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I gotta hang with Rock here. In one of the threads in june right when the winning streak started I remember saying something to effect of (paraphrase) I would hate to see us go on a 2001-esque run of 22-7 to get back in the race only to meander around .500, finish in second place 6 games back and have done just bad enough not to make the playoffs but just good enough so that no changes are made and we are complacent. I don't really feel that way. it sucks. but clearly 2007 was worse. I really did/do like this team. Omar vizquel was one of the highlights of my baseball sox fandom. He was an absolute pleasure to watch. Paul Konerko melted that cynicism of #s and brought back that boyish giddyness that drove me nuts about people with Rowand/Crede. Sometimes you just LIKE that you get to root for a player on your team. Even if there are better options. I've rooted for that guy from awkward stages in middle school to now adulthood. Every summer getting to root for him. It sucks that this will just be one of those years like the southside hitmen where I can say how much I enjoyed watching them, but that extra meaning and umph of a playoff run just won't be there. Oh well. Baseball will go on. I just hope This next decade brings more meaning than sentimentality.

QUOTE (lostfan @ Sep 17, 2010 -> 11:08 PM) I wouldn't put Rand Paul in that category though. I mean he's stepped on his dick a couple of times, sure, but mostly he seems like he knows what he's talking about (not that I agree with most of his views but still). maybe, but when you act like you can speak intelligently on the history of the united states and fail miserably it's pretty hard to take you seriously after that.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Sep 14, 2010 -> 04:10 AM) Good article on the idiocy/racism of the D'Souza/Gingrich crap over the weekend. http://www.prospect.org/csnc/blogs/adam_se...aces_birtherism I was just going to talk about this. I am going to post a comment from Ta-Nehisi Coates blog, but I don't know how to link to a comment so I'll just link you to the main article here edit: the first paragraph is a question posed to Baiskeli by Ta-Nahesi. Baiskeli had identified himself as a native Kenyan earlier in the thread. What follows is his response. and another great commenter:

QUOTE (iamshack @ Sep 13, 2010 -> 02:52 AM) I think we'll see something really special on offense - more than we have ever really seen as Bears fans outside of short stretches while Erik Kramer and Rex Grossman were behind center. I, for one, am excited by what I saw, despite the near loss, and am very much looking forward to next Sunday. The amount of times I've thought this in my life...sigh.

saw the trailer for the american "let the right one in" today for the first time. Kind of looks like a shot for shot remake. I really don't understand the point of remaking this (except to make money), but that was a pretty popular movie by foreign standards here. And it's not like that audience will see this one.

feds hammering holds a lot less weight after the blago trial.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Sep 9, 2010 -> 09:59 PM) And you state this as though it's somewhere other than New York City, where 2 blocks of land covers enough space for tens of thousands of people to live and work. You know for me it always kind of goes back to my original thoughts on this whole thing, which was that 2 blocks is pretty far in a city. Entire neighborhoods can change in two blocks, it can go from good to bad in two blocks, nothing is related in 2 blocks. My friend just visited new york and went to go see where this was built and basically said the same thing. He walked 20 minutes to get there but he's hefty.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Sep 6, 2010 -> 09:46 PM) The Twins cannot win games outside. Getting out of the dome is going to kill them. Thank God the Sox are 7-0 on this roadtrip. If they were 4-3, it may be time to play taps. It seems I was the only one that appreciated this. They aren't lucky. They've done this too long to be lucky. It isn't the dome. They have really solid teams. You could say we are lucky to have won 7 in a row coming from behind in a lot of them while giving up so many outs. The twins are a great offense with good pitching starting and bullpen. Teams like that tend to do well in the regular season.

I'm at work today.

QUOTE (lostfan @ Sep 6, 2010 -> 05:11 PM) Greg you're speaking for hypothetical Sox fans you don't know. You think Soxtalk is rough? I think you'd be surprised to find what "regular Sox fans" think (I don't know why Soxtalk doesn't xount anyway) if you just started talking to random fans. They don't all think the same thing, and this love affair with Ozzie is kind of imaginary. Some love him some are sick of him and some don't care that much. Just like here. Also acting as if Rongey was somehow a voice of reason. He was the voice of the sox front office, that's it.

This. There seems to be a lot of revisionism about what exactly people were arguing in april. Having Jim Thome on the team would have no adverse impact on Paul Konerkos MVP-contending season, it probably would have helped his numbers having a man on base in front of him more often.

QUOTE (Quinarvy @ Sep 6, 2010 -> 03:59 AM) I really like Afalava, Shaw, LeFevour, Beekman, and Gilbert. Damn. What exactly was there to like about Gilbert beside that he jumped out of a pool? We've been drafting trash for 5 years now. Angelo either needs to get fired or replace all of his scouts.

QUOTE (elgonzo4sox @ Sep 6, 2010 -> 02:59 AM) Paulie shouldn't DH all the time, since he is still very good in the field at first. He just can't play 162 games at first any more, as he proved again today and likely tomorrow, when a hopefully minor injury is preventing him from taking the field. So having him DH on occasion keeps his bat in the line-up. But in order for the rotating DH strategy to be implemented, you can't have a full-time "DH only" guy on the roster - you needs players like Kotsay and Jones who can also play good defense in the field. So how are the Twins doing it, with Thome as a part-time "DH only" guy? They lose a fielder from their active roster, but as we all know they have a seemingly endless supply of AAA call-ups who come up to the big league club to spell their major league fielders when they go down for a while due to injury or tiredness. I don't think the Sox have the same supply of talent at the AAA level. Thome wouldn't have played 162 games as DH so Paulie easily could have gotten those days of rest even with thome on the roster and we wouldn't have had to have the kotsay experiment.

So, I'm to believe that Manny was pissed about sitting on the bench in LA, but requests it in Chicago after 4 games marty?

QUOTE (La Marr Hoyt HOF @ Sep 5, 2010 -> 02:28 PM) I think its because Manny has finally been able to work with a quality hitting coach like Greg Walker hahahahaha

i think this thread won right? PAULIE PAULIE

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Aug 31, 2010 -> 06:32 PM) Its also such an inane poll and article. It basically says that the people most angry at the political situation, are angry at Obama. Well duh, he's the f***ing President. If it were BushCo in office, you'd see the exact same thing. Welcome to what the associated press covers.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Aug 31, 2010 -> 02:21 PM) LOL, apparently according to the author of this AP article, "most angry" = "most attuned". And to be fair, the author themselves may not have written the headline. That's about a 100% certainty.

QUOTE (bigruss22 @ Aug 30, 2010 -> 05:26 AM) Kap, these types of posts really just are flat out annoying and frustrating. Why dont you ever honestly answer people with genuine questions anymore? Or if you dont believe they are genuine, why do you stoop down to that level? Seriously, I would love to hear your reasoning on many of your beliefs, because not only do I think they would be great discussion but also would help people understand another side they may not be used to. I honestly would love it if you would respond with something more than some lameass one liner, and hear some actual debate, and that goes to anyone on this board. Lets actually hear some reason and enough of these stereotypical, generalizing one liners. to be fair, when he does it isn't much better. Remember the NYC Mosque conspirac post about kickbacks from mayor bloomberg?

QUOTE (pittshoganerkoff @ Aug 28, 2010 -> 06:43 PM) I'm getting nervous now. I have a feeling the trade may not happen. Worse, I'm not sure KW will make any moves. Another arm for the bullpen would be nice right about now. In most trade cases I'd say the longer it goes on the worse of a chance it is, but not with waivers. I'm fairly confident we will acquire him, I think the dodgers just want to act like they still care about winning and not the owners divorce.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Aug 27, 2010 -> 05:09 PM) GOP plans wave of White House probes but i thought we should never look back, let the country heal.

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Aug 26, 2010 -> 09:36 PM) ANYTHING to do with it? OR a CORE of the reason? No, i don't think that. I think it might have moved a single digit percent of the base, max. You're alleging it's basically a core belief of the party, which is just ridiculous. It might be one issue that's important to a small percent of people, but it's not a CORE issue. California just passed a ban on gay marriage. California is heavily liberal. Stop saying it's all republicans when it's clearly not all republicans. It's independents and even some liberals too. You realize there are republican officials that benefited from the money given to that state right? California is a gigantic state in the nation far bigger than the electoral votes given to it. That you can be so blind to this is astounding especially when they admit to it.

QUOTE (lostfan @ Aug 26, 2010 -> 11:49 PM) Ireland is a case in point about how slashing government budgets in a hurry during a recession isn't necessarily a good idea. Cutting government spending = higher unemployment = lower GDP = lower revenue http://www.theglobeandmail.com/globe-inves...article1622863/ isn't it shocking that so many teachers and policeman are losing their jobs? WHY IS THIS GOVERNMENT MONEY GOING TO PLUGGING STATE BUDGETS! THAT DOESN'T GO BACK TO THE PEOPLE!!!

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Aug 27, 2010 -> 03:16 AM) No, I didn't. Your point is that being anti-gay is a "core" of the Republican party. It's not a "core." Did they talk about it during the presidential debates? It's a fringe, last minute "oh my god we need votes we'll try to get the religious sect out to vote" issue. Well, listen, we can all bring up coincidences, but isn't a coincidence that there tend to be a bunch of anti-gay ballots during congressional seasons when Republicans need seats? Isn't a coincidence that we bring up "oh my god the Mexicans are raiding our borders for their drug wars" during the congressional seats? Isn't it a coincidence that the culture wars routinely get brought up around election time? What a coincidence.

how dare he.