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QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Jun 1, 2010 -> 08:57 AM) Pods and Pierre are the same in these senses: hitting, gross base stealing numbers, and weak arm. Difference is, Pierre is better in the other areas - defense, base running net value, age curve location, and effort. Therefore in my eyes, Pierre is the better player. I guess I'll take Whoopi. Though I agree that neither one was the best option. Perfect.

QUOTE (SoxFan1 @ Jun 1, 2010 -> 01:46 PM) I don't think Eager is underrated at all. He frustrates the hell out of me offensively most of the time. Versteeg on the other hand, could be a pretty damn good scorer. We saw it last year. Eager is in the NHL to lay the wood on people. Nothing more.

I'm sad to see America the Story of Us is done for at least this season. It was spectacular.

QUOTE (lostfan @ May 31, 2010 -> 04:10 PM) The information was there and had been collected, but a decision had been made some decades before, prior to FDR being president, to de-prioritize funding for cryptographic intelligence. So they had these messages and couldn't really do anything with them, although they had a vague understanding that something big was about to go down, that Japan was strongly considering war, but didn't know when exactly. The code was eventually broken, but it took time and a lot of work. The NSA said in a post-mortem (the NSA didn't get founded until 1952) that if the Army and Navy had been given more resources they'd have cracked the code a lot sooner. FDR really did go out of his way to portray America as an innocent victim that was deliberately deceived by the Japanese Empire though, and the government wasn't caught completely by surprise, but that was mostly to drum up public support, not really a part of any conspiracy. The more I have read about FDR in the time period of 1939 to Dec 6, 1941, the less I agree with that. He talked over and over again about needing the one incident to be able to break down the isolationist movement in the US, and he had been taking us step by step to war, without most of the country realizing it. He himself was busted by the one and only Chicago Tribune days before the Japanese attack that there would need to be millions of troops sent to Europe to defeat Hitler, and that meant us. Everything indicates he wanted it to happen. FDR even lied about the events of a couple of our incidents in the Atlantic with the Nazi's to try to make the case for war more palatable to America. FDR also knew by ordering an oil embargo against Japan, they would have to start attacking either the Dutch East Indies (Britain) or the USSR, which had already been attacked by Germany, to find an oil supply. Heck reading some of the things that FDR and Churchill were talking about during that time period that have been released, it wouldn't surprise me at all if he knew Pearl Harbor was coming ahead of time.

QUOTE (Thunderbolt @ Jun 1, 2010 -> 12:54 PM) Brett Lillibridge as our first “deserved” call-up is a pretty damning declaration on the state of the White Sox minor league organization. Except its not. He wouldn't be here except for an injury.

QUOTE (Thunderbolt @ Jun 1, 2010 -> 10:29 AM) Yes, because if Jayson Nix is know for anything it's his "mediocre to poor defense." At 3b, that might be generous.

I laughed my ass off at the Carcillo hit on his own guy. I loved Kopecky stepping out of the way at the last minute.

QUOTE (kapkomet @ May 31, 2010 -> 07:13 PM) Well, here we go boys. I get the sense that scoring early will be big - I don't think you'll see a ping pong type of scoring game tonight. I also expect the physical play and "grinding" to be critical tonight. Cycling along the boards is going to be a lot bigger tonight. They just showed Burish and Carcillo talking s*** during warmups at the centerline.

QUOTE (kapkomet @ May 31, 2010 -> 03:04 PM) Hopefully someone somewhere has a tape of Vancoiver game one. THAT was the worst playoff game for the 'Hawks. If they get a little overconfident, pop that bad boy in a tv somewhere. The whole team was awful that game. This game at least the 2-3-4 lines were clicking like nobodies business

QUOTE (BearSox @ May 31, 2010 -> 12:31 PM) People really over estimate the amount of strain 10 extra pitches put on an arm. It really is not that big of a deal, especially for any major league pitcher. It depends on what 10 pitches we are talking about and how well conditioned they are.

I don't know how the Cubs can be considered a better team than the Sox with 6 losses in 7 games against Pittsburgh

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ May 31, 2010 -> 04:04 PM) JPN stating over in the FS forum, that the Charlotte announcers mentioned Lillibridge was "removed" from the Charlotte roster, but that its "not a bad thing". Can't be sure what that means, but its possible Teahen is hitting the DL and Lillibridge is heading up. That's exactly what it sounds like. The only other possibility is Gordo going down.

QUOTE (WCSox @ May 31, 2010 -> 04:09 PM) (1) There's no evidence that Beckham is "mentally fragile." (2) There's currently nobody in-house to replace Beckham (Vizquel has an even lower OPS+) (3) There's no point in wasting Beckham's options if there's no better option to replace hit bat in the lineup. 3 strikes and you are out.

QUOTE (BearSox @ May 31, 2010 -> 03:33 PM) There was never anything said about not calling Beckham back up. You send him down until/if he finds his grove then you call him back up. Give 2-4 more weeks and if he doesn't show any signs of improvement vs. MLB pitching after nearly half a season, its time for a change in approach. Vs. MiLB pitching he can possibly find his grove, maybe something can click. People act as if sending a player down means you are giving up on him. If you send him down, that is exactly what you are telling him.

QUOTE (BearSox @ May 31, 2010 -> 03:24 PM) Sending a struggling prospect down isn't unheard of or unrealistic. If this was any other prospect, it wouldn't be an unrealistic idea. But god forbid anyone say anything bad about THE Gordon Beckham! In a season where most people want the team melted down and prospects playing, why would we ship out our top prospect? It has nothing to do with who it is.

I watched an episode on the science of 9-11 conspiracy theories, and in it they said that 50% of people in 1942 thought that FDR knew about Pearl Harbor in advance, in 2003 73% thought that the JFK conspiracy involved our federal government to some extent, and in 2007 33% thought that at very least the US government had some sort of direct detailed knowledge of 9-11, or was even involved in the planning and execution of it. I am curious what everyone else here thinks.

QUOTE (whitesoxfan101 @ May 31, 2010 -> 10:46 AM) The rampant overconfidence among what seems to be the majority of Hawks fans about this series might actually have me even more nervous than the Flyers. I hope the Hawks aren't buying into this. There is no way this team is overconfident after game one. The defense and the top line were as bad as they have been in the entire playoffs.

QUOTE (BearSox @ May 31, 2010 -> 01:12 PM) You brought up how getting sent down hurts confidence. I responded to that idea actually.

QUOTE (BearSox @ May 31, 2010 -> 12:33 PM) You gotta find confidence before you can have it. If that means finding your confidence at Charlotte against weaker pitching, so be it. And like I said earlier, if they are too weak mentally to handle getting sent down when they have clearly been terrible thus far, they are too weak mentally to be in this game then. And let me reiterate, I'm in favor of seeing what happens in the first two weeks or so of June. If they continue to suck though, a different approach has to be applied. Letting them get mauled by MLB pitching all season isn't the answer, IMO. Did I miss where Becks said he wasn't confident?

QUOTE (Jordan4life @ May 31, 2010 -> 12:14 AM) Drew Stubbs is a good example of how letting a guy work through his problems at the big league level can pay dividends. And he doesn't have anywhere near the pedigree Beckham does. I'd go with Robin Ventura as a great example. High draft pick, infielder, great hitter.

QUOTE (AWhiteSoxinNJ @ May 30, 2010 -> 09:07 PM) Wrong, they let Alex Gordon work out his issues in the bigs, got hurt, then sent him to the minors, and now is ruined. Gordon needs to get his confidence back and it's not going to work in the bigs. I've never understood the concept that telling someone they aren't good enough to be here actually helping their confidence.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ May 29, 2010 -> 06:31 PM) Yeah, we should put BP and GS in charge of the immigration services. In a weird sort of way that would be better. At least then you would know that people would have jobs matched up with them when they got here.

Happy Birthday Alex!!!

QUOTE (kapkomet @ May 30, 2010 -> 07:21 PM) http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_gulf_oil_spill_plumes Ok, I say he's full of s***, yet, I can't disagree with the density of oil. Question is, though, are they changing the density and/or chemical composition with the dispersants? I am self admittedly not a scientist, but doesn't oil float on top of water?