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QUOTE(Rowand44 @ May 22, 2006 -> 11:14 PM) You've been kalapse'd. I zoned out most of this weekend with school so I just figured I missed something. Next thing you know he's going to tell me about how Caruso is on pace to break Hank Aaron's home run record.

QUOTE(SoxAce @ May 22, 2006 -> 11:11 PM) Error: Empty entry list.. Thats just a sign that despite your baseball knowledge, you just aren't meant to drive or own a car

QUOTE(Kalapse @ May 22, 2006 -> 11:10 PM) He got claimed off waivers by the Cubs, he's pretty much just a bench warmer, in fact he wasn't even on the active list for the Sox series, which is why you didn't see him at all. Hell I didn't even know that. I didn't realize the Marlins cut him lose after the Mariners did.

QUOTE(CWSGuy406 @ May 22, 2006 -> 10:57 PM) Yeah. They're pitching has been a little surprising to me -- I thought Weaver would be a decent bottom of the rotation pitcher (ie ERA between 4.50-5.00), and same for Santana. The offense, OTOH, has been bad now for the past year or so, and it's not going to get any better. Garrett Anderson just isn't a very good offensive player anymore. They don't have a whole lot of offensive threats -- Vlad (duh), but beyond that, nothing. Rivera has his moments, and Figgins and Kennedy are nice complimentary players, but that offense is not one to be feared. I know Stoneman has been ripped, but I think he made the right choice in not dealing away guys like Kendrick, Morales, and Wood for someone like Manny. In fact, it wouldn't surprise me to see Anahiem try to get a good prospect or two for Kennedy (among others). I'm sure the Mets would definitely be interested... The Angels were dumbs***s for letting there best clutch hitter walk away when they could have just offered him arb and kept him for one more year (he would have stayed). I am referring to Bengie Molina. We all knew that piece of s*** Jose Molina couldn't hit and when your offense sucked as it was last year, you couldn't afford to lose your best clutch hitter and replace him with his turd of a brother and a prospect like Jeff Mathis, who wasn't prepared to play. I realize they have an amazing farm system, but not all of those guys will pan out. They have made countless mistakes and they have the money and when you have this type of payroll you need to be competing. They could have easily picked and chose a couple prospects and dealt one or two of there top guys for some bats. I am surprised the pitching has crumbled to a point. I figured Weaver would be solid for the Angels. I've never been a big Lackey fan, but I did know they could be in trouble with injuries considering Colon had a lot of question marks entering the season (and hasn't pitched in forever now) and Escobar was banged up most of last year. The pitching was over its head last year, otherwise they would have stunk than too. Quite frankly they aren't a good team and I have been saying this for a little while. Losing Molina, replacing them with his crap brother, all while there pitching suffered some injuries and it spells a bad season. They may just finish last so they betterh ope they can get those guys developed quickly, otherwise they may take a major hit to the season ticket base that they have built up (they need to get things back next year and that may mean acquiring a bat or two this year in preperation for next year). Had they got Konerko, things may have been a whole lot better. Erstad...Kochman....Kennedy (not that he's bad)...Anderson....Rivera/Salmon....Molina all need to be removed from the starting lineup and replaced with a legit player. In Kennedy's case, he will be gone because of the dirth of prospects the Angels have in the middle infield. The Angels also need to see if McPherson can stay healthy and turn into a 3rd baseman. Figgins and Vladdy are the only two legit players they have offensively (along with Kennedy). Anderson is a lazy POS in the field and a mediocre hitter thanks to all his injuries. Erstad is a garbage CF and a mediocre hitter while Kochman needs to be dealt somewhere else (Let Morales play 1st).

QUOTE(whitesoxin @ May 7, 2006 -> 06:22 PM) I was always taught that SATs was more important, but it appears more schools value the ACT these days. That's good news for me I guess because everyone in my school has been raking the ACTs with 30's and above. When I graduated SATS were the big thing, but now I found out people get 2000's (and i look puzzled thinking 1600 was a perfect score). Apparently things changed. I remember taking both the SAT's and the SAT II's. QUOTE(SoxFan1 @ May 21, 2006 -> 06:23 PM) So while I was fly-fisghin in Wisconsin, I get a call from my sis. Yes, the package has arrived and I got.... :drumroll: a 26! Whoot! Congrats Slav

QUOTE(RME JICO @ May 22, 2006 -> 10:59 PM) As long as he can throw strikes, he is going to be an asset. This was a great move by KW. Thornton+Mackowiak > Marte+Borchard. Considering Borch is already out of Seattle and the fact that we were able to get a young lefty that can throw 97 MPH...well I'll take my chances on that move any day of the week. If we could convert just a few of those type of guys, we'd be in business.

QUOTE(Jordan4life_2006 @ May 22, 2006 -> 10:30 PM) Man is the game changing. Mavs and Suns to battle it out to see who goes to the finals? The days of needing dominant bigs and playing elite defense to win titles look just about over. Now I will be rooting for whichever team comes out of the West. I like Cuban and Dirk and am a big Nash fan. Plus I think the Suns are fun to watch. On the other hand, Pistons = Bulls rivals and well I'm not a big fan of the Heat (even though I'm a huge Shaq fan).

QUOTE(Gene Honda Civic @ May 22, 2006 -> 10:27 PM) He still needs a secondary pitch. He has been better than I expected, which is encouraging. But a few dominant outings, then a few wild terrible ones, has been his style for his entire career. Until he cuts the wild ones out, and finds a secondary pitch so that the longball isn't a problem, I'm not putting him in many high-leverage situations. He is tantalizing though. The nice thing is Cooper has had a good history with guys improving there changeups when joining our organization. It seems to be a strenght of our coaching staff and a nice changeup to compliment Thorntons pedestrian (yet good enough when mixed with his fastball) slider would make him pretty much unhittable (if he can continue to improve his command). I love Thornton stuff and you can see he's just a hell of a lot more confident with the Sox. Ozzie has shown faith in Matt and Matt has responded. Part of it is the fact that Coop seems to be excellent at teaching the mental game of pitching and getting the pitchers to have confidence in there stuff. It seems like too many pitchers out think themselves and think they have to make the perfect pitch, when in reality if they throw strikes and change locations they not only don't have to make the perfect pitch (rather just consistently paint the zone while changing locations and speed) and not only will you be sucessful when you make those pitches, but because you are hard to lock in on, you will get away with the mistakes you make (and every pitcher, no matter how good they are, makes mistakes). The good ones are so good that a hitter often times can't get the mistake because he's so concerned with trying to protect all the plate.

QUOTE(Balta1701 @ May 22, 2006 -> 10:40 PM) You're never as good as you look when you're playing your best, and you're never as bad as you look when you're playing your worst. The Dodgers are getting ridiculous pitching right now and good hitting, and they're catching teams that are falling flat (the Angels for example). Angels aren't falling flat, they are playing about as good as they are (ie s***ty).

QUOTE(Heads22 @ May 22, 2006 -> 09:35 PM) I would never Gage the board. That's your thing. And something I'm not willing to relinquish. I figured for sure it would have been gaged a few weeks ago when I did the update.

QUOTE(greasywheels121 @ May 22, 2006 -> 09:33 PM) Agreed. I'm looking forward to seeing what Nelson can do. It is going to be really interesting to see how Logan reacts to the minors. Will he dissapear never to be seen again or will he regain the rhythm he had in spring training and gain much needed experience that could turn him into a quality reliever later this season or a year from now? I think we'll be able to find out pretty quickly (a month or so) whether he was just road a hot hand farther than pretty much anyone in major league history or if he actually created a career for himself when he changed his arm angle and he will actually continue to improve.

QUOTE(Heads22 @ May 22, 2006 -> 09:32 PM) I did no such thing. Nah, we both clicked to replace it about the same time and it cauesd a php glitch. It was more because both of us were speedy (which is odd in my case since I'm usually slow as hell with this type of stuff).

QUOTE(JackTalkThai @ May 22, 2006 -> 07:02 PM) Justin Verlander is straight up filthy. Going on 15 scoreless innings (ERA is now 2.79) and kid was hitting 99 with ease on the gun in the 7th inning. He has absolutely unreal stuff....for anyone let alone a rookie. The only question is how many innings does his arm have in it this year. I don't think he's pitched many more than around 120 or so. Him and Bonderman are studs in the making. They got Zumaya who should develop into something special in the pen, Maroth IS solid (despite what people on ST think) and Rogers is still a crafty vet. Robertson is pitching way over his head as is most of there bullpen.

QUOTE(Heads22 @ May 22, 2006 -> 09:27 PM) Jake Peavy with 16 K in 7 innings, in line to get the loss. Braves reliever Ken Ray (of the sub 2 ERA) was a starter for Winston-Salem two years ago. Wasn't Ray like a teacher or something who went back to baseball or decided to go into baseball? I was thinking there was a special story that went along with Kenny Ray. I remember seeing him pitch a game I was there.

QUOTE(whitesoxfan101 @ May 22, 2006 -> 09:19 PM) I'm still not convinced that there is a single team in the entire National League that is anymore than decent. Maybe the Mets, but that is about it. However in 2 years, the Dodgers are going to be a f***ing b**** when their guys develop. Apparently the combined record of the NL West is better than the record of any other division. Don't quote me on that, but its according to my dad (as of yesterday). I don't think much of the West, but they have been a lot better this year than last. The Dodgers are a better team (hell they were solid last year, problem was they were/are full of injury prone guys). Giants are improved with Bonds (even if he isn't good anymore) and the Dbacks got better while the Pads stayed about the same. Don't ask me what the hell the Rocks did (make a deal with the devil???).

I had it up, but than you change the file name for whatever reason. I had to fix a php error in the process, so HAAA

QUOTE(Kalapse @ May 22, 2006 -> 09:28 PM) great news hopefully his slider is able to fool righties as well as it has in the past. Welcome mister ROOGY. Our team is considerably better now that Contreras replaced Logan and Nelson replaces Montero.

Merging this with the thread on Montero going down.

Considering Kenny has said that he was very impressed with him, mixed with the fact that he's reportedly on his way to Chicago, I figured its best to close this thread.

QUOTE(Kalapse @ May 22, 2006 -> 09:20 PM) I suck at life. Awesome...will get that up right now. Done and Done...thanks so much Kalapse.

Yep, Nelson on the way back to the majors.

QUOTE(Heads22 @ May 22, 2006 -> 08:57 PM) Thing is Gage could remove it easily. Its on my list of things to do once I finish finals this week. Thats why its been up the past 2 weeks (now that we've gotten some more graphical ads as opposed to the text ones).

QUOTE(Linnwood @ May 22, 2006 -> 09:12 PM) Doug Eddings? :headshake Ya, the strike zone was terrible. Franks first home run was because Garland was getting absolutely hosed on the zone and had to throw Big Frank a get me over (to his credit, Frank hit it over the fence).

QUOTE(Jordan4life_2006 @ May 22, 2006 -> 08:40 PM) LOL, the only guys that hate on Frank more than you are Nuke and Aboz. What's going on? I may hate on him, but I respect all that he's done in a Sox uni and he definately deserves being honored in one final Sox banner (with the next one being at either 500 HR's or retirement).

Sportscenter segment on the Sox/A's game starts with Kenny's comments calling Thomas an idiot.