Edie

I voted.

I'll finish up my "Fuck Lars, all my Metallica is on cassette W/Dolby NR" compliation and do a YSI thingy.

I'll make sure you get a link.

I know their music only a little, but have always been intrigued -- totally dig a lot of the time signatures etc.

count me in, mkay?

It must be.

you are mistaken, that's where the bad players go.

Though it is bad everything there -- from the president of the team on down.

At the Cell, I hate when they drive the chevy trucks or whatever out onto the field, then have those stupid people running around tossing t-shirts into the crowd. Lame. But I have to say that I tried to catch one for Jake last time I was there

I just voted for Italy. Do I win something?

I find he's more a distraction to what's going on down on the field. His pointed bias clouds his perception of accurately calling the game. Really, is it appropriate to be second-guessing the umpire everytime a call goes against "the good guys?" It's a distraction, IMO.

 

While McCarver annoys the tar out of me too (don't mean to be bitching so much, it's just...there) and will inevitably find a way to extol the awesome-ness of the Yankees no matter what game he's calling. He knows the game, though.

I meant that McCarver et al don't (and can't possibly) know the nuances of every player on every team. It's like football when one week your team is on MNF with their announcers vs. the ones that you get on Sunday afternoon that know your team. Huuuge difference. McCarver certainly knows the game, but he doesn't really know all the players -- their histories and tendencies past a bunch of stats on the screen.

When the Sox were in the WS last year, if the delay hadn't been so glaring, we'dve listened to the radio feed.

Hawk is even worse than Joe Morgan or Tim McCarver (although it's pretty close).

No, you are wrong. While Hawk and his little sayings can be ultra-annoying, he does know what is going on on the field, unlike McCarver et al. Hawk certainly lives/breathes the team, and therefore points out the little things that help to make the game interesting.

Seriously, do White Sox fans turn the volume off for each game?

No. We have the guys we have, though I prefer Ed Farmer on the radio.

And my sox are dark pink, not light pink, after this series. Sadly, I missed the entire thing.

Not the Wsox's best effort.

Well, they've won 9 straight series and swept only two of those, so I'd say it's a pretty good prediction.

With that said, the White Sox might struggle tonight against Lester. They often have a hard time against rookies they haven't seen before.

And it's already 2-naught, bottom of the first coming up.

Yet Major League Baseball assures its fans that they have taken precautions to guard against this.

Well, don't some players/teams have contracts with escalation clauses when players make the ASG? if so, doesn't that give some teams reason NOT to push their players for selection?

Isn't that your predicition for every series?

 

Also, the rationale that THIS YEAR'S all-star squad be representative of LAST YEAR'S world series team is now tied w/ 'Ken Lay took the coward's way out by having a heart attack' as the dumbest thing i've ever heard.

I think it's going to be hard for either team to sweep, and with the Wsox at home that gives them the advantage. So there.

As for your second comment, the last time the White Sox had 7 guys in the ASG was in 1960, after, you guessed it, the go go sox of '59. And what about the Yankees with like 11 guys one year? I'm not saying it's 100% right, I'm just saying it happens.

Today is the first game of a three game Red Sox/White Sox series at the Cell.

I am predicting the final color to be light pink, with the White Sox winning two of three.

Guillen also said that if anyone else on the AL squad gets hurt, that Joe Crede gets the spot. I mean, come on.

As I said, droit de seignor . However, when the team wins the world series the prior year, it should be well represented.

And you are going to complain when the White Sox got 7 All Stars?

Not at all -- but remember, AJ is the only one that was voted on by the fans. Guillen et al picked the other 6. Of them, Contreras and Buherle are not as deserving.

There is no world where either of those guys is not an all star and AJ Pierzinski is.

Granted, there is a little droit de seignor in the voting, but tell me that its right that basically the rest of the starting lineup from "fan voting" is either on the Yankees or Red Sox.

The system is screwed up, clearly.

Yes, I can.

In other news, Thome went yard with the bases loaded.

*essential*

I couldn't make it; too much stuff going on, but sounds like it was a great time. Looking forward to the torrent.

ha, sorry for the confusion. My wife is from Minn and I joking refer to Duluth as "Deloof"

YAY! Gonna grab it now....

WWII all over again!

Yes, you sure showed me.

Oh I know, to Cubs fans, this was like some huge victory to not get swept, since every other team in both leagues have been beating on them like a rented mule.

Enjoy it....

Not really.

Well to listen to the 'fraidy cats Cubs announcing team (who suck BTW), you'd think that a 6 run lead was 1. If I had known that WGN had the Sox guys, I'd have watched it.

I had this series pegged at 2 of 3 for the Sox and 4 of 6 for the season -- so there