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QUOTE(whitesoxfan13 @ May 14, 2006 -> 05:50 PM) Buerhle is settling down. 5 runs too late.

Yeah, every pitch from Silva looks up. He looks like Garland out there.

Catch that one Hunter. Boom.

Come on JD, don't let this bastard off the hook.

Sounded like Paul just broke that pink bat

Come on Paul, get us the lead.

Thanks for cutting off the lineups with a commercial ESPN. Thanks for not running to try to catch that ball Hunter.

Thank you, thank you, thank you.

QUOTE(mr_genius @ May 14, 2006 -> 02:53 PM) fortunately he was passed out drunk, if he wasn't he probably would have freaked out and done something irrational (what most democrats do during an emergency). Thankfully he's not a Republican President. He would have blamed the lightning on Zeus and decided to invade Greece to destroy their powerful fortress on Mount Olympus.

QUOTE(kyyle23 @ May 14, 2006 -> 01:22 PM) Paul Silas was interviewed by Doug Gottlieb this afternoon on ESPN radio, and he said it seemed like it was a power struggle between Thomas and Brown, and looks like Thomas won. Although, if you walk away with $40 million dollars($50 million counting last seasons pay) you can hardly say you lost... So Isiah is seriously going to pay the entire 5 year $50 million contract for larry brown just to get rid of him? Yowza. Why the Hell can't I get that kind of job? Seriously, the happiest person in the NBA today at this news is John Paxson.

I'll still withhold judgement until the actual indictments come down. Truthout's cute, but anonymous sources at random left-leaning web pages with no documentation to back things up just don't do it for me. Even if he turns out to be right, there's no great reason to trust this source.

One day after the Washington Post poll you mention came out, Newsweek also came out with a poll on the subject, and got results in the opposite direction. It's probably also worth noting that the Washington Post only was able to poll 502 people, as they did their poll in a rush in 1 night. The Newsweek poll is over 1000. That means the WaPo poll is more likely to be either biased or just off by within 5 percentage points by random chances.

The reason you employ Ace pitchers is to keep 3 game and 4 game losing skids from getting any longer. It's time for our Ace to stand up today. Go get em MB. Piss off ESPN by running a 1:50 game.

Yglesias

QUOTE(WCSox @ May 13, 2006 -> 02:13 PM) Ozzie should stick with him at least until the break. Also consider that trading Garland may affect the team's ability to re-sign Buehrle. I have no urge to see JG traded. I just want him to stop costing us games.

QUOTE(Jordan4life_2006 @ May 13, 2006 -> 01:56 PM) Great. Let's move Jon to the 'pen. I'm sure he'd flourish. Maybe just for a couple weeks while he gets his head together, rests up his arm, and works on whatever he's missing? A ton of people here get furious with Ozzie when he loses games with the "Sunday lineup", giving the regulars too much rest, we can't sacrifice a single game, etc. Well if Garland is turning into a terrible loss every other time out, maybe we ought to give the kid a shot.

QUOTE(Jordan4life_2006 @ May 13, 2006 -> 01:43 PM) You don't give out 29 million dollar contracts to relievers. You don't keep McCarthy in the bullpen if Garland can't cut it.

NYT. 2nd lawsuit filed against Verizon. This is going to happen in every single state where these boys operate. It's just a matter of time and local laws. The lawyers will smell blood in the water here...it looks like a pretty good shot at a major class action suit settlement or victory. And I don't think I'll complain one bit.

QUOTE(Drew @ May 13, 2006 -> 01:12 PM) I wasn't so much comparing the two as I was saying that the 18-10 year may be the best we will ever see from Garland. You probably will never see Esteban Loaiza win 21 games in a season again, either. Either way, too early to tell. Even so, 12 wins a season isn't bad for a back of the rotation starter. One key difference though is that Loaiza lost a lot of velocity the year after his 21 win season, Garland is still throwing at the speeds he had last year, he's just not controlling things well or pitching very smart.

Javy, after last night, we could use some jelp. Kick their asses.

I agree that Jon should be so much better than what we've seen thus far, and it's really disappointing that he keeps having these outings where he gets shellacked. Hell, he even had AJ doing the catching for him last night and still got crushed. No more Widger as an excuse. I hate to have to say it, but I'm going to say it anyway...if Jon keeps putting up games like last night...well, it might be time to start looking at the backup option with the incredible changeup. Give Jon some extra rest out in the pen or something like that.

QUOTE(DBAH0 @ May 13, 2006 -> 11:23 AM) Eddie Guardado could actually be an option, depending on what happens with Seattle in terms of Putz doing good as the closer, Hargrove or Bill Bavasi getting fired, and the M's rebuilding. We would still have to give up something fairly good in terms of prospects though. With the way Everyday Eddie has pitched thus far this year, I can't believe people actually want him. Hell, B.A. beat him.

QUOTE(SoxFan1 @ May 12, 2006 -> 07:47 PM) JT??? Dude, I'm so drunk I can't even write Thome, and you can't figure out JT???????!!!!!?????

QUOTE(Dick Allen @ May 12, 2006 -> 07:42 PM) You're probably right, but it remains to be seen how much lower. A lot lower. Politte and Cotts and BMac have found semi-grooves, eventually Jenks's fastball will find 100, and so forth. Our bullpen is a lot better than it looks right now, and i'll fall behind the Tigers while saying that.

QUOTE(Dick Allen @ May 12, 2006 -> 07:37 PM) BP ERA's McCarthy 5.21 Jenks 5.52 Cotts 3.14 Politte 6.17 Logan 3.38 Thornton 7.04 Montero 5.40 We all know as well as KW that winning will not continue if these don't improve. I expect KW is working frantically on fixing this. Of course, the bullpen had nothing to do with tonight's loss. Beating Santana is tough. Why is it I feel like the bullpen is so much better than those numbers? Aside from Logan and Mitsubishi, I think everone on that list is below where they'll finish up this seaosn.