southsideirish71

Pinella was saying before the game, that his team wont do good until the weather heats up. He told his GM that if they had to play in under 40s weather, that they wouldnt be that good. That they are a power only team, and they hit a lot of fly balls. Maybe he forgot the memo that Wrigley plays like a big park until summer and then turns into a small park. Hence why pitching is a requirement to succed in wrigley.

So we finally get some depth and some talent at the bullpen, and we are looking at getting rid of it. Uh no. We need to keep every single member of our bullpen, and the associated members at Charlotte. You realize that our bullpen guys, while talented are not the picture of health. So we need to keep the depth.

QUOTE(TheOcho @ Apr 9, 2007 -> 09:29 PM) Why must everyone just boo Aj? Thry don't even know who he is. You realize that Oakland, and San Fran are like Naperville and Chicago as far as distance.

Joe Crede with a good approach, short sweet, let the ball do all the work.

QUOTE(jphat007 @ Apr 9, 2007 -> 09:21 PM) Somebody better tell Dye it's his contract year. He and Thome have been awful. I think Dye realizes its his contract year, and is trying to hit everything over the fence for money. Thome just doesnt know how not to swing for the fence.

I love these long looping swing for the fence 2 strike swings.

QUOTE(jphat007 @ Apr 9, 2007 -> 09:12 PM) Shoulda tried to steal 3rd the way our middle of the lineup is hitting. especially against Harden. Konerko can hit a fastball, I dont care how hard a guy throws it.

Oakland, the land of fans that think its a soccer game with the bongos, and the horns. And a bunch of wierdos waving flags. What a wierd place to play a baseball game.

QUOTE(SoxFan1 @ Apr 9, 2007 -> 12:07 AM) I don't know what everyone is complaining about. I got a new PC yesterday with Vista Home Premium and I love it. The only inconvenience is the compatibility and drivers with some things like printers and such, but other than that, I love it. The Aero GUI is very nice, and the graphics/picture quality really are top-notch. I love how they redesigned the start menu, and the Gadget menu on the right side is phenomenal. Anyone got Vista and liked it? Seems like I'm the only one. No its not all that bad. its just not the end all and be all the Gates and company tell you it is from a stability/reliability/ and security bit. The only thing I can see that they ripped off of Mac is the new search tool. Its a rip of spotlight. The gui, similiar, but you could look at gnome or kde and say the same thing. Its less windows like and more nix like. We as a company are staying away from Vista until at least SP1 if possible. This is due to providers catchng up from a driver standpoint, and waiting till all the early adopters get all the major bugs reported to MS. The new security features, neat, however not the magic pill that they claim it to be. The biggest joke from Microsoft is not the product, but the spin their company is doing in the "supposed" vendor neutral security reviews that claim that Microsoft is the most secure OS ever. Sure the objective security researcher is someone that either is a funded firm by MS, or someone that I have never ever ever heard of. Is it better than XP sure, is it ready to defend against Malware. No. You will still have the same issues. It will just take a bit for the hacker community to get their bots on Vista. The Ani vulnerability should show that Vista is the same security beast that XP was. Religious operating system wars are silly. Here is the answer. Pick the best OS for you to do whatever you need. If that is an Apple so be it, if its a Microsoft machine sure, if its Free-BSD go for it. Just make sure your system is patched, that you are running antivirus and anti-malware, and that you be careful what you click on. I like Apple because I am a Unix geek, and have gotten sick and tired of picking whatever goofy Linux/BSD fractured product that seems to be the flavor of the month. Apple gives me my Unix tools underneath the hood of a corporate ready OS. For me its the best fit. For you it might not be.

Well guess what, if flooding a website was a crime, then slashdot and digg.com would be out of business. Their feeds can bring a small site, or one without bandwidth control to its knees. A denial of service attack is when someone is crafting packets to bring the site down, not to direct a bunch of users to it. That is more lame than anything.

I was at this game. Javy was awsome, and the bullpen manned up. BTW if you havent been to the park this year, check out the new montage video. At the end of the video when they go into Thunderstruck they have an animation of the cell with lightning going into it, like the natural movie. It has to be one of the coolest things, its hard to believe they could make that video better, and they did. Hats off to Brooks and whomever they had make that animation. It has to be the same people who make the Bulls intro video. I cant wait to see it when it gets warmer.

I am okay that they postponed this game. For all of those die hard men's-men who say play it no matter what, remember you would be first on the list to b**** if someone got hurt because they tore something cramping up. I was looking forward to seeing Danks when I go tomorrow. Now I will just have to see Vaz dominate, and a whitesox winner. With Ponson/Silva we should be able to dominate. Its when "who shall not be named' pitches we are dead.

Masset manned up up. After throwing a few innings the other day, he manned up and tossed a gem. Nice pick me up after disaster with Buerhle going down. Massett turned some heads today, hopefully he can build some confidence off of that for the future. I cant wait to see Danks on Saturday in person.

Game ball goes to Massett. Talk about balls, talk about a kid manning up and picking his team up and throwing a bunch of innings and keeping a good offense down. Nice job.

QUOTE(southsideirish @ Apr 5, 2007 -> 03:59 PM) Would Pablo have made third on that? Just asking. Yes he would of.

QUOTE(Balta1701 @ Apr 5, 2007 -> 03:56 PM) Mack, for some odd reason, is in to run. Where Ozuna is? I assume dead. Ozzie thinks this is the National League and he is double switching. He put a man who can play RF for a RF. Its a one for one match.

Our late inning "clutch" hitting. Swing as hard as you can, fall over. Strike one Swing as hard as you can, make some contact, fouls back strike two Swing as hard as you can, make some contact fly out to the 2nd baseman. Just missed it. Next guy Swing as hard as you can, fall over, bats goes flying into the stands. Chuckle from Hawk, some story about Brooks Robinson Swing as hard as you can, and make contact Hawk screams, he jumps...the ball is caught just short of the track 2 gone Swing as hard as you can, foul straight back swing as hard as you can, check up, called strike Swing as hard as you can, ball bounces into the opposing batters box. Hawk yells run. 1-3 K

Swing and hard as you can like its a batting cage and pray you make contact is not working.

QUOTE(StrangeSox @ Apr 5, 2007 -> 03:40 PM) 5 more feet maybe? Paulie K's swinging. 3 f***ing hits, and our guys are going for the fence late in the game. Back to the Grind is a smoke and mirrors campaign. Low and Away and let the magic happen.

QUOTE(DrunkBomber @ Apr 5, 2007 -> 03:39 PM) hawk has been pretty off with his stretch calls today He needs new glasses.

3 f***ing hits. I cannot believe we only have 3 hits. Good lord.

QUOTE(CWSGuy406 @ Apr 5, 2007 -> 03:36 PM) You can bet we're going to see some 'hero' swings. Hopefully not from Erstad, though... Maybe they can surprise us. keep the swings compact and pick a pitch to drive instead of swinging from their heels from pitch one.

Someone on our offense, man the f*** up and get a run. Please.

QUOTE(RockRaines @ Apr 5, 2007 -> 03:26 PM) Why didnt we keep macdougal in the game again? The manager is appendage aware.

I wonder if LeCroy can throw out Prancer?