RibbieRubarb

That's not too impressive. I was shutout seven times in one night before... What a sad life I led...

Now that Suri's out...How long before her dad comes out? AWWW SNAP!!! NO I DINNIT....YES I DID!!!

QUOTE(Steff @ Sep 6, 2006 -> 10:34 AM) WB stranger... Good 2B Back

QUOTE(Steff @ Sep 6, 2006 -> 10:19 AM) Ahhh*no*choo... Bless *I agree* you!

I can't think of a better way of returning to the board than by wishing one of best guys here a Happy Birthday!!

I have come to the conclusion on the direction that Soxtalk will be heading...down. I do not mean the site in itself. The admins are awesome and the site is great and a pleasure to navigate. But the attitude of the posters here. My gosh. This is an incredibly negative place that I have no interest of reading. Choke avatars "The Season is over" Everyone from struggling players to great players like Crede and Thome and even Guillen getting the full brunt of insults and pathetic, illogical conclusions to their abilities. Enough is enough. My God we won the World Series last year and so many people are still ready to jump ship and declare the season done. Good. Go. Join another fanclub or site and leave. Is there some kind of emotional high you receive from predicting doom? I feel that so many here WANT the White Sox to lose just so they can be proven correct. If that's what you want, wow. Great fan you are. Now, am I saying we should be blindly optimistic and not realize what our team is doing right now? HELL NO. Our pitching has not been as good as last year, we have been horrible at bunting and doing some small things. But we are FAR from done in the division. Why??? Bacause we have good players...if you didn't notice we won the F'in World Series last year. Good players have a history of pulling themselves out of slumps. See last September when so many of the same people declared Cleveland the champs! But there you were crow in hand cheering on the champs when the season was done. These same players turned it around. Plus its friggin JULY!! Now if this was September...yes, I'd be more worried because time and history would not be on our side. But for now I will enjoy MY TEAM a team I have rooted and cried for since I was a boy. I team I screamed for last October. A team that made our dreams come true. But since so many wish to create nightmares...I am choosing not to read them anymore. There is no more insight; no more logical discussions that set Soxtalk above the rest. Its all negative, extreme reactionary posts from now on, I guess. Thank you for the good time and I will be back come fall when we are in happier moods...hopefully. Toodles, Ribbie

QUOTE(Buehrle>Wood @ Jul 20, 2006 -> 02:37 PM) The Rally Crede doesn't need to throw balls at full speed. Instead, he'll just allow the runners to take their bases! So insightful...

QUOTE(Flash Tizzle @ Jul 20, 2006 -> 03:21 PM) How the hell do you know any of this? I'm tired of people suggesting perhaps this is our only slump. Or those who love to riddle posts with cliches such as, "every team goes through these periods," or "we did it last year and it turned out fine." Listen to me, here: forget about last season. Referencing last years August/September swoon, as if to imply we're going through that point now, is a flimsy set of logic. But saying "The Season is over", "We won't make the playoffs"...etc screams of logic? At least we are going by a history that these players have of coming out of slumps and playing great baseball.

So we should close it down until when? 2010? 2011? Tell me when I should follow this team again...

QUOTE(Kalapse @ Jul 20, 2006 -> 03:09 PM) Stop being pessimistic, everything is alright. I repeat EVERYTHING is ALRIGHT! Please, we are all aware that the team is struggling. But at least we are not going to extreme like some here proclaiming the division over.

And the choke avatars come out again...in July. ::yawn::

QUOTE(rangercal @ Jul 20, 2006 -> 03:05 PM) someone save this quote. There were a whole bunch of these last year. But they were first to post when we won the division...odd, isn't it?

To Buehrle>Wood: You can take your reactionary, classless attitude elsewhere for all I care. You seem better suited for the ESPN or MLB boards. They'll enjoy that schtik there.

QUOTE(Milkman delivers @ Jul 20, 2006 -> 10:17 AM) Mackowiak with Ozuna giving him a break every so often. So you want Mack or Ozuna to start and the White Sox make no moves or put Fields in LF? Because if Fields, as so many want, is in LF next year...I ask again...who hits leadoff?

Who would hit leadoff for us? So many of you are complaining that this team resembles the 2002-2003-2004 team of sluggers and no small ball. But yet so many want Pods gone and Fields/other LF to replace him. So I ask again...who hits leadoff then?

Looks like Javy had thrown out his curve ball and going with his slider with two strikes now.

QUOTE(BigSqwert @ Jul 19, 2006 -> 07:29 PM) Gotta love the back door.

QUOTE(southsideirish71 @ Jul 19, 2006 -> 07:22 PM) I should s*** on more of our players. I am like the reverse mojo. I just crapped on Uribe and he goes deep. Say we should dump the whole team!!!

So.. We're done with Pods and Uribe. Anyone else?

Vasquez should keep throwing that running fastball in on the RH...Nasty

QUOTE(fathom @ Jul 19, 2006 -> 06:49 PM) The small ball portion of our game is so bad it's comical now. Explain. Ozzie started a hit and run with Mack on first. Uribe flied out. Should Pods or Alex have bunted? Should Mack have stole second against Pudge?

Alex should hit from the right

QUOTE(Jimbo @ Jul 19, 2006 -> 06:44 PM) Hawk said hed fill a lineup of all righties. where is BA???? Watching Rob get a hit.

YEAH a lefty with a hit!

Crede!!!!! RALLY CREDE!!!!! 1-0 SOX!!