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QUOTE (greg775 @ Jul 26, 2012 -> 01:35 AM) Like or hate Ozzie, this is a special clip. Manager talking to prima donna closer; i love the part when he tells Bell that nobody wants him on the mound, not the owner, not his wife, nobody except Ozzie. Cool stuff to get to see on TV. That, in a nutshell, is the problem with Ozzie. Everyone else wants a closer that can actually close. Yet he stubbornly refuses to change. Now the team in second-to-last place and are getting rid of their best players largely because of it.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Jul 25, 2012 -> 02:11 PM) When women get to be 40 and over, its common to say they are turning 39 on their birthday. Just don't do it when they are turning 29. I'm pretty sure my mom has been 29 since I was old enough to ask her how old she was. I passed her up a few years ago.

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QUOTE (southsidepride15 @ Jul 24, 2012 -> 03:19 PM) Yeah, and hopefully Danksy comes back hungry. We need him to be better than he's been this year, even when he was healthy. Obviously just getting him back in the rotation will be a boost to the team, but I want to see some game 163 type performances before this year is over!! FIFY

Interesting quote. Especially with this next part right after it:

QUOTE (kitekrazy @ Jul 19, 2012 -> 03:14 PM) Ah another refugee. One time they went crazy and started doing lifetime bans for those with multiple email accounts. We live in a transient society and people still use gmail, yahoo and hotmail because they lose their other accounts switching ISPs. They operate on fear since it is a large site. They are no where near as popular anymore since the participation is quite small. You might see 10 people participate on a thread at the most. I don't like how their mods do things but I like reading some of their posts. I got banned there for 6 months for violating the political correctness religion. They have become the Disney of Sox message boards where you have to tip-toe around everything because might take offense to something. Their list of bannable offenses could just about fill an entire book. This place is more of a PG-13. There are other Sox sites out there that are rated R.

IMHO, you can't compare Pierre and Viciedo because they are two different types of hitters. One gets on base more for other guys to drive him in and the other needs guys on base in front of him to drive in. The only thing they have in common is that they both play the same defensive position. 162 game averages: JP runs + rbis = 135 Total bases = 228 DV runs + rbis = 137 total bases = 233

QUOTE (greg775 @ Jul 18, 2012 -> 04:30 PM) Man I wish people could take years off at work in real life like Rios did It's difficult to compare baseball to real life jobs because most of us don't sign guaranteed contracts for multiple years. QUOTE (greg775 @ Jul 18, 2012 -> 04:30 PM) ... and have those people keep their jobs cause of their bad upper management team. Good to see you finally admit to this.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Jul 18, 2012 -> 02:35 PM) I'm thinking KW re acquires Lillibridge to platoon with Dunn. Dunn has an under .700 OPS vs. LHP and strikes out about have his plate appearances vs. them. He makes too many outs. Lillibridge showed last year he hits lefties well. He'd look good in the 3 hole.

We just rescued her from the local animal shelter. She is a rott mix named Jade and they estimate that she's about 2 years old. She might have some lab or retriever in her but she has the rottweiler markings. She's kinda small for her breed but she's also very under-weight. We have no idea how long she had been out on her own. For a little bit of fate or karma or whatever you want to call it... Our husky was cremated on July 3. The same day Jade was found as a stray in the middle of a field.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Jul 15, 2012 -> 09:19 PM) 2.) I disagree on that. We couldn't bunt under Ozzie and still can't bunt. What other poor fundamentals are you talking about? AJ still can't throw guys out. I guess we are hitting the cutoff man better. Kudos to Robin if that's his doing. This article says otherwise.

QUOTE (MexSoxFan#1 @ Jul 13, 2012 -> 01:49 PM) Yeah, The Grey was f***ing awesome. I must be missing something about this movie because I've heard so many people talk about how great it was but I fell asleep watching it because I got bored. I didn't think I would like it based on the previews but my wife wanted to watch it. She didn't think it was all that good either.

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Jul 13, 2012 -> 10:00 AM) Tonight Zack Greinke will be the first pitcher to start 3 straight games in the same MLB season since Red Faber in 1917 for your Chicago White Sox. I think Red managed to do it within 48 hours. Although the second game he started he only went 1.1 innings and gave up 4 ER.

QUOTE (iamshack @ Jul 13, 2012 -> 10:05 AM) I think it was a Hyundai Sonata Yep

QUOTE (HickoryHuskers @ Jul 13, 2012 -> 07:15 AM) Don't buy new cars because they depreciate about 15% the minute you drive them off the lot. Have had 8 different GM and Chrysler vehicles in the past and have had major mechanical problems with every single one. Most recently have had two Toyota vehicles with no problems at all. We're hooked on Toyotas for life. I've never had much trouble with GM, but I've had somebody that actually worked at a Chrysler plant complain about Chrysler cars. I've known lots of people that have had transmission problems with them.

QUOTE (bigruss22 @ Jul 13, 2012 -> 08:37 AM) Meh, there are so many incentives for non-luxury brands right now that you can tend to make up for the depreciation and then some, plus you won't have any miles on it. QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Jul 13, 2012 -> 08:57 AM) Right now, I'd strongly recommend (for most people) a new car over a used one. Used car prices are, relative to new, more expensive now than they have ever been. Interest rates on car loans are absurdly low, you can typically get a new car at zero to two percent if you have decent credit - used cars are more, if you have to finance. Add to that the fact that warranties keep getting better and fuel economy (due to CAFE standards) keeps being upped with each new car model iterance... to me, new is the way to go. Agree with both posts. Low interest rate, 10 year/100,000 mile warranty and only 72 miles on the odometer when I drove it home where the reasons I went with a brand new car.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Jul 12, 2012 -> 12:50 AM) • Oz is the devil for "quitting" on the team with a week + one more season left on his contract to pursue the Marlins' job late in the season. You think he threw in the towel early. I believe ... Oz and KW couldn't coexist and Ozzie, with the blessing of Jerry, simply agreed in principle to become the Marlins' skipper cause he wasn't wanted in Chicago anymore. FIFY QUOTE (greg775 @ Jul 12, 2012 -> 12:50 AM) • The White Sox are doing better this season just because Ozzie is gone. I say that is crap. Some players are having better years which has nothing to do with the manager. Read the quotes from the players themselves. There is a completely different feeling in the clubhouse this year. QUOTE (greg775 @ Jul 12, 2012 -> 12:50 AM) He was acquired for BIG BUCKS and HAS TO BE the Marlins' closer. I like you you keep saying this like it's a true fact. He doesn't HAVE TO BE anything, no matter what his salary is. QUOTE (greg775 @ Jul 12, 2012 -> 12:50 AM) I don't have to defend him. I agree.

QUOTE (SnB @ Jul 12, 2012 -> 07:46 AM) Easy That's the chips I couldn't remember. My kids got snack-size bags of the original flavor one year for Halloween. I tried one chip and then threw the bag away. I didn't know it was possible for a potato chip to taste that awful.

I thought it was kind of sad how she pressured her daughter into going to a college closer to home and trying to find a job closer to home instead of letting her go out into the world and making something of herself. Kinda crushing her daughter's dreams there...

QUOTE (soxfan49 @ Jul 11, 2012 -> 02:13 PM) You "got to go" with the higher paid player? Since when? I think Ozzie and Greg are the only two people in the world that believe this. Even Marlins fans are asking for Bell to be gone.

Ours popped a stitch or 2 because she was so rambunctious when she was little. We had to drug her to keep her relaxed and calm for a few days.

QUOTE (jasonxctf @ Jul 11, 2012 -> 12:37 PM) i have split feelings here. I dont necessarily like when guys say that they are happy not playing. While neither Dunn nor Peavy made the team because of fan votes, (maybe Peavy to some extent) it does irritate me that as fans we are asked to vote early and often and spend hours doing so. Just to have guys make a team and then ask not to play. Whats the point? Based on Peavy's quotes, had he been voted in he would have been more prepared. Coming in at the last second as a replacement didn't give him much time to get ready.

Mrs. Fisher's without a doubt. Getting a big bucket straight from the factory is awesome.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Jul 10, 2012 -> 07:34 AM) Same thing happens in schools. High school teachers always ask how the hell did middle school teachers ever pass the students on when they were so improperly prepared. Middle school teachers ask what the heck was going on in that elementary school? Elementary or K teachers blame the parents when the students have only mastered 2000-4000 vocabulary words by age 5 when many of the suburban kids are at the 20,000 mark. Off the main topic but I figured this out just this year. A student can fail the majority of their classes, take 21 half-days of summer school reviewing reading, writing and math (even if those aren't the subjects the student struggled with) and the school considers them prepared for the next grade level.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Jul 6, 2012 -> 04:36 PM) It's a performance business. Ozzie gives Bell the ball; Bell has to get the save. No excuses. And when he doesn't, let him keep going out there and trying. Performance be damned.