BrandoFan

Tiny-nosed cocksucker walks leadoff hitter Goodwin on 5 pitches. Moron.

Thomas looks bad, he dives all over the place hoping to hit a monster homer to rival Sammy's. Harmless pop is the result. Maggs gets overpowered by an inside fastball, weak grounder to 2nd. Daubach has no chance against weakass Clement- he waits on a pitch WAY to long ebfore offersin. Does he not realize Clement is not Jaimme Mopyer and can in fact get it up to mid-90s? 3 up, 3 down. f***.

Danny gets bailed by dumbass Bako who hit a towering pop-up to Maggs on another mistake change with runners at 2/3-2out Let's go get Clement, last 3 Sox outs were all line-outs to Goodwin in left.

Danny is starting to nibble again, losing release poin. 4-pitch walk to Karris. 3-1 ocount on Martinez f***....Now he doubles on a meatball. 2&3-2 out Motherf***er!

Defensive gem slide by Maggs!

Jimenez with a tough, risky defensive play. Good job. 1-0 Cubs, bottom 3rd.

Crede you s***!

3-1 meatball two-seamer to Corey Patterson was semi-forgivable. 1-2 belt high hanging change to a struggling A-Gon was not. 1-0 Cubs going to the bottom of the 2nd.

Danny Wright is killing this team, absolute meatballs every other pitch. Wow.

. ROTFLMAO!!!

He is White, and White people naturally pull for their own kind. Hence the 'love affair'. Besides, if Brian were to play all day, he'd be liable to get tired pretty quickly. I say 4 homers and 12 RBIs are as much as you can expect from him on any given day. Have you ever considered that maybe he is getting opportunity because he is sucking the right people? Duh.

and unlike that real homer, Steve Stone, it doesn't ring false. I agree he's a real homer, but he knows his baseball. Oh I agree, Steve Stone knows quote a bit about pitching....but compared to Kawk two things fly out: 1. It' almost seems like he is jealous of good non-Cub players/Cubs killers/White Sox even if he is extoling their virtues at the same time. He uses subtle techniques and still manages to come off semi-insincere. IMO. (Of coruse he is better than Chip That Could, it goes without saying) 2. As a former player, his analysis is surprisingly shallow, especially when talking about defnese, hitting and base-running.

Do you make her yell out Sox-related things in, um, the moment of passion? For instance, does she know who her Big Bad Sox Daddy is?

The Sensai has taught you well, my son.

Brando, hate to break it to you, but Jeremy Reed is still not yet a household name. He was not included in the Baseball America Top 100 Prospects this year. In the current issue they revisit that Top 100 list and even provide a "Moving Onto the Charts" category for guys who are having great seasons that were not on the list. Jeremy Reed was surprisingly absent from that group as well. He was not in the Sox Top 10 Prospects before the year started either, and was not selected for the Future's Game. Sox fans should know about him right now, but the rest of the baseball world is still lagging in the Jeremy Reed PR department. The point was, I think, is that even trained baseball professionals are not very good at predicting. The truly competent few who are able to recognize true talent early and who use a very flexible, intuitive evaluation system are a rare breed. The rest are just lemmings...and, yes, it probably goes beyond sports and into every facet of life. Borchard this and Borchad that...meanwhile it's not like Reed developed his talent out nowhere at 22, know what I mean? Yes, personal/player development is not exactly a science, more of an art really, and yes you can't possibly see everybody on consistent basis yada-yada-yada, there are also all sorts of issues pertaining to different levels of competition, etc......but I hate the way these scouts and sports writers are taken as gospel where in fact that are wrong overwhelming % of the time, often having nothing to go on but 20/20 stats review and unadulterated hype. I could care less if he is well known or not, just that he is ready to be an all-star CF for the Sox in 2006.

As bad as Jose has been this season on the O, he would have tied Frank Thomas for the lead in runs scored if Paul Konerko could do anything with him on 3rd base and 1 out in the 9th. That's just shows how sad our offense has been more than anything.

"Murcy!" alone often packs more intensity and genuine feeling than anything other mainstream, "regal" announcers can come up with...combined. Hawk is just misunderstood, that's all. Hell, most people think that the only reason why he brings up his playing days is because he wants to bragg--nothing could be further from the truth if you take time to peruse his career stats and think about woefully self-deprecating context of his stories...LMAO. So with that...Rawk on, Ken Harrelson, you awesome ol' school redneck you.

Very reasonable article overall, though it would look much better if it was written a year ago when Reed was a nobody...hindsight 20/20 as it were. ** Jay Mariotti stamp of approval. **

Damn, CW, is there anything that gets by you?

Pretty good?? You can say that again. LOL I am glad we agree for once.

I still think Jeremy Reed is a pretty good ball-player. 385 ba? 1100 OPS? 4 SB in his first 30 at bats? Not to shabby.

What else do you expect from a hand-wringing Midwestern sportellectual?

Too bad he can't play CF or 3B....

I don't hate you at all, poor baby. There-there. I just think that if you died in your sleep tonight, the world would be a better place in the morning. I really do.

Aaaron Gleeman from Baseball Primer is: "Now, depending on your view of who should make the all-star team, Loaiza is either a shoe-in or someone completely undeserving. If you go entirely by a player’s performance in the first three months of this season to determine this year’s all-stars, Loaiza has been the best pitcher in the AL and should start the game. If you go partly by this season, but mostly by a player’s history, Loaiza is about as good a candidate as a hundred other pitchers in the AL this year. I tend to go for the latter, taking into account what a player is doing this season, but remembering that a good three months does not a great player make. And, in Loaiza’s case, a good two or three months does not make a whole career of mediocrity vanish." Anyone else agree with that clown and his bulging sense of fairness? (This only reinforces my firm belief that those who can't think or write end up working for Baseball Prospectus/ESPN/BP but that's for another day.)