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QUOTE(Steve9347 @ Jun 20, 2005 -> 01:26 PM) Have you guys been White Sox fans for more than 2 months? We are a team that is known to blow it in the second half. Look at our 2003 team! How did they blow it? They sent Esteban Loaiza out to pitch against the Twinkies with a cold. Loaiza fell apart. The season fell apart immediately after that loss. Loaiza cost himself the Cy Young award on that day.

QUOTE(nvxplorer @ Jun 20, 2005 -> 01:17 PM) The Sox are 5th in runs scored. Their BA sucks, but it has been steadily rising. The only teams with more runs scored are Texas, Boston, Baltimore and New York. Baltimore's pitching is okay, but the other three suck, staffwise. The Sox offense is just fine, and if Frank continues to be Frank, it will only get better. A significant portion of that ranking, however, is due to 1 game against Russ Ortiz and 2 games in Coors field.

QUOTE(southsideirish71 @ Jun 20, 2005 -> 01:15 PM) And remember how is Crede going to be when Boras negotiates during arbitration. How do you think that is going to go. I seriously think Boras will get his ass handed to him in arbitration based on the fact that Crede's been all-around underperforming.

The LA Times ran a very good feature on ballpark organists a few weeks ago. Sadly, they're a dying breed, and even the Sox don't expect to replace Nancy when she departs. They did interview her for the piece though, which is always a plus.

QUOTE(Adam G @ Jun 20, 2005 -> 01:04 PM) Yeah, all the signs except, you know, muscle. Have you seen him shirtless? I haven't.

QUOTE(Steve9347 @ Jun 20, 2005 -> 01:04 PM) Any team that can be shutout by Shawn Estes needs to get something going with their offense big time. Games like that one are games where we stop playing so-called "Smart ball". You see them from this team every week or so - they stop pushing people over after falling behind early,a nd then everyone starts swinging for the fences again.

I didn't know where else to post this, but I just wanted to point out;this is one of the dumbest things I've ever seen at ESPN.com. The Ex-Yankee roster versus the current Yankee roster...and somehow they have the current yankees sweep the series? Man, that's nonsense.

QUOTE(Jabroni @ Jun 20, 2005 -> 11:38 AM) I saw the clips of some of those pitches on SportsCenter. While I didn't see every pitch thrown, the ones that were shown were definately balls. I was watching the game when he melted down... The pitches were close enough that they could go either way. I think what probably actually happened was that the strike zone shifted slightly during the game, and during that inning, he wasn't getting the call on the pitches that were close but slightly off the plate. Everyone here has seen those pitches called both ways depending on the ump. Many times.

QUOTE(Jabroni @ Jun 20, 2005 -> 11:29 AM) The question is -- if we don't hit Lima hard will posters here transform into Hawk and say that Lima is really an ace-quality pitcher? I still remain amazed how many pitchers we've managed to make look like they are ace-quality. Especially rookies.

QUOTE(kyyle23 @ Jun 20, 2005 -> 11:01 AM) I dont think that is much of a dream, I think it falls into the realm of possibility the more that Houston loses. Not with his contract situation. It's way too attractive to Houston for them to even consider dealing him.

QUOTE(GreatScott82 @ Jun 20, 2005 -> 11:00 AM) The only move i see happening is getting another arm or 2. We can possibly get a solid reliever as well as a solid spot starter- just in case El-duque's arm is seriously injured and BMac doesn't pan out. This next stretch could determine that. Hell, there's even been rumblings of BMac keeping the starting spot if he earns it and El Duque becoming long-relief when he gets back.

QUOTE(robinventura23 @ Jun 20, 2005 -> 10:59 AM) As long as we're dreaming...Brad Lidge? I'm going to just assume you really mean it when you're dreaming and you know all the reasons why that won't happen.

QUOTE(Texsox @ Jun 19, 2005 -> 09:10 AM) Do you think a Barry Bonds uniform will go for $1,000,000 in 75 years? me neither. Well...if you put it on, there might be some residue of the cream on it...

QUOTE(SuperSteve @ Jun 20, 2005 -> 10:54 AM) Uh, as to why no GM has made the deal for him... You know, I bet if he wasn't a boras client we'd actually have offers... Even when a guy struggles with his first team, if he's shown a lot of talent in the minors, usually there'll be a couple of teams who are willing to give you something for him thinking that their hitting coaches will work where ours have failed.

The game where Roberto Hernandez became something was an incredible game...Sox fell down 5-0 Early against Detroit, pitching was in Shambles, Hernandez comes in and absolutely silences Detroit's bats, and we end up winning 6-5. A few weeks later he was our closer.

QUOTE(WHarris1 @ Jun 20, 2005 -> 10:47 AM) If Willie gets sent down for Ross that is completely absurd. We need Ross as a defensive replacement, bat off the bench, and for the flexability to PR for PK. But there is no reason to send down Willie before Timo - none. The amazing thing is, there's hardly a person here who doesn't believe that. And I think a majority of people here think that Timo will be the one who stays.

QUOTE(robinventura23 @ Jun 20, 2005 -> 10:50 AM) BMac: Pretend your still pitching in Charlotte, these Royals aren't much different than some of those teams. Actually, I'd much rather him pretend he was still pitching in Spring Training in Arizona.

I'm beginning to worry that Baltimore is looking a lot like the White Sox in 2000...their pitching staff overachieved early in the year while their hitters were killing the ball, but now it seems to me at least that their pitching staff is starting to get banged up, and I don't know if they'll be able to deal with that. You just can't outscore everyone, not in that division. The Yankees and BoSox will see to that. The Red Sox have had struggles with their pitching, but it doesn't strike me that they've seen anything worse this year than last. Schilling will be back at some point. David Wells is not as bad as he has been - he's been almost in his 2001 White Sox form. Miller will continue to improve as he gets back into the game. Manny Ramirez has also been somewhat down this year, and that won't last. And Foulke will turn it around at some point this year. I still pick the BoSox.

I'm still a youngin so I don't remember much before 1990, but Ventura's slam is easily tops in my head. Second I think I have to put that GW home run that Joe Crede hit last July. (was actually on my dad's birthday)

Personally, i'm just amazed at how rapidly Joe went from having an amazing and functional swing in the first few weeks of the season back to flying open and swinging for the fences every time he's up.

Even if there's some good-natured fun already established, I personally can't see the point of taunting one of the decent guys on the Cubs roster for giving up a slam to Jeter. There are plenty of other Cubs who are far more deserving than Borowski. Wood, Patterson, Baker, Maddux immediately come to mind.

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Jun 20, 2005 -> 09:18 AM) Yeah continental drift tore apart Pangea 10's of millions of years ago. Actually...continents move apart at a rate of roughly 1 centimeter per year...to first order that's the rate your fingernails grow. The last time there was any contact between South America and Africa was about 200 million years ago. North America was splitting off from Africa even before that.

QUOTE(EvilMonkey @ Jun 20, 2005 -> 05:25 AM) How about Trent? He apologized. Even went on BET to do so. But even though Byrd has said he is sorry, he has also consistently lied about his involvement, trying to whitewash it, claim it was for only a few years, etc. These statements are in his book which is just coming out, so even today, he is still lying about it. Lott lied when he was on BET too. My personal favorite was him saying that he was in favor of affirmative action. No one in their right mind believed him. Lott, BTW, is still one of the Senators who has refused to give his support to the lynching-apology resolution adopted by the Senate. Byrd was one of the co-sponsors.

Anyone know how Cleveland's schedule fits into that picture?

QUOTE(LosMediasBlancas @ Jun 20, 2005 -> 09:15 AM) Not to mention, when it's your year, you get those calls. On the other hand...we'd still have tied the game even if they'd gotten both of those calls right. Pods at second still scores. And if Pods hadn't been put at first in the 8th, Harris would have been hitting with a guy at 2nd. He could have gotten an actual hit, or even if he made an out, ArRow's single would still have driven in the tying run. Either way...we've had games that the umps took away from us already (Oakland), so if nothing else, things do somewhat even out over a season.