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QUOTE(danman31 @ May 16, 2007 -> 02:07 AM) Cubs for the rivalry factor. To quote Allen Iverson (well kind of), "We're talking about tiebreakers!" The baseball season is 162 games, I'm not going to be picky about who the Sox get the wins against. A win against the Cubs counts just as much as the Yankees. To prevent the Yankees from winning more games is really petty. Besides, they really aren't in the playoff picture this year even though they probably will be. Preventing a team that could possibly be fighting for you with a playoff spot from winning 3 games certainly isn't petty.

QUOTE(danman31 @ May 16, 2007 -> 12:02 AM) Butterface. Yeup.

QUOTE(Brian @ May 15, 2007 -> 09:21 PM) Looking for Game 6 tix now. Already got some.

Hell has frozen over.

Tyrus Thomas can jump in case you guys didn't know.

QUOTE(santo=dorf @ May 15, 2007 -> 04:42 PM) Why's that? The Yankees aren't a divisonal rival. The only thing tiebreakers are worth are for home field advantage. There are too many team in the wild card chase right now (and at the end of the season it will be the same) so a simple series win doesn't mean a damn thing. You keep a team that you could possibly be fighting with for a playoff spot from winning games.

Uh..Yankees. This isn't even a question.

Willie and I have talked about this a bunch, but for the most part...NBA crowds suck. Obviously GS has been quite the exception.

QUOTE(Gregory Pratt @ May 13, 2007 -> 08:23 AM) I can see Konerko repeating 2003. I hope not, but it's a very real possibility. Highly doubt it.

QUOTE(RME JICO @ May 13, 2007 -> 08:02 AM) I didn't realize this, but Danks is basically pitching equal to Dice-K minus $100 million: Danks 4.33 ERA, 1.30 WHIP, 2.55 K/BB, 7.13 K/9 Dice-K 4.80 ERA, 1.29 WHIP, 2.61 K/BB, 9.40 K/9 Danks has literally been fantastic so far, I can't even explain how happy I am with him.

QUOTE(caulfield12 @ May 13, 2007 -> 07:49 AM) but Thome, Dye, Konerko, Crede and Iguchi all need to pick it up for this team to go anywhere. As long as Thome is healthy he is fine. As for the rest, every single one of them will get much, MUCH better as the season goes on. Like I said, we're 3 games over .500 when our best hitter has been hurt and our two other best hitters are hitting under .200, it's pretty nuts if you think about it. And it's not like Dye and Paul don't have a history to back them up, both are going to get back close to their career averages, and when they start hitting and Thome gets back watch the hell out. This is a good team that hasn't hit a lick yet and is still hanging around.

QUOTE(caulfield12 @ May 13, 2007 -> 07:16 AM) Very well...and I'll continue to say that we're not in that top or elite group with Boston, Cleveland, Detroit, and possibly the Yankees and Angels. We're very similar to the A's, if I had to make a comparison. I didn't think Minnesota would struggle this badly. They will give it another month, but they have the same issue with Torii Hunter we have with Buehrle and Dye. Our offense is still the worst in the AL after the last 2/3rd's of a season. It's difficult to argue with that measuring stick. We're 4th in pitching, ERA-wise. I doubt we can be first, but we need to stay 3-5 in that area and get our hitting/runs scored somewhere around 7-10th in the AL to have any chance. Are we closer to being an "elite" team or a rebuilding team? I would say the latter. It's unfortunate, because we have the makings of a great bullpen, to go with our strong starting pitching. Crede, Konerko, Erstad, Dye and Iguchi have looked really bad recently. Iguchi, Crede and Konerko are all huge question marks to me. We can't win without at least two of those three guys hitting. We don't have anything close to resembling prospects at SS or 2B. The jury's out on Anderson and Fields as well, at best. What we do have is lots of pitching prospects, and the more legit prospects you have, the higher the odds that one or two will actually make it and become members of the rotation. I'm encouraged that Honel seems to coming back onto the radar screen as a prospect, and Danks has impressed nearly everyone. We went through a 167-95 stretch of play in 2005 and 2006 (until the All-Star break). We would have won 105 games last year if continued to play like we did in the first half (best offense in the AL). Obviously that didn't happen, for a number of reasons. Since then, we're 51-56. That's an incredible drop-off in the level of play. Which is the prevailing trend? Well, we'll find out in the next 6 weeks, but having KC simply hand us four games out of four doesn't mean we're a good team or that anything is "fixed." Last years team has nothing to do with this years, you have to stop taking last years 2nd half record into account because it means squat. We're 3 games over .500 and only 2.5 out of a playoff spot when our best hitter has been out for a while, one of our best hitters against lhp has been out all season and just overall our offense has been brutal. No matter how good or bad you think this offense is, it's not THIS bad, they'll get better and a lot better. This team can win this year, there will be no fire sale, so it's time to let that go.

QUOTE(whitesoxfan101 @ May 12, 2007 -> 10:58 PM) I'd hit Sweeney leadoff and Uribe #2 for a while with the way things are going right now. Hell, we can't be any worse on offense, try it. Leave Sweeney in the 9 hole, absolutely no reason to put more pressure on the kid, especially considering that Erstad has been very good leading off. I will say that Juan in the 2 hole has always interested me, just because for whatever reason he seems to concentrate much more when he has a job to do.

QUOTE(Sonik22 @ May 12, 2007 -> 01:12 PM) I just stubbed my pinky toe, and it hurts like hell Well that wasn't smart.

A very reliable source on salukitalk says that we're about to land another solid 08 recruit, maybe Rob Belcore. Not huge news yet but it's getting very interesting cause we're going to have about 90 people on scholarship soon, not exactly sure what is going on right now.

Hats off to you my friend and all of you guys that can do this. It absolutely amazes me that someone can run that much.

QUOTE(kapkomet @ May 11, 2007 -> 12:01 PM) This is a stupid article. The Sox have 0% chance of making it, until they do, and then they have a 100% chance of making it. Until then, it doesn't matter. Not true. I think BP had us at like 93 percent after we clinched the division in 05.

I wonder if bp thinks we've made the playoffs yet in 05?

Ya, I'm awesome.

Sox lose 4-2.

That was much more fun.

QUOTE(Jordan4life_2007 @ May 10, 2007 -> 05:31 PM) If that was their plan, fine by me. I'm more than satisfied with what we got back. I don't think anyone at this point would say that they aren't. This coming from probably the biggest McCarthy fan on this site. It is going to take years to fully review this trade, but at the moment, this is an absolute steal.

I'm with Nuke on this one.

So our offense has been awful, we've been with out our best hitter for a while and with out one of our better hitters against lefties for the entire season, yet if the Angels hang on we're still only 3.5 out of a playoff spot at the moment. Not the worst thing in the world, I guess.

QUOTE(Kalapse @ May 10, 2007 -> 04:38 PM) We're still a month away from any talk of Podsednik returning anyway. So this really shouldn't be an issue until atleast mid June. I don't see why Thome returning would threaten Sweeney's playing time. It certainly shouldn't.