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I personally haven't seen the commercial I'm about to speak of...but I've heard about Maggs infamous Pepsi commercial, where he could barely get out the words Pepsi because of his Spanish accent. Konerko is a much, much, much better guy to have do these commercials. The only other guy I would even want to consider have do it is MB.

I disagree. I feel that Rios is replacing Rowand's spot from last year, and Rowand is replacing Lofton. Rowand was the util OF last year....which is Rios's job this year. Daubach has replaced Liefer....a LF/RF/1B type.

Jas...one of Lee and Thomas will be gone after this year. I'm hoping the organization(aka JR) makes the right call.

Thank you. :fyou Tiger Woods You know what pisses me off about Tiger? The fact that he is like what Barry Bonds is to baseball, only worse. It seems that every AB Bonds had last year....Baseball Tonight had to show it. And Tiger is worse than that. He'll be down by 14 strokes going into the final round....and they'll ask him if he still has a chance. What the f*** is wrong with these people?

Which is the exact reason I wanna trade him....and trading him for Shannon Stewart would be fine by me.

And if you have a guy that is a threat to steal on base....you are less likely to see junk pitches and more likely to see fastballs being poured in. And if there are less then 2 outs and an 0-2 count....the chance of a K lessens because of the guy on first. You take off in that situation....and if it is a curveball, and the guy swings and misses....you have a runner on 2nd base. If it is a fastball...the ball is hit into play, and possibly through a hole. The only type of pitcher I would have to think about doing this against is the sinker type, who don't lose much on their breaking pitch speed wise. I do agree....and for the reasons Jas mentioned above. We are a team that could win a whole helluva lot of ball games. The best example I can think of is the Yankees from last year....we could win 103 games like them....no prob....especially in a division as weak as ours. Waiting for the 3-run homer...yeah, we could do that. But come playoff time....we'd get our asses handed to us....especially defensively. It'd be embarrassing to watch. IMO, we are an above average defensive team....but we will make errors....because all teams do....and we are more error-prone than most teams. Being error-prone is not a bad thing....because I believe range is the most important thing defensively in baseball and not necessarily having good gloves. But in the postseason...a team like the Angels or the Twins would find that weakness and kill us. We could get beat like 14-8 in a postseason game. If we played small ball...we could win. Hell, last year, had we played more small ball, we would have won a helluva lot more games and we could have truthfully won the division....Todd Ritchie may not have lost 15 or 16 games(I'll never mention his name again, I promise), Keith Foulke may have never had his "meltdown," Frank Thomas's average may have been higher than .252 and he would have had more RBI than 92....Maggs would have been a serious MVP candiate....and Buehrle would have been a Cy Young candiate. Teams that play good small ball are teams that win. Most people wonder why the Angels or the Twins won last year. Solid starting pitching and great pitching out of the bullpen also play a large part in that....but for the most part....any team can win with good small ball. And the homers will come. Frank Thomas hit 43 homers in 2000...and we had a few guys who could steal bases and play very good small ball. We were a powerhouse than....but we did play small ball very well. That was also a reason for timely hitting. The A's of right now have a lot of sac flies and play good fundamental baseball...you wonder why they win.

I think it would be f***ing funny as hell if like Val hit a homer and he started blowing kisses to the camera....and MB(he is pitching, isn't he?) pumps his fist after every strike out. Get in their heads early. And then if they hit us....we go beat the s*** out of them. Watch out for flying helmets from Mike Sweeney though

No way does Caballo get 6 mill. He'll be lucky to get what he's getting right now. The times have changed in the majors and mediocre players aren't going to get big bucks. Look what Daubach got. Lee's arb eligible. Shannon Stewart made like $4.5 mill last year....hit like .285 10 45 last year....a down year for him....and still got $6.2 mill in arb. Lee will make about $6 mill....sad, but true.

I gotta crazy ass idea that I thought of.....and is kind of on and kind of off the main subject. This has been an idea I have been proposing for some days now....but work with me. We trade Lee to Toronto for Shannon Stewart....and Stewart becomes our leadoff hitter and our LFer. We then move Jimenez down to the #5 slot in the order...a position where he can continue to hit like he does, but in this move, he also breaks up the righties(though he is a switch hitter). The way he hits, he resembles Robby Alomar without the amazing speed...though he could be a SB threat. A .320 20 100 20 hitter is not out of the question for DJ. Having that out of the #5 spot is very good....and when he gets on base, he then sets up Paulie and Crede and Rowand again. If this worked out, our lineup would become more effiecient....kind of like having two mini lineups in one, with one hopefully being as dangerous as the other, or very close to it. Anyways....to get on the subject....what this would also do is kind of bring small ball into the equation. Shannon Stewart, in his best year, hit 21 homers. He is more of a 10-15 homer kind of guy...kind of like Ray....though I'm not sure how much he strikes out. I do know he doesn't play great defense and he has a weak-ass arm....but that's aside from the point. He would only be here this year....as he is a FA after this year....and the team could decide to do what they wanted with him after that. That also opens up a spot in LF(assuming they didn't bring him back) for Borchard, or whoever might go there. And if Maggs were to drive in Stewart and Valentin on a double...Jimenez would be there to either move Maggs over. I personally think that improves the lineup....adding more team speed and a proven leadoff hitter....but it also clears some room financially, givng us more money to spend on keeping our guys here(like Colon and Thomas, assuming he has a good year, getting rid of all his f***ing mutual options....and Buehrle as well). And I also wouldn't mind dealing Paully....possibly for a good starting pitcher or something like that...and we could then use Dauber there....but that move is way more drastic a move than the Lee move. Just my 2 cents....and yes, we need to exhibit more small ball.

I actually believe that at one time, CLee was higher on the depth chart than Maggs was. Next year....Maggs will make $14 mill. CLee will make about $6 mill, max. I think we know who is higher on the depth chart now. I don't know about you guys....but I would seriously like to trade this guy now before he gets too spendy. A guy that hits great for half a year is not worth $6 million, IMO. Use Dauber or Borchard in LF....whoever. Break up all the righties in the lineup....getting CLee would do that in a second.

I wish we could have gotten Redman...but for a cheaper price. He cost them a good 1B prospect and a good pitching prospect. To put it plainly....that's too friggin much for a 12-15 win guy. It seems that when he was in Minnesota, he was killer. If he could shut down the Twinks consistently, and if he could do it for us, that'd be stellar.

What I think is funny is that we realize you have to get to the playoffs before you get to the World Series. Cub fans don't realize that. Come Memorial Day....we'll be seeing how many Cub fans are talking World Series.

I'm telling you, Angels in the Outfield and Major League 2 took their tolls on us. There is nothing wrong with the White Sox....trust me. We have good team chemistry, we have good offense, we have good pitching, and we have no egos. People just hate us because of respect. You don't hate the DRays, do you? How about the Tigers? Or the Brewers? You don't hate them because they aren't good. You don't respect them. Now, how about the Yankees? I personally would love it if they started to suck....but then some other team would get good and I'd have to hate them just like I did the Yankees. I hate them because they are good. Don't hate....appreciate. Besides....Royal and Indian fans are dumbasses.....let's cheer for a team who are probably going to lose around 90 games and be proud of it. Reminds me of a team's that is 8 miles north of the Cell. And we'll dish out some major crow when our favorite players are splashing champagne on themselves in their locker room come September or so.

how much of it is this knotts guy is real good or we just suck probably a combo of both...jas this reminds me too much of '01 but if we make this lead hold up we go 4-2 on the road trip..something we couldnt do in this similiar funk in '01 Knotts has a good arm, he came from the Florida organization. Seems like most of the young arms that come out of Florida are pretty successful. CWSOX45 I'm pretty sure he came over in the Redman trade...didn't he?

Damn Canadians... LOL....just kidding around....I actually wanted Weir to win....not before hand.....I would have rather seen someone else other than Tiger, Mantits(aka Phil Mickelson), Els....you get the idea. I just wanted to see an underdog win....so, I guess maybe seeing Weir win was what I wanted to see. I don't know. All I know is is that Mattiace is a f***ing choker. Haha...for as good a round as he had, he sure did choke big time on the playoff hole. At the very best, he would have gotten double bogey....what a pile of s***. I guess we'll be seeing a lot more of for a little while anyways.

Good....Bartolo gets his first win as a White Sox pitcher. Bullpen was good....but the offense still sucked ass. If the pitching remains solid...I got a lot of faith that we will win against KC, who by the way, will LOSE today. Down 6-1 in the 9th? Yeah, KC is going to lose....let's hope it is the start of a 4-game losing streak for them.

we are gonna lose alot of games out of our division if we cant start picking up guys in scoring postion with no outs or even 1 out. We're playing s***ty baseball right now, and are still over .500. That's what is important. If we can come out .500+ at the end of April....I really like our chances.....especially if the Twins keep on struggling. Something tells me they won't keep on struggling

I hope he's learning how to hit

Let's hope Sandy can get a sac fly.

Thigpen's career stats He had 1 good year after 90...a mediocre year....and then two very, very s***ty years....and that was that. Did he just wear out his arm that year or what?

Errors are a terrible way to judge how a well a player fields, especially OFers. I could play errorless ball in the OF in the major leagues....but I'd be f***ing s***ty as hell out there. If I let everything drop in for hits....and just fielded the balls on hops and threw it in right on target....that'd be errorless ball. That is most definately NOT the way you want a major leaguer to play defense. He has no range, no arm...and he made a terrible play on a ball yesterday. Lee is terrible in the field....and he never will be a good OFer defensively either.

Marte will get out of it....he started the inning, and he'll finish it too. Hopefully, we can put up another insurance run in the 9th....just in case.

Get well soon Bobby! It's freakin amazing how hard his saves record is to break. No one can ever get within 3 it seems. Smoltz got to like 55 last year, didn't he? That's the closest that pratically anyone has ever gotten to it. That record is almost frickin unbreakable

Who's pitching, Colon or Marte?

it was a high blooper..he chased it down..and then slide for it but slide like the wrong way....he took good angle and got there then slide about 3 feet to the left of tha ball..iut was wierd...its like he was in perfect position to catch it then acted like he wanted no part of it Yeah, I remember that play. Once he let it drop in, I thought "Daubach would have made that play." Let's hope our bullpen can hold this lead