southsideirish71

Pods cant hit a f***ing single.

QUOTE(Felix @ Jul 15, 2006 -> 01:04 PM) If Cintron was off with contact, I think he could have made it. Probably not worth the risk though. He should of been at third. That was like a swinging bunt.

I am hoping that we trade for some bullpen help and ship Garcia and his dead arm somewhere in the NL. I think bmac is the kind of kick our rotation needs.

QUOTE(aboz56 @ Jul 15, 2006 -> 12:56 PM) I can't see the game except for on Gameday, how's Mark looking? Leaving pitches up.

Buerhle walking people is f***ing dumb.

QUOTE(fathom @ Jul 15, 2006 -> 12:54 PM) Actually, I agreed with Widger playing. We saw with Thome last night how difficult RJ is on lefties. AJ would of given us a fightin chance. Widger is worthless up at the plate. We migh as well let the pitcher hit and DH him.

QUOTE(fathom @ Jul 15, 2006 -> 12:54 PM) Outside of Contreras being out two weeks, what other injuries have our starters have? The Cubs haven't really had their starters all healthy for an extended period. Don't get me wrong though, outside of Zambrano, their starters suck. Well someone needs to explain how Freddy lost so much on his fast ball in a year. The clock didnt suddenly strike 40 on him.

Uribe goes down. Shocker.

QUOTE(Dick Allen @ Jul 15, 2006 -> 12:50 PM) AJ hadn't played in nearly a week. I think Widger played because Johnson was on the mound and he took him deep last year. Again that was last year. This years Chris Widger is a shadow of last years. THis years Chris Widger is every lefty pitchers b****.

Odd that Jorge Posada can catch last nights game and todays game, but we have to insert a poor hitting Widger who is a terrible caller of pitches in because we need to rest our catcher.

3.5 games out now. Guillen with a walk off to win it for the tigers. Royals suck, unless we are playing them of course.

Well just when you think that Selig and his goons have retarded baseball enough, they stoop to a new level.

Garcia/Vaz will get traded to the NL. Either will not be facing us in a series before the world series. So if anyone is going to be a trade partner think NL.

QUOTE(SouthSidePride05 @ Jul 14, 2006 -> 08:56 AM) If I had to guess, even when we're in an exciting tight race with the Tigers for the best record in the Majors, and on a quest to repeat as World Champions, the Cubs will get just as much coverage as the Sox. The local media needs to stop covering the Cubs, everything's been discussed to death, Dusty's here to stay, and not much is going to change. But can you imagine if they go on a ten game winning streak? All the attention should be focused on the White Sox in these next 3-4 months. The Sox SHOULD be the huge story in Chicago right now. The Cubs deserve to be ignored by the media! People are intrigued with disasters. Trainwrecks, car crashes, war, mayem, murder, chaos makes good news. How many times do you need to hear the radio/tv state, the sox are the bestest team that has ever been assembled. Watch the news, how many great good person stories are on there, now compare that to how many news stories are about a young man was shot 900 times in an apparant gang shooting. Now Jim smith with a breaking story on someone who fell off of a bridge.

QUOTE(nitetrain8601 @ Jul 14, 2006 -> 01:01 PM) They need to get someone out of the US. They know the competition better, they'll know how to prepare better for the World Cup. The fact that the US is soooooo far behind in soccer/futbol blows Getting someone out of the US is a bad idea. Getting some MLS guy like Arena is not good. Get Klinsmann. He has worked for the US Soccer team. He lives near the training facility. He has worked with our system enough to know it. And he has world cup experience.

QUOTE(BigSqwert @ Jul 14, 2006 -> 12:14 PM) Anything worthy of repeating? I just turned it on. Murp is now doing his dream trading Anderson I guess for Juan Pierre. Thanks but no thanks Murph. Sometimes this guy is brainless.

Arena contract not renewed. I guess the qualifications for making the US Soccer team wont be playing for DC United or for the University of Virginia. Now lets lock up Klinsmann and get the team to play better teams in Friendlies. 2010 is only 4 years away.

The rhetoric has stepped up from Iran's president Iran pledges support to Syria More on Satan, I mean the Iranian president Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad told Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in a telephone call that there would be a "fierce response" to any Israeli attack on Syria.

QUOTE(WCSox @ Jul 14, 2006 -> 11:34 AM) If he's not locating his offspeed stuff, I agree. I've seen Freddy throw 88-89 consistently and reach back to throw 91-93 on a gun that clocked Jenks at 97-99 later in the same game. When people say that Freddy's fastball is 86 mph, it's misleading. I was at Freddy's last two games. At the Baltimore game on July 3rd. He was throwing 86-88 on his fastball. The same gun was recording Bedard at 94 consistantly. The same gun had politte at 90/91. The same gun that day had Bmac at 89/90.

QUOTE(redandwhite @ Jul 14, 2006 -> 11:25 AM) I'm shocked that Garcia' stock has hit rock bottom amongst fans. When his fastball hits 86 on the gun at the Cell as opposed to the 91-94 we saw last year. What does that scream.

QUOTE(Dick Allen @ Jul 14, 2006 -> 11:24 AM) I don't know about that. He would be pitching in a bigger park, but he lets lots of hitters get on base now, and when they get there, they run wild. Freddy Garcia 2006 is a completely different pitcher from anything we have seen from him earlier. He could easily turn into a total disaster. I'm not a fan of Vazquez, but in the playoffs I'd rather have him pitching than Freddy throwing up his junk. Does anyone want to see Freddy throwing 85-88 mph fastballs in the playoffs. And the idea that he is using good stuff against good teams should of went out the window when he was junkballing the Bosox. He doesnt have a fastball anymore for whatever reason.

QUOTE(CWSOX45 @ Jul 14, 2006 -> 11:22 AM) You guys are giving Minaya too much credit, wasn't he the one that traded Scott Kazmir for Victor Zambrano in his first year as Mets GM? I think Minaya is the type of GM that will give up a lot if you play your cards right. This deal needs to be centered around Lastings Milledge, the Mets are the ones that NEED Garcia. We really don't have a deep as a hole to fill as the Mets do. If KW gets Sanchez and Milledge for Garcia then he must have some hypno-super powers. That would make him godlike in the GM world. But it taint happening. Milledge isnt coming here.

QUOTE(Balta1701 @ Jul 14, 2006 -> 11:09 AM) Does anyone else sit here and think that a guy who pitches 200+ innings at around age 30 is more valuable than a guy who might pitch 70 inning and is around age 40, even considering contract disparities? When the 30 year old is getting a kings ransom, mysteriously has dropped velocity, and is getting bombed everytime he faces an AL team then I say get BMAC into the rotation and lets rock for the rest of the year. I say put him on the block, and see what the best that comes out of it .

QUOTE(KevHead0881 @ Jul 14, 2006 -> 11:13 AM) That would be my only concern in a Garcia/Vazquez deal. Without one of those guys, we'd be an injury away from having our pre-2005 5th starter situation. Yikes! But besides that, if we can swing one of those guys for bullpen help (particularly Gordon), then all the sudden we improve our rotation with the addition of McCarthy, and improve our bullpen with the addition of (insert name here). Either way, I like the position we are sitting in. Garcia has been pitching like the 5th starter from years ago to the AL this year. So take that for what its worth.