Brian

That was nasty. Tough to lay off or foul off.

Dye will line into a triple play. I'm sure of it.

QUOTE (fathom @ May 4, 2008 -> 01:05 PM) Fun tidbit I just heard: K. Gibson knew from advance scouting that Eckersley was going to throw a 3-2 backdoor slider. I heard that a few years ago.

DP coming up for Paulie, I bet.

I should keep up the thick pessimism. It's working.

Don't even make him throw strike 3, it's inevitable.

Bet we strand him.

Hawk is a buffoon.

Cubs send Rich Hill to AAA Iowa. I have a feeling he is in Pinella's dog house and we may not see him for awhile. Leiber will start now.

Dumb Phillie fans. Booing Ryan Howard.

I wanna see Webb win 30 games.

Richmond will go to Illinois, unfortunately for Illini fans. He is very loyal there and will not back out. He needs to worry about playing high school ball and where he will be next year.

Gameday has all of Linebrink's pitches in the strike zone, is he getting squeezed?

Solo Homers FTW

QUOTE (Chisoxfn @ May 3, 2008 -> 12:47 PM) I hate Jim Thome. There, I've said it again. It has nothing to do with him, he'll get his stats but he's not a winner. I f***ing hate "sluggers". Give me hitters who can also hit for power. Guys like Adam Dunn, Jim Thome are losers plain and simple. They don't know how to truly hit and because of that it is all "hit" or "miss" with them. I still say the offense has a lot of the tools, it just needs a bit of a tweaking (ie move Thome or Konerko and make some adjustments and try to get yourself a legit leadoff hitter so you can move Swisher down in the lineup). I'm with you and everyone else who agreed on the subject. Good guy, but too one dimensional. I remember him with Cleveland and every time he came up in the 8th or 9th, he did something awesome. With us, nothing.

Sweet, now we can have a bunch of guys come up and try and hit 5 run homers.

I'm calling Grand Slam.

QUOTE (fathom @ May 3, 2008 -> 01:36 PM) Bunting down 2? Are you freaking serious! Swisher continues his decent to the mendoza line. I kind of hope he was bunting for a hit or did it on his own, cuz we can't afford to give away outs down by 2.

Love watching on Gameday and seeing 2 pitch ABs.

I don't care about age or whatever, but whoever says they would take Konerko over Derek Lee right now, needs their head examined.

"That's all we got, One God damn hit?"

QUOTE (flavum @ May 3, 2008 -> 10:34 AM) Josh Fields isn't in the lineup for Charlotte today. If the Sox don't have to use the bullpoen too much today, I'd like to see if they could swap Russell for Fields tomorrow to give Crede a day off against Halladay. Charlotte is playing in Buffalo, so it would very doable logistically. Our next call up has to be either Richar or Owens for Russell/Ramirez. Gotta have a lefty off the bench.

Wouldn't of minded Ozuna in the lead off spot, Swish 2nd, OC 9th.

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ May 3, 2008 -> 10:49 AM) They should make movie theaters with walls made of lead that are 4 ft thick. Perhaps that would block all cell phone signals. Without a doubt. I even hate when a guy two rows in front of me opens his phone to check the time. Like nobody is going to notice this big bright light besides the screen in a dark room.

I'm sick of sharing by b-day thread with these two hacks every year. Thanks all. I'm almost as old as Steff...I mean young, I mean...oh hell, not like she posts here anymore.