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QUOTE (Jordan4life @ Mar 25, 2011 -> 03:23 PM) Same here. lol. Please don't let this team start 10-17 or some s***. It's gonna get ugly. If this team starts like that, it will be melted down. There is no gray area for them to screw up early this year.

QUOTE (witesoxfan @ Mar 25, 2011 -> 03:39 PM) He would literally have to be hurt for them not to pick it up. I've also yet to see any real indication that Buehrle actually wants to pitch in St. Louis (like recently). He's really only indicated that he's a Cardinals fan. It's too far into the future to speculate. At this point in time, I would give Buehrle a 1% chance of pitching in St. Louis next year, a 94% chance of pitching in Chicago, and a 5% chance of retiring. That sounds about right to me.

QUOTE (Tex @ Mar 25, 2011 -> 03:16 PM) I sometimes look at my students and wonder if . . . There are a couple, that is for sure.

QUOTE (witesoxfan @ Mar 25, 2011 -> 02:44 PM) No it won't. They have Carpenter, Wainwright, Garcia, Westbrook, and Lohse all under team control next year, and only Garcia is cheap. My guess is that Buehrle either resigns with Chicago or retires. I think he'll end up resigning with the Sox regardless of how they finish this year at around $10-12 mill a year on a 2-3 year deal. I'd be down with that, even on the high end. 3 years at $12 million for a guy who you know you are getting 225 IP, plus being in almost every game is totally worth it.

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Mar 25, 2011 -> 02:44 PM) Its been 14 minutes dude, things change.

And maybe if his team hadn't taken a big step back over the course of this year, Howard would be getting more talk for MVP.

In the grand scheme of things dirt isn't really that old... after all the planet took a while to cool and make some land.

QUOTE (beckham15 @ Mar 25, 2011 -> 01:49 PM) what price cut would he take to go to st louis...that an even more interesting question i think St Louis is not going to sign Mark Buehrle. Period. If they resign Pujols, they don't have the money. If they don't they have no reason to invest in a player of that stature as they are going into rebuilding mode.

It will be interesting to see what kind of a price cut Buehrle would take to come back to Chicago. He sure won't come back at $14 million per.

QUOTE (scenario @ Mar 25, 2011 -> 11:38 AM) Marquette is going to bust alot of brackets tonight. I hope so!

It is a different mentality now then it used to be. After Knight, everyone wanted to win now. Then after Sampson came through and pretty well tried to ruin the IU name, it seems to me like people are willing to let Crean take the time to do it right. You really aren't going to turn around a program from top to bottom in a year, two years, or even three. It takes a full generation of basketball time to totally rebuild a program. Remember Indiana had like three scholarship players left after Hurricane Sampson left Bloomington. Unless you are paying under the table, you aren't going to convince an entire roster of star players to go to a program that was decimated. It takes a while to start to rebuild kids faith in that being a destination. That process is slowly happening.

I wonder if they changed the locks too? http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/...hite-House.html

QUOTE (Milkman delivers @ Mar 25, 2011 -> 10:56 AM) For a minute, I thought I was in the Diamond Club and I was really excited. I'd hope to be able to cut and paste that response, but we all know the man at the top doesn't have a spine.

QUOTE (JorgeFabregas @ Mar 25, 2011 -> 10:25 AM) Gavin Floyd is borderline? He's probably a top 20 pitcher in the AL. Give me staff full of borderline starters then.

QUOTE (Athomeboy_2000 @ Mar 25, 2011 -> 10:27 AM) Report: League insists on HGH testing Good.

QUOTE (Athomeboy_2000 @ Mar 25, 2011 -> 09:08 AM) 3 of my 4 are gone. my bracket have been shot to hell since day one Last night finished me off with Duke and Wiscy going down.

QUOTE (Rowand44 @ Mar 24, 2011 -> 10:39 PM) Bye Bye Duke and Bye Bye Bracket. f***.

QUOTE (He_Gawn @ Mar 25, 2011 -> 07:11 AM) Not until after 2012, but after seeing the dribble drive destroy bigten teams in the tournament, I know Crean can succeed with adequate talent. He hasn't had much at IU. And just from what I have seen at IU fans so far, after Sampson, they are willing to give Crean the time to do it right. I really haven't see the kind of complaining that accompanied Mike Davis.

QUOTE (Jordan4life @ Mar 24, 2011 -> 10:34 PM) Stop frontin'. You're the main one that's always got something to say whenever I say something that's not nice. You're the closest thing to Hawk Harrelson on this board and everybody knows it. And like I said, I don't have a problem with that. This board would suck nuts if everybody was like me, just as it would suck if everybody was like you. Heads is the best example I can come up with as far as a Hawk Harrelson clone goes yet he never jumps on me for my opinion and views. You, Tex and Yas have repeatedly taken shots at me and I haven't said anything. At least anything that could be considered combative or defensive. Tex said I was a troll. Did I get smart back? Nope. oldsox creates the bait thread of bait threads and I say jokingly that not even I could find a negative in the Dunn signing. And everybody knows how excited I was when we signed Dunn. But Yas says, "Give it time." Did I get defensive? Nope. I said I would scale back when I talked to northside and I've done just that. You guys are the ones that are out of line. Not me. GMAB. You use my name as an insult all of the time. At least I have the decency to speak directly to you, and not about you.

QUOTE (kjshoe04 @ Mar 24, 2011 -> 10:43 PM) Sorry Mike, but I'm sticking to baseball this year. I also lost my title team last night.

How's it looking for you guys?

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Mar 24, 2011 -> 07:21 PM) Lets be honest, they arent going to see many wins this season, might as well revel in the few they will have. Heck this one might be their biggest win of the season.

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Mar 24, 2011 -> 03:26 PM) I believe its 2012, and will Crean still be there by the time these guys develop? Crean isn't going anywhere now that his guys are getting there. Unless he flops with the next few years, he is there for a long time.

QUOTE (Jordan4life @ Mar 24, 2011 -> 04:51 PM) You mean as far as my every day life goes that doesn't involve the White Sox? Of course not. But 4 missed postseasons in the last 5 years has taken a 'toll' on me. I'm eternally grateful for '05 and to see a WS champion at the ripe old age of 22 when others who had passed away in their 60's and 70's never got to see one makes me cherish it a billion times more. But I was never one of those fans that said, “OH MY GOD! WE'VE WON IT! WE CAN FINISH IN LAST EVERY SEASON UNTIL THE DAY I DIE AND I'LL BE SATISFIED! “ type of fans. 2005 elevated my expectations. By a ton. 2010 rubbed me the wrong way on many levels. The debacle that was the DH situation when it didn't have to be a debacle, the Edwin Jackson trade and another beat-down by the Twins was my boiling point. As far as I'm concerned, the Sox have to 'prove it' to me. We've heard the term “All-In“ for the last 5-6 months. But by my estimation, other than the Dunn signing, which was massive, we're the same team we were last year. This isn't like what the Red Sox or Brewers did. Basically, we're hoping that guys that for the most part sucked last year, don't suck again this year. Now I can't help it that certain posters like yourself, SS2K5 and hi8is are insulted whenever I say something that can't be misconstrued as holy optimism. You guys get on my nerves just as much as I do yours. But I don't say s***. That's your right. I only say something when you reply to me for the most part. I lauded the Adam Dunn signing and you can google the thread if you don't believe me. But I'm not going to pretend that I have faith in a Phillip Humber just because he's a White Sox. I'm not going to pretend to like any move the team makes just because it's the White Sox. I didn't like the Crain/Ohman signings. Does that mean I want them to suck so I can say I was right? I'd have to be a loser of epic proportions to want that. If that makes me evil then so be it. You don't say s***? Dude you mention me, on your own, at least once a week. You have been obsessed with me for a while now.

QUOTE (The Critic @ Mar 24, 2011 -> 04:34 PM) I hated all six of those designs. I didn't even bother to vote for any of them - I actually preferred the collared shirts to any of those Astros-obsessed monstrosities. I was thrilled when they dropped that uniform, even if the new ones had the Campbell's Soup "C" on the cap. I thought I was the only one who felt that way. I hated that uni, and I still do to this day.