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QUOTE(Balta1701 @ Apr 5, 2006 -> 09:43 AM) I have no problems with him being an ass either. I can happily cheer for people who are asses, even if I'm not a huge fan of them. (See: Albert Belle.) I can stand jerks like Belle, but Bonds is a blatant racist as well. No way I root for somebody like that.

QUOTE(T R U @ Apr 4, 2006 -> 06:02 PM) Thats just your opinion on him. I fail to see where he has "cheated". There is no proof. Um, so admitting to using steroids in his grand jury testimony isn't "proof"? I agree that Bonds is "The Man". He was "The Man" even before he started using. He was a lock for Cooperstown a decade ago and it's a damn shame that he had to tarnish his career in this way. :headshake

QUOTE(Jenks Heat @ Apr 5, 2006 -> 06:07 AM) Farmer is an opinion thing like Hawk. He is not great but he works. Putting him at PBP was a huge mistake. I wouldn't say that he's terrible at play-by-play, but he's definitely a better color commentator. FWIW, I think that Singleton is better than DJ was when he started. Granted, that's not saying much, but I could actually stand to listen to DJ after a year or so.

QUOTE(hammerhead johnson @ Apr 4, 2006 -> 10:01 PM) Have I told you lately how much your grammar sucks? I also heard that you misspelled something last week. And I heard that you actually managed to avoid insulting somebody in a post last week. Sounds like you're making progress!

Didn't watch the show, but saw some of the "highlights". I find it really sad that he's playing the race card (this is the same guy who told Kittle that he "doesn't sign [autographs] for white people"). Sadly, I'm sure that he's received a few racist letters from a few white supremacist wackos. But for him to suggest that he's going through what, say, Jackie Robinson went through in the '40s and '50s is completely asinine. It's an insult to Robinson, Hank Aaron, Roberto Clemente, and other minorities who experienced REAL racism years ago. :headshake

No, I'm pretty sure that they're going to suck.

I hope that he suffers a career-ending injury after hitting #713.

QUOTE(SSH2005 @ Apr 4, 2006 -> 05:00 PM) I've noticed before that the birthdates on Baseball-Reference.com are sometimes off by a year. Here's Freddy's WhiteSox.com profile... http://chicago.whitesox.mlb.com/NASApp/mlb...layer_id=150119 Ah. Info from the Sox site is probably more reliable.

QUOTE(SSH2005 @ Apr 4, 2006 -> 03:55 PM) And I agreed. I just wanted to make it known that Freddy is closer to 30 than 28. According to Baseball-reference.com, he's supposed to turn 31 in June.

Another guy on The Score is convinced that Freddy was on steroids in previous years. God, I'd rather listen to Singleton than these idiots.

QUOTE(Balta1701 @ Apr 4, 2006 -> 01:51 PM) Anna Benson has rescinded the divorce petition she filed in court last week, and wants to try to repair her marriage. Time to change the thread title. But I thought that their marriage was "irretrievably broken." :rolly Stupid whore...

QUOTE(SSH2005 @ Apr 4, 2006 -> 02:59 PM) Singleton is a mediocre color guy and horrible at play-by-play. So what else is there for him to be good at? It was a bad hire from the start. They should have went with Steve Lyons or someone else with actual experience. I agree that The Score are a bunch of cheap-asses. But there's room for improvement with Singleton. I'll give him a year before passing final judgement.

Someone on The Score just suggested that he has an attention disorder.

QUOTE(LVSoxFan @ Apr 4, 2006 -> 02:25 PM) Can somebody articulate what was so horrible about them? I saw it all over the game thread (for those of us who don't have radio). Just got the Game Day Audio over the weekend and listened to them for the first time today. Singleton is a mediocre color guy, but that's to be expected from someone who's never done it before. Maybe he'll improve with time, maybe he won't. Didn't hear him do much play-by-play today. I've always thought that Farmer was a great colory guy and mediocre at play-by-play. A lot of people don't like him but I guess that I've grown accustomed to him over the years. At the very least, he's a much-needed familiar voice given the departure of Rooney.

Something tells me that Freddy being out of shape isn't going to shave 5 MPH off of his fastball. It's got to be either a "dead arm" issue or some sort of injury. Hopefully the former.

QUOTE(SSH2005 @ Apr 4, 2006 -> 02:20 PM) And the only time we should consider trading Garcia is after the season. Trading Garcia and moving McCarthy into the rotation would just weaken our bullpen. We also wouldn't have a fallback starter in case someone got injured. If Garcia continues to suck balls going into July, it might make sense to unload him before his value goes down any further. If we could get a couple veteran relievers for him, moving McCarthy into the #5 spot might not be the worst thing. I've never been that high on Freddy... he's way too inconsistent for a guy that makes $8-$9 million/year. And he never seems to pitch well at home. That said, it's only one game. If it's just a temporary issue (dead arm) and he returns to form by May, I want him here for the remainder of the season.

448 feet today. Wow...

QUOTE(GoSox05 @ Apr 4, 2006 -> 01:59 PM) i just wish he was more aggresive. Its like he can throw hard, but hes always tinkering around with his breaking stuff. He doesn't throw as hard as he did in Seattle because he can't locate as well. I'll take somebody that slows down to throw strikes over someone like Matt Thronton any day.

QUOTE(SSH2005 @ Apr 4, 2006 -> 01:58 PM) There's a difference between a pitcher having a bad day and a pitcher throwing only 85 to 89 MPH when he usually works in the low 90's. Don't you understand that? How are people being completely pessimistic when one of our starter's velocity is way down? Unless of course, you know the exact reason that Freddy was only throwing in the mid to high 80's? It'll be a problem if he's still throwing 85-89 a month and a half from now.

QUOTE(GoSox05 @ Apr 4, 2006 -> 01:38 PM) Think there so cool cause they live in Ohio. Which is funny, because there's nothing really cool about Ohio.

QUOTE(GoTribe @ Apr 4, 2006 -> 01:34 PM) I run a Tribe site of my own and I see about 10 sox fans joined it. What does that have to do with us?

QUOTE(GoTribe @ Apr 4, 2006 -> 01:32 PM) go boone.. go 5-5 ! 1948

QUOTE(Fourofakind @ Apr 4, 2006 -> 01:21 PM) My only complaint is why would we pitch Freddy for the 2nd game. If based only on last years performance, Contreras and Garland both pitched better. Freddy is always better on the road. Not too worried about the actual performance of Freddy, but why Ozzie and Cooper set the rotation this way. That puzzles me as well. It's my understanding that Contreras had a nagging injury in ST, so that may explain why he isn't on the mound today. But certainly Garland or Vazquez could've pitched today. I don't know what it is, but Freddy tends to suck balls at The Cell.

QUOTE(whitesoxfan101 @ Apr 4, 2006 -> 01:14 PM) Wow if I had known somebody would say trade Garcia, I'd have avoided this thread alltogether. :rolly Nobody has advocated a Garcia trade. I simply pointed out that we have more than enough pitching depth to absorb a bad year from one of our starters.

QUOTE(chitownsportsfan @ Apr 4, 2006 -> 01:01 PM) For a bag of balls? LOL, you got my award for illogical post of the day. Since when is a solid starting pitcher only worth a bag of balls? You don't think that anybody would be willing to trade away a couple relievers for a workhorse like Garcia in July? It's too early to be talking about this anyway.