NorthSideSox72

If Nix gets the 2-run hit here, we win this game.

Sipp has control issues, PLEASE be patient AJ.

I am happily eating crow about Dotel - thank you sir for proving me wrong.

Dotel - if he's bad with hitter #1, he's not recovering, that's his MO. Get him out of there.

God I wish I was at The Cell right now instead of at work.

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Jul 9, 2009 -> 03:12 PM) What's the longest outing by Poreda with us? How much longer will he be effective? Well he was starting in Charlotte before the call-up, but he hasn't been stretched out like that in weeks. hard to say.

Well Heads must have already voted in this poll - Egbert has a vote.

Poreda K's Choo, 2 in the inning. Let's add another couple runs here.

I normally am not a big Cubs basher, but has anyone seen this? Seriously, Soriano's prima donna act is hilarious. He's sucked all year, and apparently still requires 24 hour notice if he's not playing, because he can then come to the game NOT ready to play. LOL

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Jul 9, 2009 -> 03:05 PM) I ran away from the desk for a while. Did we try sacrificing last inning? No, I mean in general, the love of bunting.

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Jul 9, 2009 -> 03:02 PM) Sacrifice bunt in a barn burner? Wtf!?! Wedge is mocking Ozzie. Or doing an impression.

Go...

QUOTE (fathom @ Jul 9, 2009 -> 02:55 PM) No, he's pretty awful. Having no range to your right and being just terrible turning a double play = below average SS. Disagree, I'd call him overall average.

Tying run at the plate.

QUOTE (Jenks Heat @ Jul 9, 2009 -> 02:47 PM) Same place the great Alexi Ramirez defense is. Poreda seems to be fine without the big fastball. Coop has success with this so we shall see. Alexei is inconsistent, sometimes great, so not a great example. Also remember, Coop will teach his pitchers at times to dial it back a couple clicks to get better control and consistent delivery. Not sure if that is the case with AP, we'll have to see.

If Poreda holds the Indians down (or mostly) for about 3 or 4 more innings, and we come back and win this game, Aaron will become legend with a lot of Sox fans who don't know who he is (those not on here, who don't follow prospects to speak of).

barn burner, on a beautiful afternoon. I wish I was at this game.

QUOTE (Greg Hibbard @ Jul 9, 2009 -> 02:09 PM) um... we want a pitcher, not a belly-itcher? At this point, a belly-itcher would be no worse.

QUOTE (Cali @ Jul 9, 2009 -> 12:37 PM) I want Poreda on call and ready to go so he can transition to start in 5 days... He's starting the All Star game?

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Jul 9, 2009 -> 12:20 PM) Because Shelby/Danks/Mitchell aren't ready and Cook or Gartrell can't play CF. Restovich and Kroeger are also corner OF's. This is pretty much what I already said, except you are incorrect on Cook not being CF capable. Cook played 40 games there last year (no idea on this year, minorleaguesplits isn't updated yet) with decent ratings over that and years previous. Plus a couple posters on here who have watched him in B-Ham have reported he's solid at all three positions. I am 99.999% sure he's not BA in CF, but it would be hard to be worse than Wise, and we are talking about a bench guy here.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jul 9, 2009 -> 11:50 AM) You absolutely do not call up D2: the Mighty Danks right now. Especially to be a bench player. That's why Cook is a better option. He has played all three OF positions, he's a guy you don't care if he's kept on the bench, probably no more than a bench guy in the majors anyway, and you don't disrupt Danks' progression.

QUOTE (Greg Hibbard @ Jul 9, 2009 -> 11:32 AM) Ok, so if Anderson has had his chance and we can all agree he's not going to do enough, why not send him and Wise down immediately and call up your two best OF prospects despite the contractual consequences? A sunk cost is a sunk cost. Is his defensive value really THAT high? I guess my ideal scenario when Quentin returns is to release Wise, trade Anderson for whatever you can get (someone will acquire him for something, I'm fairly certain), and then call up a guy who can play CF (so NOT Kroeger or Restovich). The question is, do you go with someone "more ready" but lower ceiling like Cook? Who you don't care about keeping on the bench? Or do you make a splash and call up Danks2? I personally would prefer Cook, but either one would be better for the big club than the current scenario.

QUOTE (Greg Hibbard @ Jul 9, 2009 -> 10:31 AM) Re: Wise. He did a few clutch things last year, had some timely hits, but he is clear not a major league player. In my opinion, it is a matter of time before we acquire some journeyman outfielder capable of playing below average to average defense and capable of hitting .680+ OPS to be a 5th OF. These guys just can't be hard to find and aren't expensive, and I think Kenny will find one before the end of this month. I guess when I started this thread I assumed that Wise wasn't really worth discussing, that it was a matter of time before HE GONE too. I think Anderson is, because he is performing abysmally badly now that he's gotten his "chance" and perhaps Ozzie and Kenny knew what they were doing all along, because if Anderson was worth anything, despite the way he's been handled, he'd man up and get the f***ing job done offensively right now. It would be one thing if he was contributing anything offensively, but he's getting to a point where it's just embarrassing to run him out there. I see no point in acquiring a 5th OF to put up a .680 OPS. We can get those for near-nothing from our own system.

QUOTE (kapkomet @ Jul 9, 2009 -> 08:22 AM) So? He did it without Congressional approval. Now of course they will rubber stamp it, but technically, he did that. It doesn't matter what they "other side" does. That's not the point. And I don't care - I'm just pointing this out. Why would he need Congressional approval to change military equipment allocation? He doesn't. If he and the ruskies want to bring down weapons levels simultaneously, they can both do that executively. If its an official treaty, then Congress does need to approve it. The treaty gives it legal binding. But if its just the two executives saying "yeah, I'll do this, if you do that", then no Congressional approval is required.

A few things I can tell you... --Coast Guard A-school, what you need to be rescue personnel, is incredibly difficult. Like, ask guys in other services, they'll tell you the CG rescue school is harder than any of the boot camps the other services have, and its awfully hard for those guys to admit that sort of thing. Just keep that in mind. And if you don't pass that, you end up doing other CG duties, which may be no fun at all. --Being in the navy isn't being paid to go see the world. Its being paid, very little, to live on a boat with hundreds of other men, cramped quarters, disgusting facilities, and a thin patina of some unknown substance on metal walls. There are some good reasons to join the navy, but you make it sound like a chance to see the world - that is only a tiny part of things. My best advice on considering the military (and I have only considered it, not done it), is to talk to people who have actually been in. Multiple people, as many as you can find.