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Damn Ichiro.

Gavin, can you please stop this s***?

Well, there we go.

Well, mentally weak Floyd came to play.

Damnit Gavin.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Jun 1, 2012 -> 08:28 PM) Just read that Selig and Reinsdorf spoke with Hawk about his tirade. That's bulls***. He didn't cuss. This is a free country. p.s. I know many of you hate Ozzie, but his quote on the matter was hlarious... "If I say that I'd be in jail. I'm not going to be suspended, I'm going to be in jail," Guillen told media. "They take the passport away from me and everything. You were an American citizen once. Not anymore." Ozzie is my kinda guy. He doesn't take things seriously. I love it! Ok, they have every right to discipline Hawk as his employer. Ozzie is all talk. He'd be suspended. We know you don't like managers who take things seriously, like winning.

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Jun 1, 2012 -> 11:22 PM) Peavy is up after this year, why drop a guy pitching like an ace when you're the hottest team in baseball? You are a f***ing joke. You are a f***ing moniker. I do not believe you are actually a White Sox fan, you just take an unpopular stance, add "World Series 2005" and fake it. F*ck, cut it out. The last thing the White Sox should do is trade Jake when he's outdueling Felix f***ing Hernandez and we're in 1st place and EVERYTHING is going right. Damn.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Jun 1, 2012 -> 10:19 PM) Great comeback story for Santana. Pitchers rarely come back from shoulder problems and get back close to where they were before, as opposed to TJ. I like Santana, especially since he's not a Twin.

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QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jun 1, 2012 -> 08:48 PM) HOLY f*** A METS PITCHER THREW A NO HITTER It was the demon pitcher too. Johan Santana is the only pitcher who scares me.

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QUOTE (greg775 @ Jun 1, 2012 -> 09:56 PM) Makes sense. I don't think Big 10 would ever take KU, tho. Bad football. Reed is dealing. Let's not act like the entire the Big 10 has good football teams.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Jun 1, 2012 -> 09:54 PM) Damn a double by Olivo. What do u think of MU's move to the SEC. yay or nay? I would have preferred Big 10 with KU coming with us, but with Texas and Oklahoma being as shady as they are, I'm cool with the jump.

QUOTE (jeffro2525 @ Jun 1, 2012 -> 09:53 PM) Close it out Addison....do it in under 8 minutes. Mizzou baseball regional starts at 10...gotta tune in there. What channel?

Below .380 now. WTF Paulie?

I really enjoy Gordon's new swing.

BEAN FELIX.

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Jun 1, 2012 -> 05:18 PM) I agree with you, I want it too. But if it were that easy, you would think it would have been done already. On a related note, it really sucks that the Marvel franchises have been spread out so much to different production companies. Especially now that they are being woven together like we are currently seeing. I know, just saying it gives me hope since the Iron Patriot was Norman Osborn and Garfield was on the Avengers set. Just fanboy hope.

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Jun 1, 2012 -> 05:01 PM) I'm gonna doubt very much that Spidermans rights are going to go back to Marvel. Especially given the fact that it looks like Spiderman is going to be pretty good They could do what Paramount did though, Just let Spider-Man be in the Avengers movies/MCU movies for royalties from the films. It's basically free money for Sony, and doesn't Sony need a little cash anway? That way Sony retains the Spider-Man rights, but basically allows him to crossover into the other films.

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Jun 1, 2012 -> 04:48 PM) There is pictures of the Iron Patriot suit on set for Iron Man 3, so it looks like the Extremis storyline is a go. My big hope is that coupled with Andrew Garfield hanging around the Avengers set with Robert Downey Jr., the Iron Patriot suit might mean that Columbia would greenlight Spidey being put into the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

QUOTE (Alpha Dog @ Jun 1, 2012 -> 03:32 PM) Wel they did only make the original one gay, so Ryan shouldn't have anything to worry about. Although he does get his power from a 'power ring' and they practically have to fist the lantern to get it to work, so maybe there is something to it. And wasn't one of the green lanters named Guy Gardner or something like that? Oy vey.

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Jun 1, 2012 -> 07:15 AM) As always greg, you ignore the facts. Konerko got hit with a mistake, a splitter that Samardzija let go early. Sliding hard into a base is not what AJ did. I think you haven't seen a replay of it, because if you did you wouldn't be saying what you are saying. Zobrist was standing behind the base, AJ slid in PAST THE BASE cleats up, and intentionally cleated Zobrist in the ankle/leg. That is not part of the game, that is bushleague bulls*** that breaks ankles and legs. AJ is our guy and all, but sometimes you have to call a spade a spade, and that was most definitely a spade. If that happened to one of the Sox players, you would be calling for MLB and God Ozzie to come down and smite the offender off the face of the planet.

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ May 31, 2012 -> 09:50 AM) painkillers I don't want to laugh, but you got me.

QUOTE (witesoxfan @ May 31, 2012 -> 01:22 AM) I read the topic. Didn't care about anything else anybody else has said, so if what I say is aforementioned, then many kudos. - It depends upon which time you were talking about. Had the Sox not traded for Jim Thome, they'd have been left with an 02-04ish offense, hoping and praying that Frank Thomas could stay healthy. They'd still be destroyed by great right handed pitching, and as a result probably would have only won 87 games instead of 90. That's IF they had kept Thomas. Had they still let Thomas walk, the best case scenario I can see is that they would have ended up with Nomar Garciaparra. They still lose 3 wins. That's at the very best. Now, if you're an old school type who believes that protection in the lineup helps generate production from other players, than perhaps Jermaine Dye doesn't hit 44 home runs, perhaps Paul Konerko doesn't put up the exact same numbers as MVP Justin Morneau, and perhaps other pieces from the lineup fall as well. Perhaps the Sox lose 10 wins, are ridiculously far out of it at the break, and deal Freddy Garcia for 2 other prospects. And then never get Gio back, and after another very bad year in 2008, the Sox fire both Williams and Guillen and hire Dan Evans and Gene Lamont to run the team. I think we all know how that one goes. Now, had they not traded him the second time, which is the one I think you are getting at, having never read a single word of your post, then the Sox don't end up with Nick Swisher. Now, depending upon how strictly and strongly you believe in the statistic WAR, and whose definition you believe most in (baseballreference or fangraphs), the Sox are either better off without Swisher (-0.5 bWAR) or Nick Swisher was worth more than 1 win for the 2008 Chicago White Sox (1.3 fWAR). I give much more credence towards fWAR but I'm a homer, so do as you please. But since, in this revisionist's history, we are using that, and we are using it to mean Nick Swisher was literally worth 1+ more wins than the average Joe they could have put in place, then what we would have seen would have been DeWayne Wise putting up 2 WAR in August alone and -3 WAR in the months outside of that, given general estimation. On top of that, even had the Sox found a perfect replacement level player to play instead of Swisher, who would have put up exactly a 0 fWAR, the Sox would have given up the division lead in the second game in the Metrodome, the final win against Cleveland wouldn't have mattered, they'd have never played the makeup game against Detroit, and the blackout game would have never taken place, thus, no Griffey/Thome/Danks show, and we would have never seen the batting champion-to-be bunt in his last plate appearance of the year attempting to get on base. At that point in time, 2009 would have been far more disappointing, and the Sox almost certainly would have never had the resources to sign Dayan Viciedo during the 2008-09 offseason. They'd be in a full blown rebuilding mode, still with Dan Evans and Gene Lamont in charge. Going into the 4th year of Reinsdorf's always too generous length of stay, the Sox would be coming off their 2nd straight 90+ loss season with an absolute garbage product on the field but hope beyond hope in the minors with a top 10 system in the league. But atleast they'd still have Gio f***in Gonzalez. Also, we'd be complaining about how we didn't trade him for prospects at his peak value.

QUOTE (witesoxfan @ May 31, 2012 -> 01:22 AM) I read the topic. Didn't care about anything else anybody else has said, so if what I say is aforementioned, then many kudos. - It depends upon which time you were talking about. Had the Sox not traded for Jim Thome, they'd have been left with an 02-04ish offense, hoping and praying that Frank Thomas could stay healthy. They'd still be destroyed by great right handed pitching, and as a result probably would have only won 87 games instead of 90. That's IF they had kept Thomas. Had they still let Thomas walk, the best case scenario I can see is that they would have ended up with Nomar Garciaparra. They still lose 3 wins. That's at the very best. Now, if you're an old school type who believes that protection in the lineup helps generate production from other players, than perhaps Jermaine Dye doesn't hit 44 home runs, perhaps Paul Konerko doesn't put up the exact same numbers as MVP Justin Morneau, and perhaps other pieces from the lineup fall as well. Perhaps the Sox lose 10 wins, are ridiculously far out of it at the break, and deal Freddy Garcia for 2 other prospects. And then never get Gio back, and after another very bad year in 2008, the Sox fire both Williams and Guillen and hire Dan Evans and Gene Lamont to run the team. I think we all know how that one goes. Now, had they not traded him the second time, which is the one I think you are getting at, having never read a single word of your post, then the Sox don't end up with Nick Swisher. Now, depending upon how strictly and strongly you believe in the statistic WAR, and whose definition you believe most in (baseballreference or fangraphs), the Sox are either better off without Swisher (-0.5 bWAR) or Nick Swisher was worth more than 1 win for the 2008 Chicago White Sox (1.3 fWAR). I give much more credence towards fWAR but I'm a homer, so do as you please. But since, in this revisionist's history, we are using that, and we are using it to mean Nick Swisher was literally worth 1+ more wins than the average Joe they could have put in place, then what we would have seen would have been DeWayne Wise putting up 2 WAR in August alone and -3 WAR in the months outside of that, given general estimation. On top of that, even had the Sox found a perfect replacement level player to play instead of Swisher, who would have put up exactly a 0 fWAR, the Sox would have given up the division lead in the second game in the Metrodome, the final win against Cleveland wouldn't have mattered, they'd have never played the makeup game against Detroit, and the blackout game would have never taken place, thus, no Griffey/Thome/Danks show, and we would have never seen the batting champion-to-be bunt in his last plate appearance of the year attempting to get on base. At that point in time, 2009 would have been far more disappointing, and the Sox almost certainly would have never had the resources to sign Dayan Viciedo during the 2008-09 offseason. They'd be in a full blown rebuilding mode, still with Dan Evans and Gene Lamont in charge. Going into the 4th year of Reinsdorf's always too generous length of stay, the Sox would be coming off their 2nd straight 90+ loss season with an absolute garbage product on the field but hope beyond hope in the minors with a top 10 system in the league. But atleast they'd still have Gio f***in Gonzalez. Also, we'd be complaining about how we didn't trade him for prospects at his peak value.