ChiTownSox77

i couldn't figure out what the hell that was.... anyone?

i'm still wondering how houston is still america's little darlings with an ******* for a manager like garner...

garner is a douche. he was a douche with milwaukee. he was a douche with detroit. he's a douche with houston. he started 3 brawls with the Sox when he was with milwaukee, attacked the Sox manager Bevington, then started one of the worst brawls in recent memory at Comiskey when with detroit- getting 8 of his players suspended. he's a dirty ass who claims to just be 'scrappy'. why is no one criticizing HIM? cuz he's a media darling, that's why.

garner has a history of being a prick when playing the sox. this time, i wouldn't go after everett. he's a big man and he's angry. plus, he doesn't believe dinosaurs! he's nuts!

oswalt is coming apart at the seams. crede was PISSED on the hbp.

atta boys!

just responding to years and years of smug-ass glib wannabe center of the baseball universe yankee fans. oh, and sorry about MJ ruining the Knicks for 10 years. our bad.

true, and Posada, as well i believe... but in the words of the immortal Frank Costanza: "How the hell can you trade Jay Buhner?!? He hit 40 home runs and had 121 RBIs last year!" "Ken Phelps, Ken Phelps! All my scouts kept saying was 'Ken Phelps!'" moooahahahahaha. the curse of bald goateed Jay Buhner!

'cept in the 80's. and in the early 90's. and poor, poor, overrated don mattingly. never got one. awwww. "You can't buy a World Series ring on the street. Just ask Alex Rodriguez." -Ozzie Guillen

The Yankees are old. They will not contend unless Porgie Georgie goes out and takes the short-cut of buying other teams' players again. Williams, Mussina, Johnson, Martinez, Giambi, and Sheffield are all moving into their middle and late 30's- young for a person, old for a pro ball player. Sheffield, Mussina, and Giambi have some good years left, but they're going to need a better ensemble to compete with younger contenders next year like the White Sox, Guardians, A's, Angels, and possibly the Twins.

if it is, we're on the good end this time.

my mistake, buddy- my apologies. i thought you were implying the whole 'fixed like wrestling thing'. sorry for snapping. i apologize.

yeah, uh, you're dumb. -contreras has only been traded once- if that's hard for you to follow, we should put the blame squarely on contemporary public school curriculum standards. -Jon Garland is Jon Garland. he had 3 shutouts this year, won 18 games, pitched in the all-star game, and threw a 5 hitter in the ALCS. -Freddy Garcia finished third in the Cy Young voting in 2001, won 18 games that year, won 14 this year (should have won 17- he lost several after leaving with the lead), and threw a one-hitter that he lost. he also was the best road and day pitchers in baseball this year. i'd be happy to introduce you. -orlando hernandez is not in the rotation. he came in and gave one of the finest relief performances in playoff history against boston and their great lineup. he hasn't thrown since. you seem to be letting emotion dictate analysis. i'd hold my tongue a bit longer. you just didn't make sense on this one... but you got it right saying my boy Buehrle has always been good- one of the most underappreciated pitchers in all of baseball.

i agree... his velocity was a good 5 mph less on average tonight. he was hitting 100 last night, 95 with regularity tonight. unless he feared that houston would pick up timing on his fastball (i don't know how they would be able to do that, but it's possible) and went with more offspeed and breaking stuff (which he did, actually), his velocity is suffering. i noticed it too, though. good points.

you think this whole thing is fixed???

yeah, you'd better check on the foil you're wearing on your head, jeffrey maier.

'history will never accept difficulties as an excuse'. c'mon, man. a lesser team would not capitalize on those calls. a lesser team would leave 3 runners stranded. we're a world series championship CONTENDER. we have some talent, you know. although, it appears from this board that the umps are doing most of the work for us. no matter that it's an entirely different crew than the ALCS. and is a veteran crew. and there is no instant replay, so an ump thinking the ball hit the hitter instead of the bat has no recourse. it's part of the game, just like when a ball hits the outfield ball boy (happened to dye yesterday and let tavaras go to third. tavaras scored. funny, you didn't mention THAT. must be all conspiracy, right?

funny, cuz you're signature says 'history will never accept difficulties as an excuse'... oh, and no one here could define these calls as 'gifts'. that implies an umpiring crew giving the sox an unfair advantage. you're talking like the sox wouldn't even have made the playoffs if not for 'gift' calls. they're just terrible. it's the umpiring that got em there. paulie didn't hit that grand slam. scotty didn't hit that walk-off homer. those pitchers didn't pitch those complete games. it was all gifted c'mon, guys- you guys won last year and you earned it. why, all of the sudden, are you turning hypocrite and blaming everyone except the Astros for their own failures. you guys posted the same garbage on the Angels. These teams didn't make the playoffs by mistake. they're GOOD. we're BEATING them..

Woooooooooooooo! Sox Win!!! One Of The Best Games I've Ever Seen!

Paul Konerko = The next Chicago Icon

understood. Ausmus leadoff double scaring me a bit here...

you're kidding me, right? you actually are complaining about a team getting 'overdue credit' and 'gay opening slanted towards chicago'? did you WATCH last years world series? i was rooting for the BoSox, but dude... it was so slanted in favor of Boston that you'd really have to be completely incabable of unbiased analysis in order to assume fox didn't slant against the Cardinals. amazing comments, man.

no way. i never go at a ballplayer's personal problems. check out what i said about Alex Rodriguez and the death of a family member very dear to him. i stoke rivalries and utilize an acidic tongue to berate the baseball Rodriguez, not the man. i don't remark negatively about other people's personal problems. god knows, we all have plenty of em.

agreed... sice august, joe crede has been just incredible. he's done what no one has done for us since my boy Ventura left.

not one of us is perfect. the problem with our culture right now is that everyone in the public eye is supposed to be perfect. to be a successful politician, you must have grown up in a rich family with political connections and 'friends' that will grease your way to the top. this is who our leaders are. jenksie has had problems. who among us hasn't? one of the biggest problems in our society is the demonization of mental illness and our refusal, as a society, to accept that no one is perfect and some of us need more help than others. i admire him for fighting whatever it is that troubles him and not giving up on his dreams. to me, that is the very definition of bravery. no one could know how haunting it must be to be him and have those urges and problems. he's having a great time right now and he's making a lot of other people happy... as far as i'm concerned, that's a blessing. leave him alone, everyone. no one has a right to judge him as a lesser human being. this happens all too often. messing around with celebrity sometimes doesn't appeal to each and every one of us. some of us (myself included) despise the idea of open and hollow fame. leave him alone and let him do what he does best- pitch.