southsideirish71

So let me get this straight, we have people talking about how Bmac isnt proven, or isnt Cy Young. Yet we are so f***ing sure that the return is going to be, come on now. I just threw up in my mouth when I heard this. We keep getting rid of players, yet Ozzie stays. Holy f***ing s***. Pods in left, sure that makes sense. Having our startering 9 play about 30% of the time, sure. Now we are trading people just because the Ozziero has conflict.

Considering that I just got a check for the side work I did for a bank, Christmas is awesome and paid for.

QUOTE(Chisoxfn @ Dec 20, 2006 -> 10:56 AM) Wolfe has done very little the 2nd half of the season. I know Iowa shut his ass down and it seems like quite a few other teams have. If this guy was so special he'd find a way, even with teams stacking the boxes. My brother in law in a NIU alum, and I have been to a lot of NIU games over the last 3 years as he has season tickets. Wolfe is not a between the tackles runner. The only time he gets good rushes, is if either he gets a pitch or a runs a sweep and breaks around the end. Or if within the spread offense, the opposition blitzes a lot and Wolfe attacks the gaps with his speed. What happeened this year, is that the linebackers are spreading out and taking away the sweep. Forcing him to run between the tackles, and that my is his weakness. He will have a problem in the NFL as the linebackers can run as fast as he can. The funniest thing I saw this year and has anyone attended a NIU game. They have ripped off the Sox intro theme songs and video idea. They play the exact same sequence of songs that the sox open up to, including Thunderstruck at the end. And the video looks similiar, playing highlights from the NIU history.

QUOTE(soxwon @ Dec 19, 2006 -> 05:19 PM) Kenny Williams has announced that the U.S. military has contacted him inquiring about purchasing the SOX loaded Guns the Floyd-Gonzalez-Aardsma-Sisco misiles. Reportedly they heard, they fly UNDER THE RADAR WHITE SOX WMD'S AIMING AT A BALLPARK NEAR YOU.... Brooks, that sounds like a better marketing campagin than your others.

QUOTE(YASNY @ Dec 19, 2006 -> 02:40 PM) That doesnt ring a bell with me at all. I am with you, that is the result of a google search and finding a chicago tribune "are you a chicagoan" quiz. I knew it had something to do with carpets, but I dont remember that name.

Boushelle Carpet Cleaners

I wonder how many times this kid will get the living crap kicked out of him by other students due to this. IMO not enough times is the answer. What a douche.

QUOTE(RibbieRubarb @ Dec 19, 2006 -> 10:47 AM) A man who installed major pieces of my childood has left...RIP Let us remember his great creations: Thank God for the boomerang channel so we can introduce these cartoons to our children. Kids today are missing out on Saturday morning cartoons, and some of these wonderful shows. I have taken time to introduce my son to some of the cartoons that I grew up with. Its funny to look at how old these cartoons are. Hanna and Barbara had an affect on us all as children. Its sad to see this, because its an end to a generation of cartoons.

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Dec 19, 2006 -> 07:19 AM) And it will be the best six seconds of his life What is he going to do it twice.

QUOTE(MinnesotaSoxFan @ Dec 18, 2006 -> 01:17 PM) I love JoshPR. He's my Puerto Rican LoveMachine. Doug keeps forgetting the chat rules, what happens in chat, stays in chat. Good to see you around Josh, try not to be such a stranger.

Toby Hall probably would of been more of a backup unless he went with Philly. Who subs their players and gets bench players more ABs than OG. He will get plenty of ABs here and more than say the Yanks who have ironman Posada playing just about everyday. This is great freakin news.

Well our pen is dirt cheap, and has a lot of live arms.

QUOTE(Rowand44 @ Dec 16, 2006 -> 11:09 AM) I love Ross as much as anyone but the problem is Ozzie just doesn't play him and probably never would. Our bullpen must have the best pure stuff in all of baseball with Sisco added to it. I like this trade a lot, though I'm going to miss Ross and I hope to god he gets his shot in KC, he deserves it. Sisco has a good arm, and fits our mold. I am just still disgusted that Pods will be patrolling or kicking balls around in LF this year. This trade, and a platoon of Mack and Ozuna in LF would make me happy. Just venting.

QUOTE(Ozzie @ Dec 16, 2006 -> 11:05 AM) Just heard it on the radio. Sisco has the arm, but I dont know about this trade. Our best line drive hitter is gone, yet Pods is still on this team. Ozzie's insistence on midget speed guys who cant hit is amazing.

QUOTE(Rex Kicka** @ Dec 15, 2006 -> 12:14 AM) Didn't Channel 7 also have adult pay tv after 2 AM in the early 80s? Who here remembers that channel 32 used to go off the air about 1 or 2am and then have ads and some music. It was called Night Owl, the ads would be like the local cable TV channel is today and would rotate with some radio station. I remember falling asleep to the Betty Davis Eyes song and I always feel like someone is watching me song was playing like every night. Specterman was great, but my favorite was the show Battle of the Planets that had G-Force. Then of course the mother of all TV shows. Robotech.

QUOTE(Balta1701 @ Dec 14, 2006 -> 04:08 PM) Juan was still flying open off the ball with his leg kick within a few weeks of adopting it as a technique. Greg Walker had the right idea with Uribe last year, it just didn't work. The leg kick is a bandaid on a gaping wound - it's trying to fix the poor design of Uribe's swing in 2005. Last year, Walker had Uribe spread his legs apart to shoot for better balance and better ability to see the ball, which is the right technique. It didn't work with Uribe, because he still kept his batting stance too closed and kept the tendency to pull off the ball, and because it sure seems like he is very, very stubborn about wanting to swing at everything. Juan was not opening up and flying off the ball after the technique was put into use at the end of 2005. It was ditched in ST by Greg who thought that a spread stance would have the same affect. However that experiment failed. The spread stance worked for Ozuna but it didnt work with Uribe. The spread didnt work for Uribe because he still kept moving his feet. Players have different timing generators, and moving his feet seems to be Uribe's. The uribe I saw last year was flying open and spinning just like before. Only 2 things seemd to keep Uribe focused since he has been a whitesox. One was open competition for his job. When he first got here, he was hungry and played with intensitiy and seemed to focus on having good ABs. Once he got the job though, he started getting a bit lazy at the plate(the same reason that the Rox traded him). The 2nd thing was the timing mechanism at the end of the 2005 season. Uribe has enough talent to hit with the best on the team. Its his wild mechanics and his lack of focus at times that gets him in trouble. I think his lack of focus is why some times he messes up easy plays or his throws like last year, but can make the most spectacular plays. The only one holding Uribe back is Uribe.

QUOTE(Balance @ Dec 14, 2006 -> 03:43 PM) Good post, I think you hit the nail on the head. 1. I don't know much about Stewart, but I know I don't want Alomar. I think KW will make a move before Spring Training for backup backstop. 2. Our bullpen is solid for innings 7, 8, & 9 (MacDougal, Thornton, Jenks). I guess the real issue is whether our starters will consistently make it through 5 or 6 innings themselves. I tend to think they will, more ofteh than not. I don't think a lack of middle relief justifies spending what this current market would require, however. 3. Personally, I'm comfortable with Brian in CF. I love his defense, and I'm hoping that he's going to improve at the plate. Unless we can acquire a Vernon Wells, I don't know who else is out there worth breaking the bank over. 4. Can Pods go anywhere but up after last year? He'll have had a lot more time to let the ol' groin heal. I'm being optimistic, perhaps foolishly, but optimistic. 5. Here's where I'm the most worried. If we can get 2005/playoff Juan back, then we're fine. If not, I'd like to see a change, too. But I don't know what the best move would be. Who can we get without having to break the bank? Or, if we do break the bank, it had better be someone worth the money. 1.) Hopefully KW targets Hall with a backup plan of trading for Miller. 2.) Our bullpen is fine. Ozzie makes his pitchers throw at least 5 if not 6. 3.) Brian needs to hit, if he doesnt then platoon him with Sweeney. 4.) If pods sucks, then use a platoon in LF with Ozuna and Mack. Have Gooch leadoff on days that Mack is in the lineup if need be. 5.) Hire Walt Hrniak as a special hitting instructor for problem cases. Bring him in for ST to work with Juan and Brian specifically. He wont want to work full time again. After ST, he can come out once in a great while when a player gets into a funk again to go over what they learned. Both hitters can be good if they keep their swings in check. Juan needs to get his leg kick back, it kept him centered and allowed him to close off and drive towards the pitchers plate. When he ditched it, he was flying open and he had a hard time centering the ball up. Walt can work with Brian on centering the ball up more.

QUOTE(Controlled Chaos @ Dec 14, 2006 -> 12:16 PM) I've been a subscriber for about a week and a half, so far it is leaps and bounds better than the times. We are screwed in Downers for this. I cant get the Daily Herald nor can I get the Southtown due to a local Downers paper that is terrible. So I have to deal with the trib or the times. This is just so dumb.

QUOTE(YASNY @ Dec 14, 2006 -> 11:31 AM) That's why war sucks. Innocents suffer. It's always been that way, always will be that way. Part of the problem today is that people think that war is a video game. That there is no mistakes, that there should be no causalities. A house is next to a radar installation and the house gets hits by either the missle or rubble from the radar installation going down. Instead of asking why there are dumasses who live near an obvious military target, we get CNN and the rest posting how we are targetting civilians. We are dropping bombs from a plane that is high above moving at high speed avoiding sams and flak fire, and then while banking away, the same pilot is lazing a target, while trying not to get blown out of the sky. And then if they miss, we then want them brought up on charges. If you are too stupid to live near a military target during a war then if you die its darwins law. How about this then. Instead of locking these people up when we encounter them on the battlefield and then worrying about their civil rights, when you run into them and they are shooting at you. Kill them, dont arrest them, shoot them, bomb them and then the problem is solved. I am still shocked that they didnt kill Saddam when the found him in that hole.

QUOTE(retro1983hat @ Dec 14, 2006 -> 11:23 AM) Yes, after Sox games were over on Channel 44, you could get pay to get ONTV and if you were like my family you had a Black Box. Of course after 11pm you got a "special" treat. My friends used coat hangers and got the "treat" for free. The descrambler kit for ON-TV was known as a 7/11 kit back then. I built one for a science fair for grade school. The parts for the kit cost 60 bucks with the antenna. I never told my parents about the "special" treat that turned on after 11pm. I dont think they would of sanctioned the building of it.

QUOTE(fathom @ Dec 14, 2006 -> 10:52 AM) With the massive money deals we've been seeing, there will likely be more trades at the deadline than the previous few seasons. It's just too bad we weren't more interested in Abreu, as his contract seems below market value now and he'd be the perfect leadoff hitter for the Sox. Now this I will echo. Abreu would of been a nice OBP guy for our lineup. I dont know about leadoff, but he could of been a nice OBP guy to put in the 3 hole in front of the mashers.

QUOTE(ptatc @ Dec 14, 2006 -> 08:32 AM) I agree. Especially with the article from Phillie above. If Floyd's curveball has gone from 12-6 to 10-5 as stated, that is purely mechanical. What he is doing is dropping his arm angle to change the break on the ball. This reinforces the opinion that a mechanical alteration will benefit him. Sorry, I referenced the wrong statement. This was in reply to the idea that Floyd will be siting next to Cooper. He could be a nice addition to the pen. If he can throw strikes and get that 12-6 curve near the zone he could have a similiar effect that Justin Duchscherer has in the pen. I think Coop will help him throw more strikes and to trust his stuff. And also outside of mechanics messing up his curve a bit, it has an effect on velocity. If he could be 92-93 with that curve from the pen he could be just the bridge guy to the back end of our pen. You go from a starter to Floyd, to the velocity train at the end and that could be a nice bullpen. Its just a matter if they throw strikes. That is the key for our pen. Throw strikes and trust your stuff.

QUOTE(RockRaines @ Dec 14, 2006 -> 09:59 AM) So why are you on a white sox board again? Yet its continually allowed to happen. Its the same MO. Rednwhite comes over here to tell us how everything that we do is overrated by our fans, or that it isn't quite as good as his beloved Red Cubs. Then everything that Theo does is annointed by the Lord God himself, because he is the chosen one. When one starts bashing any part of the Konerko signing, and then over rates Cora then the objective glasses are off, and they are drunk on Red Cub juice.

QUOTE(YASNY @ Dec 14, 2006 -> 09:52 AM) The payroll went up. Pretty much its been a one to one relationship with how profits have turned and how the payroll has turned. As Mike has shown in years past, pretty much you can look at the Forbes report and say that whatever the profit has been, you can see payroll increase at the same step. Anyone who thinks that this organization is cheap with a 100 million dollar payroll is a moron. And for those using the Garland example, just stop. That is called getting the most for your trade. What will bring you more back, a pitcher in their walk year, or a pitcher with 2 years on the contract. KW thinks he can get an impact pitcher that can front line our rotation with Garland he will ship him off. Plain and simple. And for the love of God its Jon Garland, not Cy Young. He is a durable 200 innning pitcher. Batters hit .294 against him, so lets stop like if we trade him we will be a 5th place team for 10 years. We as fans need to stop falling in love with the names on the back. Because there is no loyalty for the most part either way. FA's want to make the money, and the clubs want to keep a product on the field that can make them money. Why is this so hard for everyone to see. We get silly threads about players being selfish, or the owners being selfish. They are all selfish. Its called human nature. If the cubs would pay me 126 million dollars, as much as I hate them, I would put the hat on right now and smile for the camera. And laugh all the way to the bank later as I bought my Island in the pacific.

I knew he needed an MRI. Thank God he kept pitching hurt for the most of the year, so we couldnt of stretched out Bmac. He could of taken a rest, got stronger.