southsider2k5

I go once in awhile. I dont really like to go down there cuz its so crowed, and i have a couple good casinos right by me without all the hassle. You don't live near Mahoney's Silver Nugget Casino do you?

And I still appreciate the quarter

Wait a minute, you mean that stuff isn't cool to eat anymore?

Alfonseca bumped the ump so hard the crew chief said that he hadn't seen anything that blatent in his 27 years of work. Both the crew cheif and Chip Carrey separately said that the ump got pushed back "10-12 feet" after Alfonseca made contact with him. Alf is going to get a LONG (about 10 games I would guess) suspension. The only thing that saved Alou from meeting the same fate was Kenny Lofton grabbed him and dragged him away after he had been thrown out of the game.

Hopefully Mark steps up for the big game. It seems to me he has a tendancy to lose games with a marquee pitching match up.

Wow a culture more shallow than America???

Thomas was the lead runner at 2nd, and the one I was watching as the play had him in line of sight. Yes, he was just a very few feet off the bag anticipating the ball to be caught, and I really don't know where Maggs was. I've see the infield fly rule applied in the outfield in the past, but that was very shallow, only feet behind the infield. I don't know the rule, but think it s the umpire's descretion for a call. Last night's ball was too deep for the rule to be implemented, but it had the same effect on the runners. I don't think it was bad base running at all, just a bad break in circumstances. Speaking of the infield fly rule, I always have wanted a Sox infielder to purposely drop a pop up when the infield fly is in effect. I'd be willing to bet there are more than a few players who don't know the rule, and would become confused , and would take off to the next base, for an easy double, or triple play. Yeah, but we traded Jimenez a couple of months ago...

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=stor...l&e=1&ncid=1756

I don't think he is eligible for college, as he has already been drafted, right? I don't know exactly how the NFL draft rules work but, he was drafted in the 6th round by the Texans who still own his rights.

The fact that Magglio easily made it into 2nd base, and Frank had a better look at the play does nothing for you? It was a bad play by Frank, he was out by a mile. I'm not blaming the game on him, but if was one of your whipping boys out on 2nd, you'd have a different opinion. No, I wouldn't. The ball should've been caught, the runners saw that and had to stay close to tag up if they had any play after the catch. Maggs is only slightly faster than Frank, and may have 'cheated' a bit on his lead, he does that a lot, but who would you figure to throw out if you were the fielder? On that type of a play? Walker is running full out to the OF from his 2B position, as an IF your instinct would be to make the closest play (being 2B). For him to be able to miss the ball, pick it up, turn around towards the IF, and still be able to spot Thomas far away from 3B, and still have enough time to get a throw there to beat him by plenty means that Frank was way too close to the bag. He must have been practically standing on the bag, or got a terrible break on the ball running to 3B.

There was a little bit of a mix up in the PTC posts for the 2nd and 3rd of Sept. For some reason I posted them both twice with two different threads. 3 People ended up with two different picks on the 3rd because of this. Roman, Soxfan1, and Abozichiu all had this happen. Unless they post differently, I will take their picks as the LATEST pick chronologically that they made. Sorry for the confusion.

The fact that Magglio easily made it into 2nd base, and Frank had a better look at the play does nothing for you? It was a bad play by Frank, he was out by a mile. I'm not blaming the game on him, but if was one of your whipping boys out on 2nd, you'd have a different opinion. That's a good point. Second base was a much closer play than Third base to get an out.

Is Neal back up with the team? I thought he was in Birmingham?

It is even worse now with the job market basically dictating that no matter how bad your job is, that you have to stick with it, because there is no way to find another comperable job right now.

I didn't realize the kind of problems that Stewart was still having, this is scary stuff.

He saved his 55th straight game last night. The only save he has blown this year was in the All-Star game.

Or Thomas more likely...

With as much talent as we had/have and with 100 games left to play, yes it was unreasonable to expect to be 20 games out of first place in this piece of s*** division, IMO.

Funny how things even themselves out... Now the interesting thing will be how big Alfonseca's suspension is, and what if anything will happen to Alou. Smart moves in the middle of the pennant race guys

Do you have someone pissing in your cheerios every morning to keep you this grouchy, or is it just a natural thing?

The question is, who was ordering these nuts?