Gregory Pratt

QUOTE(CanOfCorn @ Dec 6, 2007 -> 10:04 AM) If it helps the Sox play with a chip on their shoulders...then, who cares? I'm sorry, but baseball isn't a game where you're helped significantly by playing with a chip on your shoulder and it isn't something that can be forced out. You have it or you don't. I assure you Paul Konerko isn't going to learn how to run and hit 60 homeruns because someone said his team can't compete; "a chip" isn't going to teach Gavin Floyd how to be a good pitcher, a chip won't ensure Danks excellence. What is this "chip" on their shoulder?

That's the funniest thing I've read in a long time and I spent the morning reading Craigslist/Chicago Reader personals for a class!

The conversation then became: "Besides, even without 'sex' people would wank, re-creating hormones." "What does it mean, to wank?" "Umm, you know." "What?" "Guess." "Uh..." "Yeah?" "To masturbate?" "Uh huh." "Girls don't do that. We don't need to." "Umm, I doubt you get that answer, asking around." So she asks around and hilarity ensues. What a strange conversation.

"you'll have wasted your life," I say to my friend on the phone while discussing whether or not she would bang Hall from Hall and Oates. "No. Won't I live longer?" "What?!" "People who don't have sex live longer, right?" "Umm, I doubt that's true." "I've heard it's true." "Yeah, well -- who did they use as experiment?"

QUOTE(Balta1701 @ Dec 5, 2007 -> 08:53 PM) I think a lot of teams would be happy to walk out of the Winter Meetings having picked up a guy like Quentin. Such an optimist! I love it. Really.

QUOTE(Balta1701 @ Dec 5, 2007 -> 04:15 PM) Just because he "Won't" be facing lefties, which under Ozzie Guillen's "Platoon everyone no matter what the numbers say" is probably the truth, doesn't mean he "can't" face lefties or "he will never ever ever perform against lefties". Umm, what? Who else has he platooned unnecessarily? If anything, he's less willing to platoon guys who maybe should be platooned.

QUOTE(Rowand44 @ Dec 5, 2007 -> 01:33 PM) Wow. I personally think this would be a tremendous deal in this market but I'm obviously in the minority here. Rowand will get more imo but I'd love this.

Uh, Dontrelle Willis was informed and talked about it on ESPN. Cabrera has been informed.`

QUOTE(NorthSideSox72 @ Dec 5, 2007 -> 11:20 AM) There is what is smart for them long term, and there is what they tend to do. What they tend to do is refuse to make trades after Angelos gets involved. I don't see there being much movement between us and Baltimore -- certainly not Konerko for Bedard.

QUOTE(NorthSideSox72 @ Dec 5, 2007 -> 11:16 AM) Why? Millard is no great shakes there. They seemed interested before too. Do they have some 1B prospect stud I am unaware of? Because they can get a great young package of cheap players rather than an aging first baseman with a big contract and an arthritic hip. And the Orioles need to rebuild, not pick up a first baseman but lose an ace and AT BEST move sideways.

QUOTE(BlackBetsy @ Dec 5, 2007 -> 11:13 AM) I have no evidence of anything, buy my gut tells me that if anyone on the 2005 Sox was on "the s***" as we called it in college, it would be Rowand. Bicepts, Triceps out of line with the rest of his body, a little intense. But that's about all; more of a stereotype than anything. If Rowand comes out to be in the Mitchell report, and KW has signed him, I really and truly believe that will break KW's heart. He really believes in "his" guys, perhaps to a fault. I don't know what KW's personal thoughts on steroid use are -- I don't know what Sabean thinks, what Shapiro thinks, what Bowden thinks, etc. etc. but I would bet money that the vast majority of managers, owners and general managers know that many, if not most of the players are juicing and don't care so long as they don't get caught and embarrass the franchise.

I love Favre. He's a great QB and he's class. Who do you think should've gotten it?

I NEVER liked that candy ass

THAT is f***ed up.

A "lighter" article on this was written once comparing the franchises to the Simpsons. (I am working on a more "serious" one of my own.)

Hall isn't going for Crede.

LOL@Riske as Closer

The problem with The Truth About Cats and Dogs is that Janeane G. is very cute and so her insecurities, as well as her "you're not just a dumb b**** -- you're an ugly b****!" encounters are completely unrealistic, therefore destroying the whole film

QUOTE(Tony82087 @ Dec 4, 2007 -> 07:37 PM) I would trade the Sox for the Tigers every day of the week, and twice on Sunday. The Tigers future is questionable. Right now, the Sox future is terrible. This is the type of thing I've said that you jumped all over me for, y'know.

QUOTE(Balta1701 @ Dec 4, 2007 -> 07:27 PM) Well, we can only pin so much on September and August stats, but I still find some solace in the fact that both Contreras and Floyd performed quite well come September and for Jose, August as well. And I still like the depth we have in having Gio and Egbert as other options... But at least we'll see. I know one thing, this is the thread I'll be digging up if somehow the White Sox go on a hot streak early in the season. And I will bring it up at a more relevant time than if we went on a "hot" streak to start the season -- say, the All-Star Break, or, perhaps, the World Series.

Hopefully this shows Reinsdorf how to be an Owner, more than Williams how to GM

QUOTE(RockRaines @ Dec 4, 2007 -> 06:17 PM) Well, you dont see it, but ESPN does. For now I will consider them a little closer to the situation, though you ARE closer to the Eisenhower. Van Dyke also just said we are in on Jones. I fully expect us to take a run at him tonight. Like I said -- even if MLB suspends people based on the Mitchell Report, it's not like the Tigers are f***ed without Gary. And I don't know where you get whatever you're getting from Dyke, but Cowley sez: lol

QUOTE(RockRaines @ Dec 4, 2007 -> 06:13 PM) Van Dyke from the tribune just reported that the Sox werent close on cabrera. He's got great sources. And re: steroids -- I just don't see the league taking all that much action or the union allowing it. Even without Sheffield for awhile, Detroit's offense is top-notch.

Who gives a s*** if Sheffield is mentioned? He's already admitted it. Mentioning him wouldn't mean s***.