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They're not cheaper. A lot of those bats are 200.00 + . They use them because there is much more room for error by the hitter and the ball DOES go much further. I always HATED the sound ! It's just not baseball. I think what he's talking about is that wooden bats will cost a lot more as the season goes on. You'll break a few wooden bats here and there....and they cost something like $30-$50 or so(I'm guessing here)....you break 7 bats, you are $210-$350 in the hole real f***ing quick. Also, with wooden bats, you really have to buy your own bat, because the more hits a wooden bat takes, the sooner its life of hitting baseballs will end. For a team of 15-20, that is $450-$1000 per team of just bats(of course, the parents would pay for that, but they probably already had paid a large amount of money just to get their kid(s) into baseball). With aluminum bats, the baseball organizers pay $1000 and get 5-8 real good bats....and you probably don't have to buy bats again for a few years, until the ones that you bought originally lose their pop. That's how they save money.

Dave Justice is not good. He does not have a good TV voice, IMO, and his ideas are wrong. Greg Walker's hiring was brought up, and he said something to the extent of "all hitting coaches preach basically the same thing." That is just plain WRONG. There are several things you can preach on as a hitting coach....you can preach on manufacturing runs instead of trying to always kill the ball or always playing small ball....do a little of both, because manufacturing runs is a part of both. They can preach about waiting for the 3-run homer(and for some teams, that works....look at the Yankees last year....that's exactly what they did, and they won 103 games).....out-slugging you constantly. They can preach timely hitting....which is what Minnesota does. They'll never have a guy that steals 30-40 bases, they'll never have a guy that hits 40 homers, they'll never have those dominant type hitters at the plate, who just simply flat out rake. What they will have is guys that will get big hits in big situations. Hitting coaches can also preach small ball....constantly bunting, using hit-and-runs, sac bunts, while hitting well as a team. I just named 4 types of offenses a team could have.....and there are probably more. Some go hand in hand(such as manufacturing runs.....that goes ties right along in with timely hitting and small ball)....and some do not(waiting for the 3-run homer and playing small ball are way different). IMO....the best offense has all of the above....they can outslug their opponents, they can manufacture 2-3 runs if necessary, they get timely hits, and they play small ball. You get an offense like that, and you have a hell of an offense.....one that will rarely slump. This White Sox team could have an offense that fits all of the criteria from above. They don't though...they don't steal enough, they don't bunt enough, and they don't manufacture enough runs. And I won't even mention timely hitting....if these guys knew what timely hitting was, we'd be over .500 instead of under .500.

You know, I agree with this. But Frank is about the last guy that we should be complaining about who is struggling. Atleast Frank is still getting on base.

Seeing some names you don't normally see. Virginia, Arizona St, Washington, Purdue, and the one I was most surprised by, Auburn. I'm looking forward to watching college football this year....this will be the first year I really watch and follow college football, instead of just follow the top 25. That's what a great championship game can do to you.

I never thought of that. That's f***ing brilliant. Bring down Bart's asking price if they take Paul Konerko from us in the same deal. I love Colon as a pitcher, but if we have to see him go, then so be it. He's a hell of a pitcher, and if he is traded, it will be a sad day for me. If we could resign him after the season, that'd be incredible....and, if I'm thinking right, we have the money to do so. Get them to take on Konerko so we can then lower the asking price....and we free up $8 mill a year. Jose leaves....and possibly Carlos and Frank as well....and that is like $13-$23 mill being freed up. That is plenty of room to bring back Bart.

So the peckerheads had to cheat to win. Figures. Why didn't we think of that?

I hate to say this, because he is right, but.... "THANK YOU, CAPTAIN OBVIOUS!"

Smoking cigars and nothing else works fine for filling in the blanks fine with me. So it should read jr , krause, and eddie smoked cigars and nothing else Ahhh, much, much, much better

You just read that one to yourself. Nothing can compare to that....that is just horrid.

Save the rest....I've read enough!

This guy is exactly what we need....a swtich-hitting, power hitter who has good patience and strikes out about as much as he walks....he is clutch as hell. I bring this up because I am watching the Twins game as I type....and Zito had a 1-hitter through 7....pitches the 8th, first two batters reach, and Kielty comes in to pinch hit. Actually gets a pitch he can handle and absolutely demolishes it....foul. Later in the at-bat, he fights off a tough fastball down and in, and on the very next pitch, gets another pitch he can hit, and demolishes that one too....fair. That guy is a f***ing stud....I wish the White Sox had him so bad....he's a hell of a player.

Thomas would have been a better choice than Armando Rios.

Anyone got $2 mill handy? I want Manuel out...RIGHT NOW.

i may be doing that soon anyhow and for different reasons though...........but i bet i left ya with a nasty image of jr in your mind now didnt i........... :puke :puke :puke :puke :puke :puke :puke :puke :puke That's f***ing disgusting! I'd agree with Disco...that's even more disgusting then White Sox baseball. Also...good luck with the move, if you do eventually move. We all may be joining you if everyone reads that!

Not likely He just gains a little confidence, and has it crushed 5 innings later as the team lets him down. I'd look for another blowup or two in his next couple starts. That's horses*** that he lost. That's why they need to include another stat that includes players....the W-L column....if you make a dumb play in the field, you lose the game, the pitcher doesn't take the fall. However, if you make a great play or you hit a game-winning homer, you win the game. Great players wouldn't lose, bad players would never win.

Because we're the White Sox?

Nope, not working. Sorry....you'll have to try harder! The only way you could get it to do that would be do describe all the details....and I'm afraid if you did that, then you'd get it branded into your mind everytime you think of the Sox. You then couldn't ever think about the White Sox again. You'd have to move to Birmingham and watch the Barons and start following them, and you couldn't watch the Sox anymore. Then again, that doesn't sound that bad right now. Atleast they are playing, what you could call, baseball. I don't know what the hell the White Sox are playing but it sure as hell ain't baseball.

I am trying to do the math and still don't see that -- ???? Joe Borchard - .286 D'Angelo Jimenez - .285 Magglio Ordonez - .278 I think that's as far as I need to go. Then again, when considering the amount of games, you could also include Tony G, and I'm sure he;s hitting .320 or .330. you do math better than me Graf was hiting 264 going into tonight's game Actually, Yahoo does my math for me. Also....you are correct. Tony G is hitting .264. I just made a guess and figured he was hitting better then that.

Couldn't you have said something sexual without having them having sex? How about them watching a good porno? Talking about sexual encounters they've had in the past? I really didn't need to read about two old men having sex, whether or not it was a joke. That kind of thing can put a visual in your head. Thankfully for me, it did not!

I am trying to do the math and still don't see that -- ???? Joe Borchard - .286 D'Angelo Jimenez - .285 Magglio Ordonez - .278 I think that's as far as I need to go. Then again, when considering the amount of games, you could also include Tony G, and I'm sure he;s hitting .320 or .330.

Let's just pretend you didn't say that

This surprises you? Remember when Magic Johnson got voted to start and didn't play a single game? Didn't that happen to Grant Hill a year or two ago? Fan voting is so f***ing stupid...the only sport that actually has decent fan voting is the NFL...because everyone seems to know who is doing well and who is not. I think the top guns of the MLB, NBA, NFL, and NHL(and if you want to, you can include the MLS), and they need to get a plan that works the same for each sport as far as All-Star weekend goes....or atleast in the MLB, where the All-Star game actually means something this year. I do not want to see s***ty, name players instead of good, unknown players. When it comes to the World Series, I will almost always cheer for either the underdog, or the AL team if I don't like the underdog(for instance, if Minnesota made it, and they were playing like, for instance, the Braves, I would cheer for the NL).

Guess who leads the team in average? And I thought he said he wasn't ready.

Which team?

Started a Survivor League....here's kind of how it goes... It is a point based league....broken up into 4 periods of time. After each period ends, teams with the lowest scores are eliminated, their players are dropped and then are distributed amongst the others as waiver-wire players....and a new period starts, where the scores from the first period are wiped clean(which means that after the first period, you don't even pay attention to the column on the left). There is a HOST team that carries about 4 or 5 players at a time....and you do reward challenges, where you make guesses about things that will happen in the majors....which would be explained later. If you win a RC, you either get a player or immunity for that period....and I'll signify before hand which it is. Also....after each period ends, the HOST team will put claims on 4 or 5 new players and those players are off-limits. You have to give me access to your team, or else I will lock you out until you do. Simple as that. Once you get there, you'll note that for the pitcher's spot, all you'll see is RPs....meaning RPs are the most valuable players in the league. If I closer comes in and gets a save, while striking out the side, you get 20 points. That is the most points you can get for a 1-inning save. Also...walks and strikeouts are used as points....as well as sac flies and sac hits, and IBBs are as well. Once you get there, you'll understand. It's really a league that you need to consider a lot of stuff before you go into the draft. In most leagues, guys like Jose Hernandez and Alfonso Soriano are very, very valuable at their respective positions, because they either don't include walks in the scoring or they don't include strikeouts....this includes both, so you should normally see Jose Hernandez on the FA market, and Soriano go later in the draft. Barry Bonds becomes the player to have. If the league is run well by the commish(me in this instance), it one hell of a good time. Also....I could consider turning this into a keeper league....where we keep 5 players. We can make a decision on that later. Here's the info, for anyone who is interested: League ID#: 292894 Password: whitesox Draft is June 11th at 7:05 PM CT