Buehrle>Wood

I was in class when our teacher told us when the WTC got hit by a plane. I didn't know what the World Trade Center was.

Frank Thomas: 2 spots better than Jay Cutler.

They've also been largely relevant for the last 20 years. I keed, I keed.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Sep 8, 2009 -> 04:38 PM) I don't buy the Cubs comparison, because Notre Dame has a history of some sort. Like I said earlier, the Yankees would be the closest parallel, IMO. In terms of history and how fans perceive the team, Indiana basketball would be the most dead-on comparison.

QUOTE (kev211 @ Sep 8, 2009 -> 04:58 PM) So what do you have to say to this milkman and B>W? There are no traditions with the cubs other then getting drunk and maybe watching a baseball game. You're completely missing the point. It's college. Everyone is pretty much deeply rooted it tradition. Watching the chief dance when I was younger, that's one of the most hair raising rituals I have ever seen. But I'm not going to go around telling people they cannot find anything like it elsewhere. That's where the comparison to the Wrigley Field experience comes in. I mean, it's college gameday, it's hard not to have a great time, even if your team is s***ty.

QUOTE (son of a rude @ Sep 8, 2009 -> 01:36 AM) I hope we someday get to see a slayer and mr perfect tag team. ....

Join the club. Did you watch them play last year? Their freshman (now sophomore) running back is a flat out stud. He looks like Reggie Bush out there.

QUOTE (IlliniKrush @ Sep 7, 2009 -> 11:16 PM) Well, no, it's really not the same kind of game experience at all. I didn't mean it like that. Just the way the fans like to talk about the "experience" of going to a game, as if it transcends everything everything going on elsewhere. I come from a big Notre Dame family and have been to plenty of games in my day, but I could have fun tailgating early in the morning then attending a good football game just about anywhere.

QUOTE (Milkman delivers @ Sep 7, 2009 -> 08:04 AM) /fixed Pretty much. The ND/Cubs comparison is dead on, right down to the so called game experience.

It has nothing to do with religion. Look no further than the southside of Chicago, which is chalk full of "haters". It's just a case of the fans and how they rub off on people.

Their fanbase is very much full of bandwagoners. Very Cubs-esque.

I would hate to be UNI's kicker. He has no line to work with.

QUOTE (Buehrle>Wood @ Aug 29, 2009 -> 03:47 PM) Why am I the only person who has trouble sleeping on hangovers? Because I feel just miserable right now. Came home at 6, wake up at 10 and can't go to bed. And I woke up at 630 in the morning. Why?

I wouldn't move Jenks unless we have to. We'll be overpaying for him, but whatever. Our 'pen is in shambles and it doesn't make sense to get rid of a workable piece.

As far as I can tell, Kotsay and Castro are also free agents.

Happy bday people

Soriano dropped another flyball? That has to be a record. No, he must have smashed the old record.

QUOTE (chw42 @ Sep 2, 2009 -> 11:09 PM) We once had Frank Francisco? Never a true Sox (same with Guerrier), but we traded FF for Everett the first time around.

QUOTE (elrockinMT @ Sep 2, 2009 -> 10:31 PM) I still wonder where Viciedo with his 39 errors is it fits in? Quite well! Seriously, Aelxei needs to be moved again.

You need to try Fat Sandwiches before you go.

QUOTE (knightni @ Sep 1, 2009 -> 09:20 PM) Dunn = Thome on the bases and at the plate Is the latter supposed to be bad? And saying he's Thome at the plate probably isn't giving him enough credit, which is really saying something.

QUOTE (Kalapse @ Sep 1, 2009 -> 09:16 PM) It's usually a very bad idea to spend money on bullpen arms. The position is just way too volatile from year to year. See: Our current position.

I support the whole being American-born thing and I have no idea why. I just do.

QUOTE (WCSox @ Sep 1, 2009 -> 08:45 PM) You forgot about the $25+ million going to Peavy and Rios next year, the raises that Jenks, Floyd, Danks, and Quentin will command via arbitration, and the money that the Sox are losing due to economy-driven losses in advertising and luxury suite sales. The Sox have less to spend next season than a lot of people think. We have about 68 million locked up next year. So unless Jenks, Danks, and Q's arb gets to a sum of 30 million (protip: it won't), we still have money to spend. Should be just over 10 million actually. And we should be in a decent position to actually add payroll from our current spot. We already took our preemptive strike against the economy, if you don't remember. Anyways, we're going to have to spend it some where. Whether it's on middle relief or Adam Dunn and more is another story.

QUOTE (Rowand44 @ Sep 1, 2009 -> 07:12 PM) No way we have enough money for Dunn. By my count, we have 44 million dollars off the books this offseason. Uh, yeah, we have a ton of money to offer.