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QUOTE (chw42 @ Apr 21, 2010 -> 06:13 PM) Somewhat. Weren't the Blackhawks absolutely atrocious for a while? Like post-2001 to pre-strike? The Blue Jays have held their ground all right. Right, I see your point on them at least winning games. I was just thinking if you look at it from the point of view of not how many games you win but rather the chances you actually have of winning it all. Then it seems the same to me because those wins don't really mean much. You probably have to look at it that way for my point to make sense. I guess I just wasn't all that convinced by his argument and found it to be kind of a stretch. Before I listened, I assumed he had a strong argument before making such a bold statement. To me, it does seem like he may have somewhat of an agenda against either Toronto or the Jays (that assumption, however, may be a stretch as well).

QUOTE (chisox2334 @ Apr 21, 2010 -> 06:07 PM) rios needs to hit higher Higher, probably. But hitting leadoff will take away a lot of his RBI potential.

QUOTE (chw42 @ Apr 21, 2010 -> 04:20 PM) The Blue Jays have had 86 and 87 win seasons since 2003 and have gone around .500 numerous times. Yet, in 2003, when they won 86 games and led the AL East for a good amount of time, they failed to draw over 2 million fans. In fact, from 2000 to 2005, they failed to draw over 2 million fans. They had a good period from 06 to 08 where they drew close to league average, but last year, it dipped down below 2 million yet again. For such a large city, they should be able to continuously draw around the league average if they're just mediocre. That hasn't happened though. But maybe it's not about being mediocre, but rather feeling that you have no shot at winning anything. If you look at it that way, there is a parallel between the Blackhawks situation before this recent success and the Blue Jays current situation.

I don't know. I don't think he came off defending himself that well. His main argument seemed to be that Toronto doesn't deserve a baseball team because baseball isn't the first priority in the town and no one goes. People went when they were winning. The host had a pretty good counter when he brought up the Blackhawks. People only go when they're winning and they are definitely not the top sports priority in town.

I was supposed to meet people for a double header two years ago and they never showed. The first game was fun, but as I slowly got drunk in the sun and realized I was alone for 7 hours I began to feel a little depressed.

QUOTE (bmags @ Apr 20, 2010 -> 09:56 PM) nice to come back to. I was watching lost, however. Good job rios. A mediocre sports night until the Hawks come back.

QUOTE (chisoxfan09 @ Apr 20, 2010 -> 09:42 PM) Isn't Crawford a FA after this year or next? Hopefully he prefers Navy Pier and North Beach in the summer to the money Boston or New York will throw at him.

QUOTE (jphat007 @ Apr 20, 2010 -> 09:35 PM) Well, I think you could put an average Joe out there and they'd be better than Juan Pierre. Kid is terrible. According to Juan, it doesn't matter. We just need to look at his track record. http://chicago.whitesox.mlb.com/news/artic...sp&c_id=cws

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Apr 20, 2010 -> 09:30 PM) We'd be so much better with Crawford than Pierre it wouldn't even be close to funny/ And ARod rather than Teahan. Or Mauer rather than AJ.

QUOTE (whitesoxfan101 @ Apr 20, 2010 -> 09:57 AM) The team won't be disillusioned into thinking they can just win despite having one of the most pathetic offenses in the major leagues like they were this offseason. They'll have to make some actual moves to improve the offense in accordance with the standards of the American League this upcoming winter. It's so disheartening that we're thinking about hypotheticals for the upcoming offseason. How sad.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Apr 20, 2010 -> 09:43 AM) Really? It's 5x harder to find a starting 2b than SS? First of all, I doubt it's actually 5x easier...secondly, I'm not convinced that it's even easier at all. I would presume it would be due to the fact that I believe you can turn any SS into a 2B if you needed to. That alone would make it easier.

QUOTE (The Big Hurt @ Apr 19, 2010 -> 09:23 PM) post edited Yeah, I couldn't really see trading A.J. making much sense. Oh well, there goes my interest.

Anyone that has Insider able to let us know what the White Sox rumor on there is about? It has A.J.'s picture next to it. I'd be surprised if it was for A.J. and they were ready to bring Flowers up. But I did just assume that because of a picture and nothing else.

QUOTE (DaveBrown85 @ Apr 19, 2010 -> 10:54 AM) Can't say that I do. But it's not we. Its the White Sox. I've never understood why people find it necessary to point out this distinction. It just seems like some sort of meticulous criticism that you probably picked up from B&B.

QUOTE (bmags @ Apr 7, 2010 -> 05:26 PM) Someone once explained to me, i think when I was housepainting, that 20% chance of rain doesn't mean that there is a 2 in 10 chance that you will see rain, but that, like, 20% of the area will get rained on. So 40% was really high and work would usually be delayed. did i make this up? QUOTE (GoSox05 @ Apr 7, 2010 -> 05:36 PM) You are correct, sir. I think. It actually means that 2 out of 10 times when the weather conditions (in the computer) are the same as they are now it has rained.

QUOTE (Pants Rowland @ Apr 6, 2010 -> 05:58 PM) April 14, 1910 by William Howard Taft, our 26th president. It was in that same game that the 7th inning stretch originated when the portly Taft got up to stretch his cramped hocks. If the president gets up, everyone gets up and a tradition was born. http://www.baseball-almanac.com/articles/7...g_stretch.shtml After reading the entire article, I highly doubt that the Taft story is the true origin of the 7th inning stretch. The others are much more likely, though the Taft one is the most endearing.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Apr 6, 2010 -> 01:29 PM) My lord people. The President of the United States is a Sox fan, and chose to wear a Sox hat even though he was first-pitching for DC's team. Be happy and move on. I'm almost sorry I posted it. It was just meant to point out how cool it is that he he loves to throw the White Sox hat into the scene every now and then.

http://sports.espn.go.com/chicago/mlb/news/story?id=5057336 You gotta love his undying support for the White Sox.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Feb 15, 2010 -> 05:57 PM) Probably a lot of reasons. First, he'd always be in someone else's shadow. He'd also be changing numbers. The big one though is the contracts. While he could probably play PF, having Deng alongside him is really a poor setup. Which means we'd need to find a way to move Deng. Which is already difficult enough, and which would be more difficult if we suddenly HAD to move him. Why would he necessarily want to go through that when so many other teams can offer him the spot wide open already. Riiight. That makes some sense. And gives a little more backing to why Wade and Bosh are always mentioned, besides the obvious.

Out of general curiosity, I was wondering why people never mention Chicago when talking about where Lebron James is looking next summer? Are there specific reasons why it's not a reality, or is it just because everyone is speculating that if it's not Cleveland, then it's NJ or NY? I'm not arguing that he should come to Chicago or anything, just wondering why it's never mentioned as a possibility.

how do you vote for all of the options?

QUOTE (iamshack @ Jan 27, 2010 -> 11:08 PM) I'm not a lawyer, but I did stay at a Hollywood Inn Express (went to law school). When posting info verbatim from another website, always link to the source. It is indeed not a good idea to post verbatim information that is "premium" content. You can link it, so the users who pay for the content can read it if you'd like. If you'd like to discuss some of the premium content, please, just put it into a synopsis of your own words for the other posters. i'm in law school. can you give me a job. please?

QUOTE (SoxAce @ Jan 27, 2010 -> 10:33 PM) There's a reason why they are WSI and we are soxtalk. And I don't just mean the copyright bulls***. ??? Because they don't want to risk losing their site due to copyright laws??? I'm confused. He was giving good and valid advice that should probably be followed.

QUOTE (Jordan4life @ Jan 26, 2010 -> 02:44 AM) You say this about EVERY former White Sox player. If Carlton Fisk came outta 17-year old retirement at age, what, 70, and joined the Twins you would say he's going to no doubt kick our ass. The only problem with that is that the Twins still have Joe Mauer, so I doubt Fisk would get a lot of playing time.

QUOTE (Quinarvy @ Jan 8, 2010 -> 10:53 PM) My god that is true. When my brother went to Mizzou, I couldn't stand the Cards love. When ever he wore his Sox hat people asked him if he wore it because he was a Cubs hating Cardinal fan, but wanted an AL team to root for. There were other things that annoyed him about them, like the aforementioned blind devotion. There was a thing about how the Cardinals should have won the 2005 WS, because they were the definitive best team in baseball that year or something like. I forgot to mention my ex-girlfriend was a Cardinals fan. B****.