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QUOTE (WCSox @ Aug 10, 2009 -> 11:06 PM) Why couldn't have Griffey hit like this last year? Like what? .221? He pretty much did.

On top of the Bullpen Sports Bar is a pretty good time.

Dye is one of those guys who looks BRUTAL when he gets cold. This has happened before, and he'll turn it around.

QUOTE (Princess Dye @ Aug 10, 2009 -> 07:11 PM) Yeah those six championships notwithstanding In all seriousness though, NBA is so dynasty and star-driven, with a cap on top of it. Frankly you are a bad GM only if you fail to draft a star with a high pick. The Bulls havent had the extremely good luck to get a #1 pick in the LeBron year, so really they're in the same boat as so many other organizations. Meanwhile the White Sox were able to win a title with a piecemeal approach to their 04-05 offseason. In MLB, one can do that. I hate to say it, but it's just flat out easier to make yourself better. Those teams were managed by Jerry Krause, but he has the good fortune to have his legacy buoyed by the best player to ever play in the NBA winning those 6 championships. Give him credit for drafting Pippen and the Rodman trade, but that is canceled out by the premature dismantling of the dynasty.

QUOTE (DukeNukeEm @ Aug 10, 2009 -> 07:07 PM) ... and the Hawks have the offseason from hell while the Bulls prove to be one of the most poorly managed teams in the world. The time to give the report card on the Bulls won't be until 2010, if they score one of the big free agents then it'll all be worthwhile.

Jerry Angelo goes for broke and trades for Jay Cutler Kenny Williams trades for Jake Peavy Sox get Alex Rios for nothing ...man. This is awesome. Now let's turn this into some wins.

Damn, mediocre record aside, the Sox arrow is pointing up in a sharper and sharper direction every day.

QUOTE (Jenksy Cat @ Aug 10, 2009 -> 04:37 PM) Basketball IS a physical sport, but not anywhere near the level that hockey/football are on. There's also the fact that the NBA's #1 priority is to make sure their league doesn't appear to be run by thugs, so they pussify the game to the point that players can't react normally anymore. ...and THIS is where I was actually leading when I brought it up. I was actually going to push there in a roundabout way but I didn't expect someone to actually do it for me. Being physical in the NBA is discouraged now, a lot of the stuff players did against Jordan and the stars in the 80s and 90s would be a flagrant now.

QUOTE (ChiSox_Sonix @ Aug 10, 2009 -> 03:35 PM) You're trying to compare hockey fights to basketball fights. There is no comparison. At all. Where I think you were going with that was people on message boards thinking the hockey goon = awesome and someone who gets in a fight in basketball = thug. I was just saying you can't compare anything associated with fights in the two sports. One is sanctioned, while one is not. Well this is getting off topic, but I think it's a legit question, why is there no comparison? Why is fighting ok (encouraged) in hockey? What does it add to the game that it couldn't/wouldn't in basketball? It gets mostly overlooked in football too, but I don't see why people treat basketball players so different, like basketball is not a physical sport.

QUOTE (ChiSox_Sonix @ Aug 10, 2009 -> 03:00 PM) Ok, not even in the same universe. And you know it. I'm not sure what you think I'm trying to say here.

People hated on Thome in '06? WTF? Why?

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Aug 10, 2009 -> 02:50 PM) I'm certainly not aiming this towards you but I can't help but to feel race is an element in these situations. Some young black kid makes it to the NBA, MLB, NFL, etc and continues to smoke pot, hang out with "thugs", or whatever and everyone calls them out on it. "What an idiot." "He just hit the lotto ad blew it." and on and on. And for some reason this guy blows it because of stupidity and it's because he's "developed problems". Well if you want to throw that into the discussion, go look at internet comments after a hockey fight, then do the same thing after a basketball fight.

QUOTE (hammerhead johnson @ Aug 10, 2009 -> 02:14 PM) That was a direct response to Thunderbolt. If he got bombed out of his mind behind closed doors, then I'd honestly feel bad for him. The fact that he chose to do it in a public place w/ skanks licking whip cream off his chest and grabbing his crotch is dumber than dumb. Does he not know that everyone has cameras on their cell phones nowadays? That's what happens when you're f***ed up. That's why he quit in the first place. Was he a dumbass for starting again in the first place, yes, and he knows it. But why be so judgmental? Do you know him? I was one of the people last year getting tired of the "recovering addict saving his career" narrative but have you ever known someone who's tried to shake an addiction? It's not something you can just snap your fingers and do.

Waste of time and keystrokes. This thread, much like the actual "debate" across the country, has turned retarded. Someone needs to cut down the trees, they're obstructing the view of the forest again.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Aug 10, 2009 -> 12:47 PM) You know what's really impressing me about this whole "Death panel" idiocy? It's how even the supposed legit-media outlets are still refusing to call a spade a spade. Not just Fox, they're doing exactly what they're supposed to do; pretending what Palin said is 100% true and telling their whole audience to be afraid of it. The AP, for example, is running these stories as "Republicans say Democrats are going to euthanize the elderly, Democrats and some experts disagree." They're just unwilling to come out and say "these statements are false" or any version of that. It's literally in "Republicans say the sun will rise in the west tomorrow, Democrats and scientists disagree" territory. Meanwhile, Fox News tells how horrible things would be if Obama made the sun rise in the West. It's remarkable how easily the media are played this way. "We promise, we learned our lessons from the Iraq war!". For real, though. All the "read the bill" talk. Where the hell does it say this in the bill? So people can just tell bald-faced lies in public, over and over, and go unchecked? Then again, if any media outlet actually did call a spade a spade, you know as well as I do that the "liberal media" card would just get played again. Cognitive dissonance.

QUOTE (bmags @ Aug 10, 2009 -> 12:30 PM) http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/...t.php?ref=fpblg "Once you thoroughly unfasten yourself from reality, truly all things are possible. AJC columnist Jay Bookman noticed that in the latest Investors Business Daily editorial about how the 'death panel' will condemn all handicapped or disabled people to death on some horrid wind-swept mountain, it notes that ... People such as scientist Stephen Hawking wouldn't have a chance in the U.K., where the National Health Service would say the life of this brilliant man, because of his physical handicaps, is essentially worthless. Needless to say, Hawking, who is recognized as one of the great theoretical physicists of the 20th and 21st century, was born in the UK and has lived his entire life there." lmao, thats actually really f***ing embarrassing. Oh the downside to the First Amendment, in full effect.

QUOTE (ChiSox_Sonix @ Aug 10, 2009 -> 10:57 AM) GMAFB. Yeah, GOP officials are the only one's ever involved in such nonsense. I can't think of any Dem who would ever do so. Dem sex scandals are funny too. The GOP just happens to be carrying the torch atm.

You know, at least the guy is consistent and he's not a hypocrite. I have a hard time bashing him.

Because the newspaper business is dying. Right.

QUOTE (GoSox05 @ Aug 10, 2009 -> 09:38 AM) I would too, but I think I know where it's going. Only thing i can think of off the top of my head is the unchecked spread of Islam into Europe.

Kind of long read for the small text, but view full size and lol. Cleaned up and slightly modified.

QUOTE (Kenny Hates Prospects @ Aug 10, 2009 -> 01:08 AM) Don't forget he wasn't exactly an ace his first three years with Montreal either. BTW I'm not saying Javy is a bad pitcher either. He's actually very good. But, Javy is a #2-#4 depending on the season and Peavy is typically a #1-#2. Javy has always had the ability to be an ace but after watching him pitch here we all can see why that hasn't happened for him. Javy is just one of those guys that stats people can never understand, and he's the perfect example of why you need to watch a baseball game. His WHIP is always pretty low, his K/9 is always very high, his BB/9 is always very low, so people look at the numbers and can't figure out what is wrong. Whoever it is that has the sig talking about Javy trying to patent the phrase "one bad pitch" and "one bad inning" is right on. He totally loses confidence and faith in his stuff and ends up throwing the wrong pitch in the wrong count (he'll throw a f***ing hanging curve 2-1/3-1 after he'd been dominating with his FB + CH), and often after getting into a jam by walking the speey #1/#2/#9 hitter after going 0-2 on him and then getting fancy trying to strike him out. Chisox Sonix

I think Danks was due for some regression, he threw a s***-ton of innings last year and was bound to lose it at some point this year. In the long term he will be fine.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Aug 9, 2009 -> 08:23 PM) So I just saw a commercial by the "60 plus committee" (anyone else watching Discovery?). I thought it was funny how they were talking about how awful government health care coverage will be while also talking about how great seniors' Medicare coverage is. I have no faith in this country ever getting major reform of anything through the legislature. We are going to have a similar kind of argument when it comes time to try immigration reform. Again.