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QUOTE (spiderman @ Aug 16, 2008 -> 06:03 PM) Josh Fields/Juan Uribe spring training battle? bullet to the head sounds better

they got one in Oakland, so that should mean something atleast

QUOTE (WilliamTell @ Aug 16, 2008 -> 01:20 PM) It's easy to say this now since KC is routinely terrible, but if there was on team other than the Sox that I'd want to win the division, it'd be KC. For the most part I like their team, since they're bad. They're dirty as hell too...I would like nothing more than to see them finish in 4th or 5th place for the next 10 years.

QUOTE (Tony82087 @ Aug 14, 2008 -> 08:51 PM) I was more referining to WHY DIDN'T WE GET BYRD OR WAHSBURN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" posts, which there are two very good reasons, but you are correct. I still don't understand how the Sox didn't end up with Byrd. I just don't get why there wasn't a little bit more interest.

QUOTE (Kenny Hates Prospects @ Aug 14, 2008 -> 06:41 PM) Very realistically? How the hell is Poreda with his no secondary stuff going to come in and put up numbers similar to a 3.07 ERA, 1.12 WHIP, 9.88 K/9, 2.63 BB/9, 7.46 H/9, 0.22 HR/9 in 41 innings of Major League Baseball mostly played in Colorado? 1-pitch Poreda is not all that special. Maybe he'll be something more than a set-up man at some point in the future, but to say he's anywhere near a pitcher the caliber of Fuentes is ridiculous. Yeah he's got an explosive FB with sink, but that alone is not enough in the big leagues. I take it you've seen him pitch.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Aug 13, 2008 -> 10:19 AM) Which is my real "sore point" about 2003, not the Ritchie trade which killed our depth (along with injuries and non-performance), but the single biggest swing in players was us bypassing Kenny Rogers as the 5th starter...a relatively cheap signing which paid off huge for the Twins and left us one pitcher short. I can't remember what his contract was that year, but it wasn't that large, as he had yet to truly resurrect his career at that point. I recall the White Sox said they were willing to offer $3 mill but Boras felt he could get more; I'd imagine that when Boras found out he couldn't get that much for Rogers, the Sox felt confident in their rotation and he took the next best offer, which was from Minnesota. Rogers is a dick anyways.

I think Fields' time to sink or swim has past and he fell straight to the bottom. He's been banged up at AAA, mediocre when playing, and was terrible when he was called up. I think he's done in the White Sox organization. And Beltre.

QUOTE (retro1983hat @ Aug 16, 2008 -> 07:00 AM) You could feel it coming last night. There's a handful of games at the end of the year if you miss the playoffs you point to as the reason. Put that one in that column. The exact opposite can be stated too, and the Sox extra inning win against Detroit fills that column. This team is always either very good or very bad and there's no in-between...just hope they're more good than bad the rest of the way.

QUOTE (JPN366 @ Aug 15, 2008 -> 05:26 PM) Credit goes to PlaySumFnJurny, he found the article and posted it. Credit also goes to PlaySumFnJurny for one of the greatest names to ever appear on the Internet.

QUOTE (Jake @ Aug 16, 2008 -> 12:12 AM) Did I miss something? I didn't realize that when you lose this badly it counts as more or something. Can't win them all. We had several bloop hits, Gavin was on the edge of giving up a ton of runs at all times. We had some things go our way early, it isn't as if we thoroughly dominated them and pissed it all away at once. This is a game we deserved to lose, just like many others. Eh, if the bullpen blows a lead, I wouldn't say you deserved to lose it in that sense of the phrase. They didn't play well but they played well enough to win for 7 innings and then blew it to hell. Good teams win games they aren't supposed to and bad teams lose games they should win. Where the Sox fit into that is anyone's opinion, but I think it's fair to say that this team hits the extremes pretty well as you rarely see them play a game anymore where they aren't playing very well or very poorly.

Oh, and I am actually like 50% German, 25% Irish, and 25% Bohemian

they look decent. I'll believe it when I see it though, because the exact same thing could be said for the White Sox, Twins, or any other team in the AL Central.

this loss looks like it hurts pretty badly. I wish just one time this team could open a road series and come out guns blazing. Win a road opener like 12-1 or something crazy like that. Definitely looks like a game the team should have won and didn't, and while these games happen, they hurt badly. Dust yourself off and come back tomorrow.

I may have sex with this thread. word of warning

QUOTE (DBAHO @ Aug 14, 2008 -> 01:43 PM) Adding Beckham and Danks to our farm system brings it back to respectability a little more. Glad to see the Sox did the right thing, went over slot, and got it done. Now let's hope Danks doesn't turn into a Sweeney or Reed type of hitter who just has no power whatsoever. He should at least make it as a 4th OF someday though. Well then Ken can just turn them into a valuable commodity with the means of transaction known as 'trading'. QUOTE (Heads22 @ Aug 14, 2008 -> 11:37 PM) Do you try and work a slam of Anderson, who's name you still can't spell, into every other damn thread? Not everyone can handle the power of Stache Anderson, also known as Lucipher, Stalin Jr, Lenin, Bush, Obama, McCain, Gore, Gardenhire, hippie, and God, whose name depends upon your religion, country of origin, and race (though I don't know what race has to do with it exactly...that's just what they told me to say). Anyways, he's a perfect 4th outfielder and he would be a starting player on probably 10 teams in the majors. The Sox should be glad to have him.

I tried to wake a friend up that was passed out on the floor who had passed out pretty hard. I jabbed him a while and in the end, jarred him enough to actually get him to move. He came at me and said "did you punch me in the face" without finishing the thought, punched me in nose, and then passed back out, 2 feet from his original spot. That's honestly the closest thing I've ever been to a fight in my life. I avoid fights like the plague and want nothing to do with them...being 5'10 140 probably helps with that.

GO PASS OUT ON A PATIO DREAMING THAT CHAD PENNINGTON WILL MAGICALLY TURN INTO DAN MARINO YOU WEIRDO DOLPHINS FAN FREAK

QUOTE (whitesoxbrian @ Aug 14, 2008 -> 02:06 PM) Ah ok, thanks anyways. Just thought I'd ask because I'm a heavy autograph collector which includes plenty of stuff from the 2005 team. BTW- are you from Chicago or what? Frank Thomas probably owns your soul and he assuredly owns my soul.

I'm half Chinese, half Polish, half Irish, half German, half Native American, half African-American, and half dirty liar.

If we are talking about complete team history with nothing regarding 'what have you done for me lately?' it absolutely has to be the Texas Rangers and Washington Nationals/Montreal Expos, hands down. I would vote for the Rangers, seeing as how their only playoff appearances have come upon the expanded versions of the divisions, but I don't believe either team has ever, ever won a playoff series. I mean, sucks to them that they've been there and f***ed up, but truth remains the same. Those are my two votes with the Rangers being first, even though they've produced several competitive teams within the past few years. I will also not buy "trying to win in a small market" argument. The Oakland A's and Minnesota Twins are among the best teams in baseball in regards to their recent history when spending around baseball went up extraordinarly, and a few others have caught on to it, if only short term (Mariners, Phillies, Cardinals, Diamondbacks, Rockies)...small market is a bulls*** excuse for a team trying to look for a reason as to why they can't compete. Besides that, the Dodgers aren't a small market team and have won fewer playoff series than the Twins in the past 10 years...how is that explainable? They've also won fewer World Series titles in the past 25 years than the Twins too, how is that explainable? (mainly because small market meant absolutely nothing until shortly after the labor strike of 1994) The term 'small market' is also broadly used, as a team like the White Sox, as recently as 4 years ago, was labeled a 'small market team' because they didn't spend much money...it didn't matter that they made their home in Chicago, it just mattered how much money they spent. Same exact thing can be said for the Florida Marlins, who make their home in Miami, so they can suck it in regards to a small market. Poor advertising and a terrible major league team, even if they are good once in a while, is what I see down there.

QUOTE (zimne piwo @ Aug 15, 2008 -> 05:26 AM) Hey... wanna vomit to the latest Cubbie propaganda littering the shelves at Borders, Barnes and Noble, etc.? Here ya go... you've been WARNED!!! http://www.wearecubsfans.com/ If it says 2005 or 2008 World Champions, I'd vomit. Otherwise, I'd expect nothing less than I would normally expect. The Cubs are kinda like yo-yos were in the late 90s...except they, unfortanutely, have not gone away, like yo-yos did. Yo-yos were the s***, I wish they hadn't gone away.

QUOTE (SoxFan1 @ Aug 15, 2008 -> 01:02 AM) Sweeney + Gio for the win!!!!!!!!!!! LMAO. If you'd take single specialist Sweeney over Swisher, there is something wrong with you. Sweeney is at .289 right now, Swish is somewhere around .230. Yes, Swisher's BABIP shows he's been extremely unlucky this season and he STILL has a higher OBP, SLG, HR, RBI, etc. Swisher/Broadway > Sweeney/Gio. Period. DUDE U HAVE HARDONZ FOR SWISHER THO

QUOTE (BearSox @ Aug 14, 2008 -> 07:06 PM) Did you not see where I said "right now." Anyone can make the long term arguement. But right now, Gio would look damn good, due to the fact any blind person can see that he is the better pitcher then Broadway (even though he did pitch decent today). And with Paulie finally hitting again and Griffey in CF, Swisher is more of a side option right now. Well frame of f***ing reference here, for Christ's sake...who would you have rather had for the past 4 F***ING MONTHS OF THE SEASON, SWISHER AND BROADWAY OR GIO AND SWEENEY? That's absolutely f***ing ridiculous and if you don't see that, then you need to open your f***ing eyes. And if you say Sweeney and Gio, you are an absolute f***ing lunatic. So right now, considering the White Sox are in first place by a full game over the Twins where they would be 3-5 games back with Sweeney in CF all season long, I will take Swisher and Broadway. How's that for you? Swisher .233/.351/.412/.763 Sweeney .287/.336/.377/.714 OOOH, SWEENEY GETS MORE SINGLES. Offensive potential means nothing to me...I mean, I figured we were talking about right now, weren't we? Swisher has been the superior player. Fact. Arguing anything else is absurd. The Sox would have been much, much worse off with Sweeney in CF. I've put the facts in front of you. All you have to do is let it sink in. Clubhouse prescence or not...I think the never-say-die attitude has come from a number of guys, but Swisher is one of them...this club is far superior this season with Swisher on the team than Sweeney. If you argue anything else, you are arguing with Sweeney-coated glasses for another player. I'm on all fours for Swisher and it's because he's a pretty damn good ballplayer and he's been superior to Sweeney (I hope you have realized this by now). And right now, this club is better because Swisher is on the team rather than Sweeney and Swisher. You can't say "well right now blah blah blah"...it's either this or that and there's no in-between. As of right now, the team is better with Swisher and Broadway. I don't think you can argue anything else, and that has been an all-around good trade for the White Sox at this point in time.

QUOTE (fathom @ Aug 14, 2008 -> 10:28 PM) Those match-ups look like a sure Twins sweep. I agree 100%

holy f***, backtobacktobacktoback is something thats pretty sweet delicious, I love it, and I expected nothing less than a sweep. Showed those assholes a thing or two