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QUOTE(Rowand44 @ Nov 14, 2006 -> 12:52 AM) Well to be fair, Crawford is a different type of player and I believe that's the reason every wants him. He's a young player with ridiculous potential and is a solid leadoff hitter already. I agree with your main point though, to have two guys like Pelfrey and Mac in the rotation starting next season is just invaluable to a franchise. Pitching is what wins in this game. Its the formula that keeps on getitng teams to the postseason and to the world series. Why do we think that Boston just paid eleventy billion dollars just to pay a Japanese pitcher a kings ransom. Pitching is at a premium. If we can spin Vaz or Garcia off and get someone like Pelfrey to mix up with Bmac it will help our team more in the long run than having a guy who will become a lift and pull powerhitter the minute he comes here.

QUOTE(Jordan4life_2006 @ Nov 14, 2006 -> 12:44 AM) Rowand, my friend, Carl frickin' Crawford! I like B-Mac, too. But if Kenny was able to pull off what Tony proposed, I'd s*** my pants. How many years have we had rediculus offense, and then we trotted the likes of Felix Diaz, and company out there. I would rather stock up on pitching, and just go easy on the bat in LF. Everyone looks at Carl and drools, but we all need to remember what happens to players when they come here. I dont care how they hit before, the minute the come into the homerdome they forget everything they have learned, and just lift and pull. Carl will become power Carl, and we will see less and less of his speed. You will just have another power guy in a lineup of powerguys. Bmac and Pelfrey with our current offense > Pelfry and current offense + Carl. Hell we might as well just kept Mags, Carlos Lee, and just stayed the good ol softball team we have been for years.

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QUOTE(Tony82087 @ Nov 12, 2006 -> 11:31 PM) From the links I see on ESPN, Walker already made more in 2006 than what Myers did in 06. Walker is going to get paid this off-season, and I dont really have a problem with it being from the Sox. Guy has put up solid numbers the last 4 years. But his numbers against the tough lefties of our division are not that good. Twinks Morneau is hitting 400 against him Mauer is hitting 714 against him Injuns Hafner is hitting .385 Sizemore is hitting .750

QUOTE(mr_genius @ Nov 11, 2006 -> 07:08 PM) the democrats want to make Charles Rangel the chairman of the ways and means committee? this is going to be funny. the guy is completely incompetent. And they are putting John Conyers, who has been posting mock impeachment trials, in charge of house judiciary committe. This is the same tool who wanted to impeach Reagan for invading Grenada.

QUOTE(Texsox @ Nov 10, 2006 -> 09:47 AM) Of maybe the weight loss throws off his mechanics and he regresses. He has been throwing near 100 since he was a lot younger, and he wasnt this heavy back then. I think if anything, his coming into ST last year out of shape and heavier caused more issues that anything. He needs to run, run and doing some more running. That and not eating thirds and he will be fine for 07.

QUOTE(Balta1701 @ Nov 8, 2006 -> 09:04 PM) Seriously, I'm not bragging. Barring legitimate campaign finance reform to the extent that all money is thrown out of politics, I give it about 6-8 years before the Dems are corrupt enough that they deserve to be thrown out, assuming they aren't beaten out of it beforehand. That's just how our system is built. People try to go into it with the best intentions, and there's just so much money being tossed around that within a few years, people start taking and taking and taking and taking. Speaking of which, what happened to Rep. "Money in the Fridge" Jefferson? Ah, runoff election. I think they wont be able to control themselves. They will put Conyers in a position that will allow him to move forward with articles of impeachment. He has been working on mock proceedings for years now, what in the name of god do you think he will do when he gets a chance. I am just waiting for when they start to tax the living crap out of everything. I love it how democratic strategists are on TV trying to paint Pelosi as a centrist. I have even seen some posters in Fillibuster try to do the same. If she is a centrist, Bush is a liberal.

QUOTE(Balta1701 @ Nov 6, 2006 -> 08:14 PM) Great, just watch, another of the guys we tried out in those dark 03-04 years as a starter will now come back and become a solid bullpen performer for someone else. At least it's not the Tigers this time. This is a picture of Felix when he was a member of the whitesox. I wish he was a member of the tigers, good lord just think of Thome facing Mr. batting practice should give everyone chills.

QUOTE(mr_genius @ Nov 7, 2006 -> 08:26 PM) even if the dems take the house and the senate i wouldn't call it a "mandate" to raise taxes through the roof, cut military intelligence, and lock up the government with constant bi-partisan bickering. if the dems try their usual nonsense it'll only help the republicans in 2008. :vomits thinking about my taxes going up. Nancy Pelosi as the speaker of the house scares the hell out of me.

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Nov 7, 2006 -> 10:51 AM) Well everyone has been looking for a LF with a high OPB and OPS... Think about how big and strong all of our players would get also.

QUOTE(CWSGuy406 @ Nov 6, 2006 -> 03:16 PM) Pelfrey is close. Some argued that he was the best pitcher of the 2005 draft despite the fact that he went 9th (two pitchers went ahead of him). Jason raves about his stuff, too, as do any Mets fans who have a reasonable clue about their farm system. I personally think that people even hoping for Pelfrey are nuts (myself included). 6'7 with a fastball that is in the mid 90s that can go as high as 97. Yeah if KW can pull this off, he is officially a Jedi Master.

Before anyone starts with the pussy calls on Brian. Anyone that questions the toughness of someone with dysentery or a parasite needs to travel outside the US and see what happens when you get the bug. I got it a couple of times in different locations around the world, and no matter how many precautions you take, you still can wind up getting it. Just imagine the worst stomach pain you have ever had, like a bunch of knives stabbing you, and then make sure your stomach twists and turns where you can barely sleep. Then figure you will be on the toliet for the most part of the time, now add that soreness to the mixture. You cant eat because your stomach rejects just about everything you eat, nor do you have the urge to eat. I got it travelling to India, to Mexico of course, and to Brazil. Each one was a different flavor of it. The worst one I lost 14 pounds on a 190 pound frame in 1 week. It took over a month to get back to eating normally and not having stomach pain. Now I wanted Brian to play in Winter ball to work on his jumps as much as the next person. But once you get this type of bug, forget it. He needs to get better, and then work his ass off to get ready for the fight of his life in ST. He needs to seriously come out smashing in ST.

QUOTE(DBAH0 @ Nov 4, 2006 -> 07:01 AM) Right now I think there's only 1 spot for either Ross Gload or Rob Mackowiak (unless a guy like Cintron is traded, but then you need another infielder). Here's how I see the bench; C - Blanco or Stewart Cintron Ozuna Then you have 2 spots for Gload, Mackowiak or Terrero, if you carry 11 pitchers (if I added that up right). And I think Terrero is going to be given a good chance to win a backup OF job for the simple fact he can handle CF defensively which Kenny Williams has said was something he needed to address. Who knows, Kenny could bring in someone else maybe even. The biggest bench move we can make this offseason is picking up Blanco. He can hit lefties, call a good game behind the plate, and throw out runners. With the way Ozzie likes to sub his players, we need to make sure that AJ has some sort of backup. With the amount of tough lefties we face in our division, this is key.

QUOTE(BobDylan @ Nov 2, 2006 -> 07:24 PM) I really can't see McCarthy on the team next year. Every part of logic pointed towards putting him in the rotation last year. Why did he stay in the bullpen? Ozzie runs the team. There's an issue between them--be it his mentality or his stuff or that he just doesn't plain like him--but as much control KW has, Ozzie is no pony. He's here to do it his way and only his way. Given that, it's KW's job to go out and get the players that work for Ozzie. It starts with the guys at the top of the order. So your suggestion is that we are going to sink boat loads of money keeping around aging pitching, some of them who pitched like crap last year just because of a perceived tiff with Ozzie. Mr 2005 Gload says hi. He was on the Ozzie hated list, yet seems to survive on this team for some reason. 3 pitchers, 2 of which pitched with decreased velocity. One of them publically showed up their team multiple times and pretty much said yeah I dont give max effort against teams that he doesnt term as good enough for his golden 86 mph effort. How about this for predictions, I see Freddy fastball gone, gone to the NL. I see bmac in the rotation ready to go. If we trade bmac and keep freddy fastball lobbing up 86 mph garbage in the heat of the summer, we might as well white flag it and rebuild if that is our strategy.

I think what we will all find out at the end is that KW will try to turn whatever tradeable assets we have, including one of the Buerhle, Freddy, Vazquez group, into some younger pitching. He was sniffing around Baltimore a bit last year with bedard in the offseason, and with Cabrera in the trade deadline time. Bedard will be almost unatainable, but a guy like Cabrera is something in KW's ilk, great arms no control. A guy with phenominal stuff, but has problems getting the best out of it. This is what KW is famous for. After last years debacle KW realizes more than anything that pitching is the key ingrediant, not offense. He is also trying to build a repeatable champion. Something that gets refreshed throughout the years. Trading guys for cusp prospects that may need a change of scenery. I think that KW will wind up shocking us with some arms more than bats this offseason.

So let me get this straight, we have people that are for ditching bmac, and adding another bat to the lineup because offense wins championships, just ask the 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003 and 2004 whitesox teams that thumped through the year only to get owned after the allstar break because the less talented twins punched them in the mouth and let them bleed on the side. We have enough question marks in our rotation with Fastball Freddy and Buerhle and the 7th inning monster known as Vazquez. All mind you making buckets of money. How about this, lets keep Bmac and trade on the above and release 10 mill from our payroll. f*** getting Crawford, get Eric Bedard. Trade every prospect and 2 of our rotation guys and insert Bedard and Bmac in our rotation. That makes our team much better than inserting one offensive player.

LOL@cub fans I cant wait until the 100 years of losing shirts come out at the cell for the flubbers.

QUOTE(greasywheels121 @ Oct 27, 2006 -> 10:49 PM) I thought the Indians were supposed to be great this year too. I mean that's what everyone said. That's why they play the games. What it looks like on paper doesn't mean s***. Well if Joey Cora had his waving hand taped to his side, if bmac was in the rotation in July, if Ozzie played the starters more than 25% of the time, and if our hitters decided to keep hitting instead of becoming the lift and pull softball team we would of won the division hands down. We were the best team in the AL this year. We just decided to collectively f*** up and it sickens me that we didnt get a chance to defend.

Well I expect the entire Tiger pitching staff to suck next year because they pitched so far and so deep into the season. At least that is what we were told about this years whitesox. Hopefully watching this makes the whitesox want to vomit, and gives them the desire they lacked this year. Lets go and f*** them up next year. Congrats to the cards, next year we reclaim what is ours.

Hopefully we can either get Hrniak to work with Uribe again for a refresher on how to keep his front end from starting the tazmanian spin, or we dish him out and get someone who can provide some bat control.

QUOTE(Rex Kicka** @ Oct 25, 2006 -> 04:51 PM) Public schools can filter internet access. If they don't, maybe as a parent who gives a crap about your kid seeing such things - you should go to a school board meeting and insist on it. Well I am already taking a vested interest in my school district and have attended meetings after I bought a house in Downers Grove well before we even had our first born. I asked this and was given some nonsense from their technical director on how hard it is to get blocking software. I volunteered my time, and I even got one of my software vendors to flip the bill on some free software for the school. They still ain't thrilled about the premise of having to block stuff. But onto new problems, they are closing the school 2 blocks away and selling it for profit, and now we will have to send our kids to a school 2 1/2 miles away, and just to make matters better they want a tax increase also due to too many kids in the schools. Oxymoron time at the School district. As I have found out so far, local schools are a spiderweb of politics, bulls***, and soccer moms looking out for the program that their kid is involved in. Internet filtering is a mess that I will have to keep pounding into their heads over and over until they cave or I have to go to the papers about.

QUOTE(mr_genius @ Oct 25, 2006 -> 04:05 PM) I am against government regulation of legal internet content. but i do see Nuke's point on this issue. if USA network or CBS decided to show XXX movies many would rejoice, but most parents wouldn't. i doubt the argument "just block the channel" would work too well. if ISP's were smart they would offer packages that came with software to block pornographic sites. a lot of parents do need help when it comes to monitoring their kids internet viewing. in many cases the kids know more about computers than the parents. i don't think it would be bad if the government offered free porn blocking software and had a website explaining the whole process. I think you hit it on the head here. Most parents either are not versed enough in the threat, or they are too naive on what their kids are exposed to. Its the old, my son/daughter would never hit XXX porn palace website. Well maybe yes or maybe no. But if they mistype a search, get the right piece of malware, or just are a bit creative they will wind up there. Now there are 2 issues with this, you have the moral issue of Child X seeing some pretty nasty stuff. On the other hand, curiosity can lead them into danger if they either decided to explore this road and they can wind up on a chatroom/webboard with people that can hurt them. Or just by innocent chatting on a myspace/community site that isnt being watched they can wind up with a friend they believe is 13 but in reality is 45. I was able to sit in a classroom years ago with fellow law enforcement officials federal/local and the class was based on luring the perverts our way so we could setup a sting to grab them. Within a few minutes of being in some normal chatrooms with a profile of a 13 year old girl we had morons trying to setup meets with us. We had one guy so bad and he was local, that we setup a sting for a lab on our Thursday afternoon class. So there are 2 different issues here the morality of the child, and the safety of the child. One can impact the other. Going down the dark alley at night is a bit more dangerous than walking on a busy well lit street. We should allow children to experience technology as it is their world that they will have to live in, but we should take measures as a society and as parents to limit what our children are exposed to. To be really honest you should take whatever measures you can as a parent to either lock down your system or monitor the hell out of it and know exactly what your kids are up to. QUOTE(mr_genius @ Oct 25, 2006 -> 04:15 PM) or free wifi hotspots You mean 60% of the houses in Downers Grove or any town in the USA. It takes like 30 seconds to setup WEP/WPA on a access point yet no one does it. On my block there are 9 houses with WiFi. I am running WPA2, the guy next to me is running WEP, the rest are wide open.

QUOTE(Rex Kicka** @ Oct 25, 2006 -> 03:40 PM) Where exactly is a kid going to go that will get them unfettered access to the internet other than a friend's house? Seriously, because whenever I need internet access to check my email on the road - I always find myself out of luck. Schools and the Library.

QUOTE(NorthSideSox72 @ Oct 25, 2006 -> 08:22 AM) I think its irrelevant if they agree or not. They can agree and flourish (people will still go to their sites a LOT), or not agree and not exist. Their choice. How about this, how about that the US creates a law to move these servers to X domain tag. Then the porn operators give a one finger salute, and then migrate their website to Y country that doesnt care about our morality laws or doesnt have treaties that support the enforcement of our laws. How do you think that bittorrent trackers who get constantly sued over and over and threatened by the digital millenium act still are up and running. The piratebay operates in Sweden where this is not against the law. The operators of the site openly mock the legal shots to take down tracker content on their website. So again how is this going to work with porn sites. Remember the internet is a peer based network that doesnt have signal entity controls outside of ICANN. And trust me they dont want to start enforcing US based laws at the root of the internet or the internet will fracture and each country will start their own domain authorities and you can pretty much kiss it into mess mode. The chinese are trying to create their own domain roots based on chinese characters.

Prison doesnt rehabilitate. Its to warehouse people who cant follow the rules of society. Certain criminals have the ability to rehabilitate. Petty theft, car thieves, and crimes that dont link to a habitual drug habit can be fixed. Pedophiles, anyone that choses their habitual drug habit over the lives of society, and those who murder should be locked in and throw away the key. For the pedophiles they should dig a hole behind the prison, and toss them in, and then cover them with dirt until you hear no more of the vermin.