BrandoFan

Livan is a good idea. Then again, with Garland as #3, Show #4 and Diaz/Rauch - #5, just about ANY quality ML pitcher is an improvement. It all depends on whether or not JR is really serious about GOING FOR IT -- as opposed to 2003 half-assed version of "going for it" on a 50 Mill budget. If JR is willing to spend (read: pay remaining salary), then you can get somebody better than Ortiz. Sox need a pitcher and a BP arm, true, but a letigimate #1 is a must if they're to have a chance in ALDS against either East Coast teams.

Biggest inning in Diaz's career. Patterson, Alou, Sosa and Ramirez coming up. f*** Patterson doubles. The miserable f***./

I would like to apoligize to Joe for calling him a choker in this game. The real chokers today are Harris and Valentin.

f***ing chokers, all of them. Willie, WTF? Crede?

I know he is not as fast as Drew but I thought his arm and bat were Mickey Mantle-esque.

Is it true that Sweeney is even more talented than a young JD Drew?

Ortiz is a #3 in AL the way he's been pitching last 2 seasons. Sox already have a #3 in Loaiza. Buerhle can do a pretty good #2 impression when he is on. I guess I'll take him cause it would push Garland to #4 spot where he belongs. I'll take Moyer too while we're at it.

Ironically enough, Ortiz was the pitcher supposedly pursued by Kenny before he settled on Ritchie in 2002. I think Wells + Ortiz > Ritchie

Drew is also the best defensive RF in NL and is a good defensive CF. I hope y'all loved Gload's and Daubach's performance in OF in the last 2 years. With the way ball carries to LCF on our park, that OPS will jump to 1000. Put him 5th in the line-up and Maggs sees better pitches. Lee will have to go back to the 2-hole, of course. He makes 4 Mill this year.

Gload was playing Patterson deep and then at some point he just....stopped. If he runs at it full-speed, calls off Uribe and the ball is caught.

It was Hollansworth's "triple", not Ramirez. :puke Actuially Garland's error that moved Holansworth to 3rd was followed by what would have been a routine 6-4-3 DP ball.....I sincerely doubt Uribe drops the ball and Ramirez walks with 2 outs if Garland doesn't throw that ball away. Absolutely huge.

Frank is one of the greatest players this sorry 2nd rate franchise has ever had. Repent! He doesn't play the field? Aww, would you rather he tried and cost the team outs and runs like Sosa, Giambi, Thome, McGriff, Mo Vaughn, Manny, Mora, D. Young, Piazza, Everett (CF) - hell, like half the greatest players of all time did when they were forced to play the field because there was no DH? No thanks, Frank's a DH and only those who can play average-to-above-average defense should have an "advantage" over him.

Incomparably better starting pitching and a better bullpen. Right there, if you know anything about baseball, you'd see a big advantage. Not just an advantage, but a BIG one. (Of course, you don't, in fact, know anything about baseball, so it's moot). Then you have their offense, which ranks up there in the NL - it doesn't pad its stats in meaningless blow-outs quite as often as Sox offense does, but its consistency and ability to score off really tough pitchers (Morris, Oswalt, Mulder, etc) makes it almost as effective as ours. Close enough. Ozzie made more tactical errors than Dusty has - there isn't a game that goes by that Ozzie doesn't make a minor (or a major) f***-up. So if I were you, I'd lay off a man who came within outs of winning consecutive WS with different teams, including a Cub squad that lost 90+ games the year before he took charge. And NO, you really CAN'T make the differentiation that was discussed in the Sports Bar thread - your continuous moronic comments in the "don't annoint Cubs as champs just yet" only reinforce it time and time again.

Exorcist Billy?

So you're making the call based on what you you heard on the radio? Why didn't you say so? And actually Jose DID an "error" of sorts - the ball was hit very hard at a player playing way in, but since it was in the "zone" Jose is responsible for, his league-leading (actually, he's 2nd in MLB) ZoneRating took a small beating.

Ah, so there is a GM (read: owner) who ACTUALLY wants to win. Oh well. The good news here is that Astros are "going for it" and should team up with the Cards to keep the Evil from the playoffs. The BAD news however is that by failing to build a sizeable (7-8 game) lead over the Cubs when they were without Prior, Wood and Sosa and had Koch-Borowski as their closer, and especially after getting swept in a 4-game set at home, including Rusch completely out-pitching Oswalt...Astros sent a message to the Cubs loud and clear: WE ARE YOUR b****. Unless Wood is out for the season and either Clement or Maddux has terrible 2nd half, a little too late for the Astros. Cards still have some hope, though.

Excuse me, but what the f*** are you talking about? Jose was playing up with a runner at 3rd with no outs so he could save Garland's ass again, and for once he didn't make a spectacular play on Barret's missile - no time to react. Don't make s*** up in other words. And Garland's error is HIS fault - Konerko could have saved him, but it was Garland all the way.

Rowand is the same age as JoBo; is faster on pads, better defensively and has already proven he can hit ML pitching when given a chance to start. He was our hottest hitter coming into yesterday's game. What makes JoBo more worthy of staying? Extra 2 years of ML service? Who's to say he ever plays in the Bigs again?

It's still early. You would have never made it through 1970, ungrateful peepsqueek. Sox do not need more than 1 pitcher per week; release others or sell them into house slavery.

yeah....DEFENSIVELY - as in Rowand's DEFENSE vs. Gload's DEFENSE. Read all posts in all threads first or don't reply at all.

Of course it's Judy. He should have eaten Hollansworth and Martinez alive.

Perhaps you didn't read my post carefully then. There were a couple of clowns who lost the game; Gload was just the biggest one but by no means was he alone in his putrid effort. I deal with facts and not sports cliches in the "it's a team game" mold. Sorry.

Somewhat? Before going into his recent slump, he had mantained a 400 OBP versus RHP for almost 2 months (from April 10th through June 5th). With his speed, that's very good. As long as he concentrates on hitting the fastball to LF-LCF-CF (he can always go to RCF-RF on a hanging breaking ball), he'll be a big asset in the lead-off spot against righties. I believe Aaron is just fine versus LHP.

Nah, forget it. Sox weren't coming back against Hawkins. Garland, Rowand, Uribe and Gload made sure of that.