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kffl.com has a huge Bears following. Realgm.com is the best for Bulls and in general IMO. I spend most of my time there. Great great site. Off topic board is good for kicks and giggles. Huge Bulls following there too. Plus they have a tradechecker and have expanded to baseball, football and hockey.

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Oh he was a great guy. Never got his autograph, but I remember him being so sincere to everyone. Cool guy.

QUOTE(GreatScott82 @ Nov 30, 2005 -> 03:24 PM) Latest on Myers via ESPN: The Yankees are close to a deal with him. DAMN! Good. I want Marte over his soon to be overpaid ass.

QUOTE(Felix @ Nov 30, 2005 -> 04:40 PM) What did they say about Paulie in the few seconds they spent on him? They were asked if they thought the White Sox were the favorites to win it all again. Wilbon said no, but he likes their chances and Kornheiser said the Red Sox and then Wilbon went on defense mode for the Sox.

QUOTE(SnB @ Nov 30, 2005 -> 02:00 PM) we won the big 10 and if we didn't f*** it up in the big 10 tourney, we would have made the nccaa tourney as well. Just saying, we're not an awful baseball school. We barely lost to Nebraska. In fact I think we were in the Sweet 16.

QUOTE(SnB @ Nov 30, 2005 -> 01:37 PM) they have 150 teams or something i thought? i would have to guarantee the big 10 would be 10 of those teams. And about the players, i'm expecting everyone to be made up, but the good teams will have good players, etc. UIC > U of I - Champagne I'll be super pissed if UIC isn't in it. They made the NCAA Tourney last year.

I don't want him to leave. He'll always be a Sox in my mind.

QUOTE(Dick Allen @ Nov 30, 2005 -> 01:36 PM) Do you think last season's trouble trying to find someone to pull the trigger on a deal may change his philosophy a little? Obviously he wanted something more significant and was unable to do so, on the other hand he did win a World's championship. It would be interesting to see if it does have an effect on how he operates this season. I don't think it will. I mean he's still going to go after deals before everyone else usually does because that's always been his philosophy. I'm pretty sure this is our team though on Opening Day.

QUOTE(NorthSideSox72 @ Nov 30, 2005 -> 01:32 PM) I still don't get why people think Dye hits 3rd and Thome 5th, considering how much better a hitter Thome is. But no matter the order, the heart of our lineup is looking damn good right now. PK = Protection for Dye so he gets to see much better pitches. Thome = Protection for PK so he gets to see much better pitches. Thome is a guy who doesn't need protection(at least not as much as Kong and Dye) to still get his.

QUOTE(Rowand44 @ Nov 30, 2005 -> 01:25 PM) That still allows us some payroll flexibility if needed. Yeah, I don't see us making any trades until the trade deadline. Kenny loves having flexbility at the deadline unless someone proposes a deal to us that knocks our Sox off.

QUOTE(Steff @ Nov 30, 2005 -> 12:58 PM) Free Poster!!!

QUOTE(IlliniKrush @ Nov 29, 2005 -> 10:58 PM) Yeah i know what you mean with that. I don't just look at college basketball players and try to figure out how good they'll be in the pros. The same goes for college football players and the NFL. When i tell people i think Bush should win the Heisman, some have said that Young/Leinart will be a better pro. Guess what, I DON'T CARE. And furthermore, last time i checked, "nfl potential" wasn't a factor in the Heisman voting. When Crouch won it for Nebraska, he deserved it. It doesn't matter what he did in the NFL. I want Dee to be a good college player and help the Illini win some games, not just develop into an NBA point guard. And right now if his concern is the NBA... Well to be fair, he's worrying about his career. I'm pretty sure if we were in the same position, we would be worrying about our future too.

QUOTE(hi8is @ Nov 29, 2005 -> 10:43 PM) "Citing a high-ranking White Sox official, The Sun reported in Tuesday's edition that Konerko has an arthritic hip condition. One Orioles official said the club is aware of the condition, which was apparently diagnosed years ago, but isn't deeply concerned. The White Sox aren't making any official comment on Konerko's hip, but one club official privately told the Chicago Tribune that the team was upset that the information had become public." That's been known for awhile.

QUOTE(SSH2005 @ Nov 29, 2005 -> 10:26 PM) Myers is a 36 year old situational lefty. There's no way he gets $3 million a year like Eyre who can get lefties and righties out. You'd be suprised.

http://scout.scout.com/a.z?s=75&p=9&c=4&cf...&pid=88&yr=2007 He's ranked as the top SG at scout. #10 prospect overall.

The Rumor Mill has reported that during talks with Centerfeilder Jason Michael's the Yankees may have ran into a blockbuster deal. The deal would involve SP Carl Pavano, C Jorge Posada, and Top Prospect Eric Duncan going to Philly for OF Bobby Abreu and C Mike Lieberthal. This deal if in the works will take a lot of time to do because of the large contracts of Pavano and Posada.

QUOTE(Rowand44 @ Nov 29, 2005 -> 09:40 PM) This is 100 percent how I feel. I will not complain about 1 thing the sox do this offseason, Kenny and the organization have earned that right for atleast this offseason. Not even if they call up Felix Diaz to take over Buehrle's spot in the rotation?

QUOTE(CWSGuy406 @ Nov 29, 2005 -> 09:09 PM) Jim, I saw earlier in the thread a suggestion of Marte + Sweeney for Pierre. Nomahhhhh! But I know you're also (somewhat) on board with that idea, so we're on the same page there. No. But, what correlates better to scoring runs? Batting average, or SLG%? It's SLG% -- and OBP, for that matter (not sure which correlates better, but I'm confident in saying SLG% and OBP correlate better to scoring runs than BA does). Pierre's OBP is very batting average heavy. So -- if he has a year in which he doesn't hit for a BA above .300 -- he ends up with a line like last year -- .276/.326/.354. Oh -- but I forgot about all the havoc he'll cause on the basepaths... Nomar isn't a #2 hitter in the mold of what Ozzie wants. Nomar would be a duplicate of Iguchi in that you're somewhat restricting him by putting him in the 2 hole. I like Nomar alot though.

So what now? What if he's right and PK is gone? What's a backup plan?

http://1bignasty.com/jblog/columns.html Apparently this guy is very reliable and broke several sport stories first like Shaq signing to the Lakers, Magic Johnson coming back, Angels getting Kendry Morales, and the Vlad signing.

QUOTE(SSH2005 @ Nov 29, 2005 -> 05:52 PM) Not everyone is thinking this would be a good move because of emotions. Maybe some people realize that if you can get a decent and cheap replacement for Marte in Myers and package Marte in a trade for a #2 hitter, it would be worth it. Myers will not come cheap. Have you not followed the market for relievers? It wouldn't suprise me to see Mike Remlinger given a closer's job for 7 mil a year.

Apparently http://1bignasty.com/jblog/columns.html Apparently this guy is very reliable and broke several sport stories first like Shaq signing to the Lakers, Magic Johnson coming back, Angels getting Kendry Morales, and the Vlad signing.

QUOTE(Rowand44 @ Nov 29, 2005 -> 04:41 PM) I just dont hold the same level of confidence that some of you do that Damaso can bounce back. The guy started to decline in 04 and just was flat out awful last year as well. There is something wrong with him even though his stuff is still there, there is something wrong upstairs. He's finished, imo. Despite him being awful last year, I would say alot of guys would like to have their worst year being parallel's to Damaso's worst year.

QUOTE(KevHead0881 @ Nov 29, 2005 -> 03:50 PM) With the effort he's put out over the years, I'm surprised Thomas is anybody's type of player. The guy makes Derrick Coleman look like a hard worker. He should be out playing video games with Eddie Robinson somewhere. True. That's been the knock on Tim Thomas his whole career - that he doesn't try. I remember hearing him touted as one of the best high school basketball players ever.