Texsox

As anyone mentioned this thought . . . Hey Kenny, It's Jim, you know your DH? Any chance of getting me on a contender this season?

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Sep 2, 2009 -> 08:25 AM) I am hoping it means he has worked hard and improved, and that the award isn't like a gold glove in the majors. Basically what I thought as soon as I read that. It is difficult for me to be optimistic about anything WS at the moment. 2010 is starting to look good, so I'm starting to think of this as early Spring training.

Thanks everyone for the birthday wishes.

QUOTE (CanOfCorn @ Sep 1, 2009 -> 03:41 PM) Happy Birthday, Tex! May the Rio Grande Valley Killer Bees win the CHL in your honor! Every team in Texas made the playoffs They need to catch some lightening for that to happen.

I remember sitting in on a golf course committee which was discussing the new fleet of golf carts being purchased. Somene mentioned they were happy we were going to "non polluting" electric carts. I had to mention there was still pollution happening, it was just shifted from the course to wherever the electricity was being generated. A couple people actually believed that electricity just spontaneously appears at each outlet. They had no concept of generating electricity and using fuels to do it.

QUOTE (kev211 @ Sep 1, 2009 -> 08:39 PM) He'll be the DH in the AL park in the WS if the dodgers get that far. I hadn't thought of that. That would be cool. And, pondering the future, no one has mentioned if he was to win the ring, retirement may be on his mind. There are probably 600 reasons why he wouldn't, but still, it would seem tempting at this point in his career.

Steve, you are at the second stage. You need to work through the anger and get to bargaining, then depression, and finally acceptance. There is time left this season, and we all will be working through these stages. Some quicker than others.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Sep 1, 2009 -> 02:56 PM) Bring Your Own White Friend. Not what I meant, but

QUOTE (kapkomet @ Sep 1, 2009 -> 07:13 PM) You bring this up every damn time. And it's now a fallacy - Americans WILL do it. f***, I might have to pretty soon, and I'm not joking. There's no other jobs. Second, as Alpha commented, and I have repeatedly and repeatedly, guest worker programs are fine. But then they will not be subject to health care availability, nor should they be. I know seven white collar professionals out of work. Two for over a year. So far none have been willing to take jobs for significantly less than they were making. And certainly not willing to move to Omaha and work in a processing plant. Yet only one blames it on H1B professionals that have been hired from overseas that are actually working the same job they work.

Well, it is pretty much football season.

QUOTE (Alpha Dog @ Sep 1, 2009 -> 03:14 PM) Tex, not every illegal immigrant in this country picks crops or busses tables. How many meat packing pants have been raided lately? Those are good paying jobs that people lined for inthe hundreds when they were available. We talked about all this in other threads, I have no problems with a viable guest worker program, but then they wouldn't be here ILLEGALLY then, would they. Anyone not here on a guest worker program should be promptly shown the way out of the country. Actually those meat packing plants have some of the largest turnover rates in the country. There is a huge shortage of workers. And, once again, there are not as lot of unemployed citizens willing to move to the plants to work, and not a lot of communities that tolerate a meat packing plant in their area. Again, look at this scenario, a student arrives from overseas to attend a US University, they go on to receive a coveted spot in a US Med school, they stay here and earn a nice salary in the US. So far, we don't have a complaint in the world. But when they want to hire a yardman or babysitter WHOA!! That's a job an American can do. We want Americans working for the foreign professionals. What a f***ed up system. What we need is a guest worker program that makes it easier for American businesses to hire minimum wage labor from overseas and much, much, harder to hire skilled labor from overseas. The guest workers should have very limited benefits, and most of those should be tied into what benefits America the most.

And it's BYOWF time on the south side. The annual glimpse of what may come next year. Maybe in a few days I will get excited, but the last hope I had for this season just collapsed like a six day old helium balloon. Not in a magnificent pop of a new balloon, but in the slow, gradual seeping out, with a last gasp that will not even make your voice all high and squeaky.

QUOTE (Chisoxfn @ Aug 31, 2009 -> 12:40 PM) Cool. It'll at least be fun to see what these young kids can do. My guess is we might see Hudson too, just so he can see what the major leagues is like. How about an ad campaign "These Kids Can Play"? I'd rather be in a race

Or we could spend a few hundred billion dollars in rounding them up and destroy our agriculture industry. Until I see a whole lot of unemployed Americans rushing to pick crops in Idaho for four weeks, or work at a processing plant, I'll support a guest worker program that gives them only limited benefits. Using the same system to bring in a $100,000 programmer or accountant, as you would to bring in a $14,000 temporary farm labor, is kind of silly.

Easy boy! I was ahem, adding to my post count

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Sep 1, 2009 -> 12:31 PM) Here is a picture live from the Valley, where Tex celebrates the only way he knows how... chasing kids off of his lawn. Hmm, this has me thinking . . . Bobby Hill or Bobby Jenks?

And I am back in the thread.

QUOTE (WCSox @ Sep 1, 2009 -> 11:00 AM) True, but the Sox were more effective offensively during the first half of the season, when Pods was healthy. He was a difference-maker. The Sox were also MUCH more effective at bunting and moving runners along via productive outs in general. This latter point is a lost art that has cost them since. icing on the cake.

QUOTE (whitesoxfan99 @ Sep 1, 2009 -> 10:57 AM) The Sox scored 127 more runs in 2006 than they did in 2005. Thome was the major reason for that but I guess it was station to station baseball that did the Sox in that year rather than the fact that the pitching staff gave up about 150 more runs than the previous season. It is Thome's fault Politte became a terrible pitcher, Cotts sucked, Buehrle sucked, and Contreras got injured. If only we had more speed and a less productive hitter we would have won it all that year. And this myth that the Sox won with speed that year really needs to end. That lineup included Everett, AJ, Dye, Konerko, Crede, Uribe none of whom could really run. Rowand had above average but not great speed, Iguchi had decent speed but nothing more. Pods was the one guy who could really run on that team that was an everyday player. The Sox hit 200 HR, as already pointed out most of the big hits in the postseason were HR. The 2006 offense with the 2005 pitching staff wins 100+ games with ease and just about any year your pitching does what the 2005 Sox did in the playoffs you win the WS. When the other team doesn't score you win. amazing that someone actually has to post this on a White Sox message board. But maybe 2005 was just so long ago. Great post.

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Sep 1, 2009 -> 10:41 AM) Have a great day taking a ride around town. Get your motor runnin' Head out on the highway Lookin' for adventure And whatever comes our way Yeah Darlin' go make it happen Take the world in a love embrace Fire all of your guns at once And explode into space I like smoke and lightning Heavy metal thunder Racin' with the wind And the feelin' that I'm under Yeah Darlin' go make it happen Take the world in a love embrace Fire all of your guns at once And explode into space Like a true nature's child We were born, born to be wild We can climb so high I never wanna die Born to be wild Born to be wild

I was in until the end. And today is the end. Play out the season, hopefully no one gets hurt, and wait until next year. And hope that the Cubs do something spectacularly bad to make us laugh.

QUOTE (scenario @ Sep 1, 2009 -> 10:13 AM) IMO the Thome trade wasn't for us... it was for him. Nobody trades a productive player + cash for a 26 year old A-ball scrub because it's good for the ballclub. It was a class move by Kenny to give a future Hall-of-Famer at the end of his career a chance at a ring. Period.

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Sep 1, 2009 -> 10:05 AM) ALDS Game 1 - we hit 5 homers, including two 3-run bombs ALDS Game 2 - we won on a 3-run homer ALCS Games 3 & 4 - 1st inning 3-run & 2-run homers gave us the lead we didnt give up and set the tone WS Game 1 - game winning run was on a homer WS Game 2 - the big hit was a grand slam, then a walk-off homer WS Game -3 - won on a 14th inning homer Shhh, you may wake up some people.

Valentines Day is a long ways away

thankfully no, but that's another great song