According to 'The Bill James Handbook 2010' this is what the Sox offense is going to look like next season. Cheat posted this after he got a free copy of the book but I added our new additions and included Thomer because I think he will be back on the cheap. Also, I paid for my copy of the book and think it is fantastic.  Also, last time I tried to make a table I crashed the site so I hope this works a little better this time:

So it seems the SSS post-season meet-up has tentatively been scheduled for this weekend in the southburbs, specifically Tinley Park. Cheat, feigning knowledge of the area, has passed the buck to me, or rather, us, down here living the dream since there seems to be several SSS'ers rocking the suburbs.

Im open to either night leaning slightly toward friday, but I think our starting point should probably be Holstein's due to its close proximity to the Rock Island Line that runs from the Windy City clear out to Joliet. If you get off at the first Tinley Park stop the bar is right across the tracks. Also in walking distance are Teehans and Durbins, and I guess Cuzins and the old Tinley Pub are within a mile as well. Durbins or Holsteins probably have the best tvs, and as I mentioned before theres free pizza at holsteins on fridays, but both places will likely have live music interrupting the baseball at some point. There are tons of other bars in the area however, and we should have enough cars to haul the train commuters(cheat, om) since skanch, kenwo, myself and dr. emily lizard are all relatively local. (The thought of this motley crew just put a smile on my face actually, and no kenwo, not that crue)

So answer the poll as to what day works best for everyone and lets start to figure out a head count. [Note by The Cheat, 10/13/09 6:47 PM CDT]: Removed the poll. It's Friday.

Off of the top of my head Im guessing about 10 will commit and myself plus two other people will show up.

One of those two could be you!

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Lets say you want to watch a live baseball play-off game this time next week, do you take 80-east to Detroit or are you headed west-bound and down toward the twin cities? Put that hammer down and give it hell.

Personally, I think I will try to go to St. Louis and see the best hitter in the game, but lets keep it AL Central. 

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One of these guys is hitting .218 at home this season and it isn't Harold Baines. ~AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast

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 One of the few positive things Sox fans will take away from the 2009 season is the meteoric rise of Gordon Beckham. He was anointed 'the Savior' and as side-kick to the mighty Q! they were going to take us all back to the promised land. We watched the rookie get a full-time job on the big league club almost a year to the day after he was drafted. We watched him rake clutch hits, we saw more power than we expected, we observed rapid improvement at the hot corner and can feel good about his campaign and his future. Those errors are going to be put-outs in 2010. All of 'em. Why not.

 I wanted to look at some of the specifics of his season and break down the numbers a little bit. At the game on Tuesday, I happened to look up and see his average was down into the .260s when I thought it was still up around .275. What happened? I knew the club accidentally the whole thing, but Bacon's slide went under my radar.

		G	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	BB	K	SB	CS	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS
June		23	75	11	20	3	0	2	13	9	13	1	3	.267	.353	.387	.740
July		27	97	12	32	10	0	3	18	9	14	3	1	.330	.382	.526	.908
August		28	112	17	25	10	0	3	18	12	24	2	0	.223	.313	.393	.705
September		17	66	12	16	2	1	5	7	6	10	1	0	.242	.315	.530	.845

Gordo's average was at .316 on August 4th- then it slowly rolled off the table. I'm on record as a Pods hater and I cited one good month that masked everything else early this season. I know its not all about the average, and I like those BB:K ratios by Beckham, but one could probably make the same argument here. If that one was a dumb-ass.

Here is the most shocking split stat:

		G	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	BB	K	SB	CS	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS
Home		47	165	19	36	11	1	3	21	15	31	1	2	.218	.294	.352	.646
Away		48	185	33	57	14	0	10	35	21	30	6	2	.308	.383	.546	.929

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 Or does he merely detest the White Sox?

He messed up two calls at first base where our pitchers beat the Mariner base runner to the bag, one that was close and one that was blatantly wrong.

Bobby Jenks was there first, it was obvious, Ichiro was out. Octavio Dotel also beat a runner to the bag two innings earlier.. Neither of these bad calls cost us tonight, but they certainly made things tighter, the game for one and other things like Hawk's sphincter.

Another incident this season came on June 12th, with the White Sox visiting Milwaukee for some inter-league action. Scott Podsednik stole second base, popped up, was pushed off the bag by the tag and called out. This was so traumatic for Pods he completely forgot how to run the bases the rest of the season.

According to BuehrleMan on Aug 29, 2008 6:31 PM CDT on Game #134: WhiteSox (76-57) @ RedSox (77-56) Angel Hernandez had the strike zone jumping around on him.

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The Twins Tigers have already won the 2009 World Series.

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News: Justin Morneau's season is over because of a stress fracture in his lower back. Minnesota's slim chance of catching Detroit in the AL Central race has been made more challenging by a recent rash of injuries. The Twins are 5 1/2 games behind the Tigers, with seven head-to-head meetings left, but they haven't been hitting well lately and now they're missing more offense. Morneau's injury was diagnosed Monday.

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  Recently, the smoking hot wife of e-gus won the 'Jim Beam take the Mound Sweepstakes.' The grand prize included four tickets to the Jim Beam club($270 tickets including free eats and an open bar), an autographed Mark Buehrle jersey(home white, which we all know he doesn't wear but is still bad-ass) and the privilege to throw out the 'first pitch' at the game. Well it all went down 9/9/9, with Mrs. e-gus deferring the honor of playing catch with Mr. Perfect to me, e-gus himself. This is the tale of that fateful day.

  What was billed as the first pitch was really one of three first pitches. I was the middle reliever.

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  So last night I went to the Sox game. Probably my 15th game of the season, and I noticed something on Mondays that has become a trend. The crowd absolutely sucks. When Rios came up for his very first home AB I could here crickets. No acknowledgment for the new guy? WTF? He was so upset he ground into a double play the poor guy. First JD has been yelling at him and then hes dissed by the fans. Now I know monday is the Pods/Paully crowd because they need the t-shirt to know who these guys are, but c'mon.

this Chevy girl has a better arm than over half the Royals bullpen

  There are some appropriate times to clap besides when the scoreboard tells you to, people. When one guy is standing up clapping at least back his play and try to look like you know what the fucks going on. Yeah, thats hard to do in your Dirty 30 t-shirt...

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