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I don't think the Sox would be willing to give up anything even slightly significant for Feliz. Lets see: Crede: .229 AVG, .300 OBP, .408, SLG, .708 OPS, Age: 27, Scoring Position: .821 OPS, 2005 Salary: $400,000 Feliz: .272 AVG, .309 OBP, .442 SLG, .751 OPS, Age: 31, Scoring Position: .658 OPS, 2005 Salary: $2,325,000 Seeing as how Feliz is older, more expensive and hasn't been exactly great at third base. Not to mention he's not a significant upgrade on offense. Giving up any real prospect for Feliz would be idiotic.

QUOTE(JimH @ Jun 8, 2005 -> 10:18 PM) The tv guys are saying Marte's velo is down. 88 on the fastball. Herm Schneider walks Marte off the mound, something is the matter with him. Just to point out the Comcast gun was kinda slow today. El Duque never hit above 85, Politte never hit above 91, and Anderson has been right around 89-91 .

QUOTE(redandwhite @ Jun 5, 2005 -> 08:42 PM) That's a terrible way of looking at things. No it's not. I'm a fan, i watch baseball for entertainment purposes. Why should i second guess every move the manger makes? That's KW's job, that's some jackass reporters job. All i ask from Ozzie and the Sox is to bring me some worthy entertainment, they've done that. So sit back relax and enjoy the ride. b****ing about Ozzie won't improve his crappy bullpen management and he's not getting fired any time soon. Enjoy being in first place and holding the league's best record in early June, it might be a while until the Sox are in this position again.

Is Ozzie terrible at managing a bullpen? Yes. Is Ozzie for some strange reason infatuated with Timo? Yes. Are the Sox 37-18? YES, SO WHO THE f*** CARES!!! Just enjoy the ride

Plus, since when does MTV shy away from controversy? Baah, nobody watches MTVs crappy award show anyways.

Daily dose of Perfect Circle (or Tool) New System and Audislave Nine Inch Nails - With Teeth QOTSA- Lullabies To Paralyze Eagles Of Death Metal- Peace love death metal

BTW, these FOX announcers are pretty good; they might not be Hawk and DJ but have called a very enjoyable game.

MLB rule book on base running: http://mlb.mlb.com/NASApp/mlb/mlb/official...es/runner_7.jsp Doesn't really give you a clear definition in case of a tie.

Minor League Baseball Audio/video feeds: http://www.minorleaguebaseball.com/app/mil...imedia/grid.jsp I haven't caught any Sox farm teams yet, but you might come across one every now and then.

CHW: Hernandez (3-1, 2.70 ERA) TOR: Bush (0-3, 4.97 ERA) -Bush's first career start vs. the Sox. -Has pitched well his last two starts. -Team has a 0-5 record when he pitches. -El Duque last three years vs. TOR: 8 GS, 2-4, 4.03 ERA, .234 AVG -At Skydome (or whatever it's called now): 0-3, 7.79 ERA, in four starts. -However, the only player with good career numbers vs. El Duque is Vernon Wells (21 ABs, 2 HRs, .987 OPS) -Everyone with 10+ career AB has a OPS below .600.

QUOTE(Chisoxfn @ May 4, 2005 -> 11:14 AM) On a sidenote....The US NEEDS TO BUILD MORE REFINERIES. The damn environmentalist need to step aside and at least let us build one new refinery if not two or three. The biggest reason for these high prices are the fact that the US is already at capacity when it comes to producing the gas. Environmentalists have nothing to do with the lack of refineries. Current projected cost for a new refinery is over a billion dollars. The only thing that is economically feasible is to expand current refineries. Don’t blame environmentalists, blame the oil companies for not investing in new refineries.

QUOTE(NUKE_CLEVELAND @ May 1, 2005 -> 02:49 PM) You can thank enviro wackos for our current problems. Because of their resistance there have been no nuclear plants built in 30 years & no new refining capacity built in 30+ years. Refining capacity, or the lack thereof, is a huge reason why gas is so expensive. We have oil sitting around in inventory but there aren't enough refineries to change it over to gasoline and other distilates to meet demand. You can't really blame the environmentalists for low refining capacity. Iin the early 80s the government stopped subsidizing many small refineries thus slowing refining capacity growth. Taxpayer money was fattening profits for these small refineries and the output from these refineries was not worth the expense. New refineries are just not profitable enough for people to invest money in. Unless we scrap just about every air pollution law, nothing short of huge government subsidiaries would save U.S oil refineries. So once again i return to my original point; the anwser isn't more oil, it's less.

QUOTE(CubKilla @ May 1, 2005 -> 11:01 AM) Then the US better get moving. This $2.29 a gallon crap is getting out of hand. More oil isn't the solution; alternative fuels is what will keep oil prices down. I've done a lot of research into the "oil problem" and more oil will have little to no effect on future prices. As of right now about 25% of U.S power plants are run on oil (only 8% on nuclear power), build more nuclear power plants, invest in solar, wind and geothermal power. Finally there's nothing like a fuel efficient car, if everyone was getting 40 miles to the gallon we wouldn't have this problem.

QUOTE(NUKE_CLEVELAND @ Apr 30, 2005 -> 05:06 PM) That's what I never understood about the whole "war for oil" argument. Iraq produces, on its best day, about 2 million barrels of oil. That's peanuts compared to nations like Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and even Iran. If you really wanted to talk about a war for oil the correct place to look was the first Gulf War and that's because Saddam Hussein was poised to sieze most of it in the gulf region. Iraq might not have the capabilities to produce large amounts of oil now, but the Iraq oil reserves are supposed to be over 100 billion barrels. Thats second only to Saudi Arabia, so there's plenty money to be made off Iraqi oil.

QUOTE(toasty @ Apr 25, 2005 -> 10:57 PM) has anyone seen a pitch count for garland? 106 after 8.

QUOTE(Soxnbears01 @ Apr 25, 2005 -> 10:48 PM) "Go Bulls" Hawk is certainly on crack tonight. Yeah, but it's a good kind of crack

I thought Aaron was gonna plow the catcher. Still haven't seen a decent home plate collision this year.

QUOTE(Kalapse @ Apr 22, 2005 -> 10:28 PM) I feel this is a key here. People were not criticizing Crede after only a few games they were criticizing him after 2 full seasons of below expectation play. It a new season, the guy should be given a chance. I don't get how you can count a guy out after 5 games, like many people seemed to have done. You know what, I'm gonna stop arguing his point, sit back, drink a beer and enjoy a Sox win. Who cares, the Sox are 13-4 and isn't that what really matters.

QUOTE(Kalapse @ Apr 22, 2005 -> 10:06 PM) Because Rowand is good and Crede has been bad for 2 years plus the first couple games of this season. Let me start by saying I'm a huge Rowand fan, but 3 1/2 great months shouldn't cut him that much slack. With that said I don't think he should criticize Rowand after only 16 games; he was justing pointing out people shouldn't have criticized Crede after only a few games.

QUOTE(Kalapse @ Apr 22, 2005 -> 09:54 PM) Critical of Crede after 2 years, not a few games. Yeah, but people seem to have it in for Crede. If Crede was still hitting .200 people would be b****ing left and right, while one person says something negative about Rowand and everyone comes to his defense.

I take this is a shot at all the people who were critical of Crede after only a few games.

Charlotte loses 7-2 BOX SCORE -Borch 1-3 with a walk, hitting .189 -Anderson 1-3 with a walk, RBI, hitting .306/.396/.543, .939 OPS -Davis 1-4, now hitting .258 -Phillips (L, 0-2), 4.0, 7 Hits, 5 ER, 2 BB, 5 SO, 10.80 ERA -Charlotte is now 2-13 -Bullpen pitches well: 4 IP, 2 Hits, 0 ER, 2 BB, 5 SO

QUOTE(winodj @ Apr 22, 2005 -> 02:48 PM) The EU Constitution is a joke. They left out all the areas of disagreement so they could have a document. Baby steps, you gotta have a base to start from. Eventually they'll argee on a strong constitution. Remember, we didn't get it right our first time around either.

QUOTE(IndplsSoxFan @ Apr 19, 2005 -> 09:50 PM) I haven't been paying too close attention, but are the scouts seats always that empty? How do those go unfilled? PS. Great win tonight! The $175 price tag, that's how.

Best news i've heard all day, something about Timo really pisses me off.