Gregory Pratt

QUOTE(RibbieRubarb @ Jun 14, 2006 -> 09:14 PM) I'm color-blind...I have no idea which one is green. :banghead That's humorous.

QUOTE(jphat007 @ Jun 14, 2006 -> 09:10 PM) Will he be a HOF if he keeps this up until he's about 39-40? Surely.

QUOTE(Kalapse @ Jun 14, 2006 -> 09:38 PM) I'm also coupling this with my belief that he's pretty weak mentally. He wasn't able to handly being a #1 starter or pitch in New York though he did dominate in the nothingness that is Montreal. Javier's got some mental issues, to be sure. When he feels he's getting squeezed by the umpires he wears it on his sleeve, you're right. But he's also got a lot of balls out on that field, and he's no weaker mentally than Buehrle. Buehrle collapses everytime an error is committed. I guess we're just going to have a difference of opinion here. We'll see what happens next time Javier beans someone, because I think it's nonsense to say Javier can't handle hitting someone.

QUOTE(daa84 @ Jun 14, 2006 -> 09:35 PM) that was probably t he only reason tracey was out there hey kalapse i went back on my tivo and looked at what you said in the game thread about AJ holdin out his hand....thats interesting certainly made it look intentional...but he also did it earlier in the game in the inning before and nothing happened, maybe he wanted vazquez to do it too Aside from mop up work?

QUOTE(Kalapse @ Jun 14, 2006 -> 09:32 PM) I didn't say that he should have hit him, simply that I don't think he could handle it. I can remember the specific details but I believe Javy was supposed to hit Belliard in Cleveland, he missed, after that pitch he imploded. If anyone was going to hit a Texas hitter it would have been a relief pitcher not Javy. Well, I agree with the boldened, but that's nonsense -- that Javier can't handle hitting someone. You're pointing out one incident where he "implodes" after throwing at someone, and that one incident can be explained by a variety of things. I'm not sure if you've caught on yet, but the Indians...they've got a pretty potent offense. Just a little, anyway.

QUOTE(Gene Honda Civic @ Jun 14, 2006 -> 09:31 PM) There was an even larger disparity last year. Just win. Winning is the best revenge. I didn't hear anyone complaining about how the HBPs were handled in the Cleveland series. Anyone speaking up now is being a hypocrite. Hey, shut up. Javier Vazquez is a pussy!!

Hawk...not on our side.......? Brain....cannot....compute

All right, I slept through the game, as I wasn't feeling well, and woke up having heard this news. Can someone tell me: Why did Padilla bean Pierzynski? I know nobody here is inside his head, but if it's known what the motive would be, please share it. I don't quite see where he was coming from in hitting AJ -- what, is he friends with Escobar or Barrett or Tomko? Did Pierzynski pee in his cornflakes? QUOTE(Kalapse @ Jun 14, 2006 -> 08:24 PM) I knew he wouldn't hit anyone, IMO he showed he couldn't handle it during the Indians series when he attempted to hit someone I believe Belliard in a retalitory fashion and ended up s***ting his pants afterwards. Javier Vazquez didn't fail to hit someone because he "can't handle it." Vazquez, while not Carlos Zambrano, is our most visibly competitive pitcher, aside from perhaps Freddy Garcia. He failed to bean someone because, Which, of course, means that And if you Because And You've got all of your priorities screwed up. A suspension isn't worth it. Unless, of course, it's to Montero or something.

QUOTE(RibbieRubarb @ Jun 14, 2006 -> 07:08 PM) Maddux sucks because he's a Cub...Thats why. Is Red supposed to indicate half-seriousness? Because in that case, I agree wholeheartedly!

I'm disappointed in all the references to them being the "Cubbies." I was under the impression that that was a term of endearment. Perhaps you're all secretly Cubs fans? I make no secret of my bias. For this weekend, I want the Northsiders to succeed.

QUOTE(RibbieRubarb @ Jun 14, 2006 -> 04:48 PM) Well, let's look at his average over the past three eyars during the Questec era in a few parks that have it. In Shea Staudium he has a 3.00 era In Minute Maid Park he has a 3.44 era In Miller Park he has a 2.77 era http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/players/spli...tching3&three=1 So, I don't know where you read that...but its wrong. Haven't you heard? Maddux sucks -- he has for years now -- and he only stays alive because the umpires always give him the calls.

Any chance Ichiro gets traded? I heard it's what he wants, because he's got the urge to play in the World Series and the Mariners don't have the horses to make that race. Seattle is known for getting rid of its stars. Think it'll happen -- this season?

QUOTE(NorthSideSox72 @ Jun 13, 2006 -> 06:01 PM) If you don't mind good sir, I'd like you to place this line in reference for me. Are you stating that the KKK feels the white race is being threatened, or that you do? Because grammatically, you state it as if it were factual information. I assume that was not your intent, but I'd like to have that clarified. Let's back up here. I don't believe that, not in the least. I said it mockingly, as in mocking the KKK. I am not a Klansman, in the least. Although it is true that the Klan believes that the White Race is threatened by minorities in schools and our cities, interracial marriages, etc. etc., no? And so I was mocking them for that.

That man wasn't the first KKK member, and he wasn't even that important. He was their first grand wizard, but he wasn't even really a member: It was during this time that he became the nexus of the nascent Ku Klux Klan movement. According to one oral report, George Gordon, a former Confederate brigadier general, went to Forrest in Memphis and told him about the new organization, to which Forrest replied, "That's a good thing; that's a damn good thing. We can use that to keep the n*****s in their place." He was acclaimed at a Nashville, Tennessee, KKK convention (1867) as the first Grand Wizard, or leader-in-chief of that organization. In an 1868 newspaper interview, Forrest boasted that the Klan was a nationwide organization of 550,000 men, and that although he himself was not a member, he was "in sympathy" and would "cooperate" with them, and could himself muster 40,000 Klansmen with only five days' notice. He stated that the Klan did not see blacks as its enemy so much as "carpetbaggers" (northerners who came south after the war ended) and "scalawags" (white Republican southerners). ------- And to answer the question, "How does KKK even take themselves seriously when the original grandmaster or whatevr u want to call it regretted ever being part of it." Well, they take themselves seriously because the white race is being threatened. Also: the Klan has been around for almost hundred years. Even if the General were as big a part in their history as he's being made out to have been, and let's concede that he was, that doesn't mean that the organization has to stop taking itself seriously because one man disavowed them.

QUOTE(NUKE_CLEVELAND @ Jun 13, 2006 -> 03:58 PM) I just think its hilarious that the leftists were all salivating over the possibility of a Rove indictment and now they all have to eat s***. Its all too funny for words and thats why we have a presumption of innocence in this country. You're just lucky Fitzgerald didn't go after Rove on blowjob charges.

Hey, Rex, shut up. Hillary Clinton is a lesbian. Didn't you know? But despite this, she had an affair with Vince Foster. And then she broke it off, which broke his heart. He was going to go public. So the Clinton's ordered him killed, and called it suicide. (You ever read Rush Limbaugh is a Big Fat Idiot?)

QUOTE(NorthSideSox72 @ Jun 13, 2006 -> 02:55 PM) Not once did I say polls don't mean anything. They mean a lot. I said this poll, in one small state, at this time, is pretty irrelevant. And that any results related to that state's governor are even more irrelevant. Further, even if you assume the poll has some validity, the fact that Vilsack couldn't do better than 10% in his own state is pretty indicative of his poor chances in a Prez run. But if you'd rather not accept those pieces of different information, you go right ahead and believe whatever you'd like. My stance is and has been that polls this early don't mean s***, and it's only until after New Hampshire that they mean anything. Name recognition this early in the game? Means nothing. Opinion ratings? Mean nothing. At least, in most cases. With new people. With old people, like Hillary or Newt Gingrich, they mean a lot because they're unlikely to change. The public's view of them has been shaped by over a decade. When it comes to Tom Vilsack, Evan Bayh, Unknown Politician, it doesn't mean much.

And for awhile, Bill Clinton was losing Arkansas to George H.W. Bush in 1991 and 1992. You keep bringing up polls that don't mean anything, and I'm quite tired with your circular posts. Anything can happen, but Bayh and Richardson > Vilsack, who isn't even known!!! Blah blah blah.

QUOTE(NorthSideSox72 @ Jun 12, 2006 -> 08:21 AM) I had to read the first sentence three times to make sure I read it right. Are you serious?! You think I don't know politics because I think one unknown candidate is more likely to win than another? When Bayh is a lot more well-known outside Iowa than Vilsack is?! You, my friend, are hilarious. And besides, looking at your line about being unknown is irrelevant, its pretty clear who here isn't too aware of the world of politics. Awareness of name is in fact one of the most important factors in national politics - a fact which I assumed most people were aware of, simply as a matter of common sense. And your other unrelated examples have no connection whatsoever to the personalities at hand. Using the logic of your example (Tsongas v Clinton), you think Tsongas is Bayh and Clinton is Vlisack? Not really. My post, which you replied to, was about 3 candidates NOT in the top four in this poll anyway (a poll which, again, is ridiculously too early to mean anything significant). But please, continue posting. This should be entertaining. Which was exactly my point - which seemed to be missed entirely. No, no, you didn't make the point that one unknown was more likely to win based on anything that had merit. You made the point that Bayh was higher in the polls and that means that he's likelier to win than Vilsack, and I said that that's untrue and that early polls mean nothing. Don't mischaracterize your comments or mine, thanks. I can click the emoticons, too. I didn't say that Clinton was Vilsack and Bayh was Tsongas. All I did was point out several relevant examples to show that early polls means as much as an emoticon. Here's what I had said: "Vilsack has as much of a chance as Bayh or Richardson, for sure." You said that Bayh had a better chance because of polls, then you went back and agreed with this: "there is no telling who could win the nomination maybe somebody not even on the map yet." which is just about what I was saying about dark horses. Grab some bench.

QUOTE(SoxFan101 @ Jun 12, 2006 -> 05:02 PM) How does KKK even take themselves seriously when the original grandmaster or whatevr u want to call it regretted ever being part of it. Umm, someone from over a hundred and fifty years ago told you he regrets ever being part of the KKK?!?!

We've got storylines on our team. It's like a soap opera. Will the rookie center fielder ever learn to hit? How far can Juan Uribe spin before he's drawn away from the White Sox in favor of ballet? Does Jon Garland have what it takes to vanquish the demons in his head? Can AJ Pierzynski go a week without alienating an opponent's team? And what will happen when Scott Podsednik comes home to find Hugh Hefner on the Couch? All this and more on the next edition of White Sox baseball!

Garland's been consistent in the other direction... >___>

QUOTE(Cuck the Fubs @ Jun 12, 2006 -> 03:12 PM) That's f***ed up. He's stupid for not wearing a helmet. Last year when I was riding my bike, I got hit by a car and I'd have been killed if I wasn't wearing a helmet. I'm glad you were wearing your helmet, mate. That's an awful thing to go through, and I'm glad you survived it.

Dear Paul Konerko, You are slow. Never run on a play like that again. -Gregory Pratt

Do these guys get any of their facts straight?