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The bad news is this deal meant Baj (who got hit pretty hard in his Dback debut) was sent back down to AAA.

QUOTE(fathom @ Aug 9, 2006 -> 08:32 AM) He'll be just fine. I'm more shocked when I hear that baseball players are faithful than I am when a story like this comes out. She's a hot 19 year old....his street cred just went sky high. On the bright side for Paul, its not like she's a stalker or really trashed him. Considering how things could have went when she was interviewed, it could have been far worse.

QUOTE(Heads22 @ Aug 8, 2006 -> 09:10 PM) Don't act like you are the only two to Gage the site. Are you kidding, I still remember the time I made the mistake of letting you upgrade the board

I've long said that both Paulie and Dye are more consistent and more valuable to this offense (at the plate) than Jim Thome. However, Jim Thome has one intangible and thats that he has made everyone on this offense better (Crede, AJ, Dye, even Paulie) and for that you got to give Thome some credit. Just his presence has taken so much pressure off the rest of the guys that they were able to relax and not always look for the homer and try to just do there job.

I don't quite get this considering he was an out away (for a while) of going 7 innings with 3 runs (which is a darn good start). I realize it didn't turn into that, but his last two starts have been much much better. While I don't like blaming things on the ump, Buehrle definately wasn't helped with Cooper's zone two nights ago (that said he still needs to make his pitches and execute and at times he obviously wasn't doing that). If we need to talk about replacing anyone, its Freddy. He's the only starter on this staff that doesn't have the ability to turn things back around. His velocity is way down and I'm convinced with his lack of command that he will not ever be super sucessful without his old velocity. Vaz has his stuff Buehrle never needed plus stuff, needs plus command and he's made progress his past two outings Garland is Garland Count needs to get back on track, but who knows with his back all banged up.

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QUOTE(fathom @ Aug 8, 2006 -> 07:18 PM) You don't do a hit-and-run with 2 outs. That's 3 outs on the bases tonight. No biggie...you got to be agressive. Brian can run and Myers has a long arm. BA just got a bad jump or something.

Lets send Brian. I'd think you could get a good jump on this guy, he may be a lefty but he is slow to the plate.

QUOTE(Jake @ Aug 8, 2006 -> 06:28 PM) Out of curiosity, how is the creator member number 127? Is member number 1 still around? #127 to #1 are in reverse order from when I switched the boards database from xml to invision years ago. It actually was the great Scalising of the site, which came before the great gaging of 04

QUOTE(Kalapse @ Aug 8, 2006 -> 05:16 PM) Don't the fans deserve some answers? There's so many f***ing questions this year, so many oddities and we're not getting any explanation for any of them. All I want is for Ozzie to come out and answer 2 questions honestly. 1.) Why is Freddy Garcia sitting at 86 MPH this year after previously sitting at around 91 MPH? 2.) Why does Rob Mackowiak EVER play CF? Why isn't there a real backup to Anderson on the roster? Do the Sox no longer care about defense? Anyone want to email this to Hawk?

QUOTE(fathom @ Aug 8, 2006 -> 05:15 PM) Please don't start this again. Freddy doesn't deserve a big zone. Not when you can't throw strikes consistently.

QUOTE(maggsmaggs @ Aug 8, 2006 -> 05:12 PM) Pods could have had him at home. Why didn't he throw it? Pods couldn't throw out a dead dog. And its a joke that mack continues to start in CF more than once a week. Oh well...we can all enjoy a lack of the post-season or post-season success, that much I guarantee (unless we have a complete turn around of the rotation).

QUOTE(Randar68 @ Aug 8, 2006 -> 03:22 PM) And still no posts here detailing that he's been hurt for 2 months... Banged up yes, but I have other reasons for having very little faith in him.

QUOTE(longshot7 @ Aug 7, 2006 -> 09:28 PM) Talladega Nights is terrific, and I turned Anchorman off halfway through. Best movie of the year so far though is Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny. Saw a preview of it two weeks ago. Amazing. Ya, I saw Talladega last night and was shocked that I liked it. It had some really cheesy parts in it (ie bad jokes that were killed) but overall it was an enjoyable flick. Laughed a ton which was a surprise considering i hate Ferrell. And ya, I saw that preview for The Pick of Destiny and I think I'll be checking that out considering I'm a big Jack Black fan.

QUOTE(Steve9347 @ Aug 7, 2006 -> 05:39 PM) Let me just reiterate how much I love this show. Last night's episode "Vegas Baby, Vegas" was another in a long line of ridiculously good episodes. Their mixing of music and scene is amazingly well done. This show is nothing special in terms of having something to say, but is just really, really fun. Last night, when Drama came out of no where and clocked Seth Green's buddy in the face, followed by a fade in of Rob Zombie's "Dead Girl Superstar" was just awesome. I adore Entourage, and if you haven't seen an episode, the first and second seasons are available on DVD, and the third is On Demand. QUOTE(chimpy2121 @ Aug 8, 2006 -> 01:24 AM) I have to agree with the casino scenes; Ari losing it was absolutely hillarious. Could you imagine how pissed he would have been if Vince lost that hand? Ya, Ari is so freaking funny.

He has to prove he can hit to once again be considered a prospect, imo. Right now I would not rank him in the top 15.

He's been doing great and if you check out our interview with John Sickels, you'll see that he thinks Lance will be in the majors next year.

QUOTE(Young Gun @ Aug 8, 2006 -> 01:03 PM) Bender "Bending" Rodriguez. Classic. I :wub Sandlot

Bottom line, when your not getting it done people are going to look at things and try to analyze why you aren't getting it done. One thing is obvious about Freddy...he's throwing more than a few MPH slower and in Buehrle's case maybe he's down in velocity but it seems like he's leaving his pitches up.

Twas me. This is my first post since I gave myself a prolonged suspension (ie rest from the site). I wrote a story a while ago, but I agree a cool history section would be neat.

QUOTE(whitesoxfan101 @ Aug 4, 2006 -> 07:35 PM) Well after a rough start at Baltimore (and he did get a win) and a rough 1st tonight, Jon turns it around to toss 6 quality innings against a damn good offensive team and pick up a big road win. Jon is now 8-0 in his last 10 starts, with the team 9-1 in those games, and moved to 12-3 while getting his ERA below 5 all the way to.......4.99!! Way to bounce back Jon, you've been the stopper for nearly 2 months now and kudos to you for showing that you aren't a worthless piece of crap. Big Jon has been awesome. Now if only the rest of the rotation could turn there season's around like jon did 10 starts ago.

Wow, Dye just hammered it but right at the 2nd baseman for a DP. Thats the second time he's totally creamed the ball with runners on but has had nothing to show. Hopefully AJ can pick him up again. QUOTE(SoxHawk1980 @ Aug 4, 2006 -> 06:10 PM) April - 7.11 ERA May - 5.40 ERA June - 4.50 ERA So basically, he's had only one good month. Then there's every other year of his major league career which have been dog droppings. And if he'd pitched this season like a #3 starter instead of a #5 starter, we'd be at least 4 games better in the standings, and still contending for the divison. That, I'll give you. Compared to the rest of this stinking rotation, he's looked pretty good since the break. Pretty good...aside from Lackey and Liriano I couldn't name a starter in the baseball thats been better than Jon over the past 6 or 8 starts.

This is where we could really put this game away. Come on JD

Paulie and Thome have both reached base all 4 Ab's. Both are looking nice and fresh.