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I'm quite thankful for the WBC this year--whatever your feelings about it are, it's a hell of a lot more exciting to watch than spring training games, which get excruciating after the first or second one.

Of the 10-12 games I go to a year, it was already at least 3 Sundays a year. That'll definitely go up now.

QUOTE (ewokpelts @ Nov 15, 2012 -> 04:10 PM) The White Sox have never made consecutive postseason appearances. Hell, the closest time span was 3 years(2005 and 2008)! 1917 and 1919!

QUOTE (zenryan @ Oct 7, 2012 -> 02:46 PM) While I'm glad to see Oakland lose, this new playoff format is a joke. I have zero interest in these Wild Card playoffs and ALDS formats. Maybe I'll sit through an entire game come LCS time. We all know that the 2-3 ALDS format, while terrible, is only for this year, right? Tried to force the new playoff system into the existing schedule; so had to minimize travel days.

Well, I'm no longer mad at my father for picking the printout tickets instead of hard tickets for Game Two...

For the FOX game on Saturday, keep an eye on this page. It'll probably be updated in the next couple of days for this weekend's games.

QUOTE (sunofgold @ Sep 25, 2012 -> 07:45 PM) Farmer and DJ are biased for the White Sox. Probably a lot of teams radio broadcasts are biased. They're also just really bad at broadcasting baseball. That booth is downright unlistenable.

QUOTE (TaylorStSox @ Sep 25, 2012 -> 12:55 PM) Does anybody have an mp3 of Rooney's call? QUOTE (bmags @ Sep 25, 2012 -> 01:28 PM) I think I have this on my home laptop, may take some digging. I have a long mp3 track of a bunch of Rooney and Farmer's '05 calls--it may just be the postseason, but I want to say it includes some regular season, too. I think it's on a flash drive I left at work, however.

QUOTE (Eminor3rd @ Sep 25, 2012 -> 10:15 AM) There is no defensible baseball reason not to go with match-ups every time. The closer is obsolete and survives only because of the money that comes with saves is sacred to the players/Player's Union. This.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Sep 25, 2012 -> 10:14 AM) Yeah, that then b**** about how boring a Fox broadcast is during the playoffs. FOX broadcasts are terrible, though.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Sep 25, 2012 -> 09:43 AM) I do like when people post these things, and then go into full meltdowns in the game thread. Why? It makes sense. People who say "Hawk is great because he's just like one of us!" are missing the point, because some people don't want a professional broadcaster to be "just like us." They went him to be a professional broadcaster.

QUOTE (justBLAZE @ Sep 19, 2012 -> 10:18 AM) Yankees have a double header today. That's right. I'm doubly rooting for the Yankees to take the division and be the 2 seed--one of my best friends is a big Yankees fan so we're planning on getting him a ticket for the second Sox ALDS home game as well.

s***, didn't realize we were only two games behind the Yankees. I'm planning my schedule on us being the #3 seed (in which case we'd host Games 1 and 2 on Saturday and Sunday of Columbus Day weekend).

Yep, general sale at noon on Friday. 7 and 14 game plan holders get a presale at 10am on Friday. My Dad and I are trying for three for the second LDS game--the two of us, and one of my best friends who's a Yankees fan.

QUOTE (Springfield SoxFan @ Jul 25, 2012 -> 05:18 PM) I like the 14,000 square foot house comment the best, do not remember how exactly it went, but that was great. Have not heard much about Catfish this year. HOW DO YOU GET YOURSELF A 14 THOUSAND SQUARE FOOT HOME IN SCOTTSDALE And yeah, he's been doing "it's all good" since at least last year, if not 2010. I got particular joy out of GET OUT OF THE WAY, SEPTIMO! in Boston last week. Man, is he terrible or what?

Don't forget the entirety of Iowa, which is also blacked out of all Brewers, Cardinals, Twins and Royals games.

QUOTE (Chet Kincaid @ Jul 23, 2012 -> 07:09 PM) Surprisingly, my hate for the Yanks has subsided a bit in the last few years. I still hate them, but I don't hate them nearly as much as I hate the Texas Rangers or the Boston Red Cubs. I'd rather see Ichiro get a ring before either of those teams. I actually don't particularly hate the Yankees. One of my best friends is a friends is a Yankees fan, so I probably know their team just as well as just about any outside of the Sox (though thanks to the national media I'm not the only one who can say that) But yeah, going into tonight, of the Yankees starting lineup, Ichiro had the lowest OBP.

Why the hell would he turn this trade down? I understand the situation with his daughter and all, but people have been talking about a trade all season and he hasn't said anything.

QUOTE (elrockinMT @ Apr 10, 2012 -> 05:45 PM) He certainly impressed the ESPN BBTN crew QUOTE (johnnymick @ Apr 10, 2012 -> 06:37 PM) What did they have to say about him? I didn't see it, but my girlfriend said they had some sort of "top five performers of the day" list and ranked him #1.

Confirmed: Danks going tomorrow (weather permitting). Humber to be skipped and pitch Monday against Baltimore.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Apr 8, 2012 -> 01:42 PM) No one really suggested here yet what that could do to the chances of selling tickets to Miami's cuban community? Yes. QUOTE (greg775 @ Apr 8, 2012 -> 01:18 PM) He's talked about Castro, getting drunk daily and animal sacrifice. Two of those 3 things can hurt attendance. Maybe all 3. Remember, the new ballpark is in Little Havana. Miami's Cuban community is the Marlins fanbase, especially with the new marketing strategy.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Apr 8, 2012 -> 01:18 PM) Thing about Ozzie is, I can't think of any other manager/coach willing to comment on any of these issues in any sport. Can you? Hmm...Jose Mourinho, maybe?

"If we use this glove...we'll have changed the game."

QUOTE (Jordan4life @ Apr 5, 2012 -> 02:51 PM) Not trying to be gay. But Carlos Marmol has a big f***ing ass. Looks like he's gained 20 pounds and it all went to his booty. Again, not trying to be gay. Though it sounds like it. God forbid people on a message board think you might "try to be gay."

QUOTE (The Gooch @ Mar 5, 2012 -> 02:48 PM) I got a Marlins hat for Christmas. Hopefully MB pitches at Wrigley this year so I can combine it with my Buehrle Sox jersey. I'm very sorry.