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QUOTE(aboz56 @ Sep 5, 2005 -> 08:57 AM) I'm glad Damon is not in. One thing I would have liked to see was Pablo at 3rd for Blum. Other than that, its fine. Considering Gloads numbers against Schilling this year in AAA. I would have played him at first, DHd Konerko and put Everett in RF. That would of been a better lineup.

Lineups 1 Scott Podsednik, LF 2 Tadahito Iguchi, 2B 3 Carl Everett, DH 4 Paul Konerko, 1B 5 Aaron Rowand, CF 6 Timo Perez, RF 7 Chris Widger, C 8 Geoff Blum, 3B 9 Juan Uribe, SS LF Kevin Youkilis, 3B Edgar Renteria, SS David Ortiz, DH Manny Ramirez, LF Trot Nixon, RF Jason Varitek, C Kevin Millar, 1B Tony Graffanino, 2B Gabe Kapler CF We actually have a decent lineup for this one. Yes Timo is in, but I think all of us thought it was going to be worse than it is.

In Petas perfect world the goverment would evacuate all of the hamsters, kitties, doggies, snakes, spiders, fish before the first person was put on a bus.

QUOTE(kapkomet @ Sep 4, 2005 -> 01:15 PM) You know what? This thread is bulls***. BULLs***. Instead of bantering back and forth about f***ing politics, what are WE going to do about it? I'll share what me and my family have chosen to do about it in the upcoming days, if we're able to help out in the ways that I think we can. These people are in my city. And we are doing our part to help them out, screw the politics, the backgrounds, the ANYTHING of these people. They just need our help. I feel like locking this thread and shoving it so far up people's asses here that this will never see the light of day again. This thread identifies EXACTLY what the f*** is wrong with our country today. And I'm ashamed to have taken part in it after seeing some of these people today. WHO f***ING CARES what these talking heads are doing, it's what WE do about it!!!! I have given money, canned food and diapers to our red cross.

QUOTE(Texsox @ Sep 4, 2005 -> 12:48 PM) Including Bush. I wish he had gone to the White House immediately, stayed at the White House, and kicked some ass. If he was going to make a tour, how about tomorrow, see the empty New Orleans, visit the places in TX, LA, MS, AL, etc. where victims went. Thank the workers and volunteers, slap a few backs and fly off. BTW, his staff did take the time to alert the media what Frist was doing. He didn't shut his mouth. But I still believe he did his best and I applaud him for it. I also like the fact he probably received some real info on the medical situation. Bringing the word's attention to problems isn't the worse thing in the world to do. I like how everyone is all bent out of shape that he wasnt in Washington. Do you realize that the president has a mobile armada of state of the art communications equipment that travels with him everwhere he goes. He can conduct business from all over the world not just from the Oval Office itself. If he was behind his desk, again he would be criticized for using it as a photo opp. How about we make sure that the area is secure from the snipers and the gunfire before we let our leader into the fray. He toured the area from the safety of a helicopter and everyone gave him s*** for a photo op opportunity. I am sure that he will be on the ground at some point when the area is secure. And then everyone can criticize him for the photo opp then. I love how everyone says New Orleans is empty, like the gang members with the guns threw down their weapons and jumped on a bus.

QUOTE(LowerCaseRepublican @ Sep 4, 2005 -> 11:45 AM) The Red Cross has been banned from New Orleans and volunteers bringing food, water, blankets and other materials have been turned away by National Guardsmen and FEMA because there is no significant coordination for the assistance program. So they should bring Jesse Jackson, Barack Obama and the Rainbow Push Coalition down to New Orleans. Have them get in contact with the mayor & organize an effort to get assistance to where it needs to go. I would love to see the President arrest the mayor of New Orleans and Jesse Jackson for illegally trying to bring aid into New Orleans. Because the last thing the administration needs with the current claims of racism in respect to the lack of assistance is black people being beaten and harassed by police and National Guardsmen in the South. Jesse is to busy doing photo ops with Stroger, Danny Davis and others stating over and over if it were whites that were there that they would of been saved on day one. I just watched them on the news again. Nice race baiting agenda. Jesse is just trying to say it over and over and over enough times so when his son runs for Mayor he can use it as a reason to get the black vote out. One Alderman stands by Kanye Wests statement because that is how her voters feel. Its nice to see how the very leaders of the African American community are doing their absolute best to keep screaming racism over and over so their agenda can be forwarded. How about this, everyone wanted the military to come down there and help everyone out. Let them control the situation now that they are there and streamline efforts through them. They have to provide security and logistics for that area. If Jesse Jackson wants to take off his suit, and swim through the crap I say let him in. But of course Captain Morals is just there to scream and scream racism some more, get on tv and line his pockets with more and more money. Maybe with this he can extort more contracts for his family like he has done in Chicago.

QUOTE(aboz56 @ Sep 4, 2005 -> 10:59 AM) AH f***, Blum at SS. Its bonderman facing us. Nasty slider, Ozzie is trying to stack the deck with as many lefties as he can throw in. I understand the players playing. I dont however understand why Blum isnt playing 3rd and Pablo is playing SS. That would make more sense for me.

QUOTE(DBAH0 @ Sep 4, 2005 -> 08:39 AM) You should talk to Soxy, she's a big Celtic fan as well. Personally, I'm a West Ham fan, who are rivals with Charlton the team Spector is playing for this season. And oh for mismatch of the year, Australia beat the Soloman Islands 7-0, in the 1st leg of the Oceania Final for Qualfying. The winner will play the 5th places South American Team in a 2 leg playoff. No wonder Australia wants to move to Asia. Well Soxy has taste. LOL In the premiership, I watched a lot of Fulham last year watching Bocanegra. I watched a ton of PSV last year seeing how Beasley would do against some good competition. Donovan was an embarrassment to US soccer with his crybaby routine and his poor matches against quality. He did the US team a disservice by not staying in Europe. While he tears it up against the MLS, that wont prepare him for the World Cup. I was at Solider Field watching him disappear against the English and their great defense. He would dump the ball off before the english defender would take him on, because he was afraid of the contact. Australia has some talent on their team, If they get Gus Hiddink to manage it like is being suggested in rumors it would be interesting. Gus plays a very aggressive 3-5-2 system that the Dutch have been using. The 5th place team in SA should be beatable this time through. The quality for some of the SA teams have been waning in the last few years. Australia hopefully will get in.

QUOTE(Mplssoxfan @ Sep 4, 2005 -> 08:08 AM) Apparently, not everyone in Columbus was impressed with the US... LOL! Well losing to the US is a terrible blow for Mexico. He had to say something. The funny thing is that it wreaks of the crap the sox have heard this year about how yeah they just swept us, but we are a much better team(ala Injuns/Tiggers/etc). The midfield and strikers are filled with midgets I will agree, but that back line is getting seriously big. Gooch is like 6'5, Boca is 6'1, Spector is 6'2 I believe. If we could ever get a striker that was a bit taller than 5'9 we would be good to compete with Europe on a match by match basis. Hopefully Eddie Johnson will be that striker. I would like to see him up front. Have Donovan drop back to attacking mid.

A big round of applause for Sams Army who made this a home game after all. Cheers to the US for getting into the big dance. Next Summer is going to be a blast. And this year at least its only a 6 hour difference. Getting up at 3am to watch a match was a pain the last time. USA!!!! USA!!!!!! USA!!!!!!!! USA!!!!!!! Best non national team soccer moment. Watching my Celtic team beat the Rangers live and hearing 60k people sing the Fields of Athenry.

QUOTE(Ozzie Montana @ Sep 3, 2005 -> 10:18 PM) We only had one decent shot to put up a goal on the free kick by Morales but Keller made the save. Borgetti was covered tight today unlike at Estadio Azteca. And my man, Kikín, was taken out for not wanting to play today. :banghead But we still got three games to get a win so i'm confident. In Azteca its hard to play due to the altitude and the crowd. Not many teams get a win going there. But when it comes to neutral turf the US just has Mexicos number. Borgetti is a tough guy and has a good ariel game. But the US defenders are getting bigger by the year and we are starting to stack the deck on the backline like the english. If you ever want to see an impressive backline check out the english in person. Everyone of them is like 6'2 and above. Its hard to outjump them. Beasley creates a unique challenge for Mexico as he runs at a good pace and can explode. Donovan is worthless and disappears in big games. He will score 4 goals agains poor teams but disappears in games against good talent. Mexico would create nightmares for some of the European teams and should have a good chance at getting through to the knockout round if they dont get either England, Netherlands or Brazil or Argentina(or their arch nemisis the US). Those are a few teams that they just dont matchup well with.

QUOTE(SleepyWhiteSox @ Sep 3, 2005 -> 09:54 PM) No surprise here. And the Mexico team leaves a lot to be desired... Beasley is a mad man. The overall quality of the US has gotten better over the last few years. They still need better quality in the midfield as Reyna is getting older and OBrien is always hurt. I am looking forward to seeing the backline keep getting stronger. Spector is on loan to Charlton this year and he is from Arlington Heights. Donovan still is overrated. Beasley is the best threat on the team. Nice win for the US. The next big match is on Wednesday as the Lads take on France. Ireland vs Frenchies.

I love this offense lately. This is the only thing that can hold them back this year, is that O. Nobody is trying to do too much, just hit it where its pitched. If they hit like this with our pitching the playoffs could be fun. Bobby Jenks throwing some serious gas in the 9th. He is a focking beast. Sox win, Injuns lose. Its a great day.

QUOTE(Flash Tizzle @ Sep 3, 2005 -> 12:18 PM) I noticed this on WSI's homepage browsing earlier. "Happy birthday, son." JOO FOCKING BISHES!!!!!!!!!!!! Thanks everyone, just kicking back today enjoying the day and getting another year older. HOPEFULLY THE OFFENSE WILL KICK SOME ASS TONIGHT FOR MY BIRTHDAY.

QUOTE(whitesoxfan99 @ Sep 2, 2005 -> 07:08 PM) Kanye West just said that President Bush doesn't care about black people on NBC's fundraiser. I think we are going to see a lot of comments along those lines in the next few days whether they are warranted or not. Just another big mouthed rich guy who has no clue mouthing off. You cant be this f***ing dense Kanye. How about this, if I turn on the TV and I see hungry people looting a grocery store I say well they are hungry. When I see people running out of the best buy with a 50 inch TV, a few computers and they are loading up their car. What the f*** are they doing? And this has nothing to do with race. I hate when those category 5 hurricanes are made up by the government and stirred with "star wars" technology into only black and poor areas. Then its a conspiracy around the US to say, well should we help them, NO they can wait, lets finish up WWE Raw on TV. Was the job done super quick, no. But what everyone forgets is the logistics of this s***. This is the national guard we are talking about. You first have to call them up, notify them of service, then assemble them, then start to transport them into the area. The same happens with the food and all of that. It takes time. Its not as easy as going to the McDonalds down the street and ordering 50 big macs. Can he be this f***ing stupid. They are going to shoot the men shooting at the people rescuing. You know the bad guys. Who cares what color they are. If they were a bunch of members of the irish national soccer team up on the building shooting at everyone I would say take them out. Where was his worry and outcry when the gangs were running around the area shooting people, raping women and children, and shooting at the people trying to help them. If the race card was dropped with this, I figured it would be the usual suspects like Farrakan and Jesse. But I forget that some clueless others would chime in with misinformation. These people should shut the f*** up, spend more time helping these people, and worry about the blame game in a few weeks. People need to stop with the f***ing race card on all sides. Its stupid as s*** and it makes everyone so worried about each other and what they think or say. All it does is get everyone all bent out of shape, and they should be working on the real problem at hand and that is helping those people.

Something stinks from the Whitesox side of this.

QUOTE(TheDybber @ Sep 2, 2005 -> 02:55 PM) As I said, I certainly don't condone it...but after YOU'VE been without food or water in a dome with people who are dead or dying with no working plumbing and see no help in sight...I'd think some people would do some crazy things just to get noticed. Now, I know that there are bad elements everywhere, but some people are just freaked out and feel alone, which, up until this point, they have been. I don't know where you are, but you aren't in New Orleans. So for you to say... ...is kinda cold, if you ask me...which you didn't. First of all this is an open discourse on a message board. Point and counter point can be debated. To get noticed? This is simple to just say that when presented with a fight or flight issue that it is the animal nature of humans that takes over. I understand the primal needs of humans, and the fight for survival. It however doesnt tell us why people are shooting at the people dropping food down. Or that when the food is dropped the gangs are stealing most of it, and leaving the young and the ederly only with scraps. Can you explain how being hungry or thirsty or scared automatically equals children and women getting raped. Or instead of looting for food, you loot for jewerly, tv's, computers, etc. I am sure there are lots of people scared, and for them I feel terrible and heartbroken. But the worst part of this is after having to deal with all of that, these people have to deal with a group of pedators who are using this as an opportunity for anarchy, rape and murder. My point in my post was to point out the human tragedy and how a few would use it to be predators. We have these people who lurk in our society that feel a need to infllict pain on the weak. My disgust goes to those who hurt this poor people. The people who hurt others in this tragedy do not deserve pity or mercy when law enforcement or the military gets ahold of them. It is so sad to see people in such misery. I hope that they can be rescued soon enough. Let the aid workers help out and bring aid and comfort to these people. Any violent action will only slow down this.

QUOTE(TheDybber @ Sep 2, 2005 -> 12:18 PM) I'm certainly not saying that taking pot shots at a helicopter is justified, but some of them probably aren't thinking straight. There are counselors in HOuston that are saying people didn't' want to go into the Astrodome because of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. Theydidn't want to feel trapped, they didn't want to smell that horrific smell. Again, I don't condone looting or shooting or any of that general maelstrom. But, I'm not surprised its happening and would like to think that most of the people there are peace loving but want to get the eff out. So lets take some guns and shoot at the people helping us. That helps out the relief effort. Put down the guns, stop looting or trying to take people hostage and it will only help the situation out. But to just say oh well, its the self preservation or whatever is a bit of a reach. We are human because of our capability for emotions and morals.

The next sad part of this will be the people who will try to use this tragedy for political gain. The minute the military starts shooting the armed gangs and looters you will hear an outcry from some members of the press/society talking about: "Do you really have to shoot them? Doesnt the goverment have non lethal technology? I guess due process suspends in the US when its the poor, etc. I hope they eliminate every single thug and moron who is out there using this as a platform to hurt innocent people. This reminds me of the images of BlackHawk down, as Mogudishu decended into chaos. The military has to get security back in New Orleans not only for this sake and for the sake of these people, but for future disasters. If the law of man doesnt suffice in this tragedy, what happens in the next disaster man made or other. The men and women who are on the ground risking their lives right now are heros in that town. Now its up to the US to give aid to this town and get it back up on its feet and save as many as possible.

QUOTE(DBAH0 @ Sep 2, 2005 -> 09:18 AM) That's probably because most countries think the United States can handle something like this, considering they're the world's biggest country, and have a big enough economy to handle a disaster like this, compared to the Asian Tsunami where countries like Sri Lanka and Indonesia don't. Not saying it's right, but that's probably the perception. I know from down here our government has pledged to help with aid and that, but nothing has been done for certain as of yet. We've still got diplomats trying to get as close to New Orleans as possible to find out info about Aussies that may be missing there etc, but they're not letting any foreign officials anywhere near there. Australia has been one of the US's best allies and one of my favorite countries to visit. I am going to Adelaide sometime in January(looking forward to seeing some of the southern coast.) Been to Sydney about 5 times.

Quotes like this make me sick. When the tsunami hit, we went out of our way to get aid and money into that region, yet when a disaster hits the US we get the old "Well it must of been payback for this position, or bin Laden must be laughing." If this happened to any other country the UN would be asking for money, there would be world wide cries for aid to the region and it would be a different story. But because this is the US, we get a nice f*** YOU from the world and a few sick jokes at a tragedy.

Anyone who takes advantage of this horrible situation by taking up arms, robbing, looting, and raping and killing people should be shot on site. No questions asked. It never ceases amaze me how horrible human beings can be during a tragedy.

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Sep 2, 2005 -> 07:35 AM) AJs average has also come up about 30 points since he quit swinging for the fences. I like the consistancy of this AJ better. Watching AJ last night hit the liner into the left center gaps was a great sign. That was the AJ who terrorized sox pitching for all those years. I could care less if he didnt hit another dong for the rest of the year, just keep hitting the ball to left center as a line drive and he will drive in runs like crazy.

QUOTE(DBAH0 @ Sep 1, 2005 -> 11:11 PM) What teams out there will offer a starting spot to Gload, who's a hitter the wrong side of 30, and doesn't hit for power at a position where it's a premium FWIW? He wont get a starting job. But a decent left handed bat who can play some first will get a job. But then again who knows, the same could of been said of Timo. Yet he had a ton of ABs last month and will be the first option off the bench here in September.

QUOTE(fathom @ Sep 1, 2005 -> 10:34 PM) I know Gload is frustrated, but the last thing we need is for a bench player to put himself above the team with a month left in the regular season. I have a feeling that it's stuff like this which is why he's never been a favorite of KW/Ozzie. Gload has just hit while he has been up here. It was frustrating for fans to watch Gload rake in AAA, while we barely could muster a few hits in some games. Its hard to look at his body of work in AAA and say that he didnt deserve a chance to help this team.