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QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Apr 23, 2012 -> 12:09 PM) For those with the idea that dead contracts don't matter, that would be an instance where it matters. this is true. i'd dump rios yesterday if it meant getting wright
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Olney puts Sox in top 10 for power rankings
Reddy replied to southsider2k5's topic in Pale Hose Talk
how f***ing funny is it that everyone's clamoring to be the first to say "oh, no the sox are good, we knew that all along!" just so that at the end of the year people don't think they were all idiots. -
QUOTE (SoxFan1 @ Apr 22, 2012 -> 06:11 PM) This routine is awesome. Just tried it for the first time, feels great. no kidding. i threw some of it into my Chest/Shoulders/Tris workout today. I think I'm gonna do the whole thing on my Legs+Back days as well. modifying P90X to make it work even better is super fun.
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QUOTE (HickoryHuskers @ Apr 23, 2012 -> 10:52 AM) Ray's Original Famous and Famous Original Ray's can't be far behind. haha i honestly forget which exist and which dont... but i wouldn't be suprised if they all do.
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QUOTE (RockRaines @ Apr 23, 2012 -> 10:46 AM) Ill look for that next time. I typically stay down in Tribecca so I dont make it up there all that often. you can head over to union square and there are 800 awesome food trucks. you could just eat food truck food for a week. lol
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QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Apr 23, 2012 -> 10:46 AM) Due to love of Seinfeld, I had Famous Original Ray's. However, it was not at the nexus of the universe. It was next door to "The Irish Pub" in Times Square after watching Final Four action. I was wasted, so I expected to be blown away. I was more 'meh'. hmm. you sure it wasn't Famous Rays Original? or Original Famous Rays? or Original Rays Famous? or Ray's Famous Original? They all exist. All independently owned and operated. How ridiculous is that?
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QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Apr 23, 2012 -> 11:19 AM) Very true. Which is why I would like to have Rios and Dunn's contracts cleared going into next offseason if it's at all possible, because then the team would have more than enough payroll flexibility to start looking at replacing those failures with all-stars. If Rios and Dunn were to be removable without the Sox eating the money, then the Sox could be looking at spending some of that money for a legit upgrade at one of those spots. Replacing Brent Morel with David Wright, for example, would be a plausible move the Sox could make. And...the only way you're honestly going to know that those moves are necessary is if you give the kid a full season and he just can't cut it. You platoon the kid, you give him 400 PA's, he might hit a roll at the end of the season and convince you to try him out for another year...again. I'd wet myself. Injury history or not.
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QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Apr 23, 2012 -> 10:39 AM) I folded it in half. It was just ok. NYC pizza is nothing special at all. I've had frozen pizzas that are better. that's straight blasphemy. remind me where you got it? i don't really wanna go back and look. But the place that I get it from up on 181st street - now that s*** is the real deal.
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all yall saying you can find NYC pizza in Chicago are straight up lying. It's my favorite thing ever, and if that were true, I'd have known about it. and if you all didn't fold it in half - you weren't eating it right. it's easier to eat if you do that.
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QUOTE (Chi Town Sox @ Apr 23, 2012 -> 08:59 AM) Anybody who thinks Williamsburg and Manhattan "suck" is delusional, get out of your shell. There are things going on in both that don't happen anywhere else in the world. I was the biggest Chicago fanatic going into my trip into NYC having not been there in a long time, it is dirty, it is old, it is congested but it is f'n amazing. For how many negatives there are about that city, the positives simply destroy the positives of any town in America and almost any town in the world. Seeing so many different types of people living in the same area is awesome on so many levels. I will never forget walking into a very sketchy part of lower Manhattan (a type of area that if i walked into in Chicago, I would have gotten out very quickly), nobody even looked at us. Very grungy and ghetto but you see older white couples in some random bar drinking wine and walking around like it's nothing. Amazing town I will stay in Chicago though, much much cheaper. to be fair, I said midtown, not manhattan. and i do hate williamsburg - primarily because i can't stand hipsters. at all.
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QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Apr 23, 2012 -> 08:28 AM) Well, I can give reasons but no need to...I'd say the larger point is that if Morel, Beckham, and Viciedo don't step it up, then I don't know how this team could be competitive without putting up that kind of historically good ERA level, since, for example, I doubt AJ Pierzynski will stay in the MVP race all year with the bat. Teams can have the best pitching in the league and not be anywhere close to competitive. Oakland and Seattle tend to be up there, for example, although there are some big ballpark effects. see i just disagree with this wholeheartedly. almost every team besides Texas has a black hole or two in the bottom third of the lineup.
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QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Apr 23, 2012 -> 08:28 AM) (Can I ask what website you got team stats going back that far?) good ole sortable team stats on mlb.com 1999 is allll sorts of wrong though. says the KC royals had a team era of 10
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the 1990 Athletics had a 3.18 team ERA for the season. Holy bajeezus.
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QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Apr 23, 2012 -> 08:20 AM) Mind you, this would be the lowest Team ERA in the AL since at least the start of the steroid era (can't quickly check team stats before ~ 2000.) haha ok wow didn't realize that. did a check myself and even our '05 team had a 3.61 era. I'll concede this point. however, no reason we can't be among the top pitching staffs in the league all year.
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QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Apr 23, 2012 -> 08:14 AM) A 3.16 team ERA and .219 BAA are unsustainable in this day and age. Not saying we don't have good pitching, but this is out of line for what we are capable of doing over the course of 162 games. i did say low-to-mid 3's. that includes something like a team era of 3.30, 3.40 - which I think IS sustainable.
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QUOTE (HickoryHuskers @ Apr 23, 2012 -> 07:04 AM) Well, to be literal, 9-6 is not sustainable because that projects out to 97 wins, but if Peavy/Sale/Humber/Dunn/Rios all perform anywhere close to the way they have so far, 90 wins is not out of the question. agreed
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QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Apr 23, 2012 -> 08:02 AM) That's not true at all, I know plenty of people living in Chicago without a car. true - but to experience anything outside the city limits, you do. I lived there for 2 years without a car and 3 with, and while I didn't have a car I always said "I don't need one, this is great!". Then I GOT my car and would never, never go back.
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QUOTE (Y2HH @ Apr 23, 2012 -> 08:01 AM) I actually had just amended my post mentioning this about NY and everything being in closer proximity. To you, it would be an advantage...but I am very anti-public transportation. While it can make travel cheap and convenient, and cut emissions, it's also a hub/petri dish that cultivates the spread of germs and illnesses throughout a City. No thanks to sharing rides with that. haha touche. i just eat super healthy and take supplements and i don't get sick! although in reality it's probably because your body builds up immunities by being in more constant contact with all the germs. Nonetheless, you are correct - cars are definitely cleaner. The NYC subways are... really kinda gross. But they make up for it in efficiency.
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QUOTE (Y2HH @ Apr 23, 2012 -> 06:46 AM) There are awesome restaurants in the Oak Brook, downtown area, etc. Chicago has awesome museums all along the lakefront. As I said, Chicago and it's very close surround suburbs have just as much to offer, you just have to look for it, OR, be into that sort of thing. And Chicago has higher rated restaurants than NY...this isn't 1990 anymore. i'll tell ya the truth - i don't eat out much cuz i'm broke. but that's the other thing. a car is a necessity in Chicago. In NYC you can do everything I mentioned without one. Saves lotsa $$
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QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Apr 23, 2012 -> 07:44 AM) I'm not saying the record, I am saying the ridiculous pitching numbers aren't going to last. Plus seeing as I had 83-79 for this season, I definitely wouldn't be saying "told you so". the numbers aren't that ridiculous. if you have a good starting rotation - which we do - and a lights out bullpen to bring down the ratios - which we do - there's no reason we can't be a low to mid 3's team ERA
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QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Apr 23, 2012 -> 07:37 AM) I'll be first to say those are a whole lot of unsustainable numbers. so we start off 9-6 and everyone says "that's not sustainable" if we started out 6-9 you'd all be saying "told you so" can't you just enjoy that your team is performing well?
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QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Apr 23, 2012 -> 07:38 AM) ptatc knows the world of pro sports better than any of us. I would bet he is on to something. i'm sure people don't like him - but no one would question his value to the team. and he's nowhere NEAR the clubhouse cancer everyone said he was when he joined the sox. He really does put the team first and is always trying to find a way to give the sox an edge. that alone garners respect. no, maybe not as a person, but as a player. and that's what really matters to his teammates anyway
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QUOTE (Y2HH @ Apr 23, 2012 -> 06:24 AM) Chicago isn't boring at all, it all depends on your lifestyle, etc. What are you into, what do you like to do? Guarantee a lifestyle that fits it exists in Chicago...you just have to be willing to go there. It all depends on what you find "exciting". I find White Bread and American Cheese exciting, btw. i feel like the two halves of the city stay really segregated. I almost never went on the south side except to see white sox games. and that being the case - the loop isn't all that exciting, and wrigleyville is wrigleyville. other than those places - where is there that isn't boring? (i do love chicago for the record, just... not as much as NYC) there isn't that separation in NYC - you wanna go to Chinatown to get the freshest seafood EVER, it's no biggie. You wanna go up to Harlem to experience some great restaurants, you can. I even go to the bronx for box-store trips like target/best buy, and for yankee-sox games. You've got the greatest entertainment in the world, the best park in the world, the best restaurants in the world, beaches, access to the whole east coast - which includes great wine-country, hiking, anything outdoorsy. Outside Chicago is just flat suburbia as far as you can drive in any direction. And there are bodegas and delis on EVERY corner. That alone kicks Chicago in the pants.
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QUOTE (HickoryHuskers @ Apr 23, 2012 -> 05:50 AM) Yes, because with that you get the weather and the beaches. It's still close with NY, but I rate Chicago far higher and Miami far lower than both. after living in Chicago for five years and NYC for two now... Chicago's just so boring in comparison. I mean it's beautiful and clean and the people are nice. But... it's so white bread and american cheese.
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QUOTE (Springfield SoxFan @ Apr 23, 2012 -> 06:45 AM) Totally agree about Dino, same with Bob Probert. Also would put Rodman in that category, when he as a Bad Bad with the Pistons, Bulls fans used to say they never wanted him on their team and that was history. AJ is an agitator, love having him but do not want to see him get another $6 million per year contract. I'd honestly pay him $6 million. I think he's one of the most valuable catchers in the league. He's never hurt, calls a great game, and gives you an offensive spark now and again (like right now). He's been THE most durable catcher in the league for the last DECADE That alone is worth $6MM