BrandoFan

I kinda liked and respected Jerry, his handling of 1999-2000 teams in particular. I bet if Thomas doesn't get injured in 2001 and Wells-Fogg/Rithie fiasco is somehow averted Garland-Erstad style...things turn out differently, I really think so. Sadly we can only speculate at this point. I'll miss him if he indeed goes. No way in hell should he be gone before KW and especially Gary Ward, though.

OT: I haven't been "fighting" with you for a great while if you take care to notice, especially now that the April window is closing and I simply have little-to-no time to post...Talking to others about you once in a while doesn't count, of course....lol As far as us being "Sox fans" first, I dunno 'bout you, but I am a man first and only then a sports fan...from the get go I told you I really disliked you and explained why...I have nothing more to add and would appreciate you ignore my posts henceforth the way Steff does. I'll do the same.

f*** you back atcha

Nice try...but, no, it shouldn't matter because it wouldn alter the amount of at bats. If you play extra 5 games, you have 20-25 extra at bats good for you. Barry Bonds had only 500 at bats to hit his 73 homers in 2001 while Ichiro will have a 700 at bat season one of these days. Not exactly "fair", but that's the way it is. I mean, it's not like a player can cause a rain delay and "pad" his stats; if he gets lucky with 5 postponed games in which he does a lot of damage, so be it, he got lucky but at the same time he totally deserved it because it was accomplished in a fair&square fashion. Matt Clement was absolute s***. Why should he be let off the hook? It's not "fair" to other pitchers whose record might end up being broken....when a pitcher can have up to 36 "do overs" in a year "So called games"? Go tell that to the Cardinal guy who so-called broke his so-called ankle.....

I mean, common people, at some point you can only throw your hands in the air in frustration.....when Alomar, Konerko, Lee, Crede, Rowand and even Magglio take a mistake pitch in the middle of the plate and are tardy on another one fouling it off, and then overswing at the ball chest high/shoe-string low promptly popping it up/K'ing.....or when Kock, White, Garland, Wright have no control over their already mediocre breaking pitches, fall behind hitters and are forced to lay the fastaball right there on 2-0, 3-1 count, resulting in hanging ropes all over the place......... .................how in the flaming hell do you expect Jerry Manuel make a difference? What can he do if Rowand's hitting IQ is just above "mild retardation"? He can't insert himself into the line-up and, say, come through with a clutch bases loaded 2-run blooping single against a tough pitcher to galvanize the team. And so forth. I feel sorry for him.

He is a Gold Glove winner who is also mr. clutch (kinda like Edgar in that it's "when you hit, not what you hit truism) in addition to hitting 550-600 homers when it's all said and done.....HOF in my book. Mark Grace on the other hand......

Two words: Brooks Kieshniek I have no problem with 100 SO if they go along with 650 slugging and 80 walks in the Charlotte park against AAA pitching. Joe got the first part down cold but the latter two are sadly lacking. Tendonitis or not, there is absolutely no reason to give Borchard benefit of the doubt at this point, and unless Borchard can post 850 OPS in the majors in his first coupla years, he is a bust in my book. He got paid like a franchise savior, now it's time for him to justify the effin' hype. Did I mention I like Willie Harris?

Exactly...but then again, it's his fault he didn't buy them ice cream cones after each loss and sure as hell didn't motivate them properly. He is an irresponsible paren...er...manager.

ESPN still has Clement's ERA at 5.47...I dunno, it wouln't be fair not to count the stats, the players played their asses off....not getting 'W' and 'L' is one thing, but to penalize Tino Martinez......this is not my America!

Gee, I was saying all this after first KC series and guys wanted to put a hit on me back then

above average speed???..please..he would have trouble beating thomas in a foot race...do you like go to the bathroom when the sox take the field???...because if you subtracted from jimenez's ops the number of hits he gives away with his lack of range and laziness his ops would be about 600 We've been over this many times... I am totally serious about the speed thing; Jimenez has Magglio-type speed. I watch at least a fourth of all the games and tape the rest, I prefer the actual game-play to judge whether he is fast or not as opposed to warmup/taking the field part or whatever....Did you see his CS? He was clearly safe on one of them and barely out on the other. That would have given him 4 steals in 5 attempts.... Foot race with Thomas to determine who is faster? Now it's getting surreally ridiculous. Are you drinking again? His range? Perfectly mediocre even if, I agree, he doesn't really hustle (if he did his range would be above-average). Same as Ray Durham who couldn't/can't get to ANYTHING, especially in the clutch and has a girlie arm. So, yeah, keep looking for things that aren't there. Hurting the Sox with his glove? Are you effin' kidding me?! 3 errors, boo--hoo, crying me a f***ing river.........Give him at least a year to adjust to a new position. Geez. I tell you, if this guy leads the league in hitting, you will still find something to harp on. He isn't a Gold Glover? So what, neither are 27 other starting second basemen in the majors. Not everyone is Robbie Alomar or Loius Rivas.

Gone are the days when Sam McDowell threw 275 pitches in one game With Woods awful mechanics (only Rocky Biddle and Danny Wright rival him) and the pressure his trick slider puts on his elbow, anything above 110 pitches is suicide.

I have a gut feeling that Clement is injured and Wood will be in the next 2 years. I would never wish injuries on the Cibs as much as I hate them, but it doesn't look good. Prior may end being their entire rotation. But then again both Rauch and Wright are threading awfully close to the Sirotka/Eldred land...

Similarly, when 32yo Ray Durham is barely at .265 mark at the end of the year and is finally shut down because of his ankle........See, I can read future headlines as well as you can, bags. Meanwhile, my boy Jim-Jim was 2 for 4 yesteday and reached base two more times today, missing a home run by a few feet during one of the 'out' at bats. 910 OPS is something I will take from a leadoff, 2Bman with above average speed who is making peanuts...ANY.DAY.OF.THE.WEEK End of line.

Too bad Borchard is horrible right now, eh, in a hitter's park at that... Willie is finally starting to look sharp and his outs are all line drives now. He could have easily been 2 for 2 today with a single and a double. I bet he doesn't make another mental mistake in CF for the reast of the year. Let him learn, he was errorless in the minors. I am with Chisoxfn on this one, give him another week or two. He is certainly looking sharper at the plate (seeing more pitches, etc) than Corey Patterson did in his first 500 at bats even if the stats don't show it yet. White Sox are not going to live or die with their 9th spot hitter (with great speed and good defense might I add), 'kay? Forget about promised "breakout years", unless 4-7 hitters start producing at least at the rate they did last year, and unless two of Koch/Garland/Gordon are their normal selves....Sox are f***ed, in which case it doesn't really matter if Wee-Willie is "the one" in center or not.

What, you didn't appreciate his Playstation-like approach to hitting? Afterall, he is "Super" Joe Crede, the only human being on the planet with flawless hand-eye coordination and superior baspeed to be able to hit ANYTHING, ANYHOW, ANYWHERE AT ANY TIME...Screw the studying of pitchers, knowing the game situation, looking for a particular pitch in a particular location or mastering the art of picking-up-the-release-point-and-following-the-rotation and managing the strike zone... All that "time-tested" crap is for losers like Barry Bonds and Jim Edmonds. He is Joe f***ing Crede and don't you foget it; you're just jealous that he knows the secret shortcut to hitting major league pitching and you don't

Keep looking.

Gently untwist the panties...grab some valium.....take a deep breath or two....momo. I recall using "I think" before stating my opinion....nice to be wrong for a change.

I absolutely agree...except that being "humiliated" is different from being "responsible" let alone "punished". If I have a son and he goes out and, even if jokingly, knowingly harms peoples' minds or well-being, there is no way I let him slide, same DNA or not. If he is varsity HS age and pulls a stunt like that hazing, I won't feel "humiliated" as much as "enraged"...which means his car, TV, vacation, etc priviliges would be gone and a college fund would be "diminished". If he does something like that again, he is dead to me. As per Tennessee Williams, deliberate cruelty is unforgivable.

Wrong.

I think the stats are counted even if the game is canceled. Which means 23yo, league minimum-making Corey Patterson is out-hitting slowfoots Konerko and Crede COMBINED........Lovely.

Though I stand by what I said in the "Hazing" thread re responsibility....wow...just wow...another smarmy, self-righteous rhetorical turd, another black&white, judgemental over-generalization. I'd like to tell you where you can shove your backhanded "skeletons" comment...but other posters already did.

Why you little &%$#&^&%*^&&%& &^##(!=*&!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

f*** the Cali Balless Wonder, he doesn't deserve a serious thread let alone a spot in the major league rotation. I'll make sure to "boo" him twice as hard next time I am at the ballpark, the punk. Next.

No way...gera'heah...really?