Jake

QUOTE (fathom @ Aug 4, 2008 -> 11:38 PM) Wait, what? The Twins make a crucial error? 9-6 Mariners. This thread would be locked if the Twins lose right?

If our pitchers come anywhere close to 1st half form, which you can't say its unreasonable to think that they will pitch better than they have lately, we are incredibly dangerous. Our lineup with a healthy Joe Crede in it will be a pitcher's nightmare, especially if Swish or Paulie came around at all. OC as our spark plug tends to be the start of many rallies. AJ isn't a prototypical 2 hitter but its nice to have the .290 bat at the top of the order. Then, Quentin and Dye who are just murdering balls, Thome who as of late has been doing as well or better than those two, a hot Ken Griffey Jr. and the .310 hitting Alexei Ramirez are just going to cause some nightmares. Bringing Joe back to be a .270 hitter (assuming he hits a little better than he did right before going to the DL) and always a home run and double threat only adds to this. The only breath a pitcher will be able to take in our whole lineup is Swish, because he hits for such a low average. But even with Swisher, his power is always looming and he walks a ton. With a lineup like ours, we don't need the first-half pitching. We just need something more like it, even just the career norms for most of these guys.

QUOTE (DBAH0 @ Aug 4, 2008 -> 02:26 PM) I hate to say it with Josh, but it wouldn't surprise me if his career ended up sort of the same as Tony Batista (think that's his name the third baseman who played with the O's and last with the Twins). I mean 30HR power absolutely, maybe more, but unless he can cut down on the K's, or at least walk at least over 50 times during the season, probably needs more than that, then it's something that is really going to hurt him down the line. Still the power he flashed in around 100 games last season was hugely impressive. Josh will never the be the all-star that he was touted to be if he strikes out 1 out of every 3 at bats in AAA. Speaking of high strikeout totals, it's too bad that Brad Eldred plays the one position we have a logjam at or else he probably deserves a shot to tee off on major league pitching.

Ozzie really didn't say anything that everybody didn't know, he has said many more suspension-worthy things in his tenure. If he was to be suspended, they would simply be making an example of him which isn't fair to him or the white sox.

QUOTE (kyyle23 @ Aug 4, 2008 -> 01:16 PM) Good news from the cnn.com updated article Really good to hear. Such a talented and entertaining man.

QUOTE (fathom @ Aug 4, 2008 -> 10:49 AM) I think it has more to do with the massive, massive upgrade they made from Livan to Liriano, and how that is probably a 3-4 game swing in terms of wins for them the rest of the way. In all honesty, I don't think the Twins will play great baseball the rest of the way, especially with their schedule. However, the Sox are going to have to play above .500 baseball though, and won't be able to crawl their way across the finish line. I'm with you, if the Sox play like we've seen them play in the past, we can easily win this division.

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Aug 4, 2008 -> 09:11 AM) That was a 99 game winning team with excellent pitching, speed, defense and clutch hitting. This team is not as good. It was also a team coming off of a horrid second half.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Aug 4, 2008 -> 09:04 AM) I feel the same about this team as I did back in May when they originally took first place -- good enough to win the AL Central, but I don't see them making any noise in the playoffs. Maybe I'm spoiled from our most recent playoff run, but I feel like we can do anything in the playoffs.

QUOTE (kyyle23 @ Aug 4, 2008 -> 05:55 AM) the sun shines on a dogs ass every once in a while He could have been scrounging through garbage cans on a pier and fallen into the ocean and drowned. Raccoons get themselves into trouble alot because of how inquisitive they are and how determined they are to get food. Did you see on the Gawker website that other "montauk monsters" had been found? I wonder if raccoons wash ashore often or if something drove a bunch of them into the water.

QUOTE (Texsox @ Aug 4, 2008 -> 06:02 AM) First off, one of the courses I am taking this fall is Forensic Psychology. The text books are Evil Minds and Mindhunter. Bwa ha ha ha. I too have a fascination with events like this. I also never have liked horror movies. There obviously is something a little astray with this guy. Hmm, soft and chewy on the outside, crunchy in the middle. I'm really hoping theres some news coverage of the court proceedings, because I want to know more about what happened here.

QUOTE (BobDylan @ Aug 3, 2008 -> 10:26 PM) People need to stop coming here when they're sober. Nothing is worse than hearing an asshole recount what he drank last night. Do you honestly think anyone cares how "f***ed up" you were? If you were so "f***ed up" tell me what happened. Tell me something funny, interesting. Not how many beers you had. Your drinking tolerance doesn't impress anyone. This thread has severely lost its luster. Every time I see this thread, I get excited to see someone's drunken postings. It always fails me.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Aug 4, 2008 -> 07:06 AM) http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/08/04/presumed....eref=rss_latest How wasn't this found out sooner? If he was presumed dead, wouldn't a death certificate have been prepared? Was he paying taxes all these years?

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Aug 4, 2008 -> 05:31 AM) I guess it's kind of a hypothetical/theoretical exercise, but with Garland in the rotation (maybe Contreras could have been shifted to the bullpen, although unlikely for someone at $10 million or so per year)...and Ramirez at SS and Uribe at 2B, would we be any better off? We'd obviously have had a better pitcher than Masset or Richard to use for three games... Or if we kept Gio and Sweeney...although how that would have put us in an improved position, I have no earthly idea. One of Floyd and Danks would not have been in our rotation had we kept Garland, so I'm not sure what would have been gained. Knowing what we know now though, it would be nice to plug in Garland ahead of Contreras instead of Garland keeping out one of this seasons two best pitchers, which would have been the case if we kept him.

I think Josh Fields had far greater value before this season started.

QUOTE (Texsox @ Aug 4, 2008 -> 06:47 AM) If they posted the team was going to be in second place, then hell yes I'm saying there are posters here who would rather be right then have good things they did not predict happen to the team. They want Fields -or- Crede to fail. They want Buerhle to not be an ace. etc. They want to show they are smarter then Williams or Guillen. I've read it for 5 years around here. As soon as something bad happens that they predicted they start a thread gloating. Mariotti would fit in very nicely around here. I'm with you on this one. I have a feeling that may be why you do a lot of your posting in the SLaM forum.

QUOTE (witesoxfan @ Aug 4, 2008 -> 01:20 AM) That's really how I feel and what I've been trying to get across but have failed to do so. Thank you. No problem!

QUOTE (witesoxfan @ Aug 4, 2008 -> 12:05 AM) Yeah, and every one of them is under 26 and by and large in their first full season as a starter in the majors. Slowey and Baker have thrown this amount of innings before (both in a combination of the majors and minors); however, Liriano has already thrown about 140 innings this season, hasn't thrown this many since 2005 in the minors (where he threw 167), and both Blackburn and Perkins will almost certainly eclipse their career high in innings. Constantly being on the road won't help either. Yes I find it funny how our team, filled with established vets, is destined to go down the s***ter but the team made largely of unproven, untested unknowns is somehow just flat out better. They may very well beat us, but the writing isn't exactly on the wall.

QUOTE (LosMediasBlancas @ Aug 4, 2008 -> 01:04 AM) Billy Madison, Buscemi's list, right? Maybe I can taste your brain sometime. Seriously, I mind this beautifully twisted must be studied. That indeed was what I was thinking of, even though I suppose the desired effect was reached with or without knowing of the Billy Madison scene. And I'm flattered.

QUOTE (knightni @ Aug 1, 2008 -> 11:14 AM) This is going to be worth the wait, I believe. I'm going to go with a slightly different format. Early thanks is in order to the folks helping me with this. The suspense is killing me!

QUOTE (BobDylan @ Aug 4, 2008 -> 12:42 AM) What you don't see, the mob doesn't do.

QUOTE (LosMediasBlancas @ Aug 4, 2008 -> 12:43 AM) Wasn't the victim sitting next to him on the bus? Horribly, bad luck. Normally, I'm all for torturing people who commit violent crimes, but this is a special mfr. Clearly, this animal has no sense of reality, so this is one of the few times where I say you gotta lock him up in an asylum. By the way, I like the way your brain works Jake. Finally someone appreciates my how my brain works. People to Kill: Miguel Olivo All Twins OF's LosMediasBlancas On a serious note though, I don't know if Canada has capital punishment, but if they do this is what its made for.

MLB Catch-All Thread Even though this probably deserves its own thread.

QUOTE (witesoxfan @ Aug 3, 2008 -> 11:31 PM) I meant Gavin and I have no idea why I put Havy. "3:30 in the morning, not a soul in sight" is a lyric from one of the greatest songs of all time. Oh yeah, I knew that.

QUOTE (whitesoxbrian @ Aug 3, 2008 -> 11:38 PM) Yeah, I hope that 91 mph pitch didn't hurt too much. I'm not sure how that makes Olivo a b**** and Carrasco not one.

QUOTE (whitesoxbrian @ Aug 3, 2008 -> 11:26 PM) Just got back from all 3 games: Game 1- fun game, Javy pitched well. Good to see we don't have to hit shots and bombs to win (all 12 hits were singles). Game 2- crappy until the comeback, every Sox fan around us thought Ramirez's was gone. Mark pitched like poop. Good effort, Indians did us a favor. Game 3- crappy all around effort, I'm sure the 107 heat index was the excuse. Richard isn't ready yet. Olivo is a b*tch- go get 'em Tuesday. Olivo's a b****? How about Carrasco who lays his hand on Miguel's head in an apparent attempt to bless him or something.