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Noooooo!! I thought we were done with this guy. I swear if he ends up being a starter I am going to be pissed

QUOTE (pettie4sox @ Jan 28, 2015 -> 01:51 AM) Man I don't get how the Bulls lose to Heat but beat the Warriors? And without Butler and it was an away game. It makes 0 sense.

QUOTE (Chilihead90 @ Jan 28, 2015 -> 01:10 AM) ST is one of the traditions I will make for my family if I end up buying one when I'm older. I've been to ST in Arizona once and Florida once and they were some of the best vacations I ever had. Wait. You are going to buy a family? I don't think think that is how it works man

QUOTE (buhbuhburrrrlz @ Jan 28, 2015 -> 12:33 AM) ESPN Stats & Info @ESPNStatsInfo · Derrick Rose: 1st player in NBA history with at least 30 points, at least 10 turnovers, and 1 assist or fewer in a game (via @EliasSports) Making history! Best defense he has played in a very long time though which is encouraging

No idea how we pulled that out. I hate Hinrich right now but happy he finally made a wide open 3 when it mattered! Gutsy win. Still don't know how that happened

QUOTE (Jose Abreu @ Jan 27, 2015 -> 06:25 PM) Really? I live 25 miles from Chicago, and nobody from my high school goes on Facebook. It's all Twitter and Instagram. I guess it is just the way we grew up. Growing up, Facebook was the only the only thing we had so it is bigger and more used for us whereas since you are younger you grew up when Twitter and Instagram were becoming big. Weird what 5-6 year difference can do

QUOTE (Jose Abreu @ Jan 27, 2015 -> 12:52 PM) Agreed, I don't know a single person under the age of 30 who regularly uses Facebook. Edit- Other than myself, I suppose! Wait, where the hell do you live? lol I am in college and pretty much everyone I went to high school with uses high school and people in college still do as well. Not as much as 5 years ago but it is still used a lot to keep in touch and share photos.

QUOTE (raBBit @ Jan 27, 2015 -> 01:04 PM) Alright so I am a server at a restaurant. It's a food and brew that's essentially a better version of Friday's, Chili's, etc. Kind of like the Cheesecake Factory. I have been there for three and a half years now and I've basically seen the operation fall to the wayside. It's a corporate restaurant and we've become one of the worst performers company-wide. Favoritism, inept management, losing goods servers & not replacing them, not holding people accountable, etc - all the usual restaurant bulls***. However, it's five minutes away from my house, the money's good relatively speaking, I like the people that work there and my managers take care of me. I only work like three shifts a week and none of them are with the GM who's the problem so I am really removed from the drama and would prefer it to stay that way. Anyways, everything has gotten very relaxed because of the atmosphere the GM sets. I am sure others here have worked at restaurants and can attest for me when I say the kitchen is almost entirely Mexican. Which is great. These guys are much less emotional than the front of house people and they always get their jobs done despite messing around a bit. So when in back of house everyone is always goofing off, smacking each other on the ass, throwing stuff, calling each other gay and other insults in Spanish. For instance, I am white (shocker) and skinny so my name is "flaco gringo" which translates to "skinny white person derogatory term." Most of the time everyone back there calls each other "puto" and "hoto" which is "gay" and "b****." So there's definitely a culture back there. One of the guys who works in the kitchen has worked there for like 2 years and the first year he was "Dan" and then he mysteriously started going by a traditional Spanish name - I'll say Juan just for privacy. You can read between the lines there. Another kid, who I'll call Mike, is a server and got hired right around when I did but is kind of a bad apple. He has a group of friends but a lot of people hated him. I just kept it cool with him but really wasn't a fan. Juan was one of the people who hates Mike. Mike happened to be on "last chance agreement" for multiple infractions due to his attitude and big mouth. So a couple days ago, Mike calls Juan a "f***ing Mexican" in the back and Juan rats him out to the temporary manager and Mike got fired. So now Mike is super upset, claims he didn't do anything wrong (which he obviously did even considering the culture) and he refuses to go down alone. First, he threatened HR and told them he was going to call EEO on Juan. Now he's trying to band a bunch of people together to call HR and bring down our GM. I would absolutely love it if my GM left because he is really lazy, unnecessarily condescending and sucks at his job. I think it's super cold that he's trying to get Juan deported but I, as well as the rest of the restaurant, could really benefit if they fired the GM. However, the GM has three kids including a baby boy who's two months old and he is building a house. So while I would prefer he got fired I am troubled with the fact that he has a young family. It's really just a pain in the ass but as one of my GM's biggest critics, I am expect to step up and talk to HR but I am really not interested. It's not a big problem but I'd rather not have to deal with this, haha. So where is the relationship?

QUOTE (Jose Abreu @ Jan 27, 2015 -> 09:17 AM) Isn't Nieto a switch hitter? Yes. It will be Brantly or Kottaras simply because they are LH and have experience. Nieto will be in AA starting IMO

QUOTE (rowand's rowdies @ Jan 27, 2015 -> 01:15 PM) If they are really "all in" this season and want to draw some crowds, they can do a few things IMO. It's time to have a concert going on outside the stadium before games, all games. Doesn't need to be a huge band, or any specific genre, just a band or DJ who can play good music and give fans something else to do before a game. The better the bands, the better the draw. There are plenty of musicians and local bands who would love to play outside a White Sox game on game night. Then they can also go around handing out White Sox swag to fans in the tailgate lots. Send some White Sox alumni out there with the swag to give autographs and take pictures. Doesn't need to be Paul Konerko or Frank Thomas, I'd be plenty happy seeing Chris Widger or Hank Perry walking around talking with fans. Make it consistent so people go there expecting to run into White Sox alumni. They can also have ticket reps walking the grounds with White Sox Swag to give away and an IPad to help take orders on special Tailgate only ticket specials. Example - A ticket rep may have a special tailgate lot ticket package for you and 7 friends to go to any weekday game (minus blackout dates), lower level, for $100 total. Crazy deals that have to be bought on spot at that time. Sell some urgency and the good feeling of White Sox baseball during tailgate. Then they can team up with sponsors to make tickets worth something after a game. Get a % off good or services the next day after attending a White Sox game, depending on Runs scored. Example - If the White Sox score 5 runs, and win, that gives you 10% off at (Sponsor) on the date following the game with ticket stub shown. If they score 2% and lose,it's 2% off the following date. Something like that to give the ticket extra value. Just a few of my thoughts. Go Sox. Almost every professional sports teams does this in some capacity. Even colleges.

QUOTE (buhbuhburrrrlz @ Jan 27, 2015 -> 01:00 PM) <!--quoteo(post=3109418:date=Jan 27, 2015 -> 12:57 PM:name=Jose Abreu)-->QUOTE (Jose Abreu @ Jan 27, 2015 -> 12:57 PM) <!--quotec-->Bulls @ GSW tonight. I think we lose by 40 and allow Draymond Green to score 27. K.C. Johnson @KCJHoop · 30m 30 minutes ago Jimmy Butler is not at Bulls shootaround due to illness. Questionable vs. Warriors. Oh man.

I was simming through the off-season on OOTP and apparent Sean Doolittle shot himself in the foot cleaning his handgun. lol

Adam Eaton: The Reporter Adam gets Conor to crack a little smile!

QUOTE (Chilihead90 @ Jan 24, 2015 -> 02:45 PM) Lol, I guess that means he never figured out how to use the torrent that he downloaded. No. lol. And my computer was messing up after I downloaded it so I just deleted it and would rather have the real version. Thank you though. I still sent you a message about your rosters. Trying to figure it out

RIP to one of the greats!

QUOTE (Chilihead90 @ Jan 23, 2015 -> 09:28 PM) Holy injuries batman. Somehow we are 30-21 on the season despite injuries to Abreu (4 weeks), Samardzija (7 weeks), Quintana (2 weeks), Eaton (6 weeks), Jennings (14 months), Bonafacio (33 months....uh...ok), Micah Johnson, Noesi, Axelrod, and I also had a 9 game suspension from John Danks for fighting Miggy. lol. After Shark and Q were both injured at the same time, I finally gave in and called up Rodon, who in 85 innings between AA and AAA, had 115 K and a 4 WAR in only 11 starts. He's making his debut right now. Oh, and draft day came around. I had the 12th pick and took Daz Cameron, although he wants 3x his slot money. So I took a bunch of college players and they all signed for underslot, so hopefully I can bring Daz in, even though he's listed as an "extremely hard" sign. About to download the game now. I am pretty sure I played this game like 5 years ago

Surprised we won with 25 turnovers especially on the 2nd night of a back to back against a good Dallas team

QUOTE (flavum @ Jan 23, 2015 -> 04:40 PM) Hahn sounds like he's rooting for Jesse Crain to be on the team. Won't rush him. Love it. Hope he is back into form midway through the season

Conor looks like he is in hell lol

QUOTE (thxfrthmmrs @ Jan 23, 2015 -> 01:10 AM) Yes, would have like to see more ball movement especially out of that second unit. Spurs looked dead tonight, but a win is a win. On a side note, I think we now have enough Kirk Hinrich boneheaded plays on the year to make the official 2015 Kirk Hinrich lowlight reel. He is pretty much done. He was at least serviceable most of the year last year but he completely sucks this year. I saw a tweet after he scored in the 4th that it was his first points in 50+ min of floor time going back to Saturday.

QUOTE (Chilihead90 @ Jan 22, 2015 -> 11:22 PM) I almost joined an OOTP 15 league today, but I read through the vast amount of rules and "hardcore" settings and I decided against it. I've spent the entire day, on and off, making all the notable transactions of this current offseason to get the rosters set up for a 2015 start. Some may say a waste of time, others may say a GIANT waste of time. I just didn't want to start a Sox franchise with a roster that is so vastly different. Shark, Robertson, Melky, LaRoche, Duke, Emilio change the dynamic of the team so, so much. Sounds interesting. Can you share roster like MLB The Show

Bulls finally back? Been awhile since we played this well

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Jan 22, 2015 -> 11:54 AM) Honestly, MTV is trying to be classy with her memory but I dont agree, I dont think they shouldve aired it, especially when you literally see her dying right in front of the cameras. Yeah, I wasn't a fan of the editing. I hope they talked to her family to make sure they were ok with it.

QUOTE (BigFinn @ Jan 21, 2015 -> 11:11 PM) First, at least the topic isn't stat tails. Back to the topic at hand: As far as last year is concerned Baseball-reference.com has determined that the Sox had 115 different batting orders last year (117 if you count pitchers in inter-league games). The most frequently occurring player/position combinations were Adam Eaton leading off (123 time) and Jose Abreu batting 3rd (113 times). Beckham (remember him) batted in the two hole 66 times, Dunn batted clean-up 60 times and Alexei batted in the two-hole 50 times. No other players batted more than 50 times in any slot in the batting order. Just for giggles I looked at Baseball-reference's batting orders page for the 1975 Cincinnati Reds—Sparky Anderson submitted 105 different line-ups, not counting pitchers, over the course of the season. Pete Rose led off in all 162 games; Ken Griffey, Sr. batted in the two-hole 86 times; and Joe Morgan batted third 119 times. I thought that Morgan batted second more frequently, but he only batted there 19 times during the season. In games 1, 2, and 7 of the 1975 series, Sparky sent Rose, Morgan, and Johnny Bench to the plate #1, #2, #3. But in games 3, 4, 5, and 6, Sparky started off the line-up with Rose, Griffey, and Morgan. Anyway, getting back to the Sox, in 2013, the most frequent #1, #2, and #3 hitters were Alejandro DeAza, Alexei Ramirez, and Alex Rios. 2012 DeAza (127) Youkilis (75) Dunn (145): DeAza hit .329 for the Sox in 54 games in 2011 2011 Juan Pierre (154) Alexei Ramirez (100) Paul Konerko (64): Paulie batted .312 in 2010 2010 Pierre (156) Omar Vizquel (74) Alex Rios (112): Juan Pierre batted .308 for the Dodgers in 2009 2009 Scott Podsednik (119) Ramirez (63) Jermaine Dye (83): Alexei hit .290 and JD hit .292 in 2008, close but no cigar 2008 Orlando Cabrera (128) AJ Pierzynski (83) Carlos Quentin (93): Cabrera hit .301 for the Angels in 2007 2007 Jerry Owens (83) Tadahito Iguchi (57) Jim Thome (120) 2006 Scott Podsednik (120) Tadahito Iguchi (133) Jim Thome (112): only 87 different batting orders 2005 Scott Podsednik (124) Tadahito Iguchi (129) Carl Everett (82): Iguchi batted .333 for the Fukuoka Daiei Hawks That takes us to the glorious World Series. It seems like we have been lucky to have one .300 hitter entering the #1, #2, or #3 slots in the batting order in the following season. So, your point that Adam Eaton (.300), Melky Cabrera (.302), Jose Abreu (.317) batting 1-2-3 is a pretty singular occurrence seems valid. And AWESOME. One more: 1972 Pat Kelly (95) Mike Andrews (77) Dick Allen (123): Kelly batted .291 for the Sox, Andrews batted .282 for the Sox, and Dick Allen batted .295 for the Dodgers - all in 1971. Kelly and Andrews reverted to the mean, but Dick Allen almost carried the Sox to the AL West title single-handedly. Winning

QUOTE (Brian @ Jan 21, 2015 -> 07:07 AM) Poor Diem. Than they show Knight being as ass. He makes me laugh. I know he is being an ass but some of the stuff he says is just funny.