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String 'im up, boys!

So why doesn't he let the record become public?

Has since been nominated as "America's Heathiest Town".

You don't have to go to the media to get political "spin". There is plenty of it right here at SoxTalk.

All the rest of our so called allies were part of the Food for Oil gravy train.

We need to fire McCaskey and Reinsdorf.

I got tickets for Game 5!!!!!

Roughly .... 95 yards.

If Barry Bonds were transported back to the mid 80's he'd get knocked on his ass the first time he crowded the plate. And since he wears armor, they'd aim at his chin. No ... Bonds would not hit 50 HR.

The '85 Bears would kick their asses!

The Red Sox one the World Series! Under a full moon and a lunar eclipse .... The 1st of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse is due at any moment.

Derek Lowe's situation is a perfect example. The only thing I've seen in print about him going to Detroit was a Detroit writer speculating that he might consider playing for the Tigers because he is native to the area. Then that has gotten blown up to the point that it's either Boston or Detroit. I still don't buy it.

So, the White Sox should put a slugging, poor fielding team out there for 2005. Ummmmm. Didn't we try that in 01 through 04?

Most talk along these lines is pure rumor and speculation and I give it not one iota of credence. Money talks.

Sure. It makes sense that the better the competition, the more often they will succeed and you will fail. The point I'm trying to make here is that reasoning people have when they say Keith choked in big games is that they had seen him do so against good teams and did not feel he could be counted on to nail it down in the playoffs.

It almost single handedly ruined this one too. We are still suffering the effects of Reinsdorf's hard line stance and will continue to do so until he sells the team, or he puts a championship caliber team on the field.

.... and proud of it!

Exactly! .... Which is why JM and KW felt that Foulke could not be counted on to be a playoff type closer. Two years later he proves them wrong, but he wouldn't have been here for those two years anyway ... which KW was well aware of.

Maddux is overpaid? I'd gladly spend $5Million a year to put him in our rotation. And that's to say nothing of the effect he could have on guys like Garland, Cotts, Adkins, etc.

Why not? They put a half-priced team on the field every year.

Maybe that phrase "big games" should be restated as "games against good teams". Seatlle was and the Yanks and Twins still are.

That stolen base had to be THE deciding factor in his CPOY award.

I think this is total bulls***. If KW can land Johnson there is no way he moves him unless the bottom falls out of the team prior to the July 31 trade deadline.

If Pavano is going to be cheaper and better than Pedro .... wouldn't we rather have Pavano?

First of all, it's non due to a lack of respect that we haven't opened at home in years. It's due to the fact that the Sox requested road openers. Secondly, as has been pointed out but seems to be worth restating, the Sox do open 2005 at home.