IlliniKrush

QUOTE (whitesoxbrian @ Aug 22, 2008 -> 10:07 PM) No, Hawk always has the same tone. You can tell by the words he is using and comparisons he is making if we're up or down. Kasper's voice is high and retarded when they're winning, yet when they're losing he has that voice like "We're still going to get in bed together, right Bob"? The same tone no matter what? That couldn't be further from the truth.

He's 21 today. Hope that first ever beer tastes good.

QUOTE (santo=dorf @ Aug 22, 2008 -> 11:42 AM) Let me go on record as saying I hate replica jerseys and the t-shirt jerseys. I go with authentics or throwbacks Agreed. The 'jersey t-shirt' isn't any sort of jersey. It's a shirt, and it's weak sauce. Also, wearing your name and an off the wall number on a jersey is beyond pointless.

Authentic gray #55 Brandon McCarthy Jersey. Yup. And one of the few Sox hats I own.

So we avoid Shields and Garza this series, that's pretty fortunate.

QUOTE (whitesoxfan101 @ Aug 21, 2008 -> 12:02 AM) Cubs fact: If they changed their nickname to the "Blue Sox", they'd be the 3rd best team in baseball with "Sox" in their nickname. I dare somebody to convince me otherwise (I'm sure you can come up with compelling evidence, but not enough to convince me). You could easily argue there are 5 teams in the AL better than them. The problem is, they play in the laughable NL and are thus the favorites to win the pennant unless the Brewers stop underachieving. Let's not get crazy here. Cubs aren't just an "the NL sucks" team. Look at the talent they have on that team. Also, there aren't 5 teams in the AL better than them. Cubs still have the best overall 3 starters in baseball compared to any other team, and as B&B were talking about yesterday, which one of the Sox pitchers would you take over any of those 3 in the playoffs? Likely none of them. I hate the cubs fans as much as the next guy, but let's not act like we have a world beater team and their team sucks. It just makes us look like a bunch of idiots.

Wow, the U.S. softball team lost in the gold medal game. Huh.

QUOTE (whitesoxfan101 @ Aug 20, 2008 -> 11:37 PM) Agreed 100 percent. I agree 50%, so that's not polarization of s***.

My Bauer 7000 skates, RBK O-Stick (insert joke here), Bauer XX gloves. Essentially, the 3 performance pieces of equipment a hockey player owns. The rest are basically protective only. Also, my Nokona glove I've had since high school. Rock, I also had one of those 'big barrel' TPX gold bats that were the cream of the crop back in the day. Good stuff.

Yeah, the tiebreaker is stupid. But you're right, medaling when falling all over the place is just flat out stupid. I couldn't believe that happened.

QUOTE (Wanne @ Aug 18, 2008 -> 07:54 PM) My last comment on this. Yer funny...did you even play/pitch? Dude...you're not leading a WR on an out pattern...or a pitcher covering 1st. Also what fathom said...Mark should have made sure...but you throw to the bag. I've probably forgot more about baseball than you'll ever know, if you want to go there. I sure as hell hope you aren't attempting to be a coach at any point in time. I'll leave you with this. Next time you are at a baseball game, and a runner reaches first with less than 2 outs, watch the pitcher after the ball gets back into the infield. Watch him look to the SS and 2B and and point to one of them, and have that guy point back at him. Then wonder why the hell those actions just took place...

QUOTE (Brian @ Aug 18, 2008 -> 07:36 PM) All I know is on the replay, OC is going to the base, Alexei is backing up, and Mark throws it to the bag, slightly to the first base line. If OC keeps going, he has the DP. Mark was throwing towards Alexei, there's no such thing as throwing to the bag on a double play. Cabrera wasn't even there in time to get the throw, if it was to Cabrera, Mark would have had to have waited a touch longer.

QUOTE (Wanne @ Aug 18, 2008 -> 07:35 PM) No....you don't. You throw to the line. That's what you're taught from Little League on...it's the SS play and he was there. Well you go ahead and think what you want, but that's simply incorrect. Nor is it always the SS play.

QUOTE (Wanne @ Aug 18, 2008 -> 07:24 PM) Wrong guy?!?...you're friggin kidding right? He threw it right where he was supposed to...on a line right over the bag. No, not kidding. You actually don't throw it in a line over the bag, you throw to the guy covering the bag, to one side or the other as he's arriving. It's all about timing on a double play, as a result you are throwing to a guy, not just to a bag. Mark thought Alexei had the coverage, you can see it from his head and his throw. Somewhere the communication was messed, or the wrong guy covered, or Mark just drew a blank when he whirled. We're all lacking enough information to place exact blame, end of story.

Buehrle threw the ball the wrong guy, either Mark screwed up or there wasn't the necessary pre at bat communication.

Yeah I love this channel as well man. I was watching the Illinois practice thing, then there were some classic football games I already tuned into, those and also mich/osu from 2006, osu/wisky from 2003. Pretty sweet.

QUOTE (Middle Buffalo @ Aug 15, 2008 -> 12:37 PM) I had a very similar experience. During Summer School at U of I, a few friends and I were out at CO's for quarter beers. I ran into some friends from high school who I really hadn't seen since freshman year (I was going into my senior year). So we're talking, and it's one of their 21st birthdays, but the guy's had enough. I couldn't have been with them more than 15 minutes when my newly 21 year old friend leans to the side and pukes. Right at the bar. Unfortunately, the splash gets a guy standing near us. And he's big - an Illini football player. So the football player and one of his friends start getting rough with the guy who puked. I stepped in to try to break it up. I'm apologizing and explaining that it's his birthday, etc. Trying to be a peacemaker. The bouncers see it differently. I get tossed, and so do the football players. No one else gets thrown out. They send the football players out the back door and tell me to wait a little while, then they send me out the front. A friend comes with me. So we're walking home, and La Bamba is between CO's and our house. I decide to go get a burrito, and my friend says he'll see me at home. I walk into La Bamba and get in line, and I notice that the football players are at a table eating. I try to avoid them seeing me, order to go and walk out. As turn the corner, the two guys are outside waiting. One of the guys starts to talk to me, and I again say that I was just trying....BAM. The other guy nails me in the eye. Really hard, and I'm seeing stars. Total cheapshot. I didn't really have time to retaliate or anything before they walked away. That was the extent of the fight, but I had a terrible black eye. The next day, I saw the guy who puked on the way to class, and he had no memory of seeing me at CO's, and he found it funny that his puking led to my black eye. I should have given him the cheapshot treatment right there on the Quad. Anyone who goes to CO's deserves two black eyes.

64, 255, 256

Why have more home run calls missed? That makes no sense. Do it tomorrow if possible.

Sometimes Ozzie is just so baseball retarded, it's really amazing.

It didn't hit the line, even from the favorable angle shown.

QUOTE (lostfan @ Aug 11, 2008 -> 09:04 PM) Well Uribe basically was only allowed 2 strikes on that at-bat, for whatever that's worth. I'd give him 12, same result.

QUOTE (nitetrain8601 @ Aug 11, 2008 -> 08:58 PM) No a WCIU one. I guess that flew over your head...

What is this, a Cubs broadcast?