Gene Honda Civic

QUOTE(WhiteSoxfan1986 @ Apr 5, 2007 -> 11:36 PM) According to BBTN, Elijah Dukes is the first player in major league history to homer in his first two games. It's amazing that has never been done. Against the Yankees. Of course it's been done before.

QUOTE(caulfield12 @ Apr 5, 2007 -> 11:10 PM) Baldelli is injury-prone. Dukes is the scariest mother f***er in baseball. Seriously, his teammates are afraid of him. (Fathom needs to chime in here.) Tampa will get rid of him the first time they get a reasonable offer. They'd much rather deal with an injury prone outfielder than one that physically threatens his teammates on a regular basis.

QUOTE(Kalapse @ Apr 5, 2007 -> 10:44 PM) You're seriously overrating some Sox players and underrating some insanely talented Tampa players. And when did they name that psychopath Dukes their starting CF? He's probably the 1 baseball player most likely to go all OJ on someone's ass in the coming years. Just because they supposedly (I'm not buying it) have no place for Rocco doesn't mean they're going to just sell him off for garbage like Anderson and Rogowski (and yes that is garbage considering what they could get from basically any other team). Gio Gonzalez and Broadway for Crawford? Didn't they turn down a Santana/Figgins deal just last season? I know Santana was involved in the deal with another player but they wanted Woods included in the deal instead. Dukes is playing because Baldelli has a strained hamstring that they're trying to protect. If anything, they'll try to spin Dukes' hot start into something just to be rid of the headaches while getting something of value in return.

QUOTE(Gregory Pratt @ Apr 5, 2007 -> 08:58 PM) Haeger should be up in any event, let alone if Mark is hurt. Floyd only has 1 option left. Let's not use it while he's still garbage. Let's give him the chance to take what Coop showed him and show us he's a "new pitcher," since he "feels" like one. How do you suppose he got to the minor leagues this season? That's right. We used his final option. It makes no difference.

QUOTE(Nokona @ Apr 2, 2007 -> 05:57 PM) Iowa will announce "within the next 24 hours" Come oooooooooon majerus Well Donovan will have his second NT wrapped up by then. I suppose it must be him.

QUOTE(scenario @ Apr 1, 2007 -> 06:27 PM) If OPS is your measure of success for a lead-off hitter, then you'd end up playing Dellucci ahead of several Hall of Fame lead-off guys. Bad idea. WTF is a hall-of-fame leadoff guy? I know you're not talking about Pods. That would be ludicrous. There's really no such thing as a HOF leadoff guy, or at least there are zero modern representatives. The two best lead-off type guys of the last 25 years aren't in the Hall (Though they only become eligible in the next two years) Many don't think Raines is a deserving candidate. I'd say they're wrong, but nobody is dumb enough to suggest that Delucci would play over Raines... that is until you brought it up in a failed attempt to make a point.

QUOTE(SnB @ Apr 1, 2007 -> 02:51 PM) having mono is no fun. meh, I had stereo once. It was twice as bad.

It's not like he was injured and out for 4-6 weeks either.

hmmmm... Sox "projected" to attempt 202 steals a year after they were only successful 93 times. Crede projected to attempt 5 steals, Pierzynski 6, and Uribe 18. Did they get lobotomies on the flight north? Gustavo Molina displaying more power than AJ. and projected to hit above his weight. Iguchi projected to slug around .500. 6 HRs over his career high in about 100 fewers AB's. The pitching staff. One of them might make your "projection," but I'd take the over on all of them. I particularly love the Danks K number. Masset's is the next best. Oh and zero blown holds for the season by the back-end of the bullpen. Better increase the win total to the low 120's. My real question is why the positive projection for 24 guys and leave Uribe out of the mix? He's got a career Isolated Power of about .180 and you've got him projected in the .130-.140 range.

QUOTE(Kalapse @ Mar 31, 2007 -> 10:42 PM) Isn't the Score supposed to have some sort of "Major Sox Announcement" during the North show on Monday morning? Wouldn't this be pretty perfect for something like that? Pappy will just announce that he'll be giving away some tickets to the game or some s*** like that.

QUOTE(santo=dorf @ Mar 31, 2007 -> 05:47 PM) Indians are looking really bad right now on ESPN, and they haven't even got to their bullpen yet. Hafner is awful at first, and Peralta still looks like a hack at short. Sowers throws softly on the corners with his left hand. All they'll need is 1 run against us.

QUOTE(scenario @ Mar 31, 2007 -> 11:54 AM) I don't think AJ deserves 'all the credit' for 2005. Nor does he deserves criticism for Garcia's fastball and Buerhle's location disappearing... or Contreras getting hurt. Regarding the earlier post picking Dellucci over Pods... I know there are alot of people who don't like Pods, but come on... Dellucci has a sub-.250 career average hitting in the American League. He had a career year in the National League last year. Big deal. His total career batting average (both leagues) is about the same as Pods hit last year which everyone is abusing him for. His career OBP is only slightly higher than Pods'. Dellucci is a platoon player (can't hit lefties) who has hit .266/.368/.519 overall since his laser eye surgery and .269/.371/.526 against RHP. Podsednik is a platoon player (why else would we stand Pablo's defense in LF) who has hit .275/.340/.351 overall and .279/.342/.364 against RHP over that time.

QUOTE(Heads22 @ Mar 31, 2007 -> 12:23 AM) I assume SportClips had a similar deal for Alford? Probably a Bail Bonds place too.

Panchero's is breathing a sign of relief. They can continue to operate in the black. http://www.hawkcentral.com/apps/pbcs.dll/a...0014/1053/HAWKS

QUOTE(Heads22 @ Mar 30, 2007 -> 09:07 PM) Heh, the U of I hospitals might have had an impact. The scuttlebutt is he wants to bring BJ Armstrong onto the staff. That's fine with me then. IMO, the stipulation on Majerus is that he has to bring his heir apparent allong with him. There's no way that he can sell recruits that he'll be healthy and able to coach 4-5 years from now. He has to have a vibrant, young, up-and-comer that he can sell as the guy who will take over when he inevitably goes to that big hoagie stand in the sky. Armstrong's NBA career as an exec was altered when Jerry went with Pax instead of him in an attempt to cut ties with Jerry Krause, who had positioned BJ as the guy to take over when he stepped down/hoagie stand'd it. He's bounced around as a scout since then, correct? Or did he end up under Dumars in Detroit? BJ as an associate head coach/heir apparent/recruiting coordinator with Majerus as head coach for 2-5 years is probably the best situation for the Hawks right now.

QUOTE(Rowand44 @ Mar 30, 2007 -> 10:10 AM) I'm going to own that thing tonight and then paint a giant Saluki on midcourt after I win. You should wear a Penn State shirt and see if he rushes the court when you beat him.

I'm an Iowa fan, and I'm a Majerus fan -- You can dig through the archives here to find my story about watching the 2000 NCAA Championship with him -- but I don't want him coaching my basketball team. The Hawks are going to suck for a coupla few years once the dust settles and guys transfer out and decommitt. And once that happens, Majerus will either be dead or at the very least done coaching again, putting them back in the same position looking for a new head coach.

In another article I just read, Razor Shines was named as B'hams manager "the last two seasons"

QUOTE(nitetrain8601 @ Mar 29, 2007 -> 12:17 AM) I just want to say I think the Sox are going to handle Sisco the way Minny handled Johan. They feel it's best for him to stay with Coop for now to work on somethings. He will be sent down either this year or all of next year to then work on what Cooper wants fixed with him and he'll be doing that as a starter. In other words, expected time of actual contribution for Sisco is about 2 years from now if you ask me. At least this is the only way I could explain it. Johan learned the changeup from the AAA pitching coach.

QUOTE(TheOcho @ Mar 28, 2007 -> 04:25 PM) This ump has a very tight strike zone but that is no excuse to have 6 walks in an outing... period. 80% of these balls aren't even close

6!

QUOTE(Flash Tizzle @ Mar 28, 2007 -> 04:17 PM) I meant this spring. At a certain point, IIRC, he had a ratio of 14 strikeouts to 1 walk. Guillen was going on and on about him throwing strikes. Which should you believe, 10 random innings in Tucson, or a minor league career spanning (without looking it up) 450 innings?

QUOTE(Rowand44 @ Mar 28, 2007 -> 04:08 PM) Just got back from class, how's Danks looking? Pretty much exactly like he did last time out. QUOTE(Flash Tizzle @ Mar 28, 2007 -> 04:12 PM) These walks are inexcusable. I don't care if he's a rookie. If he's doing this in the season, he'll stay will be short lived. 39 balls, 36 strikes is disgusting from anyone. Especially someone who was noted for his control. Before he got his final three outs in his last outing he was sitting at 24 balls and 22 strikes. That's why I was down on his last outing. Danks hasn't exactly been noted for his control prior to arriving in camp. Look at his minor league numbers. They certainly don't scream control pitcher.

QUOTE(Heads22 @ Mar 27, 2007 -> 07:02 PM) Good thing we have Lujan now. He is every bit the catcher that Wiki and Molina are.

Pablo really got ahold of that one.