clujer420

Um..Steff was joking. And what's with your incessantly negative attitude?

A proven veteran like Colon is not going to sign a contract laden with incentives. Why should he? A team like the Yankees is going to give him all the money he wants and it will be guaranteed money -- no incentives. The Sox are going to have to ante up if we want to keep him, and I hope we do so.

The vision was the Sox staying hot for the rest of the year. Last I checked, the "rest of the year" includes the playoffs.

7 IP, 2 ER, 10 K's -- you tell me which one showed up. You're right about one thing -- we didn't get a dozen runs tonight. We only got 11. Double No, :fyou, dips***.

I thought he was saying he collected cats.

Why let the words of a "dip" bother you so much?

Chill out, psycho. Chill Out??? I don't get racial with anybody here so I 'ant gonna chill out Be bigger than the person who's getting racial with you. Like a wise man once said, never let someone's words (PARTICULARLY on an internet site) get to you -- it's not worth it. And by the way, he wasn't getting racial with you -- he made a general statement and you chose to allow it to bother you. Who's fault is that?

Chill out, psycho.

How much a minute is it?

That's why they play the games!

Nirvana = OVERRATED. If Cobain hadn't thrown his life away, there's no way they'd be thought of as highly as they are today. AIC was far better, IMO.

Speak your mind and be honest regardless of what others might think about it -- who cares what someone else thinks of your opinions? As long as those opinions are sincere, you should never fear being ridiculed for them.

Well the Sox winning the Central is the only thing that will wrap it up for him IMO, but I think that tonight's performance erased his last 2 starts that were less-than-stellar. He was just flat out awesome tonight.

Since when is a pitch above the belt called a strike? Even Posada knew it was high, as he started to throw the ball back to Clemens.

Agreed -- and based on some of the recent comments about Billy Koch, I'd wager there are several "self-centered morons" on this board.

Clemens' mom should have stopped smoking before they had to jam that tube up her nose. How sad. For those not watching, they had Clemens' mom throw out the first pitch, and she could hardly move due to emphysema. It's sad how some people choose to kill themselves with cigarettes.

That's "funny", I think you meant, and you're right -- just because you feel betrayed because their music has evolved, they are no longer cool. Makes perfect sense. And who are you to tell a band (or anyone else for that matter) when they should retire? What makes you such an authority? There are millions of concert goers and album buyers that would very much disagree with your obviously biased and uninformed assessment.

Sit back, relax, and strap it down! *Retrieving my OJ and Stoli*

http://www.encycmet.com/news/2003-08-26.shtml BRAVES FIELD SHODDY AFTER METALLICA SHOW Turner Field, home of the Atlanta Braves, has seen better days thanks to a midseason Metallica concert in which fans blanketed almost all of the field. Only a small portion near the pitcher's mound was left clean at the July 11 show, damaging the grass and forcing field director Ed Mangan to speed up his normal seeding process. It also stopped him from resodding. The result? Plenty of dead spots throughout both the infield and outfield.

Steff, he said that there were "at least 10 people" who he felt were wishing for Koch's failure, but he did not mention any names. I'd be willing to bet that there were far more than 10 that, when they saw his line from his 1st rehab start, got very happy -- and I would hope you'd agree that is just sick and disturbing, and that in all likelihood, they have some deep-seeded issues. You could be right.. but I hope that isn't true. I think we're an emotional and passionate group about this team. And we are vocal when things go wrong. I'd like to think that once people sign off here after voicing their opinions they don't walk around talking about how Koch sucks.. but then again, maybe they do. I know when I sign off here I don't think about baseball as far to have to talk about it again until I am watching it on TV, at the game, or back here or on WSI posting. Although, maybe I'm the weird one..? I don't know anyone on here in a "real world" setting (eg, face to face), but based on some of the comments I've read from several people on here, it would not shock me at all to learn that they go around all day telling people how much Koch, Konerko, White, Ritchie, Jimenez, and whoever else the Sox bum of the week happens to be, sucks. There seems to be so many insecurities around here that such behavior would be the norm. I hope I am wrong, but I don't think I am. And I'm like you -- outside of this board and outside of a TV/Radio, I don't think about baseball much. And also, it's one thing to be passionate and emotional about the Sox. I think we all are, otherwise we wouldn't spend the time that we spend on this message board discussing things. But, to take it to the extreme that someone is wishing for a player to fail to satiate their own sick desires is just flat out wrong.

Yes, you're correct. I don't know much about RPI other than what it stands for (Relative Power Index), and it takes into account how teams fare against the good (and bad) teams. And the Sox were very lowly ranked the last time I checked. I believe we were 17th, with a .492 total, whatever that means. But, at the same time, KC has still given up more runs than they have scored, and Minnesota is even in that category, so you could look at a number of statistics and it would pretty much make you scratch your head when it comes to the AL Central.

Steff, he said that there were "at least 10 people" who he felt were wishing for Koch's failure, but he did not mention any names. I'd be willing to bet that there were far more than 10 that, when they saw his line from his 1st rehab start, got very happy -- and I would hope you'd agree that is just sick and disturbing, and that in all likelihood, they have some deep-seeded issues.