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Lowe through 47 pitches in the first 3 innings and 33 in the next 3.

QUOTE (fathom @ Jun 24, 2008 -> 08:08 PM) Who cares Frankly I do, I'd rather meet a team on a losing skid than on a 6 game winning streak.

And way to go Sherrill

QUOTE (fathom @ Jun 24, 2008 -> 07:47 PM) Eddings has a very large zone tonight, but I think that benefits the Sox greatly. Pablo Ozuna just walked on 4 pitches. Quite frankly, I think you're lying about the strike zone because both of those statements can't be true.

38 pitches for MB through 3.

SNL will replay its first ever episode this weekend in its normal block, which George Carlin Hosted.

47 pitches for Lowe through 3.

QUOTE (fathom @ Jun 24, 2008 -> 07:11 PM) The Cubs are the most amazing 7th inning home team I've ever seen. 7-4, and still no outs in the inning. And here they go again.

QUOTE (WCSox @ Jun 24, 2008 -> 05:32 PM) He's hitting .229 and on pace to whiff 162 times this season with less than 100 walks. That's not "fine." His OBP (which is still almost 50 points below his career average) and his HR power (also on the decline) are the only positives at this point. It's a good thing that AJ is able to provide a solid left-handed bat in the two-hole, because Thome can't hit 3rd in the lineup anymore. He's more like a #6 hitter at this point. In June, Jim Thome is hitting .302 with a .406 OBP and a 1.048 OPS.

Great lines...

QUOTE (kapkomet @ Jun 24, 2008 -> 01:18 PM) Does he have enough votes to do it? If BO came out and said "Filibuster this thing and let them come after me over it" I think he'd pull it off.

QUOTE (Rex Kicka** @ Jun 24, 2008 -> 01:14 PM) Feingold is going to filibuster this. He needs 40 votes. In the House, nearly half the Dems voted for it, along with essentially all the Republicans. There's only 1 man who has the power to drag along the extra 15-20 votes that the Dems would need to sustain the filibuster right now. And while he pledged to support a filibuster of immunity last November, he's out as saying earlier in this thread that he wants the immunity provision removed but supports the compromise bill otherwise.

QUOTE (kyyle23 @ Jun 24, 2008 -> 01:56 PM) They aint goin anywhere unless they say its ok. I think Thome has a NTC for a certain amount of teams, and Pauly is 10 and 5 Thome's NTC covers some 30 MLB teams. You'd need his approval to trade him to the White Sox.

QUOTE (WCSox @ Jun 24, 2008 -> 01:11 PM) And calling the Arizona-era Carlos Quentin an "ML producer" is a heck of a stretch. If you look at his 2006 numbers, pre-injury, he was pretty ridiculous for a couple weeks when he came up. .872 OPS, 9 home runs in his first 152 at bats. Full season that's a 100 RBI, 35 home run pace coming in as a rookie. When he had his injury problems, that's when his 07 numbers went down hill.

QUOTE (WCSox @ Jun 24, 2008 -> 12:49 PM) Your obnoxious posts are a waste of everybody's time. OK folks, consider this a general warning in this thread to cool it with the personal stuff.

QUOTE (Benchwarmerjim @ Jun 24, 2008 -> 11:29 AM) Tribe sign Juan Rincon to a minor league deal good luck with that They could just use the magic on him that worked with Rafael Betancourt...oh wait...

QUOTE (kane0730 @ Jun 24, 2008 -> 12:11 PM) Wise will be starting tonight. We face to LHP the next 2 games. Am I the only one who's noticed that in both 2006 and 2008 (Who cares about 07), Brian Anderson has been vastly better with the bat against Right handers than against left handers? Give you an example. This season's splits, Anderson is hitting .156 off of lefties and .270 off of righties. There'd be a bigger Chasm in OPS (it's 70 points right now) except all 3 of his home runs have come off lefties. He was the same way in 06, he hit righties a fair amount better than lefties for most of the season. And so consequently, he only faced lefties.

QUOTE (klaus kinski @ Jun 24, 2008 -> 10:51 AM) MY Batting order tonight would be: Cabrera AJP Quentin Swisher Ramirez/Uribe Dye Crede Anderson Buehrle Maybe cut down on the double plays? JD wins the AL Player of the week award last week so we respond by dropping him in the lineup in favor of Uribe?

QUOTE (WilliamTell @ Jun 24, 2008 -> 08:25 AM) I would've been nice to have another post or two, such as Elton Brand or Amare Stoudamire but I'm guessing Stoudamire had reasoning for not playing or something. I hope Kidd doesn't play much more than garbage time because the team needs Paul and Williams to set the pace. Yeah, Stoudamire pulled himself out because of the lingering health concerns on his knee. He wanted the offseason and frankly I can't say I blame him.

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Jun 24, 2008 -> 10:08 AM) Am I missing something? I thought there are only 50 senators. Um, each state gets 2 as part of the great compromise.

Mark...just keep it up. You're better than them.

QUOTE (Chisoxfn @ Jun 23, 2008 -> 09:08 PM) Locked for your viewing pleasure...oh and Sox are so gonna beat the DOdgers on tuesday and put an end to that road losing streak. In fact, I'm forecasting 2 out of 3 against the Dodgers with a slight possibility of a White Sox sweep (over the Dodgers). Can we get a win and a ball or two crushed to RF on Thursday?

More good news...Danny is still clicking...

Expecting there to have been a "Post surge plan" is tantamount to misunderstanding the nature of the Surge. The surge was, no matter what they say, designed to do one thing...to give the Administration time for its term to finish so that someone else could take over and figure out the mess or take blame for the final collapse.

QUOTE (Athomeboy_2000 @ Jun 24, 2008 -> 07:32 AM) this is really a tough corner. It's a no win. You CANT let the program go away, but if the republicans arent willing to budge on immunity, what the heck do you do? I also like that Obama said that if it IS passed, as president he'll put legislation in place to remove the immunity. If this act doesn't pass, then the FISA program does not go away. FISA itself does not expire. The only part of FISA that actually expires is a small tweak that did need to be made after a court ruling. No other part of it expires. From what I'd read, even after the expiration of the PAA back in Feb., there hadn't been a single case where that specific change was actually necessary and a wiretap had been refused because of it. They could have waited another 6 months if they wanted to without risk to anything. And once you grant amnesty to someone, I find it really hard to believe you can take it back.