Balta1701

QUOTE(minors @ Jun 14, 2006 -> 03:29 PM) You think I am conservative and religious then you ought to spend some time down here after a couple days you will be calling me liberal. Satan? Is that you?

I wonder when the last time the White Sox had 6 lefties in their starting lineup was (counting Absolut of course)

Well, now that this is the game thread, let me just say: Give em Jell, Javy.

QUOTE(South Side Fireworks Man @ Jun 14, 2006 -> 02:34 PM) I agree, but..... IF Ross Gload makes an error in RF tonight, before anyone starts bashing him, remember Dye & Podsednik last night on the "triple" and "double". Thank you. I promise, I'll only get angry on his 2nd error, ok?

QUOTE(RockRaines @ Jun 14, 2006 -> 02:30 PM) Meh, no reason to take BA out when he has been getting good at bats. Well, Righties are hitting .201 against Padilla, and lefties are hitting .345 against him.

QUOTE(whitesoxfan101 @ Jun 14, 2006 -> 02:02 PM) The NFL has tried to keep steroids out of it's sport, and it doesn't have all the benchmark records baseball does, so that is why they have stayed out of the spotlight. However, I will say there is little doubt that HGH is more rampant in football than even in baseball....there is no urine test for it, and those guys aren't all THAT huge and THAT ripped and able to recover like that on accident. I can't be the only one who's noticed that 300 lb linemen seemed very rare 10 years ago, and now 350 pound linemen are the rare ones.

Well, clearly you bought a hat specifically for that purpose, so why not make it a Sox Hat.

QUOTE(RockRaines @ Jun 14, 2006 -> 01:43 PM) Some good players make over 20 errors a season. 5-6 plays? fine with me. Right Now, Scott is on pace to make about 17 errors in 162 games. He has 3x as many errors as any other Left Fielder in the AL. He has as many errors as Soriano and 1 fewer than Adam Dunn.

QUOTE(whitesoxfan101 @ Jun 14, 2006 -> 01:37 PM) That guy is such a classic DH. Can't run, can't defend, can't catch, has no arm.....but he can hit the s*** out of the ball and draws a TON of walks (which offsets the horrid batting average). And yet, he's stuck in the NL.

A piece I enjoyed on those "create a 3rd party in the middle" suggestions.

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Jun 14, 2006 -> 01:09 PM) Like Balta said, the NFL has been in the forefront of this stuff. They have a rigid testing program, and have done so all along. Baseball has drug its feet and fought change at every possible chance. I'm not sure Rigid is the word I'd use, but it's certainly better than what Baseball had until basically this year.

I'm fairly surprised no one else noticed this...Dimitri Young has an arrest warrant out for him after skipping a court date yesterday. Pretrial hearing for a domestic violence charge, he wasn't there.

QUOTE(daa84 @ Jun 14, 2006 -> 11:46 AM) 94 mph slider?!?! So, he's Bobby Jenks?

I can't tell ya how many times I've posted something in the Dems Only thread and then someone's given it a new thread a little while later. Maybe I shouldn't be so squeamish about starting threads here?

If they ever figure out who pulled that off, I think our engineering department here might admit them just for that one.

Exchange this morning between George W. Bush and a legally blind reporter for the LA Times. (The reporter later said he didn't mind, he'd never actually informed the President he was blind)

QUOTE(VAfan @ Jun 14, 2006 -> 10:06 AM) On Trade Winds I suggested bringing back Jose Vizcaino. Scary in its own right, I understand. But he seems better to me than most of the other options that have been mentioned so far. If we're gonna put a Shortstop into the bullpen, why not use Pablo?

QUOTE(Athomeboy_2000 @ Jun 14, 2006 -> 09:39 AM) It's one thing to spend company money to go to subway for lunch every now and then. It's whole other story to pull this crap. Your government dollars at work. On a whole other side note: I have a friend who has been to Iraq and I heard stories from another guy.... you'd be SHOCKED to find out how much money is waisted over there. It's a rediculous! I believe the amount of money unaccounted for in Iraq is roughly enough to rebuild NOLA's entire Levee system. And that's just the stuff that's gone missing from the old UN Oil for Food dollars, not even counting the $ that the U.S. has shipped over.

QUOTE(chitownsportsfan @ Jun 14, 2006 -> 09:31 AM) That's an amazing stat Balta! I would never have thought that as poorly as some of the starters have pitched that that would be the case. It helps the point I think a few of use are making though: the 6th man will almost only see actions in blowouts where the outcome is already 99.9% decided. Thornton has proven himself capable of being the LOOGY and perhaps more, so I'm wondering who exactly is the "6th" man at this point: I'd have to guess Tracey or maybe Montero. Although when Politte comes back I wouldn't mind it being him. Bullpen Innings pitched: Kansas City 227 Baltimore 220 NY Mets 215 Chicago Cubs 214 ...... Oakland 172.1 San Fransisco 170 Chicago White Sox 152.2.

QUOTE(santo=dorf @ Jun 13, 2006 -> 08:27 PM) Umm, he did start the 2004 All-Star game. And followed it up with a 6.13 ERA after the AS break.

If Russ Ortiz has any brains at all, he signs with Baltimore as soon as he's released.

Finish the contract and have the Surgery DH.

QUOTE(chitownsportsfan @ Jun 14, 2006 -> 08:23 AM) I agree Rowand. Those two guys are good enough to give you 3 innings of shut down ball every other game. That's the beginning and end of what this team needs out of it's bullpen: not dominance, just competence. Also people, don't forget...our bullpen has pitched by far the fewest innings of any bullpen in baseball, so if our 6th guy out of the bullpen isn't doing a dynamite job, he usually only shows up when the game's an 8 run game anyway.

QUOTE(Greg Hibbard @ Jun 14, 2006 -> 08:54 AM) 55 innings pitched with a 3.93 ERA is not a large enough sample size? um.... 55 innings pitched is actually still a fairly poor sample size for a pitcher, as it's not enough to catch the ups and downs that happen to most pitchers over a season. But even beyond that, you're breaking down those innings into like 7 or 8 different bins, which means in each bin, you have about 10 innings, which really is a terrifically small sample set.

QUOTE(juddling @ Jun 14, 2006 -> 07:38 AM) actually...i thought he was payed to steal 70 bags a year and hit leadoff. i don't remember his D being in the bargain..lol He's only stolen like 3 bases this month, 0 in the last week.