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QUOTE(winodj @ Apr 19, 2005 -> 07:58 PM) Whats the score? Stuck at work and we don't get CSN+ in NJ anyway. No score through 2 1/2 innings. Sox coming to bat in the bottom of 3rd.

QUOTE(winodj @ Apr 19, 2005 -> 07:57 PM) My brother honestly thinks that its all the fault of those FreeMasons. Those are some pretty funny stories too. There are those who believe the free masons are going to bring down Castro. Seriously.

Joe Mauer recognizes off speed stuff better than any young hitter since a young Frank or Bonds.

QUOTE(winodj @ Apr 19, 2005 -> 07:49 PM) Wasn't that Saddam Hussein or something? Jack Van Impe predicted the apocalypse to be sometime in the late 1980s. But he's not Catholic so... I'm trying to remember. I read all of that stuff while I was in HS, and have forgotten all but bits and pieces of it. My grandma was into conspiracy theories, and she used to have me read some pretty wild stuff.

Nice piece of hitting by Joe to use the hole at first. 10 game hitting streak

Didn't Nostradomus say something to the same extent, or is that priest the one that I would have heard say that? Details are fuzzy, but it seems like I have heard all of that before, and it seems like it was in connection to the 3rd antiChrist (the guy with the red turban IIRC).

Anyone else see the Everett foul/fair ball? I couldn't tell if it caught the line or not. It looked foul at first glance, but I couldn't tell for sure.

QUOTE(whitesoxfan56789 @ Apr 19, 2005 -> 07:02 PM) CSN+ is channel 53 for me. I dont know if that will help anyone else. 31 for me

QUOTE(Controlled Chaos @ Apr 19, 2005 -> 03:52 PM) I really think he needs to pick up the pace... I found this from an article written last year about MB's fast pace and agree 100% "Most guys who work slow are out there walking around, thinking about a bad pitch they just made, or a bad play behind them," says Tigers pitching coach Bob Cluck. "They tend to dwell on the negative, and that's not how you want to pitch." A slow approach can take away a pitcher's advantage of setting up a hitter. Pitchers aim to keep hitters off-balance by mixing their pitches, such as following a fastball with a change-up. But when the White Sox's Jose Contreras dawdles between deliveries, the effect his 95-mph fastball can have on his split-finger fastball is lost. Cluck puts the cutoff at 13 seconds for one pitch being able to affect the next one. "It would seem to be an individual thing depending on the hitter," Cluck says of the 13-second figure, "but I do a lot of reading and have seen scientific evidence that if you throw a fastball and follow with a change-up, the faster you can get the pitch up there, the bigger the difference will seem." Grip-it-and-rip-it attitude a winning formula He does need to pick up the pace. If he would get shaking of AJ, he would be fine.

No BMac?

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7555671/

OK I got the last two update on there.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7560186/

LMAO!!! Even these guys are adding a E

QUOTE(3E8 @ Apr 19, 2005 -> 02:05 PM) This might be the 4th thread about the OBP ranking. I wonder how the Sox rank in threads about OBP?

QUOTE(winodj @ Apr 19, 2005 -> 01:55 PM) There's been a lot of speculation about the kind of pope the college of Cardinals were going to elect and how that would reflect on the Church in general. For those of us who grew up in the faith and have felt alienated from it because of specific stands that a diocese or a Church in general has taken. Serious question. Do you honestly believe we will ever see the Catholic Church move towards the middle on issues like sex and sexuality?

This was Benedict XVI's short speech

Jim Rome=Kotex Boy + a better face for TV

QUOTE(FlaSoxxJim @ Apr 19, 2005 -> 01:09 PM) You're not accounting for 'propagation of error.' A wayward husband may indeed have contracted HIV through "immoral" sex out of wedlock, but what is the wife's sin that she must under penalty of her faith have unprotected sex with her HIV+ husband when the sin was not hers? And honestly, you can rail in chorus with Ratzenberger about the evils of liberal church reform, but do you truly believe all sins are equal? Sex with a condom so I don't contract a deadly disease might as well be murdering someone? If you are refined enough to make the subtle distinction between the two 'evils', then isn't it selling God a little short to suggest He can't see such a difference? I'm not identifying with anyone here. Please don't lump me in with the Catholics. I am just explaining how that stuff is interpreted. And to answer the second part, sin is more than just an act of wrong doing. At the root of every sin is taking the leadership away from God, and how he has commanded you to live your life. It isn't how big or small the sin is, it is all about breaking away from God. The bible also makes it clear that if you have committed one sin, you have committed them all.

QUOTE(sox-r-us @ Apr 19, 2005 -> 01:12 PM) The stats are after 12 games not 9 Again, if Crede keeps up his recent streak for the majority of the season, then we are fine. But if not, we better at least see what we need to give up for Vinny. 9 games worth of road stats are all that is being represented so far.

QUOTE(sox-r-us @ Apr 19, 2005 -> 01:10 PM) All players (especially when young) look at stats. That does not make them selfish. WHen you have the talent to have the gaudy stats like Thomas does, it can only help the team win. What he can do, only a few others can around baseball. While you need role players to win, you cannot win without talent. I guess Babe Ruth was selfish too since he called his own HR at Wrigley. Again, you are wrong. Wow, did you even read any of that? What part of... Is so difficult to understand???

QUOTE(sox-r-us @ Apr 19, 2005 -> 12:58 PM) You are so full of crap. Frank has always been about winning. Show some respect to the best Sox player ever. You missed a couple of paragraphs in that story...

QUOTE(FlaSoxxJim @ Apr 19, 2005 -> 01:00 PM) It's better to transmit HIV, get AIDS and die than to use a condom in the eyes of the Catholic God? Actually if you want to be technical, they are both sins, and equally offensive in the eyes of God. (assuming that the AIDS was transmitted through "immoral" sex, which it is the vast majority of the time)

Some fun facts... -Ratzinger was the oldest cardinal to be named pope since Clement XII, who was also 78 when he became pope in 1730. -He is the first German pope since Victor II (1055-1057). -His choice of name seemed intriguing because the last Pope Benedict, who reigned from 1914 to 1922, subtly repudiated the strict Vatican orthodoxy practiced under his predecessor Pius X, said former Vatican diplomat John-Peter Pham. Benedict XV also tried in vain to end World War I, opened the Vatican to international diplomacy and sent so much wartime aid to Turkey that Istanbul erected a statue to him, he said. -It was only the third time in a century that a pope had been chosen on the second day of a conclave. -It was one of the fastest elections in the past century: Pope Pius XII was elected in 1939 in three ballots on one day, while Pope John Paul I was elected in 1978 in four ballots in one day. John Paul II's successor was elected after either four or five ballots over two days. -Ratzinger served John Paul II since 1981 as head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. In that position, he has disciplined church dissidents and upheld church policy against attempts by liberals for reforms. -Ratzinger won a two-thirds majority or at least 77 votes to become pope. -The 20th century's eight conclaves lasted from two to five days, with the average just over three days.