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QUOTE (justBLAZE @ Apr 12, 2010 -> 09:06 PM) No matter how this ends, we've been playing some close games already this year. just not sure being the loser in so many one run that makes me feel that great, even being in that many one run games means we don't have the offensive/defensive balance needed to win cleanly. and while we're giving one loss teams a run for their money, they might have one loss from playing teams like the sox

remember last year we ran into TOR at the beginning of the yr when they were redhot, then MN seems to get em when they go back to icy cold either that or they look redhot because they're playing teams like us

it's just soooo easy to fall in love with this team on paper each pre-season, and scoff at what places like baseball prospectus almost always seem to call pretty accurately. it doesn't take long then to come to grips with the multitude of question marks that turn out NOT to have the career year needed for the miracle to take place

The Sox and Twins come down to a one game playoff to determine ALC champ. With Bases loaded, 2 outs in the 9th, Thome comes to bat, Sox put on the shift and he grounds out to shallow right field like the million times he did in a Sox uniform!!!!

so it's mini-Ditka time again?

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Dec 22, 2009 -> 09:24 PM) I saw a guy who got benched in 2004 and gave up 6 runs in less than 2 innings when he was put out there in the playoffs. A guy who really wasn't that great in 2005 in the NL, who then really wasn't that great again in 2006 when he came back to the AL. put up 1 or 2 games, and regularly fell apart on a team in a pennant chase. A guy who was legitimately really good on a terrible team in 2007, and a guy who was frankly, worse than you say in 2008 on another team in a pennant chase. Finally, he was very good again back in the junior league in 2009. If the comparison is Javy versus Hughes and Joba...ok, Javy probably is an upgrade. But this guy frustrated us for so long, this guy was an inadequate option for even a 4th starter for 2/3 years with us, and there's plenty of reason for the people here to think he just isn't going to do anything impressive for the Yankees. Javy will pull a Swisher with the Yankees, bet on it........

QUOTE (Brian @ Dec 24, 2009 -> 11:25 PM) Me: Why would I be? laughed out loud on that one......

QUOTE (joeynach @ Dec 24, 2009 -> 06:55 AM) Me too, I remember the same feeling. I went to game 1 against Bos with my dad and I will never forget it. Partly because it was Yom Kippur and we totally skipped going to temple for the game, and of course when we were talking about it in our seats everyone around us was like..yeah us too we skipped temple for the game....lol!! Of course we were nervous, we didn't really know how the sox would respond in the playoffs, it was the first playoff appearances for much of the team. But man when they started pounding Matt Clement all over the field and scored like 8 runs in the first few innings you just knew they would be fine. I think even Pods hit a homer that game too. It was like a Wow, we defiantly deserve to be here, we can defiantly win in the playoffs, great feeling. I was at games 1 and 2. Game 1, once JD hit that HR to right field, there was no doubt. Game 2, I took my father to for this 60th BDay, cost me 4Gs for two tix 10th row 3rd base line.... sitting in the 45F cold and rain was brutal, when PK hit that GS I didn't think it possible to feel that high, when Jenks gave up the tie, I didn't think it possible to feel that low. I have 3 kids who I love more than anything in the world, but when Pods hit that walkoff and the park exploded in a way that you had to be there to comprehend, I can say in total honesty, the feeling was better than becoming a father, and that's really saying something... I'm fourth generation die hard Sox fan, and losing that game in the ninth or extras, for something I planned so hard and spent so much to make happen, as a once in a lifetime experience for me and my old man, would have been pretty hard to bear. I can still remember jumping around like a lunatic, hugging every stranger within 15 yds in the rain when Pods ball went out. In retrospect, that night was easily worth 2-3X what it cost for the euphoria and memory that can never be taken away. My father always talked about the decades and decades where his father would sit in front of the radio night after night listening to the Sox, after 82 yrs of being a fan, died 6 months before the world series, never to see them win it in his lifetime, to this day I firmly believe he was there that night making sure my dad and I got to see a win togehter....

QUOTE (iamshack @ Dec 24, 2009 -> 02:10 AM) The funny thing about our White Sox Championship team, is that many people outside of Chicago probably do not even recall them winning. I think I read somewhere that they were one of the most "insignificant World Series Champions ever," whatever the hell that means. Fool. we'll always be the insignificant minority, when people think of Chicago they think Cubs, plain and simple. Having lived now near 20yrs outside the state, everytime I tell someone where I'm from, they automatically assume I'm a Cub fan......without exception. playing the Astros didn't help, going against STL that year would have made viewership double, at least....

and....this article appears to be only on the ESPN Chicago site, to be sure the rest of the country has absolutely no chance of seeing it, just the way the biased pr*cks at ESPN like it

opening line of the ESPN article..... "You're going to hear a lot of talk in the next couple of weeks about the 2004 Red Sox or the 2009 Yankees being the "Team of the Decade." " YEAH, relentlessly on YOUR NETWORK!! helluva prediction fellas!!!!

QUOTE (ChiSox_Sonix @ Nov 16, 2009 -> 11:33 AM) The Angels have had their eyes on PK for years...kinda like how KW is accused of paying too much for guys he's had his eyes on, hopefully they do the same here they did, but then Texeira showed up, left, and the Angels found a rising star in Kendry Morales, who is much more in his prime at 26, has much better numbers as a switch hitter, and is making less than 10% of PK's money--and for those of us locals who've watched him play all season, can tell you intangibly he's simply a better total pkg than PK, even taking money out of the equation. There's no logic in why the Angels would replace him

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Oct 11, 2009 -> 04:03 PM) Gotta admit, I don't like the Angels and was slightly pulling against them, but if they were going to win, it's nice to see them take down Papelboner in the process. there's absolutely nothing not to like about the Angels, unless you're a Dodger fan Papelboner...priceless! I thought my 7yr old thinking his name was AppleBun (which of course I never corrected) was good, but this tops it.....

QUOTE (daggins @ Oct 3, 2009 -> 03:05 PM) Id rather get Adrian Gonzalez anyway I'd rather get as many players like Prince who come to the plate with that "F**k Y**, I'm gonna make you pay!!" look on their face each and every at bat. I think chemistry, attitude, and character trump all this piecing together of baseball card statistics. This team has been missing that swagger for a couple seasons, TCQ had it last year, Dye in past seasons had it, AJ has it most of the time, and it's an x-factor I love to seeing in players like Beckett, Papelbon, Tori Hunter, Fielder, Cuddyer....it's contagious confidence that I think "plagues" winning teams....

QUOTE (Thunderbolt @ Sep 30, 2009 -> 08:52 PM) What do you mean? I said i hope that we play the Tigers hard. Like they played us hard last year. I want us to battle to play the spoilers. yeah, let's do our part to get MN in the playoffs!

I'd say trade Ozzie, Cox, and Cora for the LSU staff

QUOTE (robinventura23 @ Sep 25, 2009 -> 09:00 AM) I would rather Detroit win. They play in a normal stadium and have less annoying players. I could see myself rooting for Detroit to beat the Yankees, but I could never, ever root for Minnesota. "Nayled IT" MN's BS record with that joke of a park they play in is a bonafide waste of a division winner, unless they have homefield advantage throughout the playoffs, which they won't have in a single series they'd potentially play in Fk them and that non-baseball field slap hitting garbage..... gimme DET on natural turf to give hope for proud representation of the Central

QUOTE (santo=dorf @ Sep 23, 2009 -> 10:32 AM) I read one rumor on the internets that Jenks is hitting the bottle again and it's a distraction in the clubhouse. yeah, go ahead and post a link to this rumor?? I read he was moonlighting as a frycook at Al's beef, just wanted to merge our rumors together......

there's a 4 yr history of an entire team quitting under Ozzie, pointing to any individual players kinda silly at this point, doncha think???

yay

when 10-15 aspects of a team each present an arguable cause, for a team with a very high payroll such as the Sox, the top 10 reasons become the manager...... bolstered by the fact that the same question is posed on this board at the conclusion of now 4 straight seasons, with huge roster turnover year to year unless KW has a knack for amassing highly paid but poor character players, the skipper is the only logical conclusion how else do you explain failure is so many respects????

QUOTE (scenario @ Sep 1, 2009 -> 10:22 AM) How many rosters full of players under 30 are currently competing for the playoffs? exactly, BOS and NYY are teaming with 35 and older guys and look how they're doing we only need to lose one >35yr old, and his name is Ozzie

QUOTE (hogan873 @ Sep 1, 2009 -> 08:57 AM) It may not matter, as the team will most likely be out of it soon most likely? soon? have you been in a cryogenic chamber the past three weeks?

I voted Guillen, as I explained in detail in a few other threads. I'm a little stunned how many baseball knowledgeable people blame the 5 varied 40 man rosters we've had from 2005-2009 for collapsing in the final two months of the season, when they've all been driven by the same manager? When a club is underperforming, people say what does a manager do anyway? well if there's one thing he does is right the ship when it veers off course, and that means keeping the athletes focused, confident, hungry and driven. how do they do that? well, the good/great one's know, the lesser ones such as Ozzie clearly don't. in short, if we had the same guys for 5 yrs, that'd be one thing, but too many players from outside organizations have come here and caught White Sox Fever in August/September along with the rest of the club.... It's not KW, it simply cannot be the collective 5 x 40 man rosters, that leaves one Venezuelan constant

QUOTE (BigEdWalsh @ Aug 29, 2009 -> 08:33 AM) A 56-106 record, average attendance was in the vicinity of 6,000 per game. I went to games when they're weren't 1,000 fans in the ballpark, which is hard to fathom today. man, beer lines had to be fantastically short, and I'll be you could move up to primo seats w/ minimal hassle!!