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QUOTE(caulfield12 @ May 29, 2007 -> 07:51 PM) The horrible umpiring led directly to Contreras being forced to throw his fastball over the heart of the plate. No coincidence that umpire is "nursing an injured back" and unavailable for the rest of the series, along with the "hands across the throat" gesture to Gardenhire. Good call.

QUOTE(fathom @ May 29, 2007 -> 07:49 PM) What have the umps done tonight to cost him? I didn't say tonight specifically just stating a point in his all around starts. I'm willing to bank that they will screw up a K call or something and Danks winds up allowing a run somepoint in this game.

Seriously the umps alone have cost Danks a few earned runs this season. It's getting ridiculous.

This ump sucks.

Danks is going to get people excited for the next 3-5 years. Him, Gio (people are saying De Los Santos even though I want to see him do more in the minors) and hopefully our "power potential" pitcher(s) in this years draft will give us a superv rotation in the future.

QUOTE(RockRaines @ May 29, 2007 -> 07:40 PM) none of the above. Yea that.

God damn guys be patient. Geez 1st 2nd pitch swings for outs aint cuttin it.

And he hits it to Morneau.

Here comes the Twins ex-favorite player.

God dammit Cintron.

QUOTE(Purdue129 @ May 29, 2007 -> 07:06 PM) Lincecum is so fun to watch. ^^^^^^^^ I'm watching him and Danks back and forth tonight. Even though he just gave up a HR to Delgado, he's still dominating hitters.

QUOTE(WilliamTell @ May 29, 2007 -> 06:43 PM) Noberto Martin back in the day. ^^^^^^^^^ Long live Paco. I loved Graff and Shingo. Tartabull was another. There was more of course.

QUOTE(SoxFan1 @ May 29, 2007 -> 05:21 PM) And one I always hated was Durham for Adkins. No argument there.

I love watching this kid pitch.

QUOTE(witesoxfan @ May 28, 2007 -> 06:38 PM) He quite frankly seems like he's pretty much a boom or bust prospect. IMO, he's not even a spect to begin with.

QUOTE(greg775 @ May 28, 2007 -> 06:32 PM) Count pitched horribly in that sixth inning, but my gawd what do you want Ozzie to do? The Sox bullpen is horrible. I mean when he took out Count you knew it was only going to get worse. Ya seriously, I'd rather take my chances on a starter being in "too long" or going at least 7 leaving it at the very least up to Thornton and Jenks then our pathetic bullpen going in from the 5th, 6th innings.

I missed damn near most of this game but how in the hell did we get 4 runs off Santana and still lose? God damn. At least Boone got his out I see.

QUOTE(fathom @ May 27, 2007 -> 09:09 PM) I'd take him in a second for a deal around Gordon, Tyrus, and the 9 pick. You'll regret giving up that stud. I'd rather deal Noc/Sefo or even f***ing Hinrich. Deng, Thomas are really the only no-nos for me. Gordon I like alot too but if you get a Kobe, then see ya Gordon.

Even though he's RH, and I don't believe he was a FA signing even though I could be wrong, I think Tizz is liking this kid more and more so I'll drop my Noe Rodriguez prediction.

Happy B-Day Jim. :cheers The very B-I-G 4-0. I believe this is the turn of getting that hearing aid.

QUOTE(Gene Honda Civic @ May 27, 2007 -> 12:04 AM) Because Sunday is a getaway day, the choice was between a true double header (1 ticket, two games) and a rescheduled game, the Sox were going to choose the one that provided more revenue everytime. They've got a guaranteed 20K with their season ticket base for the reschedule, and can count out 5-10K more, which is 25-30K more tickets sold than in the double header situation. Not too mention people are going to be grilling tomorrow.

QUOTE(witesoxfan @ May 26, 2007 -> 03:55 AM) First of all, GG's nowadays are as much reputation as they are about actual defense. Derek Jeter is one of the worst defensive SS's in the game, yet he is a 2 time gold glove SS; does he really deserve that award over Juan Uribe? Torii Hunter, good as he may have been in CF last year, was not as good as Corey Patterson; people's eyes and stats will tell you that to be true, but Hunter won the GG while Patterson was left in the cold, and why is that? Eric Chavez won the award last year, and some would argue that there were 3 candiates who were more deserving of the award in the AL Central alone, let alone the other 8 teams in the AL. But you are going to use GG to justify defense with absolutely nothing else? From everything I've seen and read, Jones is still a good defensive CFer, but he's not longer an elite defender in CF, and he hasn't been for a few years. Him winning Gold Gloves is because his name is Andruw Jones. Secondly, Roberto Clemente, Ernie Banks, and Johnny Bench played in an entirely different era of baseball; you comparing raw slugging numbers against one another is completely ridiculous, and all of them have superior career OPS+'s higher than Jones does. On top of that, Clemente and Puckett were not a power hitters; Clemente hit .317 during a time when pitcher's dominated the game and hit .290 in the year of the pitcher when Yaz's .301 led the AL, Denny McClain won 30, and Bob Gibson put up the lowest ERA in like forever with 1.12. Puckett never hit lower than .288 in a season, while putting up averages of .310+ in 8 of his 12 years in the league. Comparing either to Andruw Jones is like comparing Carl Crawford to Andruw Jones, and in no regard does it work because they are completely different players all together. Next, the obvious difference between Jones and Manny, Ortiz, Thomas, and Sosa is the 100-200 points difference between the OPS's of the groups. Jones is considered a cleanup type hitter, yet his .900 OPS pales in comparison: Manny's career OPS is over 1.000 and the last time he had an OPS under .950 was 1994, Ortiz has hit 101 homers in his last two full seasons, Frank Thomas is a top 5 hitter over the past 25 years, and Sosa averaged 61 homers over the course of a 4 season span. Has Jones ever done anything CLOSE to that offensively? Now you are comparing Andruw Jones to 3 of the best hitters of the past 25 years, along with perhaps the best power hitter of the past 5 years; Thomas and Ortiz don't play defense because they don't have to, Manny plays LF which is the second least important position defensively, and Sosa played RF with is the third least important. Jones plays CF, and you're almost comparing apples to oranges, because those guys are paid for their bats while Jones is paid for his overall game. No one you will find is going to argue that Jones is a bad or mediocre player. What these people will argue is that he's not and never will be an elite player in this league, and I'm not sure there's any real argument against that. He has a career .850 OPS, his defense is diminishing in CF, and he hasn't stolen bases on a somewhat consistent basis since 2000, yet there are some who will make him into a demigod type figure because of the name. Andruw Jones is a great player, but he's not a player you'll build a franchise around, and he very well could be the 3rd or 4th best hitter on the Braves. I'm not sure there's an argument against the fact that at this moment - which is what Stark was suggesting - Andruw Jones isn't overrated. I think it's safe to say that wite is back. Looks like he hasn't been drinking in a bit.

QUOTE(Brian @ May 25, 2007 -> 11:12 AM) NBADraft.net has the Bulls taking Noah...more like NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO-ah. The predictions change during a week to week process. They had us taking Hibbert for a while and I remember us taking Brewer, Green, Yi, Hawes, J. Wright at some point. Usually by the next couple weeks they'll have there final picks depending on kids going back to school and such. Usually they get there first 5 picks right on then the next are pretty much up in the air.

Vernon Carter with 3 BBs. Outstanding.

QUOTE(SoxFan1 @ May 26, 2007 -> 11:20 PM) I wish I could have made it to see this "power." ^^^^^^^^^ Yea that.