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More from Cowley : Not only did Josh Fields have knee surgery in the fall, but told reporters that he also had LASIK surgery to improve his vision.

163 ranks right up there because its the most recent. Memories get foggy after a certain length of time . I was at the Disco demolition game but as unreal as that scene was, I can't recall every single detail. Game 5 against the Angels I remember well in 2005 because I was there, 1st pennant since 1959 ( I was around for that too though I was 1 1/2 rs. old at the time)and wrote a nice piece about it on Soxtalk. El Duque getting out of the jam against Red Sox that year because I was working listening to it on radio. All the moments surrounding last game of the World Series. Thome's walkoff 500th HR. Paulie's GS and Pods walk off from the World Series too. I know this isnt a White Sox moment but I was in Chicago visiting a friend and watching the World Series in 88 when Gibson hits his famous HR. I remember that better than any division championship s the Sox won though I do still have a Winning Ugly T shirt .

Viciedo in camp. http://blogs.suntimes.com/whitesox/

According to Coop right now he's operating under the assumption that neither Colon or Contreras will be ready opening day. http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20...sp&c_id=cws

And the video of the interview is here http://csnchicago.com/pages/main

http://www.examiner.com/x-425-Chicago-White-Sox-Examiner another article on topic. One more http://soxmachine.com/blogs/soxmachine/default.aspx

Sox Machine has an article on it. http://soxmachine.com/blogs/soxmachine/default.aspx

Don't know if it was mentioned but Ron Kittle has a Facebook page. You guys can add him as a friend. http://www.facebook.com/people/Ronald-D-Kittle/558137503

Havlat with some magic moves that result in a Bolland goal giving the Hawks a 4-3 lead in the 3rd period against the Lightning. The Hawks had trailed 3-1. Stamkos with 1st career hat trick for TB. Kane finally scored the Hawks 3rd goal.

More from Cowley: GLENDALE, Ariz. - The best exchange between a pitcher and catcher in Tuesday's bullpen sessions? Leave it to A.J. Pierzynski and Mark Buehrle to capture that honor. While Buehrle - never one to scare a radar gun - was throwing to Pierzynski, the catcher yelled to the southpaw, "I'm trying to break in a new glove,'' referring to the mid-80s fastball coming from Buehrle. Buehrle's response? "Well then you better catch someone else.'' Early reviews The one pitcher that looks like doo-doo so far, at least according to his manager? Octavio Dotel. But the right-handed reliever has an excuse. The plan for him was to come in and work on a changeup under the watchful eye of pitching coach Don Cooper. It's obviously a work in progress from the early reviews.

Haven't seen it mentioned yet but Palehose 9 has had 3 strips in February so far. http://palehose9.blogspot.com/

I have a really hard time judging ARod. Yes he admitted it but (and I hope I have my facts straight) many of the tests back then were taken to establish weather MLB actually had a steroid problem. There wasn't a list of banned substances or penalties for taking any of this stuff in baseball at the time ARod is admitting to taking steroids . So basically he wasn't doing anything forbidden. If I'm wrong someone give me dates of when MLB instituted a policy against steroids and when they started making lists of what substances were banned . I do believe he was guilty of trying to keep pace with his peers and did little wrong according to the rules established at that time.

Overall impression is that he's being as honest as he can be. Basically he's saying he was just clueless, he had a neck injury and decided to stop. I would ask him what the real name of this "boley" is . Sounds short for bolic or anabolic. No ones asked him if he knows what is actually was yet.

Q and A still ongoing between media and ARod.

QUOTE (GoSox05 @ Feb 17, 2009 -> 11:00 AM) Is he crying? Theres no crying in baseball. He looked like he was about to cry when he was about to address his teammates to took a really long pause maybe a minute or 2 , took a swig of water then said just "thanks" and sort of just slumped back into his chair.

Said it was him and his cousin , no one else. Took something with a street name of "boley" as best as I can make out what he said. His cousin didn't distribute it to anyone else. He was young and stupid. Said it was over the counter stuff. Not even sure if he and his cousin took it the right way. Says it was injected.

Sorry that 10:45 Am time is PST 12:45 PM CT

Starting now. News Conference.

QUOTE (Texsox @ Feb 17, 2009 -> 08:54 AM) Decent enough analysis. We are predicting how humans will perform over a six month season. It is always a crap shoot, if he was a poster here, he would be called a realist. This is probably the most fluid spring training in the past decade. The guys he predicts are on the downside of their careers, are. They may resist the aging process a little longer, but if you had to bet up, down, or stay the same, stay the same or down are the safer picks. A playoff spot last season was a shocker, as would this season. Congrats on your drinking buddy award

QUOTE (greg775 @ Feb 16, 2009 -> 11:57 PM) My bold prediction is no soxtalk fan will post "this game is over" the moment we fall behind 3 runs in a game in the game threads. Please people, just don't do it!!! You got to believe. Games are not over til they are ova. Ha dream on

Or the Dodgers could just wait til the deadline passes, get their guy and give up nothing.

QUOTE (kyyle23 @ Feb 16, 2009 -> 02:37 PM) Man he was freaking ripped in 2000 Guess that's why he was called the Bronze Titan. Here's a story a few years back about Jose, Coop, and the origin of the nickname. http://havanajournal.com/culture/entry/bro...cago_white_sox/

Contreras might be part of KW's plan and a reason why he's letting the kids go for the 5th spot in the rotation. He could be back pitching as early as June, though I'm sure they will procede with the usual caution. If Colon holds up ( a big IF) and a kid seizes the moment Count can be starter a reliever or trade bait if he can establish he's sound by the trade deadline.

QUOTE (santo=dorf @ Feb 15, 2009 -> 09:44 AM) Why do people keep adding an n to Dayan's last name? I'd love to see what would happen if Wise and Owens completely tank and BA and some other NRI tear the cover off the ball. At least now I know how to pronounce his 1st name, it's Die Ann .

QUOTE (BearSox @ Feb 15, 2009 -> 08:40 AM) None of those players are good enough or have enough potential to be worthy enough to take a risk on. Massett at least had some potential. Besides, all of those players are doubtful to even be snatched up by another team anyway. Betemit is a lock to make the roster though, IMO. It's funny how you said Betemit is a lock to make the roster. When I was writing my post that's almost word for word what I wrote. Then I thought, what if Fields and Viciendo have great springs ? So I took it out. So you're saying Owens and Nix , two of our possible starters, have no potential ? Owen's couldn't possibly stay healthy and solve the leadoff problem and put up decent numbers for 1 year ? Nix ,a guy who won the Colorado starting 2nd base job last year before being DFA'd for sucking couldn't finally figure it out ?