Opening day Sunday!!! I'll be there

Wed Mar 29, 2006 10:30 am

SI says Sox are #1!!!!!!

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/baseball/mlb/specials/spring_training/2006/previews/

I'll be tailgating for the sox opener against Cleveland when they raise the WS banner!!!!!

Wed Mar 29, 2006 12:15 pm

Lol, Sox #1.

Sox were extremely lucky last year. They had one of the worst teams amoung playoff contenders(and even 4 teams that didn't make the playoffs).

If their starters do not go 8 innings each and every night, they are fucked. That bullpen is horrible, possibly the worst in baseball. When you have to depend on Jenks to close games, you know you are fucked. If Thome hurts his back, they have one of the worst offenses in baseball.

Wed Mar 29, 2006 12:58 pm

call me when football season starts

Thu Mar 30, 2006 4:42 pm

Originally posted by JimmyTango
Lol, Sox #1.

Sox were extremely lucky last year. They had one of the worst teams amoung playoff contenders(and even 4 teams that didn't make the playoffs).

If their starters do not go 8 innings each and every night, they are fucked. That bullpen is horrible, possibly the worst in baseball. When you have to depend on Jenks to close games, you know you are fucked. If Thome hurts his back, they have one of the worst offenses in baseball.

HATER IN THE HOUSE!!!! World series champs beeeeotchhh... Cleveland has ummmm I think zero in the last what 55 years?

Thome is your boy and your dissin him too. Good luck with the Tribe this year, i hear Paul Byrd is just as good as Millwood.. NOT! I'm sure Peralta, Broussard, and Sizemore will continue to improve or they will go into the tank, whichever..

Should be a good season.

Thu Mar 30, 2006 5:05 pm

Only thing that needs to be replaced from Millwood is 9 wins. His ERA does not matter since the Tribe never took advantage of when he was pitching.

Much like the Astro's do not need to replace Clemmens, just his very small win total.

Thome isn't my boy, he hasn't played for the Tribe in some time. He does have a bad back, and if it flairs up the Sox are screwed. That is commplementling him, not dissing him. I am saying he is your offense.

Thu Mar 30, 2006 7:32 pm

How is he our offense, we won the World Series without him. Umm J Dye 31 homers, Paulie 40.. etc... we need him but he is not the whole team by any means. Ozuna can replace Podsednick if needed.

Fri Mar 31, 2006 1:00 am

i got to go with JT here... WS have as much chance at winning the WS as the Cubs do. GO CARDS

Fri Mar 31, 2006 5:50 am

American sports are so dull...

Fri Mar 31, 2006 11:57 am

I can imagine them bein dull when you euros are used to having racists block out entire sections of sporting arenas.

Wonder if the German national football team has a play called the "final solution"

Baseball is only boring to people who adhd.

Fri Mar 31, 2006 12:15 pm

Originally posted by gowhitesox99
How is he our offense, we won the World Series without him. Umm J Dye 31 homers, Paulie 40.. etc... we need him but he is not the whole team by any means. Ozuna can replace Podsednick if needed.

Dye? It is called a career year. Look at his entire career.

Players have career years all the time(like Jenk's partial career year last year). Jenk's was RELEASED from the Angels, the WS picked him up and the rest of the season he pitched like he never has his entire professional career. He will not do it again. Look at his shitty spring. He is back to a lack of control over any of his pitches.

The White Sox were a statistical oddity last year. Statistically they never should have placed higher than second/third in the central. Their runs scored/runs allowed was so close it was laughable. Statistically they should have been near a .500 team. What made them a statistical oddity was the 1 run wins, because of that their record was better than their team stats.

This isn't bashing them, they had a Cinderalla Season, and took it all the way to be the champs. That is good for them, they deserved it because they won it. Again, this is not bashing, it is reality.

However, 9 out of 10 seasons, that team is near a .500 team.

Fri Mar 31, 2006 1:00 pm

Originally posted by King
I can imagine them bein dull when you euros are used to having racists block out entire sections of sporting arenas.

Nah that would be the italians. They are terrible for that shit.

Still say your sports are dull, too many damn breaks not enough actual action. I appreciate the irony of saying this while coming from the country that invented cricket but hey at least cricket doesn't pretend to be action packed...

Fri Mar 31, 2006 2:09 pm

Tigers all the way lmao

Fri Mar 31, 2006 2:55 pm

I agree with ferret, GO TIG's!!!! hehehe

Fri Mar 31, 2006 8:44 pm

JT, I'm thinking side bet.....

Whoever finishes with a better record at the end of the year, has to put Indians Rule or White Sox Rule under their sig like i have now.

Sat Apr 01, 2006 4:39 pm

Betting is done on a poker table, not on a forum.