witesoxfan

Just wondering.... Do you have a mute button on your remote control? I do. Besides....if I want White Sox highlights....I HAVE to watch baseball tonight. If I turn the channel...with my luck(which has been pretty damn good tonight )....I'll miss the Sox highlights. What really gets me in a s***hole real f***ing quick is when I watch baseball tonight waiting for Sox highlights, and then they never show them...either they don't even mention the game, or they just show the boxscore. I just want to put my f***ing fist through my TV. I apparently don't mind the talking and "analyzing"(or whatever you want to call it) as much as some do....however, what that show should do is show an in-depth highlight of the games of the day, instead of just analyzing s***. With the internet, people can just go to espn.com and read all of the s*** they talk about and more. Maybe bring up a point or two about something(like the most important things of the night at the end....that is kind of neat). Doing an analysis after every f***ing highlight is goddamn bulls***. If that's what pisses people off...then I'm in the majority. FSN needs to just to a baseball highlight show. They never do that anymore. All they ever do is have shows about sports(and that's not always true...the BDSSP isn't always about sports....Snoop Dogg as a guest? Please...), and they don't have any shows about sports highlights...or atleast not with my FSN. Those are the only places I get sports highlights. I never did see Borchard's huge bomb from the other night.

Yes, please send all money via PayPal, to [email protected] And if you actually do send money....I don't think I'd know what to say.

LMAO. I won't predict scores....because I don't know how the offense will respond to this win. It may come to life after such a win because they are playing a weaker team, it may go dead because they are playing a weaker team(it happened when we played Detroit, it could happen again when we play Cleveland, whose pitching is much better then Detroit's). I hate predicting stuff like this, especially against such a team like the Indians, because it's so hard to say they'll lose. I'll try anyways. Sabathia is going tomorrow for Cleveland...and over his past 4 starts, he has pitched quite well. I figure he'll probably beat us....and if you want a score, I'll guess and say 5-3 Indians win. On Saturday....Buehrle will pitch solid, and the offense will "come to life"....and the Sox will win 8-4. On Sunday....Bart will just come out and dominate....I'll say a CG for him, and a 5-2 win for the Sox. On Monday....I have a feeling Jon will come down to earth a bit....and the Sox will win 5-4. Now that I've made those predictions....it's time to see how many times I am wrong!

Yes, that's part of the league. Very good relief pitchers are the kings of this league. The Smoltz's, the Foulke's, the Gagne's of the world need their loving too. You get a guy that gets you 20-30 saves during the season...and that is 300 points right there. You get two that do that, you got 400-600 points. If you could get 2 very good closers who save a lot of games, about 5 power-hitters that walk a lot, and guys that put up good stats that don't strike out a lot....and you are looking good. Thing is, after they look over the league, almost everyone else catches on to that too. If they don't....they won't be playing much longer then 3 weeks. Tough love. Also....very good setup men(such as Octavio Dotel, Felix Rodriguez...those types) will get you some points too if you can't get a 2nd closer. 7.5 points for a hold....that's still quite a few points, and holds occur more often then saves do when a team is playing well. Another thing, the stats do not favor pitchers as a whole, except for saves and holds. Wins are not the exact oppositve of losses(I think wins get 2 or 3 points, losses cost 5 points). I'm sure you can tell that other stuff. What I am encouraging is that you do not pick up guys that qualify for both starting and relief pitching....because, unless they throw a perfect game, they will get you very few points.....such as a guy like Carlos Zambrano. He qualifies as a SP and a RP....but is being used as a starter. You do not pick him up, because he will cost you more points then he will earn you. In the other Survivor league I'm in, they have 3 pitching spots....1 SP spot, and 2 RP spots. Saves are worth 10, wins are worth 5, and the point-system favors pitchers a little more...I believe walks cost 1 point and K's are worth 2 points....you get a guy like Pedro or RJ that strikes out 12 or 13 a game, and he gets a CG SHO....you can get 40-50 points from a starter per time out. I got Colon....and the past 3 times, excluding his last start versus Toronto, he earned me like a combined total of 100-110 points....in 3 starts. That's a lot of f***ing points. This league is definately different then most leagues....but it's the intrigue and the different setup that makes it so fun. And in the other league I'm in, there are 2 big clowns that offer very lobsided trades....it gets humorous. In fact, just today, one of them offered me a trade....I believe in the league(which was setup very similarily to mine...with walks being worth 2 and K's being worth -2) he offered me Kevin Brown and Luis Gonzalez for Barry Bonds and Kyle Lohse. Lohse and Brown cancel either other out, as they are close enough to being equal, which made it basically Bonds for Lugo. Anyways....I'll just let everyone know again that this league is fun as hell....I don't think I've ever been in a fantasy league as fun as this, and I'm not sure I ever will be. You'll just have to try it for yourself.

Also....cdub....this is what I was referring to. 58th post in "NO f***IN WAY"

It better have been. I was going to whoop some ass if it wasn't!

I said last night that what we got in the top of the 9th was just a fluke. The teased us with what they could do. I said that we'd get little offense again today, but that Loaiza would come in and shut the Jays down. I figured around 3 runs....because they aren't hitting as bad as they were last week...and they've always played decently against the Jays.. Cory Lidle, a guy that shut us down last week with mediocre stuff, also pitched for them. I find this win huge, not only because we just split a series with a tough Toronto team, but because we got good starting in all 4 games. Not great in all 4 games(though we got great pitching in the last 2), but good, solid starting. I predicted a 3-2 win last night....and we won 3-2. Hey BMR, you just lost the board psychic role!

Oh, that's what you meant by pouring. I'm so young, I didn't catch on. If that's the case....pour away!

That better be s***ty beer then. You never pour beer. You drink it.

Why does that scare me?

Suppose the score will remain the same and my prediction will come true? I say yes. Loz is a friggin stud, and this offense will stay quiet the rest of the game.

I figure that if Garland's value rises in the next 2 months to where he is actually very attractive to another team(such as, say, the Red Sox), we trade him....and get some very good prospects. We then keep Colon and resign him in the offseason.

Todd Walker is in the last year of his deal. Freddie Sanchez is tearing up AAA. Put 2 and 2 together here folks. We'll have to blow the Red Sox away with an incredible offer before we get Freddie Sanchez. May as well just keep Colon....I'd prefer having Jose back at SS and Colon back in a (White) Sox uniform next year instead of having neither and having Freddie Sanchez. Freddie Sanchez could become the next ARod and I'd be fine with keeping Colon. Good pitching ALWAYS beats good hitting. Put it this way....I'd take Freddie Sanchez over any MI in our system right now; however, I won't give up Colon for him.

Last night, in that game, PK came up with Thomas on second, Maggs on first, no outs....I said he should bunt here, and we should bring 1 run in at the very least. He bunts, he gets the job done, he helps the team score a run, he slowly gains confidence, and before you know it, he's having 2-homer games against the Cubs after he gets plunked in the head. Instead, he goes ahead and hits....and I knew that he was going to ground into a DP. You give him a runner on first, and he'll somehow, some way, figure out a plan to ground into a double play.

They're not exactly top prospects. Being #43 is really no different then being #48. It's when you get to like #30 and below that it really starts to matter

When that much meat hits the ground, something is gonna rip. Meaning, Frank, don't dive for balls.

I think he said something to the extent of "After both Buehrle and Colon pitched well and lost, this win by Garland was huge." That's why he left out Loaiza. Loaiza pitches tonight.

So how is Boston going to use him? As a closer in an already overcrowded pen, or as a starter in an already overcrowded rotation?

Why 473? Am I missing something? He apparently doesn't want his daughter partying, eh? They're all the same.

Hey, Karma's a b****. It all worked out in the end. What goes around, comes around.....or something like that. We trade a pitcher whose arm is torn up before we trade him, and low and behold, we get a stud who has World Series experience and won 20 games the year before. He comes in here, and goes 5-7 before having surgery on his back. We deserved it, regardless of whether or not we knew about Siro's injury.

Unexpected doesn't even begin to describe it If Manuel were a good manager....he'd help the team use this past win against the best team in baseball for this month to gain momentum and start playing with enthusiasm. I doubt it happens.

His range is probably as good as Konerko's, and other on the 3-6-3 or 3-6-1 DPs, how often does a 1Bman have to throw? Keep him there.

You have to win a reward challenge. A hypothetical reward challenge would be something like "How many runs will the White Sox score today" or "How many runs will the White Sox score this week" or something like that. I might possibly do a reward challenge where you pick if we win or not, and the number of runs we win/lose by. If we won, the people that said we'd lose would be eliminated from winning the RC immeadiately, and if we won by 3, and 4 people picked that we'd win by 3 runs, then those that said differently would be eliminated. After that, I'd go with tiebreakers that you don't choose...I'll probably choose a set tiebreaker order right away and use that the rest of the year....and I'd probably do it from the offensive standpoint....whoever scores the most runs between the 4 teams....two teams tie, I go to the next tiebreaker....they tie again, I go to the next tiebreaker....etc etc etc....until we finally get a winner. Do you see how it works?

I couldn't find a huge Bills helmet like that....but I did manage to find this. It looks shockingly similar to yours!

If you get immunity, you could have 0 points for the round and still move on. You cannot be eliminated after that period, regardless of how many points you have. As for the scoring system itself... Statistical Categories (Batters): Runs (1) Singles (1) Doubles (2) Triples (3) Home Runs (4) Runs Batted In (1) Sacrifice Hits (2) Sacrifice Flys (2) Stolen Bases (2) Caught Stealing (-2) Walks (2) Intentional Walks (2) Hit By Pitch (3) Strikeouts (-2) Ground Into Double Play (-5) Statistical Categories (Pitchers): Pitching Appearances (1) Wins (3) Losses (-5) Saves (10) Outs (.5) Earned Runs (-1) Home Runs (-3) Walks (-2) Hit Batters (-2) Strikeouts (3) Batters Grounded Into Double Plays (5) Holds (7.5) EDIT: 247....I changed the draft time to 5:40 CT. Does that work?