JUSTgottaBELIEVE

QUOTE(knightni @ Jul 20, 2007 -> 03:07 AM) I just felt like bumping this quote. haha..yea I guess we got lucky!

QUOTE(Beltin @ Jul 13, 2007 -> 09:23 AM) I would think the competitve sports biography of the majority of major league baseball players would look pretty similar. i.e Three plus sports in H.S., excelled in at least two of them. Recruited by many Division I schools to play one or two sports. Maybe picked one sport to focus on before college started or tried to do two and eventually chose which sport they loved best. Typically really good golfers, etc. i would have to disagree with that majority of pro baseball players would have a resume like his. the fact that he was all-state in track in the 100m and 300m hurdles eliminates ~90% of the guys playing in the bigs. i couldn't name one guy on the sox right now outside of jerry owens and pods that could have done that in high school. plus, there arent many baseball players that i know of that are stud hockey players too. baseball and football or baseball and basketball yes, but hockey adds a whole new dimension than those sports - skating. add that to the fact that he was named the state's player of the year (given it is north dakota) is quite a feat in itself. holding the career hits record at university of nebraska is a huge accomplishment considering he only played 3 years of college ball and considering the tradition of the huskers baseball program.

QUOTE(witesoxfan @ Jul 13, 2007 -> 03:29 AM) I bet Erstad can't either. Erstad graduated in 1992 from Jamestown (N.D.) High School Erstad was a kicker and punter on the school football team, logging a school-record 50-yard field goal. Erstad also played hockey (36 goals and 24 assists in 26 games) and participated in track and field (winning state titles in 110 and 300-meter hurdles). Erstand played American Legion baseball (Jamestown had no high school baseball team), and hit .492 with 18 home runs and 86 RBI for the Jamestown Eagles in 1992. Erstad also was 10-2 with a 2.18 ERA as a pitcher, and was named AP North Dakota Athlete of the Year in 1992 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darin_Erstad i'd say he's a pretty good athlete...

QUOTE(JUSTgottaBELIEVE @ Jul 8, 2007 -> 08:32 PM) whats the farthest a team has been out of the playoffs at the all-star break and still made the playoffs? i know minnesota was 9 games back from a playoff spot last year at the all-star break, but has there been a team even further than that? i would assume so, how about more than 12 games back? adding to this, the twins were actually 11 games back of the tigers at the break last season, obviously this is the same tigers team that they ran down and passed to win the division by 1 game so they made up 12 games on the tigers in the second half, thats pretty hard to imagine

QUOTE(shoota @ Jul 8, 2007 -> 08:35 PM) Sox are done. yea i know but i am curious if someone has an answer to that question i am interested to know what it is. just to put things in perspective as to how difficult it is to win games at a 70% clip for a prolonged period of time wrap your mind around this, the 2005 white sox won 68% (52-24) of their first 76 games in the '05 season. i think its pretty obvious that this team is incapable of making a run like that with 76 games remaining in the 2007 season and would still put them at only 91 wins on the season

whats the farthest a team has been out of the playoffs at the all-star break and still made the playoffs? i know minnesota was 9 games back from a playoff spot last year at the all-star break, but has there been a team even further than that? i would assume so, how about more than 12 games back?

wow garland you really suck

wow garland blows today minnesotas offense had been terrible over the past week coming into today

lets go guys gonna be at the game tonight bring home a winner with a win tonight the sox would move to 37-44 at the exact halfway point of the season. all they need to do then is win 70% of their games in the second half to make the playoffs, thats possible right...? ok maybe im dreaming but either way its fun to think about

pretty much gotta win out to the break here to even have an outside chance of making a second half run

QUOTE(Markbilliards @ Jun 29, 2007 -> 02:49 AM) Guys we can't get excited until they beat more than one team. We're setting ourselves up for disappointment when we get excited too early. well i won't be disappointed because i do not expect it

QUOTE(santo=dorf @ Jun 28, 2007 -> 09:35 PM) The more you pretend they are dead, the better they play. Let's not get too far ahead of ourselves. oh come on cant you just play along? java script:emoticon(':D', 'smid_2')

So now that they have won 4 in a row how many games do you guys think the sox need to run this win streak to have any prayer of a second half miracle? i'm thinking that they need to take 8 of the next 9 before the break to even have the slimmest of hopes of making a legit run after the all-star break. i'm not saying that they are capable or incapable of putting something together, simply posing a hypothetical. what do you guys think?

QUOTE(GOD @ Jun 28, 2007 -> 08:34 PM) remember when these game threads used to have 30 pages every game. Fair-weather fans its hard to get overly excited about a team 10 games under .500

QUOTE(Flash Tizzle @ Jun 27, 2007 -> 08:50 PM) Podsednik in the lineup does help the lineup score more runs. He's certaintly a better option than Erstad, A. Gonzalez, or the current reincarnation of Iguchi. That doesn't change a whole lot when the only two threats in the lineup are Konerko and Thome. Key is having someone, anyone, capable of reaching base. What Podsednik brings is our best option, but we can and should do much better in the future. fair enough

ouch DJ flaming MacD "doesn't look much different there than before he was sent down..."

QUOTE(Flash Tizzle @ Jun 27, 2007 -> 08:41 PM) That was before Podsednik returned and provided our team with a spark. He was charging his grinder battery in the Cubs series, so that technically doesn't count. Everything begins now. There are soooo many games left within the division, anyways. We can make up 13 games easily. i know that was 100% sarcastic but seriously don't you think that having pods in the lineup does help this team score more runs? or would you say its merely a coincidence, honestly

QUOTE(My Dixie Normus @ Jun 27, 2007 -> 08:39 PM) The guy likes to pull the trigger. yea...thats an understatement with juan

sure could have used another insurance run or two there

does uribe swing at everything? seriously even when he takes pitches a foot outside hes check swinging

what was the contraversy?

i missed the play can someone describe it?

big hurt! one away from #500

who ever said that the soriano signing was a bad one for the cubs? i'd kill for a hitter like soriano on the sox right now

damn juan u really suck