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lol @ hawk taking jabs at pods

QUOTE (SoxFan562004 @ Mar 11, 2010 -> 04:29 PM) FWIW, Boers is saying, and he seemingly has good Sox sources, that KW thinks some of the moves the Sox made in the offseason to please Ozzie were "wrong". my hunch is that it is more the moves that ozzie didn't want KW to make that KW believed were "wrong"....ie signing thome

Garcia is throwing BP - he's getting hit hard

teahen with a nice play to get the out at home....his D at 3rd is an under-acknowledged concern heading into this season IMO

quentin with a nice piece of hitting.....just destroying a ball the other way for a 2b

another wonderful second period so far

welcome back adam burish

you can be 400 lbs and play basketball at your rec center and its still a sport. Just cuz you aren't fit to play at a pro level doesn't mean its not a sport. I voted WNBA (albeit a horrible, horrible sport), golf and 16 inch as sports...the rest not ....bowling was on the bubble for me...my test for it being a sport is can you get hurt while performing the physical activity involved..... while you can get hurt in nascar (obviously the most dangerous) the injury isn't really due to physical activity im sure you can strain your neck in billiards but you can strain your neck doing anything by that logic...so it doesn't make it either

Overbay would be a nice option ...he's perennially underrated....he's getting up there in age, and 7 mil is a lot, but its not absurd...so i like your thinking however, nobody will want mark kotsay ..so he likely wouldn't be part of the deal....

QUOTE (hogan873 @ Feb 25, 2010 -> 10:06 AM) I'll add some numbers to my predictions: AVG - Beckham (.309) HR - Quentin (37) RBI - Quentin (111) SB - Pierre (42) Wins - Danks (21) K's - Peavy (195) 2B - Pierre (43) 3B - Beckham (6) BB - Quentin (lots) HBP - Quentin (many until he does his Hulk impression, rips his shirt off and charges the mound) Hits - Konerko (199) Saves - Jenks (40) Holds - Putz (37) Ejections - Ozzie (9) If danks wins 21, Peavy pitches enough innings to log 195 Ks, Quentin drops 37 bombs, Konerko gets 199 Hits, this team will run away with the division

im a fan of the DH, and theres one arguement from non-DH enthusiasts that drives me nuts...and its the "the DH takes the managers strategy out of the game...you can't double switch in the AL" Please ...like the double switch is something so difficult that a guy who has dedicated his life to baseball can't understand? IMO the prevalence of the double switch takes LESS managerial wit/instinct than in the AL rules. The double switch move is so obvious you can derive a basic algorithm for it, and it makes pitching changes SIGNIFICANTLY easier. Its easy to take a guy out in the 6th when he's at 94 pitches and due up first the next inning. The situation helps make the decision for the manager. In the AL, you have to know your pitchers better and have a better feel for when a guy is done and when he isn't.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Feb 11, 2010 -> 08:23 AM) Nothing would surprise me. Just because he was before the "steroid era" doesn't mean he couldn't have used steroids. exactly...steroids were used long before the modern idea of the "Steroid era" I guarantee there were guys in the early 80s and maybe even in the 70s doing it. Hell football players were, why wouldn't we expect baseball players as well. Likely the roids weren't as effective and potent as they are today, but you can make a good argument that the players who benefited most from steroids were those who used right before the so called steroid era. They had their leg up on the game before the stuff was prevalent and everyone in the league was using.

the health of this team has been an unbelievably underrated and underappreciated fact in the past decade...especially when it comes to the pitchign staff starters who can pitch 200 innings of league average baseball are very valuable (at least according to market value) and we have been able to acquire/produce them and keep them healthy....Buehlre, Garland, Garcia (while he has been here), Loaiza, Vazquez, Danks, Floyd, Contreras seriously ...when was the last time we had a starter we were depdending on blow out his arm or miss more than 15 or so days on the DL? I'm struggling to find one...i mean yeah colon a touch last year, but who before that? Cal Eldred??? Wells missed some time, and Sirotka never pitched after we had him. I'm sure I'm missing someone, but just look to the northside where last year in the last 1-2 years each of Harden, Zambrano, Lilly, and Dempster have missed at least 1 month Even the positional players...AJ is as durable as catcher as there has ever been, Konerko has played alot...crede had back problems which was tough luck, and Thomas did too back in the day but a guy his size will have problems no matter what. The magglio injury was a freak thing nobody could have prevented... Its a good thing herm Schneider has been there to cover up the horrendous organizational depth this franchise has had in the past 5 or so years

http://www.chicagobreakingsports.com/2010/...on-my-team.html

QUOTE (Princess Dye @ Feb 20, 2010 -> 11:05 PM) I dont understand how people get down on Rios' '08. 47 doubles. 32 steals. I will take that gladly. ^^^ an OPS+ of 112 (along with 120 and 122 the two years before) plus premier defense in right field makes him one of the top 15 or so OFers in the league

the guy has all of like 20 tweets since November, so I seriously doubt he's just spewing BS to increase his following.... I'll believe it entirely when I see it, but I think there could be smoke there

is there ever a bad time to cook up a pound of bacon?

IF it happens, (big if) what is your lineup? Damon DH Beckham 2b Quentin RF Konerko 1b AJ C Rios CF Teahen 3b Ramirez SS Pierre LF Not bad, but there are those 3 righties in a row in the middle....but im ok with that my guess is that ozzie would still have pierre lead off and put damon in the middle of the order to break up the righties

Heyman Tweets (Twats?) that JR is now involved in the negotiations with Damon lets hope this doesnt turn out similar to when JR got his nose in the Doug Collins coaching fiasco

QUOTE (Princess Dye @ Feb 16, 2010 -> 11:28 PM) Damen I think you mean. There's a Thome street, though I think it's tiny. At least I can only remember seeing it one place, around 5800 N Ridge or so. theres also a Father Mackowiak Drive behind a church (can't remember the name...st albert the great maybe?) right off of central not far from Rob Mackowiak's home town of Oak Lawn...has to be named after relative

QUOTE (Brian @ Feb 16, 2010 -> 06:01 PM) Stuff I am reading that is teasing tonight sounds epic. i hope so....i'm starting to feel like Bill Simmons does here....he had an article and made a lost reference i'm hoping sooner or later there is some clarity brought to all of this, and not more confusion http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story...mons/100208/one

so if i end up in last in this vote, does that actually mean i win?

wouldn't at all be surprised if this is planted by boras.....its vintage boras to convince one team (the tigers) that their rivals (white sox) are bidding against them for his client...

that aldo guy was the guy that infiltrated locke's drug farm he was on

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