The Critic

Or at least back into a platoon situation with Jose/Willie as he had been. I think you have to keep getting all three of them regular AB's.

Awwww shucks, thanks, Brando! Even though we disagree on a fair amount of points, I think you DO care about the Sox a lot, and that's good enough for me! ...although I reserve the right to mock the f*** out of your posts!!!

And if a left-handed 3B doesn't work out, maybe Jim Abbott can come back and we can have a ONE-HANDED left-handed 3B....and then if THAT doesn't work, maybe a monkey who throws the ball with his tail....and then if THAT doesn't work, maybe......tinker tinker tinker....thought we were done with that....

My wife and kid like me okay..... Everyone else is optional.....

I just wonder how much of his early struggle is due to coming into camp heavy? Maybe he saw Colon's huge contract ( and ass ) and said HEY, I CAN DO THAT TOO!

And that is EXACTLY what Oz should tell CLee. Not that it's accepted or condoned, but it happened, move on, DON'T let it happen again and get back out there with your teammates.

This thread makes me go.... (yaaaaaaawwwwwwwwwwwwnnnnn........)

If Olivo doesn't skip that throw in to 3rd, Cliff never has to throw the pitch that went for the triple. It's a team game. Credit and blame get spread around. 18th game of the year..............11 wins, 7 losses......reeeeeeeelaaaaaaax........

I went to the Wolves AHL Calder Cup Opening Round playoff game last night, and the Wolves SWEPT the Grand Rapids Griffins, winning Game 4 by a final score of 8 to 2. They scored less than 2 minutes into the game and never looked back, leading 4-0 after one period and 7-0 after two. The smallish crowd ( my guess is 6,500 or so fans ) was REALLY into this game, and were extremely loud and boisterous throughout. The Wolves now await the winner of the Milwaukee/Cincinnati series for the Western Division Finals. My only complaint of the whole night was the fact that the Wolves gave away those goddamned Thundersticks, which are very annoying. ( Side Note - the sound of those thundersticks is EXACTLY the same as the drum sound on Metallica's "St. Anger" CD ). Not many worse sounds than thousands of those stupid sticks clanging together.....ugh...

I don't really recall if he did or not. I just saw the standings and the Twinks are 7-3 at home so far, so maybe there IS still some home-field advantage....or maybe they're just still pretty good....

Saw this on Rotoworld, sorry if it's been posted elsewhere: I guess this lessens the home-field advantage if they have to play 81 games on that stuff, huh?

Agree 100% Budweiser = swill For some reason, though, the water they add to it to make it "light" does somewhat reduce the grotesque flavor of that junk...

.....foam.....

Front of the line Top percentile of the class Proceed Catching a flight to Beantown any more?

Come on.....where IS it???? Okay, I'LL do it.... WILLIE HARRIS NEEDS A TEE!!!!! ....thank you....thank you very much....I'll be here all ze week.....

For future reference, I ONLY refer to the head on top of one's shoulders......ever.

...bet Big Dusty wishes that TOCT had that promotion so he could blame that crappy double-switch/batting out of order thing the other day on someone else...

VERY nice! "My toe didnt hurt when I was laying around all summer...."

My favorite Ozzie quote so far is gonna look REALLY boring in print, but it made me laugh out loud when I heard it and I still repeat it to myself because it's so much fun to say. He was on Talking Baseball on WMVP and he was talking about Shingo's pitches. He said he didn't know what pitch Shingo threw so he asked him. Then Oz said: "He said it was a sinker but I've never seen a sinker sink like that". I'll try to spell how it sounded to me: "Ee seditwozza seener boat Eye neber seenaseenerseen lye daht" He said it so fast it sounded like he was singing, so for the rest of the day I'm singing, "Ee seditwozza seener boat Eye neber seenaseenerseen lye daht" Singing it again now.... I love Oz as manager - this year has been so much fun so far...

Never realized how freakishly large Rob Gallas' head is. Too bad no good TV/radio marketing ideas were in there....

There is always that minority of fans looking for the demise of Frank Thomas. The ones who think that 6 to 8 mil per year is too much to pay for 40 HR and 100+ RBI. Those are the only ones I was referring to.

If that's true then Eli is a humongous pussy. At least Elway, Francis, etc. spoke for themselves. Not Eric Lindros, though - he is also a giant vagina.

I've always found it to be quite hilarious that inmates have a "code of honor".

I'm certainly not burying Frank Thomas just yet, but Gload has looked good at the plate so far. Patient and yet aggressive when he gets his pitch. Great to see.

So far Gload IS what Brian Daubach was SUPPOSED to be.... and the patented Crede Dribbler to end the inning.