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Good stuff as usual Bham. On a sidenote, Pacheco left the game with diziness . I didn't hear anything on Sweeney's injury so hopefully its nothing.

Gordon is heating up as of late in this game though. 16 points tonight.

Duh played awesome yesterday and is doing it again today. Duhon is shooting better than Gordon this month.

Earlier this week, we added CWSGuy as a mod of the new Around the Horn board and now we will finish off the mod squad for this board with Tony82087. For those of you that aren't familiar with Tony, he's been a very long time poster on this site who has treated everyone with respect from day one. He's also a very bright and knowledgeable poster and should make a great addition to the team. So as Hawk would say, Tony...YEEESSS!!!!

QUOTE(Gene Honda Civic @ Apr 16, 2005 -> 12:03 PM) Ford hit a 3-run shot too Jas, and Ford's was first. I stand corrected :banghead

I'd have to think so.

QUOTE(Punch and Judy Garland @ Apr 16, 2005 -> 10:47 AM) Vanilla midget Lew Ford hit a three run homer that taints what was a great outing Technically speaking it was Torri. But Millwood was awesome until the 8th when he gave up the 3 run job. He was leaving everything up that inning and really should of been taken out.

See, Ozzie is looking funny in the press conference so if this was the light of his comments about Willie I could maybe forgive him. His best managerial job of the year today cause he just let Buehrle pitch

About an hour and 40 minutes, cause 1st pitch was roughly 1:05 central time. Final out was at 3:44. I called it too. I said in the game chat that the game would be under 1:45.

Joe Crede...if the Sox had a guy that could play against the LHP's then I could see making a case for having Jose at 3rd.

Wow, unbelievably awesome game by Buehrle. Ichiro was the lone Mariner who owns him and he owns everyone, especially Buehrle. Another series won

Ozzie...I promise not to rip you for the rest of the day if you just stick with Buehrle in the 9th.

Ya, last outing he was really looking sharp even though the Sox beat him. But he looked plain as day the first time around, Hawk was just being his usual dumbass self saying that it was the pitching that kept the Sox offense off the board...instead of just admitting the offense failed to capitalize.

QUOTE(T R U @ Apr 16, 2005 -> 10:13 AM) Ive got Jon penciled in for 18 wins, I called it before the season I am sticking to it.. BTW I found another thing Garland said after the game, I dont know if I am the only one to see this or not but here it is...

Paulie goes way back!!!! 1-0 Sox

1st pitch in about 2 minutes

Wow, horrible horrible story.

Definate must win tonight. I was so impressed with how they played yesterday, responding so well to the news that Curry will miss the rest of the season (both regular and post).

QUOTE(nitetrain8601 @ Apr 15, 2005 -> 11:24 AM) He'll probably trade the pick if he ends up getting the #1 overall unless Sloan really wants him. I doubt it though. I see Bogut just being another Mehmet Okur. Bogut has much more low post presence than Mehmet. Mehmet lives outside of the pain. He's a poor man Arvidis Sabonis.

Mariotti is right though. Best things the Cubs could do is get rid of Baker. He's absolutely atrocious and I've never seen a guy ruin such a pitching staff by overworking his staff.

Alright I've long pondered this so I'm going to bring it up. I've always wondered why so many fans hate a player because he makes such and such amount of money. Out here in SoCal tons of people hate Darren Dreifort cause he makes 11 million a year and is hurt. They call up on sports radio and try to call him an asshole, etc. I know many Bull fans hate AD because he makes big bucks. You have all those people that call A-Rod Pay-Rod. I don't get it, why hate a player because a team or owner is willing to give him money. If your going to hate a player hate it because of his production on th field or him being an ass to fans off the field or getting in trouble with the law. Its kind of one of my peeves. People always call players greedy (and yes there are plenty of greedy players) but fact is they are getting these multi million dollar offers from the owners. What do you want them to do, no, I'm going to turn down this 35 mill deal and sign for 20 million with some small payroll club. None of us would do that if you had a job offer (at a place you wanted to go to and a job you liked) for like 5 mill at some other company compared to the 100,000 your making now (Just throwing out some make believe numbers).

QUOTE(SoxFan101 @ Apr 16, 2005 -> 09:21 AM) talk about an over-reaction :banghead Nah its been building. I absolutely loathe the way he handles this bullpen, not to mention the way he handles the lineups when he plays a reserve. There is absolutely zero reason to have Jermaine Dye in the 5 hole right now. Aaron is hitting the ball well and Dye's swing is looking fugly at this point. Swap the two of them and put AJ in between. Its only the smart thing to do. To add to that he had AJ bunting in one of the situations with runners on 1st and 2nd (when all that was being thrown were balls by Piniero). Its early in the game and you have a productive hitter out. I don't really think then is a good time to be trying to manufacture your runs, especially with a lousy bunter at the plate. At least not against a guy like Piniero who is coming back from an injury. If its against someone like Johan Santana or an ace then you do it. In that situation it was a bad call, imo. ANd remember I don't question moves after the fact, I only question stuff before the fact and I was just shaking my head the 2nd I saw AJ try to lay down the bunt on the 1st pitch.

I may be able to. I used to be able to speak it semi fluently. Don't know how much I'd know in terms of car parts but I may be able to translate the gist of it. Eek, if its pretty simple I may be able to get it semi grammatical in writing to him but my skills of putting together sentences have regressed cause I haven't even spoken the language in like 2 years. 4 yrs of french in high school and not liking the french will do that to you I guess

I should add, I'm not saying Rolen isn't good. He's the 2nd best in the league. All you got to do is watch Beltre for a couple weeks and you'll see his the best 3rd baseman in all of baseball (defensively and offensively). He has soft hands, great range, and an absolutely CANNON. Plus he makes the short roller down the line look so easy.

Tracey pitched in Winston Salem last year and was there ace. This season he is in Birmingham and is rated #5 by FutureSox.com. Tracey picked up his first AA win on tax day (April 15, 05). He pitched excellent and was hitting 94 on the gun (courtsey of BhamBarons). He's got an awesome arm, I deem it a rubber arm and throws a good slider as well. Really turned into a top notch prospect last year and he a shot with a good season to pretty much assure him as the #2 pitching prospect in the organization. Tracey was claimed off waivers by Baltimore March 23, 2007