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Like I said Milkman, I am so sorry that I urged you to have a great time at the park this summer. That was condesending. I hope you have a s***ty time at each and every game. Find a problem with everything you look at. QUOTE (Milkman delivers @ Mar 27, 2011 -> 07:38 PM) The hate comes out because you constantly make smug comments like this. You do it all the time, Tex.

He can stroke it to the east, stroke it to the west QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Mar 27, 2011 -> 07:44 PM) I'm waiting for Clarence Carter to get cut. The problem is I hear the Sox like his stroke.

I am still having problems with Firefox 4.0 I can only start at thebeginning and, for example the onl way to go back and add the space between the and beginning is to delete from here.

No escape from reality . . .

I'd love to hear who you think is unbeatable with no question marks, regardless of payroll.

No doubt I would have looked at the post differently at 20. Part of that was all the angst and frustration I had as a Sox fan. If history goes in cycles instead of a series of great teams after following the team for 40 years, some of you will look back, and I hope I am wrong, and realize this is the best stretch of Whote Sox baseball. I hope some of your memories are not clouded in excessive negativity. But hoping for happy memories for people seems to bring out the hate in some people. So for those, keep under the dark cloud.

Yep. Or during your first week.

There is a range of possible results from these guys. To win a WS, even after rebuilding, guys have to play at the top range of possibilities. You can't put a team together that can play bad or average *and* win a WS.

BTW, isn't it about time for you to get another job offer?

World Series are won on the field with players having excellent seasons, staying healthy, and avoiding bad luck. This team has the talent to compete. Rebuilding is a romantic notion that somehow at some future date you will have a better team. If it was that simple everyone would do it. Rebuilding today is buying a couple free agents, trading your Reeds for MLB ready players, and having a few guys catch lightening.

Baseball has to live the lie that April and October are baseball months.

Any of these scenarios are great if it is because people are getting on base. If it becomes Ozzie shuffling lineups like during the Jerry Manuel years, than ::SS, you may need more room on that island. That could be a lethal order.

And I'm hoping someone else earns it.

^^ Yeah, well when you lose all your teeth

QUOTE (iamshack @ Mar 26, 2011 -> 09:53 PM) Oh Tex...great idea...this is going to be one funny thread... I hope so. I think it has potential

QUOTE (BigEdWalsh @ Mar 22, 2011 -> 02:06 PM) How amazing is it that he was still performing at that age? Jeez! Was Ed talking about himself?

Excellent point Dick. I agree. But there is a difference between expectations of success and expectations of failure. You are stating exactly what I am saying, especially in April, expect the best, expect victory. Don't focus so much on what could go wrong. But again, I know that might souind preachy so if your mindset is to think about all the ways things will go wrong, go for it. If someone wants to expect failure, and there are some posters here that seem to relish in figuring out ways the team suck, I probably wasted my time typing this morning.

Dick, what I was trying to say is when you go to the restaurant that you like, instead of sitting there talking about all the menu items you don't like, enjoy the ones you do. Don't sit there and say, I wish their steaks were better, you can't get a decent desert here, that waiter was fine today, but next time we are there, I know he's going to suck. He;s been here for ten years and he's getting to old to wait on me. You know they aren't training anyone to take over in the kitchen, if the chef is calls in sick, this place is totally f***ed. Ever notice those chairs over there are terrible, the chairs at the other place down the street are so much better. And they spent all that money on new paintings, they don't have any money to buy new carpet. etc etc etc I mean, if that what you enjoy doing, knock yourself out, but it seems a little crazy to me. Since you might eat at that restaurant five times a week, you are a great customer, but why torture yourself?

Pointing out to people that this is a great time to be a Sox fan is bad?? Telling people to stop and smell the roses is bad?? WTF? If I had said don't plan on too much fun at the ballpark this summer. We don;t have a fifth starter, our closer is unproven as a closer, Konerko is getting older, AJ is getting older. this team could really suck and baseball on the southside is going to suck would that have been condesending? Yeah, we're going to be out of it by June. Don't waste your money buying tickets now for the second half, there will be all kinds of sales if you enjoy watching Ozzie throw out a white towel.

I wrote a long post telling people to lighten up and have fun at the ballpark, I am such a f***ing bastard I am so sorry to encourage you to have fun at the balpark. Milkman, have a f***ing s***ty time at every game you go to!! Is that better?

I get blacked out on Ranger games. Dallas is 400+ miles away and there is no local coverage of the games.

^^ True heroism IMHO is having a choice, these guys presumably could have gotten out of town, but stayed.

Thanks Cali, I appreciate the comments and that is true, I wasn't trying to be condesending. But after really thinking about it, it wasn't my place to suggest to anyone to enjoy life. If people wish to be unhappy and pessimistic, that's cool. And they found other pessimists to hang with. This team is one of the best ones that has wore a Sox uniform in the past 30 years. Capable, if things go right, of winning a championship. That isn't blind optimism, that's looking at roster from 1970 forward. In those forty years, find me ten Sox teams with better lineups. If y'all want to concentrate on the problems, look for flaws, figure out how this team will suck, knock yourself out

I've agreed with Kap before, it ain't so bad.

Dammit, I upgraded to Firefox 4.0 and have a problem editing posts. It basically keeps the cursor from being inserted anywhere but at the end. I also cannot add to the end of a post is I quote someone. f***, I hate s*** like this,