer.....make a marquee around the entire layer....and stroke the new layer. Make sure the layer is the top most layer, and make sure you aren't stroking other layers that have player images or other stuff on them....it has to be a blank layer, and you have to marquee the outside of the sig....or all around it.

QUOTE(Tony82087 @ May 4, 2005 -> 01:14 PM) God it would be nice to get 20 wins by the 1st week of May. Lets do it tonight Sox. hehehe.....nice if they are the first to all the tens...30, 40, 50, 60, 70, 80, 90, 100?, 110?, 120? hope i didn't jinx 'em..... i don't believe in jinxes.

QUOTE(RockRaines @ May 4, 2005 -> 01:06 PM) Damn I love that avatar, as far as I am concerned, leave us off ESPN. Whenever we drawe attention we fold. I like it better when teams are gearing up against us on ESPN, let us continue to dominate and not have coverage. can't stop that......if we keep winning at this pace the sox will become one of the lead stories for every show. Like it or not...ESPN goes with what's hot.....with the exception of course of "their" teams.

QUOTE(Balta1701 @ May 4, 2005 -> 12:28 PM) In case you somehow missed the other thread...last night John Kruk on Baseball tonight went off on a rant about how only 12,000 or so White Sox fans showed up in 40 degree windy weather to beat the last place team in our division. Well...I have a rant against Kruk in response. I watched the 40 minute Baseball tonight last night, and by the end of the show, I was literally screaming at the TV because of how badly our team was being screwed over in terms of coverage. I've got a bundle of examples of them doing this, so bear with me. First, one of their "Themes" of the night was poor baserunning. In this vein...they took the liberty to show the 1st-inning Royals double play, where both Everett and Iguchi were thrown out on the basepaths, at least 2 to 3 times - a couple while talking about baserunning, and a repeat when they showed the Sox highlights. Secondly...the White Sox hit 2 home runs in that game. KC hit 3, 2 by Sweeney. The Sox won the game. So what highlights did they choose to show when they showed the game highlights? Not any of the Sox home runs...they showed the first shot by Sweeney, and Everett's double. There was not a mention of ARow's shot, nor was there a mention of Iguchi's first home run in the US. It gets worse. At the end of the show...they run through highlights of some of the bigger home runs of the day. Guess who's shot they showed? Guess who's they didn't? They replayed the Sweeney home run, and ignored ARow and Iguchi again. In their web gems segment...those 2 early plays by Mark Buehrle got no credit. They also weren't shown in any of the highlight reels. I thought that at least 1 of them should have been noticed. And here's the one that really infuriated me. At the end of the show, they gave some air time to the people they thought were their players of the day. Their offensive one? Craig Wilson of the Pirates. What did Wilson do? He went 4 for 4, with 1 home run, 2 rbi's and 1 run scored. In case you don't remember, a guy named Tadahito Iguchi went 4 for 4, with 1 home run (his first in the USA), 2 rbi's, and 2 runs scored. And once again, he was completely glossed over...despite having what I think are better numbers than Wilson. John Kruk wants to lecture the White Sox fans about how they aren't coming out to the ballgame in 40 degree weather against the Royals. But on the same token, it's hard for me to even believe that they had anybody even watching the game. They didn't mention Dye, they didn't mention ARow, they didn't show any of those plays by Buehrle, and most annoyingly, they hardly noticed the great day had by Iguchi. If baseball tonight thinks they can lecture White Sox fans about not coming out to the park in crappy conditions, maybe they could take a second to actually acknowledge the better parts of the game, or at least pretend that they had really watched it. :headshake

The main reason to watch BBTN is to get highlights from around the league. And Majority of the People that do that, do it for fantasy leagues. I have no reason to watch BBTN to get an opinion from them. Let Kruk, Reynolds, Gammons, etc.... say whatever they want about whatever team or player they want, It doesn't change my mind or Soxtalk's minds about the league. As stated earlier...BBTN opinions, are to start something, they are there for water cooler conversations and it gives topics for friends to discuss.

QUOTE(rangercal @ May 4, 2005 -> 12:14 PM) IF you take out the first 10 days of the year kong would get a F imo. The first 10 days He was a god on this board. It balances out to a c- IMO . He is pushing a D though. well if you're going on a grade for now...then Kong would be F or D-, and Rowand would be D or D+. But i see that your grades are for total season..

Well even if i lived in Chicago.....I couldn't go to a game when i wanted. I have to work til 7:00 every day. The only games I could go to were weekend games....And I would probably make 80 to 90% of the Sox's weekend games at home for the season if I were to live in Chicago.

QUOTE(rangercal @ May 4, 2005 -> 12:10 PM) Based on what I seen and I watched every game. Marte can do better. how's konerko get a C- and rowand get a D? They both should have D or D-.

QUOTE(T R U @ May 4, 2005 -> 11:46 AM) Everytime I have to stop watching a game when the Sox are down, I come home turn on ESPN and they somehow come back and win.. Thats better than last year when I just expected the Loss, come home, and there it was.. This year I am expecting a comeback.. Time to take it to the Royals again... Freddy G I have that same problem.....though it isn't a problem...it's a very nice scenario whenever that happens. I don't like leaving the game frustrated though....but coming back and seeing that they won gets rid of that feeling.

QUOTE(Kalapse @ May 3, 2005 -> 10:00 PM) I personally love this thread. i agree

QUOTE(NUKE_CLEVELAND @ May 3, 2005 -> 09:37 PM) f*** that fat son of a b****. Its 42 degrees out there dammit. I know he has plenty of insulation on his fat f***ing frame so I guess cold doesn't bother him. that's called blubber

QUOTE(AddisonStSox @ May 3, 2005 -> 09:21 PM) /rushes to fantasy leauge and makes an acquisition Good game tonight! Nice to see Shingo shut the door. hehehe....i drafted him in my fantasy league i paid for...

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QUOTE(3E8 @ May 3, 2005 -> 11:39 AM) Not to mention Konerko and Rowand as well. yeah...i'm surprised the sox are getting production from pods, iguchi, crede, willie...etc....and not Konerko and Rowand....the power leader and average leader on the team last year.

QUOTE(Spod=Ratings @ Apr 26, 2005 -> 07:30 PM) i have no idea i think blacksox will come through in the clutch though. and just to let you kow though i never said i didnt want one from you my internet was f***ed up over the weekend, i'll have it tomorrow....i've had too much s*** pop up in the last 4 days.....I still have about half of what i want to do on it....but i got to work in an hour, but i'll finish tomorrow by 1:00pm

QUOTE(Spod=Ratings @ Apr 22, 2005 -> 10:38 PM) or i dont know which one to pick i'm still in the middle of it...i have to be somewhere saturday...I can probably do it Sunday....if not then...definitely by monday afternoon. I'd bet on sunday though.

QUOTE(Spod=Ratings @ Apr 22, 2005 -> 10:04 PM) i hope that means your working on it and not your screwed

QUOTE(Spod=Ratings @ Apr 22, 2005 -> 03:20 PM) nice work blacksox i cant wait for mine

QUOTE(fathom @ Apr 22, 2005 -> 09:03 PM) Exactly what I was talking about earlier in the game. No way you can change the lineup though right now. everyone has a hit except the middle three "power guys".....they're the ones that are supposed to bring in the runs...LOL

gotta love how the bottom of the lineup is producing....but you gotta hate the middle of the order is doing s***....i guess you'll have that though

have a great one....don't thank us...cuz we all should be thanking you....keep up the good work with the site.