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QUOTE(Sonik22 @ Jul 23, 2006 -> 01:13 AM) Broadway is my favorite sox prospect but id prefer him go over brandon. Brandon is too valuble and hes already proved himself. If we could swing this into a 3 team deal that would be nice. Lance isn't in the same league as Brandon. I really hope we don't trade Mac in a deal for Soriano, hopefully we're just driving up the price for the Tigers.

I got a good feeling about Freddy tonight. It'll probably be wrong though.

Pinnage. No more losing.

QUOTE(WHarris1 @ Jul 22, 2006 -> 12:15 PM) There is just no way to stand pat with this team, he won't do it. He might have no choice. Unfortunately almost every team in baseball is "alive" in one of the races. Hopefully there is something we can do, but right now I'm not counting on it.

QUOTE(Chisoxfn @ Jul 22, 2006 -> 02:15 PM) But does the Soriano pickup buy time for Coop to try and get 4 guys together that can go out and be in the post-season rotation? Thats the question and if Kenny makes that move I think he's banking on Coop figuring something out. Maybe. If we're going to make a big trade, I think it has to be to improve the pitching staff though. Whether that is adding a starter(doubtful) or addition by subtraction and getting either Vaz or Freddy out of here and letting Mac pitch in the rotation. I know you're confident in Javy but right now I have absolutley 0 confidence in Vazquez and Garcia. Buehrle will be fine and he really doesn't worry me at all(though he's beyond frusterating at this point) but I don't trust Vaz or Freddy to turn it around at all. Hopefully I'm wrong.

I really don't think we need Soriano. Our offense is good enough to win it all, while right now our pitching isn't close. If we get Soriano, and our pitching doesnt improve then we'll still get our butts handed to us in the playoffs. I'll pass on Alf.

QUOTE(dasox24 @ Jul 22, 2006 -> 03:04 AM) Yeah, I've put it in Spanish before. It is pretty awesome to listen to. Actually, I'm taking Spanish this year in college, so I thought maybe it would help me if I had all the menus and announcing in Spanish, but so far, it hasn't so much. Anyway, just wait 'till everybody has played and all become experts on the "Professional" or better difficulty level. That's when the games get really intense. I watched a two of my friends the other night play the best game I've ever seen. My one friend got an early 2-0 lead, but then my other friend battled back to tie the game at 3-3. So, they played two OT's of neither team scoring, and the friend that had the lead at first ended up winning 4-3 on PK's. It was sweet! I've got pretty decent but I'm still not great. The worst thing that happened to me though, is I was playing my step brother and we were tied at 1 in like the 80th minute or so. I pass it back to my goalie for him to just kick it out, he turns around and shoots it into my net. I ended up losing 2-1.

QUOTE(dasox24 @ Jul 22, 2006 -> 02:55 AM) Oh man, isn't that the truth? A bunch of my friends also own the game, so when we play, it's always rediculously intense. Especially when we play at my friend's house, who has an HD-projection screen TV (size of a wall) and an XBOX 360. It's, by far, the best gaming experience I've ever had. When my friend first bought the game we ended up playing a big tournament with some other friends. We all took an international team and just set up a tournament. It was the first time all of us played so none of us knew what we were really doing, so every game was basically 1-0 and wow it was really intense. Everyone just going nuts when someone scored. Oh ya, put the game on spanish when you have the option at the beginning, the announcing is so much more fun to listen to. GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOAL.

QUOTE(Chisoxfn @ Jul 22, 2006 -> 02:50 AM) Can you play in the world cup or is mainly premiere league seasons and is there any sort of franchise type mode? I haven't messed around with the franchise stuff yet but there is a franchise type mode you can do. They do have all the international teams but I'm not sure if you can do like an actual world cup type thing. You can make your own tournament though and put all the international teams in it and basically make your own world cup, that I know for sure.

QUOTE(Chisoxfn @ Jul 22, 2006 -> 02:45 AM) Is 06 pretty current or is it semi discounted now. I may have to pick that up. last soccer game I had was the Fifa 94 or something for Super NES (I played it about a month ago). I think it's pretty updated. I'm not a huge soccer guy, so I really don't know that much, but from what I know it's pretty up to date. The game is a ton of fun though, especially when you're playing against a friend. Very intense games.

QUOTE(CWSGuy406 @ Jul 22, 2006 -> 02:13 AM) Boooooooone! has been solid since his initial hiccupp. I'm sure he'll probably be a September callup... Maybe he can start. Definitely nice to see Boone bounce back though. I think because of his delivery, that he'll have good enough stuff to be a decent loogy in this league.

Greg, you'll be absolutely fine with a 2.9 and a 29. You'll get into UIC and Loyola I can guarantee that and you should be fine with Depaul too. My high school counselor was no help either.

QUOTE(dasox24 @ Jul 22, 2006 -> 02:02 AM) Woke up, got a haircut for first time in 3 months, got online, played soccer with some friends, played FIFA '06 with my new team, Liverpool, and dominated Man United. Pretty solid day since I didn't watch the Sox game... Seriously, how awesome is that game??? I'm obsessed.

QUOTE(BigSqwert @ Jul 22, 2006 -> 01:05 AM) It was all the mullets. And morons. People cheering during the Rangers rally in the 6th(or 7th I don't remember which) because the wave was going around the park. Unacceptable.

You will never see a worse crowd than tonight. Embarrasing is the only way I can describe it.

Woke up and played some fifa 06(best game ever), went back to bed, woke up and went to the sox game, now I'm back home and in a bad mood. The end.

QUOTE(Kalapse @ Jul 21, 2006 -> 01:45 PM) Ugh, I'm completely torn when it comes to Willis. I think he'll be pretty damn bad about 3 years from now but he probably would dominate the AL for the rest of this season, throwing elbows and knees at people. I would NEVER, NEVER trade McCarthy for Willis, that would be a huge mistake and I just can't see a deal getting done without including McCarthy. ^^^ Dontrelle would more than likely be fantastic the rest of the year but I think you give him one year in the al and he starts to get knocked around. I'm not sure why, but I've never been totally sold on Dontrelle and I'm still not. IMO Bmac will be better than Willis and I don't want Mac or BA going anywhere.

QUOTE(Gene Honda Civic @ Jul 21, 2006 -> 12:22 AM) playing in Charlotte. 7 HRs at home. 1 on the road. True. He's definitely on a power surge though as of now, homers coming in bunches.

Really appreciated guys. Awesome work.

As frusterating as this team is right now, if anyone thinks the AL Central race is over, well then you guys are nuts.

Not at all. When you're playing the team that you're battling in the division with, you can show a little emotion late in a one run game.

QUOTE(Felix @ Jul 20, 2006 -> 01:45 PM) It was a strike. Balls and strikes are called where the ball went through the zone, not where it ended up. Thank you. None of us here knew that.

QUOTE(fathom @ Jul 20, 2006 -> 01:42 PM) Actually, people have been pleasantly surprised with his defense this year. At least he has the ability to throw runners out on the bases. He gets horrible reads out there. You are right though, he has displayed a decent arm.

Rogers loves to dive out on the mound.

Easily Pablo's worst game of the year.