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I dont think Detroit has the pitching when its all said and done. If CC gets it going then the Indians should win this division.

 

Looks like this division winner only needs about 90 wins this year.

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QUOTE (joesaiditstrue @ May 3, 2008 -> 02:07 PM)
if we lose today and the twins win, we're not in 1st place anymore.

 

:)

So what the f*** you smiling for...not like you went ahead and bet on it. All you did was talk s*** that you would bet on it and then not say a word again until they lost 2 games. pfft. Well glad you're happy...enjoy your weekend

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The Tigers are going to win the AL Central by 10 games. The only team even close to them is the Indians, especially if C.C. picks it up. The Sox, Twins, and Royals will be in the 70-80 win range.

 

Hate to say it but I fear he speaks the truth.

Now the real baseball begins, the daily grind.

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QUOTE (fathom @ May 2, 2008 -> 06:28 PM)
The Tigers are going to win the AL Central by 10 games. The only team even close to them is the Indians, especially if C.C. picks it up. The Sox, Twins, and Royals will be in the 70-80 win range.

 

Sounds about right.

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QUOTE (Controlled Chaos @ May 3, 2008 -> 05:49 PM)
So what the f*** you smiling for...not like you went ahead and bet on it. All you did was talk s*** that you would bet on it and then not say a word again until they lost 2 games. pfft. Well glad you're happy...enjoy your weekend

 

the point is, i made the initial comment and i stood by it and we're not in first place anymore. nothing about this team except for the starting pitching, 1/3 of the pen (Logan and Thornton have been really nice so far), and Carlos Quentin has impressed me and I think they're just (so far) a bunch of underachievers setting up all the fans for a huge disappointment

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QUOTE (joesaiditstrue @ May 3, 2008 -> 09:37 PM)
the point is, i made the initial comment and i stood by it and we're not in first place anymore. nothing about this team except for the starting pitching, 1/3 of the pen (Logan and Thornton have been really nice so far), and Carlos Quentin has impressed me and I think they're just (so far) a bunch of underachievers setting up all the fans for a huge disappointment

I think people get a little annoyed when you seem to enjoy being on the right side of "I told you so" on some random prediction, more than you dislike the fact that the Sox fell out of first. It makes it seem like you'd rather have been right about that than have the Sox win some games.

 

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QUOTE (witesoxfan @ May 3, 2008 -> 11:58 PM)
BUT TEH OFFENCE!1!!1!!!1!!!!!

Teh Offence has indeed sucked for a week or two now. And we're no longer in first. But its still way early, the Sox are a half game out, and the pitching has been nothing short of stellar so far this year.

 

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QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ May 4, 2008 -> 09:15 AM)
Teh Offence has indeed sucked for a week or two now. And we're no longer in first. But its still way early, the Sox are a half game out, and the pitching has been nothing short of stellar so far this year.

 

I agree absolutely...I just hate when people jump to conclusions in May.

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The greater irony is that the very people who seemed to be gloating that the Sox fell out of first and that other teams are soooo much better is exactly who this thread was created. Its for the very "fans" who seem to be too busy worrying about the Cubs, Tigers, and the like to actually enjoy their "favorite" team. Loosen up and enjoy the good times, that is what baseball is supposed to be about.

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Me and Mike Downey!

 

http://chicagosports.chicagotribune.com/sp...04639.columnist

 

First-place Sox doing it without an all-star

 

Downey's Eleven:

 

1Your first-place Chicago White Sox are back home Tuesday night.

 

First place. First. Place.

 

Mike Downey Mike Downey E-mail | Recent columns

 

I will keep hammering home this point for a while to everybody here hugging themselves in our 2008 "This Is the Cubs' Year" Orgy of Love.

 

Last week I asked why there isn't a "buzz" about the Sox's great start the way there has been about the Cubs'.

 

Reader Chris Lazzerini of Palatine writes: "The Sox are in second place, a .500 team. You tell me which team the city should be focusing on."

 

No, you tell me, my little Palatine pal.

 

I guess you wrote that really clever letter of yours on one of those days last week when the Sox were not in first place and not from May 1-10 when the Cubs were not in first place.

 

Reader Hank Trenkle of Park Ridge writes that my observation about no Sox "buzz" is misleading because the buzz is "about what really matters in people's lives: the economy, the price of gas and food, unemployment, the war and the coming national election. Mr. Downey has space to fill in his column, but please, fill it with something that is relevant and not slanted."

 

You're right. Thanks, Hank.

 

If I were writing my column for Wednesday's newspaper, it would begin something like this: "The first-place White Sox defeated the Cleveland Indians 2-1 Tuesday night behind the strong two-hit pitching of Jose Contreras, but with gas at $4 a gallon, men and women out of work, soldiers dying and John McCain vs. Barack Obama, who cares about a stupid baseball game?"

 

I've got a lot of nerve writing about sports in the Sports section.

 

Winners of five in a row, the White Sox have a hot team.

 

Of course, I'm slanted.

 

2P.S.: Do the first-place Sox have an All-Star?

 

I guess somebody from the Sox has to be on Terry Francona's team for the July 15 game at Yankee Stadium, but which one? It won't be Orlando Cabrera (.225), Nick Swisher (.213), Paul Konerko (.212), Jim Thome (.203) or Juan Uribe (.198), that's for sure.

 

A.J. Pierzynski is having a good year. But it won't be easy for him because Ivan Rodriguez and Jason Varitek will get the fan votes and Joe Mauer and Victor Martinez are with him among the American League's top 10 hitters.

 

I wish Carlos Quentin could make it, but with all those big-name AL outfielders to choose from, good luck.

 

Looks like Bobby Jenks again, I guess. It would be three years in a row for him.

 

Hey, Francona, put him in the game. Jenks had to go to Pittsburgh in 2006 and to San Francisco in 2007 but didn't get to throw a pitch.

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