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It was at first, weirder seeing lunatic American Drivers screech across 4 lanes on a freeway not hitting anyone and not indicating (which doesn't seem to be a big thing down here). And the last time I was in Chicago I had to get a taxi from O'Hare at midnight as the stupid train system was working and I couldn't find the right bus. And it took 20 mins just to get out of that area as the traffic was so bad. Ugh.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Aug 20, 2008 -> 03:27 PM) Dotel has a reasonable shot at bringing back a pair of draft picks next year even if he spends some time on the DL. There's no way you could consider trading any major member of our bullpen consdiering how bad it has been in the past (and how much it has cost us). The bullpen needs to be a major strength on this team.

So this'll be what 8 out of our last 9 we've won. Seems as if since the Griffey trade, for whatever reason, even though he hasn't been hitting well before today, the guys who were struggling in Konerko and Swisher have really picked it up. Swisher's OPS would be very close to .800 right now, which for a major league CF is pretty good.

QUOTE (kyyle23 @ Aug 20, 2008 -> 11:30 AM) The Australians had no chance. Pass-Pass-Pass, 3 pointer. USA put a clinic on them I think we were only down by 12 or so, and then Bogut hurt his ankle again, and we were done. I would have liked to see how we would have done if he was on the court in the 2nd half.

QUOTE (YASNY @ Aug 20, 2008 -> 02:32 PM) Well duh ... they'd talk about the Yankees and Red Sox. I can see it now "How will the Yanks and the Red Sox do in 2009!!!!" "Oh and the Chicago White Sox won the World Series today....."

Happy Birthday Guys!!!!

Just how cool would it be if both the Yankees and the Red Sox missed the Postseason? What would ESPN do!!!???

QUOTE (Shadows @ Aug 20, 2008 -> 12:27 PM) Its funny to see people say that, because not too long ago Smackdown was AWFUL but now I think I like it better than Raw Yep. They have pretty much what I consider to be the biggest 3 names ATM (in Triple H, Edge and the Undertaker). Cena's actually lost a little of his mojo I think in the past few months, while I think they need to turn either him of Batista heel. I'd love to see Kane get the mask back though, and he be the one to take the belt of CM Punk in the future actually. Push him as they did when he 1st started.

QUOTE (Milkman delivers @ Aug 18, 2008 -> 06:08 PM) I don't like Edge at all. I know he's a great wrestler and all, but I just don't care for him. And to be honest, I felt a little angry at the end that he had to do the job. Completely disagree there with you Milkman, I'd say Edge has carried that company for the past 18-24 months (basically agreeing with Paul Heyman here). He's the best all round heel the WWE has had for a long, long time. I wonder if they're goin to carry on with the Vicky / Fox storyline at any point though from here. Also I'll be seeing Raw on Saturday Night being taped at Madison Square Garden. Wish it was Smackdown I was seeing though.

QUOTE (Heads22 @ Aug 20, 2008 -> 10:07 AM) What the hell is a motorway? What they don't have roads in Iowa now? Motorway / Freeway whatever it's called.

QUOTE (ChiSox_Sonix @ Aug 19, 2008 -> 09:50 AM) Where were you upstate? I was actually downstate visiting friends. Ended up playing beer pong at 5 am when we got back from the bar...that was a horrible idea. Up at Hunter Mountain in the Catskills. Beautiful area up there.

QUOTE (knightni @ Aug 18, 2008 -> 01:20 PM) Getting used to driving on the other side yet? I didn't drive thank god. Traffic was terrible on the motorway home, took us 4 hours.

QUOTE (knightni @ Aug 18, 2008 -> 10:41 AM) Did you rent vans? No we rented 4 cars and it came to $50 per person for 3 days which was pretty good.

QUOTE (knightni @ Aug 16, 2008 -> 10:17 PM) They've been saying that for a few years with KC. At least they're in a much better position now before when Dayton Moore wasn't there as a GM. He's done a pretty good job so far.

QUOTE (ChiSox_Sonix @ Aug 15, 2008 -> 02:53 PM) Goin into NYC tomorrow night for a friends bday party ($45 all you can drink top shelf liquor with the rooftop section reserved for us). I believe its in the Village (E. 29th St by Park ave). But im thinkin about hittin up the Bronx zoo in the afternoon. Ive gone into the city countless times and have never bothered checking it out. Anyone ever been to it? Too late now, but yeah I was there about a month ago. It was pretty good, the Polar Bear was probably the best thing I saw on the day. Takes about 45 mins to get up there from Manhattan though.

Well I had a fun weekend. Basically I was up with 20 people in upstate NY and we rented this huge house for the weekend, only cost about $90 to rent for each person. It had a hot tub and a huge outdoor patio area. Basically one of the guys got absolutely wasted. He dove into the hot tub about 20 times on the Friday Night (with about 10 people already in there), and then he leant againt the railing on the patio and proceeded to fall off and onto the grass about a story below. I don't know how he didn't hurt himself more seriously, but he proceed to come running back up the stairs and jumped back into the hot tub. Later on he started calling himself the Calcium Kid, and poured about a gallon milk all over himself, wearing nothing but one of the girls' underwear. Oh and Svedka Vodka is one of the best I've ever had.

Adding Beckham and Danks to our farm system brings it back to respectability a little more. Glad to see the Sox did the right thing, went over slot, and got it done. Now let's hope Danks doesn't turn into a Sweeney or Reed type of hitter who just has no power whatsoever. He should at least make it as a 4th OF someday though.

QUOTE (Texsox @ Aug 14, 2008 -> 12:15 PM) IIRC the Astros were in a World Series a couple years ago. One of my criteria would be no post season appearances in the past ten years. I'd be hard pressed to pick a League Champion as having the worst franchise. To me that was a one off based on them having Pettite and Clemens. I'm looking at where a franchise is right now and where it's going to be in the future, based on payroll etc.

QUOTE (knightni @ Aug 14, 2008 -> 03:17 AM) Houston Astros Yeah they'd be my choice also. Fairly big payroll, only 1 real good starting pitcher, absolutely no farm system to speak of, and that team has a LOT of veteran players. I was tempted to say the San Francisco Giants also. The Pirates at least now have a plan for rebuilding.

McCullogh's not exactly had the best of seasons has he. Another Duane Shaffer special there.

http://www.nj.com/news/jjournal/jerseycity....xml&coll=3 This is the apartment building I'm currently living in at the moment. The whole area was cordoned off by police, and I had to wait over 45 mins to get back into my apartment. Apparently one of my fellow interns saw the incident as well.

QUOTE (SoxFan1 @ Aug 13, 2008 -> 04:13 PM) Rafael Furcal. But I digress. Depends if you want to give Furcal $15M a season though I guess.

QUOTE (kyyle23 @ Aug 13, 2008 -> 05:12 PM) At the beginning of the year there were plenty of people saying Quentin shouldnt be on the roster because he had such an abbreviated ST and didnt look all that great in the time he played. I still remember the "Why the Hell isn't Brian Anderson our starting CF" posts that were rampant just after Spring Training. Quentin had a track record of success in the minors and majors when healthy, deserved his chance, and the rest is history. Too many people are "experts" on here.

QUOTE (kyyle23 @ Aug 13, 2008 -> 05:05 PM) Every decision that has been criticized in the past year still has left the team in first place in August. From resigning Uribe, Keeping Quentin on the roster, giving Alexei a shot, Bringing up Wise over Owens, everything has been criticized. Let the kid pitch and see what he has got. He did pretty well last year given a shot, I dont think its terrible decision making to give him another shot ^^^. He did pretty damn well in his start last season. Not saying that it's going to happen again, but he'll be up against a mediocre team and if he can win a game for us here and there, the better. Hopefully he does better than Richard did.

QUOTE (tommy @ Aug 13, 2008 -> 05:08 PM) Also Alexei already proved he can play stellar 2B, where Beckham would have to start the transition from SS to 2B and who knows how that would work. That's because scouts predicted Beckham won't have to range to be an everyday SS, while from what we've seen with Alexei so far, that might not be an issue at all for him. Depends what we do in the off-season with a 2B/SS though.