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QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Feb 24, 2012 -> 02:41 PM) paul hoynes ‏ @hoynsie #Indians CF Grady Sizemore (back) out for opening day. #Indians Grady Sizemore strained lower back fielding grounders in the OF two weeks ago. Surprising.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Feb 24, 2012 -> 02:28 PM) I love this part a lot after their renovations. It is a whole new park versus the POS that was there in 1991. No doubt. I still have a framed picture of the new stadium from when it first opened up. I bought it at Grand Stand thinking that it'd be cool to have in my room. I look at it now and it's laughable.

Let's not do this, people. We don't need to start an unstoppable argument over something we all know. Braun is guilty but he walks. Don't go into semantics.

QUOTE (2nd_city_saint787 @ Feb 23, 2012 -> 03:04 PM) False. I played semi pro rugby at 370...I'd say Herm was about 320 or so And your height?

QUOTE (pittshoganerkoff @ Feb 23, 2012 -> 12:06 PM) I didn't even read this post. Haha

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Feb 23, 2012 -> 01:02 PM) Behind the scoreboard and on the ramps there were usually people getting high at the games. I don't doubt it. I just wouldn't expect stoners to enjoy baseball.

QUOTE (Greg Hibbard @ Feb 23, 2012 -> 10:51 AM) The Sox will win exactly 76.5 games. QUOTE (flavum @ Feb 23, 2012 -> 11:25 AM) I'm optimistically saying the Sox will win 86 games. They won't make the playoffs, but they'll be better than what people think right now and have a lot of positives to look forward to for 2013. 86 might be a reach, but I fully expect them to outdo their expectations and then disappoint in 2013.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Feb 23, 2012 -> 11:45 AM) Man does he still look skinny. I was hoping he would put a little more muscle on. He looks exactly like a guy I know in that picture. The guy happens to be the tallest, lankiest person I know. I'm glad Balta followed his pictures with the names of the players, as I had no idea that was Flowers.

QUOTE (SOXOBAMA @ Feb 23, 2012 -> 10:29 AM) The Sox will have 84 wins this season. That sounds about right. Better than most would expect for this year when there are no expectations, but it'll simultaneously inflate the expectations for 2013. At which point, they'll disappoint.

QUOTE (BigEdWalsh @ Feb 23, 2012 -> 10:38 AM) Oh, how I loved that ballpark. I remember when there was no Dan Ryan. I was just a kid, I don't remember which street we drove down to get to the park but I remember my first glimpse of Comiskey Park. It was an August night and I was knocked out by the lights and how enormous the ballpark was. Back then especially in the summer you had the unusual aroma of the stockyards filling the air. That, combined with cigar/cigarette smoke and beer. It was glorious. I was part of both the largest crowd (55,555) and the smallest crowd (I believe it was 511) ever. The 55,555 was a bat day in 1973. I sat in the centerfield bleachers. You could see me in a crowd shot on the front page of the Tribune sports section the next day. I wrote to the Tribune and they sent me a black and white enlargement of the photo, which I still have. I ought to post it on here. The smallest announced crowd was only two years earlier. 1968-1971 were such dark days for the White Sox. Attendance was really really low. I went to several games when attendance was at around 1,000 or even below. You could sit anywhere you wanted. Usually I was stoned. I saw the White Sox lose a home opener 12-0 in front of about 11,000. I was at a drizzly September Monday doubleheader when the attendance was something like 600. Ah, those were the days! One of my favorite memories was sitting almost next to Harry Caray while he broadcast a game from the centerfield bleachers (with his shirt off). That was probably 1973. My worst memory was the home opener in 1974. Ron Santo made his White Sox debut that day. Making matters even worse, the game was held up a couple of times by streakers. One guy made it to centerfield wearing nothing but gym shoes and a White sox hat. He did a handstand before being whisked off. There were several fights/brawls and I remember one guy getting choked at the left field upperdeck railing. I seriously thought he was going to go plummeting to his death. Oh, yeah and the Sox lost to Nolan Ryan. What a crappy day. I swore I would never go to another opening day and I didn't until last year (though it was the Mariners!). I know plenty of stoners, but one of the last things I'd equate with them is baseball.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Feb 23, 2012 -> 11:29 AM) Well, and the profits mostly stay here, and the higher paying upper management jobs are mostly here. There is a little more to it than you characterize. Still, I overall agree that the buy American stuff is a bit silly at this point. There are foreign cars with higher American parts and manufacture content than some American cars at this point. Nobody cares about that, to get right down to it. "Buy American" is usually meant to help the average guy working on the floor of the Ford plant. If Ford really gave two s***s about those people, like they want us to, they'd put more time into making a better car. More people would then buy them and they'd be able to hire more people in America.

If I was ever at Old Comiskey, it had to have been when I was 5 or younger. I have no recollection of it at all.

It's sad how little White Sox talk interests me, even as spring training is about to begin. I read almost every thread on the site, but now only around half of them in PHT. I don't read any of the "This day in Sox history" threads, stopped reading the Jim Bowden and Cuban ones, and haven't read a word from A Lot For Sox To Overcome, The Team Is Pretty Much Set, nor 5 Burning Questions. I'm not sure if it's the team that is causing this or the complete lack of anything worth talking about due to lack of moves.

QUOTE (GoodAsGould @ Feb 23, 2012 -> 02:15 AM) If one individual quits I can see the show being fine with it but if the whole group of them walk off the set costing the show $$ you'd think there is something they would be able to do to respond. Yeah, not change the format of the series/screw the participants.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Feb 23, 2012 -> 08:45 AM) They all have plants here. I have to imagine that the American companies have plenty of foreign employees as well. And that, to me, was why I never understood the whole "rah rah, buy American" bulls***. They're "American" in that they were founded here, period.

QUOTE (ScottyDo @ Feb 22, 2012 -> 10:38 PM) You have the best references.

QUOTE (knightni @ Feb 22, 2012 -> 08:31 PM) I was going to say, "I prefer Pepsi." Yours was better, but I was faster.

I prefer Diet.

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Feb 22, 2012 -> 04:08 PM) It's the best show on television. It's tough to take you seriously because you say that about a new show every two weeks

QUOTE (Quinarvy @ Feb 22, 2012 -> 12:30 PM) This. Props to the man. I'm happy for him. He seems like a really nice guy.

What's it say for Comiskey's nickname? Something Roman.

QUOTE (Brian @ Feb 21, 2012 -> 04:24 PM) Are you talking about Whitney? Because I have no clue what the ratings are. I watched the first 15 minutes of the pilot and turned it off. I didn't notice it but heard Conan O'Brien had a cameo on HIMYM last night. He was a customer in the background in the bar. Just saw a pic. No, Parks & Rec.

A few minutes ago, I saw but couldn't hear a TV. It was a press conference for the Mets with what looked to be their manager. I had no idea who it was, looked it up, and still have no idea. Never heard of Terry Collins.

QUOTE (Brian @ Feb 21, 2012 -> 02:39 PM) NBC, I hate you. Good news is that Community comes back March 15th. But the show that is going on a 5 week hiatus for them? Not the awful Whitney or Chelsea show, but the best comedy on TV. Parks & Rec. FU NBC I know a lot of people that watch it, and I was under the impression that it was doing very well in the ratings. Am I incorrect?