Milkman delivers

Mackowiak should really be starting in left. It's so excruciatingly obvious that I can't get it off my mind.

QUOTE(Balta1701 @ Aug 3, 2006 -> 10:51 AM) "Now where's the guy who slept with my daughter"? Does anyone actually think Fallon is funny? I can't stand him. I'd like to take a swing at him with a barbed-wire bat.

QUOTE(loltrain @ Aug 3, 2006 -> 10:39 AM) I would say the Cubs and the Pirates are both worse, and the Devil Rays are about the same. The Royals have been playing pretty well since july or so, the last time Detroit played them we didn't sweep them either and they scored alot of runs against our pitching. The Devil Rays are better. The Royals are easily the worst team in the AL, at least. QUOTE(BigSqwert @ Aug 3, 2006 -> 11:11 AM) BTW did anyone catch the caller on Rongey's post game show at about 11pm? He just went on an uninterrupted rant for 5 minutes. Was hilarious. Saying stuff like "Scott Pathetic". In case you're wondering, it wasn't me.

QUOTE(southsida86 @ Aug 3, 2006 -> 11:03 AM) Uhh did you see his numbers in 2001 and 2003? absolutely sick. Albeit they were in the NL and in Montreal, but we know he can be an ace, unless he just lost all of his stuff since 2003. Or he was just pitching in a gigantic stadium against subpar offenses with pitchers in the 9 hole and aboslutely no pressure on him.

QUOTE(LowerCaseRepublican @ Aug 2, 2006 -> 08:42 PM) Dare taken. God, Fallon breaks character on his first line. Everybody is breaking their composure except for Darrell Hammond. No laughs -- just a few expletives towards Fallon. /Daily Show is the new comedy mecca where up and comers come to cut their comedy teeth. The king of late night comedy is dead. Long live the king! This is for looking at the camera and laughing in every sketch you've ever been in!

QUOTE(Frankensteiner @ Aug 3, 2006 -> 10:10 AM) I pray this will actually do something: http://chicagosports.chicagotribune.com/sp...-home-headlines We should have just done that now. Only place Vazquez's trade value is going is down. No reason to wait and pee away this season. I know...I know.

QUOTE(RockRaines @ Aug 3, 2006 -> 09:51 AM) First of all they are not the worst team in baseball. Secondly they have been one of the hottest offensive team in baseball this month. its not their offense that is terrible, its their pitching. And we couldnt hit it last night. Then who's the worst? QUOTE(Frankensteiner @ Aug 3, 2006 -> 09:57 AM) This next series will be interesting (as will the ones after it). We needed sweeps of the O's and Royals and couldn't do it, we're still playing pretty poorly with fundemental breakdowns each game, and our pitching still looks bad. Not improving this club over the deadline was beyond ridiculous. How could we have improved in the least?

QUOTE(Frankensteiner @ Aug 3, 2006 -> 09:44 AM) Maybe next start Garcia will start pitching up to his potential. Or perhaps the one after that. I know it's coming, we're only in August. As soon as Coop talks with him, we'll be fine.

QUOTE(Gene Honda Civic @ Aug 2, 2006 -> 09:57 PM) Well then, why single out Boras clients? It's baseball's reserve clause, arbitration process, and GM's that hand out foolish contracts that you have a problem with. Offhand, I'm having trouble coming up with many foolish contracts handed out before a player reaches free-agency, specifically 2 years before a player reaches FA. Daren Driefort is the worst case that I can come up with off the top of my head, and he was in the same boat as Garland, a year from FA. There's relatively little risk in signing Crede to a 3-year deal with a 4th year option following this season. The first two seasons, you give him at or below what he would get at arbitration, and then fair market value for his 2 years following that. People around here really don't seem to understand that defense is worth $$$. And that $5M for a slick fielding SS with pop is not overpaying, it's below market value. Well, if you're saying I'm one of the people who don't value Uribe's defense, then you're wrong. And I guess we just disagree about Boras clients, fluke years, etc.

I really question Uribe's intelligence after last night's game. Think about this. You are playing your first game since being benched for lack of intensity and focus on defense. And in this first game, you take a one-handed swipe at a foul pop-up, and you drop it. If he didn't know to use two hands THE FIRST DAY BACK FROM BEING BENCHED, then he's an idiot. And Uribe is one of my favorite Sox players.

QUOTE(BigSqwert @ Aug 3, 2006 -> 09:24 AM) He just needs to go after this season. I'd take some prospects for him and free up some money for free agency/re-signing Crede. I'd take anything, as long as it gets rid of him and puts McCarthy into the rotation. If someone would take him and his money (this goes for Vazquez, too), I'd take the most hopeless prospect they have in return.

QUOTE(Jordan4life_2006 @ Aug 3, 2006 -> 01:05 AM) This is why were 8 1/2 games behind Detroit. How many times have we taken the first two games of a series only to lay an egg in the finale? I'm thinking atleast 8 or 9 times. Detroit usually sweeps a team after winning the first two. Our bullpen has fallen apart after pitching so well for a while. We just can't seem to get the starters and 'pen goin' at the same time. We've been told repeatedly that we can't complain about winning a series...even when we can't sweep a team that is quite possibly the worst in baseball in years.

QUOTE(BigSqwert @ Aug 3, 2006 -> 08:27 AM) Don't let Milkman see this post. Too late. So, now Freddy has shown up his teammates three times on the field this year (that we know of) and now this? It must be fudging sweet to be the manager's nephew. You get to suck and blame it on everyone else. I guess we can't blame Freddy for these comments, as he probably just got finished smoking a doob and eating 6 bags of Doritos. We all know it's hard to bite your tongue under those circumstances.

QUOTE(Felix @ Aug 2, 2006 -> 09:33 PM) Take away the green and thats a very true statement. Well, we're supposed to be one of the best teams in baseball. If we want to go to the postseason, then we'll have to beat up on the bad teams. This will be, what, our 5th loss to KC this year? We're trying to keep up with the likes of the Yankees and Red Sox. This spiffty play against bad teams (especially when we lose to the good teams) won't work.

QUOTE(fathom @ Aug 2, 2006 -> 09:32 PM) And the Red Sox and Yankees keep winning. Why can't they play each other 15 times the rest of the year? That Abreu move doesn't scare me in the least. 6th best OBP in baseball? That's weak and will never help them.

QUOTE(fathom @ Aug 2, 2006 -> 09:30 PM) Those 2 runs we gave up in the 7th really hurt us. But Garcia had a chance for the win, and that's all that really matters, no?

Joe Crede couldn't hold Ortiz's jock when it comes to clutchness. He's not even close.

QUOTE(TitoMB345 @ Aug 2, 2006 -> 09:25 PM) Ah, I agree. Podsednik is bad, but not many are willing to admit it. HE'S HAVING A BETTER YEAR THAN LAST YEAR~!!!1 Dye with a single.

QUOTE(TitoMB345 @ Aug 2, 2006 -> 09:22 PM) Do you mean by us SoxTalk posters? Or by Ozzie and Kenny? A lot of posters, Ozzie, Kenny, the media, Hawk, DJ, etc.

QUOTE(fathom @ Aug 2, 2006 -> 09:20 PM) And you know all we'll hear about after the game is Uribe dropping the foul ball. In reality, Pods dropping that liner was 10 times more important in this game. That's true. Pods will get a free pass again for unknown reasons.

How many other managers in baseball do you think would have replaced Pods with Mackowiak by now?

I'm really angry that Pods gets chance after chance after chance.

QUOTE(Dick Allen @ Aug 2, 2006 -> 09:14 PM) He got a lot of credit when they won. He should get some blame when they lose. Yeah. I mean, he is the reason we won the WS. He should be the reason we're losing now, right?

Ozzie would've let Hudson give up two more singles before going to the pen.

Redemption?