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You mean cwsox is not eminem?

She's an illegal combatant. Send her to Gitmo.

Minnesota's lead .....

We seem to be agreeing on more and more as time goes by ..... and quite frankly, that scares me!

In response to this, I'm going to go into a little bit more personal history than I feel comfortable doing, but I also feel it's needed. If I can be considered a person of privilege it's because I put myself there. I started a family in 1980 while living in a '67 model 10' x 50' mobile home that I bought for $2700. The winter of 1981, I was an out of work carpenter (thanks to former president Carter's 20% and higher interest rates) with two babies. For a 3 month period of time, I received food stamps to feed my babies. That was the only time I ever received any so called entitlements of any kind. I didn't try to make my living off of the taxpayers via handouts from the Federal Gov't. I worked long and hard and consistently to get from that low point to my rather middle class status today. Any "privileges" I have, I've earned and I resent those that that have achieved some of the same privileges that I enjoy by benefitting from the hard work that I put in while they were sitting on their fat asses drawing entitlement checks.

For the record, I made that statement so that it would be clearly read as my personal opinion, and not a statement of fact.

I never quite went to "Cy Young" territory while talking about Benson. I think he'd certainly help the TWins if they got him.

I thought ARod said "f*** you, motherf***er" to the pitcher, that's when Varitek stepped in and ARod "invited" him to partake of some action. Varitek obliged him.

Good article Jason. I didn't know Dot was back with the organization.

If any of the four would have been intentional, someone would have got tossed somewhere along the line, imho.

Well, Justice can visualize it, because it happened to him. You don't think he made up a story on national TV that he was suckered in, do you? And one more thing ... IT WAS NOT A CHEAP SHOT. I couldn't resist. rolleyeyes.gif

That's my reason. I've seen too many good pitchers struggle for 18 months after arm trouble, then just pick up where they left off. He's got the talent. He's got the stuff. He's now learned how to pitche without his best stuff because he's been less than 100% healthy. He's now getting back to 100% healthy.

I still disagree with you about Benson.

Let's see here. Earlier in the year, there was all this b****ing about "What happened to small ball?" Now Ozzie tries a sac bunt with runner's on 1 & 2 with no outs that doesn't work, the lead runner gets picked off and reamed for it. And Ozzie gets reamed for it as well. Same inning, Ozzie sends Uribe and he gets thrown out. Ozzie's a dumbf*** again. Tonight, Ozzie gets reamed for two hit and runs that didn't work. I thought all you guys wanted smallball instead of just playing for the 3 run homer. You can't have it both ways. If Ozzie does nothing he's gets reamed. If he does something and it fails he gets reamed. The team isn't hitting, so Ozzie's trying to make something happen by putting pressure on the defense. But, we aren't executing in any phase of the game right now so nothing is working. Forget this or that situation, what would be your solution to getting this team back on track. (I know Jeckel, you'd have Rowand hitting 2nd ) Would you aggresive like Ozzie's tried to be? Would you hope we just play our way out of this slump instead of possibly making it worse by trying to force things? Being a manager is not an easy thing to do. Even when you make all the right moves, the moves you are "supposed" to make they blow up in your face sometimes. And if you always make those moves, the opposing managers learn that, so they will know what and when you are planning to do something. Do you forget "the book" and go with your gut instinct? That's ok till it backfires. If I was Ozzie I would do two things: 1. Whatever the hell I thought was best at the time. 2. never read Soxtalk.

I disagree. Benson is a good pitcher and he's just about on schedule to come around after his recent arm trouble.

Maybe we can get Jeff Burroughs.

This same discussion has been going on for 3+ years now. It's old and it's tired. In all this time has one person changed their mind on whether of not they like Jose?

If Uribe's so good, why the hell didn't he move to second when they threw to 3rd to nail Jose? No ... He waited to attempt to steal, getting thrown out in the process. Was as totally stupid and boneheaded as Valentin's play.

I can't see any way KW would give up a decent prospect and get nothing in return, and as stated here earlier, it probably is not legal. If anything, he might get some cash out of it. But to me, that's a worse case scenario.

He lost me as a reader when he said Ozzie had Valentin attempt to steal. That was a blown sacrific bunt attempt/pick-off. If he can't do research enough to be accurate, he has zero credibility.

In the overall scheme of things, White Sox baseball doesn't matter. Along with a whole lot of other things like the person that pissed you off at work today, or the fact that you got detention for talking in class, or whatever. Losing a 15 year old friend or acquaintance will choke you up, as it did Wills. Losing a 15 year old son will rip your heart out and stomp on it .... over and over and over. White Sox baseball is one of the things I use as an escape from the pain that is always, at least, just below the surface. It helps. When that pain has to come to the surface and be dealt with, that's the only thing that really matters at that time. God bless that young man and his family.

I watch the Democratic National Convention. rolleyeyes.gif

Based on that, I think I'll vote for HER for President.

You should change your handle to EvilCapitalist. Good rant.

So does that well known racist, Bill Cosby.