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Theres been talk on PTI and on ESPN in general speculating the Sox hit Delmon Young in his first ML AB as a welcome to the big leagues hazing . Also that Ozzie could have had it done to get on the umpires good side. If you remember earlier in the year Delmon Young was the one who hit the umpire with a thrown bat while in the minors. Thoughts ? Comments ? Old time baseball ? Accident? Is Ozzie that devious ?

I'm not going to analyze pitching matchups, upcoming schedule or injuries. I'm a Sox fan and have been conditioned to hope with my heart and not think with my head. 20-12 sounds good. Illogical ? Yes. Improbable ? Yes. Impossible ? No f'in way ! Sox win the wildcard and the World Series.

QUOTE(shoota @ Aug 27, 2006 -> 06:16 PM) And the team's ERA is higher because OZZIE decided not to let McCarthy start. So you looked into your crystal ball and saw BMac with a 14-2 record and 1.00 ERA ? I havent done the math but thats probably about what it would take for the ERA of the whole staff to be .50 lower and have the whole team at 85 wins. And yes I know you're not the one who stated the .50 ERA/85 wins but you did say if MCarthy was starting the team ERA would be lower. If that crystal ball is still working can you give me some California lottery winning numbers ?

QUOTE(Chisoxrd5 @ Aug 24, 2006 -> 10:03 AM) Lets see..if Oakland, Detroit, Minnesota, and NYY make it to the playoffs this year I won't even watch it. The only team I will even remotely root for is Minnesota. The rest of those teams make me sick. I'd have to root for Oakland just to see Big Frank get some AB's in the World Series . He's been kicking sum serious butt for the last few months .

Dye 3rd .Thome 4th against righties, 5th against lefties, Konerko 4th against lefties, 5th against righties . Switch Crede and AJ the same way in the 6 and 7 spot.

Anybody wanna gimme an email and password for MLB tv or radio on the net so i can see or at least hear this game ? Feel free to pm it to me .

I'm pretty pissed about no telecast on DirectV today also. After a hard day at work I was really looking forward to seeing the game tonight.

As good as the Sox bench is, I'd have to say I like the Angels better with the speed of Figgins and the power of Quinlan and Salmon.

That pitch from Rivera to Thome in the 7-6 loss drifted right down the middle. When I saw the location and Thome about to swing I was all ready to yell my head off. I couldn't belive he beat it into the ground. I'd say nagging injuries must be slowing him down a bit. The Thome of April and May would have driven that low but right fown the middle pitch a long way.

JD has just been unbelievable . I remember last year there were so many Dye bashers when he got off to the bad start, calling him "Dead." There is always so much negativty and player bashing that it keeps me from posting all that often. If it wasn't Dye it was Crede (Cruddy), Garland (Judy), Cotts, Thornton etc. and so many more. I also realize that without criticism there would ,effectively, be nothing to talk about. As a long time Sox fan I've learned to just enjoy watching my favorite team and know that there are players who are better than others and bashing them won't make them any better. One of my favorite players as a kid was CF Ken Berry and he couldn't hit a lick. But I'll always remember a highlight channel 32 used to run in a commercial with Ken Berry jumping up to attempt a catch on a ball over the centerfield fence. He actually jumped up and over the centerfield fence like a fosberry flop when doing a high jump. Still don't know if he caught it and would love to see it again. But if the effort's there a player ranks high in my book no matter what the results.

It seems more likely that the offense is capable of scoring more runs with tweaks to the lineup against righties and lefties than the pitching staff is capable of returning to the kind of success they had last year. The pitching staff is tired. I have seen no mention of the World Baseball Classic or the extra innings the pitching staff absorbed last year through the playoffs in this thread. Balta's idea is sound. Dye is certainly a classic #3 hitter (power,avg., speed), Konerko could bat 4th against lefties and Thome against righties. Same with Pyrzynski and Crede. Flip-flop them in the lineup depending on the lefty/righty matchup. Even getting Iguchi out of the 2 hole might be reasonable against lefties. Our hitters are having good years . It's time to maximize their strengths. The pitching staff is now what it is. Buerhle returning to form is really the only thing we can reasonably expect from the pitching staff because he has had a history of success.

QUOTE(soxpride77 @ Jul 24, 2006 -> 02:34 PM) Why flip Soriano? If we can sign him, why flip him? We are going to draw more fans than ever this season, why wouldn't we sign him. Soriano is one of those players that are coveted. While his defense isn't great, everything else about him is. Cuz we don't need him offensively. We already have the highest run scoring team in baseball. Just because we're not hitting now doesn't mean we won't hit for the rest of the year. Soriano could bring a major starting pitcher if flipped.

Heres some more speculation. Maybe the trade for Soriano would have been done already if McCarthy was part of the deal. Could be Kenny's trying to dump Vazquez or Garcia and keep BMac with plans to move him into the rotation and flip Soriano for Zito, Schmidt, or Dontrelle .

QUOTE(hi8is @ Jul 24, 2006 -> 02:12 PM) i like to fish i like to fish i love to fish i like to fish i like to fish i love to fish i like to fish i like to fish i love to fish i like to fish i like to fish i love to fish i like to fish i like to fish i love to fish this new feature to soxtalk is quite intresting and entertaining. Right on ! I've not been around here as much but Wow what the fish happened around here ?

Ahhh ! I love trade rumors. Since we won the World Series . I've been pretty scarce around here. I'd come around and do a lil lurking , reading how Matt Thorton had no place on a major league roster and thinking its all so immaterial to me now. After all we are World Champs and will be until we're eliminated or win it again. I will not let anything spoil having that giddy feeling no Sox fan had experienced for 88 years. But all that being said. When trade rumors come up I love it. So far the big blockbuster has us getting Soriano. The members of the organization involved so far includes Podsednik, Anderson, McCarthy, Fields and Broadway. Keep Pods ? Does he become the new centerfielder or a supersub ? Do we just rent Soriano or sign him long term ? Maybe we trade him since theres still another week left before the trade deadline? Can we possibly afford to just rent him while giving up the best prospects we have ? The possibilities are endless and the best part is it might never happen. Or it could happen ! Just think of the lineup ! Damn ! Right now we're in a hitting funk, but clearly one of the best offenses in baseball. Soriano adds speed and power. What if the pitching suddenly does what it is capable of doing ? Damn , another World Series would be a walk in the park. Suddenly Buerhle's pitching like the MB of old , Garland continues his recent run of good starts, the Count stays dominant , Freddy G. pitches like everyone knows he can and Javy Vazquez ,no matter how you slice it is better then just about every other 5th starter. Oooh maybe we give up a starter and move McCarthy into the rotation. Oh this is fun ! Sumone give me more idle major trade speculation.

I wouldnt mind seeing Podsednik go , would hate losing Fields or Broadway. Fields is more expendable since he's at 3rd and Crede is entrenched there now.

Yea I saw it. Dont worry since its espn news u'll see it again in about 1/2 hr. Wasnt much to it ,pretty much what u saw. Didnt say much else.

QUOTE(Chisoxfn @ Jul 23, 2006 -> 04:07 PM) Not the right thread, but Beltre just hit an inside the parker against the Red Sox to take the lead in the bottom of the 8th. In terms of work ethic, Widge may have just felt real comfortable this year, while last year he was new to the team and trying to prove that he still could play at the major league level so he worked doubly as hard. And you never know, something else could have been going on in Widge's personal life, but I can't speculate on that. Either way I wish him the best. I was watching the supposedly inside the park homerun. Coco Crisp scales the wall to attempt a catch and the balls hits the wall 4 ft behind him . Manny Ramires attempts to barehad the ball off the wall and it bounces off his hand back to Crisp about 10 ft away. Crisp misses both cutoff men and Beltre beats the throw home. I cant believe Manny didnt get an error.

BA will either figure it out or he won't. If he is still struggling at the trade deadline the Sox wil have to figure out if his defense is more valuable to winning another World Series or will a huge hole in the lineup be that much of a detriment to that same goal. Remember in the Series pitchers bat at the National league parks so that would make 2 gaping holes in the lineup. I seriously doubt the Sox want that. Right now you can see they like his D or else Mackowiak would be getting more AB's then he is.

Liotta is in camp and sceduled to pitch in the March 1st intrasquad game.

QUOTE(southsideirish71 @ Feb 24, 2006 -> 09:38 AM) ..... I of course was trying to get the Sox series tickets and figured if I picked off some of my competition I could have a better chance. So I disabled their access. I'm glad to see sumone picked up the ball and ran with it. It's easy to say "give me a f***in break" or "relax" when if you were monitored as your employees are would you be able to "relax" ? What you did was for you're own personal gain. It had nothing to do with company policy or the laws regarding the invasion of privacy.

QUOTE(Sox1422 @ Feb 24, 2006 -> 02:25 PM) Wow, you need to relax. I am totally relaxed. Was I serious or was I playing devils advocate ? Guess I'm the only one who knows for sure. Just food for thought.

QUOTE(Allsox @ Feb 24, 2006 -> 01:50 PM) If this amusing act is seen as an abuse of power, I highly condone it! I'm sure it was very amusing to those who couldn't use company time to purchase tickets but one individual could. Hypocrisy and and corruption always starts out small. The more you can get away with the more your attempts grow on a grander scale. Laugh if you want it just shows how morally bankrupt we've become. When we curse the generations to come look inwards because we are the ones who taught them.

Thanks for posting that. Always good to know that a person can overcome his background to achieve things that at one point seemed unreachable. He is the White Sox version of Don Quixote. His daughter's name is Cuma ???

So let me get this straight you police your company's internet access but around World Series time you policed everyone but yourself. So even though company time is to be used for company business that policy is enforced by you for everyone but you. Seems to me that this is akin to a police officer busting a dude for selling drugs then turning around and selling them himself. Absolute power corrupts absolutely and yet many here applaud you. It's no wonder we distrust those in power because once we find ourselves in a position of power we often times abuse it also. When the shoe is on the other foot and we have something to gain personally all morals and ethics we claim to have are betrayed.