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QUOTE(vandy125 @ Jun 2, 2007 -> 02:16 PM) Just looking for someone to actually put some thoughts behind doom and gloom statements. I agree with everyone about not liking him out there, but wanted some actual thoughts from people. I dont want MMac facing Thomas.

QUOTE(vandy125 @ Jun 2, 2007 -> 02:11 PM) Who should Ozzie have brought in? Just curious from all of you arm-chair managers. If you think this is a great time to bring in a gas can who cant throw strikes with 2 men on, and Frank Thomas backing this guy up I suggest you get back to your afternoon beer.

Now left handers are hitting at a silly rate against mmac. So that makes perfect sense to bring him against Overbay. QUOTE(vandy125 @ Jun 2, 2007 -> 02:11 PM) Who should Ozzie have brought in? Just curious from all of you arm-chair managers. Thornton or Boone Logan. You have a lefty contact hitter up with men on.

How many times do you need a kick in the nuts to figure out its time to wear a cup.

QUOTE(Drew @ Jun 2, 2007 -> 02:07 PM) MacDougal warming. There goes the ballgame, kids. Ozzie's selective memory forgets the Politte experience of last year

MacDougal is up in the pen. Oh f***ing crap.

Now think of how fast Owens is, and then laugh at how slow Pods has been since the 2nd half of 05.

When are the big 3 going to start hitting. This is getting f***ing silly now. Slumps dont from Opening day going into June.

QUOTE(Greg The Bull Luzinski @ Jun 2, 2007 -> 01:45 PM) Looking at gamecast, everybody has a hit except ... gasp! ... the middle of the order. Embarrassing. They are looking for the pitch down the middle to lift and pull.

QUOTE(chisoxfan79 @ Jun 2, 2007 -> 01:43 PM) Did I hear right during pregame 0 FOR THE LAST 41 VS opposing teams bullpen Maybe by July the perfect storm will pass. Maybe we can get Tom Skilling to tell the hitters that its June and its warm out. Maybe we can get some prozac to fix the nerves of our overpressured hitters.

5.90 ERA and the corpseball kids can even put wood on the ball 3 consecutive batters with a duck at 3rd. How is walker not unemployed.

QUOTE(caulfield12 @ Jun 2, 2007 -> 08:16 AM) Well, Prinz was a closer for the D-Backs at one point (he also pitched for the Yankees I think) and Bukvich was once groomed to be the Royals' closer (before MacDougal) when the started to have so many injury problems. It makes no sense than Printz wasnt moved up, and Day was.

QUOTE(CWSGuy406 @ Jun 1, 2007 -> 08:39 PM) I haven't looked a whole lot at individual prospects yet, but I hear high school players is where it's at this year. Unless someone has a drastic fall due to signability -- I'm thinking about that catcher that's a Boras client -- I think the Sox should be looking at a high school pitcher. I know they have a higher propensity to bust, but the Sox should still be looking for the 'home-run' with this pick. Keith you hit it on the head again. Get a high school pitcher. We have had enough of the safe picks, go for someone that can project into a top of the rotation guy. Get a guy who can project into a top end fastball. here is something I posted in another thread. I think if you want a difference maker, a top of the rotation guy. You need to explore the high school ranks. Someone with the body type, and you see the spark of stuff that projects to be a top of the rotation type guy. The college guys that are like this are off the board before they get to us. To me you take a chance. What the hell, the current drafting strategy hasnt exactly put superstars in the rotation. We have made a better splash with our later picks. So take a chance and get a toolsy kid. You can teach control, and how to pitch. You cannot teach stuff. This is what I would like to see if this kid falls to us. He is high school, but has a good arm, movement and body size for a good pitcher. Phillipe Aumont 6'7 225 Good fastball with serious life on it. Could grow into serious velocity. This is more of what I look at from a high school pick with some upper mobility. He needs control of course. But you can teach control in the minors, you cannot teach a guy who has a live arm that can grow into his velocity more. http://www.minorleaguebaseball.com/milb/ev...x.jsp?mc=aumont Here is another top of the rotation type guy. His velocity projections could be topping 97/98 and he is a lefty. Madison Bumgarner is my current favorite. He has nice projectability. His motion has some deception to it. And he has a lot of late life on that fastball. http://www.minorleaguebaseball.com/milb/ev...sp?mc=bumgarner Madison Bumgarner has a strong, sturdy frame and an effortless delivery. He has an incredible feel for pitching, with an ability to throw all three of his pitches for strikes in any count. Madison's fastball has been clocked as high as 95 mph. He went 12-2 with a 0.99 ERA and 120 strikeouts in 84 innings as a junior on South Caldwell's state Class 4-A runner-up club. He also hit .392 with 14 home runs and 39 RBI’s. In the first game of the best-of-three state finals, Madison belted a pair of home runs and pitched a shutout. He spent much of the summer playing for American Legion Post 29. As a sophomore at South Caldwell High, he was 9-2 with a 1.20 ERA and 130 strikeouts in 77 innings. Madison’s freshman season he won five games and had a 1.63 ERA with 53 strikeouts in 30 innings. Madison has committed to North Carolina.

The fatman gets a 1-2-3 inning throwing filthy gas, and everything else was dancing. Nice job Javy. Nice job Owens. Nice job fatman.

Everything is moving so far for the fat man.

Jenks gets save opps every friday night. Too bad there has been nothing in between.

Do you smell smoke??

Owens with a nice game. 2 hits, a couple of runs and a stolen base. Nice job.

QUOTE(Chisoxfn @ Jun 1, 2007 -> 04:44 PM) Apparently you all don't realize that Jerry Owens would be worse out there. I realize that. Let Jerry play LF, bring Sweeney up to work with Terrero. Have Mack backup the infield as we now have Cintron with an injury and Pablo out.

QUOTE(Chisoxfn @ Jun 1, 2007 -> 03:19 PM) I'll say this, this call-up will shake things up a bit, but I expect we'll see him in left field because he's not a center fielder. The question is does that mean Mack goes to the bench and Terrero plays a ton. Personally I'm starting Mack in CF against all right handed pitchers with Terrero getting the starts in CF against lefties (Mack is hitting very well as of late and we need his bat). We tried putting Mack in CF last year, how did that work out. He cannot play CF. He is downright terrible there.

Their fans are running onto the field. LOL

QUOTE(Whitewashed in @ May 31, 2007 -> 09:42 PM) I am currently working on a bachelors degree in computer networking. Right now I work with a company that services schools and I do computer repair/installs, networking, inventory control, etc. I have been there for 4 years this summer. I have invested a lot of time doing this. Not only working, but at home while growing up and at school, but changing my major has crossed my mind before. Now that I am ready to transfer to a university after going to a community college I am asking myself one last time to make up my mind. I am not sure if it's the job I currently have that I need to move on from or the actual field. I am leaning towards the job because theres some parts of my job that I like and I hate, but that comes with them all. I don't dread going to work. Just sometimes I get so fed up with the politics and the people. The responsibility of making sure everything is working since the world revolves around computers today. I have heard it is tough finding a good job in the field. Especially if you don't know people. Even if I did decide I am not fit for this, the next question is what will I do next? I have had a growing interest in writing, specifically sports (haha). I would love to be a columnist for a newspaper or a magazine. The thing is I wouldn't know where to start. I don't know anything about the field and what I am required to do to get where I want. Is it a pipe dream or realistic? Would it support a lifestyle comparable to what I think I could have in computer networking? I need some input guys, thanks! I have worked on the networking side of the fence for a long time. My original degree was in Criminal Justice. As long as you have a degree in something, some certs in the appropriate technologies, and you have some work experience you are golden. The degree in network engineering is relatively new over the last 5 or so years. Before that it was a bachelors in computer science which pretty much meant programming. Politics are in every job, no matter what career. I used to work in Law Enforcement before I got into this, and there was good things and bad things with that job as well. As long as you like what you do, more than you don't like it you are good. See for me, it was the opposite. I had the criminal justice degree and my father had me pegged for lawyer. I took the LSAT and scored in the 93% percentile and then had to tell my dad, that even though I could get into a great law school I had my heart set on tinkering with networks and computers. I had to follow my heart. You will do the same. If you like networking then do it, if you dont find something else. Dont get too hung up on the major.

QUOTE(Allsox @ Jun 1, 2007 -> 10:31 AM) Jenks is dirt cheap but for how long and do you want to pay 7-8 million for a guy whose elbow has a screw holding it together? Bobby's good for a contender and the Sox are, sadly, no longer one We dont have to pay him 8 million for a while you realize. If you want to win any games, unless you plan on being bad for a few years you still need a closer. I quoteth chapter one, verse 9, from the bible of Kalapse aka the Salary Sheet.

QUOTE(thomsonmi @ May 31, 2007 -> 10:34 PM) I'm not totally opposed to picking a high upside high schooler. I just have no way of judging who is better. The college players have stats. I have idenitified players who have been successful at the college level. I have looked for high strike out per inning totals, low ERA numbers, and low batting average against. I like those kind of young pitchers personally. They tend to be the guys with the highest upside and liveliest arms. It does have to be recognized that high upside high school ballplayers also present greater risks. We have made plenty of "safe" picks over the last few years. Its time to get a possible number 1, instead of a possible number 5.

I could give a crap how they do it. Score 1 more freakin run than the opposing team by the end of 9 innings. That is all.