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http://www.cnn.com/2007/SHOWBIZ/TV/05/14/t...n.ap/index.html I dont get this. Not at all.

QUOTE(BigSqwert @ May 14, 2007 -> 11:10 AM) Why did he put him in the #2 hole if he doesn't think that's the right place for him? Because right now he is hitting better than most of the team, and Ozzie is maximizing that. Ozzie is banking on the rest of the team coming around and sliding Uribe and Iguchi back to their normal spots, but Iguchi is so deep in this funk that Ozzie is forced to drop him in the order.

QUOTE(Rowand44 @ May 13, 2007 -> 09:11 PM) Willie and I have talked about this a bunch, but for the most part...NBA crowds suck. Obviously GS has been quite the exception. The Golden State crowd acts like a NCAA crowd. They are rowdy andreally into the game. Its just a totally different vibe.

QUOTE(caulfield12 @ May 13, 2007 -> 07:49 AM) 1st half 2006 (#1 offense in AL) 2nd half 2006 (#9 offense in AL) 1st half 2007 (#13-14 offense in AL) How can anyone argue there is no correlation? Sure, Thome and Pods not being healthy...especially Jim...that's ONE factor. But that doesn't explain Crede, Konerko, Iguchi and Dye all looking like shadows of their former selves. We CAN'T win scoring 3.9 runs per game, we need to at least be in the mid 4's like the 2005 team. I willing to adopt the idea Sweeney can adequately replace Pods, but Thome, Dye, Konerko, Crede and Iguchi all need to pick it up for this team to go anywhere. Of this group, i think Thome, Dye and Konerko are the players that NEED to be better. And I dont see any reason why they wont. And actually Thome just needs to get healthy, not better. Like i said before, its a long season. These players will be near their career averages before long. And to get to their career averages, they all will have to go on a streak. Hopefully those streaks coincide.

QUOTE(knightni @ May 12, 2007 -> 11:36 PM) So, Gooch is struggling... Does this mean that Greg Walker learned Japanese? LMAO! Zing!

QUOTE(caulfield12 @ May 13, 2007 -> 07:16 AM) Very well...and I'll continue to say that we're not in that top or elite group with Boston, Cleveland, Detroit, and possibly the Yankees and Angels. We're very similar to the A's, if I had to make a comparison. I didn't think Minnesota would struggle this badly. They will give it another month, but they have the same issue with Torii Hunter we have with Buehrle and Dye. Our offense is still the worst in the AL after the last 2/3rd's of a season. It's difficult to argue with that measuring stick. We're 4th in pitching, ERA-wise. I doubt we can be first, but we need to stay 3-5 in that area and get our hitting/runs scored somewhere around 7-10th in the AL to have any chance. Are we closer to being an "elite" team or a rebuilding team? I would say the latter. It's unfortunate, because we have the makings of a great bullpen, to go with our strong starting pitching. Crede, Konerko, Erstad, Dye and Iguchi have looked really bad recently. Iguchi, Crede and Konerko are all huge question marks to me. We can't win without at least two of those three guys hitting. We don't have anything close to resembling prospects at SS or 2B. The jury's out on Anderson and Fields as well, at best. What we do have is lots of pitching prospects, and the more legit prospects you have, the higher the odds that one or two will actually make it and become members of the rotation. I'm encouraged that Honel seems to coming back onto the radar screen as a prospect, and Danks has impressed nearly everyone. We went through a 167-95 stretch of play in 2005 and 2006 (until the All-Star break). We would have won 105 games last year if continued to play like we did in the first half (best offense in the AL). Obviously that didn't happen, for a number of reasons. Since then, we're 51-56. That's an incredible drop-off in the level of play. Which is the prevailing trend? Well, we'll find out in the next 6 weeks, but having KC simply hand us four games out of four doesn't mean we're a good team or that anything is "fixed." All I have to say about this is that there is more than "Elite" and "Rebuilding". I agree with a lot of the things you have said, but i remember much of the same things being said about the 2005 team for the entire year, all the way up to the first game of the playoffs. Sometimes you get the breaks, sometimes they get you. I really dont see a firesale happening. At all. This team would have to go on an extended losing streak for KW to even think about it.

QUOTE(SoxFan101 @ May 13, 2007 -> 02:26 AM) kingpin is in jail ;p, and while it seemed a lot of people didnt like daredevil, i think Afflek was really good in it, now Colin Farrel Wow, I actually think the exact opposite. I think Affleck mailed it in for a quick paycheck and hoped that the franchise fanbase would push along a sequel. I think Farrell played a coldblooded killer who enjoyed his work pretty well.

QUOTE(Heads22 @ May 12, 2007 -> 09:46 PM) PK's been playing it for about 7 or 8 more years though. Didnt Erstad win a GG there?

4 in a row? Not bad

Dye isnt dead in that at-bat

Did the Sox face Duckworth in the WS?

QUOTE(CWSGuy406 @ May 12, 2007 -> 09:22 PM) You know you're going to see the hero cuts this inning. Too bad we can't have Sweeney/Erstad/Uribe up again... LOL, like the first swing Konerko took

Mac finds his testes, places them in his jock, and finishes the inning. Nice

QUOTE(santo=dorf @ May 12, 2007 -> 09:11 PM) I forgot to set the VCR on that one. I wanted to show my grandkids the epic showdowns between Gload and Sisco for the next year. Just curious about what Aardsma has to do to get booty. If he doesnt give up a run? if the team wins? i went to his myspace, the booty song by the Aardsmas is hilarious. And his girl is SMOKIN

QUOTE(Heads22 @ May 12, 2007 -> 09:08 PM) So, I want Ryan and Juan at the plate at any given time right now, and that really feels wrong. but it still feels so right

Juan has been so impressive this year, I am so happy for him

We all need a booner right here

ohhhhhh seeeeeeeeesco

QUOTE(fathom @ May 12, 2007 -> 08:44 PM) I'd do anything to have Gload back for Sisco. after that last strikeout, of course

QUOTE(danman31 @ May 12, 2007 -> 08:18 PM) I've seen enough of Boone against lefties to trust him. Once he got a strike on Teahan I felt good. That's a major change from me thinking he was almost as good as automatic runs for the other team. i will reserve judgement until I see him face Hafner and put him down in the same fashion

Boone has looked somewhat nasty the last two times he has come in (Morneau and Teahen)

LOL, Ozzie just got a booner

QUOTE(Brian @ May 12, 2007 -> 07:36 PM) Sweet. Did not know that. im pretty sure DD and Spidey have fought before because spidey didnt agree with DDs methods

QUOTE(Brian @ May 12, 2007 -> 07:30 PM) Isn't that DareDevil? Spidey and Daredevil share a bad guy

That was fun. Nothing like turning a 2 run lead into a 2 run deficit