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Well, I was always a big Butter fan. He kind of reminded of me as a pitcher. Especially when he came up and got shelled, cause that would happen every game if I was pitching at the major league level, lol. Anyway, I do wish Jim the best. He pitched good and played with heart when he was here. For some reason I always liked him, even though his numbers weren't always great and at times he really struggled to go deep into games (Something I don't like out of any pitcher; they need to go deep, imo)

Recap: Stewart Makes Case for Final Spot By Mario Scalise March 17, 2003

Week Four Spring Training Report By Mario Scalise March 18, 2003

Thats some great news. Now I don't want to hear any more about his arm other then how good it is, for the rest of the year

Great having ya back.

LDF, I remember ya bringing it up. I was hoping way back then that the Sox would be able to acquire Miguel. Now it looks like they will let him walk or trade him if they are out of contention at the deadline.

I believe it was a 1-year contract for $1M, with incentives that could have earned him another $500K. I don't remember for certain, though. damn, that is still short of what the twinks were offering. Ya, only by 500k though. I think it just got to the point that KW wasn't pleaed with Boras's offer and since the two sides (Mainly JR and Boras don't see eye to eye) nothing was going to get done.

Someone called this last November or December but nobody agreed with him. He started to believe the hype. I wonder who that could be or better said the things we mention about miguel not able to hit without the cork. where is that sassy girl when she needs to eat her words. hmmmm i wonder what is her name oh yeah hsc. Yes, Great to see ya back on LDF. I got a feeling either you got a new internet connection or when they made the updates on the server it fixed things for ya. Welcome back buddy

As far as the pen goes Ginter will get his shot, it won't be to break camp as they'll give White a shot, but if a guy goes down from the right side Almonte and Ginter will be considered. I look for the Sox to move Ginter back to the rotation in AAA, and then build his stamina back up. He could be a backup plan for a starter as well. Remember, this guy absolutely dominated Charlotte like 2 years ago.

By the way Jim, It was real cool meeting ya. I wish you weren't busy so we could of kicked it a little longer. I thought it was real cool how things were going on. It was interesting watching all the drills the pitchers and position players did. I think I was there before the game play actually started. I can't say enough how much we appreciate this updates. They are awesome

Sorry It was a server update. They were just cleaning things up, making sure the server is running effecitively and updating it and such. I don't really know what all takes place but like every 3 months they do server updates, actually I think its more like every six months. These are the ones that leave a couple hours downtime. Overall though, we've had 99.99% up time since being with this server company which is sweet. I should of known about this ahead of time, had I looked on the server site so I could of forwarned ya. Thanks for the patience

Just made my picks. Maryland loses to Arizona in the finals. Okolohoma, Maryland, Arizona and Pitt are my final four teams.

What school in Fullerton? Im at Troy High School right now Cal State Fullerton. Is Troy located in Fullerton? I don't even know the area much. I just know Brea mall is like 5 minutse from there if you head West. Angel stadium is like 3 minutes East and my house is like 20 minutes away, lol. And there is an inn and out right by the Campus.

Well Hawkeyes did make the NIT and if anyones interested they play Villaneuva tonight at 6 pacific time.

Speaking of Former Sox. Bill Simas pitched a scoreless inning of relief for the Dodgers yesterday.

No Prob. and thanks to everyone that did updates. Sweet, another White Sox winner. Of course I expect a whole lot of these during the regular season and I expect the post-season to end on a White Sox winner

Why not go to the playoffs. Even if you lose at least you got there, its a lot closer to the Series then being out of the playoffs.

Nice, very nice. I like seeing Almonte do good. By the way, thanks for picking this up KWF

I think we both know that KochThis knows nothing, he is a homer that won't stop crying and look at the facts. Notre Dame beat Marquette, Maryland and Texas in the same week. They could take Illinois. Well part of college sports is being an absolute homer, well if you have school spirit. Then you could be like me who doesn't give a damn about its schools teams, other then the baseball one. But I THINK the Hawkeyes are going to win the NIT. I think the Illini are a very talented team and can go far, but I look at the other seeds, and they may be smaller names, but they all earned there slot. If Illinois is going to win it all, then they'll do it no matter who they are playing, otherwise, they just aren't the best, but they are pretty good, but they've also been quite the dissapointment, imo.

Thanks Clujer. I'd fill in but I'm at work just ocassionally updating this thread while doing some "work" stuff. If I had speakers I'd probably turn the game on, heck its on AM 710 where I am. Too bad I'm not driving around today.

I think Uconn Syracuse and Pitt would all beat the Illini. The one exception could be Syracuse. I think Illinois would have a good shot in the game. I'd say Notre Dame would have a shot too, but its tough considering they are slumping. They did prove they could beat a lot of good teams though.

Talent wise, Harris has lots of it. Defensively is supposed to be his strong suit at least when he's playing second, but offensively he's been weak. He typically hits a lot of fly balls, but when I watched him in spring he was hitting a lot more grounders, none of them were getting through, but still an improved sign. He has tons of speed too, but he strikes out way too much and doesn't draw enough walks to utilize that speed. He'll probably become a bench player with some team. I'd think there is a shot he gets dealt when the Sox look to add a player in July.

I'd go with Randy Johnson. Maybe we could use a centerfielder, but one more front pitcher and wow. If were being semi-realistic, I'd say Carlos Beltran.

Davannon would either be playing outfield or dh'ing. Lol, I think they are far off with Flash. I didn't think about it, and he was a starter a while ago, but I don't think they would take any chance with that. Good to see Stewart doing well.

Personally I think the Midwest is the toughest. The names aren't as big, but those schools are exceptionally talented.