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QUOTE (Stan Bahnsen @ Aug 21, 2011 -> 03:20 PM) Don't know if CLB saw your post, but I got mine at the place on the north side of 35th a few blocks west of the park, just a block or so west of the train viaduct. Can't remember the name of the place (Grandstands?), but it's great. That's a '26 hat BTW. Grandstand has a fantastic assortment of caps, including that one in both New Era and American Needle (pictured). You can get the American Needle version (more curved brim, shorter bowl) here as well: http://shop.mlb.com/product/index.jsp?prod...1452702.1168173

dadgummit! he kilt it!

Doesn't get any closer than that!

QUOTE (Stan Bahnsen @ Aug 21, 2011 -> 02:49 PM) Great news, but why do we want to wait 11 more days? So he isn't elegible when the Sox surge to the playoffs! Why would we want that?!

QUOTE (MotownSox @ Aug 21, 2011 -> 07:14 AM) I like your collection of SOX hats - Any chance you know how to get a KELLY GREEN SOX T-SHIRT (Plain with the SOX logo)? They used to sell them on the sports attire sites last year but I can't find them. Can you advise? They're available at the custom T-shirt stand at games. Not sure about online retailers. Maybe they'll be more available soon with the Halfway to St. Patricks Day promotion coming up on Sept 9.

QUOTE (MotownSox @ Aug 21, 2011 -> 06:10 AM) The SOX refuse to send DUNN to the MINORS for a few weeks to focus on BATTING. The Tigers sent Inge down for 3-4 weeks because he was batting .180. While in the minors he batted .300-.400 and hit many home runs. He came back in last night's Tiger/Cleveland game and hit a home run and double! The SOX cannot continue to jeopardize their pennant chances with too few games remaining. DUNN cannot consistenly be in the lineup!!!!! Please read below: QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Aug 17, 2011 -> 06:07 PM) It'd certainly be nice since he brings nothing to the bench, but he'd have to accept a demotion... I think. Where are our capologists? QUOTE (elrockinMT @ Aug 17, 2011 -> 06:47 PM) This has been brought up before and it just isn't possible and/or going to happen QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Aug 18, 2011 -> 08:00 AM) This is true. He would have to accept it. A more realistic scenario is an "injury" coming up of some sort, with a rehab stint. The team isn't going just send him to the minors. Then understand why: QUOTE (oldsox @ Aug 18, 2011 -> 02:42 PM) Dunn's service time prevents Sox from sending him to minors. Then continue to do this: QUOTE (ChrisLikesBaseball @ Aug 17, 2011 -> 06:36 PM)

QUOTE (Bighurt52235 @ Aug 17, 2011 -> 06:45 PM) +1. No, + A LOT

QUOTE (IlliniKrush @ Aug 17, 2011 -> 08:32 AM) Yes you can, as I just did this a few weeks ago. Park in the church parking lot just east of the park on Wentworth. The price is the same as the "official" lots, they'll let you park on a perimeter so you can "save" spots for your friends (as long as they don't show up way later), and it's about 100 times easier to get out of that lot and onto the highway. It's something you wouldn't think to do as you drove by without a reccomendation, so here it is. Trust me on this one. Just tacking on my support of this recommendation. Any time I don't have pre-paid parking, I park in this lot. QUOTE (HickoryHuskers @ Aug 17, 2011 -> 08:39 AM) First of all, just to confirm, is this the lot: http://maps.google.com/maps/place?ftid=0x8...aAou8zQXygpSsCQ Secondly, how early do they open? The rest of the cars are planning on arriving between 4:00 and 4:30, but I could get their earlier to secure the spots if they open earlier. EDIT: Also want to confirm that the church is OK with people consuming alcohol in their parking lot. If I recall correctly, they pretty much abide by the same rules as official lots so alcohol is A-OK. They should be open when you get there as well.

QUOTE (JoeCoolMan24 @ Aug 12, 2011 -> 02:58 AM) So.....are we destined to finish 81-81? Seems to be the White Sox destiny: QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Aug 11, 2011 -> 09:39 PM) 6-1 road trip after a 1-6 homestand

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Aug 11, 2011 -> 03:13 PM) If you go to a bunch of games, it knocks your price per game way down, and guarantees you good seats for the hard-to-get-to games. Bingo! I went to 12 games last year in various seats. This year, we got the Hit and Run Plan (weekdays), and we'll go to 27 games this year for the price of the 12 we went to last year, and I really like the seats we selected. Plus, we save $5 per game on parking for buying that in advance, we've gotten a bunch of free stuff and multiple free games thrown in too.

This thread is incredible.

QUOTE (VAfan @ Aug 7, 2011 -> 05:27 PM) This is the sub-.600 OPS squad on the Sox. Adam Dunn 96 331 30 54 13 0 11 39 100 58 142 0 1 .163 .294 .302 .596 Brent Morel 79 255 22 66 10 0 1 19 79 4 29 2 4 .259 .278 .310 .587 Omar Vizquel 48 142 14 36 5 1 0 8 43 6 17 1 2 .254 .280 .303 .583 Mark Teahen† 51 118 11 24 3 0 3 11 36 12 28 0 1 .203 .277 .305 .582 Alex Rios 105 386 45 83 17 0 7 26 121 22 45 9 5 .215 .259 .313.572 Dunn and Rios have received well-deserved criticisms. Their bloated contracts make it impossible to move them, so we will have to hope they break out. But why is Brent Morel getting a pass? Is he ever going to hit well enough to be a legitimate ML 3rd baseman? Of all the ML 3B listed this year, he ranks 45th. A few others as bad or worse have gotten around his 255 ABs -- Miguel Tejada, Juan Uribe, Chone Figgins, Brandon Inge -- but this doesn't seem a worthy reason to keep trotting Morel out there. And clearly Vizquel is no better. My own view would be to bring up Dayan Viciedo to play 3B. He could also play some OF and DH, but the one place he'd make the most difference offensively would be 3B. We'd lose a little defensively, but we still need more offense, and Viciedo would be a significant upgrade. Dayan Viciedo is no longer a third baseman. This decision was made because he wasn't very good at playing third base.

QUOTE (flavum @ Aug 7, 2011 -> 05:14 PM) I'm happy about the sweep, but there's no reason to get excited about being 3 under .500 after 113 games, with a losing record at home and the division. Get over .500 and under 5 games out, and we'll talk... The way it's been going, if they get over .500, they'll be less than 5 games out, so that should cover step one and two. I love the sentiment of this post, but this season has left me teased more times than my sophomore year of high school.

QUOTE (Wanne @ Aug 6, 2011 -> 02:28 PM) Carlos Quentin, who hit two home runs to lead the Sox to a 5-3 win Friday night, is out of the lineup. Quentin is 0-for-17 lifetime against Pavano. Here's the Sox's stellar lineup: Pierre - LF Ramirez - SS Konerko - DH Dunn - 1B Rios - CF Pierzynski - C Beckham - 2B De Aza - RF Morel - 3B Stewart - P This at least makes SOME sense.

Pushing the rotation back a day. Interesting move. Is this a win now move or a "see what we've got in this guy" move? http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20...ign=br_whitesox

QUOTE (kitekrazy @ Aug 5, 2011 -> 03:10 PM) Yeah...like take an interest in another team. They boys in my neck of the woods (or desert) are in a race and they are doing it with former Sox farmhands. If the Sox don't win this division I hope it's the Indians. The Pirates were my distraction until they started sucking it up recently too.. I'm down to only having hope in the Brewers.

I have never left a baseball game earlier than I did last night (top of the 3rd inning). If they were fun-bad, I'd stay, but boring-bad is pretty much unwatchable.

QUOTE (JohnCangelosi @ Jul 31, 2011 -> 04:46 PM) This continual self promotion is not going to make you any friends on this board, FYI Pair the self promotion with using an apostrophe in Yankees and we've got strikes one and two!

QUOTE (ChrisLikesBaseball @ Jul 31, 2011 -> 03:23 PM) Yay Alex Rios!

QUOTE (kwolf68 @ Jul 31, 2011 -> 03:51 PM) LOL...ragging on Beckham because of what Bard just did to him? Give me a break...in that case Bard was just better and he'd have been better than most people. That was one of the nastiest breaking balls just before high 90s gas. Seriously, Bard was just nasty. Very few big leaguers would even get a foul ball in that at bat.

Steve Stone just absolutely dug into Bobby Jenks with two sentences.

Can someone tell Rios to stand up straight?!

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jul 31, 2011 -> 03:24 PM) At least he ran up to the ball. Like a gazelle! Proving he's a 5-tool player!

Yay Alex Rios!