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If he's healthy, I'm down. I don't even care about stealing bases. He's perfect for what Ozzie and KW state they want in a leadoff hitter. Sees a lot of pitches, gets on base first, and uses his speed second. I know he's no Grady Sizemore and his defense will need help, but at the same time, I think Wise and Owens when he is called up will provide nothing.

If it increases jobs, increases tourist dollars and development, I'm all for two weeks of "hell". Honestly, the best example is the Atlanta games. That city was nothing like it is today.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Apr 1, 2009 -> 02:22 PM) A terrible changeup? That thing was unhittable when he had it working. Nope, all he had was that curve. They were trying to develop a change and add movement to his fastball and I believe even add a cut fastball. The changeup rarely worked and it really wasn't that effective for the most part. As far as learning the other stuff, the Sox just got sick of him.

QUOTE (Y2HH @ Apr 1, 2009 -> 01:40 PM) None of this could be further from the truth since those locations have absolutely no bearing on the others by proximity or otherwise, they don't consider that kind of thing, they never have. Russia having it has nothing to do with Madrid, nothing at all. Same goes for Beijing and Tokyo. Of the four remaining, Chicago has the third lowest ranking by the international committee, as Tokyo and Madrid are both over 1.0 evaluation points higher. Read more here : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_Summer_Olympics Please use a different source. Wikipedia should never be used to make a point. I could just go to that page, type in that Chicago is the frontrunner, and then post it somewhere else.

Damn, I thought I was the only one who expects Owens to now make an appearance on this team by the end of June. I kind of had a feeling we didn't see the last of him. They should've just let him go completely.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Mar 31, 2009 -> 05:57 PM) With good reason, he had excellent stuff. I wonder if he'd have been able to stay healthier with a different training/coaching staff. He had one excellent pitch. He had an average fastball and a terrible changeup that they were trying to develop.

If he's healthy, I could see the Sox looking at him.

As I posted before, Read it from someone who absolutely still does not want VDN because of the whole "leader of men" thing. VDN has exceeded expectations and if it were a vet coach in here and he had the Bulls at the exact same spot, people would be ecstatic with the progress. Just because VDN doesn't have any experience, he is questioned no matter what. Hopefully next year, when VDN can make the offense more complex, and Derrick Rose actually trys to be aggressive on the defensive end or at least play the lanes for steals, we could be as good as a #4 seed IMO.

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Apr 1, 2009 -> 09:14 AM) Dude, you are nuts. You spend two days publicly backing VDN, and then he goes out there and coaches a terrible game, especially with 4 seconds left, and he shows exactly why he's the wrong fit for this team. We needed two points, so his big play is once again to have Ben Gordon run around beyond the 3 point line (like the other coach didn't know this would happen). You CAN have set plays in the NBA, but VDN refuses to draw them up. Um, he usually gives it to Rose in an ISO situation and spreads the floor with Gordon. Rose for the most part is supposed to drive on Gordon's side to draw his defender in, and when the defender does come in, kick out to Gordon. If the guy stays at home, finish himself. So no, most coaches wouldn't expect that as evidenced by Granger being caught guarding Gordon.

QUOTE (whitesoxbrian @ Mar 31, 2009 -> 09:36 PM) He's had major busts (Okwo, Bazuin) but he's had good players (Forte, Hester), too. People act like the almighty Steelers have perfect draft after perfect draft, and they haven't. Just take 1 example, Willie Reid. Picked as a WR in the 3rd round out of FSU to the Steelers in 2006, and now isn't even on a team and hasn't been since late August. Marc Columbo, 1st round pick = not on this team. You're seriously getting upset about a 3rd round pick? I'd be more worried about first and second round picks. Also worried about how Angelo loves to take guys a round or two earlier than projected. He's great at making later picks, but he's terrible in the first round. The Steelers,however, have a much much better track record. The Steelers have had one year of questionable early picks, and that was last year in which one guy suffered an injury and the other was a 3rd or 4th WR to start the year. That's like me hating on Chris Williams.

QUOTE (lostfan @ Apr 1, 2009 -> 11:41 AM) I could write this word for word and pass it off as my thoughts. As can I.

Got tickets for each game with just my girlfriend and myself. Makes up for not being able to get Sox tickets. Go Hawks!

Wow, so no more curve ball for BMac? I remember when everyone on here was slurping him.

No, the one in 2003 I believe it was, was way worse. I was at that game. Holy moly was it cold and nasty. Didn't help I had ACT's the following day. Also quit my job to go to the game which weird enough, was at US Cellular Field.

Washed up player who plays a line position? Jerry Angelo GMing? ...me = not shocked.

How quick people are to jump on Vinny, but not absolve or say, "I'm sorry" or "I jumped the gun". Instead, they just ignore it.

QUOTE (kyyle23 @ Mar 29, 2009 -> 08:10 AM) She lost all of her pregnancy weight, she looks fantastic. We dont know what you are talking about with this too skinny nonsense She looked way better in this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rsVEggPPmeM...feature=related

QUOTE (kyyle23 @ Mar 29, 2009 -> 01:24 PM) You are far too biased to be commenting on this. I actually agree with him.

I finally saw Raw with Stephanie and I don't know what you guys are talking about when you're saying she looks better than ever. She looks too skinny to me. She looked best when she was GM of Smackdown.

QUOTE (kyyle23 @ Mar 28, 2009 -> 09:35 AM) I have really been open and optimistic about VDN as much as possible this year. I understand that he probably has had some big playbook growing pains in his time here, but there have been some insane gaps of concentration on his part with his gameday coaching and preparing the team for certain events(defenses, offensive looks, etc). Strange as it may seem, I think the fact that he is a rookie head coach has cut him way more slack than a seasoned veteran coach would get. If any other veteran coach had made some of the decisions he has made, I think he would have been canned by now. I disagree. VDN, while he has flaws, gets too much of the blame, but never any of the credit. If it were a vet coach, even like a Greg Popovich who came here, and the Bulls won 30 games, all Bulls fans would say they expected such production and that it's something wrong with the team. But since VDN is a rookie coach, people are ready to pull the trigger even though he has a shot at going .500 with the team, has done a good job in developing Tyrus and Noah, getting Rose proper playing time(remember, Paxson stated over last summer he didn't want to rush Rose and they would bring him along like Deron in Utah), and he's integrated the new guys perfectly while also dealing with a bunch of injuries this year and again, Larry Hughes.

QUOTE (SoxFan562004 @ Mar 28, 2009 -> 01:56 PM) Chinese Tapei (sp?) held back most of their better players in an attempt to get them into better professional leagues, that's why their team was so young. Look, as I said in an earlier post I'm a bit of a hypocrit in my WBC bashing because I enjoyed the higher level of baseball in March. However I've been a White Sox fan for 30 years, and everytime someone drapes an American flag around something doesn't mean I have to blindly worship it over everything else. I'm not saying you have to worship it, but as someone who is intereste in a higher level of baseball during March, you should support this. Again, not worship it, but at least have a bit interest in the team.

QUOTE (whitesoxfan101 @ Mar 28, 2009 -> 12:24 AM) Huh? These players are paid (a lot) by their TEAMS, and they owe all of their attention and effort to their teams. They don't owe a damn thing to Bud Selig and some stupid ass event he made up a few years ago. That's just ridiculous, but some people will always buy the national pride stuff I guess. National pride is being proud of where you live and where you come from and what it represents, not playing some preseason games when you aren't even in playing shape yet. I guess Japan and Korea should be proud they beat up on a bunch of teams full of guys not in playing shape yet though. Those owners of those teams also agreed that having a WBC was a great thing. And how is the WBC stupid and the MLB is not? The only difference is, you're playing for your country you have roots as opposed as a city. If anything, the WBC is something that should be viewed upon as bigger, but for Americans, it's not. And it's just that way with Americans and no other country in the world. Honestly, it's stupid, but I guess that's another reason why the best players don't play. Why do so when your fans don't really give a damn about a gold medal or about a world competition.

QUOTE (SoxFan562004 @ Mar 28, 2009 -> 10:29 AM) If I'm an owner or GM I do not want my players doing unsupervised side sessions. There's more to ST work than building up arm strength. It's for the coaches of the team that pays big money to work with a player Those coaches couldn't give them a program to follow? Honestly, it's a bunch of hogwash. The only guys complaining are the guys who are sucking balls now and have a history of being mediocre such as Oliver Perez who a lot of Mets players are pissed at because they don't think he takes the games seriously.

QUOTE (daa84 @ Mar 28, 2009 -> 05:36 AM) i always thought the guy got a bad rap as far as being a clubhouse guy....i wasn't thrilled with him as a player, but i loved his attitude. i believe he had problems with swisher, who seems more concerned with being a celebrity than anything else, but i always thought cabreras attitude was a good thing, even though he got knocked for it alot. Agreed and I stated such back then, especially after the hoping to win comment. Basically he was saying, the Sox were lacking confidence in themselves which is something you need to win. He used himself in that as well. He didn't say, "They". And yeah, my guess is that he and Nick probably bumped heads the most. Again, I loved his attitude and outside of error-gate, he was given a bad rap. QUOTE (Whitewashed in '05 @ Mar 28, 2009 -> 10:59 AM) It seems OC is a good teammate, but bumped heads with a couple people in the organization and once the media heard a peep they wrote articles solely on him being a cancer. That is one reason KW always says he looks for people that can fit in the club, but can also handle the Chicago media. Maybe if he was with the team for more than one season people would have seen he wasn't a cancer. Yeah, Joe Cowley seemed to hate the guy since the beginning.

Saw The Haunting In Connecticut tonight and I must say, a big waste of time. The two part documentary on the ID channel was way way better. Even though the movie says "Based on a true story", the only true part is at the end when They say the boy suddenly was cured of his cancer Almost 98% of that movie does not follow the true story. Hell, a lot of it wasn't believable and they forgot to add a family member.