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i'll put this over here since most of it is non-white sox related. yahoo! story

QUOTE(beautox @ Dec 29, 2006 -> 02:34 PM) Hes back, along with his beautiful wife. nice stack o dimes.

QUOTE(whitesoxfan101 @ Dec 28, 2006 -> 08:19 AM) Iowa is going to get ROLLED in their bowl game, so Tate will have more bad things to say. He's right about Iowa people though. And I'm not sure where this myth about Tate having a great 2005 is coming from, but he was very average and this year wasn't even that. He was great in 2004 though, and that combined with a blown coverage on the last play of the Cap 1 Bowl by LSU will keep him popular there. tate reminds me a bit of zach mills from penn state a few years back. mills had a nice sophomore year and lived off it for the next two. however, i do think tate is better than mills was.

more than the names i'm interested in the percentage of players who tested positive, because this could provide some indication of how widespread the problem was at the time.

QUOTE(Controlled Chaos @ Dec 27, 2006 -> 07:53 PM) (I thought Id make all of mine Sox related.) I lived in the building where Jimbo's is. My grandpa owned the building and the bar in the 50's-60's and my dad owned the bar in the 70's. We lived in one of the apartments upstairs. I missed opening day last year for the first time in 17 years, due to the death of said grandfather. Born in 1917, White Sox Championships were bookends to his life. My first time in Comiskey Park was not for a game. My dad snuck my friend and I in to run around on the field. My first driving lesson was in the parking lot of Comiskey. The first game I went to I got a homerun ball, hit by Chet Lemon. I didn't catch it, but picked it up off the ground only to get drilled by some older dude going for it. He knocked me down and I got a bloody nose. Missed an entire inning!! cool idea. let me take a shot. i went to the game the night before the sox clinched in 83. i went on the field afterwards and still have a jar filled with warning track gravel and grass that i picked up. never caught a home run ball, but i did catch a tony phillips foul ball. don't know if this was before or after the crack. i had great seats one game when the sox were playing the rangers. canseco came up to bat and i heckled him badly. telling him to spread his legs a little wider and calling him "roid head." he hit a home run and then pointed at me coming around third base. when old comiskey was being demolished, i went down a slipped a five spot to a guy who gave me a brick i still own. after the first season at new comiskey, a friend of mine did some work inside the stadium helping to replace some of the concrete in one of the concourses. he cut me a brick-sized chunk and gave it to me for my birthday. so i now have bricks from old and new comiskey.

5. i work for a guy who's famous (sorry, can't tell!) 4. i got divorced, which i never ever thought would happen in my life. 3. i earned a varsity letter at a big ten university. just one though. 2. i grew up on the south side, in beverly. 1. i have one daughter, who is the best thing that ever happened to me.

in general i think there's been a double-standard in the way the national media has judged quarterbacks this year. guys like eli manning, roethlisberger, rivers, and romo have been absolutely awful at times. yet it seems that commentators have gone out of their way to line up excuses for these guys. on the flipside, a guy like grossman has been hammered every time he's played poorly.

josh brent to illinois

QUOTE(hitlesswonder @ Dec 26, 2006 -> 02:41 PM) I was asking you what your opiion was based on. My opinion, since I haven't seen Danks pitch, is based solely on his numbers. They may not do him justice, but based on the numbers Danks hasn't performed better than McCarthy. What have you read that says Danks projects as an ace? I'm not being snarky here, I'm actually interested. Anyway, I thought it was interesting that both Rangers and Sox fans think they got the pitcher with the higher potential. i think using numbers as a basis for comparison here is shaky. mccarthy did well as a starter in limited opportunities, then struggled in a relief role last year. were last year's struggles an example of his shortcomings, or just of being a starter wedged into an uncomfortable role? i don't know, other than to say that i don't recall any point last year when he looked comfortable as a reliever. as for danks, yeah, his numbers have not been spectacular. however, i remember someone earlier in this thread noting that danks has had a tendency to struggle once he moves to a new level. but after a period of time he works it out and excels. that would explain his higher era numbers, numbers that are influenced by his early struggles.

yahoo for sale: one large, unpleasant, and really ugly man.

i think brennan has a chance to win the heisman, but i don't think he will. the great majority of voters are not going to see him play next year. frankly, last night was probably the highest-profile game he'll play between now and next year's heisman ceremony.

ugh. rip.

lol. anyhow, i do think that kenny does have certain guys who he really wants to have on the sox. it seems like there's a lot of cases where he's rumored to be pursuing certain players for a long period of time and those guys in many cases end up on the sox. i'm not too certain what to make of how this offseason has progressed. i think there's a good chance he's made some genius moves that are way ahead of the curve. or, he could have made some unnecessarily aggressive moves that will hurt this organization in both the short and long term. time will tell.

i'd like to see a guy like pineiro brought in to compete for the fifth spot. couldn't hurt.

ohio state looked bad yesterday, but give them some time. the problem right now is that without oden they were an entirely perimeter-oriented team, and now with oden they're trying to be more post-oriented. that's a tough transition to make, but matta's pretty astute and i'm sure he'll figure it out. what would worry me is that i think butler and lewis are in danger of just being totally lost this year. butler is really, really good, but he's just disappeared over the past few weeks. lewis is getting in the bad habit of chucking bad shot after bad shot when he's not getting regular looks. yesterday was another example of that. i will say one thing positive for them was the play of mike conley. that kid is good as hell. when he improves his three-point shooting he'll be really nasty.

when i worked in newspapers i used to work christmas quite a bit. when i worked for my first daily, that initial year i ended up drawing the short straw and working christmas eve, christmas day, and the day after. i woke up the morning of the 24th with a wicked cold and was hurting all three days. that pretty much sucked.

no comprende.

illinois is just not very good at this point. warcat did sit out tonight.

geez. imagine how well this guy will recruit if we ever win more than two games.

QUOTE(CanOfCorn @ Dec 21, 2006 -> 04:51 PM) Sorry, I thought they were going to declare on the 20th. Let's hope Kelvin Sampson doesn't get his mitts on either of them. no comment on indiana's coach. that will get you chastised around here. brent and wilson were initially supposed to commit together, but i've read that brent had one of his basketball games from earlier this year rescheduled to tonight, thus eliminating that option. wisconsin is a real player here. bielema did an in-school two weeks ago, and after his visit to wisky last weekend brent said wisky had moved past ohio state on his list.

QUOTE(CanOfCorn @ Dec 21, 2006 -> 03:31 PM) So, has anyone heard about Martez or Brent? Weren't they have supposed to declare yesterday? wilson is declaring tonight at 6 p.m. chicago time. brent is not declaring with wilson because he had a basketball game rescheduled to this evening. not sure when he's announcing, although reports suggest that wisconsin is making a strong late push.

QUOTE(aboz56 @ Dec 20, 2006 -> 09:12 PM) Sampson and Izzo are good friends, so there goes your argument that his conference can't stand him. The other guys I could really care less about, most of them have accomplished nothing, mainly Painter and Amaker who will be fired if he doesn't reach the tourney this year. So it won't matter if he likes KS or not, he'll be at a small school just happy to earn a paycheck or an assistant somewhere. well, that's kind of besides the point. rex's initial statement was that the entirety of questions about sampson's character have grown out of illinois's fans unhappiness with the way the gordon thing went down. by citing other big ten coaches and the conference commissioner's statements, i think it at least shows that it's not just bitter illini fans who have raised those concerns. they are out there whether anyone likes it or not. i mean, i don't know squat about sampson's character other than what we read in the news media. he could be a great guy and a totally wonderful man. but there is evidence out there that suggests that he doesn't always behave ethically. that didn't just get fabricated out of thin air by some stooge in a chief head dress.

he is a member of hawk's hallowed carmine derriere team.

QUOTE(Jimbo @ Dec 20, 2006 -> 04:29 PM) When the Illini were actually good for.....oh 1 year, they were on top of the world. Now, as reality has shown its ugly face, the fans are just hard and bitter. one year? lol. that doesn't even need rebuttal. it's absurdity stands on its own. but no, not hard or bitter. just realistic. i look at my team for what it is not for what i think it could be or should be. and right now it is not very good.

QUOTE(Jimbo @ Dec 20, 2006 -> 04:25 PM) my goodness as soon as the illini lost their talent then turned into little whiners. what does that mean? do you have a link for a jimbo to english translation or something?