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QUOTE(fathom @ Jun 14, 2006 -> 09:54 PM) I don't understand why Tracey gets in trouble for not doing it, but Montero wasn't asked to? Thornton easily could have come in for relief in the 8th. Because most likely Tracey was going down when Politte comes off the DL. It was a gut check for a young kid. Ozzie shouldnt of had a s*** fit noticibly over that. Its a tough situation to be put into, to throw at someone you aim behind them and aim for their ass. the ball rises up, and the person backs into it.

QUOTE(whitesoxfan101 @ Jun 14, 2006 -> 09:47 PM) Amen. I'm giving up on this thread though, the meathead attitude is pretty sickening. I'm expecting everybody to call Jason Grimsley a rat next. Someone on the Rangers should of been plunked, plain and simple. You have to stick up for your teammates, unlessy you like constantly getting plunked with a 90 mile per hour fastball. Then be my guest.

It might be nice if someone actually figured out that Padilla is going outside on 2 strikes. Instead of standing like a statue admiring the placement of the pitch low and away. It has to be in the scouting report, pitch our players low and away.

QUOTE(whitesoxfan101 @ Jun 14, 2006 -> 04:01 PM) I root for Italy when the U.S. is eliminated since I am pretty much 100 percent Italian in background, but I can't do that since the U.S. plays Italy next. However after Italy wins that game and finishes off the U.S., I'll probably root for them. But then again, I don't know your ethnic background, so I'm sure that did nothing to help I wish the Irish got into the tourney. Damien Duff can cause havoc in the midfield. And so can Robbie Keane. The irish have the talent, but seem to just come up short in qualifying. But we had to tie the f***ing swiss at home to miss the playoff on the last matchday.

Wow anything hit in right center might roll for a while.

QUOTE(WCSox @ Jun 14, 2006 -> 10:31 AM) With no disrespect to the outstanding play that Rogers made last night, comparing it to Tad throwing out a guy while flipping over in mid-air is ridiculous. Plus the Gooch throw was in t he 9th inning against the Jays with the game on the line.

QUOTE(RockRaines @ Jun 14, 2006 -> 02:36 PM) that sounded strange to me. How is this is guy not on a team with a nasty splitter and a 94 mph slider. Because most likely he cant hit the side of this with that great stuff. Another reclamation project, which is our MO. Great arm, not a lot of success getting it in the strikezone most likely.

QUOTE(Steff @ Jun 14, 2006 -> 01:19 PM) Watch out for security.. We see everything you know.

QUOTE(BDavisFutureHOF @ Jun 14, 2006 -> 12:41 PM) Quick question -- what kind of pitches does Ortiz feature. I know he had a pretty lively fastball a few years back but did he rely on breaking stuff at all? He threw a 4 seam fastball 91-94 up in the zone. He was an extreme flyball pitcher. How would that work here you ask, badly I would say. He had a slider/hard curve I believe and maybe a change.

QUOTE(Credepopsup @ Jun 14, 2006 -> 11:36 AM) He got injured against Portsmouth in April - He was stretchered off with a f***ed up shoulder. He's since had an operation to "strengthen" the damaged shoulder, but it pretty much put paid to his world cup chances. SPECTOR OUT OF WORLD CUP EDIT - Add link Bruce only had him out at one Friendly just to cap him. He wasnt in the heart of qualifying so even if he was healthy he would of been a long shot. Spector Boca Gooch would of been a nice backline. Tall, athletic, and quick. Pope is well past his prime, Lewis is not a defensive player at all. I figure the next Bruce thing will be to get Ben Olsen his other pet project into the starting 11.

QUOTE(Chisoxfn @ Jun 14, 2006 -> 02:43 AM) f*** Bruce Arena. The prick needs to go. He went out and pretty much completely called out Beasley. I have no idea where Arena gets the balls to call out a guy who was placed completely out of position (that would be Arena's fault). And Beasley's response was correct, there was quite a few ocassions where he was one of our lone players to come back and play defense and Beasley helping out on the defensive end probably saved another goal. What a joke Arena is. He had a total cluster f*** of a lineup out there in game 1 and now he's going into a war with words over Beasley (who I guess is who he is going to use as his scapegoat). Bruce was going to use this world cup to get him a sweet club deal. Well now that isnt going to happen, unless he wants to coach the New York Red Bulls. In the last World Cup we played a 4-4-2 in qualifying and then went to an attack minded 3-5-2. We shocked Portugal by just going for their throats in the first game. Before they knew it, we were up. In this world cup, Bruce who is conservative and isnt a good offensive coach, decided to lay in the weeds by launching a 4-5-1 formation. Thats nice if you have a super play making Forward, but we dont. All that the 4-5-1 did was to have our players bunker down on defense and he was hoping for a draw. His goal in this world cup was to draw the Czecks, and draw the Italians and go for a win with Ghana. This is a piss poor way of playing European teams. Beasley is hardly the scapegoat, he is coming off of a serious injury that doesnt allow him to accelerate like he did before. He is playing on the wrong side of the pitch, and should be coming off the bench right now with how his injury is. Having Donovan play as a forward is a bad thing also. Donovan is a playmaker, but not an up front striker. He should be running free up the field, and distributing to EJ and to McBride near the goal mouth. Dempsey should be starting on the right side right now. And Bocanegra, Pope, and Gooch should be our backline with Howard in goal. BTW Keller is now 0-4 in World Cup games. Italy plays a better defense than the Czechs, they have some good forward play, their midfield is not as good as the Czechs. The key is to attack them and make them bunker down. If you let their forwards get free to run, we are screwed. When the 4-5-1 led to a 1-0 Victory over the minows of Lativa, a 2-0 over the terrible Venezuelean team that we throttled during qualifying, and a 1-0 loss to Morrocco another bad team this should of been a wakeup call to Bruce that his tactics of the ubber defensive formation might not be good. But he didnt learn, played some of his pets on the team and we lost plain and simple because our talent was not as good as it should of been. Taylor Twellman should of been on this team. Spector should of been on this team. But he had to go with some of his DC United connection and thankfully after this world cup disaster Bruce will be gone. Hopefully we can get it through our heads that we need to go ourside of the US system to get someone attack minded that can take us to the next level. Someone who is from the Portugal system, the Spanish system, or Brazilian would be nice. Also we need to start to play better friendlies. No more of this lets play Jamaica in a friendly. Lets play the Dutch, the Serbs, the Italians. I dont care if we lose our ranking or lose every game. You get better by playing against better competition.

QUOTE(BDavisFutureHOF @ Jun 14, 2006 -> 10:58 AM) Looking at the game log it doesn't look like he has trouble getting guys out -- WHEN he gets the ball over the plate. The following stat line is pretty telling: IP 5.0; H 4; R 3; ER 3; HR 1; BB 5; K 7 106-56 (June 6th start) Interesting to note that the 2 of the 5 walks were responsible for the 3ER (2 walks then a HR). We do have (arguably) the best pitching coach in the majors -- I dont see why taking a chance on this guy would hurt. When we got Contreras most people didn't think that he would ever pan out (mostly noting his inability to get the ball over the plate). The big difference was that everyone in baseball agreed that Contreras had top of the rotation stuff, just not the head to go with it. Russ has medicore stuff at best. Even in his good year with Atlanta his ERA was high and he was winning games by people outslugging the opposition.

:puke Uh f*** no.

I hope the cubs dominate the AL Central, which wont happen. Hopefully Zambrano can pick off the occasional team. However when they play us I hope a f***ing goat interferes with a play that allows us to win game one, in game 2 bartman takes out the cubs pitcher, and in game 3 all of their bats break and we sweep their sorry asses.

Your very own floating Chernobyl. I put the over/under on 3 years before this and its radioactive trash are at the bottom of the ocean because of some f*** up bad guy 007 style. THE SS Chernobyl.

QUOTE(BFirebird @ Jun 13, 2006 -> 10:04 PM) It is ok..once the Tigs start playing good teams again they will crap their pants. Go Cubbies this weekend. Zambrano is going Friday for the North Siders.

Pitches over the lead off double. Nice job Bobby Jenks!!!!! Nice game overall. Good pitching by Jon. Good hitting. Anderson looks like he actually has a plan at the plate. Replace Uribe with Cintron and we are ready to run with this.

JENKS TIME!!!!!

QUOTE(Milkman delivers @ Jun 13, 2006 -> 09:25 PM) Hmm, would've liked Uribe or Anderson to do something there. Anderson at least tried to go up the middle with solid contact. Taz had his upper cut express going for nothing.

Better cuts coming from Anderson.

Thats what you want to see. The inherited runners actually stranded.

QUOTE(Melissa1334 @ Jun 13, 2006 -> 08:51 PM) see this is why it f***in sucks not having a reliable righty set-up man, in tight situations like this. we still got the 7th and 8th and who are we guna put, montero? Bmac is the next out of the pen.

QUOTE(kapkomet @ Jun 13, 2006 -> 05:08 PM) Word. If he does that, we'll see the 18 win Jon Garland. However, I will say that the last time Jon was on the bump in Arlington, I was there. And he got SHELLED. This is not his park to pitch in if memory serves (besides the one game). Jon needs to stop looking for velocity and letting his sinker work. He also needs to start to throw strikes. When he gets ahead and pitches inside he is 2005 Jon. When he gets into hitters counts, and throws that 4 seam meatball he is not even Judy, He is Felix Diaz.

Maybe we can get NASA to help design new state of the art swivel chairs with flight of the ball GPS tracking technology. That way we wont have to ever move our necks. Bridgeport might be a tad upset at the new Nuclear Power Reactor to power to the damn thing, but hey as long as I dont move my neck we are all good.

QUOTE(The Ginger Kid @ Jun 12, 2006 -> 05:23 PM) Question: last night Morgan mentioned that Ozzie got rid of a veteran bullpen pitcher in '04 when he would let Ozzie know when he was and wasn't available to pitch. Anyone know who he's referring to? Mike Jackson? It was Thriller. He made a comment about the pitcher coming up on a personal record. He was gone shortly after he broke some personal record.