Princess Dye

if adam dunn tried to behead abu nazir he'd swing n' miss. abu nazir is very elusive

We should have one thread about Mark Reynolds being good, one thread about Mark Reynolds being bad...and another entirely about whether or not he's signed yet. do i run message boards good?

schlereth's dad is one of my all-time least favorite people

I wonder how empty and directionless a human has to be to have created a fake Jack Hannahan twitter account

The sox faithful are so lucky We get teams built to win now, we dont really come out in droves I love where we're at. Every fanbase should have rich crazy people running their teams...i wish that upon everyone I cant lie and there's no green involved here

QUOTE (greg775 @ Nov 22, 2012 -> 06:39 PM) should play him a lot when he's hot, but once that streak ends, bench him and rarely play him. The quintessential message board baseball comment

TRUTHERS FOR DANKS!!! No, I would only see that side of that if we can confirm Danks is going to be a better fielder as Wise enters year 35 of his life. But as far as every other aspect, bring on DW. Even has established comfortability with pinch hitting. He won me over last year, and really there's no worry here since (unlike the quick bringing back of Kotsay) he will not be pressured to do much. Were Wise to falter, Jared Mitchell may even step into the 4th OF picture over Danks at this point.

QUOTE (HickoryHuskers @ Nov 2, 2012 -> 11:15 AM) I understand that AJ would probably cost less than Youkilis to re-sign, Really? Anyone else thinking this?

and maybe heckle you some

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Nov 1, 2012 -> 03:52 PM) I wish I saved the posts that thought that I was way off base when I said my sources told me Jake was going to come back. If it makes you feel better, I will call you 'off-base' right now.

QUOTE (The Ultimate Champion @ Oct 31, 2012 -> 09:06 AM) I officially want to apologize for all the nasty things I said about him after he rejected the first deal to come here. Ah, good call bringing this up. This whole place was a hate-fest for Jake when he turned down that first trade..it wasn't just you.

Wonder who put out the Aj-on-roids leak, and also have to think -- who stands to benefit? If the Sox know they're out of the running unless they can get other teams scared to bid, then maybe they saw that as their only shot.

That 2013 White Sox team was such a disappointment. Glad that's over.

QUOTE (Greg Hibbard @ Oct 29, 2012 -> 11:30 AM) And f*** fake Chicagoans. You better live within the city limits...

Detroit is a team we happen to play, and when we're trying to have success, I want them to lose. Why do I have to hate them outside of that? There's no preaching here, it's just basically some people are secure, some people need this whole thing as an outlet Check this out: http://youtu.be/0-kCQMDpSVE

My team didn't win the World Series, so any joy taken anywhere else is pretty pathetic. Are we really going to lower ourselves to a performance like last Tuesday, where Cubs fans rejoiced all day like it was their super bowl?

I have nothing against Ozzie, and hold nothing personal against him. I do think that a good manager can be good even when personnel is not a perfect fit. During his time here, there was quite a bit of personnel that he buddied with, and quite a bit that he feuded with. There is circumstantial evidence that Rios, Dunn & Peavy were better because Ozzie was out. We cannot prove causality on that, but the bad environment had to go, and the Sox did well to clean up the bad environment. Maybe less Ozzie and more Hahn is kind of a two part solution for the long term, but we'll see. Most people here have less of a problem with Kenny's contributions to the bad atmosphere because a GM necessarily can and should get to the background and not be a factor personality-wise. We're way past the days when Kenny would bust up a table in the lockerroom, etc.

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Oct 23, 2012 -> 03:25 PM) Epic Fail. I cant believe we got a player for his worthless ass. Dont believe that's a line in Anchorman.

QUOTE (Iwritecode @ Oct 12, 2012 -> 04:03 PM) Tigers have $5 tickets in their upper deck for all 81 home games. They also have an official parking lot that costs $5 to park in. Chicago metro area: 10 million Detroit metro area: 3.7 million A couple considerations -- lets say you reduce parking for all games, then you are losing all that parking $ generated for the surefire winners (i.e. hosting the Cubs). What if the team is awful? Then you just lost all the money for those well-attended games that are a sure bet...AND you lose in general overall attendance. Point being - a sharp decrease in prices ain't happening. We are what we are -- a giant city with a lot of potential interest, but as of yet, not enough truly interested people.

QUOTE (Iwritecode @ Oct 12, 2012 -> 03:56 PM) This. It's all about building up the season-ticket base which happens in the off-season. The smart fan perhaps comes to this site, but the general Sox fan has to learn about the team in advance..and the casual fan needs to ...hear...HEY they got a free agent blah blah. Hate to say it, but the Sox would probably make more money next year if they took that Peavy/Pierzynski money and instead gave all of it to Josh Hamilton with no other additions. Then the casual Sox fan would think to themselves: "oh, they were pretty surprisingly good last year-- and now they added Josh Hamilton!" Neverminding the fact that, overall, the team would be worse (if that was the only move)

I think the core issue with sports teams that irks today's general population-- they know if they cater to big spender people, and try to just keep Average Joe somewhat in the picture... they can operate while keeping their eye on a big prize. The years the Sox are very good likely attract BOTH the spender and the average joe, and said year is a big win for them. Big enough perhaps to make up for what would've been, say, some imagined year where we were awful and we lowered prices way low to compensate for that. The White Sox could probably lower prices and be thought of as just some bar you can go to... yet in the past, we saw on-field problems (bad publicity) to the point where they had to lock up the concourse level to anyone in the upper deck. Suites, private boxes, etc -- today's game revolves around getting companies to bring clients, groups, spend a bunch of money. And yes you have to pay an expensive roster of high priced players, but that doesn't explain the entire story. They are gambling on a winning year resulting in big buzz for the team and tons of lucrative interest from any number of directions--not necessarily the family of four hoping to see the occasional game. That's the route this thing has gone -- but it comes down to the Sox not having a large enough total number of fans to achieve their goal every year.

Tickets on the secondary market are already cheap. People are under the impression that they HAVE to buy a few beers and food. Buy your ticket, and just go watch the game. Of course, people don't do that and as a result don't attend -- and get to keep the excuse alive that everything is too expensive. In today's day and age, if you are someone who budgets ANY money for entertainment purposes, then there's no reason why you can't make the Sox the recipient of that money. If the fanbase was big enough, we'd all be able to do that--enough to make the team fairly well attended. The total fanbase, however, is not big enough..to make each game fairly well attended (unless there is really good buzz in a particular year). This is good though. You should want the organization to be driven by a need to win. I can live with that, considering we are what we are as an organization.

The article mentions exchanges AJ had with famous fans. I remember the one with Dubya.....but what happened with Brian Knobbs?

Cubs should get Grace in the booth. Just get him an in-city condo and a ChicagoCard 30-day pass

QUOTE (fathom @ Oct 4, 2012 -> 10:51 AM) Again, I repeat what I've said for a few weeks now. No one on the Sox had better at bats the last month than Dan Johnson did. It's frustrating that there were games in which he should have been used against tough righties in order to give someone like an ailing Paul Konerko a breather. Here's the thing..when a good guy is going bad for a stretch...do you apply this same logic in reverse? You personally, I'm not sure...but I think many people here will overrate a stretch of greatness from a mediocre player, and will similarly lose their s*** unnecessarily over a horrible stretch from a guy you're depending on. In the end, a person is their numbers. Dan Johnson is a guy with mediocre numbers, considering you can't use him many places in the field.