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Methinks certain posters who like to hang around when the Sox are losing are being rather "silent" tonight.

AND THE PADRES ALSO BEAT THE TWINKIES! ANOTHER GAME UP!

QUOTE(TLAK @ Jun 18, 2005 -> 02:59 PM) Am I the only one who doesn't know who Vince Vaughn is? There ya go

QUOTE(RibbieRubarb @ Jun 18, 2005 -> 01:29 PM) MY fear is that when the playoff roll around...We'll have a Jim Belushi sighting!! AHHHHHHHHHH!!!! :puke :puke He is the biggest celeb-sports-whore around. Any Chicago team in the playoffs can put money on the fact that Jim will stop by, wear that team's hat and show up in the booth to chat about his show and how he is Mr. Chicago... Ugh I don't think you have to worry about that. He was interviewed by some paper last year and basically bashed the Sox all while professing his undying love for the Cubs. Besides if the Belushi isn't John, then it doesn't matter.

Ryan Sweeney. If it's not him, it's gotta be Jerry Reinsdorf.

The day Jim Everett became one of my favorite NFL players

What in the flying f*** is with the Twins always winning in the 11th f***ing inning in that s***hole! :fyou

Wow, that was sad. Guess you never know a person until you've seen what they have had to go through. You can only hope that he can reconcile with his father, & that his father can get clean.

Missed the thread. Congrats DBAHO. Guess I get to use this:

Is it possible to be PWNED twice in a single thread?

QUOTE(56789 @ Jun 12, 2005 -> 07:21 PM) No, the mets did... I think he meant Manuel as in "Charlie Manuel".

QUOTE(Gene Honda Civic @ Jun 12, 2005 -> 07:02 PM) HR's suck Really. Especially game-winning ones.

QUOTE(Jabroni @ Jun 10, 2005 -> 01:04 AM) I like Hawk but it's still a pretty funny site. I guess I'm missing the humor. Getting a bunch of 2nd hand quotes from opposing fans whose opinion I could really care less about? Using some silly animation showing an animal defacating from the mouth? If the guy hates Hawk, that's fine. But to disparage the man when this person doesn't even have the guts to reveal who their identity is pathetic. Not meant as a personal rant on you, Jabroni. I just think the website is garbage.

Lovin' this thread. Now I have no problem with those who want to express their anger and disdain when the Sox are playing like crap, but some of the newer posters basically have come in and started the "This player sucks", and "That coach should be fired" garbage. Not to mention other posters who only show up when the team is in a funk. Not when they're winning, but going through a bad slump. To address the needs of a winning team is fine. To start the "we need this guy", & "we need to dump this guy" posting gets really stale, & really boring after awhile. And God forbid you actually stand up for a player or coach, & you almost get burned at the stake. The last thing I want to see are a bunch of homers who feel this team can do no wrong. But I also don't want to see those who only want to be heard when the team sucks. Just my 2 cents. You may fire away on my post now.

Nice. Any info on Honel down the road?

QUOTE(Wedge @ Jun 5, 2005 -> 01:05 AM) The entire article is based on the Thomas quote, "I've got to get more at-bats" Frank could've said "I", and the media would've found a way to spin in negatively.

5 bucks says another journalist from a rival paper in the city writes a similar article on Monday morning. This would be right up his alley. Just a hunch.

Rick Morrissey -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- In the wake of the news Big Hurt can easily become big sulker E-mail this story June 4, 2005 The big wind arrived about a half hour before game time Saturday, followed a few minutes later by a hard rain, followed, if I know Frank Thomas, by a very large man saying something to the effect of, "I can almost understand Ozzie Guillen taking the bat out of my hand, but now God is doing it too?" But the rain stopped, the game started only 15 minutes late and, well, guess what? The White Sox still have a problem on their hands with Mr. Thomas. People will say that you can never have too many good hitters, especially on this team, and that Thomas and Carl Everett can coexist. But Thomas is not built to be a second thought, let alone an afterthought. All the good chemistry the Sox have is about to be tested by a chemical known to have some unstable properties. "I've got to get my at-bats," Thomas said Saturday, and he's right. He needs to play more than a few games in a row to get into a rhythm. He needs a lot of at-bats to be minty fresh. He needs to play first base, too, but he can't because he's still feeling the effects of off-season ankle surgery. So he's a designated hitter who, until his muscle memory remembers how to hit .300, sorely limits what the Sox can do. And because the Sox are playing on the road against National League teams Colorado and San Diego starting Monday, there won't be any DH opportunities for Thomas in the next week. Other than that, it's all pretty simple. Thomas went 1-for-4 Saturday against Cleveland, and as good as it was to see him get his first hit in almost a year, it was hard to forget that the Sox find themselves in a strange situation that could go bad quickly. That's not alarmist thinking. That's the reality of what life with Frank has been like the past 15 years. We're told that everything is wonderful in Soxland. And it's hard to argue it isn't when the team has the best record in baseball. But you have to say the Thomas conundrum is what Guillen was worried about when he offered this preemptive strike against his former superstar in mid-April: "It is good to have him here because now he can see a winning attitude, because he was part of the bad attitude. Frank was a big part of the bad attitude. Now he can see the guys, how we handle stuff, why we're not whining every day. … Everybody is happy, and I want Frank to be part of it." People jumped on Guillen for ripping into Thomas before the guy had even suited up. But if you had paid attention to Thomas and his career, then you knew that what the manager was afraid of—the Frank Thomas autographed burr under Ozzie's saddle—was inevitable. For Thomas to be happy, he has to be playing. And it's causing grief for Guillen, who has been as much chemical engineer as manager this season. How can he keep everyone happy? In this situation, a trade is normally a decent option. Part of the problem is that, as much as a trade might help ease any tension in the Sox's clubhouse, it's a risky move. Neither Thomas nor Everett has been the picture of health, unless that picture is an X-ray. If the Sox were to trade Thomas to the Angels and then Everett were to get hurt, where would the team be? With even less offense than it already has. And you just know that, this being Chicago, Thomas would go to Los Angeles, tear it up for the Angels and somehow make life miserable for the Sox in the playoffs. You're absolutely right—the Sox have to do something. They have to sit still, as hard as that might be. They have to work at making this thing work. And so it looks as if Guillen will have to live with a cluster headache for the rest of the season. Can he handle it? He's a man who isn't afraid to give his opinion or bruise an ego in the name of winning. The trick will be in making sure that whatever unhappiness arises doesn't spread through the clubhouse like a chemical cloud. "[Thomas] has bought into the whole team concept," teammate Aaron Rowand insisted. Many in the home crowd of 26,365 gave Thomas a huge welcome when he came to bat in the first inning, and he rewarded them with a single to left, his first hit since June 30, 2004. Just like the old days. He struck out his next trip to the plate, a reminder that he needs time and at-bats on a team that doesn't have a whole lot of either for him. [email protected] Copyright © 2005, The Chicago Tribune :headshake

YES! Yankees win! Thaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa Yankees win! Sox back up 4.5!

QUOTE(Fotop @ Jun 4, 2005 -> 07:51 PM) 2000 CWS 7 14 2 5 1 0 0 3 0 3 0 0 .357 .333 .429 .762 2001 CWS 17 50 1 11 1 1 0 7 3 11 1 0 .220 .273 .280 .553 2002 CWS 53 200 28 57 10 0 12 35 8 40 0 2 .285 .311 .515 .826 2003 CWS 151 536 68 140 31 2 19 75 32 75 1 1 .261 .308 .433 .741 2004 CWS 144 490 67 117 25 0 21 69 34 81 1 2 .239 .299 .418 .717 2005 CWS 53 172 22 39 8 0 7 21 12 26 1 1 .227 .290 .395 .685 Total -- 425 1462 188 369 76 3 59 210 89 236 4 6 .252 .302 .430 .732 With those kind of numbers it's going to take A LOT to shut your so called "haters" up. So I'd refrain from posting every HR Joe hits as a "I told you so" type of post because it's going to take a little more than one HR for people to be shut up about Joe Crede. If there can be a billion "Crede Sucks" threads, I think creating a post giving Crede props is justified. :rolly

1 for 3 with a walk and a 2 run homer. Come on Joe. Keep getting those clutch hits to shut the haters up.

This will probably be one of the dumbest comparisons ever seen on Soxtalk, but I do believe at one time, there was some lefty pitcher who had major control problems, and also only had 2 pitches (fastball/slider). But the team he was with stuck with him and let him work out the kinks and has since, become one of the most dominant pitchers of this era. Am I saying that Neal Cotts will follow down the same patch as the aforementioned pitcher, Randy Johnson? Nope. But he hasn't even had 100 innings pitched yet, is it really fair to close the book on him?

OZZIE SCREWED UP! THERE'S NO WAY HE SHOULD'VE LEFT EL DUQUE IN AFTER CRISP TOUCHED HIM UP FOR THE 3 RUN JACK! THIS OFFENSE IS CORPSEBALL AGAINST A SINKER PITCHER! HERMANSON SHOULD'VE RETIRED 3 IN A ROW! URIBE SHOULD'VE HANDLED GERUT'S GROUNDER WITH EASE! WHO CARES IF THEY WON, I'M SO MAD RIGHT NOW! THIS TEAM SUCKS!!! :fyou

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Chavez would be nice, but am I the only one that doesn't want to give up BMAC? For that fact, I don't want to part with Anderson, Sweeney, or Gio either.