southsider2k5

I still can't believe I actually saw that inning happen. Wow. Was that us?

Wow, Joe Nathan pulled a Linebrink. Two outs, no one out, to two homers and two walks.

QUOTE (Kalapse @ Sep 2, 2009 -> 11:52 AM) Position player wise (since it'd be tough for the pen to get any worse) what players that you really want to see retained might play poorly enough down the stretch that it spells their departure from the team? Pierzynski, Rios, Ramirez, Beckham and Quentin aren't going anywhere (Nix and Getz are likely safe as well). Konerko? Dye? Podsednik? I think Jas is saying if players that we are depending on for next year, which is a good chunk of the roster, perform badly enough that we plummet down the standings many people might not renew based on those some players potentially sucking again next year.

QUOTE (SoxPride56 @ Sep 2, 2009 -> 11:39 AM) What picks our protected? Isn't it top 13? Top 15

QUOTE (Kalapse @ Sep 2, 2009 -> 11:34 AM) And that 1 pick just happened to be in the top 10. The Sox's last 4 top 10 picks have been Gordon Beckham, Alex Fernandez, Frank Thomas and Jack McDowell. So their track record for top 10 picks is actually rather impressive. Is a large percentage of the season ticket base really going to renew if the Sox go .500 (I really can't see this team performing any better) from here on out as opposed to .300? 80 wins looks a lot more promising than 70, especially with a guy like Jake Peavy on the horizon. Its a lot harder to sell tickets for a mythical guy that might be here in 2012 or so. We all know that the season ticketholder base means everything to Jerry and the board going forward.

QUOTE (Chisoxfn @ Sep 2, 2009 -> 11:25 AM) Plus you finish strong and it also shows you have a good team and it ensures we don't just entirely blow this thing up. Small changes are needed and I think Kenny knows that. We should get a shot at a pretty good player picking in the top 15 anyway and I expect us to be in that spot. Not to mention what it does to our season ticket base, which in the long run is almost more important than our draft pick when it comes to deciding what the future of the Sox looks like. Let's not forget we have had exactly one good first round pick in the last 15 years or so. That's not very good odds.

I am curious to see if that forkball even works in the thin air up in Colorado.

QUOTE (Chisoxfn @ Sep 2, 2009 -> 10:55 AM) Kind of cool, but the first article was linked by Scott Reifert. http://whitesoxpride.mlblogs.com/ http://www.chicagonow.com/blogs/sports/200...-to-soxnet.html I knew I liked Scott for a reason... he has good taste in webpages

QUOTE (LosMediasBlancas @ Sep 2, 2009 -> 10:46 AM) Seems like we've been hearing 'younger and more athletic' for a while now. And we have been going that way for a couple of years now.

http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/notebook?page=bbtn

QUOTE (Tex @ Sep 2, 2009 -> 09:08 AM) As anyone mentioned this thought . . . Hey Kenny, It's Jim, you know your DH? Any chance of getting me on a contender this season? Judging by the reports of how Jimmy was acting, not a chance.

Not necesarily, but they have been pretty quiet about him.

QUOTE (Soxbadger @ Sep 1, 2009 -> 10:50 PM) Yeah LA is going to risk $10mil on Thome being a pinch hitter. Not really thinking that article through at all. And that is only if we finish in the top half of baseball, which isn't looking good right now.

I loved the skit the other day with Hawk pushing the button to blow the place up. I'd pay money to do it myself.

Glad to see him on the way up. I wonder if he or Torres is getting the starts?

QUOTE (YASNY @ Sep 2, 2009 -> 07:08 AM) Tyler Flowers' rep when we acquired him was good bat but not very good defensively. Well, how about this little note in the Shut Down Peavy article at the Trib site? Kinda caught me off guard, but it seems he's put in his due diligence defensively and it's paid off for him. I am hoping it means he has worked hard and improved, and that the award isn't like a gold glove in the majors.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Sep 2, 2009 -> 08:22 AM) As far as I can tell, it looks like Chet Lemon is the all time leader in CF with 73. Scratch that. Make it Jim Landis with 83.

As far as I can tell, it looks like Chet Lemon is the all time leader in CF with 73.

QUOTE (son of a rude @ Sep 1, 2009 -> 09:38 PM) they banged in 2000 and i was born 9 months later

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Sep 1, 2009 -> 05:24 PM) This sort of thing makes me laugh, because it really exposes the lack of understanding of many on both sides of the issue. On the one hand, you have "environmentalists" (many who, in my view, really don't understand what that means), who think that by buying a hybrid, that means the improvement in lowering emissions and fuel usage is pure "profit" in terms of lowering environmental impact. This is delusional. Any new technology of this sort will always result in some number of unintended (or even intended) negative consequence (cost), in exchange for the payoff. The need for the batteries in these things to have certain metals in them means more mining of those substances, higher demand, and rising prices in them. Just the natural consequence. But on the other hand, you have the people who seem adamantly against any sort of progress towards improving the environment, that they enjoy pointing gleefully at any sort of downfall in the attempts. So, they see this consequence, and say "see, it doesn't work!!!" Which of course is absurd. Of course it works, but there is an offset. Heck, even solar energy will probably be shown later to have some sort of negative consequence. What the eeyores fail to acknowledge though, is the same thing the enviro-whackos fail to acknowledge - that there are two sides to the equation. There are gains, but the gains have costs. And its not a liner function either, its curved - things will get better as the technology matures, and even if you just "break even" in terms of environmental consequence, you are making good ground towards doing better. Its taking a short term bad for the larger long term good. Also throw into this an X factor in properly evaluating the impact - that increased mining and metal costs, when compared to lowering emissions and fuel usage, is not a true apples-to-apples comparison. So, there will always be subjectivity. To me, the increased mining for certain metals is a very small price to pay for the lowering of oil use and emissions, because the overall impact of the positives on the lives of most Americans is far greater than slightly more expensive nickel and a couple extra holes in the ground. That, however, is an opinion. So go wild, all you wing nuts - here is your ammo for lobbing nonsense across the aisle. Sure would be nice if we could see the other side from there. It probably has something to do with constantly being told that what you believe in somehow makes you less of a person. Plus it isn't like we don't always here the screaming stories about depletion and extinctions being generated. Heck I could even mention all of similiar times people take one story about one, or even a few, religious people who do something wrong, and that is used to indict entire faiths and dogmas. In other words it happens here all of the time.

Any chance that Hudson is coming up now?

QUOTE (Disco72 @ Sep 1, 2009 -> 06:04 PM) Nicely played! Nice work indeed.

QUOTE (iamshack @ Sep 1, 2009 -> 07:37 PM) Yeah, you have a definite issue with him. You know, there are 6-7 other players failing consistently on our team. Perhaps you could pay more attention to them. Forget it, he's rolling.

QUOTE (elrockinMT @ Sep 1, 2009 -> 02:59 PM) Is there any playoff stuff happening for teams other than Charlotte? I think I read 4 of our 6 minor league teams are in the playoffs.

QUOTE (SoxAce @ Sep 1, 2009 -> 02:57 PM) :lolhitting I just hope someone picks me.