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http://www.cbs.sportsline.com/mlb/story/6869155

Isn't this article contradictory to its own self? It says Scho is #4 and then says Kenny is looking to replace Bart with a top of the rotation pitcher Which means Scho will get pushed down to #5....

http://chicagosports.chicagotribune.com/sp...-home-headlines

If the Bo Sox get Schilling, look for SteinBrenner to throw a boat load at both Petite and Colon http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=1669959

It seems they are still in the running for Colon, but me thinks Mr Colon is in for a reality check in terms of the #s he is going to get in the FA market Colon will land with the Os, Padres or the Yankees

One more thing kid, Buerhle got a fair offer from Kenny (compared to Zito etc), and he declined. Make sure you remove your lips from Buerhle's ass and your fingers out of his asshole before you reply. That offer wasn't "fair" over half of it was not guarenteed, unlike Barry Zito who had all of his money guarenteed. It was fair. Zito has won a Cy Young and taken his team to 3 consecutive playoffs. Buerhle has not. Buerhle has to to prove he can perform consistently, especially after last year.

One more thing kid, Buerhle got a fair offer from Kenny (compared to Zito etc), and he declined. Make sure you remove your lips from Buerhle's ass and your fingers out of his asshole before you reply.

Now I get it. You are only 21, which explains why you are so clueless when it comes to your blind love for Buerhle. When he leaves for the Cards, will you be a Card fan then?

Anyone else think with the division up for grabs and with Jerry Reinsdorf liking Ozzie, which means he may listen to him if he wants some players, the payroll may be going up this year? Just a hunch....that phone contract may help at some point I am thinking

I would trade Konerko before I trade Koch too I would actually think about bringing in Palmero to replace Konerko, if we can trade Konerko to dodgers or someone like that Palmero would provide us with a lefty bat (which we need)

Ozzie is an idiot for calling out Frank. That does not help anyone. What a dumb move by the new manager. http://chicagosports.chicagotribune.com/sp...cs-home-utility

On espn.com, the rumor mill headline says "Soriano for Beltran?" That article is only for those who pay for their services, so I do not have details or how strong this rumor is etc But Soriano could be in our division with the Royals..... hmmmm, not sure I like that..

Why the f*** are you such an asshole? What else can Kenny do? NO OTHER GM could have ever got Jerry to agree to sign a pitcher to the contract he was willing to give Colon. KW is a gamer, and he is the best thing for this organization. Seriously, what can a GM do if someone decides to turn down your best offer, which mind you , is a very fair deal. KW is TRYING to win here.....unless the crappy GMs we have had in the past. It is a shame you are such a moron you cannot see that.

Decent options? Cotts? Wright? Schno? OMFG....we will be as bad as last year. Let Cotts learn to throw a strike in the minors, let Wright operate out of the bullpen and let Schno stay in the BP too. If Gordon leaves, that is even more important. Get a #5 as a FA. The last time Kenny took a flyer on a #5, we got Loaiza. Go for someone like that, an experienced vet who has bounced aroudn the league but can get us 8-10 wins

Can we get back to the topic at hand? Best playoffs ever?

He had opponents batting 0.350 against him after the 7th inning.....I hope Grady Little knew that fact.....or did he just ignore it? I know Pedro told him he wanted to continue, but the manager should not be asking at that point, he should be telling

I am a huge hockey and football fan, but for the first time in a long time, I come home excited only to watch the baseball playoffs. Bud Selig must be a very happy man.....he would have been happier if the Cubs and Bo Sox had made it, but I think the Marlins-Yanks will be exciting too. Go Marlins....spank the spankmees

If you replace Boston with Chicago, and the Bo Sox with either the Cubs or the White Sox, the post below still rings true. Fans of these 3 franchises have endured a lot for a long time, but as the below post shows, we made a choice and we stand by it. It is a very good post. Enjoy it..... ------------------ Here we are Boston Redsox fans in a place we all know all to well. No need to elaborate, no need to whine, no need to respond to the taunts and jeers of those who, if they were true fans wouldn't be here just to add insult to injury. No need for coulda shoulda woulda, just take it and hold your heads up high, for being a Boston Redsox fan is not a choice, it is, after all, a matter of loyalty. Loyal to our home team, no matter what. Being true to something that is embedded in our hearts is nothing to be taken lightly, it is something to be proud of, no matter what the end result. We all know someone who is a fan of the other teams, be it the Yankees or Atlanta or some other club, that was born here in the Boston area yet somehow has a need to be a fan of another team. These few are the unfortunate ones, they have deep psychological issues. They have a hole in their soul, and feel so inferior they grasp on to something, like baseball, and CHOOSE to become a fan of the club with the best record instead of being wholistic and having real pride and loyalty and staying with the team that is their HOME team. They are constitutionally incapable of taking it like an adult and just sticking it out NO MATTER WHAT and not make excuses. Win or lose, true Boston fans are the most loyal bar none. Nothing against Yankees fans, that is, TRUE yankees fans, meaning people from New York, not people who for some mind sickness NEED to be associated with a record that has been set for many years before they were even born. Inside the mind of someone like this is a sad timid little creature who just can't stand tall in defeat, it hurts them too much and they just can't take it. They latch on and ride the train cheering and shouting and saying "Look at me, I'm a winner too"! They need this to feel good about themselves and it is a sorry state to be in psychologically. The worst of these miserable creatures are the ones who come here to taunt and jeer the TRUE loyal fans instead of just being happy that their team of CHOICE, has won. Stand tall Boston fans, and don't respond to the poor unfortunates who aren't from NY nor have any connection with NY other than their own feelings of inferiority and desperate need to feel something positive in their lives. Tough, brave Boston fans, loyal and true, stand tall and never let them get you to sink to their level. We KNOW the TRUTH and NO ONE will EVER break us no matter what they say or do. Solidarity Boston fans and brotherhood to us all.

As-BoSox series was fantastic and went 5 games Cubs-Braves series was very good too and went 5 games Cubs-Marlins went 7 Yanks-Bo Sox went 7 Marlins-Giants went 4 but was pretty exciting with the Marlins winning two very exciting games Yankees-Twinkies went 4 and was a bore relative to other series IMHO, this has been the best MLB playoffs in a long time....maybe ever. Your thoughts?

The Flyers-Penguins game was awesome 2 or 3 years back......

Both of Frank Thomas' walk off HRs

I am a huge baseball and hockey fan. After seeing the classic Sox-As game last night, I started thinking about what is more fun: an extra inning baseball game (like last night) or an over time hockey game I have to go with hockey.....given how tired and beat up they get by the time they reach OT, and the fact that in baseball you can know 60% of the time, when the go ahead or winning run is going to be scored (except for the homerun, which you never know about), while in hockey you never know when the goal will be scored.....so often it is a simple crazy play that wins it ....and so often, it comes from some unknown player Your thoughts? (I know we all are huge baseball fans here, but let's try to be objective shall we )

From crooked Cubs to Babe benched, '18 Series had it all October 1, 2003 BY RON RAPOPORT SUN-TIMES COLUMNIST Advertisement perating on the assumption that if we're going to fantasize about a Cubs-Red Sox World Series, we'd better hurry up about it, I gave a call Tuesday to Allan Wood, who has written a book on that very subject. The Cubs-Red Sox World Series of 1918, I mean. And let me tell you something, even if it comes down to Mark Prior and Pedro Martinez taking a scoreless Game 7 into extra innings, this year's Series still wouldn't have the drama and the subplots Wood discusses in Babe Ruth and the 1918 World Series. Just to take one small example, there is some evidence, inconclusive but provocative, that some of the Cubs might have thrown that Series, which the Red Sox won four games to two. Reporters covering the games noted odd baserunning mistakes, fielders unaccountably playing out of position and clumsy errors by good fielders. Most suspicious of all was a key Red Sox rally late in Game 4 when Cubs pitchers Claude Hendrix and Phil Douglas self-destructed in the only inning they pitched the entire Series. Douglas gave up a single, threw a wild pitch and threw away a bunt as the Red Sox rallied to take a 3-1 lead in the Series. In the wake of the Black Sox scandal the following year, he and Hendrix were banned from baseball for gambling and throwing other games. "There were a lot of suspicious plays, and almost all of them had to do with the Cubs,'' Wood said. "It's all circumstantial and there's no definitive evidence, and there were so many rumors about game-fixing in that decade that few World Series or pennant races didn't have some attached to it. Bill Veeck once wrote that in the 1920s, some White Sox executives drew up a list of players they thought were crooked, and one of them was listed as a '1918 Series fixer.''' One of the things that makes this story so intriguing is that baseball was in sorry financial shape in 1918, and the players' bitterness at the owners, which would help ignite the Black Sox scandal, had begun to grow. Revenue had been off all season because of World War I, and baseball had responded by shortening the season by a month and starting the Series on Sept. 5. The Cubs' hopes of attracting big crowds by playing its Series games at Comiskey Park instead of 14,000-seat Weeghman Park only helped a little. The crowds on the South Side were barely more than 20,000. And a decision by baseball's brass to divide up the players' Series receipts among the second-, third- and fourth-place teams in each league for the first time led to a players revolt. They had been talking about taking action throughout the Series, and it all came to a head just before Game 5 in Boston when they threatened not to play. The starting time was held up an hour as negotiations were held, and finally the players capitulated and the game was played on the owners' terms. Instead of receiving the customary winner's share of $3,000 or $4,000, the Red Sox received about $1,000 each for winning the Series, and the Cubs got around $600 each for losing. And just to rub it in, the owners later reneged on their promise not to punish the players by withholding the Red Sox' championship medallions -- the equivalent of a World Series ring today -- and resisting all attempts to have them restored through the years. Babe Ruth, no surprise here, was the big star of the Series -- on the mound, at least. Ruth beat the Cubs 1-0 in Game 1 and 3-2 in Game 5, which was notable for the fact that the Cubs broke his World Series scoreless-innings streak of 291/3 innings, a record that would last until Whitey Ford broke it decades later. But despite the fact that Ruth, in his first year as a position player, had led the majors in slugging and -- in many fewer at-bats than other top hitters -- was among the leaders in home runs, extra-base hits and runs batted in, he didn't start any of the other games in the field. Ruth had been baseball's hottest hitter during the final months of the season -- he also won nine of his last 11 pitching starts -- but the Red Sox still considered him suspect against the Cubs' left-handed starters, Hippo Vaughn and Lefty Tyler, and didn't let him hit. Over the winter, of course, the Red Sox traded Ruth to a team that was happy to let him bat as often as he liked. The 1918 World Series was played under the assumption that it might be the last one for a while. The war was taking its toll on players and fans alike, and many players were expected to be in the armed forces by the following spring. But in November, armistice was declared and the Series returned to Comiskey Park in 1919. Nobody could blame the Cubs or Red Sox for what happened in that one.

I agree.....the Cubs will only get better when they add another bat in the offseason. With that young pitching staff, they can be the next Braves......hopefully they hoke like the Braves when it matters But jokes aside, I wish we decide to contend next year......the city goes nuts when baseball fever is high like this year all the way to Sept This is no longer the 1900s.....there is no reason we cannot have two winners in Chicago.....this great city deserves every bit of it

Hearts cut out by team showing little of its own -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- September 24, 2003 Judging by the number of games we've seen in person at Sox Park, my cousin George and I aren't the best White Sox fans around. In the last four years the Sox have played about 320 games at home, and we've probably missed about 50 of them. We get excited about the Sox in April, realistic in June, delirious again in July and August, before dealing with the bleak prospect of autumn. Then we realize that we have families. Our patient and wonderful wives know that George doesn't drink and I'll have one rarely. We don't play the horses, we don't play cards or shoot dice. We don't chase women. (Yes, I fish for fish, but that doesn't count, does it?) And we remain bitterly faithful to the Sox. The summers at the ballpark--watching a talented team refuse to play team baseball and instead swing for home runs and their own statistics--should give a person a healthy perspective on pain. It's what we have, as Sox fans now, and what we've always had, without any cute curses of goats or Bambinos. Cousin George is a former college linebacker, a jujitsu black belt and an oral surgeon. He should be used to handling pain by now. But he can't take it, the poor guy. He just called me to say he can't attend Wednesday's game, the final Sox home game of the season, against the Yankees, who, as of Tuesday, had their champagne on glittery ice in the visitors clubhouse. "I've got things to do," he said. Things? What things? "Oh, things," George said. It hurts that much? "Oh yeah," he said. "You know." He might be persuaded to show up, but only a barbarian would pressure a man who's been through this season. We're friends, and our families go back for untold generations in the village on the mountain plateau in the old country, and he's earned the right to skip a game. He's wise for not wanting to inflict mental torture on himself in public. So he'll do it in private and watch it on TV. What will hurt will be those disappointed empty spaces in Hawk Harrelson's graceful play-by-play. So even if George doesn't show up at a silent ballpark to hear that terrible silence when the season is over too early, the broadcast silences will be just as final. They are the lousy silences that hurt because they could have been excited silences, with the promise of October in them. Instead, he'll hear empty spaces between Hawk's sentences, which are the bridge to Hawk's golf bag and the end of another year with winter coming. And since I'm not wise, I'll probably show up, sit there and commiserate with fellow season-ticket holders. We'll shake our heads and shrug, like people at a wake, although at a wake, at least you have the benefit of knowing you're the one who's alive. But at the final home game in a season like this, that's debatable. The baseball emotion has been cut out of us, in the most disappointing sports season I can remember because this was the Sox's year. That sounds ridiculous now, doesn't it? Of course it's ridiculous. But it was a reality, once. There was talent and pitching and, for a bit, hitting, but they had serious heart trouble. Their hearts escaped their bodies finally against the Minnesota Twins. Baseball experts can point to bad base running and a lack of situational hitting and a closer who disappeared, but it was the heart of this team that failed them. Those of you who aren't Sox fans can't understand, and why should you? You're rational beings. You're probably Cubs fans, wise and happy and deserving, like my brothers, Pete and Nick. What's troubling is the sadness we Sox fans are feeling with the Cubs still in it, and my shameless compulsion to wallow, publicly. If the Sox were in the hunt still, I'd be tempted to insert the e-mail I just received from a young woman in Madison, Wis. Oh, what the heck. Here goes: Five Chicago sports fans were climbing a mountain one day. Each was a fan of a different Chicago team and each proclaimed to be the most loyal fan of all. As they climbed higher, they argued as to which was the most loyal. They continued bickering all the way to the top. Suddenly, the Blackhawks fan hurled himself from the peak, shouting, "This is for the Hawks!" as he fell to his doom. Not wanting to be outdone in the loyalty department, the Bulls fan threw himself off the precipice, proclaiming, "This is for the greatest team of the '90s!" Seeing this, the Bears fan shouted, "This is for DA COACH!!!" as he leapt to his death. The two remaining fans looked at each other in stunned silence. After a minute the Sox fan bellowed, "This is for everyone on the South Side!!" Then he pushed the Cubs fan off the mountain. I know that's mean, but I can't help it. It's jealousy talking. Cubs fans, your team has heart. And they're from Chicago. So, this will kill me, but here it is: Go Cubs.