AbeFroman

oh come on ventura... i was responding to a question on where thornton was...

QUOTE(AbeFroman @ Jun 9, 2006 -> 09:50 PM) betcha big big big money ozzie's saving him for hafner On two earlier occasions, ozzie has gone lefty-lefty to hafner... each time choosing boone logan. The result, a home run and a game winning double... look for thornton in just a minute

QUOTE(Gregory Pratt @ Jun 9, 2006 -> 09:49 PM) Where the f*** is Matt Thornton, anyway? betcha big big big money ozzie's saving him for hafner

QUOTE(henry wiggins @ Jun 9, 2006 -> 11:44 AM) The article is the cover story in the May 22 SI, which was on the stands a few weeks ago. I read the piece but didn't recall the trainer's name. Interesting. Thanks for the link. Yeah... my bad... the story was out on May 22. I appreciate the correction

God damn it... I knew something wasn't right that day. Actaully, I am surprised at the date: 1990. Thats further back than I thought all this really went. Makes you wonder how this type of thing could be going on from 1990 on and the league didn't do anything about it until 2005

Here is a whole lot more fuel for the fire: SI article... written three weeks ago, but (I think) just coming out today) on the relationship between Pujols and Mihlfeld. Pujols calls Mihlfeld, "My best friend, almost my brother" woah http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2006/maga...ction=si_latest

Check out this article written by Grimsley himself. He mentions Chris Mihlfeld himself as a player in helping him return to baseball so soon. I'm going to post the whole article in case it gets taken down by major league baseball sometime soon: http://mlbplayers.mlb.com/NASApp/mlb/pa/ne..._news&fext=.jsp Grimsley: Record return from surgery 07/20/2005 10:21 AM ET It took just nine months and three days to get back on the mound following my Tommy John surgery. Initially, I figured I'd miss the entire season, but everything has gone extremely well. I haven't had a single setback and my arm feels great -- even the day after I pitch. My sinker is sinking again and my arm should continue to get better and better. I'm told that when I get to the 11- or 12-month mark my, arm is really going to start coming back. That's when it's going to be really fun. It's wonderful to be competing again. Plus, I'm rejoining the Orioles in the middle of a pennant race. That, by itself, makes it fun to come to the ballpark every day. The clubhouse is always buzzing. Every pitch, every at-bat means something. You're playing for a purpose -- to win a game and get into the playoffs. I really didn't have any apprehensions about trying to come back this quickly. I gained a lot of perspective this winter when a twin-engine plane crashed into my house in the Kansas City suburbs while my wife and little girl were inside. While baseball has always been extremely important in my life, you tend to reorganize your priorities when you have a close a call like that. My wife, Dana, and my 5-year-old daughter, Rayne, were literally 30 feet from where the plane hit the house. God must have had his hands around them to protect them. I was dropping my boys, Hunter and John, off at school when it happened. It just happened that there was a funny noise in the front end of my truck that morning so I called a buddy at a Chevrolet place and asked if they could take a look at it after I dropped off the boys. If I hadn't stopped by the garage to have the truck checked, I would have been just pulling up to the house or sitting in the room where the plane crashed through. Our family was fortunate. The whole episode has served as an awakening for me. It was like God telling me, "Look, there are things that mean a whole lot more than baseball and I'm going to show you what some of those things are." I realize that now. I still have the love and the joy of competing, but I no longer feel any pressure in baseball. That new outlook had a positive effect on the rehabilitation process. It relaxed me. It made me realize that anything that happens from here on in my baseball career is a bonus. I knew I'd been given another chance. So I told my doctor, Timothy Kremchek, and my trainer, Chris Mihlfeld, that my arm felt good and I wanted to step on the gas. I told them, "I want to push it and see if my arm will break. I'm not afraid because I don't have anything to lose." There wasn't a whole lot of babying in the rehab process. When Dr. Kremchek told me that my arm wasn't going to break, we all decided to throw protocol out the window and write our own book. As I said, I didn't have anything to lose. I'd been written off for the year and I realized I'm nearing the end of my career. So I decided to give it a chance and see what happens. I've had a couple of outings now and my arm feels fine. It responds even better than it used to the day after I pitch, too. For the first time since I can recall, my arm doesn't throb afterwards. It's difficult to express how blessed I feel to have been able to get through all that transpired through the winter and to be back pitching for the Orioles again. I have to thank God first, but I also want to thank my wife, Dana. Without her I wouldn't be in the position I'm in now. She's been an absolute rock. You know the saying, behind every good man is a good woman? I want to amend that to say, in front of every good man, there's a good woman. She's the sane one. She provides the common sense and the stability to our relationship. Without her steady, calming presence, we wouldn't have been able to get through this past winter. Now every day on the mound will be a bonus for the rest of my career. A right-handed sinkerball pitcher who has previously played for the Phillies, Indians, Angels, Yankees and Royals during his 13-year career, Jason Grimsley was traded to the Orioles last June and underwent Tommy John surgery on Oct. 12. He returned to the mound on July 15. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.

QUOTE(Steff @ Jun 8, 2006 -> 01:07 PM) Roger's name was brought up last year so it's not really new news. Roger's name was brought up last year... Our very own Spataro51 cracked that story.

Mike North Sucks... period. I wish there were are real local sports radio show on in the morning. I really don't like the national stuff with Mike and Mike, but I have no choice given how terrible Mike North is. I like the score at nights when Zach Zademan and Lawrence Holmes co-host. B & B are great... MJH are very good as well. Carmen and Silvy, well, i miss them... I really hate salisbury

Here's the link to an article in SI on a possible Hunter to Sox trade... looks like it can't happen http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2006/scor...ction=si_latest

Bunch of interesting stuff on this link: Says that the Feds pressured Grimsley to wear a wire to catch other players. He refused... Also, apparently the twins are unwilling to trade torii hunter to the white sox http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2006/scor...ction=si_latest

AL Central Long Run: Minnesota has Francisco Liriano Detroit had Justin Verlander Cleveland has Jeremy Sowers All three has performed way beyond all expectations considering where they are at in their careers. Liriano is 4-1 with at 2.44 ERA. Verlander is 7-4 with at 3.35 ERA, and Sowers is an absurd 6-1 with a 1.12 ERA in AAA. Considering that these guys are basically rookies, I am not looking forward to having them in this division for years to come. I'm happy we have McCarthy.... but these guys, especially Liriano, are frightening. P.S. Sowers went to Vanderbilt: so you know he's a huge prick (haha).

QUOTE(Big Hurtin @ Jun 7, 2006 -> 07:51 PM) Whatever happened to big mouth Dmitri? I think he's touting Tampa Bay and Baltimore in the AL east

QUOTE(Wedge @ Jun 7, 2006 -> 07:49 PM) Is he on Grimsley's list? By the way, if Grimsley was on ampetamines, why the hell does he throw the slowest games in the league? He's as bad as Mike Hargrove. You could read Tolstoy in between his pitches

QUOTE(Kalapse @ Jun 7, 2006 -> 07:47 PM) It does look pretty bad, BIG loss for the Tiggers. I'd hold off on calling it a BIG loss... just a loss will suffice. I mean, the guy is hitting .237

Wasn't Jason Grimsley also the guy who tried to break into the umpire's room at Comiskey to replace Albert Belle's corked bat? If my memory serves me correctly (and I think it does), he was the guy on cleveland that was skinny enough to get into the air conditioning vent to try and steal the bat. what a cheater

QUOTE(AbeFroman @ Jun 7, 2006 -> 05:01 PM) wow.... I'd be pissed if I were the Feds... Now the cover is blown on their investigation. Whoever's names are blacked out probably realize they could be nailed soon too.... So they will all destroy their evidence (that is the evidence they control). Actually, I retract my previous statement. These names were blacked out.... obviously it was done by someone with the Federal Prosecutor's office. Hmm... maybe other warrants are out there. Maybe they wanted this leaked.... on their own terms... with names blacked out.

QUOTE(Wedge @ Jun 7, 2006 -> 04:44 PM) Here's the affadavit: http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/0607061grimsley1.html Unfortunately, the names are blacked out... wow.... I'd be pissed if I were the Feds... Now the cover is blown on their investigation. Whoever's names are blacked out probably realize they could be nailed soon too.... So they will all destroy their evidence (that is the evidence they control).

QUOTE(Kalapse @ Jun 7, 2006 -> 03:07 PM) I don't give a s*** if they implicate numerous former or current White Sox players, I just really want to see some names thrown out there. This whole thing should lead to a blood test for HGH, Grimsley's situation should make the human growth hormone problem a major focal point. I tip my cap... good post

QUOTE(WilliamTell @ Jun 6, 2006 -> 09:37 PM) Home run? yes 4-3 sox lead

that felt very geoff blum-esqe

look at that

full count to cintron

These are the type of games we seemed to be able to win last year....

god damn it...