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way to show the nation tonight boys

QUOTE(LowerCaseRepublican @ Jul 31, 2005 -> 07:03 PM) To extropolate on Ian's sig quote: Soxtalk seems to be home of the GMs who never make bad trades ever and are totally perfect. Just ask 'em! I guess people need reminding of "My boy Olivo" being called a Hall of Famer from the year previous. f***ing kneejerk reactionaries. Too many teams saw themselves as contenders and the market was s*** so KW did what he could to upgrade the team. Blum is an asset defensively off the bench and he's currently got a higher OBP than Crede and is just .014 points below Crede in batting average. I'm happy that we got more bench help with a versatile player for a prospect -- and I think Olivo proves that we'll never know how prospects will pan out. Yes, it'd be nice to get another lefty reliever but the market was s***. No other team made a huge splash unless you consider Matt Lawton the trade that will catapault your team into the playoffs Christ, if I didn't know better, I would think that the Sox had a white flag sale & weren't 14 games up in the Central right now with the way some of the Chicken Littles are acting. I think with some of the people here on Soxtalk -- if KW walked on water they'd b****, piss and moan about him not being able to swim. I luv it when you analyze feisty

how bout we enjoy the best team in baseball eh?

i told the sox to look at this, see how they listen?

QUOTE(IndySoxFan @ Jul 31, 2005 -> 07:48 PM) manny hahahahahaha believe it or not, you can't say anything "usually" happens when you can only point to one scenario.

10,000 posts and all we got was this lousy bench player

QUOTE(fathom @ Jul 31, 2005 -> 06:21 PM) Timo leading off? I don't like benching Pods and AJP with the Sox facing a lefty tomorrow. Makes no sense to me. not too sure about this either. guess since we have an early start tommorow just trying to get some rest.

No. Chicago White Sox Baltimore 1 Timo Perez, LF Brian Roberts, 2B 2 Tadahito Iguchi, 2B Eric Byrnes, LF 3 Carl Everett, DH Melvin Mora, 3B 4 Paul Konerko, 1B Miguel Tejada, SS 5 Aaron Rowand, CF Rafael Palmeiro, 1B 6 Jermaine Dye, RF Sammy Sosa, DH 7 Joe Crede, 3B Javy Lopez, C 8 Chris Widger, C Jay Gibbons, RF 9 Juan Uribe, SS David Newhan, CF

QUOTE(GreatScott82 @ Jul 31, 2005 -> 05:55 PM) How did he upgrade the team? Will this guy even see much of any playing time? I assume we will see him play some 1B now that Gload went back down, but geeze did we need him? Ozuna can play the IF, and Gload can play 1B. Gload is probably better then this Blum dude. I don't understand this at all. I do understand the Harris demotion- but i don't understand the Gload demotion. Oh well- i guess too many teams were buyers not sellers this year. And from what i heard- the sellers were all asking for waayyy to much in return. someone on the bench that can actually play 3b = upgrade.

QUOTE(FlaSoxxJim @ Jul 31, 2005 -> 05:51 PM) Oh, we're sooo over Blue and Steve. That was last year. i was once told i looked like steve.

QUOTE(Soxfest @ Jul 31, 2005 -> 05:48 PM) No it does not, but a team that got swept in 2000 and has not won a home playoff game since 1959 sometimes a fan expects a little more. so expect us to do well in the playoffs this year.

QUOTE(Soxfest @ Jul 31, 2005 -> 05:42 PM) Lets see if you feel the same if they lose in first round SS2K. i don't understand. what did you want to do? Trade our entire AAA team to tampa just for Huff? The ESPN analysts (the ones that are supposed to hate us, remember?) were commending KW for working his ass off and working with what he had to improve the team, even if it was little. Get over yourself, the world is not against you

QUOTE(FlaSoxxJim @ Jul 31, 2005 -> 05:40 PM) Allow me to nauseate you: Egbert, Thomas O'Mally, Dutchess, Toulousse (sp?), Marie, and Berleoise (sp?). Those are the characters in that photo. I did that without looking it up. That's what happens to your brain when you spend too much time with a 5 and 7 year old.

QUOTE(jamslam @ Jul 31, 2005 -> 05:35 PM) Gload is 2 years away ?

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Jul 31, 2005 -> 05:32 PM) Exactly. I have been saying for two weeks with so few sellers and the prices so insane, our best move is to hope that someone decides to sell of at the last minute. That really didn't happen, so we made the best move by not tearing off our nose to spite our face. Making a huge move in the market would have been stupid, and this is futher supported by the fact that NO team made a major move. exactly. It's not like teams like boston, new york went out and made a big splash. NO ONE DID because the sellers were being ridiuclous and there just wasn't enough of them. KW worked with what he had and upgraded our team.

QUOTE(WHarris1 @ Jul 31, 2005 -> 04:51 PM) Something tells me that Cubs fans will like having a guy with a .380 OBP leading off when they think they have a shot at the playoffs. the cubs need alot more than a leadoff man to make a run.

QUOTE(Gene Honda Civic @ Jul 31, 2005 -> 05:09 PM) I really liked this book.... Lots of neat stuff that I didn't know about baseball's past, especially the root of statistics. Not really good material for a book club though I think. i've read about half of it and agree with you. It's really fascinating how the box score was developed. I really like how it focuses on the individuals who tried to "overthrow" old baseball w/ their big studies of probability and stuff. But i agree, not book club material, just wanted to throw it out there for anyone interested.

QUOTE(Soxfest @ Jul 31, 2005 -> 04:01 PM) Ho hum we got Blum.......................tell me again KW how we will get any player and have the ability to increase payroll to help win a world series, talk more BS KW Sox fans no longer by it. is that you anthrax?

content. nothing really could be done.

QUOTE(greasywheels121 @ Jul 31, 2005 -> 03:59 PM) Are they going to be in uniform tonight? blum will be with us tommorow, i'm guessing the same for fatty

QUOTE(sox-r-us @ Jul 31, 2005 -> 03:59 PM) THANK GOD WE DID NOT OVERPAY FOR ANYONE BUT, I am so focking scared of our hitting going up against any of the AL teams come playoff times so you want to improve our offense but don't want to overpay for anyone? makes 0 sense.

why does adkins need to be up? do we need another reliever?

QUOTE(greasywheels121 @ Jul 31, 2005 -> 03:55 PM) Josh is getting the short end of the stick here. It was on WSI too. He probably didn't say anything about the Padres the first time he said it, from the looks of it. If anyone deserves to be ripped, it's the guys at the station. Josh deserves an apology. shutup hippy

josh, sorry bud, guess it's not your fault, but can't blame us for flipping out.

about damn time willie sees the wonderful land of charlotte. don't understand why adkins needs to be up though