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QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jun 24, 2011 -> 09:08 PM) Reality show pitch? Holy s***, I'm seeing big dollar signs right now

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jun 24, 2011 -> 09:20 AM) So you are saying if Ozzie loses his job, he should put in an app for the CPD? That would be funny as hell.

QUOTE (fathom @ Jun 24, 2011 -> 08:46 AM) I'm fine with following rules, but let me throw out some examples that I see on here for a little clarification: - Adam Dunn is terrible at baseball - Ozzie Guillen is the worst in-game manager at baseball (I believe that's sqwert's favorite line) - Morel looks like a pitcher at the plate Would those be considered "hyperboles" in this case? statement 1 is a true statement as of right now but it only needs to be said so many times before it gets old. statement 2 is an opinion statement 3 also an opinion

A conversation in the mod forum typically would go something like this: Mod A: What do you think of this post by (Poster X)? Mod B: That's clearly over the line. I say a 10-day suspension Mod A: Well I don't know about a suspension, that wasn't what I was thinking. You really think so? Poster X usually doesn't just go posting s*** all the time but this particular post was something that needed more than a "knock it off" Mod C: I agree, bump the warning level and send a pm, and if they don't stop after getting the warning, give them some time off Mod A: Okay Mod D: Sounds good to me Mod B: I'd have suspended him personally but if you guys think so I'm fine with it No mod just snatches someone off the board just because they were power tripping or something, that really doesn't happen

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Jun 24, 2011 -> 08:28 AM) This is literally the worst way I've ever seen a message board managed. Next they'll be shipping us off to the gulags if we post anything that isn't blue sky and sunshine! Gulags are expensive to run. More like summary executions.

QUOTE (Milkman delivers @ Jun 24, 2011 -> 01:31 AM) Can we see some examples of the posts you don't want? Even posts of my own would be OK and I'm giving you the option to do it right now. I won't complain about being singled out and I would like a few concrete examples so that I am very clear on this. The "Daniel Hudson bent KW over and violated him" thread, that was one

QUOTE (Jordan4life @ Jun 24, 2011 -> 12:06 AM) And I dare you to find a post in which I insulted another poster. You're right in that I should find another place to post. This place is turning into WSI. I want no part of this. You won't have to worry about me anymore. Have fun with ranger or whatever. Over/under on the first WSI reference was 22.5, who had the under?

I completely forgot about Pena... s***. That messed up all my happy thoughts.

If and when Dunn breaks out of his slump, and then the Sox go and have like a 9-game winning streak - something they've done before - I'll probably completely change my tone.

I don't know, I mean, you'll just have to excuse me for feeling ambivalent or cynical towards this team. I watch, cuz I'm a fan and that's just what I do (and the fact that there's really nothing else happening between the NBA playoffs and Week 1 of the NFL season doesn't hurt). They tanked to start the season pretty hard and dug a deep hole and they are taking forever to climb out of it. Watching one area of the team excel while another grossly underperforms their expectations, then when that shores itself up, there is a glaring weakness that develops somewhere else out of nowhere. I feel like I've seen this movie before, Adam Dunn is just a new character that got introduced in the 3rd movie, or the 4th, whichever one we're on now.

What drives me nuts about cops is how they never want to admit when they were wrong, or got the wrong guy, or whatever, and just double down on whatever they were doing (cuz I guess it feels like all their work gets wasted). Or when they compound it and start covering each other (people will do things as part of a group that they wouldn't do on their own account).

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Jun 23, 2011 -> 04:49 PM) Why Juan Pierre? "trade pierre to the brewers for mark kotsay. kotsay would be perfect in LF and is also a great part-time DH." I lol'd. Then I cried myself to sleep. Then I jolted up from my sleep screaming, with cold sweat running down my forehead.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Jun 23, 2011 -> 12:12 PM) Yeah but if nobody can legally buy a .45 or a 9mm, there's going to be a lot less .45's and 9mm's around for criminals to get. OTOH, the prevalence of illegal drugs says that's probably not completely true. When I was a teenager I had to go thru all kinds of rigamarole and shenanigans to get alcohol, but if I wanted drugs I didn't have to leave my block. Or at worst I woulda had to walk like 1/4 mile.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jun 22, 2011 -> 11:27 PM) Since when has Chicago had fresh air? Touche.

I made a bet w/ a friend on Facebook that I'd have to wear a Cubs logo for 24 hours if the Cubs won and vice versa... she lost and is now sporting this:

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jun 22, 2011 -> 11:17 PM) Fresh air? That s*** has been flying all year on the north side. When has having too much fresh air ever hurt anybody?

Let's let that L flag get some fresh air

QUOTE (BigEdWalsh @ Jun 22, 2011 -> 10:16 PM) What ticks me off and it happens ALL the time. Ozzie never has anybody ready when we all know he should. Handling pitchers is one of the things I won't b**** at Ozzie for... compared to other managers anyway. Ozzie does many other things that piss me off.

Is there like an organizational policy that the White Sox allow the other team to score in the half-inning after the Sox score a run?

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jun 22, 2011 -> 01:36 PM) Soriano defends Adam Dunn by calling Chicago fans "The worst". Likely source, huh? Dude has a contract that implies his OPS is going to be about 150 points higher a season with defense that doesn't look like an adventure every time the ball goes his way. So yeah, those times where he was terrible for extended periods of time, it's not surprising at all that Cubs fans were booing him

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Jun 22, 2011 -> 12:44 AM) Now he really outdid himself in the post-game. "You never pinch hit for Adam Dunn." C'mon, if he's so mentally weak that he can't recover from the humiliation of Lillibridge, Beckham or Castro hitting for him until he gets his act together...you'd have to think that even he would agree it's better for the team for someone else to take a shot. They obviously aren't going to bench him for Viciedo, but Ozzie in the next couple of weeks has to be open to other options in those situations. Nick Swisher contributed a lot more in 2008 than Dunn has so far and Ozzie was willing to pull the plug on him for Wise. Dunn has a much bigger contract, but they basically allowed Swisher's value to go to zero...just a salary dump. No but other teams aren't shy about pitching around Brent Lillibridge to get to him...

Paul Motherf***ing Konerko, ladies and gentlemen

QUOTE (greg775 @ Jun 22, 2011 -> 12:24 AM) Is he or is he not too heavy? He's the same as he was on all the other teams he's played for

QUOTE (TheBigHurt @ Jun 22, 2011 -> 12:21 AM) LOL. What's your reasoning, greg? At the time he's about the most consistent HR hitter in baseball. People bashing KW for making a perfectly reasonable signing are being silly. Yeah really. His stats year to year were damn near f***ing identical... can't fault KW for not having powers of clairvoyance.

Here is the next proposed CBA: http://theredzone.org/BlogDescription/tabi...BA/Default.aspx It looks like the Jones/Richardson/Kraft hardliner camp backed way down/lost... players made some concessions but aren't getting bent completely over, either.