FlaSoxxJim

Rarely in June, I hear :-)

ESPN1000 coverage on all games with Rooney and Farmer –– ESPN via mlbradio is the only way I get 90% of the games.

Willie!!!!

I'll just try to keep my head in the game. Nice hit Josh!

Dang, cw, I didn't know there was a moratorium on cliches... I can't make any promises, but I'll just go out and play it one game at a time, and – Good Lord willing – I'll be able to keep away from the cliches.

Way, Mark B! That's helping yourself out!!!

Np Frank because they are trying to load up lefty bats against Clement I assume.

And we survived another nail-biting Billy Koch 9th - scary to think I am getting used to those... Now, the PK pinch-hit into double-play with no outs and bases loaded and blowing a chance at a huge inning... that I refuse to get used to.

Dad will be single the night of the All-Star Game at least, out with his sons (something he promised to do with us back in '83 btw, but then was amazed at how hard it was to get tix. I had to do it this time around). He's only pushing 60 now so I guess 'old' is relative. Growing up I never could tell if he was just born old or if was a lifetime of rooting for the Sox that had taken its toll -- nature vs. nurture, the classic debate :-)

I grew up taking the Ryan up from Beverly for Sox games, and now when I come home my Dad looks at me like I'm nuts for wanting to do the same. But to avoid traffic, parking fees, and having to drive after a beer or three, it's a bargain. I guess now that Dad's getting up there he would rather be stuck in traffic in his Caddy than be actually getting somewhere on CTA. Maybe it's the climate control...

Happily, I got home and also found A-S ticket strips in the mail. I think thy look kind of cool, not too ugly, black and silver are prominent colors, etc. I do see from the insert material that there will be no cash parking in the lots that day. What do you think the chances are that the tocket office still has parking coupons for sale? When I make it in for Sox games I'm usually happy to Red line it up to the park, but I may have a hard time convincing my Dad to do the same...

Yeah, what CW said (and said... and said...)

A nice BIG barleywine will taste pretty good after it has been laid down for five years... :-) No worries, Roman, buy me a Coke (better make it diet). I'm actually a pretty hardcore homebrewer, so I have a couple kegs of house favorites on tap at home... Whitesoxfan, I have a handful of Sox reference books but I was camped out at the office last night working so I didn't have them handy. You're right, it was about 15 minutes on the Baseball-Reference.com Sox pages copying season totals into an Excel spreadsheet to add 'em all up. The 2003 tally was added up from current player stats on the MLB site.... GEEZ, how can PK be the same guy tearing it up first half last year and inly have THREE stinking bombs so far in 2003? He3 must have made a deal with the Devil and then welched on it or something... :puke :puke :puke :puke

OK, I'm thirsty so I'll bite... As of today (6/15/03), the Chicago White Sox have hit 8,393 total HRs since the inagural 1901 season. 12 of these homeruns occurred in post-season games, so the regular season homerun total is 8,381. Hilights: The all-time low year was 1908, in which only 3 HRs were recorded. The all-time high years were the past 3 seasons (2000, 2001, 2002), in which we managed 216, 214, and a whopping 217 HRs, respectively. No wonder we were all so darn jazzed about our offensive potential coming into this year. Do you think I should forward the stats to the players to remind them? Seeing the lone HR (Ray Durham) during the entire 2000 ALCS opened up painful wounds, too, so it better be good beer.... Totals were just now manually added up by me from information archived at baseball-reference.com, because it beats trying to get some real work done :-)

Team uniforms is an extremely stupid idea for exactly the reasons pointed out here. It's nice for the casual fan to know at a glance where the players are from. And it flies in the face of the notion of hometown pride and having YOUR GUYS representing for the whole country to see. Stupid.

Sounds like a great night, cw. My kids are just 5 and almost 4 now, but I hope the Sox keep the sleepover thing going long enough to get them out in sleeping bags in the outfield in a couple of years too. The Devil Rays do scout sleepovers down here as well, but sleeping out under the dome just doesn't sound as much fun as being under the stars...

You Said It! Now let's save some for the homestand.

WU, I think your projection for the upcoming1-2-3 is correct. Colon likes to keep on 4 schedule of 4 days rest, and that would put him on for Thursday.

Gary Ward was fired about a month ago, though today's game excepted I admit it is hard to tell sometimes.

An update. Someone on teh MLB Sox board just posted that a friend of his got a lottery call just today, so apparently they are still making calls.

I got the call a week ago yesterday –– got four nosebleeders in Section 556. A handful of regulars at the MLB Sox board scored tickets, but we all sent in scads of postcards. I think I led the pack at 199 postcards (very thankful for no-lick stamps). It seemed a tad extreme at the time, when I spent around $50 on cards and postage and 2 nights printing and pasting labels. I chalked it up to what the hell and I would be happy I did it if I got drawn. I am indeed a happy man now. Another board member asked the ticket guy how long they were going to be drawing and calling, and he said they looked to be finishing up by last Sunday. I would not completely give up, though, because some MLB or media ticket blocks might become available closer to the game. Good Luck

I get no joy of of either a mac G3 tower or G4 Powerbook, but the root of my problem may be that they're still OS9 since much of the development software I use is just now being put out on OSX. Real Player 7 and 8 have been forced to obsolescence, but RN is apparently not putting out an OS9 version of RealOne. I can get the thing to work on OSX machines. Interestingly, I can get archived material from MLBradio to come through fine and it's only live streams that choke. My sad solution at work is to run VirtualPC on the Powerbook and get the streams using RealOne under Win2000 emulation. A very roundabout solution but the best I have come up with so far. On my wife's PC at home I can get the streams about 75% of the time, but I think that is a traffic issue.

MLBradio has been just about worthless for me all season. I don't mind the $15 for a product that works. But the RealNetworks player is the most bug-ridden piece of crap out there. Of the three computers I spend my days on, only one of them has even a slight chance of successfully pulling a live stream from MLBradio. Funny thing is that things worked really well for the FREE spring training games. But as soon as the season started and you had to plunk down cash, they try to roll out some new features that killed nearly half of their streaming audience. The techline phones were ringing off the hook and you couldn't even get through to them for the first three weeks of the season. Just another sign that MLB is more interested in gouging the few remaining fans the game has left for every last cent instead of fixing their own problems before the whole league goes bankrupt.

cwsox, I KNEW with absolute certainty that this topic was started by you just by looking at the thread title. Thanks for the laugh. Over on the east coast I have to wait until 9:30 tonight to get my regular daily laugh -- watching the Sox stink it up again in all likelyhood...

I liked Thad Bosley as a kid back when he was with us, and I was a little sorry to see that the A's canned him. he hit one of the only two foul balls I ever caught at Comiskey growing up. The other was by Jim Sindberg - then catcher for the Rangers - off of my friend's knee and into my hands no less. He got a big ugly bruise and I, of course, kept the ball (the shlub never could catch).