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I attended Fisk's "Voices of the Game" event at the Hall of Fame last weekend, where he described his new role with the Sox as a "reintroduction" to the organization. He mentioned his former teammates who now coach for the Sox--Baines, Walker--which gave me the impression that before too long we might see him coaching too. He mentioned Walt Hriniak as one of his mentors...hmm...

Here's the link to vote. Do it now.

Anyone watching the Tigers feed? I almost feel sorry for them. Almost.

Late to this party, but I always love these kinds of threads. I was also silently screaming at Gamecast on my computer--in New York City. God I wish I could have seen that live.

QUOTE(lord chas @ Dec 6, 2007 -> 04:05 PM) we are gonna stink I think this is a real possibility. While I appreciate the optimism above, the fact is that the AL Central in '05 was nowhere near what it was this season, or what it will be next year. That's why our chances of going to the postseason next year are very, very low. IMHO, Kenny needed to blow up the team after the All Star break, but for some reason he didn't For some reason he let Pods and Grinderstad play when they should have been DFA'd to make room for the kids. Of course, what we're dealing with now, in large part, is the legacy of the '05-'06 off-season.

QUOTE(whitesoxfan101 @ Aug 9, 2007 -> 12:41 AM) Stone rules. We should be going for a sweep tomorrow night, but let's get 2 out of 3 anyways. With that pitching matchup, I like our chances. Stone does rule. And I think he makes Hawk a better announcer. I'd love Stone to be our full-time guy, actually. Anyway, great game--great win. Suckit, Tribe!

Isn't anyone worried about Fields's obvious difficulties with hitting 87mph fastballs down the middle of the plate? He made Mike Mussina look like Nolan Ryan.

White Sox front office: you are decimating your fan base with this move. Resign him for the love of God. He's one of your own. He's had one off year. He's 28. Do you want to win or not?

I'm so pissed right now that I can't even think straight. Jerry, Kenny: grow a pair and f***ing make this happen. You are in danger of losing fans.

QUOTE(fathom @ Jun 18, 2007 -> 11:14 PM) .....a rocket scientist like Erstad to figure that out. I was talking to Dick Williams about this, and he said that Al Kaline was a tremendous base runner. I remember sitting down with Yaz when we were talking about Catfish Hunter, and he told me that this was the greatest assembly of talent he's ever seen to struggle this long. Word for word.

Awesome--on the MLB.tv feed, they accidentally cut into the commercial break and you could hear Hawk still complaining about Owen's move: "You gotta, you gotta know you're dealing with one of the greatest arms behind the plate. I mean, Jesus Christ. It doesn't take a--" then it cut off. How do you think he completed that sentence?

Would have been nice if he hadn't dealt Ross Gload.

I stupidly ponied up for Spring Training, when there wasn't as much stress on their servers--fewer connections, fewer games. And my experience in the first two weeks of the regular season was horrible--choppy steams, out-of-sync audio, dropped connections. The Mosaic software is a work in progress: they've been releasing new builds several times a week. To MLB.com's credit, they set up a blog to address tech-related problems, but it's become little more than a venue for excuse-making. The MLB.com monkeys regularly chalk problems up to the inadequacies of users' computers. Doubtless sometimes that's the case. But I'm a user who streams on both Mac and PCs, two PCs--one new, one really old. The really old one handles the streams the best. It's insane. And recently some of the MLB.com staffers have been getting snippy (granted, their customers are extremely frustrated). I'm advocating a coordinated baseball blog movement to sign a petition. You can also e-mail Bob Bowman at MLB.com. Luckily my cable company offers a $90 rebate to Extra Innings customers from last year, but still. They pushed this product through too soon, and didn't have the server capacity to adequately serve their paying customers. Embarrassing.

I can tell you that after I left Chicago, where I was born and raised, the feeling of rivalry faded--and it was intense while I was in Chitown. Once you're a Chicagoan in a strange land, you just want Chicago to do well, even if that means a Cubs win--but never when they play the Sox.

Shocker: MLB rejects iN Demand's offer.