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QUOTE(RockRaines @ Mar 10, 2006 -> 11:10 AM) Well, who was responsible for Uribe's improvement and his timing mechanism? Walt Hrniak helped him with the leg kick and timing. He was brought in late last year to work specifically with Uribe and it seemed to work out.

QUOTE(kyyle23 @ Mar 9, 2006 -> 01:49 PM) This morning I decided to call the local post office from my former address to find out why I havent recieved mail for about a week and a half after I moved. So I called 411 directory assistance, a nice lady answers and asks "City and Listing?", I say "Rolling Meadows, IL, and US Postal office", a computerized click and a number is repeated to me"1-800-275-2777". I hang up the phone, and call the number. A recorded womans voice answers "Thank you for choosing Pilgrim Telephone. Pilgrim advertising will be heard after the recording. " a small click "Are you feeling horny?" *click*, I hang up the phone. Laughing to myself, I call 411 again, thinking I just misheard the recording and dialed the wrong 800 number by mistake. Same rigamarole, and the recording comes up again "The number is 1-800-275-2777". WTF? So I hang up and call 411 one more time, and this time before I could get to the automated voice telling me the number for my listing, I tell the lady on the phone what had just happened to me. She tells me that I have to talk to her supervisor so she can report the incident, I say ok and she transfers my call. The phone rings about 15 times before I hang up, and I call 411 AGAIN and this time, the recording answers "The number is 1-800-275-8777" I wonder how many people were wrongly given a number for phone sex? Kyyle hung up, after trying to get to the bottom of this with Mistress Lisa for 50 minutes.

Sweeney needs more AB's in the minors. Lets get a year of production from him when he is healthy. He is not a CF so let stop that silly idea. You just cannot plug any OF into the CF position. Ken Griffey Jr should not be a CF now. KGJ has Bernie Williams like range now. Anderson will have some learning curves as far as from the offensive categories, but his defense will be fine. Lets see him get some licks at the plate before we all decide to declare him dead. The Rowand lovers forget that when Rowand came up, he had a hard time hitting, played decent defense, and was ridden on this board and others to be traded or let go. Anderson has hit at every level he has played. He was our number 1 draft choice.

QUOTE(NorthSideSox72 @ Mar 10, 2006 -> 09:04 AM) Even if Thome died, I'd still rather have Ross Gload DH, or have Mack play 1B and DH Konerko, than have Carl back. He was the worst DH in the league last year, in case we all forgot. He was our 3 hitter for most of the year, but he was so bad in September that we moved Konerko and Dye into the 3 hole just to get production out of it. In fact Dye started hitting in the 3 hole the week before the playoffs start. If that didnt tell you where Crazy Carl was going I dont know what will. Carl thanks for your efforts last year, but as this is 2006, STFU.

Carl that man who does this is named Ozzie Guillen. We will be fine.

QUOTE(RockRaines @ Mar 9, 2006 -> 03:41 PM) Is there any doubt how huge of a pick up this guy was? Our sunday lineup is better than some teams starting lineup.

Thome, with a triple????????????????????????????

Score? Update?

QUOTE(hi8is @ Mar 9, 2006 -> 01:22 PM) since the last game thread i started yealded a victory... we all know i have to do it again... since that is indeed the sole reason they won. So whats todays word of the day.

Here is another possible angle to this. This move could also be protection for if Joe's back acts up. Uribe moves to 3rd, Cintron plays SS. Our infield is still pretty damn strong. Mack can play 3rd, but this gives us the best possible defensive backup infield in the event of Joes back acting up. Man is this team deep.

QUOTE(Jeckle2000 @ Mar 9, 2006 -> 01:05 AM) Well to be fair US Cellular field is hardly the hardest place in the league to play CF... Hell he'd be better then Carl Everett was when he was our starting CF... Somehow adding another potential 40 HR hitter in the lineup just makes me want to cream my pants... How is he going to hit 40 homers when he plays 30 games. What a HR/Game ratio.

QUOTE(Jeckle2000 @ Mar 9, 2006 -> 12:57 AM) Ohh well either way... Is anyone else hoping that KW now just says payroll be damned and swings a trade with the Reds for Ken Griffey Jr and say Kent Mecker.... Griffey and Mecker for Borchard, Any outfield prospect not named Anderson or Sweeney, and one of our top pitching prospects... If KW did that then I think I would just cream my pants on the spot... The Griffey ship sailed about a year ago around the trade deadline. We got this slugger named Thome who fills that position. Griffey hurts himself when he farts, so I dont think he would be anything for us besides a DH.

QUOTE(RockRaines @ Mar 8, 2006 -> 05:04 PM) Do you remember when I wrote him an email about a trade rumor we made up, and it was mentioned slightly on his site the next week? That guy is a joke. Hence why mlbtraderumors.com is a worthless site. The guy uses fanboards as his source for rumors. Half the stuff we come up with here are "wishes". Imagine if this guy comes here in late June/July when chaveztalk starts up again.

QUOTE(Dick Allen @ Mar 8, 2006 -> 05:00 PM) Maybe you or your buddies at Rotoworld can name a few better back-ups since he is an average one. Rotoworld has some great contributing writers. Such as the guy from mlbtraderumors.com who had all of these insider rumors that never every panned out. Remember how one of those insider rumors was exactly like a post that someone put on this website a week before that said his father was one of the Whitesox owners. It was pretty much verbatim quote of the soxtalk thread on mlbtraderumors. The minute some of us saw that, we dismissed that site, and now I have some reservations on any site that uses that guy as a writer.

Gload cut off Anderson's throw. Anderson had a shot at home. Chris and Farmio are talking like Gload messed up on the cut.

Leadoff single, after going 0-2 on the hitter.

Tim Redding is in.

QUOTE(fathom @ Mar 8, 2006 -> 03:12 PM) That's what I've heard from the Baseball America people His curveball is supposedly a plus pitch though. Its all about location, and then using that pitch to offset his fastball.

QUOTE(Jordan4life_2006 @ Mar 8, 2006 -> 02:55 PM) I don't know what he's doing in the spring so far. But he was ranked the Padres #1 prospect by BA. He pretty much dominated at AA last year.

QUOTE(Jordan4life_2006 @ Mar 8, 2006 -> 02:49 PM) I'm not at all judging him by this performance. But I still wish we would've taken Carrillo. I hope Broadway makes me eat crow, though. I have the same feeling about Cesar. I liked him over broadway.

QUOTE(RockRaines @ Mar 8, 2006 -> 02:47 PM) Come on Lance, you are better than this. Lance is doing his best Felix Diaz impersonation.

QUOTE(SSH2005 @ Mar 8, 2006 -> 02:46 PM) Gload is gone, lol. I wonder if he will get the teeshirt and parking validation that Bentz got.

mack robs a dong. Broadway getting rocked so far.

QUOTE(Jordan4life_2006 @ Mar 8, 2006 -> 02:31 PM) Lance Broadway in the game. I thought Hermy was supposed to go two innings today? Broadway promptly walks the first hitter.

QUOTE(santo=dorf @ Mar 8, 2006 -> 01:44 PM) What's Baj's ERA+ ? Could any resident stathead, or BP Subscriber PLEASE tell me what is the point in looking at OPS or OPS+ for smaller frame baseball players whose roles are NOT to to hit hit home runs? Amen to this.