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QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Mar 21, 2013 -> 02:10 PM) Who was drunk? The exact phrase was "That could be trouble for the Sox".

A giant Rally Crede on the wall.

QUOTE (Quinarvy @ Mar 21, 2013 -> 12:37 PM) I forgot Dice-K existed. Didn't know he was an Indian. What happened to the thread saying the dicek signing really put them out in front of us?

QUOTE (DukeNukeEm @ Mar 20, 2013 -> 11:36 PM) I'd rather we not go involve ourselves in another rotten Middle Eastern s***hole. But we will. if the sides have moved to chemical weapons, we have to step in. It's really that simple.

QUOTE (Soxbadger @ Mar 20, 2013 -> 11:49 PM) In my annual picking Wisconsin to win bracket, I have Wisconsin over Indiana in the final. Just thought that was to amazing to pass up If that matchup happened in the final game, I'd be figuring out a way to put money on Wisc.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Mar 20, 2013 -> 03:15 PM) Bryce Drew's name has come up with Northwestern, as well as Collins. http://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/colle...,0,613867.story Still was a helluva shot

Holy F***, a Middle School principle did something stupid? Call the national guard!

QUOTE (lostfan @ Mar 20, 2013 -> 04:03 PM) This sounds like an awful lot of bulls***. If chemical weapons are being used, the US will be involved. Even I won't be able to disagree, and I'd disagree with most US military operations concepts.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Mar 20, 2013 -> 09:16 PM) Instead of Axelrod, why don't the sox make a minor deal with KC and acquire Chen or Hochevar? You could get Hochevar for scraps and Chen for not much more than scraps IMO. Maybe they'll be no better than Axe. It's just something that popped in my head living in KC. Bruce Chen had an ERA over 5 last year, is being paid $4.5 million this year, and would have a higher ERA if he didn't have to face the White Sox for 5 games. I'd rather go with Axelrod and Santiago for a season than Bruce Chen.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Mar 20, 2013 -> 09:04 PM) Don't we have the best bullpen in the AL, if everyone's healthy? If Reed pitches like he did in the first half of last year, this answer would rapidly be "yes". Right now, no, but we have the talent to do that. We may well have more gas in the pen than anyone.

QUOTE (Cali @ Mar 20, 2013 -> 08:23 PM) Well I personally don't think Danks will be making many starts in the first half of the season anyway. At least not in Chicago. He needs to take as much time as possible to get that shoulder right and going every fifth day in Charlotte will be the best option. Let him get knocked around down there till June or July... once he's dominant in AAA then he can come back to Chicago in a position to help the Sox win. But I think it will take him more than a handful of starts to ge the kinks out. If it was 2 starts, fine have Axe go out there and get rocked, but I don't think it will be. That's why I want Santiago in there. I think he gives them a better chance. I think you're seriously underestimating how long "The first half of the season" is. If he throws 100 innings (15-ish starts) in AAA and still isn't right, then there's something a lot bigger going on. That's like 4 different "Rehab assignments". I think the Sox would literally have to shut him down for several weeks to be able to get that through MLB's rules.

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Mar 19, 2013 -> 03:21 PM) If MSU didn't have to potentially go through Duke & Louisville, I could 3 B1G teams in the F4. I think OSU & Indiana are probably favorites from their regions, not that it means all that much once the madness starts. I put it together and wound up picking the same setup, 3 B1G in the final four. When it comes to matchups like that, I'll take the Izzo coached team until proven otherwise, his team always just seems to handle tournament style so well.

QUOTE (Cknolls @ Mar 19, 2013 -> 10:44 PM) But we have to have absentee voting and early voting or nobody would be able to vote on Election Day. Somehow over the past 10 -20 years it is impossible for people to vote on the actual day they hold an election. How in the hell did this country survive 41 Presidential elections without early voting.....Because like that fraud in Ohio who voted multiple times....it never happens......purge dead people from the roles? Why do you need to do that? For 150+ years, it was legal to come up with random reasons why people couldn't vote that were solely designed to keep black people from having that right. So yeah, somehow over the past few decades, things have changed a lot. The right to vote wasn't recognized as a given right a few years ago. You could pass a law requiring people to pay money, to own land, to meet requirements that black people almost couldn't meet, in order to vote. You should not have to lose a job in order to exercise your right to vote. The country doesn't shut down on election day. Some countries declare that a holiday and do exactly that; we do not. If a person has to wait in a 6 hour line to vote because there are not enough voting booths, they cannot work during that time. This should not happen. If you want to fix that problem, great. We need a lot more voting stations, a lot more money, and a government who makes sure that states don't shut down voting booths to keep certain people from voting (aka the voting rights act). But right now, people will spend their whole day in line to exercise their right to vote, and that can cost them their livelihood. I'd be much happier to fix that in other ways, are you willing to do so? To spend the money, or to declare the elections to be a national holiday? Because spending the money would make it easier for people who want to vote...to vote.

QUOTE (lostfan @ Mar 19, 2013 -> 08:41 PM) Um, the First Amendment pretty much never protected anybody who made threats or communicated intent to harm someone. The f***? Yes, that's a crime. No, that is no travesty. Don't worry, they won't lose their right to buy guns!

QUOTE (elrockinMT @ Mar 19, 2013 -> 06:43 PM) Morel got sent down to AAA Exactly what should have happened.

Well, the U.S. will be launching an operation against Syria soon.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Mar 19, 2013 -> 04:31 PM) This still leaves many elderly people who lack the proper documentation in the lurch. http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/20/us/polit...;pagewanted=all Then it's on the government to fix that problem (hence why you have to make it required). Usually the response to that statement is that people want the right to choose not to be tracked by the government everywhere they go, but that's what you have to give up if you want to make an ID requirement that is actually fair.

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Mar 19, 2013 -> 03:51 PM) It's asinine that in this country you have to produce a photo ID to enter certain buildings, but it's a god damn riot when people ask for photo ID's to be shown while voting. Do you support a nationwide government-issued, government-required ID given to everyone at taxpayer expense?

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Mar 19, 2013 -> 02:15 PM) I assumed this was referring to the players' pensions, which I had no issue with. But everyone else's pensions? Whoa. I believe the players pensions are funded directly by the All Star game revenue. The players also have negotiating power. They have a union, they have a collectively bargained contract. I'd imagine many of the other employees have no such power. Getting rid of pensions is normal business practice these days.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Mar 19, 2013 -> 02:05 PM) Wow. and in 1 short article, all of 2k5's respect for chairman reinsdorf evaporates...

University of Central Florida student found dead in hotel room. Had weapons, ammunition stockpile, explosives, apparently planned mass shooting, killed self when he felt his timeline went off.

QUOTE (HickoryHuskers @ Mar 19, 2013 -> 07:43 AM) He's very into helping the poor, but he's also been accused of being too chummy with a brutal Argentinian regime in the late 70s. My outsider's impression is that he's going to have far bigger issues to deal with in this position than what happened in Argentina in the 1970's, and being a "good guy" or "interested in helping the poor" isn't going to scratch the surface. Between the corruption issues within the city, the ongoing sex scandal and continued coverups, and the attempts by his predecessor to roll back the Vatican II reforms, he has a large set of challenges of the administrative and policymaking type.

QUOTE (Quinarvy @ Mar 19, 2013 -> 07:56 AM) For real. Didn't someone here use Baseball Reference to show that the White Sox system players has had one of the highest WARs in the Majors? Yes, it includes people like Gio, but then just a bunch of "solid" guys. The statement coming into last year was that we've gotten the most WAR out of our drafts since 2009. That was of course dominated by Beckham and Sale and by the fact that Posey was injured for that one year, but yeah, we're getting guys out of our minors and they're producing.

QUOTE (chw42 @ Mar 18, 2013 -> 08:24 PM) Alejandro will be Alejandro. Decent lead-off man and decent defender. I don't see him reverting. He's usually pretty good at not going into deep slumps. He only had one kind of bad month last year where he failed to put up an OBP over .300. He had a .323 in April and a .340 in August, but the rest of his numbers looked very good. His first half numbers and second half numbers were also very similar. He actually hit better in the second half (believe it or not). I'd worry more about him staying healthy than anything he produces. If he's healthy he'll be an effective player.