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QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Jun 30, 2010 -> 03:42 PM) Tiger's divorce is about to be official. Elin Nordegren gets $750 million dollars, sole physical custody of the kids, but she can never come out in public and talk about Tiger's flings when they were married. Tiger has to keep all girlfriends away from the kids, can only bring them around if they get married. WOW, $750 million f***ing dollars! http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2010/...-woods-divorce/ While she has every right to get that $750M, it makes me think less of her. Yes, the cheating was horrible for Tiger to do, but how much better a person is she to have chased him with a club and try to get as much as possible? I feel most sorry for the kids in this instance.

QUOTE (SoxAce @ Jun 30, 2010 -> 03:25 PM) Just to add fuel to the horrible rumors fire... Reina If Chris Bosh wants his six-year max contract, it looks like Bryan Colangelo wants Joakim Noah or David Lee in return. Not taking Beasley. If by "Joakim Noah" he means "Luol Deng and Taj Gibson", sure.

QUOTE (SoxAce @ Jun 30, 2010 -> 03:09 PM) Well it was soxnet, but close. I'm stunned with Mike though as I thought Jason would (and should) have the biggest beef with him along with Mario. My favorite is that he apparently still reads SoxNet, because remember when we thought Hudson would fill in for Peavy? JC was all over dismissing that.

QUOTE (witesoxfan @ Jun 30, 2010 -> 02:53 PM) 45 hits in a row, that'd be a record or somethin 12 hits is the current record, belonging to Walt Dropo.

QUOTE (SoxAce @ Jun 30, 2010 -> 02:25 PM) If that is the same friend who didn't want LeBron to begin with, then he should be taken to an alley and be beaten up heavily. That was my brother. He for some reason still wants Wade + Amare.

http://sports.espn.go.com/chicago/nba/news/story?id=5342894 Rob Kurz and Chris Richard have joined the vaunted FA class.

Pods was awesome, demanded too much money after coming back last year, is a crappy base runner and fielder, but a good hitter.

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Jun 30, 2010 -> 01:52 PM) It would be a challenge to win playoff series against good teams. Winning 60-65 games should happen somewhat easily though. Agreeing with this. Especially on long rest like the playoffs have, teams like the Lakers, Thunder, and (this years) Celtics could take them, just because they would have 2 massive holes at point guard and center. My friend just sent me a text about Melo, saying he wants the Bulls to trade Deng/Taj/JJ/Picks for Melo, then sign LeBron to form some sort of crazy super team.

QUOTE (witesoxfan @ Jun 30, 2010 -> 10:03 AM) Williams - 22 inherited runners, 13 have scored - 59% IS% Politte - 11 inherited runners, 3 scored - 27% IS% If you add Williams' 13 that were inherited to his total runs and earn runs scored, it jumps to 29 runs and 27 runs respectively allowed in 25 innings. With Politte, his jumps to 33 and 32 respectively... thus, Williams' IS+RS average is 10.44, and his IS+ER average is 9.72 Politte's IS+RS average is 9.90 and his IS+ER average is 9.6 Kalapse may argue that Williams is worse, because it is a relievers job to get out of a jam because Politte still did a better job of it than Williams. I'd argue that he received half of the inherited runners that Williams did, and thus, with his peripherals, he would have been far more likely to allow more than 3 runners to score on his next 11 inherited. I'd also say that, independently, Politte was a far worse reliever than Williams, simply due to the tendency of Politte to come into a bases empty situation and allow runs to score, whereas with Williams, it's far more likely for him to come in with runners already on base and then allow them to score. In the end, we'd be arguing a relatively moot point. The fact of the matter is, the White Sox have had two of the worst relievers in probably the past 25 or so years within 5 years of each other. That is sad. However, only one of these guys was actually given his job in the bullpen, rather than earned. Williams had no business being on this roster to begin with, which makes his statistics all the more tragic. quick edit: Politte's WPA in 2006 was -1. Williams's WPA this year is -0.5. This has a bit to do with Politte pitching later in close games, opposed to Williams pitching earlier in blowouts, but that could really be all the more reason Politte is worse. Man, B-R has gotten completely f***ing awesome in the past year or two. Agreed on all points. My one ever gripe with B-R was lack of uniform numbers, then they add that.

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Jun 30, 2010 -> 10:25 AM) Per Dan Lebatard Twitter: I am now a tad concerned. Dan LeBatard is an idiot most of the time, but that is a tad bit concerning. Also, if thats the deal, unless LeBron/Bosh/Wade are going to play 48 minutes a game, they are screwed. However, if Bosh is truly going to Miami...go hard after Dirk (not to a max obviously), perhaps bring Salmons back as SG, and use that to entice LeBron.

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Jun 30, 2010 -> 09:01 AM) This thread is like cocaine. Also, posted this in the NBA thread: http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/rumors/post/Ca...?urn=nba,252494 Landscape changes dramatically in FA if that happens.

The Kalapse Forumla: http://www.baseball-reference.com/play-index/shareit/yB88b Politte, 11 inherited runs http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/players/stats?playerId=3799 Randy, 20 inherited http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/players/stats?playerId=6122

QUOTE (witesoxfan @ Jun 30, 2010 -> 09:31 AM) The crazy thing was that Williams actually made 3 acquisitions to help that bullpen out, and all 3 were varying levels of adequate (Riske), good (Thornton), and great (MacDougal), and it was still just terrible. Jenks blew up in July and September of that year, the league finally realized that Neal Cotts only had 1 pitch, Cliff Politte had a worse season than Randy Williams is having now, Brandon McCarthy was not a middle reliever, Boone Logan was certainly not ready to be a relief pitcher for the Sox...it was ugly all-around. In 2005, 4 White Sox starters finished with an ERA below 4.00 (and Freddy was the highest at 3.87)...in 2006, no White Sox starter had an ERA below 4.25, and Contreras was the best at 4.27 (and in his final 22 starts, he posted a 5.32 ERA). The magic had definitely worn off. In Kalapse's "Holy S***, Randy Williams is the 6th Worst Reliever of All Time" formula, Politte was 20th. That just made me think of how incredibly bad Randy is, and he gets the nod because unlike Kotsay, he doesn't grind into double plays and isn't the most complete player on the team.

QUOTE (Ozzie Ball @ Jun 30, 2010 -> 09:06 AM) Wow this is moronic. In a mock draft you try to predict where the players will go, not where you would take them. For some reason, I always thought he adored Sale, yet couldn't find things after the draft, and I thought he fell to 47 on Klaw's board only once the Sox drafted him. Just found that's not true, so yes, that was moronic.

Trout is tearing up A ball, low A ball at that. While it's impressive, Jeremy Reed and Brandon Allen have been impressive in the minors at higher levels. Lets hold off the superstardom tag. He's probably 2-3 years away minimum. Mitchell looked like he would be with the Sox next year until his injury. Keith Law is a piece of ****, he adored Chris Sale coming into the draft (he had him going 4th overall) and the second the Sox drafted him, he suddenly had horrible mechanics and was a horrible prospect.

Nuggets could trade Melo http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/rumors/post/Ca...?urn=nba,252494 Poor Knicks, they wouldn't have the ammo over say, the Nets, to trade for Melo.

QUOTE (Heads22 @ Jun 29, 2010 -> 12:31 AM) I'd be willing to split costs. However, I'm thinking they'd want one, if not both, of Hudson and Flowers. If Huddy gets traded, Sale is the fifth starter next year. Also, I'd offer this: Hudson/Flowers + Morel + Torres

QUOTE (kev211 @ Jun 28, 2010 -> 11:35 PM) My sources tell me that Lebron and Bosh are going to join the TuneSquad because they feel teaming up with Michael is the best chance to win a ring. Who would mess with the Tasmanian Devil?

QUOTE (WCSox @ Jun 28, 2010 -> 10:13 PM) Congrats! Fatherhood is a wonderful thing. Women are MUCH tougher than we give them credit for. My wife went through 11 hours of labor with no meds. :blink:

QUOTE (greg775 @ Jun 28, 2010 -> 01:17 AM) I'm pretty confident 20 or 30 posters on Soxtalk could hit Randy Williams consistently. He is soo bad. Fixed.

QUOTE (Kalapse @ Jun 28, 2010 -> 12:04 AM) Heh, so if you just throw out Adam LaRoche's best month and Kotsay's worst month they're about equal? Seems fair. ZIPS has Mark Kotsay putting up this line the rest of the way this season: .253/.317/.355/.672 and a .303 wOBA And LaRoche: .280/.360/.509/.869 and a .378 wOBA Does a .378 wOBA qualify as a difference maker? Yeah, probably. Is it a significant upgrade over Kotsay? f*** yeah. One of the big reasons why everyone keeps bringing up his name is his career splits: 1st half: .253/.328/.450/.778 AB/HR: 24.8 2nd half: .300/.363/.546/.909 AB/HR: 17.7 Dude's got a consistent track record of significantly picking it up in the second half. Are people drooling over him? No, not really. Would he be an acceptable and reasonable (financially and talent wise) replacement for Kotsay at DH? Most definitely. LaRoche is the most realistic and sensible target, that's why you see his name so often. ESPN the other night said they have the best research department. No, SoxTalk does, and it's name is Kalapse.

Does anyone else here enjoy They Might Be Giants at all?

Just saying, I really wouldn't mind if she didn't exist (at least as an artist).

QUOTE (IamtheHBOMB @ Jun 27, 2010 -> 08:33 PM) How entertaining would it be to see Zambrano starting for the Sox and go apes*** on Quentin over a miscue in RF? Q would f***ing murder Zambrano in the dugout. "He said what? One second." Headline Next Day: QUENTIN MURDERS ZAMBRANO WITH DEADLY STARE!

QUOTE (since56 @ Jun 27, 2010 -> 07:11 PM) When Jenks comes back keep Threets up and lose Williams or Linebrink. There is no "or". It's Williams.