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QUOTE(BigSqwert @ Aug 11, 2005 -> 08:42 AM) Steff is singular...not plural. And she's not a guy.

QUOTE(Texsox @ Aug 11, 2005 -> 08:05 AM) 14 I thought it would be fun to count down each AL Central foe as they drop from the race. KC should be the first do go, and by the end of the month. Maybe sooner. Wow! You like to rub it in, don't ya?

QUOTE(Kalapse @ Aug 11, 2005 -> 02:08 AM) If a team claims Griffey then the Reds have 3 choices either negotiate a trade with that team, give them Griffey (the recieving team would have to pay his entire contract) or pull him off waivers. If they do pull him off waivers then he can not be traded or put back on waivers for the rest of the season. I believe that they can put him back on waivers after 30 days.

QUOTE(Steff @ Aug 11, 2005 -> 05:37 AM) Par for the course YAS. Ya know what they say about ASSumers.. As for you BlackBetsy.. you just go ahead and think whatever it is that makes your boat float. Anyone with half a brain and an ounce of common sense knows that I am last person to complain about attendance. That's what, about the 4th time you've had to say that? :rolly

Congrats Mike.

QUOTE(SoxFan1 @ Aug 10, 2005 -> 04:49 PM) Does it not look like Waly is eating Williams ass???? Honetly... So much for intelligent posts.

QUOTE(LDF @ Aug 11, 2005 -> 12:28 AM) being fiscal is what i get when i heard of the return we got from tbo. i feel that the hawks did not want to be laden with his contract. however, we could have wait for the right price or go into the season with tbo as backup. you will know that sometime during the esp before the trading deadline, you can get more. Weren't the Hawks up against some sort of arbitration offer type deadline where they could have lost TBo and got nothing in return? It seems to me I've read that somewhere.

QUOTE(The Critic @ Aug 10, 2005 -> 08:10 AM) The saddest part of this whole thing is: Any Royals fan over the age of around 30 probably remembers a KC World Series championship. ( using a 10-year-old fan at the time as the barometer ) It was 19.....19.....1985. ( to quote a horrible song ) Any White Sox fan over the age of around 98 MIGHT remember a White Sox World Series winner, assuming their memory hasn't escaped them. Now THAT's sad. Sometimes I see threads that go something like this: "Would you trade sucking for the next 10 to 20 years in exchange for a World Series title now?" Maybe the Royals fans agreed to that deal in '85..... Then look out for them next year. This is the 20th year.

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Aug 10, 2005 -> 08:22 AM) What crap. I hope Rogers fails miserably. So far, so good.

QUOTE(WilliamTell @ Aug 10, 2005 -> 11:56 AM) I'd root for the Twins probably, but if the Sox won the World Series before these two teams played in it, then I'd root for the Cubs, since the Sox beat them to the World Series. Then you'd have to listen to the Cub fans say "We've won it since you did." Like the Sox fans have been saying since 1917.

QUOTE(SoxFan562004 @ Aug 11, 2005 -> 12:47 AM) A-Row is a public figure in this regard. The person would have to make the statement in a reckless manner knowing it was false. It's extremely hard for a public figure to win tort cases over situations like this. True, but a well payed ballplayer could probably financially ruin an average fan by instructing his lawyer to drag it out as long as possible. Attorney fees aren't cheap and the average fan would have to pay to defend the allegation.

QUOTE(SoxFan562004 @ Aug 11, 2005 -> 12:57 AM) I got one of the biggest kicks as a Sox fan when in the last half of the game today every time a ball would go towards center field you could actually hear the crowd groan a little, and then they would show the Yankees bench with a dumbfound look on their faces shaking their heads. A-Row was out of his mind during this series, it was truly incredible. He did give those Yankee fans their money's worth.

QUOTE(TheDybber @ Aug 10, 2005 -> 10:40 AM) I read on Daily Quickie on Page 2 of ESPN.com that Jamie Moyer refused a waiver deal to the Yankees. They are out there, just not public. Which is the way it usually works. It's really not newsworthy until a guy is actually traded, or in this case, not traded.

QUOTE(Kalapse @ Aug 10, 2005 -> 01:25 PM) Borchard is not good, he may be playing well right now at Charlotte but he does this every year, we havn't used Adkins lately because a lot of our games have been close so we havn't needed that long reliever. Adkins could be very valuable to this team down the stretch in the long spot. We don't need anymore strikeouts in this lineup right now. Borch can have fun at Charlotte. You'd rather have Timo batting 5th as a DH?

QUOTE(Jeckle2000 @ Aug 10, 2005 -> 07:11 PM) The Sox would be retards to not sign Palmario if they had the chance... I don't care about the media circus... It gets us a big bat in the line up, gets Timo off the team, and gets us someone to even spell Kong at 1st occasionally... League minimum for the rest of the year they should do it in a heart beat... Too bad it won't happen though... Consider this. Palmeiro's numbers early in the season were horrid, when he knew the policy was in effect. Then, after his horrid start, he takes steroids and eventually becomes the Palmeiro of old. I afraid his recovery is a direct result of his injections and since that will no longer be an option for him, that he'll go back to being too old and too slow with the bat to be of any help.

Keep in mind that at best, Griffey coming to the Sox is a longshot. Griffey can turn it down. The Reds owner can turn it down. Any other team in baseball can prevent it from happening.

What is wrong with you people? That was not a complaint by Steff about anything. You are reading into it what you choose to read into and then jumping her s***. GMAFB and STFU.

Thankfully we won that last game, or this would be one long day off around Soxtalk.

I have long believed that this team is capable of winning it all. That doesn't mean I'm convinced that it will. The big thing that this Yankee series showed me about the Sox was that they didn't wilt on the big stage. They were in 3 tight, tough ballgames and played well. No bonehead mistakes or major choke jobs. They grinded out two tough victories and showed plenty of backbone while doing it. I will be let down by this team if they roll over and die to anyone in the playoffs. If they play well but get beat, then I'll be disappointed that it wasn't meant to be. I won't consider it that the team let me down if they go down fighting.

QUOTE(upnorthsox @ Aug 10, 2005 -> 09:02 PM) We're 28-13 in day games this yr, so without a doubt we'll play all night games. You're probably right. We were much better in night games in 2000, so we had all day games. It's an anti-Sox conspiracy I tell ya!

QUOTE(White Sox Josh @ Aug 10, 2005 -> 10:20 PM) Out of respect you have to start Buehrle first. he has the best ERA in the rotation and for what he's done for the sox. I totally disagree with this comment. Nothing against Buehrle. In fact, it's the rest of the first sentence I disagree with, as in: Out of respect you have to start ______ first. We are talking playoffs and a chance for our first WS since 1959. Respect and rewarding players should not be part of the equation. You put the guys out there that you think are your best bet to win. Period. Buehrle may be the choice to start, but not for reasons of respect.

QUOTE(redandwhite @ Aug 10, 2005 -> 03:59 PM) I haven't seen anyone in my life steal on a pitchout more than Podsednik has in the last month. If he gets on, he's going and when he's not being successful doing so you have to adjust. Especially if your only scoring runs by the way of the home run, you need as many runners on base as you can get, and have no business giving runs away with your 2-3-4 guys coming up to the plate. When else is a leadoff hitter gonna steal?

QUOTE(redandwhite @ Aug 10, 2005 -> 03:50 PM) Sure, but do you "keep on trying" in key situations like todays? Honestly, I think you have to. Ozzie cannot show a lack of confidence in him at thisa point in the season. This was a regular season game. I'd hate for him to have doubts during the playoffs. We need him stealing bases, or at least the threat of him doing so.

QUOTE(bmags @ Aug 10, 2005 -> 03:51 PM) how come i had to watch espn news for updates for 2 hours...was this on? why am i not of acceptable intelligence to find a basebal game on. It was on ESPN ... at least, it was here in Kentucky.

QUOTE(Jordan4life_2005 @ Aug 10, 2005 -> 03:45 PM) We've been getting shut down by a lot of guys of late. Point taken though. He's been effective in his other starts, so it's just not our bats. He's beat Texas, Toronto and, I believe, Baltimore.