Balta1701

Wanna cheer up? Johnny Danks. There, now everyone is happy.

QUOTE (Sox72 @ Aug 11, 2010 -> 09:53 PM) Hasn't shown the ability to yet. Give him time, learning to do that against big league pitching for a 21 year old with limited MLB experience is going to be a challenge. That said...we don't have time because it's a pennant race. That's why I'm no longer nearly as angry if he gets sent down for Teahen.

QUOTE (justBLAZE @ Aug 11, 2010 -> 09:53 PM) Makes sense, I couldn't watch the Orioles series and last I remember he was doing good, the book is out, can he make an adjustment? More like...can he make an adjustment in limited playing time.

QUOTE (Sox72 @ Aug 11, 2010 -> 09:50 PM) Viciedo and his inability to walk. I don't care if that was a good pitch or not. I was just confused because you posted that while I was still on the commercial break here.

QUOTE (justBLAZE @ Aug 11, 2010 -> 09:49 PM) Ha, when did Viciedo start to suck? bad game About last week when he faced the Tigers and they got him out on that inside pitch. The Orioles got the video of that and it immediately became the scouting report on him, they did it both games against him perfectly, and now he's completely off.

QUOTE (aprec32 @ Aug 11, 2010 -> 09:49 PM) Viciedo having a bad day Bad week.

Am I that far behind you guys on the TV feed? Mercy? You beat me to that at bat by like a minute.

QUOTE (Sox72 @ Aug 11, 2010 -> 09:49 PM) He really can't just take a pitch. This is unbelievable. What was this post in reference to?

QUOTE (aprec32 @ Aug 11, 2010 -> 09:48 PM) I could see Castro going crazy and getting a year long suspension. I really have no idea why.

There ya go D1.

QUOTE (robinventura23 @ Aug 11, 2010 -> 09:44 PM) If he were to kill someone, it's too bad Punto isn't on the team right now. That would be great. We need to have Kotsay "go after" Joe Mauer.

QUOTE (DukeNukeEm @ Aug 11, 2010 -> 09:42 PM) That Minnesota and Texas, #1 and #3 respectively in batting average, are both 1st place teams? That it's just not correlated at all.

QUOTE (aprec32 @ Aug 11, 2010 -> 09:41 PM) Worse Fielder.............CQ or Dye? I think I lean towards Q. Last time I checked UZR, it agreed with me.

QUOTE (aprec32 @ Aug 11, 2010 -> 09:39 PM) Man the Royals are 2nd in the AL in batting average........never would have guessed it. They were leading for a while, that's a drop for them. Which tells you something about how batting average translates to offensive production.

I think I've been on the sand dune in the singing Fruit of the Loom underwear ad. That's scary.

QUOTE (Sox72 @ Aug 11, 2010 -> 09:37 PM) So they eject the managers? I'd be happy giving up Ozzie for a game to get rid of Gardenhire. I'm liking the idea more and more. They'd eject Ozzie, probably not Gardenhire.

Awful at bat by AJ.

QUOTE (aprec32 @ Aug 11, 2010 -> 09:36 PM) I'm actually afraid for any retaliation might result in a Reds vs. Cardinals incident......................and I'm thinking that Castro might kill someone. You can't do it tonight. Tomorrow rolls around, and everyone's going to know it's coming.

QUOTE (kapkomet @ Aug 11, 2010 -> 09:20 PM) What's "fair"? Taking trillions of dollars and handing it to people? Does punishing "wealthy people" make you happy and only count toward making you more complete? Do people who make the choice to come here illegally, knowing that they have to go through what they do and it's not legal or proper, take risks that benefit you? What the hell is that? You don't know them any different then I do, so don't go there on that judgement call. Frankly, I don't think there's really anything morally defensible about the current situation. You want to criticize them for being here illegally and ignore the fact that the law is unjust, while I'll ignore the fact that they're here illegally and focus on the fact that the immigration laws are an abject, racist, debacle. Everything deserves criticism...but the longer we sit here and criticize, the more it costs either to continue ignoring it or to actually do something about it

QUOTE (Sox72 @ Aug 11, 2010 -> 09:31 PM) And possibly Thome. They won't do that. It'd be a tacit admission that they were wrong.

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Aug 11, 2010 -> 09:31 PM) That's why we're signing Dunn. That of course gives our draft pick to the Nationals. I seriously doubt KW would want to do that.

QUOTE (DukeNukeEm @ Aug 11, 2010 -> 09:28 PM) ... I know Oz likes Kotsay and that makes you incredibly mad, but there is little chance Kotsay is back on this team next season as our DH. I'm guessing that's where Dayan will find himself almost all next season. The only real problem with this scheme is it leaves us fairly RH dominant...especially if we wind up having AJ walk and Flowers or someone like that is our replacement.

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Aug 11, 2010 -> 09:27 PM) I don't disagree. My gut says he wants to stay here anyway. Hopefully if both sides want a deal they can come up with something for a few years...the only worry might be if he thinks he doesn't need to take a paycut (Johnny Damon style).

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Aug 11, 2010 -> 09:26 PM) Rios is nowhere near the all star caliber player he was earlier in the year. When you look at the stats, he had one great month with the power, but he's been consistent with the average most of the other months.

QUOTE (Sox72 @ Aug 11, 2010 -> 09:26 PM) Don't wana start a huge debate in the Game thread, but I don't see how we can let Konerko go this offseason. I don't see how anyone could disagree.