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QUOTE (IlliniKrush @ May 6, 2013 -> 04:38 PM) You must not have played any hockey video games as a kid, because NHL 94 has to be in the top 5. It can be 3 and NBA Jam: TE can be 4. We've covered the 4 major American sports.

QUOTE (IlliniKrush @ May 6, 2013 -> 03:32 PM) ESPN doing a 25 best sports video games, starting today: http://espn.go.com/espn/playbook/feature/v...ideo-games-ever 1) Tecmo Superbowl 2) Ken Griffey Jr Presents Major League Baseball 3-25) irrelevant

On one spectrum, you want to add elite talent and players no matter what and you can build around them from there, but I just have no idea when that would be for the Sox. I have no problem with the team making bold moves, but this doesn't seem like it would be the right one. If a team like Baltimore or Pittsburgh got him, though, it would be an incredible prize. Same thing with the aforementioned Reds too. He'd be really, really awesome on a lot of teams.

I credit Gustavo Molina for this win

QUOTE (Soxfest @ May 6, 2013 -> 04:21 PM) Reed has a 11.00 plus ERA in ten games against the Royals not good. And in one of those outings, he gave up 6 ER in 0.1 IP. You just look for the worst in everything. If you had a child you'd probably say he didn't have enough pre-natal hair.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ May 6, 2013 -> 04:21 PM) In this group, how can you blame anyone but the players. With all of the errors, base running mistakes, and other stupidity, it is all on the players. Honestly, we're lucky we have Flowers in here instead of Pierzynski, because Pierzynski could make the chemistry of the clubhouse much worse because he's a butthead and he has not been nearly as clutch as Flowers has. They'd be worse with Pierzynski.

QUOTE (SoxAce @ May 6, 2013 -> 04:06 PM) Nearly 4 hours later, still haven't changed my mind. I GIVE YOU CREW CUT MISTER

QUOTE (Jordan4life @ May 6, 2013 -> 03:50 PM) I know you drink a lot. It's 2013. NotThisParticularYear Well I am parlaying that into a LeBron retiring after the season and signing with the Browns bet, so don't even think that you will be getting any of this money when I'm a billionaire.

BULLS IN 5

QUOTE (bmags @ May 6, 2013 -> 02:53 PM) yeah but it's the offseason and I wanted to talk NFL but didn't get a chance to. Tim Tebow got released by the Jets, DID YOU HEAR ABOUT IT?

QUOTE (fathom @ May 6, 2013 -> 01:59 PM) I blame the Tigers as well, as it seems like a very tough task to put together a roster that can win the division over them. As a Sox fan, the most frustrating thing over the last 3-5 years has been the ability for the Sox and Tigers to make competitive and comparative moves and to see the effect of those moves have such drastically different results. The Tigers signed Victor Martinez with the Sox signing Dunn, and Martinez was great and then hurt, while Dunn was awful and then decent. As a result of Martinez getting hurt, the Tigers added Fielder to an already deep lineup, and then continued adding. Everything the Tigers touch turns to gold while anything the Sox touch crumbles within a year or two.

Post draft grades mean as much as pre-season picks. They are fun to do, fill up column space, kill time, and ultimately mean absolutely nothing.

At this point, I wouldn't make a trade like that if I'm the Sox simply because you need to build for the future and trading 4 young players for 1 is simply not efficient, no matter how talented the 1 player is.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ May 6, 2013 -> 12:42 PM) If we had prospects we could trade, we could fix our starting line-up...or "reload" instead of rebuilding. If we had position prospects who were ready to contribute to our team at the major league level, we wouldn't have to sell off contributing parts of our team or cut veteran salaries. (And we could have outbid the Tigers' offer of Maybin/Miller for Cabrera and everything would have turned out differently). As we learned during the KW years, it doesn't matter if those prospects PAN out. It only matters that we were able to find willing trade partners who believed they would. Part of it's marketing/reputation....the Callises, Keith Laws, Gammons, Jayson Stark, Baseball America, BP lists, etc. Right now, other than Erik Johnson, the cupboard's pretty bare. Courtney Hawkins has a bad month with strikeouts (when he still hit for a s***load of power) and suddenly he's chopped liver. Beyond that, there were people talking about making trades all offseason and, amongst all the rumors I heard, there was only one that had any amount of smoke possible that I thought sounded legitimate that I would have made simply because this team is in such a volatile state right now. There's still time for them to turn it around and get hot, and there's still plenty of time for them to stay cold and get to a point where selling pieces off becomes logical (because, despite all of your beliefs (the general "you") trading pieces off right now is simply not logical). At some point, it just becomes impossible to reload like that, and I think that was part of the reason Williams stepped away/got promoted and why Hahn took over - there's simply little that can be done without rebuilding to some extent at this point, so you may as well let the new guy get in there.

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ May 6, 2013 -> 12:23 PM) a .320 hitter isnt good enough for greg. He needs to have at least 30 RBIs by now. Although that would require the hitters before him getting on base...... He's had 84 plate appearances. There's no reason he shouldn't have, AT THE VERY LEAST, 80 home runs.

That post confuses me so much. It just seems so off-topic. The Twins are not poor TODAY. I don't care what they did in 2004. The Twins outdraw the White Sox TODAY. I don't care by what percentage the White Sox outspent the Twins in the early to mid '00s. The White Sox still outspend the Twins TODAY so, comparatively speaking, attendance is not a big issue for the White Sox. It would be nice to draw more, but it's best to get the team winning first. Oh, and frankly, from a marketing perspective, the teams are nowhere near equal. The Twins have one of the most marketable players in baseball in Joe Mauer as well as a still relatively new stadium. The White Sox have virtually no marketability at all and play in a stadium that was known as being the last cookie-cutter stadium in the majors. From a major league talent perspective, I'd still say the White Sox are better, but if chickens*** is better than horses***, does either party really win?

That makes me a hero then, because my brother got hit by a foul ball by TORII HUNTER when he was 11 years old and he started crying, but it landed in the seat next to me and instead of checking to see if my bro was all right I went all GIMME DAT s*** f***ing impossible to see that s*** at the Metrodome

Well, #1, the Twins are not a poor team. There is plenty of money within the organization and they can maintain a $90-100 mill payroll pretty easily. And #2, this pretty much gives you no reason to ever bring up attendance again considering the Twins outdraw the White Sox by a large margin yet they can still outspend the same Twins team.

QUOTE (greg775 @ May 6, 2013 -> 11:16 AM) Testing his back does not sound very good. As we all know, back pain is pretty s***ty. I mean if he's got back spams at any point in a game or warming up, couldn't the discomfort hit him hard?? ptatc? This is standard. This is exactly like a player going on a rehab assignment to the minors. If you read anything more into it than that, then you are thinking about this way too much. Say you sprain your ankle, and 3 days later it feels better. Are you going to jog 3 miles on that ankle right away, or do you want to maybe do some light running initially to see how it feels?

QUOTE (The Ultimate Champion @ May 6, 2013 -> 11:06 AM) Great season for the fan cave, huh? Damn. I hope they allow alcohol in that thing. I can't imagine what it would be like to be stuck in the fan cave during that 2007 season, you want to turn the tv off but you're just stuck there in the damn fan cave watching Andy Gonzalez firing the baseball into the stands, watching Ryan Bukvich give up majestic 450-ft bombs on the worst hanging sliders you've ever seen, etc. I hope for Mhizzle this season doesn't turn out like that one. Eh, watching Matt Harvey would be pretty badass, and he could be an Angels or Blue Jays fan

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ May 6, 2013 -> 10:43 AM) I guess I can never imagine myself confessing to a crime I didn't commit, regardless of how long I've been questioned or what "promises" a cop provides. If torture was involved, maybe, but simple questioning? No way. I don't think I could either, but I'm 25 and you're older than that, so we don't exactly have impressionable minds anymore, we are in a position where we generally understand our rights, what's expected of us, and what's going on around us. We aren't 16-20 anymore. If I was under the impression that all I had to do was confess to something and I could be done with something like that, I probably would do so after 30 hours of testimony.

What's wrong with guys on teams saying hello to each other before a game? They won't get to do it during the game, and afterwards can be difficult. And it's not like being friends with guys on other teams is a bad thing. If you are going to blame anybody for that, then you need to blame Curt Flood and the rise of free agency.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ May 6, 2013 -> 10:09 AM) Anyone check out the start one of Hawk's favorite players, Carlos Gomez, is having? Started out pretty slow initially too, .378 OPS after his first 9 games

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ May 6, 2013 -> 09:43 AM) NV was also back to the classic Western setting of the original games The goofy, light-hearted nature of the game came back too

Yeah, I definitely think New Vegas was the better game. Not to say there wasn't anything enjoyable about Fallout 3, because I loved it too. Basically, I felt New Vegas was superior to Fallout 3 like KOTOR II was superior to KOTOR