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CF Chris Young RF Ryan Sweeney 1B Carlos Lee LF Michael Morse DH B.Allen/C.Carter 3B Josh Fields (yikes)/Joe Crede (haha) C Humberto Quintero/Miguel Olivo (if you can count Miguel for us and not the A's) 2B Chris Getz SS ??? Bench: Magglio Ordonez, Mike Cameron (now retired), Aaron Rowand, Aaron Cunningham Rotation is one of the strong points Daniel Hudson Gio Gonzalez Mark Buehrle Brandon McCarthy (#1 for the A's) Clayton Richard Bullpen, no obvious closer, so I'll claim Sergio Santos Santos Matt Guerrier Jon Rauch Faustino DeLosSantos Lucas Harrell Boone Logan Ely/D. Cortes Brian Anderson (joking) Seemingly, it would be a pretty even battle with our current team, although our current infield has a huge advantage with Alexei Ramirez and Morel at 3B. Obviously, we haven't done a great job developing infielders and catchers. Overall, offensively, we wouldn't be bad at all 1-5 or 1-6 if you include Miguel Olivo as our prospect. With the youth in the rotation, probably a lot more upside with this version. Bullpens are similar, if you count Santos.

Imagine a white person being attacked in LA/South Central (Reginald Denny, for example) saying "Remember OJ!" or, on the opposite side "Remember Rodney King!" and the likely effect it would have. Either way you interpret it, probably not the wisest move, and likely to inflame rather than defuse. Maybe saying "What would Jesus do?" would be even wiser than a comment like that, lol. Not sure you'd have the time while under assault to think of a pithy and clever retort, though, like we have the luxury of doing here on a message board.

Biden's a better debater than even Obama, if he steers away too much from policy-wonk/procedural/technical language. Rubio's already having his bio attacked, in terms of his story of the family fleeing Cuba under Castro when it actually happened well before he came into power. That's why they're already trying to hurry to release his biography as early as possible. With his lack of experience, there will be a ton of pundits saying it's a naked play to get back in the race with Hispanic voters. My actual concern on the Romney side will be that people realize he would (eventually) be a much more charismatic and interesting president than Romney can/will ever be, so bringing him onto the ticket would not be unlike the Palin/McCain scenario, with 1/3rd of the speculation being about 2016 and how Rubio will be one of the leading candidates, rather than the top line presidential candidate. But a ton of things can change with the economy and world events between now and November, still 7 months, more or less. Jindal's still too wounded from his national exposure giving the Republican response a year or so, Daniels might be the best pick, Christie's too bellicose and polarizing, Ryan's still too obscure, it's too early for another Bush on the ticket, it's going to be hard to find the right choice just like 4 years ago. A lot of GOPers are expecting defeat at this point, so there's going to be a lot of enlightened "self-interest" out there in terms of the benefits versus the negatives of being on the losing side of a presidential election, even as the VP candidate. It hasn't been the best move for Gore (well, that's another story), Kemp, Lieberman, Edwards or Palin in terms of a way forward to the presidency.

QUOTE (Reddy @ Apr 5, 2012 -> 10:07 AM) i dunno man. Robin was pretty good lookin' back in his 46 year old pitcher stomping days. Kirk McCaskill was voted one of People's Sexiest one of those years when he was with the Angels or Sox. FWIW.

I'm glad that Ibis wasn't the GM, because her sons would have been starting for us by now (next to the Williams kids) and an expensive Freddy Garcia heading for the DL for Gavin Floyd and Gio Gonzalez was probably one of the five or ten best trades in the last 10 years in all of MLB, certainly of the 3 best KW's ever made.

The Tigers had a great bullpen in 2006 too, and it fell apart pretty quickly. Bullpens that look dominant coming into a season rarely perform in line with expectations or previous performance, not unlike high-risk mutual funds that perform erratically from year to year, and always tend to wipe out those who chase high yields from the previous year or years.

QUOTE (balfanman @ Apr 5, 2012 -> 06:59 AM) I don't care one iota about Ozzie Guillen anymore. Joe Cowardly is a scumbag and I refuse to listen to the "Score" when he is on, especially when the hosts refer to him as a baseball "expert". I do wonder why Eddie Einhorn and Frank Thomas were on hand though for the Marlins opener or did I read that wrong? Or was Cowardly just making that up? I don't know about Thomas' presence, but with Einhorn, John Rooney during the Cards game was presenting it more within the context of his being an owner and also the first one to institute a national/regional sports programming network, as he also mentioned Jay Randolph, the first announcer on that network, who I think also was in attendance. MORE ON TVS Television NETWORK (wikipedia) The game that really brought televised college basketball to where it is today was a Prime time Saturday night broadcast on January 20, 1968 between two powerhouse teams that had met in the 1967 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament. The number two and undefeated Houston Cougars hosted the number one and undefeated UCLA Bruins at the Houston Astrodome. The Bruins were the defending national champions and were on a 47 game winning streak. Eddie Einhorn paid $27,000 for the broadcast rights on TVS.[1] In the end, Einhorn signed up 120 stations, many of which would infuriate the networks they were affiliated with by canceling their regular programming to show the game.[2] The Bruins lost to the University of Houston Cougars at the Astrodome in front of a record crowd (at the time) of 52,693. This game was dubbed the "Game of the Century". Previously, only NCAA post-season games were broadcast on national television, but only on evidence that broadcasters were going to make a profit from the broadcasts. The "Game of the Century" between the Houston Cougars and the UCLA Bruins proved that Americans were willing to watch college basketball games during the regular seasons. [edit] Other sports on TVSWhile college basketball remained the TVS Television Network's signature series, they also expanded into tennis, college football bowl games, NASL pro soccer, tennis, and golf. In 1974, the network became the official telecaster of the World Football League. (TVS dropped its coverage of the WFL prior to 1975, contributing to the league's already imminent demise.) TVS also aired World Championship Tennis. [edit] Entertainment programmingIn the 1970s, TVS began producing entertainment programming, including Frank Sinatra: The Main Event in 1974. For many years, TVS produced sports and entertainment programming from Las Vegas including The Alan King Tennis Championship at Caesars Palace; Arm Wrestling at the Imperial Palace, Fun Moments in Sports at Bally's; Bowling from Sam's Town and the Showboat; The Ladies Pro Bowlers Tour (LPBT), and One Club Golf from the Desert Inn. [edit] DeclineBy 1980, Eddie Einhorn had sold his interest in the network and became the head of CBS Sports, and later became an owner of the Chicago White Sox with Jerry Reinsdorf; he would also spend time as owner of the USFL's Chicago Blitz.

How can you get mad at anyone named Giancarlo who's NOT in the Mafia?

That, and they telegraphed everything too much by having the Gamekeeper (Wes Bentley) designing them in the studio...and removing all their harrowing, human characteristics, so they weren't really scary at all compared to the dreadful/ominous feeling evoked in the books. Huge box office fight coming up this weekend with Titanic 3D, American Reunion and Hunger Games. All expected to end up in the $30-35-40 million range. The two new entries are getting tons of positive reviews, especially for Stiffler and Jason Biggs. Titanic received an A from EW.com's review: There are two ways that it now looks different — and, if anything, they're both examples of how a movie can age almost karmically well. Fifteen years ago, the movie's class-war theme — the swells in their tuxedoes lounging amid the Titanic's creamy classical splendor, versus the lugs in steerage, led by Leonardo DiCaprio's penniless rapscallion bohemian Jack — seemed a fairly standard old-movie trope. Hollywood, after all, has never stopped fingering the rich as villains, and Cameron's portrayal of a gilded class seemed (intentionally) locked in its time. What a difference one global economic meltdown and the rise of our own gilded one percent makes! To me, Billy Zane's unctuous performance as Rose's jerk-of-high-finance fiancé looks more resonant and less cartoonish than it did then. It now speaks to a sense of entitlement that's on the rise in our world. The other way that Titanic has gained with the years is that it's all but impossible to watch the sinking of the Titanic itself — an instant human abyss almost beyond imagining — without thinking of 9/11. And by that I don't mean to imply that Cameron, in some mystical way, anticipated the 21st century's most infamous day. I mean that it's more potently clear than ever that the levels of dread and tragedy he packed into this movie cannot be consigned to some iconic historical event from 1912. That kind of mass death and horror is something that technology, in different forms (a gargantuan ocean liner; a gargantuan building and a speeding airplane), makes possible, and always will.

QUOTE (maxjusttyped @ Apr 4, 2012 -> 11:07 PM) Well, technically, he IS an awful offensive player now. He may get better in the future, but his minor league numbers + ML track record so far offers little to be optimistic about. Hopefully I'm wrong, though. I appreciate it, though. Go Sox. If he hits for power like he did the last 6 weeks, then you can live with that 5-10% walk rate, that's essentially what we had in Joe Crede for most of his career. You take a 700+ 725-750ish OPS out of 3B in a heartbeat in current times, especially with Brent's defense (potentially, needs to clean up some of the errors from last year). It's the 575-625 seasons that we spread across the board (Beckham, Dunn, Rios, Morel) that killed us.

http://www.miamiherald.com/2012/04/04/2731...-wed-april.html Some more pictures.... #7 Joey Cora #13 the look on this guy's face is hilarious, posing with 3 Brazilian "dancers" #18 Brazilian dancer's cute butt escorting Omar Infante onto field #19 Ozzie Guillen #20 Guillen in foreground/Muhammad Ali

Does anyone have a picture of the Brazilian style dancers/cheerleaders? Curious how over-the-top their outfits were, just for the sake of baseball marketing insight, haha.

QUOTE (Alpha Dog @ Apr 4, 2012 -> 11:31 PM) I didn't make it about race,Al, Jessie and the race-baiters did, every news outlet that jumped on pointing out race right away, and getting it wrong, Obama did when he interjected himself into this, every black politician that tries to 'keep it real' by wearing hoodies while addressing congress did, the racist Justice Department did when it butted in and so on. So what should Obama have said, that would have been more appeasing? If he made comments that showed no personal concern or connection to the case, they would have used it to bolster the argument that he was a cold, aloof, calculating bureaucrat who has trouble relating to everyday, middle class concerns and problems. How is it to his advantage to say something polarizing? The African-American vote will go to him in November, one way or the other. So how does saying "Trayvon Martin could have been my son" help him politically? If his comments were so terrible, wouldn't more and more independent voters be turning away from him, rather than the exact opposite happening? Americans wants their leaders to "feel" and to try to make personal connections and sense/logic out of troubling and divisive events. What he did was a lot better than Romney's comments, when he had the opportunity to distance himself from Rush Limbaugh, he absolutely refused to do so, giving him the verbal equivalent of a slap on the wrist. Three theories about why Zimmerman isn't being prosecuted...that part about Orlando not even bothering to investigate "self defense" confrontations is absolutely SCARY 1. Florida's "Shoot First" gun law makes prosecution futile Zimmerman says he acted in self-defense, which is "barely plausible" — but enough for him to avoid arrest under Florida's path-blazing "Stand Your Ground" gun law, says Emily Bazelon at Slate. The 2005 law allows permitted gun owners like Zimmerman to use lethal force on anybody, in any public space, if they reasonably believe it will "prevent imminent death or great bodily harm." Courts say the burden is on prosecutors to prove that the shooter was not acting in self-defense, so "some Orlando-area police agencies simply stopped investigating shootings involving self-defense claims," says Henry Pierson Curtis in the Orlando Sentinel. "In case after case during the past six years, Floridians who shot and killed unarmed opponents have not been prosecuted." 2. The local cops were negligent and sloppy Blame "the slipshod manner in which the Sanford police conducted this investigation," treating the killing of an unarmed child with "the lax scrutiny generally reserved for a broken tail-light," says Ta-Nehisi Coates at The Atlantic. The police either lied or didn't know about Zimmerman's past run-in with the law, evident vigilanteism, and 46 calls to 911 since Jan. 1, says Adam Weinstein at Mother Jones. Then there's a witness' allegation that a Stanford cop told her to change her story to hearing Zimmerman — not Martin — call for help, Martin's mysteriously vanished cellphone, the police's inexplicable failure to test Zimmerman for drugs or alcohol, and the police department's troubling history of not prosecuting attacks on black people. No wonder the feds are stepping in. 3. Martin was black and Zimmerman isn't "Activists have gravitated towards racism as the prime motive for the shooting," and it's hard to disagree, says Chauncey DeVega at Salon. And "common sense renders a clear judgement here: If a black man shot and killed a white kid for holding a bag of Skittles he would already be [in] jail." And remember, this wouldn't be a national story if the shooter were black, says Kathleen McKinley in the Houston Chronicle. "Where is the outrage for the young black males who are killed every day in this country?" Is their death less tragic "because other black males are killing them?"

QUOTE (greg775 @ Apr 4, 2012 -> 11:19 PM) Good post. I encourage u to stick around and post, post, post What is your next promotion here after Rongey Fan Club? 20,000 posts makes you what? Guess he's (Ranger) been scared away from posting here for the time being, but will resurface when things are looking brighter for the organization.

The problem will be determining over the next couple of years how much of the difference is Ozzie simply has a much better Marlins team talent-wise, and it's more suited to his managerial style and strategic thinking. Did Ozzie simply get a little flat/stale/complacent, or he just gave up because of the constant bickering and differences over the roster with KW? In modern baseball, 8 years is a pretty long tenure for a manager. The odds of him lasting that long when he was hired would have been about 1/25 or 1/50 in Vegas.

QUOTE (fathom @ Apr 4, 2012 -> 10:05 PM) I wish Ozzie well in Florida, and I think he's the perfect manager for that team. That park is gigantic, and Ozzie will keep that team playing small ball instead of relying on a 3 run homer. There is some insane speed at the top of their order. As for what he said in this article, I truly hope Ozzie doesn't alienate himself too much from the Sox organization. I guarantee in a few years when they're celebrating the 10 year anniversary of 2005, Ozzie will be someone that everyone wants included in the celebration. But what are the odds that KW is still in the White Sox front office 3 years from now? You know when Ozzie makes on the record comments like this, it makes it more and more difficult for him to return. The only thing that mitigates against that is the fact that they have the ongoing feud over who is most responsible for the World Series title, and Ozzie will never let KW get the credit all alone when he feels he deserves at least 75% of the credit, especially since it hadn't happened in the lifetimes of most Sox fans.

I watched HAYWIRE and WRATH OF THE TITANS this weekend. I thought Haywire made zero logical sense, but it had a great director, somewhat better and definitely tighter dialogue, and a worthwhile cast. Carano is one of those actresses like Linda Fiorentino or Michelle Monaghan who's not quite hot, but definitely watchable and interesting, if merely for her physical presence and stunts/kickboxing. As an aside, can Channing Tatum be in any more movies this year? I defer to Ebert's review of Titans. I would say it was the worst 3D movie I've ever seen, if not for the existence of CONAN. Although I do have have to admit a small crush on Rosamund Pike, who plays Queen Andromeda, ever since I saw her as Madonna's fencing foe in one of the Bond movies. And finally, I tried to make it through Bucky Larson, but that might actually be the god awful worst movie EVER. Has anyone else seen it? Not just as a native Iowan, for the stupid jokes and stereotypes, but anyone from Adam Sandler and Christina Ricci on down should have been horribly embarassed when this movie actually made it to the theatres. It definitely should have been a straight to video release, and Kevin Nealon, you are REALLY not funny now.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Apr 4, 2012 -> 10:36 PM) Wow. Lots of powerful quotes. I'm assuming only the Sun Times is caring about the past regarding our former skipper. Good for the Trib to not care to send a guy to Miami. It was a good article, but we really don't need any more of these. We get it. Our former skipper despises Kenny. I guess that's news if that's the first time we've seen that Jerry quote in the Chicago media. That's a pretty s***ty quote by Reinsdorf. Whom did Jerry mean Ozzie threw under the bus?? Coop? Players? What players did Oz knock under the bus? Oz supported Jenks, he stood by Thornton, never blasted Pierre for his April blunders, pretty much was good with Beckham? WTF was Jerry talking about? Just Coop? Oh well, don't answer if u dont want. I don't really care. After watching video on mlb.com on the white sox page of highlights of Paulie/Dunn bombs and some interviews with Peavy, etc., I'm kind of excited for the season. Orlando Cabrera Javy V. Sean Tracey Brian Anderson (sort of) Jon Garland Swisher (although he probably deserved it) Beckham Daniel Hudson Viciedo Jenks Tim Raines Razor Shines Jeff Cox Lillibridge when he made a couple of mistakes in the OF after clearly being the best fielder on the team at a new position for most of the season, despite the fact that Rios made 20-30 more egregious mistakes, seemingly on an everyday basis Dunn, when he would PH him in the midst of the worst hitting slump in baseball history against a LHP when Lillibridge was white hot at that time

The problem with that analogy is : 1) All KU fans knew deep down that Roy would eventually leave for UNC, even if he passed the first time when Doherty got the job, and Doherty and Roy were also quite close at the time of that hire 2) Ozzie was a lifelong member of the White Sox family, whereas Roy was always something of an outsider, constantly making references to the Carolina way, Dean Smith, Michael Jordan, etc. 3) Williams wasn't run off by his A.D., who in the analogy would be KW to the basketball coach 4) Ozzie won a World Series with the White Sox, but Williams never got a National Title with KU, it took until Bill Self and the 2008 season for that to happen, largely with his own players (and not the previous team with Hinrich, Collison, Gooden, Simien, etc.)

Best hitting infield in the Central and all of baseball will undoubtedly be DET, as long as Cabrera and Fielder are both there. Even Ryan Raburn was among the leaders in spring training homers, and he and Inge are more like utility guys with that team, at least the last couple of seasons.

no more Sox talk Cowley getting in a shot at SoxTalk? Trying to be too cute again, or just an overreading/overreaching to think it's about us, perhaps? With Cowley, who knows, because obviously he uses innuendoes a lot in his writing.

QUOTE (pktmotion @ Apr 4, 2012 -> 08:23 PM) It's nice. The 2D moving still image is kind of overdone in sports, IMO. One piece of criticism is the ball is poorly composited as Peavy is pitching and Alexei is swinging. It looks off and it could've been done better. I love the dust reveal of "appreciate the game" at the end. One thing though I read the caption at the bottom of the video: "Moments" television commercial was selected by the White Sox as one of four winning submissions for the team's 2012 advertising campaign Being in the Design/Motion Graphics/Animation business I can tell you spec work is an ever-growing cancer that's deteriorating my industry. I'm disappointed the White Sox would pursue those measures. While this commercial and three others were selected as "winners" hundreds more were suckered into producing free work and that's plain wrong. That's the nature of the world today, with the unemployment rate being what it is. There are so many websites now offering cash prices for ideas that end up in patents from chemists, engineers, scientists, physicists, etc. Think of all the industries that have been wiped out by the internet, such as travel agents or newspapers/book publishing. Overall, this flattening out has provided much more information, and quicker access to marketplaces, but it's certainly a challenge for someone who works in a creative field like advertising or something as simple as coming up with cartoons or Hallmark/American Greeting Cards. If a 15 year old in his basement can come up with a better ad or better article about the White Sox, then there's no choice but to step up your game or be "creatively destroyed." This inevitably leads to more productivity/efficiency, but also a LOT more stress in the workplace as a result.

QUOTE (Swingandalongonetoleft @ Apr 4, 2012 -> 06:25 PM) Baseball doesn't have a face. The face of this team will be an inanimate metal sculpture with 25-30 sets of fingerprints on it in October. Only the people who know and appreciate the game and love it would recognize that. And the fans also. All of the blue collar steel workers who take their family of 4 to the game on half price Mondays after a sweaty, grueling, and particularly laborious day at work for minimal pay can appreciate the game. You know, the no bull Chicago tough people who consider -12 degree weather accompanied by snow falling sideways to be shirtless driving weather because their chest hair will insulate them can appreciate the game and be it's face. If you put ketchup on your hot dog kindly give it to them so they can throw it to the ground for the dogs and raccoons. But really, Kenny is 1a Paulie is 1b. Tell that to Jeffrey Loria, they picked Guillen specifically for this reason, the Hispanic market in South Florida, his time coaching with McKeon and Ozzie's already won the "Face of the Franchise" poll in the Miami Herald over any of the players (Hanley, Reyes, Stanton, Josh Johnson). It's telling that Ventura has received zero votes so far, yet Ozzie beats out four superstars in Miami, the ultimate celeb/superstar-driven city after LA and maybe New York.

They're going to end up moving that CF fence in from 418 to closer to 400. They did the same thing at CitiField, I think. Stanton's already lost one homer tonight, and hit another to deep center. This game might have been interesting had the ageless Omar Infante stayed on the bag and tagged out Berkman at 2B when he was trying to stretch it to a double. Freese continuing his clutch, 2-out RBI string from last year's postseason.

Date and target of Ozzie Guillen's first in-season beef May 12, Jeffrey Loria***April 4, The leaping marlins on the home run feature at the new Miami stadium April 27, Carlos Zambrano Bigger number: Ichiro hits or Adam Dunn strikeouts Tie, 199 Ichiro, 201-199 Ichiro, 202-154 Most offensive Tweeter Oney Guillen***Ozzie's first cousin, twice removed***Jose Canseco Sox picked 5th twice, and 4th once, yikes, oh well....nothing new this offseason. Dunn dark-horse candidate for most homers, Addison Reed for AL ROY http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/news;_ylt=Aj.g...dictions_040412