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QUOTE(Rex Kicka** @ Oct 18, 2006 -> 04:55 PM) Rumor is another Congressman gets accused tomorrow in the pages of the Washington Post. Hi-O! (/rimshot)

QUOTE(Rex Kicka** @ Oct 18, 2006 -> 05:15 PM) John McCain on the possibility of the Democrats winning Congress. http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews....=rss&rpc=22 He's threatening to kill a Senator!

QUOTE(Steff @ Oct 18, 2006 -> 04:18 PM) Alrighty then.... Steff...it's unlikely to cause any more deaths than the fact that it is, um, a bomb.

QUOTE(NorthSideSox72 @ Oct 18, 2006 -> 03:50 PM) I actually knew a man (father of a friend) who was buried in a tux... but was wearing a White Sox t-shirt underneath. Something from 2005 is going with me.

QUOTE(elrockinMT @ Oct 18, 2006 -> 03:35 PM) The more I think about this issue the more I hope we don't make this trade or FA signing. I think we have the home grown talent to play CF and maybe we will keep Pods and if his legs are healthy he will give us the speed. That's the one thing I don't want to see next year: blind hope that Scott Podsednik will get better.

QUOTE(Rowand44 @ Oct 18, 2006 -> 02:43 PM) Well I'm planning on living at least a few more years. You don't live anywhere near Mr. Uribe do you?

"After you get where you're going, take off your shoes and your socks then walk around on the rug bare foot and make fists with your toes."

QUOTE(witesoxfan @ Oct 18, 2006 -> 01:25 PM) Hunter didn't start hitting well until his 3rd year in the league. Also, he played 99 games and had just 354 ABs in 2000. If it's possible, it may not be the worst idea in the world to have Anderson be a 4th OFer while trying to get him 300 ABs. If an upgrade in LF and an upgrade in CF can come in, he could realistically play 5 games every 2 weeks and probably approach 300+ ABs...and in case of injury, he's the first one in. The problem of course occurs in Ozzie getting him out there that often, but it's an idea worth comtemplating. Yes, that is a realistic option, but it's not necessarily a good one, for the simple reason that Anderson is still very low on the "Problem" list. Last year, yeah his numbers pretty much put him in the "should be a backup" role, and if he puts up identical next year he may be on the way to that. But even with that, here's the other side: 1. He still costs us $400,000 for the next several years. 2. His defense is still superstantial. 3. We have another outfielder who need replaced first, who plays worse defense, makes a lot more money, and who contributed almost as little offensively as a rookie. Here's where I think we are: we have only enough money to fix certian problems, like the fact that Buehrle, Crede, Iguchi, and Dye are free agents after 2007, the holes in our bullpen, left field, leadoff hitter, and not-in-jail shortstop. And we don't exactly have a ton of young talent on the way up to fill all those roles. Right now, Anderson is a solid, cheap option at his position. In order to bring in 2 outfielders, we either need to spend the money on 2 outfielders, or we need to trade away talent to bring in 2 outfielders, and then stick Anderson behind them. If KW could rake someone over the coals for a center fielder, then maybe I'd be open to it, but I just think that we need to fix the other big holes on our team before we go about dealing with the cheap, good defensive rookie in CF.

QUOTE(santo=dorf @ Oct 18, 2006 -> 10:22 AM) Yes, a two left hand hitting platoon. Thome and Konerko aren't waiving their NTC's to leave Chicago, let alone to go to New York. If the Sox thought Gload was a capable everyday first baseman, why did they re-sign Konerko last offseason? If they thought Gload wasn't an everyday outfielder why did they trade Borchard? IIRC, Konerko only has a limited no-trade clause covering something like 10 teams.

So for people interested in discussing that study, here's some rapid-fire links looking at it from both sides of the issue.

"That's just the engine struggling...that's just a carp swimming around your ankles" /evil simpsons quotes

QUOTE(BobDylan @ Oct 17, 2006 -> 04:48 PM) Way to buy into the SoxTalk hype. There is no, NO way Ross Gload is a better defensive LFer than either Scott Podsednik or Juan Pierre. Ross is a solid firstbasement but the only reason he touches the outfield is because Ozzie Guillen likes to make people ask the question "why?". There are many different things though that we should consider when thinking about who should wind up in LF next season. Offense, Defense, throwing arm, money, speed on basepaths, intelligence on basepaths, how the player fits into the lineup, other intangibles, etc. I would not be totally furious if it wound up being Gload if other problems were taken care of first (i.e. a leadoff hitting, not-facing-arrest SS).

QUOTE(The Critic @ Oct 17, 2006 -> 04:37 PM) Yes he did, and I thought that was very funny. He came off great in the press conference, but we'll see what a couple losing seasons do to him. Didn't we already see that?

Mark Prior saw a doctor yesterday. In other news, I just ate an altoid. Wintergreen. Good stuff.

QUOTE(Rowand44 @ Oct 17, 2006 -> 03:27 PM) Ok, that's not even funny. Then, think about what Ozzie would do when there's a lefty on the mound.

QUOTE(NorthSideSox72 @ Oct 17, 2006 -> 07:46 AM) I would guess that Lou will at least reconsider ALL of the coaching staff. I am sure that Rothschild will be on the list for Lou to think about possibly removing. Tribune says Rothschild just got a 2 year deal.

I just wish that somehow our team could actually focus on finding a leadoff hitter who actually fits with the makeup of the rest of the team. We have a murderous 3-4-5 with a ton of power. We hit a sh*t load of home runs. Stealing bases in front of those type of guys does not have nearly as high of an impact on run production as simply being on base. It's not a bad thing if you're not thrown out a lot, but it's not going to be the end-all-be-all. If you could find me a LF/SS with an OBP somewhere above .350 or .360, I'd be very happy...and spend the rest of my money on pitching.

Here's the other issue for the Tigers next year; the same issue the White Sox faced in 2006. This division is just going to keep getting better and better and better for the next few years. Cleveland is just loaded with young talent everywhere except their pitching staff. The White Sox pitching collapsed last year and they still won 90 games. And Minnesota has the S & L if they stay healthy. Right now in the AL Central, if you want to win it more than one year, you have to get better in the 2nd year. The White Sox offense got better, but its pitching took a step back, so the team lost ground relative to everyone else. The White Sox's pitching staff will be better next year, and hopefully we'll have a leadoff hitter. It's the Red Queen in the AL Central right now; everyone's running as fast as they can just to stay in the same place.

The Associated Press is reporting that the DOJ/House Page board are now looking into a trip taken in the mid 90's by another member of Congress, Rep. Jim Kolbe. Maybe also worth noting, Rep. Kolbe is the same person who says he first saw some of Foley's electronic communications in 2000.

This explains a lot.

-Sen Rick Santorum.

Here are some more details on the investigation. And Weldon's defense: CREW did in fact file a complaint which seems to have led to this investigation, so he is right on that. Although, CREW does file a ton of complaints, even some about Congressmen and their problems with pages, many of which are not acted on by the DOJ, so it's questionable whether that is important.

QUOTE(Rowand44 @ Oct 16, 2006 -> 10:26 PM) I really doubt Dusty would get the A's job. He doesn't really subscribe to the moneyball theory if that makes sense. I don't think he'd be a good fit there. ""walks are no good if all they do is clog the basepaths so the faster guys can't run"

QUOTE(GreatScott82 @ Oct 17, 2006 -> 08:18 AM) Can Arod steal bases? Because what we need is more speed. ARod was 15/19 in stolen bases last season. In 2004 he was 28/32. He had 46 SB in 1998.