Felix

I'll be around, so I'll be in the game thread trying to keep track probably. I'll have to leave early for my Microeconomics class though, annoyingly enough. Looking forward to having baseball back, go Sox!

Pablo has a career .295/.326/.390 line against LHP. Juan has a career .263/.298/.447 line against them. I realize Pablo has a "history" with CC , but lets not kid ourselves, it doesn't matter which we put out there. They both aren't good offensive players, and Juan has better defense out there. I don't really care that we're starting Juan over Pablo, it's not something worth complaining about and won't make a difference in the long run. If anything, I'll complain that Alexi Ramirez isn't starting there, as he's the player I'm most excited to track during this upcoming season.

boo

QUOTE(3E8 @ Mar 30, 2008 -> 10:57 AM) Impressive. Shouldn't be too long before one of you coughs up a lung and you've got your basketball I was trying to think of a lung cancer joke to make, but I don't think it'll live up to this one. Excellent

oh no, I missed out on this game I don't know how I'll live with myself.

i'm drunk and ica n't even ask people for stock advice like heads.. thatrs sad

QUOTE(YASNY @ Mar 30, 2008 -> 12:06 AM) Watch out where the huskies go, and don't you eat that yellow snow. Precisely.

no one else has posted :( my roommates and company are singing creed, so i'm in here listening to zappa because iti s absolutely horrible we hae already cashed the keg.. its much tioo early

QUOTE(Jake @ Mar 29, 2008 -> 09:40 PM) For Love of the Game anyone? No. Doesn't even compare to movies like Bull Durham, A League of their Own, Field of Dreams, or Eight Men Out (I'm sure I've forgotten some other greats too).

We have a keg at my apartment tonight. Yeah, I'm already kind of drunk.

Kansas is most likely to lose because they are Kansas. I'm going with 2 making it.

QUOTE(Kenny Hates Prospects @ Mar 27, 2008 -> 07:07 PM) Start at 162 and subtract one for every game Joe Crede, Juan Uribe, Jerry Owens, or Gavin Floyd takes the field. I don't think it's possible to have a negative win total.

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Mar 27, 2008 -> 09:01 PM) Buerhle would be HUGE. he is a guy signed to a cheap long term deal, who is a top of the rotation starter and a lefty. Because of his contract, I would bet the Sox could get a similar package that MN got for Santana. No one else comes close to MBs value. Thats because the Twins got robbed for Santana. If they had gotten a package that came close to his true value, a potential package for Buehrle wouldn't be in the same zip code.

QUOTE(nitetrain8601 @ Mar 27, 2008 -> 09:32 PM) I hope we do resign him just so he could piss off 99% of the board and then watch everyone talk about how we ruined another sure HOF career. LMAO I don't see anyone claiming Josh Fields is going to have a HOF career. People are merely upset that the organization has decided to go with the 29-year old with the undependable back and history of average/below average offense as opposed to the guy that his 23 HR last year in limited time, while also posting a pretty good OPS. Really, I don't blame them. I mean, I like Crede and all, and the second half and postseason of '05 was something special, as was 2006, but he's got a s***ty back and is coming off of a really rough year. If he starts off the season like he did last year, the move to Josh Fields starting at 3B should be obvious, and should happen quickly.

QUOTE(elrockinMT @ Mar 27, 2008 -> 06:02 PM) It is amazing how we see two different people. Joe is getting his timing back after being out almost a full season. There are others performing in ST at as low an average as Joe. There is absolutely no reason to criticize or minimize Joe Crede. I hope we do sign him and move Fields to IB or LF Moving Fields to 1B would destroy all of his value. At third, he's special because he has a lot of power potential. At 1B, he's an average power player, which is his best attribute by far.

I hope not. And they won't release him because when they do, they have to pay the $5 million in full. That'd be stupid, it'd be more beneficial to have him sit on the bench and make it (although this is something else that won't happen due to the management's love of Crede).

QUOTE(BigEdWalsh @ Mar 27, 2008 -> 04:03 PM) Wow. With all the negativity I've read on here all winter and spring I can't believe I'm the only one going wins 70-73 wins, though I can imagine even worse. I've got a real bad feeling about this year and I so hope I'm wrong. Maybe it's just that I'm totally miffed that Uribe is still on this team. Defensively the Sox are pretty darn good. Offensively pretty darn below average. I foresee a lot of those homers and not much else type games. Pitching....ugh. Contreras, Floyd and Danks scare the crap out of me although they probably don't have that effect on the rest of the AL. As for the bullpen, nothing but a bunch of question marks and ho-hums aside from Jenks. You, sir, have an excellent signature. Zappa & the MOI ftw!

84-78, although the upside could be higher. We won't win anything special, and we'll be in third place in the Central.

Well, I haven't had many bad resulting ones, but the worst would be dropping my phone off of my 4th floor balcony onto concrete. It was the result of a lot of vodka, and I didn't remember it the next day. I woke up in the morning with no idea where my phone was, and looked literally everywhere for it. Luckily, the battery only popped out, and the apartment complex found it and (somehow) found that it was mine and called my roommates to tell me. It still works, and I'm still using it to this day.

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Mar 25, 2008 -> 02:51 PM) EWWWWW! Hey now, that's an unfair quote change. John >>>>>> Joan I mean, really. Do I listen to pop music because I'm miserable or am I miserable because I listen to pop music?

QUOTE(Rowand44 @ Mar 25, 2008 -> 07:40 PM) Hey, I got softball class tomorrow! Life's rough. Damn, I've been looking for a softball class here but there isn't. Instead I have handball class tomorrow... gotta love being a Sport Management major and having required PE classes

I really hope you guys are on spring break I mean, I drink a fair amount, but Mondays and Tuesdays are basically off-limits for me QUOTE(kyyle23 @ Mar 24, 2008 -> 06:11 PM) just a bit on the wee side, lol one day im going to come in here hammered and not bother to spellcheck. No matter how gone I am when I post, I always spell check, so you can never really tell that I'm drunk. I do the same on AIM too, so it's always hard to tell if I'm drunk or not

Obama and I owned a meth lab a couple years ago. It was great.

QUOTE(FlaSoxxJim @ Mar 24, 2008 -> 10:11 PM) "I got a question: if you guys know so much about women, how come you're here at like the Gas 'n Sip on a Saturday night completely alone drinking beers with no women anywhere?" John Cusack, I think I love you.

I can't imagine what Soxtalk would be like after losses if we had even more members. The overreacting would be even more prevalent than it already is.