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I guess we should have some 'fundamental' baseball here and bunt with Jermaine...

QUOTE(Brian @ May 10, 2005 -> 12:41 AM) Just got home guys, but heard the 3rd inning on the radio. Anyone else questioning the sac bunt by Iguchi? We are up 2, why not play for the big inning? Instead we have our hottest hitter bunt, and we end up getting nothing. Oh well. Hopefully Sox hold on and I look dumb...no jokes plz. I agree with ya, Brian. Others think that your number three hitter should get the job done, which is a good point. Difference of opinions, but I'd rather seen Gooch swing away.

I guess I didn't notice it until this year, but Freddy has a pretty good two-seam fastball. I didn't realize it's almost Bartolo-good...

I need to get one of these for my basement. My buddy has bench seats from the Bulls Championship run ('96, if I remember correctly). They're so comfortable and awesome.

Once the D-Rays call up Jeff Niemann, I'm going to watch just about every Tampa Bay game that he pitches. He's gonna be good.

QUOTE(fathom @ May 10, 2005 -> 12:05 AM) It was clearly the right call to have Iguchi bunt. If your 3-4 hitters can't get the guy in from 3rd, that's their fault. Iguchi hits a lot of grounders, so he's a threat to hit into a DP in that situation. Yet neither Everett nor PK are swinging the bat very well right now. I'd rather have Iguchi swinging, but like I said, I didn't say anything about it before the fact, so my b****ing is useless now. Rack 'em up.

QUOTE(whitesoxfan101 @ May 10, 2005 -> 12:01 AM) Iguchi putting them on 2nd and 3rd 1 out for the middle of the order, I just can't complain about that. Everett and to a lesser extent Rowand have to pick the runners up. Yeah, but neither Carl nor Paully are swinging an especially hot bat right now to where you're 90-100% sure he'll get the job done. But one should be able to trust the middle of his lineup to get a flyball.

I don't know if I necessarily like the bunt in that situation. But I didn't say it before the fact, so I'm not gonna b**** about it now.

We miss you, Frank... It will be so nice once #35 is back in the middle of the lineup hitting third. Nice BB, PK.

Let's hope that another young Oklahoma State grad can man the hot-corner as well as Robin did...

Wow Scott, that is beautiful.

Are Scott Podsednik and Frank Thomas the only two guys on our team who know the words "take some pitches" or "draw a walk"? Sheesh, it looks pretty obvious to me that Nomo is having a tough time finding the strike zone, and we're bailing him out. I realize we have two runs, but I'd like to see some more patience...

QUOTE(El Piervizdyeguchansodnik @ May 9, 2005 -> 11:31 PM) Robin is dead quiet. Please give me Donn Pall back. I think Robin is pretty damn funny, though... Personally, I think both Robin and Donn are easily both better than DJ, but that's just me.

Konerko, ground into a double play, just get the friggin' run in...

Hurray for infield singles! Hurray for starting Carl on your fantasy team!

QUOTE(Kalapse @ May 9, 2005 -> 10:10 PM) Not to mention Huff who has just as many stolen bases this season as Sanchez. Huff... I hope Kenny makes a move for him.

Damn, I'd so buy one of these if I didn't have to get two. I'd love one of 'em in my house... And the $100 bucks for shipping is a drag, too. Understandable, but still a drag... EDIT: Ah, stupid me -- I didn't even know that they were connected like that. I'm thinking about bidding on the first one.

QUOTE(Jabroni @ May 9, 2005 -> 03:58 AM) Instead we should judge by Cotts' 9.0 IP in the season over almost 100 innings of data? Good lord... Oh really? Now, who would do that? Last two years of Kevin Walker at AAA -- @ Fresno in 2004, he put up a 4.26 ERA in 69.2 IP, and a 4.08 in 46.1 IP at Portland in '03. That's over 100 innings, hotshot. Yeah, he had two decent seasons, but since then, he's been garbage. And, it's not like he's been getting better, like, say, coming off an injury, regaining your groove, etc. He was good in '01-'02. No one is denying that. But, until he shows something at Charlotte, he's nothing more than the 10th-11th reliever on a competing ballclub. EDIT: I'm done with you. If you were the GM, Pablo Ozuna would be our starting thirdbaseman, Timo Perez would be our starting RF'er hitting third, and guys like Uribe/Rowand would never had made it. Luckily, you're not. G'Night, fellas, I think we know we're all dealing with someone who blamed the game in Oakland singlehandedly on Willie Harris.

QUOTE(Jabroni @ May 9, 2005 -> 03:53 AM) My point was that I made that edit before I ever saw your post. But here's the thing I love. You guys say that Cotts is better than Walker. I show you tangible stats that show Walker is better than Cotts but it's me who is wrong? Amazing. You guys could be right that Cotts is better than Walker if Walker prevents him from reaching his past peripherals though. You showed me 87 IP, of Cotts. A 24 year old pitcher. Congrats... I guess me, Rowand, qwerty, DBAHO, Cheat, et al are all wrong and are just out to get ya. It's a conspiracy, damnit.

QUOTE(Jabroni @ May 9, 2005 -> 03:51 AM) I made my edit before you posted this. Apparently you didn't, look at my post -- lefty isn't in the quote.

QUOTE(Jabroni @ May 9, 2005 -> 03:44 AM) By the way, 87.2 to 95.0 IP is almost two full seasons for the average reliever. Cliff Politte, the Sox least used reliever last year, who was injured for the last month of the season, pitched 51+ innings. If he's there for the year, I'd bet it's closer to 57 or so. (And, by year, I mean the last month -- didn't he have an appendectomy or whatever? Me -- :banghead ) And 87 IP is still not enough to judge a guy. Certainly not a 24 year old. I mean, if we're gonna start judging guys off of such small sample sizes, Jon Garland or Aaron Rowand probably aren't with us. I doubt Juan Uribe, too. I mean, they all had to go through their bumps in the road when they were young. They didn't have instant success, either. Oh, ok, you edit it and slip in lefty. Haven't seen that before.

QUOTE(Jabroni @ May 9, 2005 -> 03:39 AM) Yes, I'd rather judge a pitcher on his more relevant MLB stats. Otherwise, I could argue that Scott Ruffcorn is a better pitcher than both Neal Cotts AND Kevin Walker. You're real great at twisting words. It's fine, though, it's become pretty obvious after 3000+ posts. I hope you enjoy making yourself laugh.

QUOTE(Jabroni @ May 9, 2005 -> 03:35 AM) You can't refute my statement so you bring up an unrelated topic? Lame. I've refuted it several times. You refuse to acknowledge something being based off of 85 IP, a terribly small sample size. I can't do a damn thing about it if you don't acknowledge it.

QUOTE(Jabroni @ May 9, 2005 -> 03:34 AM) But Walker has a better K rate and ERA than Cotts in the MAJORS. Isn't that whats counts/matters more? In about 85 IP, yes. Like I said, you want to judge a guy off of that, go ahead. In the next one-two years, Cotts will easily pass up Walker's... So...

QUOTE(Jabroni @ May 9, 2005 -> 03:31 AM) What's your point? Cotts shouldn't have even been pitching in the majors last season. He was brutal. Just like Harris being a worthless POS, right? Yeah... :rolly