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QUOTE(Gene Honda Civic @ Apr 16, 2005 -> 12:00 AM) http://chicagosports.chicagotribune.com/sp...tesox-headlines I don't think I'd feel very good about that comment if I was willie. Guillen is a pompous ass just like Hawk was. I'm sick of seeing Willie get trashed in every media circle by some in the organization. The guy happens to be hitting .400 this year and has more talent then Ozzie did after his injury. Ozzie needs a reality check and he needs to stop trashing players in the media. Learn to STFU. Sorry, only thing Ozzie does well or at least seems to is motivate his players and getting them to play hard. He's lucky thats one of the keys to managing becuase other than that he's a total POS. If I'm looking into this too far, fine, but Ozzie has ripped enough of his former players and enough of the current players. I don't get why Willie always gets trashed and its like a joke in the media. I can't think of many managers that make jokes like that when quoting in the media. I've heard jokes, but nothing at this level.

QUOTE(Punch and Judy Garland @ Apr 15, 2005 -> 10:39 PM) Judith is a little b****. Hopefully he continues to outperform his past so that he justifies the Sox cimmittment in him but I fear his good start is an aberration an that he is till the 12-12 pitcher with a 4.500 era he's been for awhile Out of the 5th starters spot there is nothing to complain aobut with those kind of numbers. OF course he's going to put up better numbers than that. Jon will win 15 games minimum.

QUOTE(Jabroni @ Apr 16, 2005 -> 01:37 AM) Beltre plays better defense than Rolen? I hope you're joking... Not even close to joking. Those that watch Beltre play every day or close to it will soon see just how sick of a defensive player he really is.

Ya that was a drubbing. Quite fun to watch of course I only watched it during the commercials of the Sox game.

Getting a partial tear in my rotator cuff. Nothing worse than that cause my arm hurt like a bastard every and anytime I tried throwing the ball after that. Especially since I never had any operation or anything. Since then I've built semi strength back but that sucked ass cause my playing days ended (not that I was going to be a pro or anything). In terms of being on the field. We were a few games away from making the state finals. I'm thinking Semi's for the SoCal area (may be wrong on that cause I never understood exactly how things went) and I had started the game before and we had inning limits so I couldn't go in this game except out of the pen. We were already losing, but I came in with the bases loaded and nobody out. Got 2 quick outs then on the next play got a pop out but the 2nd baseman dropped it. I then had to face there best hitter, meatball, grandslam (never had I given up one and never have I since). On the plus side I was 3-4 in the game and scored our teams only runs.

Really there aren't any great Chicago Bulls message boards, imo. But there are some pretty big ones. I don't know if www.bulls4ever.com is still around but they always had a big board. Its part of realgm.

Jon was phenomenal. I was still dissapointed that he got a little rattled after giving up the walk to Reed. He started leaving stuff up but was able to get through it and luckily Hermy came in and got the save cause it would of been a real bummer if Jon didn't get that victory.

QUOTE(marinergeek @ Apr 15, 2005 -> 03:50 PM) Felix has been the subject of much debate on our forum. We're pretty devided about it. My gut feel is he will bee a post all-star bullpen addition. As far as "sticking" with the club, I think that the goal of M's managmenet is to call him up when he's ready and not have him going back and forth between the Majors and AAA. Here's a link to a thread dedicated to the subject: The Great Felix Debate I saw him pitch a game this spring and put it this way, the kid is right on the brink. He still has some command issues, but just watching him pitch I was left thinking I was seeing one of the best arms of the past 10 years (no joke). The mix between his fastball and curve is just filthy. Assuming he stays healthy and can throw strikes, he's going to be phenomenal.

Just to give my two cents. Pineiro may of gotten the loss but he looked pretty sharp. He could of had better command but as usual when watching Joel pitch he had some awesome breaking pitches. His problem was simply the strike zone, but all in all I'd have to say it was a good outing. I've long wished he could find his way on over to the South Side, pretty much ever since he creamed the Sox in his MLB debut. On a sidenote, you guys got a true stud in Beltre. I'm from the SoCal area and watched him play a ton and he's absolutely the best defensive 3rd baseman in baseball. Rolen gets the love, but Beltre is better, no doubt about it and offensively as long as he remains semi patient (that was the big difference for him last year) he'll continue to put up monster numbers.

QUOTE(IgnatiusReillyTheThird @ Apr 15, 2005 -> 03:49 PM) All I know is that you guys have some great avatars in here. As for the birkenstock and coffee jabs...oh yeah, all you Chicago guys, um...get blown away? It's windy there, right? Or something. Illinois? Freddy is indeed the great unknown - if he pitches like he did in 2001 / parts of 2004, I would see it was a pretty equal trade. Considering the M's were known to want to ditch him though, I'd say they did well regardless. If Freddy pulls a 2003 - it MIGHT make some of us feel better about the Varitek / Lowe trade of long ago. Pierzynski seems to be fairly well liked by the fans here - no incidents yet? AJ has been a blessing for the White Sox. The signing may not of been a big ticket move by ESPN analysts, but he's the best catcher the Sox have had since Carlton Fisk. He calls a superb game and just gets along with everyone in the clubhouse. Plus once the game starts he means nothing but business. Good hitter, real smart player, and he does all the little things that help your ballclub win. For example he had a terrific take out slide in the 8th inning today on Boone that prevented a double play and in turn got Rowand in. That run turned out to be a pretty big one. They may of won by two, but had they not been the infielders would of been in when Hermy came in and well thats a whole nother scenario.

QUOTE(wufners @ Apr 15, 2005 -> 03:45 PM) The Garcia trade was definitely good for the Mariners. Our catching cupboard is pretty pathetic and Randy Wynn just wasn't cutting it as a centerfielder. I dont' think Garcia had much interest in resigning with the Mariners either. I think there's some bad blood there. A year or so back, they had a kind of ugly arbitration hearing with him in which he won. The difference in money was less than a $million, but the PR savy Mariners came out and cried that because of Freddy we can't afford to improve the team at the trading deadline. Freddy can be a bit of a headcase too. His stuff is great, but for some reason he can develop a mental block that prevents him from pitching well. With some of the problems he had with Mariner management (they also traded away his buddy, Carlos Guillen) I doubt he would have ever pulled his head out for them. Looks like he's put it together for you guys so far this year, eh? Were his performances as good as his numbers look? Sunday should be a fun game. The Mariner's starter tonight was thinking about staying at Freddy's house during the the series. With any luck for you guys, he'll be showing up at today's game with one heck of a hangover. Looks like a tip top place y'all got here. Your emoticons are much more violent and drunk then the ones we have. I dig. By the way--did you enjoy Ben Davis? When you look at the Garcia trade, It really does seem like one of those trades thats good for both teams. Garcia is a workhorse pitcher with filthy stuff and gets along very well with Ozzie (considering they have family ties). The Sox gave up a good deal of talent betting they could get Freddy to agree to a deal and they got him at less than market value (it was an insane market for FA pitching this year). The Mariners got rid of a guy they didn't want to pay and immediately added two young starters (Reed, Olivo) as well as a good shortstop prospect in Mike Morse. Personally I think Reed is the guy that will be solid out of the trade as I'm just not a fan of Olivo's plate calling skills or his offense. Hell, to be honest every time he was at the plate tonight I had full confidence in whoever was on the mound that he'd be a routine out. Still Jeremy Reed has a shot to be a real fun player to watch for a real long time. As far as Ben Davis goes, I don't think he was all that bad with the Sox last year and he's been hitting the ball well down in AAA. Attitude was good and he had some clutch hits last year for the club. Wouldn't call him great, nor would I call him bad.

QUOTE(jackie hayes @ Apr 15, 2005 -> 02:43 PM) No, I know they can't do it themselves. I'd have to look at one of the value charts to see if it is realistic for any team to move up. It just seems that some teams really, really love Edwards or Brown (Edwards especially), while Cleveland may not be very interested in him there. Thats the problem. Teams don't want to move up. Tampa is the only team that wants to and there are some rumors the Titans could be interested as well. Bottom line, the Bears would probably move down as well, but no teams are willing to give much anything worthwhile to move up, simply because this is a draft that has talent all over and at the top of the draft you could argue the talent isn't necessarily superior or at least it isn't when compared to previous drafts.

QUOTE(winodj @ Apr 15, 2005 -> 12:05 PM) Why do you leave the door open like this for me? What can I say, I try

We'd like to make it a board where other teams fans can come and talk in sanction. If people don't wnat to talk to other teams fans (Soxtalk members) then they can simply stay away from this board. However, I always enjoy good debate with other intelligent fans and I think there are quite a few posters on here that do as well. So hopefully we can create some sort of alliance with different sites and work some things out. But this is definately going to be a slow moving work in progress, especially if I'm involved in it

I can't even think of the last time I saw Dye hit the ball hard. I think the only time all year that he has was that soley shot against Cleveland to tie the game up. He just looked miffed at the plate right now. I was watching and if you look at his swing, he's diving out towards the dugout and then at the same time trying to go opposite field. Its really not a good combination. He's got to get that stride fixed because if he continues diving towards the dugout on his swings he's going to be in for a long year.

Willie has looked very sharp in limited at bats. With Pods down I woudln't be opposed to DH'ing Willie and putting him atop the lineup. Hell play Willie in left for all I care. I'm a big Gload fan but right now he just doesn't look right at the plate. Of course its going to be hard for him to get it straightened out on the bench. I do know one thing, the Sox still have some options if Carl is down and playing Gload as a DH would definately work plus I do love the idea of having Aaron up in the lineup. I'd also move Pyrz ahead of Dye and then have Gload behind Dye. But Ozzie wouldn't do that, his lineup ideas when he's playing his bench players are just foolish.

I'm sick of all the negatives, so I'm going to start off with a negative and turn it into a positive. Thus far the Sox offense has flat out blown, but lucky enough its gotten a few clutch hits when needed. Jermaine Dye, Aaron Rowand, Joe Crede, Juan Uribe. I think we can pencil in all 4 of them as dissapointments offensively early on. However, Crede is in the mist of a 5 game hitting streak. Uribe was hitting the ball yesterday, picking up two doubles and looking a lot better. The past two days Rowand has been hitting the ball well and appears to be back to last seasons form. Then you have Dye that has yet to get out of his funk and Konerko may of gotten himself out of his short funk. Plus this team is 6-3 with one of the worse offenses in baseball. That is going to change. The pitching has held up and kept them in games. "Smart Ball" has actually worked and the Sox have executed surprisingly well. There are at least a couple game where runs scored using "smart ball" were decisive in the outcome of the game. Now if what I think I see is happening, I think you'll see the Sox offense waken up. Ozzie should swap Rowand and Dye in the lineup and regardless of that I think your going to see the club score some runs against the Mariners this weekend.

Looks to me like the Bears will get either Braylon or Ronnie Brown, whichever Cleveland passes up. Tampa or Miami will nab Smith and SF Rodgers. Looking good for the Bears. Personally I think the Bears want either Braylon or Ronnie.

Want to quickly welcome aboard the Mariners fans that stop on by. I also want to say I think this could become a pretty cool new feature where opposing fans can stop in here and talk baseball with Sox fans. they can talk about the series, the division or just baseball in general. So welcome aboard to all those M's fans that stop on bye

Great stuff. Arod is a guy I never wanted to see go to the Yanks cause he's a class player and a hell of a talent.

Alright I'll have to listen to the song. 2k's probably right and I've heard it and just never knew the name.

April 22, 1983 Come On Eileen - Dexy’s Midnight Runners Never heard the song and have never even heard of the group.

Awesome Kap. That should be a great stepping stone for you. Good luck

That sucks Evil. Good luck on your job search and hopefully you find a new gig quickly.

#2 - THE PEACEMAKER 2's are the born diplomats. They are aware of others' needs and moods and often think of others before themselves. Naturally analytical and very intuitive they don't like to be alone. Friendship and companionship is very important and can lead them to be successful in life, but on the other hand they'd rather be alone than in an uncomfortable relationship. Being naturally shy they should learn to boost their self- esteem and express themselves freely and seize the moment and not put things off. Famous 2's President Bill Clinton, Madonna, Whoopee Goldberg, Thomas Edison, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Semi Accurate, but other parts aren't cause I got really high self esteem, borderline cockiness, lol.