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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.

That Challenge episode was tough to watch.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Jan 20, 2015 -> 04:30 PM) FYI, Future Sox will have a writer credentialed and attending Sox Fest this year as a member of the media for the first time. More to come. Lucky! That should be fun, congrats!

You guys got a great DC.

QUOTE (SoxPride18 @ Jan 18, 2015 -> 04:25 PM) I'd rather him go to the Nationals. That rotation would be so much fun to watch. Well if they plan on trading Zimmerman I think the rotation is basically the same unless they getting something good in return. I don't think Max is much better then Zimmerman

Jordan Zimmerman After hearing the Nats are trying to trade him, I would love to bring him to this team. Our rotation would be the best in the league

No... It would be nice to get another pitcher but no, not disappointed

I guess this is the place for this. I am traveling to Chicago in about 2 months. And I was planning on surprising and doing something special for my girlfriend one of the days we are there. I wanted to get a Limo to take us around the city and see some places we haven't been able to go to and take us to dinner that night. Does anyone have a service they recommend that is fairly priced for just 2 or so hours?

QUOTE (Chilihead90 @ Jan 18, 2015 -> 03:42 PM) Cotillo tweeting that industry thinks Nats are moving in on Scherzer. Could move Zimmermann. Between Nats and one other team.

Going to see American Sniper tomorrow. I am nervous, never been a War movie fan.

Nothing.. Bought my girlfriend a box of chocolates last year and pulled it out of our cabinet today and she had a total of 5 pieces out of about 20.. Not buying her s***!

After seeing Fargo and Billy Bob Thornton win Golden Globes I decided to start the show. I have 2 episodes left but so far it has been really good. I can't imagine this is exactly how everything happened though. Edit: Just finished the last two episodes. Wow, they were intense. Great show.

QUOTE (Rowand44 @ Jan 12, 2015 -> 06:10 PM) So winter in the St. Louis area apparently lasts about a week and a half. Supposed to be in the 50's all weekend here. The next week it will be 10 degrees and snowing 8 inches. The weather here is just crazy

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Jan 12, 2015 -> 05:49 PM) I don't know one, that's the problem. Ask family or friends. Also I am sure you could find reviews of some online

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Jan 9, 2015 -> 03:19 PM) The Challenge started this week - watching the first ep tonight. So weird watching Diem and hearing what she planned on doing with the money if she had won. It's tough and sad watching it. Not a fan of 2 couples coming from another show but the twist of an exile is kind of cool.

QUOTE (Chilihead90 @ Jan 6, 2015 -> 01:45 AM) Not to piss in anyone's cheerios, because cheerios are delicious, but Bonafacio hit nearly .340 for the month of April with 8 walks and 10 SB. Then, it would appear, he hit about .240 the remainder of the season with only 18 more walks and 16 more SB. He got a good chunk of his season done in April, then was a pretty bad offensive player the rest of the year. I think he will be a great bench player. Way better then Garcia was last year.

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Jan 5, 2015 -> 11:21 PM) So Waiters to Thunder Smith, Shumpert and Thunder protected first rounder to Cavs Non-guaranteed Lou Amundson, Alex Kirk, 2019 second rounder from Cavs/ Lance Thomas from Thunder to Knicks http://m.espn.go.com/nba/story?storyId=12125440 How the hell did they get so much for Waiters? Wow