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2005 - Missed Playoffs
2004 - Missed Playoffs
2003 - Lost ALDS in 5 vs Boston
2002 - Lost ALDS in 5 vs Minnesota
2001 - Lost ALDS in 5 vs NYY
2000 - Lost ALDS in 5 vs NYY

I think in order to make a ***Official A's will win the WS in 2006 Thread***, your team should have to win a playoff series first.

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linky

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The Pirates'll make it above .500?! Wooooooo!

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2005 - Missed Playoffs
2004 - Missed Playoffs
2003 - Lost ALDS in 5 vs Boston
2002 - Lost ALDS in 5 vs Minnesota
2001 - Lost ALDS in 5 vs NYY
2000 - Lost ALDS in 5 vs NYY

I think in order to make a ***Official A's will win the WS in 2006 Thread***, your team should have to win a playoff series first.

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did the white sox win a playoff series in '04?

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2005 - Missed Playoffs
2004 - Missed Playoffs
2003 - Lost ALDS in 5 vs Boston
2002 - Lost ALDS in 5 vs Minnesota
2001 - Lost ALDS in 5 vs NYY
2000 - Lost ALDS in 5 vs NYY

I think in order to make a ***Official A's will win the WS in 2006 Thread***, your team should have to win a playoff series first.

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did the white sox win a playoff series in '04?

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Did White Sox fans make a ***Official White Sox will win the WS in 2005 Thread*** in February 2005?

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keep on hatin beetch! Yankees SUUUUUUUUUUUK

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keep on hatin beetch! Yankees SUUUUUUUUUUUK

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You sure told me!

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OMG done. Free money baby. Do you want to include the playoffs too or just the regular season?

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I'd like to get in on this [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

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back off, Boris is my whale.

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You guys missed out on the easiest money. Take the Yankees +200 to make the playoffs!

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OMG done. Free money baby. Do you want to include the playoffs too or just the regular season?

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I'd like to get in on this [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

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back off, Boris is my whale.

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I don't know you can make this claim when you pussed out of the bet last year AND you would have won. I mean you gotta take my money before calling me a whale.

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It will be interesting to see how many "fans" fall off the White Sox bandwagon as the team struggles to stay above .500.


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i think they have improved since last year. they resigned konerko who is basically the heart soul.

they signed thome, he is either going to be hit or miss but thats ok b/c if he is a hit then you have added a ton of pop in the lineup. he has really had only one bad season (last year) and it was because of back and elbow problems limiting him to 193 at bats, so he is basically a health issue (as is frank thomas BTW). if he can stay healthy he can be a force in that lineup and that division in which he has already dominated from 96-04, i think being back in the american league will put him back in that comfort zone as well. then again he could bust.

javier vasquez is a good pick up even though every NY fan will chime in and say how terrible he is etc. the rotation is now buehrle, garcia, garland, vasquez and mccarthy, which is a great rotation. vasquez is known for either having an unhittable month and then a month where he can't get anyone out (last year, 6.11 in april, 2.15 in may, 6.75 in june, 3.71 in july, 7.09 in august, 2.52 in september and october). his problems have always been "how good is he mentally," b/c his "stuff" is tremendous he just lacks the ability to control the mental aspects of the game. i think this is the year he is better than just average and gets everything back on track.

i am not saying they are going to win the WS, b/c with baseball you simply cannot predict what will happen...too much can happen over the course of the year but i do think the chi sox will be better than you think and apparently the computers as well.