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Boone and Riske up in the pen. Brandon was pissed off on the radio this morning and looks the same on the mound right now, he's just not happy at all with the way he's been pitching of late and I love it. ugh

QUOTE(S720 @ Sep 15, 2006 -> 11:08 PM) Please remember Frank was NO WHERE in the first half. If you took Thome out and replaced him with Frank in the first half, forget about it. Even with Frank's current hot bat, it will not be enough for us to catch up. Actually . . . 4/3/06 - 5/21/06: .178/.300/.373/.673, 7 HR, 20 RBI 5/22/06 - 7/10/06: .312/.445/.708/1.154, 12 HR, 26 RBI 5/22 = Jon Garland launch fest. 7/10 = All-Star Break.

QUOTE(fathom @ Sep 15, 2006 -> 10:52 PM) Someone asked me this question the other day, and I wasn't sure what the answer would be: would the Sox have been better this year if they would have basically kept last year's team in tact? Well it's likely the pitching would have performed the same way they did to start this year, now could last year's offense carry this team for 5 months of the season like it has this year? Would Frank have the same motivation to succeed that he does with the A's, would he have stayed healthy? How would the clubhouse attitude work with KW/Ozzie/Frank coexisting for the entire season seeing how they seemingly hate eachother? Would Crede and Dye be having the year they're having with Thomas/Everett in the lineup as opposed to Thome? It is an interesting topic regardless.

QUOTE(bunkerf16 @ Sep 15, 2006 -> 10:45 PM) who blows bubbles running home? never seen that before.. Pablo Ozuna was blowing a bubble during his walk off bunt base hit against the A's at the Cell earlier this year.

Atleast we know this team can get to Huston Street so when we hit the 9th inning down by 3 runs we should be able to close the gap to 1 only to fall short with a runner in scoring position.

QUOTE(fathom @ Sep 15, 2006 -> 10:27 PM) At least we only have 3 more weekends left of baseball. If this team isn't going to make the playoffs, then the season might as well end ASAP. Then, let the ridiculous XBOX trade rumors begin. I'm looking forward to the Bears game this Sunday, I have the up most confidence in that team they actually play with swagger and for the most part put their best players in the game as much as possible unlike some teams in this city.

This is just disgraceful. It really doesn't even look like they're trying anymore, they very well could be but it doesn't show one bit.

QUOTE(Frankensteiner @ Sep 15, 2006 -> 10:20 PM) Man, Garland might not even make it through 6 today. Not a very good start at all, even though the defense hasn't been very good behind him. Yep, he's already up to 79 pitches through 4, if he doesn't come out and shutdown the A's order in the bottom half of this inning, he'll be lucky to see the 7th.

QUOTE(southsideirish71 @ Sep 15, 2006 -> 10:17 PM) Ozzie, Oakland is a pitchers park with lots of territory. This is a park you must have your best defense out in the field. If you really want to put Mack in, I suggest the prancing stiff out in LF that provides nothing. It's never going to happen, if it ever would it would have been tonight. 330-367-388-400-388-367-330, those are some insane dimensions it doesn't make much sense to have a bad fielding CF with no range out there and yet here we are.

QUOTE(Frankensteiner @ Sep 15, 2006 -> 10:03 PM) Actually, all you're doing is repeating "Ozzie sucks" and "Brian Anderson should be starting" every single post. That doesn't qualify as anything intelligent. Plus, the insults and threats are truly a sign of a great baseball mind. Have fun. I'm done discussing this in here, if you'd like to continue I'd be happy to converse with you through PMs.

QUOTE(S720 @ Sep 15, 2006 -> 10:01 PM) Kalapse, you are out of line here man. Tell me if this is your board. Are you implying that anyone who does not see your way is not welcomed here? STOP insulting others because of their different views from yours. Do you really think your thoughts have always been intelligent? I'd appreciate it if you would not butt into this. If you have a problem with me or anything I post in here, PM me.

QUOTE(fathom @ Sep 15, 2006 -> 10:01 PM) Any word on MacDougal's availability? Very nice catch by Payton. He said he'd likely be ready to go today. I do believe he's available to pitch.

QUOTE(Frankensteiner @ Sep 15, 2006 -> 09:56 PM) So everyone who doesn't see Brian Anderson as anything great has no place here? Yes that's exactly what I'm saying, obviously. It seems you have a reading disability to I'll cut you some slack, if you want to add something to the thread then by all means continue to post but if all you have to say is the same s*** you've been posting in here then I suggest you go elsewhere. This is the last I'm going to say on the subject. I'm sure you're intelligent enough to figure out exactly what has transpired here.

Seemed like Frank got in there between Bradley and the umpired, made sure Milton didn't do anything stupid what a cancerous move by the big skirt.

QUOTE(Frankensteiner @ Sep 15, 2006 -> 09:53 PM) I'll keep that in mind. Maybe you can come up with some other ways to immortalize Brian Anderson in the meantime. Seriously though do you have any intelligent thoughts to add to this thread? If not I suggest you leave.

QUOTE(Frankensteiner @ Sep 15, 2006 -> 09:49 PM) And here we go again with the Brian Anderson fan convention... Or you could maybe bring something of value to the site instead of lame ass comments like these.

Brian Anderson is batting .317 since last Thursday.

QUOTE(jphat007 @ Sep 15, 2006 -> 09:44 PM) I dont think he has any HR or RBI in September. He's struggling. It's hard to tell if he's struggling seeing how we don't really get to see him play.

QUOTE(fathom @ Sep 15, 2006 -> 09:43 PM) Yep, you won't even see many complain too much about it right now. We need as much offense as we can get. It's just too bad we never gave Mackowiak a chance in LF this season. Mackowiak should be starting in LF and leading off right now, either him or Gload it just makes no damn sense to me.

QUOTE(jphat007 @ Sep 15, 2006 -> 09:42 PM) BA is back in his bigtime struggles. He went 2-4 on Wednesday.

QUOTE(Heads22 @ Sep 15, 2006 -> 09:41 PM) Does sometimes = a lot of the time? All the time. I'll just never understand why Podsednik continues to start for this team when he is one of the worst all around ballplayers I've ever seen.

Sometimes I just really want to kick Ozzie in the nuts, this is one of those times.

QUOTE(The Critic @ Sep 15, 2006 -> 07:18 PM) Very cool for people into that style of music, but there's exactly zero artists on that site for me. If that's the case then I doubt there's anything for me either.

QUOTE(The Ginger Kid @ Sep 15, 2006 -> 06:48 PM) I love how Sizemore kills us then tanks against the twins And yet: 2006 Vs Sox: 64 AB | 13 R | 4 2B | 3 3B | 1 HR | 10 RBI | 5 SB/0 CS | .313/.408/.516/.924 2006 Vs Twins: 64 AB | 10 R | 9 2B | 0 3B | 1 HR | 7 RBI | 3 SB/0 CS | .328/.434/.516/.950 Nearly identical

QUOTE(MSHAWKS @ Sep 15, 2006 -> 11:59 AM) No kidding. Did you see the dogs that Cleveland and Baltimore are throwing out there on the mound tonight? Wow. Hayden Penn is the #3 prospect in the Orioles system right now, he's struggled at the major league level thus far but the ability is still there. Fausto Carmona on the other hand has just been horrendous since being promoted, I really havn't seen anything positive from him.