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QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Mar 15, 2010 -> 11:13 AM) http://www.calgarysun.com/news/canada/2010...6/13138731.html If your main point is that Canada's system isn't some awesome thing, then, I don't see who would disagree. If your point is that socialized medicine is somehow going to do this more, or less, than private health insurance... then I think you are mistaken. This could just as easily happen with a private insurer. Individual corner cases like this are not a reason to choose one model over the other - they are a reason to fix whichever one you have.

QUOTE (typewritermender @ Mar 15, 2010 -> 11:22 AM) I'm utterly shocked that EVERYONE loves this uniform. Did you guys all drink the same koolaid? To me it (specifically the black alt) doesn't look classic at all. It looks extremely nineties when having a black gang uniform was cool. The away grays I don't mind. The home pins are indeed classic--but that's just cause they're pinstriped and bland. What about the old navy & white with the "C" hat? What about the light blue & red? I think these were all good looking uniforms. I mean our colors are BLACK and WHITE. yawn. I'm NOT saying go crazy and add rainbow stripes. I'm not even advocating the sock in the infield logo , or the batter with the SOX under him. Just something NEW. And that NEW can even harken back to something OLD for all I care. Anyway feel free to close this discussion because EVERYONE seems to disagree with me, which is very bizarre. Just thought we could talk about what might be next. But that clearly won't happen You got all kinds of discussion. Just not the agreement you were looking for. That's what happens on message boards. Apparently to you, that means everyone else is drinking "the same koolaid". And you think they are boring because they are black and white? This is, ya know, the WHITE Sox we are discussing here. Not, say the Cubs, whose main color is blue.

QUOTE (Thunderbolt @ Mar 15, 2010 -> 08:37 AM) I agree. We all talk about Becham having to adjust to 3b on the fly, but Nix was the same way with 3b, SS, and LF. No one seems to talk about that. My bigger concern with him was at 2B. That was his native position, and he came to the bigs with a solid reputation there, but he looked to me like an average defender at best. He'll probably improve on that, but for a guy who was reputed to be a high end defensive 2B, I thought he looked very mediocre. You can't really expect most utility guys to be plus defenders at multiple positions. Its usually good if they can play 3+ positions just "OK".

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Mar 15, 2010 -> 08:01 AM) If they'd wanted to do that with Flowers this season they should never have re-upped Castro. I could still see it being useful to have CJ able to be catcher #3 this year (you can PH for AJ late in blowouts, get him some extra rest, or not have him face a tough lefty and have less worry) but Flowers better start at AAA this year. Who said it had to be right away this year? Could be later this year, or next year. They may see Flowers as a DH. This just gives them another dimension of flexibility.

The Sox have one of the best uniforms in baseball, with a classic logo - why on earth would you want to change it? Just for the sake of changing it? Remember what the last few uniforms before that looked like? I'll take what we have now, thanks.

QUOTE (witesoxfan @ Mar 14, 2010 -> 10:14 PM) They were going to try him at catcher. It would be for emergency situations only. That was my understanding. He'd get some time at C and all sorts of other positions this season in the minors, so that he could truly be a super-sub. It would allow the Sox to have Flowers and AJ (or some other two catchers) on the squad and DH one of them, if CJ is on the bench. I doubt they are considering it a full-time job for CJ, unless he takes to it unusually well (and catching usually takes a lot of years to get good at).

QUOTE (maggsmaggs @ Mar 14, 2010 -> 03:37 PM) FWIW, the writer is a Chicago Tribune writer (or was). He is, I believe, still the Sports Editor at the Trib.

QUOTE (Kalapse @ Mar 14, 2010 -> 12:56 PM) Carrasco gave the Sox 3+ innings 9 times last year, 8 of those turned out to be losses. You know darn well that if Carrasco is pitching 3+ innings, that means you are in some sort of blow-out. Really, his job is to eat innings and protect the rest of the bullpen. And if he happens to keep you in the games occasionally too, that's a bonus. That role does have value.

QUOTE (JoeCoolMan24 @ Mar 13, 2010 -> 03:23 PM) Mark Teahen might be the coolest, s***ty player ever. s***ty player? Based on what, 10 ST at bats? He's underachieved his talent by most measures, but s***ty? Come on.

LOL, that Comcast Sox+Cubs commercial was amusing. Sox players talking about the post-season, and Cubs players talking about Wrigley and being in good shape. What does THAT tell you about where these teams think they are headed?

Haven't gotten to watch Harrell pitch live before, this is a first. I hope they can get the CF camera fixed, I'd like to get a better look at him.

QUOTE (GREEDY @ Mar 13, 2010 -> 11:49 AM) Yes there is, and a large percentage of them (not all) share many of the same characteristics. Fan is short for fanatic; So yes, because you consider yourself a crazy person, I suppose you are more than welcome to wear a shirt with your favorite grown man's name on the back; It has to be the least of your problems. In college people actually called me Grandpa because I never went to after-ups. I tried my hardest to be in bed by 2:30 a.m., I felt it kept me out of many bad situations. How that relates to me thinking it is tacky to wear personalized jerseys as an adult; I am not sure. Halloween is one day a year for a reason. LOL, this is fantastic... guy who posts on Sox fan message board says he's creeped out by fans.

CJ trying the 1B line, almost gets it by, but G3 it is. Pierre advances

Pierre opens the game with a single up the middle.

Lineup vs CHC: Pierre, LF Retherford, 2B Konerko, DH Jones, CF Kotsay, 1B Teahen, 3B Castro, C De Aza, RF Lillibridge, SS (no, really) Harrell starting for the Sox, Dempster for Cubs

Game in Vegas about to get underway. One of my AAP's, Dan Remenowsky, is with the team in Vegas, so I'm hoping we get to see him. This is my first game actually watching on TV of the year.

QUOTE (kapkomet @ Mar 12, 2010 -> 07:14 PM) Ok, that's pretty much a given. The majority of Americans do not want a comprehensive government bill. As I've said over and over, the bill is a government takeover of health care whether it's called "public option", "dumbass supercalifragiliciousexpelodocious screw you Americans", "eat s*** Republicans", or "Democrats know what's best no matter what". Call it anything you want, but people know enough to understand that it's a government takeover in a place where it doesn't belong. When the government MANDATES you to buy a specific good or service, it has gone too far. Just curious... do you feel the same way about car insurance? I know its not exactly the same situation, but, it is in fact required to drive in any state. Do you like or dislike that? And for what reasons?

QUOTE (The Ginger Kid @ Mar 12, 2010 -> 04:13 PM) what happened for those of us flying blind? ^^

I've only bought one official jersey, ever - Joe Crede, in the black jersey, w/ the WS patch. Still wear it, with no shame at all. Every year, I get a custom shirt shop t-shirt of some player I like that year. Much cheaper. Often, its one of the obscure ones that I like that no one else has a shirt for, like Ross Gload or Ehren Wassermann. But this year, I think I may go with Teahen. We'll see.

QUOTE (Y2HH @ Mar 12, 2010 -> 10:38 AM) If they rip out all their back room deals and other such nonsense, the bill would be half the size, and largely more understandable. Nothing should be in this bill EXCEPT matters concerning the reform of health care. That would be a good start at cutting down the size of the bill in an of itself. This I agree with. Getting rid of earmarks is good, but it won't help with all the B.S. that gets slapped into unrelated bills, which is bad on multiple levels. I don't know how we could do it, but I'd love to see some sort of truth-in-legislation work done, so that a Health Care bill is 100% about... you know... Health Care.

QUOTE (SI1020 @ Mar 12, 2010 -> 09:00 AM) I don't believe for a nanosecond that is true. He talks and talks because that's who he is. Often it would be better for everyone, especially Ozzie, if he'd just say nothing. In this hyped up media age that is not going to happen. People try to renew their 15 minutes of fame over and over again. 15 minutes of fame? He's the manager of a major league baseball team and a former all-star shortstop. Kind of already beyond that, don't you think? And by the way, I think its both. He happens to like talking, but he's also smart enough to realize he can use that to his team's advantage if he does it right.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Mar 12, 2010 -> 08:59 AM) My counter-example is going to be 2005. For most of that season we got by with a 6 man bullpen and no one who could go more than 2.1 innings. Hermanson, Politte, Cotts, Marte, Vizcaino, and a rotating spot that went between Takatsu, Jenks, Adkins, etc. We lost exactly 1 game that season because we ran out of arms and Viz's arm turned to jelly after 2.1 innings in extras, and that was with a 6 man pen. A 7 man pen can manage broken-up games as long as your starters don't regularly give those games to the pen. The White Sox starting pitching has been in the top 5 in baseball in innings pitched every single year since 2003, and they're literally 6 deep this year (After checking,t that's a fairly remarkable feat, I can't find another team that has been in the top 5 more than 2 years in a row). If Santos can come in and give us 1 solid inning a lot of times this year, he's worth more to us than carrying Torres as a reliever for now, unless there's a huge issue with someone. Vizcaino went 2 innings on many occasions, McCarthy threw long from the pen a few times, Hermanson did it a few times - which of the current guys can even do that, except on rare occasion? Pena did it twice last year. I think you are pushing your luck if you don't have a guy that can go 2-3 innings with some regularity. The 2005 team did in fact have that, spread out over a few pitchers. Sure, none of them were 3-5 inning guys except McCarthy, but they had a few who went 2 innings with some regularity as a group. I'm not saying its the end of the world - but I do think its an important consideration.

So, after the Dems proposed a bill to ban all earmarks to for-profit companies for a year... and the GOP ups the ante to propose banning ALL earmarks for a year. This kind of one-up battle is one I actually like to see.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Mar 12, 2010 -> 08:16 AM) Are you thinking of long relief? Yes. How many of those guys have any kind of history of going more than an inning with any regularity? Who is going to eat innings when a starter falters? As good as the Sox starting staff is, those situations will still come up on occasion.

With Santos looking good, everyone seems to be of the mind that the pen will look like this: Jenks Putz Thornton Pena Linebrink Williams Santos Anyone else notice what's missing here?