Balta1701

JFP! PK14!

Heck of a career start Sergio, they finally got to you.

QUOTE (jeffro2525 @ May 8, 2010 -> 09:37 PM) Wow...Pierre got jobbed there...is this umpire aware that we're trying to improve batting averages here? If that were true then they would have been swinging last inning instead of walking in runs

QUOTE (Special K @ May 8, 2010 -> 04:10 PM) Well I guess I should pay more attention to the game threads then. You could check out Soxnet also.

QUOTE (spiderman @ May 8, 2010 -> 07:03 PM) I don't think we'll get back much of anything for our players unless it's Konerko, and he's got 25 HR in July. Even then, with him being a free agent, some teams won't go overboard. The Indians got one of the top catching prospects in baseball for Casey Blake. The key is...you deal for a guy at the lower levels, and you let him develop.

First of all, it is inappropriate to post an entire article. If you have an article you like, post an excerpt from it unless it's like 3 paragraphs and you need all the information from it. Secondly...and much more importantly, if you're going to post a large box of text from an article...you MUST include a link to it.

QUOTE (Brian @ May 8, 2010 -> 09:32 PM) Would a MLB team in Indiana work? A team would have to move there, no more expansion please. I'm not sure Indy's big enough.

QUOTE (Milkman delivers @ May 8, 2010 -> 04:21 PM) Plus, I'm pretty damn sure that prostitution itself is illegal in New York. He committed a crime either way, so f*** him. The rape sentence is a 4 year max, the prostitution is 1 year max, IIRC.

QUOTE (Alpha Dog @ May 8, 2010 -> 12:42 PM) This whole country is f***ed because of the nationalism that new people coming here retain. We became a great nation in part because of the assimilation of immigrants to this country. They became AMERICAN. They learned english, they got jobs, they joined society as Americans. Yes, you can be proud of your heritage, but if all the hispanics are coming here because their home country is such a s*** hole, why do they have such pride in that s*** hole? You would think they would want to forget everything about it and embrace their new home that provides them with opportunities they could never get back there. Not on the same level, but I grew up and lived in a small south suburb for most of my life. It became a raging s*** hole that I finally was able to leave in 2005. I don't ever want to go back, or celebrate coming from there. And you know the amazing thing? The actual data out there shows that Mexican immigrants are actually assimilating faster than European immigrants did in that wave a century ago. I guess those southern European immigrants really f***ed this country in the 20's and we never recovered. Maybe white people are just inherently dumber than everyone else.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ May 8, 2010 -> 01:21 PM) Liriano already has a 2-0 lead on a Morneau homer. We could be anywhere from 6-9 games back at the end of play today. Nine would be ugly, but KW (and the attendance/apathy) might get the message, 9 GB would be enough to spur some kind of action...ANYTHING...to shake this team out of the doldrums. And now Liriano is losing 4-2. Interesting note...Kubel is playing LF today and Thome is at DH. I could have swore that before the season some people were saying that would never happen.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ May 8, 2010 -> 12:00 PM) Also, keeping him in the fold, there was the idea he could be traded and his contract would seem quite so egregious at $3-4 million as a rental player for a playoff contender. So why then do you think he's impossible to dump now? He hasn't done anything unexpected this season, except maybe even showing a better fastball that other teams are still hitting. This argument is nonsense. KW should have moved him for value when other teams wouldn't have wanted him and when the other team would have been able to move him but he's unmovable now.

Will Ferrell took the mound for the Round Rock express in Texas yesterday. He was ejected after 1 pitch.

QUOTE (Alpha Dog @ May 8, 2010 -> 11:56 AM) I understand their caution as well, but will they be consistent in their application of 'caution'? They surely didn't stop the hispanic students from displaying their 'colors'. Too bad they are not in school around July 4th, we would see how they would react in the opposite situation. i wonder if the kids just left school and marched outside with signs instead, if that would have been acceptable. I am sure the school has a truancy policy, and those kids that marched left the school, which has to be against some rule. Were they punished for that? It's interesting how your entire argument is based on guessing about how the school behaved in other circumstances.

Why do people keep thinking that other teams are going to be thrilled to take on a guy who's struggled for so long that we're desperate to dump him? How does that make any sense to anyone?

The Rays are off to a 21-7 start to the year. The last team with that good of a record to start the year? 2005 white sox.

QUOTE (kapkomet @ May 8, 2010 -> 11:52 AM) Hydrocodone (what I assume they have you) dehydrates you like crazy. Go drink some water. That would explain it. I did down a bunch of water though. Bah.

QUOTE (Jenks Heat @ May 8, 2010 -> 11:46 AM) I think LD% and walks go hand in hand. The more selective you are the harder you are going to hit the ball. When you swing at pitches that are out of the zone or pitchers pitches early in the count you are going to make easy outs. This the thing I think the Sox do not care about and hence the numbers are what they are and will continue to be. A 2-0 pitch does not need to be swung at just because it is a strike. Earlier in this very thread, didn't someone say the Sox haven't swung at a 3-0 pitch all year?

QUOTE (jphat007 @ May 8, 2010 -> 11:45 AM) I put most of the blame on KW. He just put together an awful awful roster. And if he let Ozzie talk him into not getting Thome or picking up Pierre instead of keeping Pods, even more reason to hate on him, because he is the f***ing GM and he is responsible for putting together a good roster. This roster is embarrassing and is going to take some time to fix. As I keep saying...Pierre is one of the problems on our roster...but if everyone else was doing fine, you wouldn't notice. If you want to blame KW for this roster, please tell me which of these guys he should have dumped in the offseason: Beckham, Quentin, Pierzynski, Ramirez. Throw in Buehrle and Floyd while you're at it.

QUOTE (Thunderbolt @ May 8, 2010 -> 11:36 AM) Chris Getzs' potential is roughly that of David Eckstein. I'm shaking in my boots. We have another Getz on the way up in Retherford, and CJ can probably play more positions.

Man, I took a couple of painkillers yesterday, and I woke up this morning feeling like I had the worst hangover... Can I blame that on Juan Pierre?

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ May 8, 2010 -> 11:33 AM) Are you really turning NAFTA into illegal immigration? Well, you just argued in favor of legal protectionism as a way to protect U.S. jobs. So, yeah. Either moving currency is a rising tide that lifts all boats, or it isn't.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ May 8, 2010 -> 11:25 AM) At the expense of our own workers and people. So, you're in favor of ending NAFTA then?

QUOTE (DBAHO @ May 8, 2010 -> 02:05 AM) He's just going to take some time to work those plate discipline issues out. Whether or not he's afforded that luxury at the minor league level with Pierre and the Sox majorly struggling, well we'll have to wait and see on that. If you call him up right now he'll make us jealous for Pierre's ground balls.

QUOTE (witesoxfan @ May 7, 2010 -> 11:38 PM) The Tigers were never going to move Miguel Cabrera, and they were assuredly never going to move him within the division. And yeah...they weren't moving him for Hudson + Flowers.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ May 8, 2010 -> 10:29 AM) With all of the really desperate situations in the world, we can do better than being Mexico's welfare program. Of course...Republican/free market worship style ideology would suggest that if we work as Mexico's welfare program and that helps stimulate their economy, we benefit directly because that creates a market in Mexico for U.S. goods and services.