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Oakland and Detroit. This will be one ghetto-fabulous ALCS.

ESPN's man-crush is funny, but you should expand its meaning to the Yankees as well.

Would Texas bite on a guy like Contreras? They have some pieces that may be of some use to us. I'm not necessarily sold on Sarge Jr. but I like Mark DeRosa.

Dave Roberts has had a hell of a game today.

What jackie hayes said. I got the membership card after about eight weeks, and the price of my MLB.tv subscription went down. If I want tickets, I have a better connection than what they can offer.

I'm thinking blue. My NLDS tickets are coming via DHL on Monday. As long as they're winning, I've got tickets.

From my vantage point as a very jaded and hence lapsed Protestant, I have never been able to understand how the Church can flagellate themselves with the mentality that change=bad. I would think with a message with such immediacy and universal relevance as the Gospel is supposed to have, that cultural literacy is an implied necessity for the message of dearest import. But more often than not, the church chooses to stick its head in the sand, selling fear and in some cases lies to its congregations to scare them into following what they preach, or filling airspace with such idle topics as why God doesn't want you to eat at Hooters. Do you really need Jesus to tell you the girls are ugly and the food sucks? While it's easily understandable that donation kiosks evoke the parallels to the money-changers at the Temple, it's not as if they've been selling tickets to their services and now all of a sudden hired Ticketmaster to sell tickets with their ridiculous venue-imposed surcharges and convenience fees. Point being, giving by kiosk isn't the only way to give, nor is it subject to heavy taxes and fees, and therefore the money-changing parallel is skewed.

there's a $14 piece of software I have called iPod access, just do a search for it. I used it to pull stuff off my iPod onto my new hard drive after a crash. Works like a charm.

QUOTE(LosMediasBlancas @ Aug 7, 2006 -> 06:57 AM) I hope they last a little bit longer than friggin Jet. The next WM record will tell us if they want to be a good band with lasting power, or if they want to make money and get out. By the way, Perry Farrell came out and gave Wolfmother a nice big introduction before their set. I never saw him for the rest of the festival. I don't see the parallels. Jet caught lightning in a bottle with "Are you gonna be my girl." Wolfmother is a lot more musically solid, and their album is deep. Their style blueprint is late-60s Brit Rock, whereas Jet's just another knockoff punk band.

QUOTE(whitesox1976 @ Sep 28, 2006 -> 03:42 PM) I will be pulling for the Tigers in the playoffs. If they get bumped off then I will be for Oakland because of Frank Thomas. ^^^ Dodgers, if they make it. If you're in California and want to go to a Dodger playoff game, PM me. I will have two seats for whatever happens at Chavez Ravine. I'll let 'em go for face value to Soxtalkers.

QUOTE(Felix @ Sep 28, 2006 -> 08:32 AM) Pujols for Buehrle, no less. ...because he's holding a thermal detonator!

I'd put all five up and see where the offers are. The two I'd most want to deal would be Contreras and Garcia, because of age and because of inconsistency, respectively. The one that I think would garner the most interest and best package would be Buehrle. I also think Buehrle has the best chance at recovering from what was a disastrous second half. Vazquez has endured his Contreras period and I'm hoping he will have turned the corner and we'll see in '07 what we have seen in the second half with greater consistency. Aside from Brandon McCarthy in the rotation, I don't know what you do with the other two spots. I'm not interested in Jason Schmidt with his health and age, although I'm not certain who's around that's legitimately available and good enough for nos. 4 and 5 if you deal Garcia and Contreras.

The guys on the field didn't play consistently well enough to cover up Ozzie's consistently piss-poor in-game decision making.

No, screw the Twins. We know that they are a competitive, well-managed club year-in and year-out. We rolled over and gave it to them. It was ours to lose and we coughed it up. Not a lot of teams repeat, but I really don't think it's an excuse. We had a better team than last year going into this season and didn't get it done. We had the tools. We played sloppy and couldn't get all the pistons firing together. But you know what? Somehow the Twins do it year-in and year-out with a tiny payroll. Four playoff berths in five years. Why not us? Anyway, I was too frustrated to watch after the score reached 6-1, so I made pan-seared tilapia, cilantro-lime rice and black beans, drank a few PBRs and watched Monday Night Football. I want someone to pull a Torii Hunter on Joe Mauer. That play still pisses me off.

Anyone who beats the Yankees is all right in my book, but the Tigers are who I am pulling for in the AL.

"Tuesday's Gone" Lynyrd Skynyrd

QUOTE(SoxFan1 @ Sep 23, 2006 -> 08:38 PM) This negative junk needs to get out quick. Don't rain on someone else who still has hope. Dont agree? Dont reply. Or, if you're offended, put on a helmet. Seriously, this is so benign compared to the fist-f***ing that people do to each other on other threads. I think that we can all agree that while we'd love to see the White Sox in the playoffs, some of us are more optimistic than others.

Mabry being the only guy Brian Anderson could hit the first 81 games. Screwed it to the sticking post, and endeared himself to a lot of fans thereafter. Iguchi's pyrotechnics in the Houston game. AJ's walkoff against Cleveland. For a fleeting moment, lo, hope arriveth.

QUOTE(Big Hurtin @ Sep 23, 2006 -> 07:12 PM) or math Or English. e-s-q-u-e. A suffix meaning 'like' or 'reminiscent of,' in effect turning a noun into a simile. There is nothing of being reminiscent of a homer, this remark is straight-up homer. A better thread title would be "I know I'm a homer, but..."

I went to Barnes and Noble, ordered a pizza and drained four PBRs while watching Dodgers/Arizona, Houston/St. Louis. Not going to let the boys ruin a rare Friday night off.

I respect longtime fans of pretty much any team as long as they are intelligent about the game, even though I hate the Yankees.

How would you gentlemen like your season cooked?

"It's So Hard to Say Goodbye" --Boyz II Men

I know managers get undue praise for success and undue criticism for failure, but Ozzie Guillen owns a lot of the blame for his poor in-game and personnel decisions this year. I feel like he got a huge bench upgrade in Mackowiak and Cintron that he has largely misused, and by cause and effect the team has underachieved. We have simply not been able to get all the pistons firing like we did last year. The offense carried the starting pitching up through the All-Star break and now is squandering quality starts by becoming seemingly dependant on the home run, whereas last year we could keep the line moving. As a result, we let Runelvys Hernandez beat us as easily as Johan Santana and Kenny Rogers.

QUOTE(NorthSideSox72 @ Sep 20, 2006 -> 10:28 AM) OK, I'm going to throw an idea out here, and see what people think. I have a feeling it won't be pretty, but here goes... Crede plays SS Ozuna plays 3B Sweeney and/or Fields in LF That frees up Uribe and Pods for trade bait, and decreases the salary total for the team, gives us a leadoff hitter at 3B with speed and good contact, Fields/Sweeney get a chance at the big time. Let those 2 compete in spring training for LF. The one who loses gets 1 more year in AAA, then takes over Dye's slot in RF. Plus Crede and Ozuna can play each other's positions. EDIT: If we use Uribe and/or Pods and/or Garcia for a SS who can lead off, then Ozuna can go back to the bench, and Crede back to 3B. Yuck.