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QUOTE(Yossarian @ Sep 16, 2005 -> 02:07 PM) PHG is doing his best imitation of Joe Stalin. Too bad, there are lots of great features on that site. That is true. They have some excellent content, such as pictures and articles. They are just amazing at the rate that they are driving people off at an incredible rate.

QUOTE(nitetrain8601 @ Sep 16, 2005 -> 01:51 PM) Damnit, only if we could get him. He'll probably be dealt to Boston since I don't think Boston is going to resign Damon or maybe even the Yankees who are feenin' for a CF. There is no doubt in my mind that Hunter will land either with the Yankees, Red Sox, or Cubs.

QUOTE(captain54 @ Sep 16, 2005 -> 01:57 PM) Was a member of the White Sox Interactive board since 2000 and was banned for telling the mods that their board wasn't nearly as negative as the Yankee/Met boards... Ouch. Well, welcome to Soxtalk anyways

QUOTE(nitetrain8601 @ Sep 16, 2005 -> 01:49 PM) Isn't it fair to say that if you have a tired arm or injury that it messes up your mechanics? If he had a tired arm, it would show up on the radar gun, and it hasn't so far. Also I am not sure what kind of mechanical problem due to a tired arm would cause you to slow your arm motion on a change up, but not on a fastball? His fastball is still hitting 89-91 consistantly on the gun, so he is still throwing his normal speeds.

QUOTE(nitetrain8601 @ Sep 16, 2005 -> 01:32 PM) Maybe pitching all those innings finally got to him. He has pitched the most innings since 2001, remember that. Guys can't consistantly pitch as many innings as he has for years without getting some type of injury or tired arm. This may be the year that he has it. Who knows? Many guys have put much harder innings on their arms for much longer periods of time, and still been fine. Roger Clemens is still doing it at 15 years older than Buehrle. And keep in mind a speed difference that you get from a tired arm isn't going to affect a guy like Mark Buehrle nearly as much as a guy who has a big fastball. Buehrle is all about placement and deception. Everyone in the world knows that his pitches aren't that great on their own. Its not like Bobby Jenks who can tell you his fastball is coming and you would still miss it. If you know Buehrle is throwing a fastball, it is pedestrian at best. The thing that makes Buehrle hard to hit is not knowing whether you are getting a 90 mph fastball, or a 76 mph change up out of the same motion and release point. It is the speed differential that gets you, not the speed itself. If he had a dead arm, the speed on his fastball would be down into the mid 80s and its not.

QUOTE(Balta1701 @ Sep 16, 2005 -> 01:08 PM) So, I'm not in the mood to give this its own thread...but did anyone else think Bush's collar looked quite odd during his speech last night...like he didn't have it buttoned properly and 1 side was longer than the other? Maybe my eyes are playing tricks on me...take a look: I think the one side is just propped up higher against his neck.

Seriously how many times has this exact question been asked, answered, and printed in the papers? :sleep

QUOTE(Yossarian @ Sep 16, 2005 -> 12:54 PM) Much better you than that obscene cretin Mike North. I fancied myself as a pretty good announcer back in the day, thank you very much The Manchester High School Squires, and the Manchester College Lady Spartans liked me well enough anyway

I went back and got out a Sox hat that I hadn't wore in a long time, and dug out my spring road Sox jacket to get back a little bit of that April and May luck. Hopefully it works

f*** it. Hire me. [/thread]

QUOTE(aboz56 @ Sep 16, 2005 -> 11:49 AM) Too bad we'd have no shot to get him, I'd deal for him in a heartbeat. f*** Yeah!!! How stellar would an OF with Hunter and Rowand be? Too bad it will never happen.

QUOTE(WSoxMatt @ Sep 16, 2005 -> 11:28 AM) Last I read that was going to be a no go cuz our baseball ratings for the Sox actually suck again this year...lus arent the Cubs/Cards supposed to be on, you know as a whole, Chicago would rather see that game! Actually if that were true, Fox would be more likely to release the game, because they DON'T want competition, which is why they negotiated an exclusive time slot on Saturday in the first place. If they didn't think they would hurt their own ratings they would have released the game a long time ago.

Last I heard, they were still negotiating to get Fox to allow them to broadcast in the Chicago market only.

QUOTE(Balta1701 @ Sep 16, 2005 -> 10:46 AM) At least I'm not the only one who thinks Mark's problems are almost totally in his mechanics, and that it's not his arm being worn out or something else that wouldn't make sense given the pitcher we're talking about. Actually it was your posts about his historical innings pitched that finished convincing me it was mechanical. If this were his first year of throwing a bunch of innings that would be one thing. He is way over 900 innings in the last 4 full years, so he is used to the work. Plus Mark was getting hit way to hard to be just having a bad outing. The Royals knew what was coming, that was obvious to me.

I'll sign up sometime this weekend. Save me a spot! I have a busy weekend so it might not be right away.

QUOTE(DBAH0 @ Sep 16, 2005 -> 10:00 AM) It took over 2 years for Neal Cotts to get it right, right (gulp)? Jose Contreras had the problem of tipping his splitter for about a year and a half. It happens.

QUOTE(southsideirish71 @ Sep 16, 2005 -> 09:32 AM) You mean to tell me with all the scouts we have, video tape review, and the fact that we have a few coaches and a catcher watching all this, they cannot see this and remedy it. If you are tipping this much it should be easy to see then for our staff. If DJ can see it, our staff can see it. Fixing a mechanical flaw isn't as easy as posting on a message board, or we would all be ace pitchers.

"Lennon" the musical shutdown after only 49 preformances, playing to only about 40% of capacity. http://www.cnn.com/2005/SHOWBIZ/Music/09/1...g.ap/index.html

QUOTE(Kid Gleason @ Sep 16, 2005 -> 09:10 AM) pshaw...what can YOU do??? Yeah Flaxx, as soon as that triple bock is here...I'm making me a few phone calls. You'll be buying yourself out of "playtime" with a bottle of The Beast. Good thing is that one drink and your assualter will be hammered off his ass. Ah you busted me. My dirty secret it out, I am nothing but a paper tiger admin

Mark Buehrle is slowing his arm motion on his change up. It has nothing to do with not being an Ace or being tired. When you know what is coming, the odds are much better that you are going to hit it. He needs to go back to the tape he watch of Santana and figure out what he was doing to tip off that pitch.

QUOTE(Tony82087 @ Sep 15, 2005 -> 03:56 PM) Why,and more importantly HOW, are you still here? I wanted to adress this mess from yesterday. We have been more strict on personal attacks lately, and many of you have noticed that. Many more posts have been being edited, and some people have been suspended. That being said, this behavior yesterday went way past that. There was an obvious attempt to troll and to start fights and arguements. This goes way past the personal attack policy, and his punishment has reflected that. As always if there are any questions or concerns you can PM me or anyone else on staff here. Thanks SS

QUOTE(Kid Gleason @ Sep 16, 2005 -> 08:37 AM) I'm telling. Don't make me ban you

That was one helluva post TLAK!!!

It hasn't at all. I have a new house, and a baby on the way, and baseball is never going to stress me out. I have much more important things to worry about than a game.

QUOTE(FlaSoxxJim @ Sep 15, 2005 -> 05:33 PM) To those who got burned out of the Beatles, let me share my sickness with you. I had a conference this week in Naples Florida, four hours from home. I got in the car on Sunday and cued up the playlist "EMI 217" on my iPod. That's a playlist of all 217 officially released Beatles songs in chronological British release order, with the non-album single and EP releases placed between album track listings where they should be, etc. I pulled up to the hotel just as "I'm Only Sleeping (song #108 in the chronology) played out. Three days later, I get in the car to drive home and start by cueing up George's "Love You To", the next song on the Parlaphone/EMI version of Revolver, and drove home listening to the rest of thee catalog. I admit, I've been burned out from the studio recordings at times before as well, but then I do a HammerHead and listen to bootlegs and alternate versions for a while. If you got burned out listening to the later (Pepper and beyond) stuff, go and put the early early stuff on and it will blow you away how good they were from the get-go. I grew up an avowed late-era BeatleHead and thought all the Beatlemania screaming girl stuff was pretty corny. But now I honestly think I might like the early stuff best of all. My favorite Beatle song of the last year or so is the almost unknown "Ask Me Why" (note, not the same as "Tell Me Why"), from their very first British LP. Brilliant. Oh PLEEEEEEEEEEEEASE tell me that you have a copy of that you can forward to me???