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That was so fun to watch I can't even explain what was going through my mind, just unreal. Ballsy f***in outing by Freddy tonight, Aaron takes what's given to him and basehit up the middle and of course aj ending it. Has there been a better 3 game stretch this season then these last 3?? WOW, just wow, special f***in team. I love these guys.

Lineup: pods lf gooch 2b frank dh konerko 1b everett rf rowand cf aj c crede 3b uribe ss

QUOTE(BobDylan @ Jun 18, 2005 -> 04:27 PM) C - A.J. Pierzynski 1B - Paul Konerko 2B - Tad Iguchi 3B - Joe Crede SS - Juan Uribe LF - Scott Podsednik CF - Aaron Rowand RF - Jermaine Dye DH - Frank Thomas P - Mark Buehrle P - Freddy Garcia P - Jon Garland P - Jose Contreras P - Orlando Hernandez RP - Shingo Takatsu RP - Luis Vizcaino RP - Damaso Marte RP - Cliff Politte RP - Neal Cotts C - Dustin Hermanson ...Funny how that turned out. Good answer

QUOTE(Gene Honda Civic @ Jun 18, 2005 -> 04:14 PM) How much does it suck to play for the Royals? Is there a big change in your mindset now being in Charlotte compared to playing in Birmingham last year with the big differences in the parks? If there is one thing you think you really need to work on what would that be? Do you expect to be starting in Chicago next year?

Willie, obviously this is an opinion thing but how could you leave off Pujols??

Ichiro cf Castillo 2b Pujols 1b Bonds dh arod 3b Tejada ss Vlad rf Cabrera lf pudge c Rotation: Santana Peavy Hudson Halladay Buehrle Bullpen: Gagne Rivera Lidge Cordero Krod Wagner

QUOTE(WHarris1 @ Jun 18, 2005 -> 03:38 PM) Zito? And viz??

QUOTE(Buehrle>Wood @ Jun 18, 2005 -> 01:08 PM) I thought we had Gary more than once. Could be wrong though. You're correct.

5 homers in 25 ab's is just ridiculous. That is all.

QUOTE(Kalapse @ Jun 18, 2005 -> 11:15 AM) It would lose it's luster after the first 10 games. Bad idea. Completely agreed there.

Uh oh, hopefully he's ok.

Jenks or Liotta.

No need for another starting pitcher but Redman is just a slightly below average pitcher while in the A.L. and he's a very solid pitcher in the N.L., he belongs in the National league.

QUOTE(3E8 @ Jun 18, 2005 -> 11:59 AM) Maddux basically has the right to say whatever he wants. His career trumps Buehrle's with so much leverage it's not even funny. The problem is that Buehrle was NOT talking about Maddux. Buehrle is speaking from his own "years of experience". The media twisted it by saying the pitcher he was talking about has had many great "years of experience". I don't know how many of you caught the post game press conference with Mark but he basically came out and said it was Zambrano. You're completely correct about Maddux's career trumping Buehrle's, however Buehrle has been better for quite some time now and Buehrle right now has more wins then Greg did at this time of his career. I'm not trying to say Mark is going to become Maddux, just saying that Mark has reallly been as good as you can be this early in a career.

QUOTE(qwerty @ Jun 18, 2005 -> 03:50 AM) Believe it or not they have alot of good bullpen arms. But you would just think they are throwing mike jackson out there every time by just looking at the numbers. I agree that they have solid arms in the pen but it obviously hasn't worked out very well. Do they have the worst bullpen era in baseball or am I going crazy?

QUOTE(DBAH0 @ Jun 18, 2005 -> 12:55 AM) I'll be seeing em in person quite a bit over the next few weeks. There's rumors going around that they'll acquire Jose Mesa soon. They sorely need anyone in that pen. I believe they have the worst bullpen era in baseball.

QUOTE(Jordan4life_2005 @ Jun 18, 2005 -> 03:37 AM) So does that make it like 40 consecutive starts of atleast 6 innings? Amazing! It's 42 I believe(not 100 percent sure on that) however you look at that, it's truely amazing.

QUOTE(whitesoxin' @ Jun 18, 2005 -> 12:19 AM) Not many people change the start menu stuff from the defaults. That's kinda freaky that we have the same wallpaper and color. Edit: Maybe a lot of people on here change the color because they are computer savy. None of my friends know how to change it. I have no clue how to do that, care to help a fellow sox fan out? EDIT: Nevermind, I figured it out myself.

QUOTE(ScottPodRulez22 @ Jun 17, 2005 -> 10:18 PM) Yah and after he gets that 3-4 hit game he needs to actually get the bags stolen! He had a chance earlier in the year when he had 4 stolen bases already in the game, problem was the game was a blowout. That's a tough thing to do for scotty because chances are if he's on base 3 times in a game already with 3-4 stolen bases, the sox are going to have scored a ton of runs that game possibly resulting in another blow out.

QUOTE(sircaffey @ Jun 17, 2005 -> 03:03 PM) That's if he lasts that long. I have some serious doubts that if we make it to the playoffs, El Duque will even be will us... He's not going anywhere. Kenny signed the Duke so obviously that the sox would have 5 major league starters but also because he is a big game pitcher, if we need a win in September or October to either get up past the Twins or get us through the playoffs El Duque is going to be there pitching his ass off and pitching well, I'll guarantee you that. Something else I wanted to add is even though Orlando has been struggling lately, he's had an absolute HUGE influence in making Contreras one hell of a pitcher.

QUOTE(YASNY @ Jun 18, 2005 -> 02:03 AM) Contrary to some peoples' beliefs, you don't have to be a big strike out pitcher to win. There's no doubt and we all know that around here, I just think dbaho is pointing out that is why Mark doesn't necessarily get the pub that the other aces around the league get(correct me if I'm wrong db).

That game was beautiful, that is all.

QUOTE(DBAH0 @ Jun 18, 2005 -> 01:31 AM) Sounds like Gage brought all of the LA traffic with him. Ya, thanks a lot Jas :headshake It was honestly nuts out there today though, it was the worse traffic I've ever had getting to a game.

First, let me say great thread idea, it's fun to look at what everyone else thinks. For me there is only 3 pitchers considering everything that can be thrown in with Mark and that's Peavy, Johan, and Halladay. Those are the only 3 guys that are even worth thinking about imo and even with those three I don't think I'd trade Mark straight up for any of them. As a fan right now it'd absolutely kill me to see Mark traded, Mark's is as good as there is in baseball right now and I think he's answered that question whether or not he's an ace and the answer is a definitive yes.

QUOTE(Kalapse @ Jun 17, 2005 -> 11:59 PM) God damn work and traffic on the Ike f***ed everything up. I got to the park at 6:50. I missed the tailgate. I'm not very happy cause I missed it too. I left the same time I normally do to get to games and I usually get there at around 5:15, today 6:30, traffic was absolutely horrific today. Well, I hope you guys had a great time, I'm sad I missed it.