Balta1701

Starting pitching...3 more of those Good work Javy, Neal, Nelson, etc.

QUOTE(WCSox @ May 29, 2006 -> 02:12 PM) No, how about we wait until the Tigers have beaten some teams that are actually playing well. The Indians and Twins don't fall into that category. We really haven't beaten teams that are playing well either.

QUOTE(Kalapse @ May 28, 2006 -> 09:33 PM) I fail to see how sending down a great defensive player at a crutial position and calling up any 1 of 3 scrubs is going to improve the team. Might not necessarily be Anderson first of all...could be a sign of other roster moves coming, i.e. dumping or trading Gload, trading someone, or even just giving Anderson a few games to work on his swing against live pitching. That note in the Trib makes no sense without saying who it is that is being moved around, so it almost has to be someone casually suggesting something. I'll take this as a sign that somethin's up, and might be happening soon.

The Tribune is suggesting someone's about to be on the move.

Trib seems to think someone's about to be on the move.

QUOTE(greasywheels121 @ May 28, 2006 -> 09:13 PM) The creator of the worse nicknames known to man and that lovely sig is responsible for the post above you. I'm just saying...it worked for Dye last year...is all I'm sayin'. At this point, it ain't gonna hurt to toss that sig up for B.A.

QUOTE(greasywheels121 @ May 28, 2006 -> 09:02 PM) Look above you. :rolly I'm afraid I don't see what you're talking about, and I just scrolled back like 40 posts.

You know what we need? Someone to make a sig commanding Brian Anderson to rise from his grave to rescue the White Sox.

QUOTE(greasywheels121 @ May 28, 2006 -> 08:53 PM) I just don't get the JGINAA thing, since no one's ever deemed him such. He really tried to be early last year. Shame that he couldn't hold onto that.

QUOTE(Felix @ May 28, 2006 -> 08:50 PM) As much as I hate watching Garcia pitch (he always gives me heart attacks), I've grown fond of him. I definitely think he'll have the better year this year, and will have more value on the market, but I think that the Sox are more likely to hold onto him and deal Garland to a team desperate for pitching, which there are plenty of. Put feelers out on both of them...see what bids they draw. Take the one that is the best deal considering all things, including the performance of both pitchers for the remainder of this year.

QUOTE(whitesoxfan101 @ May 28, 2006 -> 08:45 PM) I agree btw WHarris1 that it was a bad call...but there are so many bad calls in every NBA game that it evens out anyways IMO. People only remember the bad calls at the end of the game.

QUOTE(greasywheels121 @ May 28, 2006 -> 08:26 PM) I remember Juan giving some credit to Frank, for his success at the end of the year also. So Frank also seemed to play a role into Juan's success the past couple years. And it's quite apparent that Juan has not spoken to Frank or Walt in a while. Perhaps he has been talking to Frank, and this is Franks' revenge?

You know what I think is really going to kill the Suns? It's not Amare being out, it's Kurt Thomas having been out and out of shape since Feb. Back early in the season, the Suns were still playing run & gun, but they were able to do so much much more effectively when they had Thomas in there to occasionally slow down the other team. When you play as fast as the Suns do, you don't need a stop every time down the court like a team like Detroit, you just need a stop and a rebound some times. Without Kurt Thomas, the only size they had left was that joke named Tim Thomas. They can't outrebound the Mavs, they can't slow them down, and they just can't win while playing someone else's pace. If they can bring back Amare and Kurt Thomas next year, and Nash can stay healthy, this team could be frighteningly good.

I can't wait until 30% of the Hall of fame voters or more are stubborn enough to keep the #2 home run hitter of all time out of the Hall all the way to the Veterans committee.

Jim Leyland snuck in during the winter and killed the leg kick.

QUOTE(SSH2005 @ May 28, 2006 -> 07:52 PM) Garland's problem was giving up too many flyballs today. He's a damn sinkerballer, not Eric Milton. I think the fly balls weren't actually the biggest problem. A lot of those fly balls were on pitches that were actually down that the Jays stayed back on and drove the other way. They didn't hit a lot of those for power, or really do anyhthing with them. JG's big problem was that he kept drifting. When he was hitting his spots for the first 5 innings, he was fine. But he got killed on like 5 pitches that just sort of drifted a little too far over the plate. Those pitches to Overbay were just not inside far enough, for example. He had the right idea, he was just about an inch or two off on a few pitches, and the Jays just hammered all those pitches.

Good work to lots of folks, including Garland today. Jon...you had your good and bad today...pay attention to the good, and keep doing it.

QUOTE(Gregory Pratt @ May 28, 2006 -> 12:53 PM) Is it just me, or does Jenks look better when he's in Chicago? (I trust him here, don't get me wrong, and this observation is autonomous from this game. It's just something that's been on my mind of late.) The whole team's playing better at home right now, and Bobby's been getting a lot more chances at the Cell, so it could just seem like that. This run he's been on lately started in Minny, IMO.

BA in. Mack in Left. Bobby in.

Let's wrap this one up Bobby.

QUOTE(BigSqwert @ May 28, 2006 -> 12:47 PM) Trade JD and Paulie for Erstadt. Only if they give us Romero too.

QUOTE(southsideirish71 @ May 28, 2006 -> 12:45 PM) Maybe we can have an exorcism. It seems to have worked for Thornton.

QUOTE(BigSqwert @ May 28, 2006 -> 12:43 PM) Paulie looking bad against bad pitching. Trade him, he stinks.

QUOTE(southsideirish71 @ May 28, 2006 -> 12:42 PM) Which guy is the real guy. The guy who pitched like an ace for the first half of last season. Or the medicore guy who would give up the big inning and you would have to make sure your bullpen was on alert the minute the 5th inning started for most of his career. They're both in there. It's up to Garland to figure that out at this point.

QUOTE(southsideirish71 @ May 28, 2006 -> 12:41 PM) Well its all in definitions: Arnie Munoz and Felix Diaz and Jason Grilli were stoppers circa 2004. Didn't our 5th starter spot go like a year and a half without a win?