FlaSoxxJim

Really, really good job. Clicking between Cubs (*grumble*) and Twins (*GRUMBLE*) at the commercials yesterday (love that Extra Innings package) I missed it during the game.

Well... you can't exactly speed up the arrival of a 15th anniversary can you? Wow, I never caught the right-handed Joe Jackson. Good call.

Unless Ozzie has to guess every night who's got it together and who doesn't. I'd have expected that phenomenal a meltdown out of Politte before Jackson.

Way Joe Joe - 1 gone.

Politte has left me cold all year, Jackson I have been ok with for the most part (tonight excluded).

You'd think so any way. This is what they call 'closer by situation' in the Sox org?

Kochesque indeed. C'mon Cliff!

Really solid season - I didn't evem mind the dream episode, I just didn't get it. As much as they tried to bring the Malfi office visits back, that just didn't integrate as well as I would have hoped. For being the driving vehicle of the first couple of seasons, it seems forced and a little superfluous now. That's my only negative comment an otherwise really strong season.

Is Century21 sponsoring this game?

PK!!!

Ramirez in for relief duty already !

They finally un-juiced that ball for the last two innings, huh? Man, s*** was just flying outta that place for a while.

You said it. Our loans are structured in a real slimy way where you can't really pay down the capital - anything extra you just pay is applied toward your next payment due. I'm not bright enough to really get all that money stuff, but a couple of people have told me it does indeed blow nut. My wife and I strated out with $45K debt between us, and several years later we still seem to be in pretty much the same hole.

I've herd some of his playing on Lou Reed album and on some Matthew Sweet - not bad. Sad to hear something like this.

That was a short tenure. You weren't caught putting nair in the jockstraps were you?

LaRussa $$$ >> Guillen $ We could afford Tony 20 years ago and that's why he was our manager then and not now. Oh, and Hawk did screw that up in his horrid single year as GM, didn't he?

Did you mean to say "Don't make nothing into something"? If so, I agree,

Maybe he would only be effective the first time around the league, but that is one time around more than Koch had been effective. Plus, there is no second time around with the pending Interleague matchups, so why not throw him out there then if the setups call for it?

The move needed to be made, but I'd ragtehr see Zero get the promotion as well. It will probebly be more of a situational thing anyway, depending on who's due up against us in the 9th.

Are you off your meds or something? You are the one that is lucky that so far it has only been your THREAD that has removed. Nobody should have to be derided for supporting a team or its players regardless of how they perform. It's our right to be upset with player performance. Utterly classless as it may be, it would also be within our rights to boo one of our own when they take the field (I'll refrain and quietly hope Oz does the right thing and keeps the ball far away from our non-closer). None of us have the right to direct insulting, hateful and inflamatory language at another poster because they wanted someone to do what we all hoped he could. My apologies to Anthony (a great poster who doesn't buckle to perceived bulls*** board pressure) on behalf of the rest of us, because you still don't get it.

No, no sex stuff I'm sure. But the violence - even as comic-bookey as it is in something like that - is not something I'm in a hurry to turn my kids onto. W're that 'odball' family that doesn't have any gun toys in the house. No cap guns, no pellet guns, no squirt guns... My little boy's pre-K schoolmates tell him how awesome Power Rangers etc. is, but for now I'm ok with him just getting it secondhand through them rather than him needing to see all the movies.

Do we have a future Onion staff writer on our hands? Well done. And the over-the-top quotes by JR are good, they're the absurd extreme to let readers (the really slow ones) know they've been had.

Somebody here already said this gem should rightly be filed in the "who ya crappin?" category. Billy, don'tcha think the better plan might have been striking out any of the FOUR batters you faced before Edgar? My blood pressure has still not come back down.

I love me some Big E, but yeah In the Ghetto was the nadir of 70s cheese ala King. You still got em and little Tommy, together we'll find a brand new mommy In the Ghetto.... In the Ghetto. Hunka Hunka Burning Dung, that one. On the ride home from work I heard perhaps the crowning bad song from 1985. Let's see if I can remember all te words... Amadeus Amadeus! Amadeus Amadeus Amadeus!! Amadeus Amadeus Amadeus!!! Oh, oh, oh, Amadeus!... da da da Rock me Amadeus... Amadeus Amadeus! Amadeus Amadeus Amadeus!! Amadeus Amadeus Amadeus!!! Oh, oh, oh, Amadeus!... da da da Rock me Amadeus... Amadeus Amadeus! Amadeus Amadeus Amadeus!! Amadeus Amadeus Amadeus!!! Oh, oh, oh, Amadeus!... da da da Rock me Amadeus... Yeah, I think I got 'em all.

Ha, the Koch Net would be like the oversized "Big Bertha" catcher's mitt they tried using on the Orioles to deal with catching Hoyt Wilhelm's knuckleball. The league finally caught up with them and regulated the size, but I got a kick out of seeing that big mitt in the "Baseball As America" exhibit at Sci and I last summer. As far as home field advantages, there was never a park more stacked than Comiskey I. The cut of the infield grass, the sloping firehose-foul lines to keep our bunts in... the old folks here can probably list a few more.