Rowand44

QUOTE (dmbjeff @ Apr 14, 2010 -> 01:52 AM) The past few years CC Sabathia has been garbage in April yet he always puts up insanely good seasons. Baseball is a marathon, not a sprint. His stuff looked better than Jakes does right now. I'm certainly not in all out panic mode but I'd be lying if I said I'm not worried at this point. The velocity being where it is, is definitely cause for concern and the inconsistency of his slider is as well, not to mention he's pretty much throwing 0 offspeed stuff at this point. I'm looking at 2 more starts for him to regain his stuff/consistency on his slider, if he still looks terrible, I will be panicking.

Well this team is probably fighting with Milwaukee and Miami for the 5 seed if Noah didn't miss a month so to say that the Bulls suck is quite a stretch if you ask me. Not even counting the other injuries or the fact that Rose wasn't healthy for a while to start the season. A healthy Rose and Noah allow this team to give Cleveland at least an exciting series. I'll take that over the 1.8 percent chance we have at getting a top 3 pick because that just isn't happening again.

QUOTE (longshot7 @ Apr 14, 2010 -> 11:38 AM) Let's hope the Bulls do themselves a favor and lose. We need the draft pick more than we need to be swept by the Cavs. Considering Milwaukee gets to swap their first rounder with us as long as it's not a top 10 pick(which it wont be win or lose), we might as well win and make the playoffs.

Eh, there's a ton of things that Ozzie does that piss me off, this quote probably doesn't crack the top 100000000. It doesn't bother me at all.

QUOTE (Soxbadger @ Apr 10, 2010 -> 03:16 PM) Our best hitter right now is not Beckham. People need to get over the hype, the guy is good, but hes not a superstar yet and its very likely that he may experience some problems in his sophomore campaign. Teams are already shading him to RF and as pitchers get better scouting reports on him he is going to have to learn to adjust. He has a ton of raw natural talent as a hitter, but he still has a lot to learn about being a professional hitter. Arguable. You say he's not a superstar yet, while that might be true, we don't have a superstar in our lineup besides a healthy Quentin. You can say he's going to go into a sophomore slump but I'll argue that he's going to improve quite a bit considering last year was not only his rookie season but it was his first full season in professional baseball. Of course he'll go into a slump at some point this season(considering every hitter in baseball does) but with this current lineup he already had the 2nd best season out of anyone last year and I'd bet he'll be right around there again this year(1st or 2nd depending on the health of Carlos).

Nobody knows and that's the problem. His offense is too damn important to our team to f*** around with him. If someone can find me just one quote from a player saying they like to dh or that it helps their swing then I'll change my opinion but I guarantee you can't find one, cause they don't exist. He's not a liability in rf and until that happens he needs to remain out there.

We're going to win cause Mark is pitching. That's how it works.

QUOTE (Rowand44 @ Apr 7, 2010 -> 05:15 PM) Quote myself here, cause I just talked to my buddy at the athletics office. It's a done deal that they're transferring. Unf***in real. Brian, you asked me what the bigger news is, I can just say it's about to get much, much worse. We're done, the end.

QUOTE (G&T @ Apr 10, 2010 -> 04:08 PM) I wouldn't feel so bad except I fear that when the offense starts hitting, the pitching will be struggling. Eh, there's really no reason this staff should go through a slump as a whole, it's just to good of a rotation 1-5(barring injury of course).

Boo.

Blah, cmon Q

QUOTE (TitoMB @ Apr 10, 2010 -> 02:21 PM) Oh please. You know just as much as I do that that division title was won by our starting rotation. Um, ok?

That's the time to utilize the bunt, well done.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Apr 10, 2010 -> 02:19 PM) Yeah, they've only won 1 division title in the last 2 years. How dare they! lol, seriously.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Apr 10, 2010 -> 02:18 PM) I don't think anybody's overreacting. The offense sorta sucks. Calling for Kenny's head is a complete overreaction.

I gotta ask if Jayson Nix is ever going to get a plate appearance. This would be a perfect time for him to pinch hit.

QUOTE (TheHolyBovine @ Apr 10, 2010 -> 02:12 PM) He's dead on. Not at all. This s*** has been frustrating as all hell to watch so far this season but some of you guys are completely overreacting.

Wow Linebrink, f***in awesome!!!!

QUOTE (The Gooch @ Apr 10, 2010 -> 02:08 PM) , and getting a worse version of Scotty That's just wrong.

f***in awesome Pierre.

QUOTE (Chet Kincaid @ Apr 10, 2010 -> 02:01 PM) By that time how many games will we be out of first? Need your sarcasm detector fixed.

QUOTE (jphat007 @ Apr 10, 2010 -> 02:00 PM) That AJ and Flowers are terrible hitters? Whats tough to comprehend abou that? What the hell makes you think that Flowers is a terrible hitter?

QUOTE (Chet Kincaid @ Apr 10, 2010 -> 01:55 PM) I heard B & B on the Score saying that they've come to the conclusion that Flowers is not very good at baseball, and that they should trade him NOW while they can still get something for him. Depressing. Happy they made that distinction after 18 spring training ab's. And btw, whoever said it, I pretty much agree, Flowers probably would be our best bet to dh at this point, it wont happen though.

QUOTE (Capn12 @ Apr 10, 2010 -> 01:55 PM) Freddy pitched plenty fine enough for a 5th starter, its the 2nd time in a row he allowed a leadoff walk, it was bound to hurt eventually. Pitched plenty fine for anybody, not just a 5th starter.

Very excited for tonights card. No idea why but I have a gut feeling that Maia is going to pull off a sub to beat Anderson tonight.