southsider2k5

All we can do now is pray that the number one offensive line is way better than last year, and what ever scrub is back there, gets sometime to do something.

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Mar 1, 2005 -> 07:12 PM) I am going to reach deep into my hat and pick Montgomery Texas's own Brandon Allen. (mostly because I lived down there for a couple of summers) Allen is having a pretty solid season in half season Great Falls. Projected to a full season he is looking at about 30 HRs and 100 RBI at 19 years old in his first full season of professional baseball. http://www.minorleaguebaseball.com/app/mil...milb&pid=450315

QUOTE(sti3 @ Aug 13, 2005 -> 10:06 AM) I think Steve8473 or whatever his name is is trolling you quite effectively. He even put "tee hee" at the end of his post and you still bit. And judging by many of his recent posts, trolling seems like a pretty solid word. http://www.soxtalk.com/forums/index.php?ac...sult_type=posts

QUOTE(knightni @ Aug 13, 2005 -> 01:16 AM) Why would Cincy want Young and Rogowski? They have plenty of 1b/OF position players. They would want SP most likely. Possibly Tracey, Baj and Liotta. To free up $40 million in payroll to get some major league pitchers, which is what they really need.

QUOTE(Gene Honda Civic @ Aug 12, 2005 -> 09:33 PM) Mark Buehrle, staff ace, since July1. IP H R K BB RA/9 Mark Buehrle 52.0 65 34 23 12 5.88 What is his ERA? Has he had that many unearned runs?

QUOTE(GBlum27 @ Aug 12, 2005 -> 09:29 PM) What makes you think they will be worse than last year? Same team +Moose +Benson +Miller +Garza +Urlacher +Mike Brown +Tillman +Azumah The defense has to stay healthy, otherwise this is the same zero offense team from last year.

QUOTE(DukeNukeEm @ Aug 12, 2005 -> 09:28 PM) Trial By Fire. Worked for Big Ben. Working for Manning. Worked for Cade McNoun, worked for Craig Krenzel...

QUOTE(AddisonStSox @ Aug 12, 2005 -> 09:26 PM) Who's to say we won't have the worst record in the NFL? Without a passing game, they sure as hell won't have a running game. Hopefully the O line is healthy enough to give Muhammed sometime to catch the ball, otherwise this could be a 3 or 4 win team.

QUOTE(Confederate_48 @ Aug 12, 2005 -> 09:20 PM) Does this mean the end of Grossman in Chicago or does anyone think he will get another shot next year ?? Not a chance. The Bears will bring in another QB next year.

QUOTE(MurcieOne @ Aug 12, 2005 -> 09:19 PM) ........ ............. .............. *sigh* Its time to rip Porkchop.

So does Kurt Kitner make the team now?

QUOTE(fathom @ Aug 12, 2005 -> 09:15 PM) Do you want Jenks as the closer? Personally, I don't want him close to closing games this season (unless we clinch with a few weeks left in the season). Part of being a closer is being able to pitch every night when called upon. I'm not sold on Jenks being able to bounce back quickly. That's my point. Everyone has all but annointed Jenks as the closer, but he still has a lot to learn. These guys have a learning curve, you just can't assume this kid is ready.

Does this mean the Jenks for closer bandwagon has derailed? LMFAO. People make me laugh.

QUOTE(nitetrain8601 @ Aug 12, 2005 -> 08:23 PM) Whatever you do, don't get Game 1 Tix. Chances are Mark Buehrle will choke. QUOTE(nitetrain8601 @ Aug 12, 2005 -> 08:31 PM) You forget who manages this team. Ozzie will ride Buehrle in Game 1 until he gives up 11 runs. Then he'll decide it's time for Jizz to clean up his mess. QUOTE(nitetrain8601 @ Aug 12, 2005 -> 08:40 PM) Freedom of speech. I still have a big thread that I'm making on the subject of Buehrle being overrated around these parts and facts supporting why he isn't a true ace. Mainly because he sucks in big games. Go to bed, kid.

Thunder Thunder THUNDER THUNDERCATS HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

QUOTE(aboz56 @ Aug 12, 2005 -> 05:47 PM) How about not having the event on a week night? We are 74-39. Plus I told you all it was going to be a weeknight, as it was obvious with our record and increases in attendance. The weekends and Mondays are going to be filled, obviously the team is trying to fill Tuesday-Thursday. This should have been no surprise.

QUOTE(SleepyWhiteSox @ Aug 12, 2005 -> 03:13 PM) I think that's meant for ss2k5. He issued the challenge, not me. I completely agree. Nobody said they could do better nor will they be trying to. I just want to point out that I was just giving my opinion on the matter, not necessarily bashing. I think saying if you like or don't like something is fair game, but sometimes it does become bashing when it's out-of-line, and that's uncalled for. And pretty much that is where I draw the line. Some of the problems with this girls writing are insane. Especially when her picture gets posted, and that is used as justification for the opinion that her writing sucks. If you don't like her writing that is fine with me, but the critisisms have been downright ignorant at best. How does how someone looks make them a bad writer? Like I said, for those who think that what Bat-girl does is so bad, anyone can sign up for a blog. Go ahead and post a link for everyone to see, and be sure to post your picture, so we can all see the sexy beast behind the blog. If it is so easy to do, and everyone knows how it should be done do it. Go ahead and use the comparision to playing baseball, but this differs in one respect, and that is the ability to be athletic. If you are smart enough to see what is wrong in her writing, you should be smart enough to write something better. In baseball even if you can recognize what they are doing wrong, you might not have the physical ability to do it better, and writing isn't like that. If you have the ability to understand text well enough to tell someone what is wrong with it, why wouldn't you have the ability to write it better?

QUOTE(SleepyWhiteSox @ Aug 12, 2005 -> 02:23 PM) Silly challenge. I'll make the same challenge to you or anyone that ever insults any baseball player on here to go out and work your way the Big Leagues and do a better job. Writing is her job; it's her profession. Writers get criticized. If you are in a profession that places you in the public eye and counts on the acceptance of an audience in order to be successful, expect criticism from those that don't like your style of doing what you do. I reserve my right to not like her batgirl writings. In my opinion, she's a decent writer, just not when it comes to sports. She crosses the line from witty to stupid and ridiculous in most of the things I've read. Again, my opinion. Of course it is a silly challenge because no one here can do better. And of course, that's the point. If its so easy, how come none of you are doing anything better? You all can make fun of her because of how she looks and how awful her writing is, but no one here can do it any better. All of the sudden everyone who said how amatuerish her writings were have disappeared because they know they couldn't write anything that could carry Bat-girl's jock in a UPS truck. Its always easier to tear something down and be the negative vs putting yourself in the spotlight and actually doing something. And as usual on here, many have opted for the easy road out. Why risk yourself by trying to be proactive, when you can make yourself feel better by tearing someone else down to your level. To be quite honest I would be shocked if anyone here even tried to out-write Bat-girl, and that wouldn't even be if they succeeded at all. I am sure everyone who thought her stuff was weak, won't even give it a try as usual.

I have no idea what any of that means, so I'll just say CONGRATS SOXY!!!

QUOTE(beck72 @ Aug 12, 2005 -> 01:04 PM) Esp with the sox probably locking up guys like AJ, Garland and crede, payroll should increase. We will also be losing at least a chunk of Frank's salary, if not all of Frank and/or Konerko's salaries.

QUOTE(forrestg @ Aug 12, 2005 -> 01:01 PM) Oakland may not be the wild card they may be AL west champions. If they would be AL west champions they would probably play Boston AL east champions. We would play the wildcard and that may be the angels or Cleveland or whoever. If Cleveland is the Wild Card we cannot play them in the first round. If that situation arises, we would play the division winner with the lowest win total.

For those who are interested... with the 54 steals that Pods owns, he is already alone in 3rd place on the all-time White Sox single season steals list. Ahead of him at 56 steals are Luis Aparicio and Wally Moses. The all-time high is Rudy Law's 77 steals in 1983.

QUOTE(Greg Hibbard @ Aug 12, 2005 -> 12:47 PM) Here's the thing though - Cleveland's record against playoff contenders (NYY, Bos, Chi, Oak, LAA) - 15-25 Cleveland's record against all other teams - 48-27 (.640 clip) They play all the other teams 38 out of 47 games. .640 * 38 = 24 wins, 14 losses .375 * 9 = 4 wins, 5 losses (rounding up one win) 28 wins + 63 wins currently = 91 wins. Not to be beating math to death in this thread, but that's kinda scary. Which means we would have to go 17-32 for the Indians to catch us. That isn't really that scary.

QUOTE(fathom @ Aug 12, 2005 -> 12:23 PM) That would be quite the increase in payroll. As much as I would love it, I highly doubt it would get that high. I'd be surprised if we were at 80 million next season. The Sox had an increase of $10 million in payroll with a flat attendance level from 2003 to 2004, but with the just under 20% price increase of tickets figured in, we got just less than a 20% increase in payroll (65mil to 75mil). If you go back for the last few years, the profit level of the team one year, is almost exactly $ for $, what the payroll increase is for the next season. (if you want to test my hypothsis, go back and look at the Forbes reports from the preceding years, and correlate those with the total payroll figures) If we go from just under 2 million fans to 2.4 million fans, even without factoring in the price increases, we are looking at a 20% increase in attendance. A 20% increase in payroll would be about $15 million, which would bump us from 75mil to 90mil. A deep run into the playoffs would also have the effect of giving a huge bump in the season ticket base, which might inspire the team to raise the budget by more than their realized revenue increases.

QUOTE(upnorthsox @ Aug 12, 2005 -> 12:24 PM) Make that, at least two of.... My wet dream is for us to face the Injuns in the ALCS. Yes, two of, even better. Thanks