Chisoxfn

He struggled with his control, but as the game went on his fastball starting looking pretty darn good. Much like the Garcia of old. WGN didn't have the radar on, but I'd guess he was hitting 94 on more then one ocassion with some good life on it. Not his best outing, but he battled through and looked like he started to losen up. Kind of like Colon did yesterday for the Angels.

Cripes, Nocioni just got LEVELED on a layup attempt. Looks like he's alright.

QUOTE(Jordan4life_2004 @ Apr 6, 2005 -> 04:45 PM) I gotta give the Magic credit. I thought they made a mistake by not taking Okafor instead of Howard. Not that Okafor is bad, but Howard is a beast. Howard probably has more upside as well. Howard is a machine defensively and is a tremendous rebounder. Plus he has a great attitude. He was a hell of a pick. Not that Okafor isn't good, but Howard is going to be better.

QUOTE(DBAH0 @ Apr 6, 2005 -> 06:44 AM) Imagine if they didn't have Cesar Izturis. Plus they lost Cora

Simmons would look fantastic, but he'd have to sign for the full exemption and I don't know if the Bulls want to give that to just one player, plus I tend to think Simmons may just get a little more. On the other hand there are so many other highly thought of players available that the teams iwth cap space may not have any and Simmons and Shareef will have to pretty much go with the mid-level. I know one thing, I'd be giddy with either.

That looked like a tick tack call on Chandler on that drive by Francis. Hell if anything I think it was offensive with Francis clearing with his arm. On a sidenote, I just heard them say that was the 3rd turnover of the game for the Bulls. Holy batman thats gotta be a record considering there is 5:26 left in the 3rd.

Brian Miller = Overrated and I couldn't tell you anything about Javier Castillo. Reynoso is a legit sleeper.

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Apr 6, 2005 -> 03:36 PM) This goes out to that special someone... M-V-P WILLIE!!!

QUOTE(T R U @ Apr 6, 2005 -> 08:48 AM) On a more serious issue, I am faced with the choice of skipping class to watch the Sox or going to class and missing some of the game.. I will ponder this while I am not doing school work and trying to find a way to get pass the filters to look at porn..

QUOTE(Spiff @ Apr 6, 2005 -> 08:34 AM) I feared that our plan might be too transparent for some, that they would see our real motivation, and damned if some people here aren't a little too smart for their own good. We really don't care about sig sizes, we just want to wrestle control of the boards away from Jason. This was just the first step in a plan for board (and possibly, world) domination, but now that Mr. El Pierzdyenikguchoatmealrasinsupercrunch has seen right through it, it doesn't matter anymore. Once we get everyone to make their sigs smaller, we can move on to Phase Two. I can't even begin to divulge the details of Phase Two, but rest assured there will be changes that will give you nightmares, or at least make you hungry. All of this while Jason is on a surprise trip to Europe. Oh yes, he has no idea Mr. El, and that's what makes it so delicious. Wow Spiff, thats it your gone as admin. What were the odds I stopped into a library (thought it was a bar) in Europe to check in on the site. After seeing this I immediately booked plane tickets home to take care of this issue. After all the years of service I put into the site, this is how I'm repaid Seriously everyone, this is something being done as a convienience to most. Its not something being done because we want to snap the whip, none of us give a damn, we've long wanted to have some size requirements for sigs and well now they are there.

QUOTE(T R U @ Apr 6, 2005 -> 08:28 AM) Yes I understand that, but there are some people who just dont want to see any of it all together.. TMar told me he turned off the avatars, thats what I was saying.. I wasnt sure if you could turn off sigs too.. I know there are some people who dont want to see any of the stuff.. Im at school right now and the pages go so slow because of the video avatar/sigs which really pisses me off.. but I get what your saying, I think my post was missunderstood We talked about possibly getting rid of video since it can be slow for those that are on dialup or slower connections. In the end I think if thats the case people can simply turn off the avs. I also am 99% sure you can turn off sigs. This way people have a few options, you can have sigs and they won't take as much space or people can get rid of it all together. Regardless everyone that wants to use a sig will have plenty of space to use it, imo. Its not like were going to sit around right clicking and checking the size of every sig. Its more to have a limit out so those really long sigs that when someone posts multiple times in a game thread for example, don't take up pretty much the whole page (when multiplied over all the posts).

QUOTE(El Piervizdyeguchansodnik @ Apr 6, 2005 -> 07:52 AM) The guideline says 1 pic. I have 2 pics I wanna bring back but they might be smaller than that one. If its smaller or you fit them both it seems fine by our regards. The key is to just limit the size people have because we've had lots of complaints from members who like to see sigs, but not ones that take up half the page. Sigs are a cool thing and there are some really awesome ones on this site. In no way do we want people to get rid of them, more to make sure they are a reasonable size (and this may effect 5% of the posters, if that) and if they aren't, to simply resize it down.

Holy cripes, just finished watching this game on the DVR and jesus was I going nuts in the 9th. Awesome, awesome win

QUOTE(Al Lopez's Ghost @ Apr 6, 2005 -> 03:43 AM) A couple of years ago the Bears had a qb named Jim Miller. He had the body of a qb too, and he failed his drug test because he took an over the counter supplement that had a precurser to steroids in it. It produced a "hit" on the banned substance test and he was suspended for 4 games. I think that it's possible or maybe likely that this is what happened to Sanchez too, and will happen a few more times before some of this mental midgets figure out that you gotta be careful and read labels of what you buy at Joe's Vitamin World. But I do think Billy Boy took steroids. Besides the freakish arm strength disappearing so quickly, I think Billy had a pretty good case of acne going for him, which is also a byproduct of steroids. I have no information about the size of his testicles, however. I was going to bring up the whole Jim Miller situation. My guess is Sanchez took some over the counter type of vitamin or supplement or who knows what the contained something that now shows up or is like a precursor. Its going to be tough on him and I'm sure its going to happen to a few more players.

Supposedly Alex Sanchez says he never ever took any steroids or anything along those lines. He is pissed over the suspension and is going to appeal and his attorney is stating he's never done anything along those lines.

QUOTE(hi8is @ Apr 5, 2005 -> 10:45 PM) i was there, where were you? i was seated along the third base side and then went to the grass for a bit 3rd base side, pretty much behind the dugout 5 or 6 rows up so we must of been close. There were a few Sox fans sitting behind us chanting pretty loud. The game was definately looking good until Jose started to really stink.

Keith I've seen him pitch many a times. The guy has been a gamer and pitched big time for the Titans last year in the playoffs as their #2 behind Winsdor. If I were to compare Romero to anyone it would be Jim Parque. He is short, small in stature and has a fastball right around 89-91 (the times I"ve seen him clocked). He varies a bit from Parque in the sense that he has a pretty damn nasty curveball and mixes in a bit of a slider iirc. Romero definately has good stuff and guts, but his stature would lead me to believe he would slide, plus he doesn't have that dazzling fastball scouts drool over. He's definately one of the best pitchers in college but I don't know if he grades out as a top 10 pick. Definately a guy that could do some things though, especially because he's been developing a pretty good changeup and his control has done nothing but get better. His ERA would also be a lot lower had he not gotten a little beat up in his last outing against UCI.

Supposedly the new owner wants some new blood and is blaming Pax partly for the teams collapse. Anthony/Izzo would be an intriguing combination. And I'd think Izzo would at least think about it considering he'd have Lebron on his side. Still, I think Izzo is pretty darn happy at MSU.

McPherson will do a rehab stint and then should be in Anaheim. On a side note, Vladdy is the s***, he just creamed a homer in the 1st inning and then belted the go ahead double later in the game against the Rangers.

QUOTE(hammerhead johnson @ Apr 1, 2005 -> 04:18 PM) Tom Glavine is available, and I did draft him in the last round, but I decided to go with Haren instead. Joel Pineiro is also available. I had him on my team last year & I dunno if I want to relive that experience. I have in my watch list, though. I might add him depending on what he does in his first few starts. Aaron Harang (Cincinatti Reds) has had intriguing stats this spring, but everything that I've read says he sucks. I have him and Luke Wilson on my watch list. Don't look at spring stats too hard. You got to remember lots of time pitchers are working on new pitches or specifically working on one of their pitches. I know I saw Escobar pitch for the Angels this spring and he got hammered, but he was working his changeup almost exclusively. Guys pitch a lot different in spring then they would in the majors (at least those guys with major league jobs). Plus anyone that depends on the breaking ball in Arizona tends to have an inflated ERA.

QUOTE(hi8is @ Apr 5, 2005 -> 09:30 PM) hummm, i think it was on sunday the 27th of march at about 2am I was there this past weekend for a couple hours after snowboarding up in the mountains. We just missed each other in Arizona. I had to suffer through that game that Contreras gave up all those runs against Seattle

How in the hell is Collaro so high. Guess this isn't a shocker, I've heard a few people think pretty highly of him. Fabio is way low though.

QUOTE(witesoxfan @ Apr 5, 2005 -> 09:28 PM) I think they are talking s*** about me, Jose didnt seem to friendly, I guess telling someone "nice outting last time pitch!" isnt a good idea after the pitch allows 9 ER in 4 IP. Note taken. ROFL

QUOTE(YASNY @ Apr 5, 2005 -> 06:43 AM) Some times things have a funny way of hitting home. I, not 15 minutes ago, found out that my father has prostate cancer. Reading that article, and the odds that Cowley faced, kind of helped me put things into the proper perspective. Thats horrible news Yasny. Thoughts go out to your dad.

QUOTE(YASNY @ Apr 5, 2005 -> 02:31 AM) This was from the Sun-Times, by the way. Thats fantastic. He's by far my favorite beat writer. Seems to do quite a good job and has a good relationship with most of the players.