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The book is out. High heat and he's gone.

QUOTE (WilliamTell @ Aug 12, 2010 -> 08:14 PM) it really bugs me how the Twins can bring up someone like Valencia who no one has ever heard of and he's batting .320 And ridiculous defense.

High heat outside or up and in on Thome, come on even I know that.

Wow, we are getting bad calls in this series left and right. Where was that strike zone when Gavin was on the bump?

QUOTE (Jerksticks @ Aug 12, 2010 -> 11:33 AM) I still don't understand how AJ has regressed so much. It really seemed like he was figuring the game out last year, just calmly taking what the pitcher gave. Now we just see one long, hard swing after another. Him and Jones are about as close to guaranteed, unproductive outs as it gets. I dont think its regression as much as mechanics. He doesnt seem to have the flexibility in his wrists through his swing like previous years. He is rolling over on everything. He reminds me of a guy who gets the hooks in golf.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Aug 12, 2010 -> 06:14 PM) The top of the last three drafts have been quite good... 2008 gave us Beckham, Hudson, Morel and D2. 2009 gave us some good results too, they just had injury issues this year that were big: Mitchell, Phegley, Thompson, Holmberg. 2010 has looked good so far, with Sale, and nice performances from Reed, Petricka and Wilkins Keep in mind too, that 2009 batch his a weird injury bug, but Mitchell and Thompson project to be back at strength later this year. I'd bet that a year from now, the system will look a lot better than you think, assuming we don't trade away a whole bunch more of the farm. There are also a couple other guys who were highly thought of that spent a year off on injury and are just now coming back: Nevin Griffith and Jose Martinez. I think the drafting and development were bad for a while, but under the new regime, things are looking up. The last 3 drafts have been very good. That 09 draft was looking like a really great one until the injury bug hit. Out of those 3 drafts alone, we are looking at at least 10 MLB players IMO.

QUOTE (GREEDY @ Aug 12, 2010 -> 06:12 PM) No chance. I guarantee he has recently passed waivers. Cleared Waivers you mean? And the answer is no.

QUOTE (GREEDY @ Aug 12, 2010 -> 05:05 PM) You are flat out nuts.... Peavy is only owed $50,000,000!!!!!! Let me put it this way so even the most baseball stupid can understand: There isn't a team in baseball that would take Peavy for a bag of balls, even if you packaged him with Gordon Beckham Factor in that Richard appears to be a bona fide major league baseball player under team control for several years, and that makes your post the worst I have seen on this message board. EVER. I love KW but saying that the Peavy deal is currently a good deal is blind ignorance. Richard hasnt proven s*** and none of the other players have either. Peavy is a bona fide top of the rotation starter and at least 75 percent of the teams in the league would take him from us with no questions asked. Here's a translation for the baseball retarded: Peavy good. And I probably only have to scour YOUR posts to find many more worse than mine, and thats probably only this summer.

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Aug 12, 2010 -> 11:06 AM) It's a crappy way for him to go out, but it appears that Chipper tore his ACL. All this guy did was rack up 2,490 career hits with 493 doubles, 436 homers, for a whopping .941 OPS on the career while playing a whole lot of 3B and some OF (and even SS in a handful of games). He's a lock for the Hall of Fame. What a freak. As a switch hitter. Which is harder to do IMO.

I LOVE the "youth is served" crap they are trying to use to generate interest. Guess what, your youth really isnt that good.

QUOTE (Rowand44 @ Aug 10, 2010 -> 12:29 AM) I'll take that as anal accomplished.

QUOTE (MattZakrowski @ Aug 12, 2010 -> 10:40 AM) The Peavy trade has to be on this list, and I'll own that I was wrong in supporting it. Already? Disagree. I would make that deal again right now if I could even with Peavy on the DL.

QUOTE (Jordan4life @ Aug 12, 2010 -> 04:03 PM) I've soured on KW considerably the last couple years, as I don't think his overall philosophy of building teams will ever be conducive to year in and year out success. Yeah, compared to other GMs of White Sox past, he looks like a genius. But take '05 away, and I know this is virtually impossible, there's just not much to get loud about. And it looks even less impressive when you consider we're not in the AL east, where we have to deal with mega giants every year. But even I will admit that Kenny has done a fabulous job, not so much recently, but during a 4 year stretch from I'd say '04 to '08 in plucking talent from other organizations. Now only if we could ever draft and develop our own. Chris Sale Gordon Beckham Jared Mitchell Lesser extent Jordan Danks, David Holmberg, Dan Hudson, Chris Carter, John Ely etc. Few examples of the excellent drafting that has come about with KW changing his drafting philosophy. Looked at that last 3 first round picks we made. They are fantastic IMO.

Oh s***, how about the leg breaking scene in Misery.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Aug 11, 2010 -> 04:01 PM) The scene in Saving Private Ryan where the American soldier is slowly stabbed to death by the German who was calmly telling him it would be OK in German. I was going to say this one, it is easily one of the most disturbing death scenes in a non-horror film around.

QUOTE (Milkman delivers @ Aug 12, 2010 -> 09:15 AM) By insinuating that anyone who gets worried after a bad stretch doesn't know anything about the game. In my opinion, yep. And if they are next to me at a bar or at a game, I'll ask them how their first season is going.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Aug 12, 2010 -> 09:00 AM) He's a 21 year old who's been in the U.S. for a year and a half and who hasn't faced anything close to MLB caliber pitching and scouting. Learning to make an adjustment is going to take him some time. That said...we don't have time to waste on developing anyone other than Kotsay while in this pennant race. Mark Teahen needs to be put back into the lineup at DH at some point in the near future. It will at least make the hole in the lineup a bit smaller.

Watching the replay, I have no idea how Carlos hit that ball out, he short armed the s*** out of it. And Dayan needs to make an adjustment at some point. He has zero pitch recognition and has a huge hole in his swing high and in.

QUOTE (Milkman delivers @ Aug 11, 2010 -> 09:14 PM) Why do you always make your posts semi-personal like that? by stating my opinion?

QUOTE (bmags @ Aug 11, 2010 -> 12:41 PM) Oh what a crock. Is there a sport you don't think you are the best fan of? huh? Did you mean to respond to my post, I'm not sure I said anything about myself in it at all.

So much hot ass on bachelor pad. However, its almost a poor man's version of Paradise hotel which is still one of the best reality shows ive ever seen.

IMO, if you need cheering up after losing a few games, I am proud of you that you just got into baseball this year. This is a sport of failure and the team is going to lose at least 60 games every year, its just part of a baseball season. We are still in this for the long run.

QUOTE (Thunderbolt @ Aug 10, 2010 -> 10:16 PM) It hurts losing to a team that still looks better on paper, whose GM actually went out looking to fill the holes on their roster this offseason. At least we got Ozzie to admit this is the best team he's ever managed. I'll take our starting pitching and bullpen on paper and in real life over the Twins every day of the week.

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Aug 10, 2010 -> 10:09 PM) If you don't have a suitable replacement lined up then don't get rid of him. EVERYONE across this board and baseball didnt think Thome had this production in him, and thats including the Twins. They thought we was a part timer, turns out he had one last season in the tank. Everyone on here last season thought he was done.

QUOTE (fathom @ Aug 10, 2010 -> 10:08 PM) Hey, I'm still mad we didn't go with the Branyan/Gomes platoon for like 3 million. Yeah I liked that idea at the time. Matsui was very close to joining us and we were in on Vlad at one point as well. Berkman would have been nice but he wanted to spoon with Pettite. It sucks, but thats the way it is.