southsideirish71

QUOTE(Athomeboy_2000 @ Jun 15, 2006 -> 10:26 PM) http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/13348456/ Personally, I think M$ should split into 3 companies... Gaming (XBox), Applications, and OS> As a security person Microsoft's operating system holes and bugs piss me off. How about they figure out how to build an operating system without it being swiss cheese. Then they can take what they learn there and put it towards their terrible server product.

QUOTE(whitesoxfan101 @ Jun 15, 2006 -> 05:55 PM) Fixed . Look, England is a fine country with fine people, but your soccer team is little more than big names beating on bad teams at the moment. The best team, not the best collection of names, wins this tournament. Explain that to the Brazilians who have been winning with the big names for years.

QUOTE(Heads22 @ Jun 15, 2006 -> 08:24 PM) Da Widge draws a walk. Blind squirrel up. He missed the neck high fastball. Oh well, 5 runs so far. Just keep the pressure on.

QUOTE(SoxFan1 @ Jun 15, 2006 -> 04:47 PM) England has more talent than any other team sans Brazil. Everyone knows that, but they played Paraguay and Trinidad & Tobago. Those are not the kinds of teams England will face in the 2nd round. Teams of greater caliber will be able to capitalize on the numerous mistakes that England makes. And don't sell Ecuador short. They are for real. Probably the most fit team in the tournament. Talent doesn't equal championships all the time. Look at the Yankee's of the last few years. Or the Red Sox sans 2004. England has been well known for playing to their competition. Its what kills them in these tourneys. Give them a real team in the 2nd round and you will see the real deal . Kind of like when everyone beats the crap out of the Royals, but they take 2 out of 3 from us and we shake our heads.

QUOTE(SoxFan1 @ Jun 15, 2006 -> 04:15 PM) You might be regretting that later on. England has more talent on their squad than both of those teams SF1. Germany as the height to play with them, Ecuador will be defeated by the English when they play. The only hope they have is if the English get poor midfield play.

So when does redandwhite drop by to tell us how this was a coup for the Sawx and we picked up their garbage and they got a diamond in the rough to help them climb over the top of the mountain.

QUOTE(southsideirish @ Jun 15, 2006 -> 02:20 PM) I don't know if anyone has mentioned this yet, but he tends to do a lot worse in even numbered years. I don't know if that is a coincidence or not, but his WHIP goes up a lot in even numbered years. In odd numbered years it is under 1. And this being an even number year and all...... I mean I'm not sayin', I'm just sayin'. If we multiple this even year times the square root of Brett Saberhagens ERA, and multiple it by infitinity, David is still better than the 2006 version of Gas Can Clifford Politte.

QUOTE(Felix @ Jun 15, 2006 -> 11:39 AM) Neither KFFL nor Rotoworld has anything yet too rotoworld just regurgitates other news sources anyways. Once its there its way out in the open.

So who here thinks that Ozzie had Tracey sent down now because he missed Blalock, and not to make room on the 25 man for the impending trade of Riske to the sox.

Maybe this demotion...... Report: Rookie to be demoted for missing Blalock was to make room for Riske. But then again it makes better press that Ozzie sent the kid down soley on the fact that he didnt bean Blalock.

QUOTE(Kalapse @ Jun 15, 2006 -> 11:14 AM) Wow, fantastic trade, I remember him just kicking our ass all those years in Cleveland, he's a welcomed addition to the pen as a righty setup man. I am with you on this. Great trade. We give up a AAA that we didnt have room for, for a proven vet who knows how to pitch in the AL Central. He has a live arm, and hopefully will give us some more stability to our pen.

QUOTE(Controlled Chaos @ Jun 15, 2006 -> 09:53 AM) You would rather Ozzie use kid gloves with his players. You like a soft approach. Maybe when you get to be a manger you can use baby talk as a means of communication. Everyone can wear fuzzy pink bunny slippers and play duck duck goose in between innings. I can see Uribe now...pato pato!! Wouldn't that be swell!! GMAFB...these are grown men. Tracey is 25 years old...If he can't handle his boss yelling at him for not getting the job done, then I certainly don't want to see him on the mound with the tying run on third base. If Tracey is a stand up guy, he will blame himself for Ozzies lashing. He didn't perform. Same with Anderson...he knows it's nobody's fault, but his own. I want Anderson in there, but I certainly wouldn't blame Ozzie for Andersons struggles. It's like there is no more accountablility in this day and age. Look at it this way. If this demoralizes him, how is he going to handle when 40k fans boo him when he gives up a game winning dong to a rival, and then proceeds to get ripped in the papers, and then on talk radio for the next few days. Baseball is not a kind game. Brian Anderson is a swell guy. How many people have him sent down already. How many people call in after games wanting him gone. If his mental accumen cant handle this then he is in for a long career in the minors. So far he has been tough enough to get through it. Part of this game is physical, part of this game is mental. If Tracey cant handle a lashing from Ozzie, then maybe he doesnt have the proper stones for the MLB.

Hopefully they are strong enough to call inside pitches tonight, and hopefully the umps dont overreact if a cutter clips a ranger. Run that cutter in on the hands of the righties to start this off. Then drop your junk over the back door. Lets take this, and the series.

QUOTE(Capn12 @ Jun 15, 2006 -> 01:24 AM) If, like Javy said, he "knew" that they hit AJ on purpose the first time, then by god he better damn well return the favor right away, before warnings get fired off. Don't use some ex post facto bulls*** about "Yeah, I knew they were throwing at AJ." Man up already and retaliate, jeez. Vaz should of drilled the first guy in the back.

QUOTE(Capn12 @ Jun 15, 2006 -> 01:11 AM) Maybe he meant if you hit someone, and get one of your guys suspended, it can cost you games and such... Based on this logic, maybe the entire team should of watched AJ get decked by Barrett and did nothing. The idea of whether or not to plunk a ranger shouldnt be even debated. Its part of the game. The question of who should of plunked him, after vazquez pussed out is another story.

This place is going to go up for grabs if Tracey is traded at the deadline for something. It will be the Ozzie hated him and wanted him gone based on this. Tracey has a great arm. He has good stuff. He needs some better control in the long run.

QUOTE(Capn12 @ Jun 15, 2006 -> 12:52 AM) My god guys...Tracey THREW AT BLAYLOCK TWICE. Don't put a rook in to do that, one with suspect control...but looking at our pen, we don't really have 'veterans' in there, unless you wanna get Cotts or BMac suspended. No thanks. Was a lose-lose situation that could have been EASILY handled had Vasquez manned up and did his job IMMEDIATELY after AJ gets hit the 2nd time. My problem is with Vaz's quote. He said after the first time AJ was plunked he knew it was on purpose. If that is the case, the fact that he didnt deck the first hitter is terrible.

QUOTE(SoxAce @ Jun 15, 2006 -> 12:37 AM) Wow.. looked around some other sox sites and this is really being talked about.. You honestly believe Montero deserves to be here more than Tracey? Not saying I don't agree with you, cause I do believe the sox want to have Tracey have some more seasoning in AAA, but to have an adventure guy, who serves up meatballs rather than a guy who has major league ready stuff (maybe not with control just yet) and who has a future here is going to get the nod? I need to take a s*** cause my stomach just felt iffy... Tracey has better tools than Montero or should I say Mike Jackson/Jose Vizcaino Redux without the stuff. But Ozzie likes Montero for whatever reason. Montero is a reliever. Traceys stuff looks great, the only thing he needs to fine tune is his control. Once he gets his stuff in the strikezone all the time he will be very effective. If Tracey is being sent down for this particular thing, then its stupid.

QUOTE(Gene Honda Civic @ Jun 15, 2006 -> 12:40 AM) You do understand the situation, right? Tracey would have been immediately ejected. Ozzie and Showalter would have been on the field in seconds, if not both entire benches. Who knows how Blalock would have reacted. If Tracey hits Blalock, it only makes an already tense situation worse. Showalter is a card-carrying A#1 asshole, who absolutely hates Ozzie Guillen. You don't play into his hands. The situation was only going to get worse, not better. We have a player that was beaned not once, but twice without any retaliation. You realize that bad blood isnt going to go away just because AJ and crew says its over. You do realize that without getting redemption for our hit batters that if AJ or more so any player on the sox gets beaned tomorrow its more likely to be a flashpoint for a bench clearer than some player getting beaned in retaliation. Blalock and the entire Texas Ranger bench knew with the game out of hand, and the fact that AJ was plunked twice that someone was going to get nailed. Its a part of the game that has been there for a very very long time. I blame this entire night on the fact that Vaz was too much of a pussy not to plunk someone right after AJ was beaned the first time. It would of been over and done with. Now with AJ getting plunked twice this has a higher probablility for flashboil than anything.

QUOTE(Gene Honda Civic @ Jun 15, 2006 -> 12:13 AM) Yeah. You want to watch the Texas feed. Comcast sanatized it. Why isn't Vazquez being sent down? What about Montero? What would Guillen had done if McCarthy failed to get the 'job' done in that situation? Tracey is a lamb for the slaughter of Ozzie's misplaced anger. Sad, really. The blame on this goes to Vazquez tonight. If his quotes are correct and he really believed beyond a shadow of a doubt that Padilla threw purposely at AJ, someone the next inning should of been plunked. Now on the note of Tracey wanting or not wanthing to plunk the hitter, if I am a rookie trying to make a team and I am told by my manage to plunk someone, they are getting a 4 seamer in the ribs no questions asked. Now should of Ozzie made it so blatantly obvious that he was pissed at Tracey, no. Tracey is an adult, if this is the worst thing that happens to him this year then he will be okay. Not executing plunking someone will piss off his teammates more than the little b**** slap he got out there by Ozzie. His job was to plunk the guy, and restore order to the game. Now it is left unfinished, so tomorrow the game is possibly changed. Is Tracey getting sent down because of this. No. Pollite will be coming off the DL, and Tracey was brought up to replace Politte. He goes down. No because of this.

QUOTE(Kalapse @ Jun 14, 2006 -> 11:05 PM) Dude, you're such a meathead and appearantly a caveman too. Hitting people does not win ballgames learn your baseball you meathead. Me try to figure out fire, then me work on winning baseball games.

QUOTE(whitesoxfan101 @ Jun 14, 2006 -> 10:52 PM) *Sighs* I didn't ever even say nobody should be beaned. However you don't have your announcer b****ing about it, have your manager (in plain view of everybody) b**** at somebody for "missing" the guy that was supposed to be hit, and then have your entire fanbase b**** because nobody was taken out. That's a sad attitude, and the way people seem to think this will affect the team and cause us to get less respect is laughable. You making a siggy based on this is laughable. Retaliation is part of the game. Before the armor, and the mound charging this was taken care of quickly and it was over. You beaned someone, someone on your team got beaned. The incident was over, and they moved on. Now the fact that this wasnt taken care of tonight, there will be warnings probably tomorrow it affects the game. Now does buerhle get to pitch inside or does he have to go away in fear of accidentally plunking someone. Now this will hang over tomorrows game when it could of been taken care of in one hit.

QUOTE(whitesoxfan101 @ Jun 14, 2006 -> 10:29 PM) Aww, no fun. You and this guy are the only ones that believe someone shouldnt of been beaned tonight for plunking AJ twice.

QUOTE(Milkman delivers @ Jun 14, 2006 -> 10:01 PM) Anyone think Buehrle retaliates late in tomorrow's game? I think if one of our starters would do it, it's him. When he is already coming out, sure. I dont want him doing it in the first inning though. All this sets up, is for Buerhle to pitch inside. Run that cutter inside and tie these b****es up. Hopefully our guys get the f***ing memo on Rhinepecker and hit the ball the other way.

QUOTE(winninguglyin83 @ Jun 14, 2006 -> 09:58 PM) sorry if this question seems silly, but .... What was the reason for Padilla to throw at AJ? That's what I don't understand. Padilla is a mangina.