Milkman delivers

QUOTE (SoxFanForever @ Jul 28, 2010 -> 10:21 PM) Jenks pitching like 2005 version. Heavy fastball and an overpowering hook. Nice to see he still has it when he wants to. If he sticks with that, he won't have a problem. We just don't know that he will.

QUOTE (The Beast @ Jul 29, 2010 -> 12:40 AM) You're so funny. Way to try and bait me. Bait you? It was a joke, and a damn good one, IMO. You really do need to relax more.

QUOTE (The Beast @ Jul 28, 2010 -> 06:26 PM) Think about a girl giving you oral sex. That might help. Dude, stop peeing in girls' mouths. This is why you haven't found "the one" yet.

QUOTE (Jordan4life @ Jul 28, 2010 -> 07:06 PM) Easy to laugh. Or you could say maybe it'd be nice to go INTO a season in which you didn't have to call for upgrades at the deadline. Again, this gets back to my point that Ozzie and KW are overrated because we've been able to somewhat thrive in what's been a mediocre division for the last decade. Try to pull this Mark Kotsay crap in the AL east. You'll be done by all-star break.

Anybody in for tonight?

QUOTE (Jordan4life @ Jul 28, 2010 -> 04:41 PM) More teams? No way. Baseball is the one sport where making the playoffs is an actual accomplishment. I'm just fine with 4 teams from each league qualifying. I'm down with the 150 game regular season. I actually liked the 144 games that was played in '95. Agreed. Do not let more teams into the playoffs. I'm fine with a 150 game season and three rounds of 7 in the playoffs.

QUOTE (SleepyWhiteSox @ Jul 28, 2010 -> 04:28 PM) Get drunk? I can piss anywhere when drunk... Same here, and also while sober.

QUOTE (chw42 @ Jul 27, 2010 -> 08:14 PM) I like Omar more now. I was gonna say the same thing.

Maybe Viciedo should be starting a lot more? That's about the only negative thing I can take from this game, which is saying something. Great win.

QUOTE (Kalapse @ Jul 27, 2010 -> 06:09 PM) I'm starting to get impatient. Just do SOMETHING, ANYTHING to alleviate my crippling trade deadline boredom. I've gone from really enjoying the trade deadline to absolutely hating it (same goes for Trade Winds). It's like there is one actual rumor among 20 "I think we should do this" threads.

QUOTE (SoxFan1 @ Jul 27, 2010 -> 06:10 PM) They have according to everyone but you, Jim Joyce and Bud Selig. The record books are all that matter. So, screw the Tigers and Detroit.

Thanks, guys.

QUOTE (longshot7 @ Jul 27, 2010 -> 05:59 PM) Both the Rays and Tigers have thrown and been victims of no-hitters this season. Weird. No they haven't.

Whoa, this thread has added 10 pages since I last read it. Is there anything in here of any real merit?

QUOTE (elrockinMT @ Jul 26, 2010 -> 04:27 PM) I was not overly impressed with Jenks comments about how he thought people were being too hard on him for blowing games. I don't think he has been throwing very well for awhile now I used to think that you and greg were the same person. I now know that I was incorrect.

QUOTE (GoSox05 @ Jul 27, 2010 -> 12:30 PM) I think they should have put Death Proof first than had Planet Terror. I think have the more action packed movie second would have been cool. Completely agree.

I'm not even impressed anymore.

QUOTE (SleepyWhiteSox @ Jul 26, 2010 -> 09:37 PM) I've had sleep paralysis on various occasions. Not in recent years though. It used to occur about once a month when I wasn't sleeping well, almost assuredly undiagnosed insomnia. You don't necessarily see all those creatures. I just remember that it would happen to me often enough that my routine would be to try to get a single finger moving. I would occasionaly hear and see things as although I felt awake, my mind was still dreaming up stuff. It's just a terrifying feeling at first to feel so helpless, wanting to move or speak, trying to open your mouth and yell, possibly to escape some impending danger, but not being able to. Anyways, the movie is really good, but damn, I just knew it could not live up to the immense hype. As far as the twist ending, I was expecting something a little more unexpected like it all being his wife's dream (anyone else keep noticing that pimple on her forehead??) or one of his kids' dreams or in the snow globe of a retarded kid. I dunno, something a little crazier than a spinning top... See, that's the exact feeling I get. I don't hear anything weird, just need to really focus for a second to move. It seems like you guys are all saying that it happens at the beginning of sleep for you, but it's when I wake up. As to the bold part, is that from something?

QUOTE (iamshack @ Jul 25, 2010 -> 11:06 PM) Well, his OPS went from .843 in 2006 to .680 last year and this year. Those are his age 26-27 year old seasons. The reason he sucks, I could care less. The point is that this is the price you pay in opportunity costs for developing your own players. I don't know how many times I have to point this out. Well, the reason I responded is because you obviously insinuated that Martin used steroids and fell off because of the testing, while there has been steroid testing during his entire major league career. That's all.

QUOTE (3E8 @ Jul 25, 2010 -> 10:50 PM) It's very rare that I realize I'm dreaming. But like you, whenever I do, I instantly wake up. I'd like to try the method above, but the hallucination part freaks me out Yeah, it definitely freaks me out, too. I'm not going to be trying it, but I will attempt the spinning thing while I'm already dreaming if I have the chance. When I realize I'm dreaming, I usually have like 10 seconds before I wake up. I always want to keep the dream going, but it's never worked.

QUOTE (lord chas @ Jul 25, 2010 -> 10:12 PM) keep santo out as well Didn't he miss his final chance this year? Either way, I don't see the veterans voting him in.

Yeah, it's still way too early for a thread complaining about Hudson.

QUOTE (iamshack @ Jul 25, 2010 -> 09:10 PM) The Rays have picked 1st or close to 1st for the better part of a decade. Throw them out of the equation. The Rangers/Reds/Rockies have what to show for all their magnificent development of players? What have they done that we have not? The Dodgers did not develop Ethier. They received him in trade for Milton Bradley. While they did develop those other guys, they also have had numerous other guys that have not panned out and they have lost out on because of opportunity costs. Kershaw is outstanding, I wanted us to draft him, unfortunately he went 7th overall. We picked 29th that year. Billingsly has been a nice pitcher. So we traded Brandon McCarthy for John Danks. What's the difference? Jonothan Broxton. We claimed Bobby Jenks off waivers. Very similar players. James Loney is a very nice hitter but has no power and is basically Mark Grace squared instead of the amazing player he was once supposed to be. Again, opportunity costs...it's taken them 4-5 years to figure this out. Martin is a nice little catcher, but shockingly has regressed badly since the steroid era. Hmm. I mean having your own players is nice and all, but it's costing them in other ways that it is not costing us. You can't ignore that. What? Russell Martin's first year in the major leagues was 2006. When do you consider the end of the steroid era? I mean, they started the random testing in 2004.

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Jul 25, 2010 -> 10:04 PM) I wouldn't say exactly. Scenes where Jenkins is in the back seat of a car and the ones with a train seem new. Looks pretty good though. Hopefully it's as gory. The final scene of the movie was on a train. And yeah, I guess they have different scenes of the murders happening, but it's probably the exact same outcome.

QUOTE (chw42 @ Jul 25, 2010 -> 08:00 PM) Other than the horrible farm system and the whole let's listen to my stupid manager thing, I've liked the job that KW has done. Ozzie is a great off the field manager, he treats his players right and the clubhouse is pretty loose. On the other hand, he just puts his players in a position to fail. Examples: Mark Kotsay's got a career .750 OPS, okay, let's DH him and bat him 5th! Hey Dewayne Wise, how high is your OBP? .300? Okay, lead off for me. Hey A.J. what are you hitting? .235? Alright, bat right next to Kotsay so the other team can bring in a lefty in the 7th and get both of you out easily. Hey Randy Williams, I know you suck against both righties and lefties, but I gotta bring you in here because it's what the book and my gut says! He makes weird lineup choices, he had Randy Williams in this bullpen because he felt the need for a second left hander no matter what. I'm still puzzled over why he put Rob Mackowiak in center when we had 4 guys who hit 30+ home runs in 2006 and a declining pitching staff in the second half. With Ozzie, you like him for what he does off the field, but that might not even be half the battle as a manager. You still have to do know what you're doing on the field. Unless they somehow get into his doghouse, at which point they have no chance to get out.