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QUOTE(jasonxctf @ Feb 24, 2007 -> 10:39 PM) does asking a question to a guest on the Jerry Springer show count??? yes, especially if AJP was there QUOTE(Chisoxfn @ Feb 24, 2007 -> 10:47 PM) Iowa tv doesn't count. pwned

QUOTE(The Critic @ Feb 24, 2007 -> 08:16 PM) That's cool, then. I just don't get as into the Sox/Cubs thing as some folks do. I've been to a few crosstown games and it just seems that too many people take it too seriously. they take it as the superiority in Chicago, regardless of records (as in, if the Cubs win the season series but the Sox win the World Series, the Cubs are the best team in town). I guess I'm speaking as an outsider, but that's how I assume it is, and quite frankly, it that is how it is, it's flat out wrong.

QUOTE(Punch and Judy Garland @ Feb 24, 2007 -> 06:39 PM) Vazquez will be a bit better than Brandon but not a better value for certain. this I completely agree with. If I were to build a franchise, or even pick up a pitcher to help me while my team is still in that stage, I'm taking McCarthy without a second thought

29 feet has turned into 48 feet and I have to walk about 2 blocks tonight too to see a show of the local frats here in town too (only because I have already paid $8 for a ticket)

QUOTE(Kalapse @ Feb 24, 2007 -> 04:59 PM) You are imagining things. not quite that drunk yet

QUOTE(Scwible @ Feb 24, 2007 -> 04:48 PM) Atleast he is out of that piss and puke and back into black not that I have anything against the A's, just that Frank looked like s*** QUOTE(Kalapse @ Feb 24, 2007 -> 04:57 PM) Wow. Is it just me or is Valentin even sexier than last year? nvmd...you spelled it wrong for 2 seconds and i screamed

QUOTE(Kalapse @ Feb 24, 2007 -> 04:38 PM) That's Eduardo Perez being photographed and David Aardsma yawning to the side incase anyone didn't know. What's with all the pictures of Aardsma anyway? There's been like 6 of him and a total of 4 for the rest of the young pitchers on the team. Aardsma's a whore

QUOTE(RibbieRubarb @ Feb 23, 2007 -> 08:36 PM) During a White Sox game my bubby and I were on camera A LOT and then we were featured on Sportscenter and local TV because of our antics towards Jamie Navarro during a game in 1998. We were even commented on by Hawk and Wimpy...who laughed and said "That ain't right..." Here's an article about what we did: http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_...21/ai_n10416292 lmfao

29 feet of snow in 2 hours God shall giveth warmth, and God shall taketh away

QUOTE(Scwible @ Feb 24, 2007 -> 04:36 PM) good to see Aardsma is having a good time

QUOTE(knightni @ Feb 24, 2007 -> 04:24 PM) Joe Cowley on the Score says that the accuser can change his story at any time and Uribe will be called back to the DR. Well that would be completely ridiculous.

QUOTE(fathom @ Feb 24, 2007 -> 03:30 PM) Ozzie doesn't believe in that though, as he even has told Hawk that he'd rather get beat with as many righties as possible vs Johan. My largest beef with Ozzie is that he doesn't use logic to make a ton of his decisions. He goes lefty-lefty and righty-righty pitching wise because it's supposed to work, and he sends righties up against lefties and lefties against righties batting wise because it's supposed to work; the problem is that it doesn't always work. A little common sense and book-looking would solve a lot of problems.

If it means anything at all, lefties hit Johan Santana at a better clip than do righties Obviously, that really pretty much only applies to Johan, but it's worth noting at the very least. I wouldn't mind seeing Erstad, Mackowiak, Thome, and Pierzynski all in the lineup in games he starts.

QUOTE(LVSoxFan @ Feb 24, 2007 -> 02:37 PM) Can somebody explain to me the rationale behind dropping Iguchi that far down the lineup? apparently Iguchi has power that he's sacrificing in the 2 hole Ozzie can be a huge idiot sometimes if he's actually telling the truth

he is a White Sox player playing in a different uniform in my eyes.

QUOTE(Shadows @ Feb 23, 2007 -> 10:10 PM) I want my hair to be like yours was back in the day before you sold out and cut it sold out, stfu. its schlong again

QUOTE(Kalapse @ Feb 23, 2007 -> 09:41 PM) I take offense to this. as you should QUOTE(Shadows @ Feb 23, 2007 -> 09:50 PM) As do I Im growing my hair out like Mike Millers at the All Star game never grow out your hair like someone from South Dakota...unless that person is me.

QUOTE(santo=dorf @ Feb 23, 2007 -> 09:28 PM) I think that "walking a lot" = patient hitter that clean and cut. A player could walk very little yet still be a patient hitter by taking a ton of pitches and never swinging early in the count. With the exception of Webb's 8th place hitter, those IsOD's are small due to the other pitchers walking significantly less batters than Zambrano. Because their WHIPs are with in the same range (Carlos last year was on the very high side) their IsOD is going to be less because most of their base runners are dependent on the ball being put in play. I'd like to see which site you are using so I can see the difference in walk totals just espn.com

QUOTE(Shadows @ Feb 23, 2007 -> 09:12 PM) bump thank you for this bump, and horrible name change what in the hell are you thinking

QUOTE(santo=dorf @ Feb 23, 2007 -> 08:42 PM) I'd like to see if the IsOD increases by 29%, but I mentioned this before and said this makes Zambrano a smart pitcher. Cy Young winner Brandon Webb... 7 hitter - 240/.272/.358/.630 (IsoD .032) 8-hitter - .243/.326/.331/.657 (IsoD .083) Tom Glavine... 7-hitter - .270/.306/.352/.657 (IsoD .036) 8-hitter - .218/.280/.326/.606 (IsoD .062) Chris Carpenter... 7-hitter - .261/.286/.354/.640 (IsoD .025) 8-hitter - .175 .231 .233 .464 (IsoD .056) Aaron Harang... 7-hitter - .264/.298/.413/.711 (IsoD .034) 8-hitter - .311/.370/.386/.756 (IsoD .059) There are undoubtedly others too, but those are just 4 of the better pitchers in the NL, so I figured they'd work. Of course, not every pitcher does this, because as I recall, Oswalt and Willis are pretty much even up, or they walk the 8 hitter even less. It just depends solely upon the pitcher, but by and large, most pitchers pitch around the 8 hitter. Of course not. I said by default. If walking means you are patient, and the 8 hitter (generally) walks more than the 7 hitter, then the 8 hitter is more patient than the 7 hitter. Follow?

QUOTE(santo=dorf @ Feb 23, 2007 -> 08:08 PM) IsOD (or whatever OBP-BA is) for 6th place hitter: .087, 7th place: .073, 8th place hitter: .094. That's a pretty noticable difference (29% increase!) between the 7th and 8th placed hitters, unless you are going to make the claim that an 8th place NL hitter tends to be more patient than the 7th placed NL hitters. I'm not buying that at all. I bet every pitcher - except late inning relievers - in the NL has similar splits. Like I said, it would be stupid for a pitcher to pitch to the 8th hitter when the pitcher is on deck. Would you not agree? So yes, by default, I would venture to guess every 8th place hitter in the NL is more "patient," regardless of whether or not they are actually more patient.

QUOTE(santo=dorf @ Feb 23, 2007 -> 06:30 PM) Simply put, before he goes to bed each night, Zambrano checks his closet for a DH. I still don't buy it. You constantly talk about how he walks the 8 hitter to get to the pitcher, but the stats just don't agree. In fact, the stats suggest he pitches much more frequently to the 8 hitter rather than pitch around him, as suggested by the .211/.305/.371/.676 line 8 hitters have put up against him over the past 3 years (as opposed to .227/.314/.352/.665 by 6 hitters, and .206/.279/.296/.576 by 7 hitters). Also, 6 hitters have 29 walks against him, opposed to the 31 he's allowed to 8 hitters. It seems to me he pitches just fine to 8 hitters. And even beyond that, it was be assinine for any pitcher in the NL not to pitch around the 8 hitter to get to the pitcher. That's simply playing probabilities. The fact that the highest average he has allowed against any batter in the order is .251 to leadoff hitters and the highest OPS he's allowed is .775 to the cleanup hitters over the last 3 is very indicative to me of the type of success he could and would have in the AL. Like any pitcher, there's going to be some dropoff, but that's to be completely expected. I don't necessarily feel the Sox should make a run at him if he were to hit free agency, because I have my concerns about injury, but I tend to feel that way about any pitcher that throws 95+. As a matter of fact, off the top of my head, the only pitcher I would give that long of a contract to who does throw 95+ would be Santana, and from having seen him pitch, it just seems he would stay completely healthy throughout the duration of the contract due to his mechanics and how seemingly little exertion he has to use to get the ball up to that speed.

QUOTE(SoxFan1 @ Feb 23, 2007 -> 06:51 PM) How's this... god so amazing thank you that is just AHHHHHHHHHHHH wow i am so completely aroused by that photo Greasy was right, we did just have to wait for it. That is just so.money.

I went to Washington DC as a 4th grader in my city's local children's choir and I sang at the lighting of the Christmas tree. We were aired on C-SPAN2. I also sat in the LF bleachers of a Sox-Twins game in Minneapolis, and while we didn't get on TV per se, you could see us because a Torii Hunter home run ball landed 1 seat in front of us. It sucked.