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QUOTE (Soxbadger @ May 5, 2010 -> 07:35 PM) So I think Rios is officially off the Soxtalk hate list? Never was on mine. Rally Rios!!!

4-0! We could see Linebrink tonight!

Keep the line moving, boys. Let's get Bannister out of there early, get into the soft non-Soria underbelly of the Royals bullpen, and make life easy for Freddy.

QUOTE (joesaiditstrue @ Apr 30, 2010 -> 02:34 PM) Ok, seriously. Is our coaching staff trying to lose games, I'm being serious. The hell is wrong with Ozzie? THIS LINEUP DOESN'T MAKE ANY SENSE! It hardly changes anything at all. You have to look at it by taking into account the turnover of the line-up, from the 9-hole back to the top of the order. Alexei has usually been in the 9-hole, with Pierre leading off, followed by Beckham. So all this lineup does, after the first inning, is change Alexei-Pierre-Beckham to Pierre-Alexei-Beckham, with Alexei very likely getting one more at bat per game than Pierre because he's in the leadoff spot. Another option is giving Beckham the extra at bat per game, and putting both Alexei and Pierre at the bottom of the order. But Beckham also is struggling, and hardly deserves the extra at bat either. The real problems is that too many hitters are struggling: Alexei, Pierre, Beckham, Kotsay, Vizquel, AJ, Quentin. Ozzie doesn't have any good, obvious options for leadoff. He's got to hope that someone starts to figure out how to get on base.

Did they mention if the trophy would get redistributed if the Sox and Cubs meet in the World Series? Or is this a moot point?

The tiebreaker should be total runs, then winner of last game. That's what I used in my bet with a Cub fan last year. He paid off after the Cell series, well before the Sept. make-up game, because at that point the Sox led 3-2 games and by 8 runs, and he admitted there was no way the Cubs would win the make-up by 9 runs.

If it brings in some $$$ and sells a few tickets or generates some more interest among the casual fan base, then I'm in favor. In that spirit, it should be called the Veeck Trophy: anything to put some more butts in seats.

Go, and then sit back, relax, and strap it down. You won't be alone - you will be with a bunch of fellow Sox fans. Yes there are a few antisocial ones out there, but most fans enjoy talking to other knowledgeable Sox fans and welcome the camaraderie. If you can't strike up a good conversation about the Sox while you're at the ballpark with other fans, you'll never be able to do so.

QUOTE (GreatScott82 @ Mar 14, 2010 -> 10:23 PM) Im okay with it. The interleague schedule is bunched up together around June, instead of having that, the league can spread it out throughout the season, there would be at least one interleague series going. Each team has 18 interleague games- so that would be very easy to spread throughout the season. If the league isn't okay with that, then expand. Why doesn't Omaha have an MLB team?- the entire state of Nebraska is baseball crazy. How about Portland or Las Vegas? There are pleanty of options. . For anyone relying upon an MLB team in Portland, Oregon as an expansion city to get to 32 teams to make their realignment scheme work, I can tell you (based on my 10+ years of living there) that Portland absolutely will not be able to support a competitive MLB team. Portland is the classic AAA town, or NBA town, like Oklahoma City or Memphis - they can maybe sell 20,000 tickets to 41 NBA games during the winter when there's not much to do and no other major sports options, but not 30,000 tickets to 81 MLB games during the summer. It's a small city, in a poorer-than-average state. It's a very anti-business town and state, with no major Fortune 500 company headquarters (except Nike) and no billionaires except Nike's Phil Knight (who doesn't like baseball) - so who is going to own/bankroll the team? Paul Allen is the absentee owner of the Portland Blazers - he jets down from much wealthier Seattle in his private 737 for Blazer games. If you are thinking of putting a team in Portland, at best you'd be creating another lower-echelon small market team, like Tampa Bay or Pittsburgh, with an absentee owner. The more likely case is that you'd be creating the Montreal Expos. Portland's a pleasant enough city to live in if you can find a job (I enjoyed it there), but no way is it an MLB town. I know there are delusional Portlanders who think otherwise and advocate for an expansion team, but they all have one thing in common: none of them has the money to put at risk in owning a team.

QUOTE (Big Hurtin @ Mar 30, 2010 -> 03:21 PM) 1. That was the University of Minnesota Gophers. 2. They play outside every year. Have another drink my friend, and relax. Opening Day is but 5 days away. We're going to have some fun this year!

I've watched the Wood 20K game, and I have to say, the ump had an awfully wide strike zone that day. Calling balls and strikes is a subjective judgment call. If the zone had been slightly different, or had even one particular pitch been called differently, then Wood has a 19K (or lower) day instead of 20Ks. Yes, this sounds like a nit, but I think it shows that comparing the 5 20K strikeout games in MLB history to the 18 perfect games isn't a fair comparison. Yes, there can be subjectivity in outs as well as balls and strikes, but there is less. Buehrle had only 6 strikeouts, and had to record 21 solid outs in the field. None of them was a subjective judgment call that could be argued/disputed, or which the replay shows the umps screwed up. Had replay technology been used to call the all the outs in Buehrle's game, he still would have gotten his perfect game. But if computerized strike zone technology had been used to call Wood's game, would he still have gotten his 20 Ks? All that said, Wood's game is impressive. I just prefer a perfect game more, because it truly is just what the name says: a "perfect" game. No runner reaches base. Absolutely nothing goes wrong. Buehrle's game was a thing of beauty, a rare glimpse of perfection in a far-from-perfect world.

QUOTE (ChiSox_Sonix @ Mar 30, 2010 -> 02:43 PM) If it was only for a week you might as well just call up Lucy to let Flowers play every day and to avoid the arb clock. He'd only start one game tops anyways. Agree. I'm in the "keep Flowers and Hudson playing regularly in AAA to hone their skills" camp.

QUOTE (flavum @ Mar 30, 2010 -> 01:58 PM) Kevin Millar released. There goes David Kaplan's "clubhouse guy". Wailing and moaning will commence at 5:30pm on Chicago Tribune Live.

I thought I was watching Burls last night - but it was his prodigy, Danksie. Did anyone else notice how Danks is modeling himself even more after Buehrle? Danks was throwing nothing down the center of the plate, hitting the corners and enticing batters to swing at pitches outside the zone, throwing inside to righties to saw off the bat or get balls pulled down the left-field line, moving the ball all around, and working at a good speed and rhythm. Heck, he even picked a baserunner off first, and enticed a double play groundball. Except for the very last pitch he threw, it was a masterful performance, and very Buehrlesque.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Mar 30, 2010 -> 01:40 PM) Floyd Danks Yes, so Danks can go up against the lefty-heavy Twinkies in game 4. I think the Sox are paying more attention to the game 4 lefty-lefty matchups, rather than trying to rank Floyd over Danks. I suspect the rotation will be shuffled further as we move forward and rainouts & days off & doubleheaders occur, always with an eye towards matchups. I wouldn't be surprised to see Freddy pitching after Peavy for a game, at some point in the season. I like the 2 lefty / 3 righty balance of our starting rotation - it's the best possible balance.

http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2010/03/2...rget-field.html I knew they were going to have trouble adjusting to the outdoors!

QUOTE (hogan873 @ Mar 29, 2010 -> 01:09 PM) The Twins have a horrible April, and the team holds an emergency press conference stating that they were not aware of "wind" and "cold" in Minnesota. The Pirates fold after going 1-22 in their first 23 ganes. Bud Selig allows them to become a farm team for the Yankees and Red Sox. All areas of the country outside of the Northeast get sick and tired of seeing the Yankees and Red Sox on ESPN 100 times a year and demand that something be changed. ESPN responds my re-naming Baseball Tonight "No Other Teams Matter Except for the Yankees and Red Sox." Not bad! But the Pirates are also a farm team for the Cubs. And don't forget that we have a divisional farm team, too - the Royals. This year we sent Pods, Getz, Fields and BA back down to AAAA, and brought up Teahen.

What's all the complaining about the DH spot - we've got Q!!!

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Mar 4, 2010 -> 03:08 PM) In case of a rainout on Opening Day (see 2009), it allows for the team to have their big-ticket opening day the following afternoon. 2009 was a snowout. But the next day, the sun was shining, and it was a beautiful opening day, with a White Sox winner. The Sox are smart to provide a 2-day window to get in the opening day game.

QUOTE (JoeCoolMan24 @ Mar 6, 2010 -> 10:10 PM) I know Ozzie is having everyone run, just to see what they can do. But I find it pretty encouraging that as a team, we are 10 for 11 in SB. Yes, it's encouraging. But that percentage will decline over the spring and into the season, as the pitchers are still working on their pitches right now, and can't focus too much on the runners. But still, it's encouraging, and a pleasure to watch. If we actually do progress beyond a station-to-station softball team, it will be a fun year.

QUOTE (SoxAce @ Mar 6, 2010 -> 11:59 PM) Watched the game earlier. Even in ST, beating the Cubs always brings a smile on my face. Me too. But it looks like the Cubs are going to be a disaster this year, so beating them may not mean much. They have 2 key injured pitchers (Lilly and Guzman) already. Soriano is still flubbing balls in left field. The Ghost of Milton Bradley (Carlos Silva) will make Cubs fans regret they ran Milton out of town. Lou is as clueless as ever. It's heading for disaster, and for Sox fans, it will be as funny as watching the Three Stooges.

Nice win today versus our inept northside neighbors and their train wreck of a pitching staff. Watching the 3 televised games so far this spring, I like these 2010 White Sox. The aggressive base running is putting pressure on the opposing pitcher, catcher and defense, and creating opportunities. It's great to see one single (if preceded by a walk and a steal) produce a run, instead of the 3 hits it often took in the past. The Sox defense looks better, and the pitching looks solid (welcome to the Sox J.J. Putz). It's still early in the spring, but I like what I see.

QUOTE (asmithxc @ Mar 2, 2010 -> 03:28 PM) not related to the thread, but great signature Anderson-Fields: Omar Vizquel (will hit a high average during spring then go back to his normal hitless ways) Danny Wright: Jhonny Nunez Pablo Ozuna: Going out on a limb here, but.... Brent Lillibridge (yeah, probably not going to happen) You need to be able to hit the ball out of the infield to hit .500, so no way is it going to happen with Lillibridge.

QUOTE (Ranger @ Mar 3, 2010 -> 08:48 PM) Ha! This one made me laugh. The funny thing is that those interactive games are the one time golf won't be a topic....because I won't ask him about it. I don't play golf. Ranger, you must take up golf. It's a great sport, has parallels to baseball (hitting a stationary ball instead of a moving one), and to move up the ladder in the White Sox broadcasting hierarchy, it will help you. Plus we live in a great area for golf, as well as baseball. I ran into Farmio at the clubhouse turn at Cog's Hill Dubsdread in Lemont last year, before one of the afternoon Cubs/Sox games at Wrigley - told him to watch out for the rats! Southside golf is like Southside baseball - the best!

QUOTE (Thunderbolt @ Feb 22, 2010 -> 05:37 PM) The difference is that Jones and Kotsay aren't declining. They've declined, they're shells of the players they once were. Any theory about Thome and Damon declining is conjecture and projection. Their's no daming empirical evidence that points to them being inadequate this year. Meanwhile, we have ample reason and empirical support to the belief that Kotsay and Jones aren't going to cut it. Thome over the past 4 years: OPS: 1.014 > .973 > .865 > .847 HR: 42 > 35 > 34 > 23 I think his decline will continue, especially with limited at bats.