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QUOTE(Gregory Pratt @ Feb 17, 2007 -> 12:07 PM) I concur: you've got to have confidence. Absolutely. I've seen Terr. play and I don't want him very much. I wasn't defending the idea of him being on the roster, not at all, but I do like having him in the minors just in case. I'm defending Ozzie from the criticism that he's somehow persecuting BA. Apparently, BA wasn't just confident last year: he had an ego and didn't work hard and of course didn't bring much to the table offensively. For Ozzie to say he's not guaranteed a spot this year, I can't blame him, and it's definitely not "persecuting" or as if Ozzie is singling him out because he's a bully or whatever the consensus has become. What insider information do you have that Anderson didnt work. I have heard him being described as cocky yes, but lazy? I could care less that Ozzie picks on Anderson, if he spreads the wealth of criticism around. Such as Pods who no matter how bad, and how much of a hindrance to our team he was, kept trotting out day after day in LF. Ozzie has had a habit of being stubborn to a fault with his favorites and putting them in because he thinks its the X factor. In 05 it was Timo, who was thrown out at 1st base, DH and in the OF. Timo was horrible. In 06 he put a corner OF in CF, even though the limited offensive production we received from it wasnt worth the shear butchery that was being displayed by his presence. Ozzie has a template. He wants this to be the Marlins offense of a few years ago with Pierre and Castillo up top. Well we dont have Pierre and Castillo of that vintage on this team. This is a power team. We need guys who can get on base, so our thumpers can drive them in. We dont need prancer getting on first, only to get picked off because his groin hurts and cant run anymore.

QUOTE(Gregory Pratt @ Feb 17, 2007 -> 11:30 AM) Anderson was terrible last year and apparently had an ego and poor work ethic behind the scenes. Guillen is saying he isn't guaranteed a starting job this year, whereas last year it was quite clear he was The Man and all the eggs were in his basket going in. That devilish Osvaldo! Greg have you seen Tererro play with the Orioles. Do you really think you have something different in him. Baseball players have to have an ego, in fact if you want to succeed at anything you need an ego, a level of cockiness, confidence from within.

Anderson must of performed some sort of satanic ritual and sacrificed Ozzies dog. Tererro is 07 version of Timo. Latin, not so good, but Ozzie thinks he is the X factor. Wait till he plays DH. So much for Ozzie learning from year to year.

So when can we move onto the school with the french name in South Bend and their propensity to stereotype the Irish.

QUOTE(whitesoxfan101 @ Feb 16, 2007 -> 11:27 AM) Dontrelle Willis has had a lot of success since he turned his Fernando-esque leg kick into a more normal leg kick, however he's younger and has more velocity than Zito, while releying less on a curveball. But hey, he just signed a deal for 126 million dollars guaranteed, so he can do whatever the hell he wants. Be interested to see how this actually works though. A crazy kick or crazy turn sometimes causes a pitcher not to focus on the target until the ball is about to be released. This will cause some control issues on its own merit. He can do what he wants to do, however you cant say that the giants will be too happy. Its about how I felt last year, when Freddy started this BS that he wanted to become a control pitcher and was "choosing" to be a soft tosser. You probably hit it on the head. Hopefully his release and follow through still leaves his left hand around his right knee with the follow through. When you throw a 12-6 type curve like Zito, the key is to keep ontop of the pitch and pull down like you are pulling on a window shade and not to stop it abruptly. If he starts a side to side motion with it, he will get more left to right action on it and he will put more stress on his arm.

QUOTE(Chisoxfn @ Feb 16, 2007 -> 11:03 AM) His motion was looking weird. The high leg kick was completely gone. His velocity might take a drop with the leg kick gone.

Over striding also has one other side effect, you have a propensity to leave the ball up more.

QUOTE(Kalapse @ Feb 15, 2007 -> 11:58 PM) Clark is an above average defensive player with an excellent arm which makes him a better candidate than Ozuna out in left simply because Pablo is not an outfielder and is less than mediocre out there. And based on Clark's '05 season, Erstad's track record offensively over the past 6 years and Darin's injury concerns I'll gladly take the upside of Brady Clark as the team's 4th OF. I have been wanting him on the team for a while now. It just makes too much sense to make this move. He provides a decent lead off guys, someone better than our lovely Pods right now. He can play more OF positions than Pods can now. Send Pods to the Marlins for some low level pitching prospect and call it a day. They need a CF(pods isnt it and all but they are the marlins for gods sake) and would be desperate enough to take a sniff at pods.

In 6 days he will be throwing these with Prior.

QUOTE(joeynach @ Feb 15, 2007 -> 10:11 AM) From the offensive side I remember a lot of failures. Yeah we couldn't bunt at all and got thrown out a heck of a lot of the base paths and at the plate. We couldn't hit lefty pitching at all weather it was Santana, Sabathia, or Mark Redman. We had Pods, Iguchi, Thome at 1 2 3 in the lineup most of the year whose combined BA against lefties was .235, sorry but thats just unacceptable and not going to get the job done against some of the toughest in division pitchers. We had fewer sacrifices and were worse in 1 run games and extra innings, thanks the to the bullpen for that. Point is we had too many flaws just to say well if we practice small ball more everything will be fine. Small ball execution will help but its not the answer. We cant have a lucklaster 1 2 3 against LHP, we need a bullpen that can shut the door consistently, and we need an offense that can win late in games by getting on base and manufacturing runs. Hopefully Razor will be aggressive at third, but not crazy aggresive like Cora last year. Cora sent too many runners to their deaths at the plate. The job of a third base coach is to have a grid map in their head of where the ball is picked up or caught, and who is the runner, and where he is on the basepaths. You know having a guy thrown out by a perfect throw from Right, or a bang bang play you can chalk that up to aggressive baserunning. Having the catcher waiting for Konerko, because Cora decided to send him when he just trucked past second on a ball barely past the shortstop on a charging left fielder is dumb. Cora saying only a perfect throw gets him is also dumb, and that is why he is on the bench keeping Ozzie company this year. A high schooler could of thrown out Kong on some of those plays.

He should worry more about situational hitting more than having a bunt of guys bunt. Bunting should be covered in ST and most major leaguers should be good at it, especially if you are not a big bopper. But really it wasnt the bunting that was our small ball failure last year, it was our situational hitting late in games after the allstar break. How many times late in games did we have a man in scoring position when a single, or hitting to the right side to advance the runner to third would of done the trick. Ozzie loves bunting, but bunting is only one small aspect of small ball. I would rather that some of our hitter practice sitting back on the ball, or work on their batters eye for taking a pitch.

QUOTE(DBAH0 @ Feb 15, 2007 -> 06:16 AM) Interesting to see Wilder replacing Duane Shaffer, who's moved to another role. A repucussion of KW's thoughts on not finding enough young pitching through the draft perhaps? Maybe we will start to see some better drafts.

QUOTE(spiderman @ Feb 14, 2007 -> 08:53 PM) I like when the White Sox hit HR's, hopefully they hit lots of them, but they need to be able to manufacture runs as well. I like when they dont "try" to hit home runs. When a home run comes because of working a count, getting a pitch to swing at, or when a line drive bomb flies out its okay. When the team goes up, and tries to lift and pull every single pitch no matter where its thrown because they need to make sportscenter, or when a pitcher consistantly throws low and away, and they still try and lift and pull especially in a tie game late, when you have less than 2 outs and a man in scoring position when a single will win it, and not the dramatic homer. Thats when our approach pisses me off. I would like to see our hitters work the count more this year, and take whats given to them. If you have a pitcher throwing low and away the entire game, its okay to hit it up the middle and to right. The minute they start doing that, they will see more pitches inside, and then they can turn and burn on those.

One day, the mighty Rowand will retire and then all of this crap about reacquiring him will be done. Then the legend of Aaron Rowand will start. Aaron Rowand once killed 50 men with a diving catch. Rowand once single handedly won a world series with his grinderism. He once cured cancer and still had time to rob a Yankee of extra bases with a diving extendo catch. Good lord.

QUOTE(elrockinMT @ Feb 14, 2007 -> 04:54 PM) I think the Garcia trade was a huge question mark as far as us giving up a proven winner for youngsters. Freddie developed a new picth and threw back to back one-hitters and that ain't shabby. We lose him and get two potentially good pitchers, but no Aaron Rowand, who I think most will agree is who we wanted. But, anyway we saved money and got two ML ready prospects. Ok, now we wait and see. But, saying the Cubs did good on their pitching selections? Please Mr. Rogers they barely hit the .500 level. Plus they got paid a ton. Who wanted rowand? Not me. He is a 4th OF and currently trade bait for the Phillies. If he was so great and grand, teams would like up to trade for him.

QUOTE(Colorado Sox Fan @ Feb 14, 2007 -> 04:29 PM) I don't care about the Cubs comparison. I agree with Rogers. There's nothing in the offseason moves that excites me about this team. Say what you want about Freddy, but he would give us 15 wins. Now we have Vazquez as #4 starter vs. #5 and it's anybody's quess who the #5 is. I just don't see how we're a better team without Garcia and Mac. I don't care about 2008 or 2009. I want to see a world series challenger in 2007. This team doesn't cut it, unless we pick up a starter at the trade deadline. Bullcrap. In 2008 and 2009 you would be here moaning about how bad the sox are, and how they didnt think of the future and how could they keep pitchers that were obviously going to leave via free agency. You like a bunch of people probably said in 05, as long as they win the WS I wont care what they do in 06 and 07. Well guess what, its 07 and you do care, just like you will in 08 and 09.

Phil Rodgers needs to get over the Garcia trade. So let me get this straight, we are a bad team now because we got rid of one pitcher from our rotation yet the cubs add the mighty Ted Lilly, Jason Marquis, and other spare parts of crap and they are the bestest team in the world. One team won 90 games, the other team lost nearly as many. You would think by Phil's comments that we had the record the cubs did last year.

QUOTE(RockRaines @ Feb 14, 2007 -> 02:31 PM) On Sportsnight they said "the loveable losers no more" when describing the cubs. Umm excuse me? When did they not finish in last place in 2006? I had a moronic cub fan friend of mine tell me a few weeks back that I need to let go of the 2005 White Sox championship because it was in the past, and that sox fans are now obsessed with winning a championship years ago. I laughed at him, and then told him that I was at game 2, I remember the feel of the cold rain on my face, I remember what it felt like when Scotty Pods hit the walk off. I remember the feeling after the clincher in game four. I suggested that he obtain a ouiji board to contact someone who can say the same about the last cubs championship.

Next winter??? People are already b****ing that we are going to be cheap next winter. How about this, lets worry about the 07 season that hasnt been played yet before we start to worry about 08. The team with one of the highest payrolls in baseball is playing this year, and I dont see how that will change by next year. Its not like we are going to go from a 90+ million dollar team to a 40 million dollar team next year with the evil JR pocketting all the profits. Stop with the worries already.

This should be an non-issue. It is very easy to determine if the browsing activity on a PC is intentional or not or redirected from spyware. How many people have had a popup storm bomb their machine. You hit the wrong site, and it just bombs popup after popup. All it takes is one sextracker cookie, and a non-patched version of IE. The only way to shut this is to kill the browser by hitting control-alt-delete and killing the browser process and sometimes the spyware instance itself. Its understandable that she got startled and didnt know exactly what to do when this started to happen with her audience the age that they were. The only way this would of sunk in to the jury is if they did a demonstration of how it works. Hopefully the appelate court will overturn this one.

Social Engineering overcomes a multi million dollar development effort. What a shocker. The problem with this type of encryption is that it has to be relatively static for it to work on these types of platforms. You get a few smart people, a lot of spare time and enough processing power and they can crack this type of encryption.

QUOTE(MinnesotaSoxFan @ Feb 13, 2007 -> 08:10 AM) I was though! Remember the rule, what happens in chat, stays in chat.

I will be curious on the final season ticket number count as opposed to last year. I am happy that the team is doing this well with attendance. It only helps keep a high payroll and it keeps this team competitive. I made a small Ozzie plan committment that I do every year, and to me the cubs/sox game and a dibs on some of the better games ahead of the single season sale pays for it for me. I hope that the stadium is packed every day and we can keep this momentum going as a franchise.

QUOTE(spiderman @ Feb 12, 2007 -> 09:27 PM) Do you think that's Sicso will spend the 07 season being converted to a starter ? I'm not sure, but if we have an ineffective or, unproven at least, 5th starter in Floyd, and a 4th starter who can get blown up at any time, I wouldn't be shocked if they went to 12 pitchers. Early in the season, though, with the off-days, it may not be necessary to use 12 pitchers, but once they start playing 6 or 7 days a week, it wouldn't be shocking to me. I remember plenty of times that we could of pulled a tired Freddy Garcia mid season, or a Vazquez who had 6th inning issues and still Ozzie kept his formula. Starting pitchers go to X inning. This was with those 2 giving up 6 and 7 runs. Ozzie doesnt use his pen a lot, Unless Floyd gives up 16 runs, he aint coming out of the game.

Evil American pigs, I will get them all. I cant wait till I hear how the tests went. So Cornell Yi, how many megaton was it. Well how many kilotons was it, you mean it was 7 tons. Oh s***, back to the negotiating table.