Balta1701

The author of this piece is a recently retired Republican staff member who spent 28 years on the Hill working for budget and defense committee members. So, lifelong Republican. It'd fill up 6 pages if I tried to excerpt everything. It appears to be a legitimate, cathartic rant about the people who are taking over the party he worked for.

QUOTE (Jordan4life @ Sep 4, 2011 -> 01:03 PM) And that's all defense. Offensively Castro is as good or better. And I already said Castro has a ways to go defensively. But that certainly means his "Floor" is not Alexei, because he's not as good as Alexei right nwo.

QUOTE (elrockinMT @ Sep 4, 2011 -> 12:45 PM) The alternative is to tell him not to try so hard. If we had more like CQ on the team we might still be in it - ALL THE WAY IN. Granted we would have a full DL but what the heck Or simply practice how to land without destroyign your body.

QUOTE (Tex @ Sep 4, 2011 -> 11:16 AM) Ozzie has become the symbol for all the disappointment. Once again, he has deflected the blame from players. That only really works as an excuse if the players are performing.

QUOTE (elrockinMT @ Sep 4, 2011 -> 12:24 PM) Always remmeber there is next year. Ozzie sticks up for himself and there is nothing wrong with that and we have good players who are having bad years. Do some tweaking and some look at themselves in the mirror and make the needed changes this off season and 2012 can be a fun time for sure. Cause this year was no so much Ozzie sticking up for himself is the same as me and 2k5 sticking up for ourselves on something political. No one gets anywhere, and it just drags on forever, to the point that anyone watching wants them to just shut up.

QUOTE (elrockinMT @ Sep 4, 2011 -> 12:33 PM) Quentin-De Aza and Viciedo in the OF and take your pick for the 4th. Lilibridge can play back up OF'er and infielder I think it's become quite obvious that Quentin is only a part-season player.

I wonder if Tex will casually start a replacement thread.

QUOTE (Jordan4life @ Sep 4, 2011 -> 09:15 AM) Castro has a higher OPS this season (.762) than Ramirez's (.725). One is 21. The other is 30. Yes, Castro's defense leaves a lot to be desired and is a work in progress. But I'd say his floor is Alexei. Not his max. And if you're this down on Castro, what are your expectations for Beckham? 2.7 WAR for Castro, 4.3 WAR each of the last 2 years for Alexei.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Sep 4, 2011 -> 12:17 PM) With the way he has played it needs to be more like "special" teams I'm not a fan of trying to make a joke out of this.

QUOTE (Marty34 @ Sep 3, 2011 -> 09:02 PM) An expensive .500 team is the worst position to be in. Far worse than rebuilding. AN expensive .500 team is at least going to look like they're competitive for part of the year. A rebuilding, .375 winning %age team is not a pleasant experience.

QUOTE (CaliSoxFanViaSWside @ Sep 3, 2011 -> 08:30 PM) Those wishing for a rebuild will be 1st in line for your season tickets , I'm sure. Let's remember what it took for Detroit to "Rebuild". A couple of the worst MLB seasons in history. Got them a great starting pitcher out of it. Signing some of the worst contracts in MLB in order to build "Credibility". A W.S. appearance followed by an epic collapse A couple more years of struggling/epic collapses Finally being the best of a bad division this year. The highest salary in the division for what, 4 straight years, and presumably 1 Central division title? This really can't have been a pleasant expereince for anyone who is a legit tiger fan.

Oklahoma, Texas, Ok State, Texas Tech to the Pac 16?

Derek Lee hit a 9th inning grand slam to beat Marmol today.

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By the way, how did Brent look today? I see that he homered and reached on an error, any chance it looked like he was being more aggressive and trying to pull the ball?

QUOTE (SoxAce @ Sep 3, 2011 -> 08:22 PM) Wow we lost? LOL I turned off gameday considering Santos had it in the bag. That is hilarious. Ozzie, as usual, will wait till the sox are mathematically eliminated to play the kids consistently though. To be fair, De Aza and Viciedo were in the lineup and Flowers actually could use a day off.

Just remember folks...could be worse. Y'all could be Notre Dame fans.

QUOTE (Jordan4life @ Sep 3, 2011 -> 08:20 PM) Two at best #5 starters on the same day? No thanks. This is where the Extra Innings package comes in so handy. The Strasborganizer is up on Tuesday.

QUOTE (C_LEE45 @ Sep 3, 2011 -> 08:19 PM) and the fact the sox offence got 8 runs and decided to turn it off. To be fair..."Well, the offense pulled off an 8 spot" isn't all that bad.

QUOTE (fathom @ Sep 3, 2011 -> 08:17 PM) More with regards to the stuff going on in the media as well. Again, I express doubt that this is anything worse than what Ozzie has said in the last 5 years.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Aug 31, 2011 -> 01:52 PM) So where is your next post about how many other taxes they pay, and how it is dishonest to post stuff like this? You'll enjoy this addendum.

QUOTE (fathom @ Sep 3, 2011 -> 08:11 PM) Worst week for this organization since 2006, IMO. Really? Because I've been a lot more pissed than I am this week. Maybe it's because this game was on Fox so I didn't care.

QUOTE (flavum @ Sep 3, 2011 -> 08:05 PM) They were shutting him down if they fell out of contention. That was my way of saying it's that time. That would be a dumb thing to do. If you're out of contention, then pitch the daylights out of him and Humber, try to build up their arms as much as you can.

QUOTE (Reddy @ Sep 3, 2011 -> 08:04 PM) I'd LOVE to straight up rebuild for a year or two. And once we get to year 7 of it, we can hire our 3rd GM since Kenny and hear someone tell us how we finally have the best GM in the league because we're pulling off a .500 record on such a low salary.

QUOTE (flavum @ Sep 3, 2011 -> 08:03 PM) Send Peavy home tonight. ? This was his fault?