Howdy,

Just taking an assessment of those SSSers that live in the south end of the land of fruits and nuts (sorry Toonder), if any of y'all are going to the upcoming LAA/LAD series. I'm going to make it to at least one of the LAA games, but I'd be more than willing to sit in the 5/405 parking lots for the LAD games if I was going to be meeting up with folks (don't want to get shanked alone!).

What say you?

For those of you in SSS-land that swing a little to the left and are in the 24 states coming up 2/5 (or any remaining thereafter, for that matter), here are your choices:

I'm not sayin', I'm just sayin'....

My name is thatshortkid and I approve this message.

Update [2008-1-31 3:41:6 by The Cheat]: About the only rule on SSS -- besides don't be a complete jackass -- is no politics. It's not written down anywhere, and I don't think I've ever had to enforce it, but this thread has the possibility to get there. I'm leaving it open because I trust you guys to keep it civil. We're all Sox fans, remember. We're on the same team. Let's keep it that way.

Carry on.

This is one for..... the expats.

The new season's right around the corner and for the White Sox junkies outside of the broadcast area, it's time to start renewing the various methods of getting one's fix.

I was just wondering how the rest of the diaspora gets their Sox on. I have no dish, so it will be an MLB.tv premium subscription and XM for me. What, if anything, do you use to keep up on the Sox? Multiple choices are a-ok. Mention your own if I forgot it in the poll.

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I get the Sox:

• while sitting on my couch and firing up the dish and MLB Extra Innings.
• only when Fox/ESPN/SuperStation allow me or when the Sox come to town.
• on XM. Sssssooooxxxxx iiiiiinnnnnnn ssspaaaaaaacccceeee.
• over MLB.tv and a series of tubes.
• opening MLB Gameday. it's not a big truck.
• with yahoo/msn/si/etc. updates. the refresh button is my friend.
• by reading the gamethreads on SSS, thank you very much.

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I understand that we live in a capitalist system and there's no such thing as a free lunch, but these ads are starting to get a little ridiculous. In recent memory there was jiggly-ass making SSS a NSFW site and now, horror of horrors, we're getting banner ads across the top. Thank god none of them have been sound-enabled..... yet.

I don't want to cheat the SB Nation out by using FireFox plug-ins like Adblock, but it's almost getting to the point where you can't see the forest from the ads.

Cheat, has there been any discussion amongst the Nation admins about adding subscription services to the sites? Maybe something akin to what's in the Slashcode that allows X ad-free page views for Y dollars, or a flat-out subscription, or like Salon, where you have to view one mega-ad to get most of the mini-ads out of the way?

I posted this as a diary rather than a bitchy email to Cheat because I wanted to get a sense of the community's feelings on the matter. Am I being too much of a priss in thinking there are too many ads on the page? How much would you be willing to pay, and in what type of subscription manner, in order to view SSS ad-free?

Because writing a diary sure beats digging through other people's old code....

Bonser (R, 5-5, 4.50) vs. Lee (L, 12-10, 4.53) [Throws, W-L, ERA]

Lineups below the fold.

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not really any analysis or anything, i'm just wondering if any of the socal readers of sss are going to any of next week's games against the angels. i'm in for monday already.

if i have time, i was thinking of going to danny k's beforehand to get some of their awesome wings and a beer before heading to the park. any alternate suggestions?

abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz now i know my abc's... this minimum stuff is lame.

From the Cubune:

Sox and AL coach Joey Cora accidentally hit Zambrano in his throwing elbow with a fungo bat before the game. X-rays were negative, but Zambrano was ruled out of the game.

Whether or not Headcase grabbed his elbow and screamed "WHY???" while crying his eyeballs out wasn't reported, unfortunately.

hey guys,

not sure if this has been posted here or not, but i found a cool link in the latest whitesox.com poll discussion. these guys made a tribute music video for everybody's favorite man-who-fears-no-wall, aaron rowand.

i wish it were posted on youtube or google video, but alas, it is on myspace.

clicky clicky

if it has been posted already (was released 6/4), i apologize in advance for the dupe.

Update [2006-6-30 0:29:7 by thatshortkid]: found phillies-centric ones here and here. the man-crush continues...

Before getting into the recap, I want to thank a few folks:

First, I want to thank The Wiz for asking me to do a guest entry. It's a pleasure and an honor.

Second, I have to thank the guys at Danny K's for letting the lone Sox fan in the joint watch the game on the big screen. I was in hostile territory (seriously, I passed Angel Stadium on my way in). The fineness of their selection of beer, in 25oz. servings no less, was eclipsed only by fineness of the waitstaff. Good goin'.

Lastly, to Tadahero. When it seemed like all was lost, he pulled out his best CPR and kept the game alive.

What to say about tonight's game. Angel Hernandez' strike zone was incredibly inconsistent and bordered on fraudulent. On ESPN's ball-tracker, one could see how obvious balls were being called strikes. It was infuriating to watch as a fan, I can only imagine how the professionals on the field must have felt. Joe didn't Hoover up a few hits that were his way, Vazquez gave up two quick runs (which could have been more), and Oswalt was sitting down the Sox hitters as soon as he could. I'm surprised ESPN didn't put out meaningless graphics like "Teams that score first are x-y-z" as they've been doing for the World Cup.

I'm willing to forgive the first inning. After watching Garcia give up bad innings in the first 3 and then settle down multiple times, I wasn't ready to throw in the towel on Javy and fully expected him to regain his composure and get himself out of jams that he put himself in. For the next few innings, he did. And then came the 5th inning meltdown. ESPN's shots of the droves of people leaving the stadium and the insertion of "must be a blowout" Montero in the 7th led me to believe the fans and the managerial staff had apparently raised the white flag and were ready to call the streak a day.

I guess the memo didn't get to our hitters. Paulie surpassed our solemn first base coach's career club HR total in the 7th. With Oswalt gone, one T. Iguchi put the team on his shoulders and carried us to the promised land of extras in two straight innings, chasing Springer with a 3-run shot that put us back in the game in the 8th (video-audio) and then further increased Brad Lidge's hatred of pitching in the Cell by tying it up with the club's 3rd grand slam in as many days to tie it up in the bottom of the 9th (video-audio).

It must have woken up Ozzie, as he then decided to put our actual relief pitchers in. Unfortunately, BMac's also the one that got hung with the L.

To be honest, this game was a moral victory for me. While it would have been nice to have been an actual victory, it showed the kind of grit our hitters have in the face of what appeared to be insurmountable odds. Houston got the W, but they had to earn it. Our boys didn't take a blowout sitting down and once there was blood in the water, they fattened up on runs.

The interleague series has been a tale of two Centrals. The top two teams in each respectively matched one another, with ours each on a 8-1 tear so far. Even our 3rd place team is currently 8-1 on them (yes, vs. PIT and CHC for 6, but still). Our division has clobbered theirs so far, showing who the "Junior Circuit" really is this season.

So here we are closing in on the All-Star break sitting at around the same position we were during the Championship run, all of our starters have more-than-marginal winning records (including a guy that's 8-0, again), and we're blowing more teams out of the water. Outside of the NL East, ours is the only division that has so much separation between the clubs, with the top two records with the majors. And the top club has yet to prove that they can beat us.

Our 5th starter (at 8-4!) got touched up and our hitters picked him up. We didn't get the 10th straight victory, but took 2 of 3 after the Twinkies and Royals did the same, sending Houston on to Detroit with a chip on their shoulder. As long as Pittsburgh isn't Tampa Bay North, let's go for another 9 straight.

I've been doing my part to do the maximum 25 votes for White Sox players to the All-Star Game, but was torn after the first ballot submission. Since the ASG is in a NL park, there's no DH. Hence the write-in campaign for Thome. However, you're only able to vote for one player per position. So will either player get screwed (more likely PK) since you can only vote for one first baseman? How have y'all in the SSS community been voting?

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I've been ASG voting....

• All PK
• Mostly Paulie
• Half-and-Half (or ~13-12)
• Mostly Thome
• All JT

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