Balta1701

QUOTE (Tex @ Aug 14, 2011 -> 07:47 PM) This election will be about jobs. No state did better at creating jobs than the one that Perry ran.

QUOTE (Tex @ Aug 14, 2011 -> 08:59 PM) Why do you believe that we could produce oil for less than buying it overseas? Name anything that America can produce cheaper than overseas? There is a reason that US producers started investing so big in the Middle East. $$$$ bigger profits $$$$ The same reason Zenith isn't producing TVs here, why Detroit is all but dead, why IBM isn't the world's #1 maker of computers. What US company would undercut the competition by even 10% on a commodity that we need? It's actually kind of funny you'd ask that today. Got a good link in reply, because I've got a good enough read on how working and wage standards in the U.S. are declining rapidly enough that in a few years, the U.S. will be basically to Europe what Mexico is to the U.S. today. Link

QUOTE (iamshack @ Aug 14, 2011 -> 07:08 PM) Imagine if we got stuck with McGwire... I dunno, I bet he has extra needles to stick people with.

QUOTE (MexSoxFan#1 @ Aug 14, 2011 -> 06:44 PM) Let's let him take 6 weeks off, it'll be good for him and the team. Did you see the few posts prior to this where they said things some asshole might come in and say?

QUOTE (Tex @ Aug 14, 2011 -> 06:33 PM) Once Perry has the nomination sewn up, y'all are going to like him more and more. Because if we don't he'll sentence us to die for crimes we didn't commit?

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Aug 14, 2011 -> 05:50 PM) Series win. Check. 4 straight Series wins against ALC Check. Next open box: Cleveland.

QUOTE (Quinarvy @ Aug 14, 2011 -> 05:32 PM) I'd still wanna go with a six man. What its done for Buehrle, could do for Humber, Peavy, Sale, and Stewart, would be great. The 6 man rotation is terrible on a roster/bullpen though, and it's shown no signs of being a benefit to anyone except the most reliable pitcher on our staff.

The Elf and the Captain bring it!

Might get better ones with a Senator too.

Nice dive Brent. Saved a base even if it didn't get the out.

QUOTE (Harry Chappas @ Aug 14, 2011 -> 04:48 PM) Ohman why not leave in thorton We have a 4 run lead and there's no reason to push him 2 innings. Especially with extra offdays, spread the load around.

QUOTE (JoeCoolMan24 @ Aug 14, 2011 -> 04:42 PM) I'm not complaining, I am just pointing out he is getting a little unlucky with his deep flyballs right now, hitting them to the deepest part of the park. His base hit today was up the middle as well. I'll take it. He makes contact, he'll be a big league starter. I probably said that 2 years ago about him. Now that we're actually seeing him, it's as plain as can be, he kills the ball when his bat hits it, it's all about not striking out 200 times.

QUOTE (JoeCoolMan24 @ Aug 14, 2011 -> 04:34 PM) If he would pull the ball a little more, he would have 3 home-runs by now. Hell, I don't mind him hitting it up the middle one bit. I'd rather have him staying up the middle and not hitting teh ball out...because he'll make better contact if he's staying up the middle.

Great day for the captain.

Morel finally hit a ball with some authority, but the 2b was close enough to get there.

2 INSIDE OUT SWINGS FOR RF HITS FOR BECKHAM!!!

Flowers got that ball off the end of the bat and it went 390 for an out. He makes contact and the ball goes a long way.

QUOTE (Soxfest @ Aug 14, 2011 -> 04:21 PM) Frasor is not impressive at all. At this point, it looks like picking up that option would be a mistake.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Aug 14, 2011 -> 04:05 PM) So some of those other guys are "good" baseball players just not producing currently? Just wondering. In the day and age of Sabes I would think some of the people I'm arguing with would say those other players are NOT good baseball players. Cause their standards are pretty high if Juan is not considered "good" and in fact more than one calling him "terrible." Yes. Gordon Beckham, Adam Dunn, Alex Rios, these are talented players who are in teh lineup almost everyday who are not producing.

QUOTE (kapkomet @ Aug 14, 2011 -> 03:58 PM) What you actually do is WOO (drill baby drill!!)... long enough to get ourselves in a different position for other sources of energy besides oil. But why use that logic when all you folks just want to make sure we continue to depend on foreign oil and pay through the nose for it? Of course, we are drilling baby drilling. The active U.S. oil rig count is at 1920 right now, which is the same level it was at when oil prices were $120 a barrel in 2008, and right back to the highest drilling levels the U.S. has seen since the oil price collapse in the mid-80's. (We're actually drilling as much now with lower average prices, in fact). I know, numbers don't matter when your gut tells you Obama is awful and won't let drilling happen anywhere, but the U.S. is drilling as many holes in as many things as humanly possible right now. The whole world is, and they have been for years, with the exception of the 2008 price collapse. The problem is, that the new drilling has spent 5 years only barely accounting for the decline in older fields, and the new production is almost always much more expensive than the older fields. There's simply no more easy, cheap, surplus energy out there. It's not a lack of drilling, the world is being drilled like crazy.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Aug 14, 2011 -> 04:00 PM) I've been talking everyday players, not pitchers. My bad if he wants to talk pitchers too. One might argue Ozzie is manager of the year not a bum with just three good everyday players to work with. Except for the fact that 4 of those guys ought to be producing better than they are...which is supposedly why you keep a manager around who isn't a great tactical manager, to "motivate" players, to "get the best" out of players. Which he's clearly abjectly failed at.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Aug 14, 2011 -> 03:56 PM) OK, Lexi Konerko and Quentin are good baseball players. No wonder we have a s***ty team with just three good players. I guess a .500 record is pretty damn good with just three good players. Did you miss the phrase "A lot of the pitchers"? Anwyay, you're actually right, the fact taht 5 of the spots in our lineup have been s***ty is why we're struggling to reach .500.

D1 has just flatlined here.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Aug 14, 2011 -> 03:43 PM) Ah, April. I hope you guys despise a whole batch of White Sox for April. If Juan Pierre had followed up April with a few months of .800+ OPS or really good fielding, I'd care less.

QUOTE (gatnom @ Aug 14, 2011 -> 03:39 PM) Buehrle is the only member of that rotation I think could get to 200 innings. Even if they aren't "destroyed" they certainly will be less effective over the long haul. I don't know if it could be Santiago or some return from trading Floyd/Danks or some veteran Doug Davis type signed in ST, but I will grant, you need to have a 6th starter option in AAA known to start the season with that kind of rotation. They'd probably be able to go plenty deep in games, but sometime around June/July we'd actually start wanting to have guys do some spot starts.