Al Lopez Ghost (old)
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According to today's Tribune, Kittle has a book coming out next month, titled "Ron Kittle's Tales of the White Sox."
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QUOTE(Wong & Owens @ Feb 1, 2005 -> 11:29 AM)I believe he will be the starting right fielder for the Henry's Pizza Rebels, an Orland Park 16" softball team.
He'll have to compete for the job, just like everybody else.
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QUOTE(beck72 @ Feb 6, 2005 -> 07:15 AM)I agree the Sox need the starting 5 healthy. Yet if you could only pick one of the 5 as a "key" who would it be?
Well, Buerhle you hope will be as consistent as always, Garcia is so talented... I guess the swing guy is El Duque. Garland will be around .500, so I would have to say if El Duque has a big year, we'll be real tough to beat.
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QUOTE(qwerty @ Feb 6, 2005 -> 09:58 AM)We did you get the article that says he personally injected them? I have found this article.
http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/story/278255p-238313c.html
Qwerty, it was an excerpt only, from ProSportsDaily.com
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OK, it's only Canseco, but according to ProSportsWeekly this morning, there's a NY Daily News article that will be explosive:
"You've never seen Jose Canseco like this: Huddled in a bathroom stall at the Oakland Coliseum, jabbing a hypodermic needle into Mark McGwire's bare behind... In "Juiced: Wild Times, Rampant 'Roids, Smash Hits and How Baseball Got Big" Canseco claims he personally injected some of the biggest names in baseball - including Rafael Palmiero, Juan Gonzalez and Ivan Rodriquez, among others - with performance enhancing drugs."
OMG, the lawyers are gonna get rich over the lawsuits, I would think.
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The whole idea was to build a starting rotation, and KW did that. They have to stay healthy. Everyone else is replaceable, but the big 5 isn't.
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When you have some idle time you should check this site out. It's got a ton of statistical information on it, and one thing you can do is connect the careers of any two players in MLB history. It's like the six degrees of separation of Kevin Bacon thing, if you've ever heard of that. So, to connect Babe Ruth to Robin Ventura, you get
Babe played with Red Rolfe for the 1934 Yankees, and
Red Rolfe played with Joe Gordon for the 1942 Yankees, and
Joe Gordon played with Minnie Minoso for the 1949 Indians, and
Minnie played with Jerry Hairston for the 1976 Sox, and
Jerry played with Robin for the 1989 Sox.
Plus you can find out the leaders in all statistical categories, now and through the years, and on and on.
The all time leader in GIDP?
Julio Franco.
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Patterson is rated higher than Posednik because of his potential, but they ignore potential when looking at Iguchi vs. Walker, who by the way cannot turn a double play. Rowand is defensive minded.
This is the world's greatest newspaper? Well, they make a great fish wrapper and bird cage liner.
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QUOTE(YASNY @ Jan 31, 2005 -> 06:09 AM)The Tribsters are really laying it on thick. World class smear campaign.
This is the only writer in Chicago who has called out the Tribune for their campaign against Sosa. Barry Rozner of the Arlington Heights Herald, let'er rip:
The word for today, boys and girls, is fraud.
Can you spell it? Can you say it? Can you finally, after all these years, believe it?
The Cubs and Major League Baseball perpetrated the greatest fraud in Chicago sports history and passed it on to millions of fans around the world by presenting you with a Sammy Sosa who never existed.
And when the product was no longer useful to them, they threw Sosa under the bus and committed yet another deception.
It's clear now that the Cubs' lone reason for exposing Sosa as a liar immediately after the season was to use the following four months to sell it to you.
True, it hurt his trade value, but it also gave the Cubs the time they needed to build their case and turn public opinion against Sosa.
The very same Cubs brass who lied to you about what kind of person he was every time they signed him to a new contract, the very same media who painted lovely portraits of him every time he hit a meaningless 500-foot homer, the very same players who embraced him when it was good publicity and swore that Sosa was a great teammate, all saw the wind shift and went after Sosa's carcass like starving vultures.
They didn't have the guts to merely trade Sosa, so first they had to humiliate him, strip him of what dignity he had left and shove it down the throats of every kid who worshipped No. 21.
They couldn't let him leave a hero because they didn't want the heat, so the Cubs tried to make sure Sosa left here with a reputation as the worst person, teammate and baseball player the North Side has ever known.
This is as much a fraud as the 66 homers, the ear-to-ear smile for the cameras, the Flintstones vitamins, the sneeze, the change in batting order, the "accidental'' corked bat and all the rest.
What are you supposed to think now about the execs who helped cover up Sosa's corking, who stood beside him while bats were hidden and asked you to believe it was an honest mistake?
What Sosa did in leaving his team that final Sunday wasn't good, but that's what happens when there's no one in charge of the club, and everyone believes they can do whatever they want.
That's what happens when you enable and coddle and protect someone who is led to believe there are no rules for him.
And it wasn't worse than the true sins Sosa committed over the years, sins you rarely heard about because few dared expose Sosa.
The same critics quick to rip Andre Dawson or Ryne Sandberg for their quiet professionalism, or happy to brag they'd never vote Ron Santo to the Hall of Fame couldn't wait to shamelessly promote Sosa as the savior of the sport and a grand human being because he could hit the ball a long way.
He shook writers' hands and smiled, and they looked the other way as he grew exponentially each winter.
But now that public sentiment has turned, thanks to the Cubs, the critics have also abandoned Sosa and joined the pariah parade.
They have all helped sell it to you, and by the Convention the Cubs knew it. They took the ballroom's temperature and realized 100 days of trashing the right fielder had worked, and they could make their trade - albeit 10 years too late.
This also, by the way, is a fraud.
This deal wouldn't be approved for most players, but the commissioner wants so badly to resurrect Sosa's career and - most important - his image, that Bud Selig will rubber stamp it first chance he gets.
The Cubs, who made scores of millions off Sosa's picture, care not a lick about what they get in return.
They did their jobs already. You had to believe Sosa was the Devil or they couldn't give him away, and so they turned kids - big and little - against him.
Hispanic children, once so proud to worship their hero, could be seen with their Sosa jerseys turned inside out at the Cubs Convention.
It is beneath even the Cubs to have gone this far. Not even Sosa deserved this.
The shy kid who reported to the Cubs in 1992 after the trade from the White Sox wanted to become a great baseball player, but his personal GM, Larry Himes, started him down the path to ruin by convincing him that 30-30 - not winning - should be his goal.
It wasn't long before Sosa realized the real financial reward was in hitting home runs, not playing the field, running the bases or winning World Series.
He was the product of an environment that promoted Mark McGwire as the modern-day Babe Ruth, and in one late, 1997 series in St. Louis, Sosa got a close-up look at the gorilla known as McGwire and understood immediately what he had to do that winter.
He came back twice as big as the year before, hit 66 homers and went home to get bigger ... and bigger ... and bigger.
We tried to warn you for years that this story was not as it had been portrayed, but the Cubs, the media and MLB built hi•into an international superstar.
They created Frankenstein and now act surprised when he starts eating villagers.
He did not ask for the pedestal erected for him, by those who closed their eyes to his blemishes and swollen muscles, but he gladly accepted it and ran amok.
To see backs turned on him now, the rats jumping off a sinking superstar, is as unpleasant as it gets in sports, and enough perhaps to make you feel sorry for him.
You'll hear a lot about the winners and losers in this deal over the coming weeks and months. But with the Cubs having taken the low road, instead of allowing Sosa to leave a hero, there are only losers, including his former teammates who now tear Sosa apart, gutless when it was unpopular to speak the truth.
Of course, it had to end this way. All great lies do. The sickening part is Sosa goes out as the only villain, a once-loving fandom hating him. In reality, he was just a willing participant in a grand sham.
Many more villains remain right here in Chicago, ready to perpetrate the next great fraud.
Always, at your expense.
Recent Columns
• Sosa will have a big year in Baltimore, Stone says (1/31)
• This sales job a grand sham for Cubs (1/30)
• This theory goes against convention (1/28)
• Where would Bulls be without GM Paxson? (1/26)
• Current Cubs could learn some things from '89 team (1/25)
• So far, Cubs' 1984 clinching ball not for sale (1/24)
• Could Bulls, Jackson be reunited? (1/21)
• Pierzynski pickup can only be best of news for Big Hurt (1/19)
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I agree this is crap. But to cross-thread here, it would return a key figure in the Sox Tigers fight. Maybe Weaver could plunk Ordonez and start another fight.
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I don't like talking to Cub fans, and I sure don't like watching a game at US Cellular with a lot of them around. But this year would be torture - the Baltimore weekend is followed by the Cub-Sox games the next weekend. They'll have to fumigate the place.
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During halftime of the Bulls game on WGN, they just said that Sunday's Tribune is reporting the Cubs will workout Magglio next week.
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...then it's welcome back Sammy weekend May 12 to 15th at US Cellular. Let's give him a warm White Sox welcome!
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QUOTE(HSC's Biggest Fan @ Jan 28, 2005 -> 04:45 PM)My guess is that the contract is very similar to the Jared Wright contract with the Yankees. A-lot of voidable stuff for days on the DL and little guarantees.
My bet on the surprise team for sosa, the Rangers.
I'm guessing Denver.
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Josh Paul reupped for $450,000 with the Anaheim Angels of Los Angeles of California of the United States of the Planet Earth of the Milky Way.
Local guy making a nice living. Congrats to Josh.
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It's absolutely hysterical. page 137. It appears to be an Immigration Application for Iguchi. It lists his nicknames as "The Gooch, TBD by Hawk".
For his crimes he has been convicted of it says "2001 Stole most bases, 2003 Stole most bases, 2004 Battery and use of force resulting in harmful or offensive conduct (2004 Case Reference Number .333)"
Under Declare all family heirlooms of irreplaceable value it says:
"Gold Glove 2001, 2003, 2004, All-Star Ring 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, Japanese Series Ring 1999, 2003"
For references it list all the coaches, Ozzie, KW and JR.
For the question that says list all Parties that might oppose your immigration to the US:
"The NY Yankees, Minnesota Twins, Cleveland Indians, Boston Red Sox, Detroit Tigers, Seattle Mariners, KC Royals"
Clearly state reason applicant seeks immigrant status in US"
"To Win."
At the bottom of the ad it says "Is this a great country or what?"
Fabulous ad, Brooks!
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QUOTE(beck72 @ Jan 27, 2005 -> 07:03 AM)He should go to a team where he can start.
Agreed. Birmingham, for instance.
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QUOTE(YASNY @ Jan 27, 2005 -> 03:36 AM)If Maggs plays for the Tigers, probably. If he signs with Texas, then probably not.
The key word here is "plays".
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I voted for Hawk, but I'm afraid we'll get something like "The Gooch-meister."
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I believe we have spent more time thinking about Harris's future than Sox management has.
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From Monday's Sun TImes:
"The biggest White Sox fan in the world? That would be Kareem Abdul Jabbar, who in a conversation with Eddie Einhorn last week, said he first became hooked on baseball watching the Sox play the Dodgers in the 1959 World Series. Jabbar said that he was a big Dodgers fan back then, largely because he revered Jackie Robinson, but he said if Einhorn sent him a cap - size 71/2 - he'd wear it."
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Just a tremendous winter for KW, addressing so many problems in a variety of ways.
PLUS, JR gets more bang for his translator buck.
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QUOTE(YASNY @ Jan 23, 2005 -> 04:45 PM)Hey also pulled some bonehead play in Atlanta ... I don't remember what it was, but the Braves didn't invite him back.
Fick pulled an A-Rod during the Cubs Braves Playoff series two years ago. It was the Saturday night game at Wrigley, if I remember correctly. He was running down to first and swung his arm out to hit someone's glove - the first baseman I think. That was it for his career with Atlanta. It was a dirty play, typical of Fick.
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QUOTE(retro1983hat @ Jan 21, 2005 -> 11:09 AM)Back on track now .... I think John Candy liked the Sox as well.
John Candy made a movie called "Only the Lonely" with Ally Sheedy which featured a scene wherein Candy had a picnic at night in old Comiskey - Sox were out of town - and the scoreboard exploded. Not a great movie, but it's nice to have when you want to see the old park. The movie came out in 1991, had to be filmed in 1990.
Ex-Sox Player Admits to Steroids!
in Pale Hose Talk
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When these denials come out, you might bear in mind that you can honestly say you never took steroids if "all" you were taking is human growth serum. Also, the new baseball drug testing agreement does not allow for blood tests which is where hgs shows up, as I understand it. The new testing program only allows for urine tests.