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QUOTE(redandwhite @ Oct 3, 2005 -> 02:09 PM) Carrying only ten pitchers and having Hyzdu and Machado is certainly interesting. Yeah, after the disaster that nearly befell the Bosox pitching staff in the playoffs last year when Schilling went down and Wakefield had to give up a start in order to end that 17 run Yankee explosion game, and then where Wakefield ended up starting game 7 on like 2 days rest, I'd have figured the Red Sox would carry at least 11, if not 12. Francona a few days ago actually was doing La-Russa style "1 pitcher per batter" substitutions in some late innings. If he's carrying only 10, he really can't afford to do that...his bullpen will wind up having only Arroyo if the game goes extras.

QUOTE(DonkeyKongerko @ Oct 3, 2005 -> 01:43 PM) Now that's a choking Avatar that I can admire.

QUOTE(robinventura23 @ Oct 3, 2005 -> 02:28 PM) Does anyone know if Rooney and Farmer will be broadcast? Or will it be the ESPN radio broadcast? Last year on MLB's gameday audio it was the local audio guys doing the work. The home run call for the Cardinals announcer just drove me nuts.

Here's one from like back in June...not directed at the person posting this, but instead directed at the good ATH folks: WE DON'T CARE

QUOTE(redandwhite @ Oct 3, 2005 -> 01:51 PM) The Red Sox offense has been the best in baseball, the White Sox has been the third worst. The Red Sox pitching rotation is vastly underrated and has alot of experience with David Wells and Curt Schilling at the top. The White Sox have a much better bullpen, the Red Sox have more depth offensively. It's virtually high powered offense versus high powered pitching staff; usually pitching wins, but we shall see. Good luck. How do you judge us to be the third worst offense, exactly? I believe we finished the season 13th in MLB in runs scored, and while we were 9th in the AL...that's at worst the 5th worst in that league. Yeah, our batting average sucks, but batting average doesn't define an entire offense.

QUOTE(robinventura23 @ Oct 3, 2005 -> 11:04 AM) Let's see: Devil Rays Pirates Marlins Tigers Possibly the Orioles Maybe even the Dodgers will be/are without managers. This is why I'm glad that we locked up our manager earlier this year...even if a lot of people don't like him.

Not sure how many other people care about this, but there was an episode of Num3ers being filmed right outside my building when I arrived at 8:30 a.m. this morning. Saw a couple of the show's normal cast walking around after they cut, and actually got to meet/shake hands with Peter Macnicol, who I'll always remember for speaking the classic "Why am I dripping with goo?" at the end of Ghostbusters II.

Do not walk people. Frighteningly simple. They are going to hit a couple home runs off of us. Nothing we can do. They will get their hits and their run from those. Don't give them the free pass. Give the defense a chance to get outs.

I still can't complain about Blum, simply because he is a defensive replacement at more than 1 position than Gload. If (god forbid) Crede's back started acting up again or something crazy like that...we have both Blum and Ozuna as backups...and Blum can also back up/replace Konerko late in games if we need to run for him. It's probably not something we'll need, but it's 1 more layer of flexibility that you don't get with Gload.

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Steve Phillips picked our White Sox over the Red Sox on BBTN last night. I nearly fainted.

QUOTE(SoxFanForever @ Oct 2, 2005 -> 06:17 PM) With two days off minimum before Jenks pitches again I guarantee he will bring the 99 mph gas next time out. Also, I think he has matured more since he faced Bean Town. I've been a bit worried about this lately...it does actually seem like his velocity is down, and those couple days where he didn't pitch last week didn't seem to help.

QUOTE(White Sox Josh @ Oct 3, 2005 -> 09:28 AM) Marte has no business being on this roster. Not only did he quit on his teamates but he sucks. Ozzie is obsessed with him? Why? McCarthy worked his ass off and has pitched well. He deserves to be on the roster. Ozzie is so obsessed with matchups. Who cares about matchups. I care about getting guys out. The Angels had one lefty in 02 and their bullpen was lights out. The Angels didn't have to face this version of David Ortiz.

QUOTE(Rex Kickass @ Oct 3, 2005 -> 08:43 AM) It appears at first glance that the President has chosen not to play politics with his Supreme Court nominations. That's a very good thing and something that his father AND Bill Clinton both failed to do. From Senator Orrin Hatch's Biography:

QUOTE(EvilMonkey @ Oct 2, 2005 -> 04:13 PM) OK, according to Levitt, Then how does this jibe with his comment? http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/prisons.htm I think Levitt tried to keep race out of it as much as possible to keep the race-baiters of the world (Jessie & Co.) from drowning out whatever message he was trying to get across. Even if you said that half the black males that were listed here were innocent, they would still outnumber any other group there. Ok, I can't get to the bloody web page I linked to above and I don't know why, but here's the Google Cache link Here's the key block:

So is it confirmed that Freddo would have game 3 (on the road) and MB would have game 2 (At home)? Either way...let me say this...I will look at any pitching matchup possible in the playoffs and think we have the advantage. We are throwing out a combination of 4 starting pitchers and a bullpen that can go out and beat anyone in baseball if they do their jobs. The only team in the AL with a better ERA from their starting pitchers than us is the LA Angels...and they did that without a 5th starter that was gradually collapsing later in the season. It's just a matter of our guys doing their jobs. If they do what we've seen them do at their peaks all year long...we can do this.

He had another one in 2002.

QUOTE(Felix @ Oct 2, 2005 -> 01:58 PM) This year, yea, it has. But it has much more potential to be great. Actually, it really doesn't...unless Steve Finley suddenly finds his youth or Garret Anderson suddenly heals. We've hit far more home runs this year, but we've scored almost the exact same number of runs as LAA. How have the Angels kept up? Very simple...they're the #1 team in the AL in hitting with RISP. The White Sox hit roughly 30-35 points worse than the Angels with RISP. If you're willing to believe that for several people, high or low numbers with RISP can be an artifact of a small sample...that's a number that can really turn around rapidly. The Sox have a lot of power...but if they can get a little bit hot with RISP, our offense has far more potential to be great than the Angels. The Angels aren't suddenly going to find power that they don't have. But a couple of clutch hits by guys who have been poor at it for parts of this year - Dye, Pierzynski, (2 playoff veterans), etc. , and our offense could look a lot better.

QUOTE(DonkeyKongerko @ Oct 2, 2005 -> 01:41 PM) Yeah, what's so lovable about this? It kinda sucks. I don't get it. You're not drunk, you're not surrounded by drunk people telling you how great Wrigley is, and Sammy Sosa didn't hit a home run to make it a 9-1 Cubs loss. Of course it kinda sucks.

In a drunken rant at Social Hour back in March...I spent about an hour explaining why this team could very well take that division. I'm glad my drunken self was proven right.

I would rather have the guy in the bullpen who's used to coming out of the bullpen, rather than the guy who is used to taking a really long warmup period before a game starts.

I thoroughly enjoyed the movie myself. The Cubs reference had me rolling around on the floor. Although, I don't know if I enjoyed it as much as the SNL reference to the Cubs collapse immediately after it happened...where Lorne Michaels was trying to convince Halle Berre and Britney Spears to kiss, and he said "If not for me, then do it for those poor Cub fans".

QUOTE(EvilMonkey @ Oct 1, 2005 -> 08:30 PM) Is what he said wrong? Abort every black baby, there is that many less people around to have the possability to committ crime. Even ignoring the fact that he was tring to discredit someone elses arguement by making an equally ridiculous statement, since what he said was basically true, why is that a bad thing? Actually...interestingly enough...at least according to the author of the book Freakonomics, which Bennett was trying to cite, what Bennet said is actually wrong. Bennett in fact seems to have basically made the assumption that Black people commit more crimes, so removing all of them would cut the crime rate, when in fact, the authors of that text found that race was not a significant factor in their regressions on the crime rate. This block from MMFA Here is the full text of Mr. Levitt's response to Bennett's remarks.

If they knew that it was going to happen, that would set them up for conspiracy charges.

What a way to end it...sudden 5 game winning streak...getting the great pitching that has carried us this whole way. Well done all around today. Oh, and anyone else enjoying the fact that our 15 game lead which dropped to 1.5 is now back to 6? P.S. Bud Selig owes us a fruit basket.