Rooftop Shots

With some of our payroll being strapped on 2 players that gave us sub-par high school performances this year, and as far as what we are able to do next year because of it...................... Mucho Dunn-y-Rios (Dineros) may kill us again.

QUOTE (Markbilliards @ Aug 15, 2011 -> 12:50 AM) Rios is 16 for 96 with RISP and 0 for 10 with bases loaded. Dunn is 13 for 93 with RISP. Awful on both ends. You can see RISP stats on the player's yahoo profile under situational stats. Thank You for the info. I knew their stats were bad.................but a total of 29 for 189 is just absolutely downright sick.

It's quite obvious that Dunn and Rios are probably the biggest contributors as to why we are not leading the division. There are stats for everything nowadays, but...... I was wondering if there is any sort of individual stat for each player (throughout the course of the year) that states how many men have been on base in scoring position when he was at bat, and how many times the batter failed / succeeded in getting a hit while they had the runners in the scoring position. I wanted to see how many times Rios and Dunn have faired in this position and stat compared to everyone else on the team. Thanks

October 1 2011

QUOTE (knightni @ Jul 30, 2011 -> 10:45 PM) Naled it. Sorry, I closed my eyes. Could you repost your quote in braile?

Unless we play to our potential...............in the AL Central, we'll be hot on the trail unless we fail to unveil our talent in detail.

QUOTE (JoeCoolMan24 @ Jul 21, 2011 -> 09:35 PM) Maybe it's just me, but I see all these doom and gloom threads and dramatic titles, and I don't even have the energy to read it anymore. Am I alone here? Of all the topics on the front page, I think only 3 or 4 of them have I even ever opened once. It's kind of the reason why I have been a member sonce 2004 and still don't have 1000 posts yet. I still look at the board on a daily basis and want to keep up with things.............and I do appreciate everyone that searches for and posts bits of information on the team and it's players..........but I catch myself reading less and less. Sure................I know I'll get ragged on by numerous members for posting this...................but geeze.............it kind of reminds me in the past of dating a certain girl. If you go out on a date, and the girl does nothing but B%&ch and moan and whine throughout the entire date............you WILL AVOID HER in the future and say to yourself "Man....what the heck is up with her? What's her friggin' problem???" Granted......Maybe it's a stupid analogy, but you get the point. We all have our share of job/school/personal struggles and frustrations that we have to put up with everyday........so why would I continuously want to read on a daily basis everyone elses RAG sessions and add to it? I DO READ the informative threads and I do thank everyone for that. In a nutshell I hate winter and every season........I can't wait for March! I like baseball. I like the Sox. So..............I'll try and enjoy whatever I can out of it. Don't get me wrong...........I am very displeased at the way we are playing with the team potential that we have......................and at times.......I do post my disappointments in some areas. But to make it a hobby, and let it consume and saturate my life on a daily basis..............no thanks! One last thing. I agree with a post that is few above mine that is on this thread. Months of ragging on why Vicirdo is not coming up ...............and the first time he goes 0 for 10.....................there will be "Get rid of this bum" threads posted incessantly on the board for days on end. As ridicuolus as it may seem now...................I'm still holding out hope in taking the division and then everyone finally getting hot when it counts....................in the playoffs! (Now that I've said my peace 1...2....3....."Fire away boys!!! ENJOY!!!!!)

QUOTE (SoxAce @ May 20, 2011 -> 09:40 AM) I believe you are the oldest if memory serves. My boy Rooftop Shots is up there as well. Yep! You got it Ace! I'm 52. This is the year that I was always waiting for. Friends told me that I wasn't always playing with a full deck, but now being "52" I can say that I finally am. Too bad I didn't remember the pinacle deck when I was 48.

A ptcher that I wish that I could see (but there is no video footage of that I know) is the guiy that Hawk occassionally brings up, Steve Dalkowski. He never made it to the big leagues but He and Earl Weaver said that in the history of the game, that no one came close to throwing as hard as that guy I believe there was one game where Hawk said he struck ourt 18 and walked the rest. He said that his control was atrocious, but had one of the most once in a lifetime gifted arm. Can you imagine a guy throwing that hard and being that wild with the batter having no other protective gear on except for an old fashioned batting helmet? That's intimidation!

I won't get in the middle of the debate, but since this was about an "Old Guys Sox fan" thread, I thought that I would post a picture of what one of my friends said that I, "Rooftop" looked like when I turned 50. (I owe him a "payback" BIG TIME!!)

Do you think that my female friend should go to the store with her friends? No way Juan! Marichal go to the store all by herself.

Somebody kept stealing my friends huge German mug full of beer, There is a reward that is posted for it's return. It states..... $100.00 for anyone who can get Terry's Steinbach

They are building a new road in Gulliver's town of Lilliput. They are also putting an overpass in and they willl name it after the one that designed it. It will be called Brent's Lillibridge

Man I know some guys that when they cut a cheese, it just plain REEKS up the whole room! But a friend of mine does not have that problem. Nope! Rick Honeycuts them.

QUOTE (YASNY @ Mar 19, 2011 -> 09:03 AM) The church had four boys selected to light the candles before mass, Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. But Mark and Luke got confused about the their assigned responsiblities. Mark said "Are we where we are supposed to be?" Luke replied, "No, I think we are in the John Candelaria. Man...Yas! You're on a roll. The Candelaria had me shaking my head and smiling. It was excellent. And the Pucket was good also. For some reason the Kent Hrbek hasn't clicked in my head yet I saw the Kirby and Ubaldo one a while back, but couldn't come up with anythng significant on the Kirby. I kind of stretched the Ubaldo one a bit! Commercial is over....so here we go again! Doggone leaves are all over my neighbors roof and are clogging up his downspouts. Maybe I ought to call a guy with an extension ladder to help clean out some of Don's Gutterridge. (Note! Hey Yas! How many readers are out there that are saying to themselves about us and others that have posted here......."Man these guys really need to get out more often and make an attempt to get a friggin' life???)

Mr Clean wanted to go to the store with a male friend and also with his girlfriend named Ezmerelda. A bystander was adamant about making sure that Mr. Clean did not go, but instead that ge stayed at home. So he yelled out in a rage... Hey!.....Stay here Ubaldo! Jimenez-merelda are going alone!

Darn.... I can't find any plates to place all of the cold cuts on when I serve them to our guests. Hey! Wait a minute!! maybe I can use Sergio's Mitre (Meat tray!)

QUOTE (knightni @ Mar 17, 2011 -> 05:21 PM) He spelled it, Y-E-L-O-W. Brent, Morel is what you need. Had to look at this one a couple of times. Finally got it! Nice! Pedro and his family doesn't like to use their whole first names. They just likes to use his first initial only. Big problem!!! They were trapped in a gunny sack and were all eaten by cannibals. Newspaper headline read Cannibals ate bag of P.Astacios

I know a guy who had two customized gashes in his side that was made by antlers of a deer. I guess that you could say that he had Taylor Buchholz. When he fell into a vat of playdough, they turned into Clay Buchholz

QUOTE (Milkman delivers @ Mar 17, 2011 -> 02:45 PM) Except the people making the jokes know they're bad and don't think they've come up with some great one-liners. Agreed. Yes these are all pretty lame, but it's a test to try and stretch the imagination as to how low and warped that it will go and yet somehow keep it baseball related. As bad as some of them are, some are also pretty clever. Sorry, but here comes another example. You heard of comjoined twins being separated? Well what if a doctor went south of the border and wanted to fuse together one little child onto another? You could ask..."Hey..did Tony Graff-a-nino?" Sorry....I know that this one was beyond the realm of pathetic.

Robert Plant once told hid lead guitar player when they were about to go on the road, "Hey, don't forget your Satchel...Paige!" An oriental friend was about to open up an outdoor amusement center with lots of slides, swings and monkey bars for prostitutes. He wants to name it Chan's... "Ho Park"!

Doggone lock is rusted and can't get the door open. I'll slide in Cory's Luebke to help open it up. (Ah what the heck, I'll give one to an umpire!) I really like Chuck's Merriwether forcast for this week

Wanted to visit a friend in Indiana. Couldn't which town he lived in. Let's see...St. John? No Valparaiso?? No. Hey Michael, Cuddyer Indiana be the correct town? Man, there are just too many dead people to be able to have all of these funerals at once. For loved ones to be able to view the bodies beforehand, maybe we ought to go outside and use Tim's Wakefield!

QUOTE (knightni @ Mar 15, 2011 -> 09:38 PM) That round lobby roof annoys me Kosuke, Fukudome! clever

If he keeps growing, will Grady Sizemore??? When you are in Texas, which Huston Street would you like to drive on? Bummer, I didn't get anything to eat. All I wanted was for Mark Teixeira slice of pizza with me.