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QUOTE(spiderman @ Feb 12, 2007 -> 09:14 PM) 1) Buerhle 2) Contrereas 3) Garland 4) Vazquez 5) Floyd ?? 6) Jenks 7) MacDougal 8) Thorton 9) Masset 10) Aardsma 11) Sisco There's no chance that Charlie Haegar can make the team out of the bullpen ??? How many bullpen arms does the team lead by a manager that goes to the bullpen less than anyone in baseball.

QUOTE(WilliamTell @ Feb 12, 2007 -> 03:10 PM) What about Ben Davis, I remember that insane thread a couple of years ago, craziness. The thread was only the half of it.

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Feb 12, 2007 -> 07:34 AM) His not being punished was the biggest crock of s*** from the league who is hunting down Barry Bonds. Everytime this guys pitches against the sox they should check him for the foreign substance.

QUOTE(Chisoxfn @ Feb 12, 2007 -> 02:04 PM) My question is this, Would we not play Thome against real good lefties and instead go with Perez? I know for the most part I wouldn't simply because Thome is a better player and draws a ton of walks. Jason, The answer is because Thome while dangerous was terrible against lefties last year. Overall he hit .236. But lets look at some of the other numbers against rotation guys he will face. Thome hit a grand .000 against Sabathia. And he hit a lovely .071 against Cliff Lee. Against Santana he hit .191. Against Rodgers he hit .191 also. This is why I am not all that broken up about Eddie hitting against some of the tougher lefties in our division. Thome can change the game with one swing, however more often than not his swing misses tough left handed pitching. And with our overall craptacular hitting against good left handed pitching we need whatever edge we can use.

QUOTE(fathom @ Feb 12, 2007 -> 02:02 PM) I've been begging the Sox to sign Perez for a while now. He's fantastic against LHP, and he did very well in his brief time in the AL Central last year against the top lefties in the division. He'd be a great guy to have face the likes of Santana, C.C., etc. I just hope he can make the 25 man roster. Great signing! This is a nice little signing. With all of the tough lefties in our division this is a good investment.

Anyone that says that they would accept 3 80 to 90 loss seasons in the hopes of one world series are not being totally realistic. We all said for years, if only they could win one world series I would be happy. Well guess what they did, and 90 win seasons are still not good enough. If we went to 80-90 loss seasons it would cripple this organization for a long time. KW is protecting an investment, that a lot of season ticket holders and partial owners have. Does everyone want to win the world series every year, sure. Do you want to toe the line and spend the season ticket package plan to keep the team afloat over the next 3 years while the team is the marlins. NO.

QUOTE(SoxFan1 @ Feb 8, 2007 -> 10:29 PM) Just for the sake of comparison, would you agree that they play like the Bolton team of the last few years. I may be way wrong as I don't watch the US team play much (moreso UEFA) but it seems like they play the long-ball-lets-hope-someone-gets-it type attack. I know in the World Cup, the biggest problem with the US is that they were going backwards more often than forwards, mostly evident vs the Czechs. They've got speedsters in Beasley and Donovan, but they're not instituting the right offensive attack for success. And IMO, Beasley is gretaly underused by the US. They'd play much better if they got it out on the wings more. They play the long ball and hope, and a bit of the perimeter triangle. However When they play the triangle, they sit back too much and the opposition double teams the pivot man before they can advance the ball. Beasley would break down the line and extend the defense on the wings and would open up the middle more. They have no one at all that can do that on the pitch right now. And another issue is the loss of McBride who was a nice changeup and partner for any striker we would put up. Donovan should be an attacking mid, not a striker. He is too short and has a horrible first touch most of the time. Adu should be up playing with the senior team. This should be done for a few reasons, one to cap tie the kid. The 2nd is to figure out what you have. Adu should be up front. He has fantastic dribbling skills and can provide something that isnt on the team right now and that is someone who can break down a defender one on one. ow most of the US team thinks they can, but basically all they do is provide one or two weak moves. Maybe a step over and a nutmeg and that is about that. Adu should be sold off to a European team, perferably in the Spanish league or Italian league. the english is where you want to send your defenders and your midfielder, but Spain and Italy is where you send your strikers. N

QUOTE(SoxFan1 @ Feb 8, 2007 -> 10:18 PM) I understand what you mean now. And you know I agree with you as far as Wynalda is concerned. Marking is defending. Marking is the American football equivalent of covering, the basketball equivalent of guarding. Mmm, beat me to it. The biggest issue for the US team right now is ironically what Beckham is. Its a midfielder that can feed the ball. Last night gave me headaches watching either some midfielder try and kick a 60 yard pass in the air, or try to constantly thread the needle. At some point just by accident, you would figure that they would learn how to pass on the ground. The feed on the ground is hard to defend. When you lob it in the air everything slows down and you give the defense too much time to get back on the ball. The US has speed, but they never ever use it

QUOTE(CWSGuy406 @ Feb 8, 2007 -> 10:06 PM) Don't crucify me, but -- realize I'm asking this as a kid who has never played a game of soccer in his life and is an extreme casual fan -- is the term 'marking' defending or is it passing? Marking is akin to playing man to man defense. When a defender marks a man, he pretty much follows him around and tries to deny service which is the ball being fed to the attacking player. Last night a perfect example of bad marking was Chris Albright. The Mexican attack was pretty much picking on him all night long, like a good QB in the NFL would pick on the bad DB.

QUOTE(SoxFan1 @ Feb 8, 2007 -> 06:28 PM) My comment had nothing to do with that, but I understand what you're saying. And I'm not sure if that's kinda a shot at me and my Serbian-ness or not, but ok. You are a chat crew member and we are all brothers that wasnt the point of my post. To me I would rather have some bandwagon fan jump up and down, than someone who is claiming to be part of a country that they never plan on going to. It was more of a shot to the 50k Americans of Mexican decent that were in the stadium. Eric Wynalda is horrible. He has no clue. Landon Donovan does this all the time. He looks like the second coming of Ronaldo against concacaff teams, because they play wide open and the marking is poor. The minute he goes up against a physical good marking team, he disappears.

QUOTE(SoxFan1 @ Feb 8, 2007 -> 04:22 PM) The casual fans who only root because it's their country. I dont know. Here is another thought. What is worse. The casual fan that roots for their country for a show of nationalistic pride. Or someone that was born here, and roots for someone else which is obviously what I see when we watch a US game in America. I never see the red white and blue outnumbering the opponent. So did an army of people here on Visa's or were born in other countries just happen to show up. Maybe. Or is it children of immigrants who seem to love it here, except for when the teams play. I was born in Ireland. However if the US were to play the Irish I would wear my red white and blue and root for the Americans to beat Ireland. This is the only country I have known. I am an American citizen. Its somewhere that I have been since I was one years old. Dont get me wrong if Ireland is playing anyonje else, I root for the Irish. I own a Duff and Keane jersey. But there are plenty of people in this country that seem to identify with another country, even thought they have never been there for most accounts and forget why we all came here in the first place. My father used to get mad at me when people would ask what I was and would say Irish. He told me, you are an American.

God what a messed up life for her daughter to inherit. Hopefully they will wisk her away and let her grow up as normal as you could under the situation. RIP

QUOTE(Balta1701 @ Feb 8, 2007 -> 02:03 PM) I have no words that can possibly express how unbelievably stupid I feel this article is and how angry I am at having spent a minute reading it. I am sure that the drunken fools who rush to watch a rotten team play in an antiquated dump of a stadium will be lining up to bring goats and their buddies named Murphy to every single ballpark that team hits this year. I remember in 03 when these fools were bringing stupid farm animals to the games and reciting some made up curse backwards. These are the same fans who ate a f***ing blown up baseball in their pasta. The only curse are the people who have to watch these drunken fools urinating in their yards after another fine game at the dump. Wait till Mike Murphy gets a hold of this one. He will be playing goofy soundbites and giggling like a school girl that he can personally lift them from their crappy status.

QUOTE(SoxFan1 @ Feb 8, 2007 -> 01:01 PM) Shame on the American team for giving their country false hope. Who is getting false hope.

I would take the heat over the cold anyday. At least when its super hot out, when the sun goes down you can still go out and enjoy the evening outside. When its -10 below and you go outside at night you need therapy.

Here is the sportscenter highlights, including the assclown trying to take out EJ as he runs by.

QUOTE(knightni @ Feb 8, 2007 -> 12:13 AM) Ahh dammit!!! I better be getting some best threadadder votes out of this! Vote whore

QUOTE(SleepyWhiteSox @ Feb 7, 2007 -> 11:47 PM) My game notes: - Mexico's new adidas jerseys were terrible...I hate how adidas is taking the nike college cookie-cutter approach of giving all their teams the same design... - bruce arena hurts my ears... - Both teams played pretty bad most of the game. Same recent formula and result in the end, though. - Stupid, ugly move at the end...wynalda made a nice comment about the goalie losing his dad before the World Cup and him coming out and playing well, and then he goes and does something stupid like that... - Boring game overall. Bruce Arena hurts everyones eyes. The only good thing is that he cant load the pitch up with ex DC United players and play a 4-5-1 anymore. The game was sloppy, and the pitch was small. They did an interview with Sunil who runs the US soccer federation. He provided nothing but nonsense. The fact that this man is heading up US Soccer means that nothing good is going to happen for a while. Albright can go away forever. He basically was a turnstyle. Mexico kept attacking him over and over and getting past him. Deak to the left, he over commits and cant stop. Deak to the right and he over commits and cant stop. 2 moves and you are past him running unabaited on goal. Only Howard and some team traps kept the clean sheet. Rolfe was worthless also. If Landon can play like this against non Concacaff teams we would be fine. He played well.

Right after Donovan seals the game with a stoppage time deathblow to make it 2-0 The goalie gets up, and then goes spikes up into Eddie Johnson. Check the image in the back. Hopefully Fifa supsends their goalie. Its one thing when the fans throw urine bombs, but when you have players showing frustration and then going spikes up into a players ankle when they are running away from you. Its classless at the highest levels. Typical though, we have seen them punch players, spike them when they are on the ground. Dirty dirty play. The dirty play is on sportscenter. Maybe they should work on beating us on US soil and stop with the childish crap. USA USA USA

QUOTE(TitoMB345 @ Feb 7, 2007 -> 04:01 PM) nice.. i also love the cubs being 8-1. LOL. they must be banking a lot on Ted Lily winning 20 games. Actually its called baiting dumb cub fans to put a lot of money on the cubs to win it all.

QUOTE(WHarris1 @ Feb 6, 2007 -> 08:21 PM) Not sure if this needed it's own thread or not, but I figured 'why the hell not?'. I have recently been considering buying a new laptop since mine is about 4-5 years old and really not so hot. I am in love with the MacBook, but what I am wondering is this...I know I am going to want a laptop going into college (I am only a junior in HS), would it be worth waiting for the advances in laptops over the next year and a half? It is more of a general question than anything, but I guess what I am asking is will the advances with regards to laptops and specifically Apple be worth waiting a year and a half for? I don't necessarily need one right now, but if they aren't going to be remarkably better I figured I might as well. If you get the macbook, spend the 200 bucks more and get the black one. The case will hold up better. The longer you wait on technology, the better the equipment will be that is always the thing. From a technology standpoint, these would be my best guesses. Currently the procs are dual core 64bit. I could see the possibility of quad core systems by next year in the laptop. 802.11n wireless standard built in. If you have a newer Macbook you can upgrade your wireless to support pre-n and N by a firmware upgrade that costs $1.99. Larger Sata hard drives, The only thing that would keep me waiting is to see if Apple would put a Blueray or HD-DVD drive in their systems. But nothing has been leaked about that. Basically you have to draw a line in the sand and say I need it at this point and then purchase it. When you buy it, pretty much you will see within 6 months a newer and better laptop out with new gizmos. Pretty much unless you are doing some state of the art math processing, or heavy duty graphics these systems will be powerful enough. I run password cracking programs on my system that run heavy math and my core duo macbook runs great.

QUOTE(NorthSideSox72 @ Feb 6, 2007 -> 01:19 PM) 1. Note that in the chart, "present" is 1950. Nice. Its the spikes since then that are really way beyond historical averages. Your chart is not accurate. 2. There were no dinosaurs around 400k years ago, or even close to that. The chart is still accurate. The difference between the 1950's reading and the top of those spikes is about 2 degree's centigrade. How much do you think we have gone up from the 1950's as a planet. The dino comment was sarcasm. However the Triassic period was about 245 million years ago which would put it right in the middle of one of those spikes.

QUOTE(Rex Kicka** @ Feb 6, 2007 -> 11:45 AM) There's no doubt that pollution has far reaching effects... one of which may be global climate change. By reducing CO2 emissions, we can help reclaim the negative effects that it has had on our environment. It's a good thing to do regardless of global warming. But if you want good anecdotal evidence - look at Mount Kilimanjaro. Look at the mountains in Montana that had snow caps year round 50 years ago. The average temperature on earth today is a full degree higher than it was 120 years ago, and a full degree higher than it was at the end of the last warming "cycle." Everytime I see a graph on global warming, its a 100-200 year snapshot of average temps. This is a bit small of a snapshot when you are talking about global climate changes. Sure we have seen an increase in temps over the last 100 years, and sure it has an affect on our climate at this point in history. But if you take a look through time, the temperature of the world has fluctuated in cycles. This is the hottest the planet has been since around 1000AD. So if it was so hot back in old 1000AD what where they doing to increase the temps. Was it the population at the time, NO. Was it the large amounts of industry or technology, NO. Then why was it so hot back then. Maybe its just a cycle that happens. I know Al Gore built the internet and all but come on. For every theory on global warming being caused by people only, there are others. There is a theory that our climate is more affected on the slight deviations in the tilt of the axis of the earth and its deviations in its orbit that have slow, but farther reaching climate changes then Betsy and her SUV.

Maybe the dino's drove around in big SUVs, worked at big factories, and were too tied to Oil.

Happy Birthday Ian!!!! Happy Birthday Shakes!!!