max power

QUOTE (TaylorStSox @ Feb 20, 2012 -> 11:07 PM) My only predictions are that Morel and Sale have big years. Also, Rios is going to have a 285/28/110 kind of year. My eyes nearly popped out of my head when I read the last line.

I am giving this team a chance. I wouldn't call it doom and gloom. I am actually looking forward to this year. 100:1 is bad, but it isn't that bad to me. A lot of things have to go right for the sox to take the division. Too many things for it to be as probable as 8 to 1, in my estimation. To me, most of Dunn, rios, beckham, morel, de aza and viciedo need to hit like above average major league players for this team to win 90 or more games. Given how far some were from that last year, and how inexperienced some of the others are, I don't see it happening. If I thought about it more I might have said something more like 30:1. A 3% chance isn't that much different than a 1% chance. Anyway, I hope I'm wrong.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Feb 19, 2012 -> 10:23 PM) Not a chance. There is a chance. 100:1 maybe

"The chicago tribune speculates"

I think Robin will let the situation guide his actions and he will do what is appropriate at the time.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Feb 18, 2012 -> 11:28 AM) Heres' their overnight apology. Oh my f***ing god that is retarded. Way to make our whole country look like backward hillbillies ESPN.

QUOTE (DBAHO @ Feb 17, 2012 -> 04:10 AM) Hard because I follow quite a few sports. In no particular order; 1 - Chicago White Sox 2 - West Ham United 3 - Orlando Magic No particular order? I'd say White sox Bears Bulls (how boring)

Just out of curiosity I looked up some stats. From the 2000 census, which is likely very low, there are 388,987 people with the surname "Ramirez" in the US (1 on the 40) 775,072 people with the surname "Martinez" in the US (and two on the 40) 706,372 people with the surname "Hernandez" in the US (1 on the 40)

There are going to be a lot of Hispanics there. There were even two of the same name on the team two years ago.

I thought you guys were overblowing the lin coverage, then I saw two articles in three days about him on bloomberg. For f***s sake, bloomberg!

Is there something in that post above mine? I see a lot of blank posts here like that. Are they images or what?

What about during spring training?

Andrew broke it.

Cespedes isn't going to help the tigers win the world series this year, anyway.

Interesting. If you pick an arbitrary number like 1000 sliders. He is saying that in 2009 he swung at 420 of them, and missed on 50.4 of those. 2010 he swung at 400 of them and missed on 64 of them. So he is suggesting that Konerko got better by swinging at less but swinging and missing on more sliders? I don't buy it. He just pounded the fastballs more. The sliders are a non factor at best.

I still like the career builder monkeys. Not exactly new, I know.

Well I'm sure I'm in the minority. But I think a great dunk has a good horizontal component too.

QUOTE (Quinarvy @ Jan 31, 2012 -> 01:10 AM) No, Blake has viciousness and air. What he doesn't have is finesse. First of all, that's just your opinion. You state it like a fact. And I don't agree. If he did, he would attack the hoop with the direction of his body, not just his arm, which he also barely attacks with.

QUOTE (Quinarvy @ Jan 31, 2012 -> 01:01 AM) Yeah, but over a 7 footer with that extension, leaping, and viciousness. That's what blake lacks here. Viciousness. He doesn't even go at it hard, just jumps straight up and throws it down hard, which is why he doesn't (can't actually) attack the rim in this situation. Its an amazing play, but to me, no where near the top dunks of all time for that reason.

QUOTE (thxfrthmmrs @ Jan 31, 2012 -> 12:02 AM) I think that might be the best in game dunk of all time, even tops the Jordan over Ewing dunk, which is popularly recognized with the honor Meh. He didn't hardly even touch the rim. I don't even like the "dunk".

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Jan 27, 2012 -> 02:44 PM) Mock drafting all the way to the 6th round? Impressive Is that the word for it?

QUOTE (TaylorStSox @ Jan 27, 2012 -> 10:13 AM) Is there evidence that Alex Rios doesn't give a s***? I read that all the time, but don't really see it. At least he shows up in shape. He made some adjustments. I remember a few times that he loafed, but every ball player does that. Hell, fan favorite AJ loafs more than any player in recent memory. There's no doubt that he had an abysmal year, but he was the only member of Team Suck that showed some signs of life last year. I actually think he might have a pretty good season. No there isn't. People think his facial expressions allow them to read his mind. Their arrogance is approaching idiotic if you ask me, but I'm sick of saying so.

No wrong at all? I'm going to go with no one. Like every other year I've been here.

QUOTE (sunofgold @ Jan 27, 2012 -> 06:13 PM) Manager! This might say good things about the White Sox organization and the city of Chicago. Thome also has ties to the Twins, Indians, and Phillies. Any of those team would probably love to have Thome in their organization after he retires. However, he will chose the White Sox. *shrugs* He lives in hinsdale.