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Brandon McCarthy /homer

QUOTE(CardsJimEdmonds15 @ Jun 22, 2006 -> 09:01 PM) And a pissed off group of Birds I like you. you're cool.

so Ponson is not getting cut maybe?

QUOTE(CardsJimEdmonds15 @ Jun 22, 2006 -> 05:23 PM) My honest opinion.. I think he's back because of what's happened and that Cards wanna try and take at least one of these games. I think that's really dumb if that's what's happening. Why risk Pujols long term (both the rest of the season and beyond) by rushing him back?

QUOTE(Kalapse @ Jun 22, 2006 -> 11:27 AM) As for the first part of your post, 2 games is the norm for this situation. They suspend players for days not games. Maybe by appealing, he can time the 3 days to be over the ASB? (not sure if this should be in green)

QUOTE(DABearSoX @ Jun 22, 2006 -> 11:22 AM) thats such a crock of s***...... in the words of Hawk, "That is BS!"

We don't need a big piece to our puzzle... we just need another arm for the bullpen at this point. Hell, if Politte can post a reasonable ERA for the remainder of the season, we'll be alright. Even if we need another arm, we don't have to worry about finding some desperate team looking to unload an elite bullpen arm. Another deal like the Riske one will do just fine.

And now Larry Brown has been fired, so now the Ozzie story will be forgotten

QUOTE(NUKE_CLEVELAND @ Jun 21, 2006 -> 10:14 PM) Whoever did that would probably get dragged into a dark building and have a certain scene from Pulp Fiction re-enacted on him. That reminds me of the one scene in Die Hard...

He got suspended for calling someone a ***.

thanks for the updates guys... gotta watch gamecast and it freaks me ou to see "injury delay"

QUOTE(NUKE_CLEVELAND @ Jun 21, 2006 -> 06:57 PM) Please be alright Edmonds. I have a lot of respect for the guy and I dont want him to he hurt. Didn't Edmonds delay a stint on the DL when Pujols went down? Dude's tough as nails...

QUOTE(Rowand44 @ Jun 21, 2006 -> 06:56 PM) Hopefully Jim is ok but this is a joke. ack, what's wrong with Jim?

QUOTE(Rowand44 @ Jun 21, 2006 -> 06:46 PM) Paul fouled a ball off his leg, appears to be fine though. hopefully not a "Frank Thomas" fine

who's hurt?

no outs? Yikes...

maybe we can pick up where we left off!

Speaking of gays, what ever happened to the guy who used to always post the pictures of him and his really, really metro friends?

QUOTE(wallyburger @ Jun 21, 2006 -> 01:47 PM) Okay. How does the word Pussy fit into his WNBA and Madonna Concert rationale. Only pussies attend WNBA games and Madonna concerts???? I am not ready to agree. I live in South Florida, with a huge Hispanic influence and Latins take liberal use of homosexual references as insults. Vendejo????? is your basic insult and there is no mistake about its intent. It is the ultimate latin insult around here and implies a person is homosexual, thus it is derogatory. BTW, Ozzie's home is down here in this culture. i.e. Ozzie is not saying anything bad about WNBA or Madonna concerts. Ozzie said that Ozzie attends those things and has plenty of gay/lesbian friends. He's calling Jay a pussy. Reread the Couch article.

QUOTE(wallyburger @ Jun 21, 2006 -> 01:38 PM) Ozzie's rebuttal "He also said that he has gay friends, goes to WNBA games, went to the Madonna concert and plans to attend the Gay Games in Chicago." In the context of his Mariotti's rant, what does this mean? WNBA players are Lesbians ( I am sure the standard percentage of players are, just like MLB )? Madonna concerts are attended by predominately Gay fans????? I don't know how that characterizes Ozzie as anything but gaybashing, in this instance. His response only seems to further muddy the waters. Can't he ever say he Effed up? Maybe Ozzie thinks he has never palyed with or managed a gay player. That is not what Ozzie is doing. Imagine that instead of *** he had said pussy. In Venezuela, that is what the term means. He was saying the stuff aboug gays and lesbians to demonstrate he doesn't hate homosexuals and that the term was used to mean "pussy".

QUOTE(Athomeboy_2000 @ Jun 21, 2006 -> 09:40 AM) He's on the Score right now please give us a summary if you can

After reading the article, when Ozzie used that word, he said he meant it in the terms Venezualens mean it: as a coward (since Mariotti will not meet with Guillen man to man), not as a disparaging name for a homosexual. It seems like the columnist has a big problem with the word itself for some reason: "Until he said '[deleted] ***.' Not in public. Not in private. We don't say that."

What's worse, calling someone a *** in a media session or questioning in a column if someone "has lost his mind", "has his priorities in the right place", "is burning all of us out -- including his players", a coward, juvenille, and "priortizing goonery over common sense" ?

I have a dumb question, which might not matter, but is Mariotti really gay or was this just an insult Ozzie threw out there?

QUOTE(Steff @ Jun 21, 2006 -> 06:42 AM) The warning was towards the Sox not to retaliate, no? I watched the replay on Tivo a dozen times this morning. The hits weren't intentional, IMO. Someone in the game thread said he knew LaRussa's style pretty well. In the wrong end of blow-outs, he usually orders a beaning. Thus, I think a lot of us suspect the first HBP was intentional, but the second probably was not.