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QUOTE (witesoxfan @ Aug 17, 2011 -> 12:55 AM) This goddamn team is going to win the division. Hope you're right but they wont.

Seriously, this team is drawing me back in again and that scares the s*** out of me because I know it's just going to end in heart break.

Is this what the other 42 are like?

QUOTE (Greg Hibbard @ Aug 16, 2011 -> 05:18 PM) I recognize that this team has grossly underperformed, and I'm often extremely angry about it. However, with that all said, the existing peripherals of this team suggest a turnaround is not only possible, but somewhat likely. When we had fifth starters like Danny "6.00 ERA" Wright and a rotating cast of AAA busts in 2003-4, I really didn't think they necessarily had it in them to definitely win, and when they didn't, I wasn't that surprised, honestly. In 2000, when the team simply ran out of gas in the second half, and the pitching stunk in August and September, frankly a playoff collapse was fairly predictable. However - the 2011 pitching is good, the bullpen in solid, and the hitting appears to be somewhat fixable/addressable if we wake up and just take our collective heads out of our asses, which is not really unlike 2005. If this team puts together a lineup at some point that can generate 4-5 runs a game, we're easily capable of going on something like a 15-6 tear. Which is an indictment on the organization, doesn't make it resilient. As you've said, there have been areas in this lineup that could have easily been addressed but we refused to do so.

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Aug 16, 2011 -> 08:05 AM) I started this thread nearly two years ago. Are we even any closer to a Pacquiao/Mayweather fight? Further.

QUOTE (lasttriptotulsa @ Aug 16, 2011 -> 06:57 AM) http://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/CL...199407220.shtml http://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/CL...200107060.shtml Sorry to hijack the thread but look at Frank's numbers in the first box score...HA!

QUOTE (Soxfest @ Aug 15, 2011 -> 09:13 PM) A big letdown. Huge. Typical Cena bull crap after Punk had been bringing the best out of him for the last few weeks now. The end of Raw was way to pre-Punk shoot WWE. Awful.

Well, minus Punk that Raw was horrible.

QUOTE (fathom @ Aug 15, 2011 -> 06:15 PM) As much as I wanted Viciedo promoted a month ago, he's been brutal for a few weeks. Something obviously is not right with him, so I'm not going to lose sleep over him not being with the big league club right now. Yes. QUOTE (JoeCoolMan24 @ Aug 15, 2011 -> 09:22 PM) I would say his injured hand has a lot to do with it. Double yes.

Can we get a raw that's just 2 hrs of Punk on the mic?

QUOTE (2nd_city_saint787 @ Aug 15, 2011 -> 06:38 PM) I'm still holding out for Punk Vs Bryan Corporate stable vs. a new stable of indy guys lead by punk I told my buddy yesterday that imo Bryan having the MITB it too out of no where for him to not be involved with Punk in some way, but I actually think it could possibly lead to him being in a stable with Punk as you mentioned.

QUOTE (Milkman delivers @ Aug 15, 2011 -> 12:29 PM) Did others not enjoy Goldmember? I know it was the worst of the three Austin Powers movies, but I still found it funny. I was a fan.

QUOTE (fathom @ Aug 13, 2011 -> 10:12 PM) This is pretty impressive http://web.minorleaguebaseball.com/multime...ent_id=17960703 Holy damn!

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Aug 15, 2011 -> 02:38 PM) Is that a good thing? David Kaplan Big Z: "I received text messages of support from Sosa, Byrd, Ozzie, Jason Giambi, Pena, and Soriano." Also said he and Soriano are cool. That's quite the group of winners right there.

QUOTE (Stan Bahnsen @ Aug 15, 2011 -> 10:19 AM) Unwarranted resistance to change Our organization is stupid, not resilient.

QUOTE (Soxfest @ Aug 14, 2011 -> 10:27 PM) ADR the champ kind of predictable to make Cena look great as always and Punk a transitional champ. Big Sexy was a suprise. QUOTE (Soxfest @ Aug 15, 2011 -> 01:12 PM) I do not like it either Punk looks super weak here. This is flawed logic. So Punk beats Cena(granted it wasn't a clean win) and then gets blind sided by a "7 foot monster" and somehow this makes Punk look weak and Cena great? I will agree that it would be insanely stupid if Punk is a transitional champ but I really think you guys are jumping to conclusions way to quick on this. Nobody has any idea where this is going to go and if I had to guess this is setting up a bigger story of Punk vs. a corporation stable where Punk chases the title through their Mexico tour and wins it back when they come back to the states. Punk stays in the main storyline, new stable is formed and then Punk gets his nice, long title reign after the Mexico tour, everybody wins. QUOTE (fathom @ Aug 15, 2011 -> 01:22 PM) Over the past month, it's so disappointing what's happened in the WWE since the second MITB ended. I really disagree with this. They've kept me entertained and intrigued every week. The whole thing has been very unpredictable and Raw is a must watch again tonight to see where they're going with this angle.

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Aug 12, 2011 -> 07:25 AM) A former co-worker got bit by a brown recluse spider. A f***ing spider bite. http://www.acponline.org/graphics/bioterro...own_spider2.jpg He wound up in the hospital FOREVER. The spider bite f***ing kills s***. http://images.emedicinehealth.com/images/4...10729-42553.jpg (not co-worker, but similar. Moral of the story? Shoot yourself in the head if you get bit by a recluse. His arm is still f***ed up. Carbondale has a s*** ton of those things. Had a friend wake up with one of those crawling on her blanket one night, she freaked out just a bit... I've also had a couple of friends get bitten by them and they don't have holes on their bodies or anything like that. If you know you've been bitten and get to the hospital fairly quickly, you'll be ok. That being said, if you don't know your bitten and wait around, you're in trouble, nasty stuff.

QUOTE (IlliniKrush @ Aug 15, 2011 -> 12:17 AM) The more things change, the more they stay the same College me has been back for the last couple of weekends now, it's kind of scary actually. I can write a f***in book from everything that went down last weekend. The SIU crew getting back together is just bad for my life.

QUOTE (OilCan @ Aug 14, 2011 -> 08:51 PM) well, that sucked. and that wasn't much of a shocker. Seeing the way it ended tonight, not much of a shocker. Nash coming out wasn't a shocker? Please. ADR cashing in the MITB was predictable but nothing else was. They can go so many ways with this story, I'm excited to see what they do.

Really, really enjoyed Rise of the Planet of the Apes. Oh and Con Air is f***in awesome, the end.

Sucks that Punk isn't the champ and I hate Del Rio but I think we might get a corporate stable vs. Punk type feud which should be pretty solid.

Well I was supposed to go to the Sox game today... but when your friends can't find you and you don't answer your phone because your passed out well then you messed up. f***in booze!

Need a shut out from Zach.

QUOTE (kjshoe04 @ Aug 12, 2011 -> 03:26 AM) This has 83 and second place written all over it if you ask me. Couldn't agree more.

QUOTE (greasywheels121 @ Aug 12, 2011 -> 06:40 AM) Yessir. --- Week 6 of this MTP concludes w/ the half this weekend. I've been kicking ass so far with my training; here's hoping the next 12 weeks are more of the same. Cool, cool. Ya, I'm much further north now a days but I'm starting to apartment hunt in the city so hopefully I find something relatively soon and we can figure something out. Anyways, finally got my first big workout in since injuring my god damn foot and it felt great. Got a good run in plus lifted for about an hr. It was freakin hell while I was doing it but I felt like a million bucks once I was done.