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If that were indeed the offer, anyone want to explain why Philly wouldn't have taken it? I call bulls*** on the writer.

I thought you were going to suggest a drink for each blown call against the Angels. Don't get me wrong, I'm lovin' it, but if I'm an Angels fan, boy I'd be pissed off.

QUOTE(jphat007 @ Oct 13, 2005 -> 02:07 AM) Yah. Lets just ignore their results over the year. I guess you're going to tell me that their coaches and manager expected both of them to perform up to their regular season levels under the circumstances I mentioned? Now the Sox are taking it out on the umpire. Brilliant.

QUOTE(jphat007 @ Oct 13, 2005 -> 02:04 AM) These are two awesome pitching teams. ITs incredible. Probably makes for pretty boring baseball for the "normal" fan though. Paul Byrd on 3 days rest and Jarrod Washburn returning from his deathbed does not make for "awesome" pitching. Hitters taking pitches down the middle while swinging at s*** outta the zone or right in on their hands makes those pitchers look "awesome"

fastball down the middle takes. breaking ball off the outside corner, swings. 0-2 count.. rest is history. horrible.

QUOTE(Tony82087 @ Oct 11, 2005 -> 12:53 AM) $99 for a Authentic jersey. No s***. f*** me. I assume the sale is over?

wow. so if they happen to win this game, what the hell will their rotation be? will they slip escobar into the rotation? gm 1 -- wash gm 2 -- byrd gm3 -- lackey? gm4 -- escobar/santana? gm5 -- wash gm 6 -- byrd gm7-- lackey on 3 days rest

QUOTE(WSoxMatt @ Oct 11, 2005 -> 12:12 AM) Here is an emailed I received, I had thanked them for a great sale and opportunity for all Sox fans and asked when we can expect to see them... Matt, thanks for the complments. Unlike many others, we try and save our customers $$$ whenever we can. I anticipate shipping all orders from Friday's sale this week. We send out automated e-mail notifications from UPS whenver we ship items. Let me know if you need any other info, Chris Triple Threat Sports What was the deal they had?

sounds like an embittered sCrUB fan to me.

QUOTE(greg775 @ Oct 10, 2005 -> 03:28 AM) here's what i have. our series starts tuesday. I have a question: I live in Kansas and Fox apparently is putting both games on at the same fricking time???? What does this mean for me? Obviously the Cardinals are going to be on here. Does Fox show both games at once?? I get no white sox playoffs??? L Greg, I'm down here in OK and if it were up to our local affiliate we would no doubt have the Cards game. I have Cox Cable and went to their website to look at the TV listing for Wed games being both LCS's come on at the same time. Looks like FOX will carry one game while FX carries the other game. If it doesn't end up being this way I'll be raising bloody f***ing hell with my cable company.

I wonder how many years it's been since there's been a successful suicide squeeze in an american league playoff game? I can't remember one.

Marte was robbed of a couple of obvious strikes there but still, you gotta put the right guy in the right situation. Marte has NO BUSINESS in this ballgame. You have a chance to end this game with Cotts/Politte/Herme/Jenks, you f***ing do it. This umpire f***ing blows. Even in the Sox half of this inning the BOS pitcher threw two right on the outside corner to Uribe and neither were called strikes.

QUOTE(WinninUgly @ Oct 7, 2005 -> 09:50 PM) He is better than most think, but Berman got wood on that play. Doesn't matter, Wakefield is gone and the Real Sox are up by 2! i know man. this is painful. kong hits a critical 2 run HR and berman is like "eh". then olerud makes a nice play, nothing game changing, and berman f***ing explodes with excitement. unreal. i pray to god he's nowhere near the ALCS.

1. Joey and Ozzie need to coach differently being this is playoff ball. Oz needs to conserve pitchers and put the best man in the best position to succeed. Joey needs to remember that this is the playoffs and not send people home on contact, nor should he wave people around unless he's POSITIVE that they'll make it safely. 2. Count needs to stay in the rhythm he's found on the mound. If he can spot his fastball like he's been doing, his splitter and offspeed pitches become unhittable. He'll be the guy setting the tone for this entire series. Fortunately for us, his confidence couldn't be any higher right now. 3. Our hitters cannot start swinging for the fences if we end up facing a 4 or 5 run deficit in a game. BOS pitching is horrible, take the hits, pile them together, and we can beat them without a single HR in this series. 4. NO WALKS UNLESS IT'S MANNY OR ORTIZ. This offense is too good to give them free baserunners.

If you really think that Ozzie is a good in-game manager then what's the point of discussing this further. His poor decisions have been rehashed 56 times over on the board, no reason to go through them again.

QUOTE(SoxFan101 @ Sep 29, 2005 -> 02:38 AM) He is still our best pitcher and you got to believe he will shape up when playoffs start. That being said not only has he earned it but its setup perfect for Contreras to pitch game 1 already so he should get that. Contreras-Buehrle-Garcia-Garland Garcia and Garland are inter-changable really but with ozzie liking Freddy and him having more experiance than Jon thats probably the way it is. It's always been said that the Count has the best "stuff" on our staff, it was just a mental block holding him back. So now that he's unblocked his mind and is pitching with his stuff, how is MB still the best pitcher on this team? History? The Count didn't start a bidding war between BOS and NYY for the hell of it, the guy has always had TRUE ACE stuff, now we're finally seeing what he can do with it.

If you were Paul Konerko and watched Ozzie, along with your teamates, destroy what was a great season, would you want to come back? Paulie's gone.

QUOTE(Frank the Tank 35 @ Sep 27, 2005 -> 01:58 AM) I wonder what Politte's stats are when pitching more than one inning. It seems to me the only time he really gets knocked around is when he's left in for more than one inning. Anyone else notice this? But the rest of our bullpen is well rested, nearly underworked. So we got that going for us.

QUOTE(bkmoney @ Sep 27, 2005 -> 01:51 AM) ozzie why is politte in to start the inning?? especially when you put cots in for only ONE PITCH!!!!! I'm glad we have a rested bullpen for, well, I don't know what for. But atleast they're rested.

Let's just assume that in their 6 remaining games Cleveland goes 4-2, which is actually below the winning% they've been playing at in the 2nd half. That would put them at 96 wins on the season. The only way the Sox could not have "choked" away their 15 game lead would have been to finish the season with 111 wins, only 5 wins short of the best mark ever set in baseball. Even a 10 game lead would have been a 106 win season.

QUOTE(YASNY @ Sep 24, 2005 -> 12:57 PM) Hypothetical situation: You are a devout Christian and you believe homosexuality goes against God's law. You also want to raise your children as Christians and do not want them exposed to "un-Christian" lifestyles. Therefore, you pay a substantial tuition to send those children to a Christian school. You are also within your rights to do so. If, the administrators of this particular school knew about the lesbian relationship of this students parent and did nothing, then they running the risk of offending and losing their entire clientelle. This particular student is not going to be denied an education. There is always public school. I'm not saying it's right or wrong. However, these are some of the things that have to be taken into consideration. There are two perspectives from which to look at this. This is the most informed reply in this entire thread.

I know what the dates of the home games will be when we win the division, but if we happen to end with the wildcard, does anyone have the dates for the alds games at the Cell?

If this team finished with 95 or 96 wins, after holding a 15 game lead on Aug 1st,and fails to win the division it's more of an indicator of the quality of the team that surpasses them in the standings than a White Sox choke. The 10spot on cnnsi had top 10 collapses and every one of them talked about horrendous (.500 since the break isn't horrendous) losing streaks, just handing the division to the other team. If any other second place team outside of CLE were in the ALCent, we'd have this thing wrapped up easily.

I've liked Carl since he joined the Sox the first time, not Carl as an individual player, but for the winning attitude and strong veteran presence Carl brought to the team. I can't believe I just read this quote from him. Carl, what the f*** are ya thinkin' man?

I like the aggressiveness. There's no point in getting into a 2 strike count against Johan, he's gonna K ya...might as well pick a pitch and go with it.