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QUOTE (Reddy @ May 13, 2012 -> 02:02 PM) that's what they looked like back in the day. they straightened it out for the new logo. I know, I'm just blithering on about petty things

When did francouer become this legendary rightfielder that Hawk is telling me about?

I like the uniforms, but I don't like the font of "SOX" on the cap and uni. It just looks off to me, like a kid tried to replicate what we see now

QUOTE (greg775 @ May 13, 2012 -> 01:54 PM) It's not easy to like Escobar. You love Dewayne Wise, Escobar should be your bestie on this team

QUOTE (Reddy @ May 13, 2012 -> 01:50 PM) Dick Allen, you have absolutely no idea what you're talking about. No idea about the business of baseball. No idea about how the game is played in 2012. No idea about position scarcity. No idea about how to properly value players. Go read some books on sabermetrics and go play some fantasy baseball. Then come back and post as a baseball fan who actually understands the game, and not just cute marketing slogans. I agree with some of what you are saying but your line about playing fantasy baseball as a way of properly valuing baseball players in a real setting is pretty ridiculous

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ May 13, 2012 -> 10:21 AM) Looks like Humber might have to be near perfect: La La, cf Be Be, 2b D, 1b Ko Ko, DH R-ios, rf Tanks, lf Ty Flo, c Mo Mo, 3b E bar, ss Perfectomundo, p For soxtalk correctness

The Return to Sanity tour will hopefully be followed by the World Domination Tour. Go Sox!

My agenda today is to follow this thread

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ May 13, 2012 -> 08:54 AM) Hamilton will hurt himself and miss a month of the season. I agree with this, but Hamilton sure is padding his lead

Twins havent cracked 10 wins yet, that is nuts

who would have thought that Miami's press would irritate Ozzie more than Chicago that headline is priceless, by the way

Your #1 is a hilariously outrageous scenario. The chances of that happening are slim to none and slim just left town.

QUOTE (IlliniKrush @ May 12, 2012 -> 02:14 PM) I don't currently play, but I have been in some leagues that didn't have limits. It was really stupid. Yea the big boys tend to ruin those leagues. The only thing that is worse than a no homerun limit league, is a no fence league.

QUOTE (RockRaines @ May 12, 2012 -> 01:35 PM) Whenever I really try to juice it I pop it up so I give it a solid swing for good contact and its a rope but never that deep drive. There has to be some trick that those super fat guys do to crush the ball. The trick is top hand strength. If you watch the guys that hit home runs, it looks like they are swinging an axe, but they never dip their shoulders. It is all upper body, chest and arms for those guys. Illinikrush, you play in a no limit homerun league? I play in a 3 homer limit, 1 and 1 league. That means we each get three homeruns, but when each team ties at 3, home team gets a homerun, away team gets a homerun, back and forth. However, if my team hits all three and the other team has none, the next homerun is an out. I have played in a league where they are singles instead of outs. The largest limit I have played in is 5.

Lol, a player appreciation thread turns into a hate-on-the-nickname thread before it even rolls over to two pages. Oh Soxtalk, how I love thee, let me count the ways.....

QUOTE (High Mileage @ May 12, 2012 -> 12:39 PM) I don't understand the Pods hate. He was very good for us in 2010, I was disappointed when we gave him way to the Dodgers. Pods is good in small doses. Once you have him for a while, the warts(bad defense, strange baserunning lapses and failures, injury) start to show. I will forever remember him for 2005, but im not sad he is gone

QUOTE (Quinarvy @ May 12, 2012 -> 10:40 AM) Before Cyclops and the movie director left, X-Men last stand was the Dark Phoenix saga. stop jerking off you nerd

QUOTE (Reddy @ May 12, 2012 -> 09:41 AM) um. none of this is true. ssshhhh it fits the narrative

QUOTE (ScottyDo @ May 12, 2012 -> 09:07 AM) Hurray, my name makes sense again (kind of)! I should look into getting my screen name changed at some point...I was young and foolish and swept up in the 2005ness! send any of us a PM and we will change it for you. You can also post in the help section

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ May 12, 2012 -> 09:23 AM) I made another thread title. 2 in one week. Anyway, KW put it better than I did. (I am still not a KW fan)I have no problem with the White Sox trying to protect one of their young pitchers, especially their best one. You're welcome

QUOTE (danman31 @ May 12, 2012 -> 02:58 AM) I liked it more than ok, but I agree with you. I thought it was a bit long in the beginning. The rest of this thread has been nerds jerking off to geeky comic book stories, but this one I'll support. I remember the Phoenix from the X-Men cartoons and was hoping they would do something, anything with it. Instead all of the X-Men movies have been a disappointment. At least Wolverine's origin story was good (I can't fathom why so many people didn't like it). because it sucked. the end

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ May 12, 2012 -> 09:18 AM) Many years ago they had a 16" home run hitting contest at old Comiskey Park before a game. They had 3 or 4 guys hitting from second base and they were having no problem jacking them on the roof. It was impressive. Even from second base that is extremely impressive. Putting a charge into a 16" ball is no small feat

QUOTE (oldsox @ May 12, 2012 -> 08:25 AM) Scott Podsednik picked up by BoSox. From everything I have seen, it doesn't seem like offense is the problem in Boston, but rather pitching is. Strange move

QUOTE (The Critic @ May 12, 2012 -> 07:27 AM) Played for a long time, both 12 and 16, until age/weight/injuries ended it for me a couple years ago. I was a speed guy with some power at first, then became a power guy with good speed ("runs well for a fat guy"), then a power guy with some speed, then with no speed, then a spectator. The natural progression for "softball guy", lol. I don't know if any of you watch Softball360 on comcast, but some of those guys are absolutely ridiculous. They were hitting upper deck 500 foot bombs effortlessly during a MLB field tour. Nothing but upper body hatchet swings