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QUOTE (Texsox @ Apr 30, 2008 -> 01:45 PM) It appears as if my response confused you, it happens some times when people are reading quickly and only see what they want to see. I was not making an anti-marijuana argument. I disagree with Rock's argument that no one has ever died from marijuana. Obviously you agree with Rock that no one ever dies as a result of being high. That is your choice to believe. I think y'all have your heads in the sand. There are medical risks with every drug, including your beloved marijuana, if you think that is an anti-marijuana argument, so be it. But y'all crack me up believing there are zero health risks to marijuana. Happened last year on South Padre, all his buddies said he was high, he tested positive. Rock claims that no one has ever died from marijuana. Just pointing out one family that would disagree. And for the record, I have stated I think marijuana should be decriminalized. We spend way to much money on enforcing marijuana laws. Nobody said zero health risks, not everything is black and white buddy. There are medical risks with certain baby bottles, driving in heavy traffic, living in a city, driving your car, riding the bus, touching anything on the subway, McDonalds, Wendy's, cold medicine, you name it. And NOBODY has died from Marijuana. Maybe they smoked and jumped off a balcony, well they died from stupidity and most likely hitting their head on the ground. If you can clearly find a case of someone smoking so much weed that they died, then you can build a case, until that happens you dont really have a case. That would be the same as saying that you can die from using a cell phone since people die from driving, walking, operating boats, skiing, etc while talking on their cell phone.

QUOTE (SoxWS05 @ Apr 30, 2008 -> 03:33 PM) Tell that to Carlos Gomez. ok, ill tell him and his .245 BA and .260 OBP. Nice example.

QUOTE (frankie5angels @ Apr 30, 2008 -> 03:32 PM) They just had Monday and last Friday off. Why dopeopel think an off day is gonna cure all that is wrong with this offense. I replied in the other thread, so go ahead and take a look at how inaccurate that statement is.

QUOTE (frankie5angels @ Apr 30, 2008 -> 03:26 PM) We just had Monday off, and last Friday. I don't think time off is gonna help. Monday off? You mean the 6 hour game? Ummm, I guess that counts. Usually days off mean you dont play extremely long and freezing cold games. And last friday was off because they had a day/night doubleheader the next day negating any rest they may have had, they were still at the park on friday and spent extra time on saturday.

QUOTE (SoxWS05 @ Apr 30, 2008 -> 03:27 PM) You're probably right about that, but taking one really slow guy out of the middle of the lineup and replacing him with decent speed will make a difference. If Jermaine was not in the lineup today or yesterday, we win. Because he cant hit, not because he's not fast. You dont get on first base by winning a sprinting contest.

QUOTE (knightni @ Apr 30, 2008 -> 03:26 PM) Where do they stand in LOB and GIDP? 8th in GIDP behind Toronto, LAA, Boston, Detroit, Minny, LAD, STL, and just ahead of Colorado and NYY.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Apr 30, 2008 -> 03:23 PM) They're 5th in the AL and falling fast. A lot of their clutch-ness came early on. The last few days have been pathetic. That'll happen in sub 40 degree weather with rain 6 hour games and impromptu double headers. I think we come back strong against Toronto

QUOTE (Jenks Heat @ Apr 30, 2008 -> 01:56 PM) This team is about as unclutch as possible. Once again false, they are tops in the MLB in batting avg with RISP.

QUOTE (ChiSox35 @ Apr 30, 2008 -> 02:19 PM) We had 9 hits and 3 walks. It's frustrating when you leave runners on, but if we get a hit everytime there are runners on then I'm pretty sure our offense would be unparalleled in the history and future of the game, and it wouldn't even be worth playing games anymore. That goes for all teams, at all levels. Everyone does it (LOB's), and I think fans of teams who get shut out often(which has happened once, maybe twice to us this year) have more of a right to complain. At least we put runners on base... Carlos jacked another, Uribe is drifting closer to the Mendoza line, BA got 3 hits, and Swisher walked twice. Worse games have been played, dear Chicken Little's, and worse will be played... God damn what a great post.

QUOTE (SoxWS05 @ Apr 30, 2008 -> 02:17 PM) Why do you think we've had so many players left on base? I'll tell you. Nobody can run. Station-station base running loses games like todays, yesterdays and Monday's. So if they could steal bases we wouldnt have flown or struck out? How about the speedy Twins? How many did THEY leave on base today?

QUOTE (SoxFan562004 @ Apr 30, 2008 -> 02:16 PM) exactly. Maybe I'm watching it with a filter, but a lot has to do with the approach. The lift and pull method doesn't allow for dinkers or oppo hits to drop in, it gives Ks or homers They've gotten lazy in the last week or so, im hoping some time off will help them adjust. Its not like we were getting blown out here, we lost 2 very close games with our 5th and a swing man starting for us.

QUOTE (SoxWS05 @ Apr 30, 2008 -> 02:14 PM) Well they're headed there fast now. How so? Do you even look at the schedule, how many games they've played what their record is? I guess the ol slap hitting speedster is what this team needs. I bet everyone on here will enjoy his sub .300 OBP vs LHP when he gets here, im sure all will be ignored as long as he runs out the groundouts.

QUOTE (frankie5angels @ Apr 30, 2008 -> 02:00 PM) Everyone who thinks this team is in a slump is not being realistic. This team hasn't hit for a couple of seasons now, slumps don't last that long. I think it's time to realize that the players we have on offense just aren't very good. They are old and slow and I think this year is gonna be just like last year in terms of hitting. We will be better in the starting pitching and bullpen, but hitting wise, this is the team we are stuck with. Considering half the lineup is new to this team, how can you say they havent hit for seasons now?

QUOTE (southsideirish71 @ Apr 30, 2008 -> 02:11 PM) Owens as your leadoff guy for the year?????, welcome to your 4th place Chicago Whitesox. but what about SPEED!!!!!! The team was hitting the ball ok to all fields to begin the season, now seem to be lift and pull again. This day off couldnt come at a better time.

QUOTE (SoxWS05 @ Apr 30, 2008 -> 02:06 PM) The only person I can see who's expendable is Dye. He needs to be traded. This team needs some speed ASAP. 1. Owens LF 2. Swish CF 3. Thome DH 4. Konerko 1B 5. AJ C 6. Quentin RF 7. Crede 3B 8. OC SS 9. Uribe 2B Lets get this lineup in there. What would speed have done the last two games? Dye looks awful, Uribe is below the mendoza line and Swish as much as he is an OBP machine, needs to hit in the middle of the lineup. Owens isnt going to fix our offense no matter what you think, he's not the answer. And for your lineup, you sure as s*** wouldnt play swish in CF if Owens is in there.

QUOTE (Texsox @ Apr 29, 2008 -> 09:35 PM) I'm not going to debate you on this, we've done this before. You are correct that you will OD on water before you will on marijuana. But that is a misleading statement. People do stupid, and fatal things while high. To ignore those deaths is silly. Driving high and various other marijuana influences lapses in judgement do cause deaths. As do many other things. You make it seem as if nothing will ever happen to you if you are high. from http://wctu.org/marijuana_update.html how many from Tylenol? Did you just quote a women's christian group? And their sweet 1999 study which has no references. And some how say that there are marijuana overdoses? Maybe by sliding in that its "related" gave them some flexibility to write absolute lies. All I got from that study is that I shouldnt let a pregnant woman smoke, and let infants smoke pot. Ok, pregnant diet, no sushi, no dairy, no coffee, no pot, gotcha. Maybe that craptacular information works on younger kids, but its not gonna fly with me. Heres a website to counter your sisters of the christian cloth who hate weed source, and mine cites sources. http://www.drugtext.org/sub/marmyt1.html

Not to mention the gross double headers we've had with the all of a sudden freezing cold rain, and late night travels. All of this has hurt our team's performance over the last few weeks. I expect that with a day off and a little warmth you will see us start to heat up again.

QUOTE (lostfan @ Apr 29, 2008 -> 09:52 PM) Mmkay. Point that one thing out and ignore everything else. Why does the offense disappear? Seriously. It shows up, all at once, then just completely goes away. Point what out? You said we are constantly choking with RISP which couldnt be more wrong. We were in this game from first pitch to last out even with their guy pitching way over his head and us missing HR's by inches. We had bad at bats, Gavin didnt have his best stuff and I never felt like we were out of the game and I dont think the team did either. Every time this team loses its the same crap over and over, fire this guy, bring this guy up, bench f***ing Thome, all ridiculous awful emotionally crappy posts. This team is a good team, they were beat tonight, but not by much. its going to happen people, get over it.

QUOTE (lostfan @ Apr 29, 2008 -> 09:43 PM) Come on now, don't give me that fanboy comeback, it makes it difficult to reply with anything intelligent. "The best offense in baseball" does not get blanked every other game, does not consistently choke with RISP, does not rely solely on SLG%. Sure, this team has really good starting pitching, and sure, this team scores a lot of runs... but the runs come all at the same time, all against the same pitchers. This is not anything new. HAHAHA you are awful. Constantly choking huh? We are 5th in the MLB in avg with runners in scoring position. SLG .498 with them in scoring position leading the MLB. WHERE IS THE CHOKING???

QUOTE (jasonxctf @ Apr 29, 2008 -> 09:44 PM) i forgot, your "expert" opinion is the only one who matters here.. sorry. Well if you used actual facts instead of your opinion it would make more sense.

QUOTE (Soxpranos @ Apr 29, 2008 -> 08:42 PM) You and your OPS, now if we had a Manny like hitter at the number 3 or 4 hole than yes, you can argue that this offense is one of the best. Damn OPS has not done crap the last 2 games, but hey, were an offensive juggernaut. Ah the ol 2 game sample, nice work. Continue to not make a point and post out of emotion of a loss instead of actual facts.

QUOTE (jasonxctf @ Apr 29, 2008 -> 08:41 PM) thank you. for him trying to prove a point you cant? OPS is much more indicative of a good offense, runs score is a good offense, batting avg doesnt have nearly as much correlation.

QUOTE (southsideirish71 @ Apr 29, 2008 -> 08:41 PM) Sure and scoring 40% of your runs based on the home run is going to last as well. In our best years we were in the 25 to 28 percent. Our OBP was near the top, we have dropped over the last 2 weeks to 7th. Batting average is one of the worst indicators of a good offense. kansas city and minnesota are both in the top 10 for batting avg and both havent even score 100 runs yet.

QUOTE (Soxpranos @ Apr 29, 2008 -> 08:39 PM) That comment alone is stupid. I dont call this offense one of the best, dont be fooled by the early numbers, just look at what you are watching. Yeah, who needs numbers for evidence, lets just examine a close loss for all the data we need......

QUOTE (southsideirish71 @ Apr 29, 2008 -> 08:38 PM) Fixed for you. Teams with the worst BA in baseball do not get mentioned as one of the best. 5th in OPS, yes they do.