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ERSTAD IS SUCH A GRRIIIINDER!!!

8/10...

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Mar 22, 2007 -> 02:27 PM) One thing I have learned with this show is that you can't think of it as individual episodes. With a plot as complex as they have, they need time to build story line and details. A season is really a show, and sometimes it take a couple of weeks to get enough stuff out there to build a good climax. They have been setting up this weeks episode for 3 or 4 weeks now. I have found I like the show a lot better with that kind of perspective, instead of thinking that each week has to have something huge in it. Also the flashbacks are key in lots of respects. Think of all of the Locke flashbacks for example. If we don't have those, the scene where Ben reveals John's Dad to him would have made zero sense. you know what I think? I think there are a lot of fans that caught up with the show through dvds, and when you are flyin through a season a bad episode you don't notice as much cause you are caught up in the whole season. Then when we have to do the week to week stuff the individual episodes are so much more important. That hurley/van episode wouldn't have bothered me at all if i had 10 more episodes to just play whenever I wanted.

hooray!

wow, i'm not gonna complain about season three anymore after these past 4 seasons.

ohh, right right, gotcha.

whose the wikipedia nickname?

touche`.. just when we acquired mack i got so excited and i still feel like we haven't used him effectively. we have too many backups on this team.

well, i didn't really listen to the radio last year because i heard it was so painful. I have to say singleton doesn't sound very awkward at all. This is pretty enjoyable sans farmeyo

sounds like the wind is swirling

he has shown the ability to have some pop in his bat, hitting 18 hrs and 16 hrs in a season. I doubt pablo could hit those #s

singleton said he couldn't tell whether pods did it on purpose or not, knowing pods i'll say misplay.

why not get rid of pablo so mack is of more use to us, and he can take over infield spots more, where his subbing there would give us more power instead of a slap hitter like ozuna.

haha, pods misplay helps us.

sweet i have audio now

can you tell me whose pitchin'?

ugh.

honestly i really don't see us trading him. This whole thread scares me but i really doubt we trade him.

i will add my name to remembering the offseason before 05 to be very positive around spring training. heck, if i remember correctly, as soxfest wasn't that the year where kenny was "blown away" at how positive the response was? But reading that i'm having trouble remembering one thing, it keeps mentioning the "walker signing", was that the terrible relief pitcher we had in 04? i'm not remembering following that that offseason.

i wish ozzie was just pulling our chain because this is absolutely ridiculous. We've all heard that he is an 'honest manager', and i think it's pretty shady to say its a competition for CF and then hand it to a rusty vet whose underperformed and could be a detriment to the team.

QUOTE(Damen @ Mar 20, 2007 -> 11:31 PM) Reviewing the new andrew bird or modoest mouse anytime soon? yeah, i'm getting killed in my journalism class though. New modest mouse later, andrew bird sooner. Love the dosh angle on the new Abird.

QUOTE(Balta1701 @ Mar 20, 2007 -> 08:07 PM) Can't guarantee I'll be able to sit @ the computer for the whole game, but I'll contribute what I can. Gameday Audio I'm on, appears only the Oakland feed is available today. Ozuna goes 2-0 and doubles to teh wall in LF. Cintron can't get a bunt down, but grounds out to 2nd. Runner to 3rd. nice guy!!!

i plan on balta somehow doing play by play fer me.

worst half year.

QUOTE(Hideaway Lights @ Mar 20, 2007 -> 02:57 PM) My major point was that right now, on March 20th, we not only have no idea who are fifth starter is going to be, but we have no major league depth at the starting pitcher position vs. the last two seasons, when we had 5 seasoned starters going into the year (El Duque was the fifth starter in 05, Vazquez in 06). In the beginning portion of the season it's not likely to make as much of a difference, but if Contreras goes down for three weeks or so, what the hell is our rotation going to look like? We were already counting on: a) Contreras not to age much and hopefully still have lightening in a bottle left B) Buehrle returning to form c) Garland not going through the same April-May as last year d) Vazquez being improved now on top of that, we're counting on all being healthy AND getting a serviceable .500 ish pitcher out of the fifth slot from this erratic (read: motley) crew? Again, I like Danks for 2008 but he needs a few more ticks in the oven, no? When I look at the list of what we're counting on from this unit this year, about 5 different alarms go off in my head. This could either go really well if we can stay healthy and get career avg numbers from all our starters, or it could derail and get really really ugly really really quick. counting on buerhle, garland and vazquez being healthy is not far fetched.