Soxplosion

Lee is better than Alou anyday. Thats a Sox advantage...

Thats good. I dont want the AS game to come to Comiskey and star like 6 Yanks, 5 Mariners and 2 Sox'. I want a good three or four of our guys to show up and have an impact like they did last year. Maggs better be there if his numbers are good enough!

I think quite differently. Not many pitchers are gonna get thru Valentin-Thomas-Ordonez-Konerko-Lee-Crede unscathed. I think Jiminez will also be pretty darn good. Rowand and Olivo might possibly be weak but weve still got a deadly lineup...

Hey wsc, I know you mean no harm and that its just what you do for all your threads but when posting about such tragedies could you please not do the "cool" smilie? I know, and others know, you mean no offense but a newcomer could see that and attack you for it. Thanks...

Ill be right there with ya man! Im gonna live in Chicago (unless of course I join the army or I become a Massachussetts prison guard so I can torture Richard Reid every single day the rest of his life) and every day Im going to Comiskey (its still comiskey to me) and every year Im going to soxfest...

Theres always room for improvement. I love Comiskey. With the exception of Hawaii theres no place on the planet Id rather be. But you can always get better...

You two ever met? I wanna meet Vince someday. Maybe at a Soxfest when I start going to college, hopefully in Chicago!

Awesome. Franks my favorite player. Just when I got here I chose the name "theoldroman" which was Comiskeys nickname and I felt I had to complete it by putting Comiskey in my avatar. Were glad to have ya here, BH...

And another thing, hows this guy got the defending world champions at number eight and the team they slaughtered on the way at number one? This guys talking outta his ass...

Link Well, well, well, you screwed up with the first one way ticket, but the real God's gonna make sure the second one way ticket takes you right where youre supposed to be, Hell. Hahaha, youre 29 now, I hope you spend the rest of your pathetic life in prison and I assure you, you will, the US government does not think much of terrorists. But ya know, I hope you dont die real quick. I hope you live til youre like 120! I hope for the next 91 years of your life, you wake up, have some guy laugh at you and tell you its time to piss and time to eat and never do anything else. And thank you Judge William Young for telling him what the American government does to terrorists. Someone needed to tell him that and show the terrorist realm that the United States of America is gonna get em! So, bye now, Reid. Have a nice long life in prison! There are certain things I want to aim at being in life. A military officer, a cop or a correctional officer. If I become the third I hope its at his prison so I can be the guy who wakes him up, laughs at him and tells him exactly what hes gotta do. Heck, I would do that job for free!

Id atleast expect the Sox to be like 8th or 9th overall...

They'll just add US Cellular to the center field scoreboard. Right in the middle is where it says "Comiskey Park". Oh, fun. Itll still be Comiskey in our hearts tho!

When i first saw the name Rooney I thought of Ed Rooney, from Ferris Bueller Day Off. That was kinda scary, knowing that an idiot like Ed Rooney would be a major factor in our parks new name... lol...

I believe youre talking about an avatar, like the one where I have the gray and white of an old man who happens to be Charles Comiskey? Well, if you are, let me walk you thru it. Go to google.com and find whichever picture you like. Right click on it and go to properties. It will have an URL on the property page. So come back here, log on, go to my controls and then down the lefthand column until you find "avatar settings". Go there and put the URL of whichever pic you want in there, go to the bottom to "update avatar" and voila. Hope that helps, dude...

Im going with Jim. I think Buehrle and Colon will be somewhat comparable to Pedro and Lowe. Wright and Garland should progress dramatically and the last spots a freebie. We need to find out which one of these youngsters is part of our future. In case of a huge failure we can put Loaiza in there, which is maybe the one positive of signing him...

Well, first, nycchisoxfa, I think Ill be the first to welcome you aboard and I hope you enjoy it here. Now, I just wanted to know what theyd do to replace the name Comiskey. Im not sure where it says Comiskey Park on the outside but I do know its on the jumbotron. So what will go there instead? As I posted at mlb, I think the money will help with renovations but Im kinda dissappointed to see all the history of the parks name go away. Comiskey Park was a piece of history that commemorated a man from 90 years ago, even tho the park itself was only ten years old. Not its a new park with a new name, no history whatsoever. But like I said at mlb, I guess its better to have a nice park with a crappy name rather than a crappy park with a nice name (which is Wrigley Field, if you would like to call that a nice name, it is atleast historical)...

LDF.. you're not. Which is why I said he'll get reminded when he get's down to AZ. Right or wrong on the principal... it was just the same as Paul speaking out about Frank... What did it take him.. 6 hours to apologize? I kinda see this as a slap in the face. Ill bet Kenny Williams does too. And since KWs the guy in charge, hes gonna win. I wonder if KW could get so pissed that he actually demoted MB for a season or something. Youd have to be truly insane but ya never know. Some people myself included are just quick to anger...

Depends on the Twins and what they do. If the Twins won the most games in the American League this year, I wouldn't be shocked at all. As of now, I'd say the preseason American League power rankings are... 1) Yankees 2) Angels 3) Twins 4) Athletics 5) Red Sox 6) White Sox 7) Mariners 8) Indians 9) Rangers 10) Orioles 11) Blue Jays 12-14) Tigers, Royals, Devil Rays... Who cares? They all suck. Well I agree with you dub except I think were better than the Red Sox and it doesnt matter if were better than Oakland or not. We just have to be better than Minnesota, which I think we can be... Red Sox pitching > White Sox pitching They're close, but I'd take their staff and 'pen over ours and pitching wins. Well doub, maybe you are right. But our pitching is a lot better now than it was at the beginning on the offseason. So its a lot closer than it was at first...

Depends on the Twins and what they do. If the Twins won the most games in the American League this year, I wouldn't be shocked at all. As of now, I'd say the preseason American League power rankings are... 1) Yankees 2) Angels 3) Twins 4) Athletics 5) Red Sox 6) White Sox 7) Mariners 8) Indians 9) Rangers 10) Orioles 11) Blue Jays 12-14) Tigers, Royals, Devil Rays... Who cares? They all suck. Well I agree with you dub except I think were better than the Red Sox and it doesnt matter if were better than Oakland or not. We just have to be better than Minnesota, which I think we can be...

Gee RPS... tell us how you really feel I have to say... I was soooo (kinda) glad you posted that. I never ever heard another person (outside the Sox) claim to know that information. I hated that MF'er the second we signed him and knew something bad was going to happen. And it didn't stop there.. he was also screwing Frank's ex girlfriend LeAnne. His exwife and exgirlfriend?! Whats with that? Did he a grudge against Frank or something? Geez...

Hey, the more versatility the better!

I didnt know who Herbert was when he showed up but I must say he did a hell of a job! I wasnt that dissappointed when they traded him because he really stunk in 2001 (who didnt?) and because we had Crede coming. But if he ever wanted to come back hes certainly welcome. As for Royce, I had heard he dated a teamates ex but I didnt know it was Franks ex. f*** Royce, that horny bastard...

Some people said our bench was a problem right after the Colon trade but after his more recent moves I think its pretty good for a bench. We have Daubach who can play 1B/DH/LF, Rios who can play LF/RF, Alomar who is a decent backup catcher, Graffy (I hope hes back) who can play 2B/SS/3B and Harris who can play second or center. Daubach could probably start on most major league teams (but not this one, thats saying something), Rios and Alomar on a few, Graffy is an alltime backup and Harris has potential. I think our bench looks great!

I think it will surely be Rauch. Hes young, a top prospect and hes waited long enough already. He seemed dominant towards the end of last year and theres no way an old fart like Loaiza should beat him out for the fifth spot. Loaiza can be our long reliever but he aint gonna be the number five. Also, like has been said, Honels still a ways away...

Nice avatar, bj. Its gives a nice touch to the boards...