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QUOTE (Soxy @ Jun 1, 2009 -> 10:12 AM) It's true--I don't understand how people are pro-life and pro-death penalty. I know lots of people are, but it's always baffled me. I agree 100%.

Two words Be Honest... No show, no extra showing off. Take it seriously and be honest.

QUOTE (GoSox05 @ May 31, 2009 -> 07:05 PM) No the American version of them. You know wonderful people like Pat Robertson and Randall Terry. Altough i'm sure Johnny Walker has similar views on the subject. Blue label or red label?

QUOTE (ChiSox_Sonix @ Jun 1, 2009 -> 07:44 AM) Well it isnt if you listen to the wackos who want you to believe the government is fluorinating (word?) the water to control population pretty soon. Unless they are Floridating us, then we just won't know how to use a ballot or drive in the left lane without having a turn signal remaining on while driving under the speed limit.

QUOTE (BearSox @ May 31, 2009 -> 08:41 PM) I disagree. Josh handles the breaking balls the best, and when he's behind in the count, he's gonna see a lot of breaking balls low and over the plate or away. For instance, his hit today vs. Greinke was a curve low on a 1-2 count. That's a pitch he's always been able to handle. I don't get why pitchers don't challenge him up and in with fastball more often. If I was a pitcher, every time I got 2 strikes on him, I'd challenge with a fastball on the inner portion of the plate above the belt. He can't hit that pitch if it's over 90 mph. As for not being able to hit the meatball right down the middle on 2-0, 2-1, 3-1, it's mainly because he's afraid to pull the trigger, IMO. Yes, his swing is long and he has slow bat speed which makes it a lot tougher. But the whole world knows a fastball is coming, but Fields doesn't pull the trigger until it's a mili-second to late and he fouls it away. His long swing and slow bat speed come into play when he has 2 strikes on him. He's up there trying to protect, and when he gets that fastball, his very late and rarely makes contact if it's over 90 mph. Normal hitters see a lot of breaking balls. Guys that can't hit a fastball, get a fastball. Fields gets lots of fastballs in breaking ball counts. The guy has a breaking ball pace swing. I know you don't like the guy and all, so fear makes your point of view look better, but with as long as of a swing as he has, its obvious why he can't catch up to a major league fastball right now.

QUOTE (Pods70Rowand33 @ Jun 1, 2009 -> 07:12 AM) I recently purchased A Briefer History of Time. Have you read A Brief History of Time? It wasn't very "brief:

Happy Birthday man

We had a heck of a storm go through at about 5 am. Its rare to get them at that time for us.

QUOTE (JPN366 @ Jun 1, 2009 -> 07:28 AM) B'ham's division lead is slipping and Mobile is catching up. There's 19 games left in the first half, the Barons need all the good mojo they can get. Wow With the start they got off to, I didn't think anyone would be close to them.

Very nice work as usual!

QUOTE (wilmot825 @ May 31, 2009 -> 05:05 PM) I dont understand why he can never crush that 2-0 or 3-1 pitch His swing is too long. It is not a coincidence that he makes he best contract with two strikes when he shortens up.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ May 31, 2009 -> 08:21 PM) Are you kidding? Everyone wants to play for the Cubs. That's the greatest place to play in the world! Well except for that whole problem of winning when it matters...

QUOTE (BearSox @ May 31, 2009 -> 12:50 PM) puh-lease. You can't honestly sit there and tell me we couldn't have offered anything better than Matt Joyce. If the Rays actually thought Matt Joyce was going to be a starting caliber RF, their stupider than I thought. You don't trade pitchers with Jackson's stuff who's shown he can be at least decent for players like Matt freaking Joyce. It was just an incredibly stupid trade by the Rays, especially if they thought Matt Joyce would be the answer in RF. If anything, they already had a very similar player to Matt Joyce on the roster, Gabe Gross. Look at some of the other numbers besides OPS and ISO (I don't even know what ISO is and I really couldn't give two s***s). Joyce's career minor league average is .277. Wow! He averaged 10 homers a year! He's a real slugger from RF! His K:BB is 2:1! From looking at his numbers and what I've seen of him with the Tigers, at best he'll be a Gabe Gross type of player. That ain't bad, but trading Edwin Jackson for that is beyond retarded. Sonnastine should have been the pitcher they traded this offseason, and Sonnastine for Joyce would have made a ton more sense. However, I don't know what was going on through the heads of GM's around the league. Who would we have sent to Tampa Bay that is comparable, WITHOUT adding salary to Tampa?

Great game and a great series by the boys. For the second night in a row, we score a lot of runs late to win a game. Enjoy the plane ride home oh yea EAT s*** KANSAS CITY!!!!

QUOTE (santo=dorf @ May 30, 2009 -> 07:52 PM) Crede was hurt again. Where's our Lirian.....oh. Carmona keeps showing how 2007 was a fluke. His contract: 2009: $2.75 million, 2010: $4.9 million, 2011: $6.1 million, 2012: $7 million club option, 2013: $9 million club option, 2014: $12 million club option, 2015: Free Agent QUOTE (santo=dorf @ May 30, 2009 -> 07:56 PM) More cash burned by the genius Shapiro. They released Soxtalk favorite David Dellucci pissing away what, $11 million? Travis Hafner: 2009: $11.5 million, 2010: $11.5 million, 2011: $13 million, 2012: $13 million, 2013: $13 million club option w/$2.75 million buyout, 2014: Free Agent When fans start talking about large extentions for Sox players early in their careers, this is the big danger right here.

It's not even a race right now. It is nice to see Mark Buehrle off of the best start of his career though. If he can keep it up, and have Grienke fall to earth. Maybe Mark can add some hardware to his trophy case.

The Sox are also 6-2 since Peavy turned us down.

After what Brian has proved, I am running him out there five days a week until TCQ comes back. After that, I wait and see how Pods is doing, because the lead off hitter part has been a real sticking point.

QUOTE (Jenks Heat @ May 31, 2009 -> 09:24 AM) I have no problem tipping the ole cap to Zack at this point in time. 4-1 thus far on the road trip is great. Last night was one of the best games I have see all season from them. A loss today I am fine with. I read where Zach had an era under one after 10 starts. This is the first time it has happened in the AL since 1958, and the NL since 1966.

QUOTE (witesoxfan @ May 31, 2009 -> 07:40 AM) Haven't seen Greinke pitch, but usually when pitchers are going as well as he is, they are throwing anywhere between 66% and 75% first pitch strikes. And with his control thus far, I'd say he's doing that. Simply logic says swing early to hit those pitches. Of course, if you don't hit those pitches, he's going 9 innings again, which is a catch-22 in the fullest regard. I still say you swing early. BTW, Alexei in the 2-hole... .382/.447/.471/.918. Keep him there. I TOLD YOU SO. They talked about this as their approach today in the Trib to getting Grienke. As a matter of a fact JD had a quote about attacking him before he "got into his grove". Yeah an editor missed that one.

Judging by the lack of control and break on his curveball, I could believe he was throwing 98-99 tonight, because until that last curve, it didn't look like his lollipop curve at all. He was throwing it too hard.

4 runs in the last three innings for a WHITE SOX WINNER!!!

QUOTE (BearSox @ May 30, 2009 -> 02:48 PM) It's a start, but I'd still like to see him turn on more fastballs. His swing however looked a lot better yesterday and he was more aggressive at bat. His best hit was the line drive where he took the pitch he got and went with it into RF. It was also nice to see him actually hit a rolling breaking ball for once instead of fouling it away. Actually I like what he is doing with the fastball now, and that is going to RC.

QUOTE (tommy @ May 30, 2009 -> 02:42 PM) Podsednik LF Ramirez SS Dye RF Thome DH Konerko 1B AJ C Anderson CF Getz 2B Fields 3B The Man pitching. Hopefully Oz rides this line up into the ground.