My Dixie Normus

QUOTE(StrangeSox @ Sep 1, 2006 -> 10:05 PM) shut up hawk No s***. Nice come back my ass.

This is why you pay a guy $60m. Earn it Paulie.

You would think a guy who is struggling would hustle and bust his ass down the line. Nope, not Pods. Thanks for the HR last year. Now get out.

Thome can expect to see nothing but low and away until he proves his hammy will allow him to go get that pitch.

How can KC afford to open the gates when only a few dozen people walk through them.

What college team did he play for again??? Oh, yeah, the Trojans. Hmm, the irony, huh?

QUOTE(Brian @ Sep 1, 2006 -> 01:24 PM) Better than Lower miles too.

And this is the Momma. Yeah, you know you would if you could.

QUOTE(Jordan4life_2006 @ Aug 31, 2006 -> 06:06 PM) I disagree with you on Anderson. Yeah, me too. Anderson has been great scince the ASG given the opportunity. But that is the problem, he doesn't get enough playing time.

I am pretty happy to see Tampa leave town. I feel pretty fortunate to get the two we did. A few things I learned about them while they were here. 1) they have a ton of young talent. 2) Delmon Young is going to be a very, very good ball player. 3) If they could pitch, they would be very tough. Whatever starter we move next off season, we should be looking at this team for a LF. Crawford is already great and for all his skeletons, Young is worth the risk.

QUOTE(Heads22 @ Aug 31, 2006 -> 01:57 PM) BA up to .235 That would mean he has to be close to .300 since the ASG.

McCuddy's and Danny O'Brien's where 10x the bar that Jimbo's ever was. That is not a knock on Jimbo's but those two joints were great. Still, tis a shame.

He struck out on the same pitch Pods did.

Second time he has come up with two on... I like those odds.

The wind is blowing out to right pretty hard. Just get it up in the air towards the Ryan and it will get there.

Hey Josh Paul!!! I wonder if he tags the runner on anything in the dirt tonight.

Wow, Paulie is hitting 5th. Protecting Thome? Interesting. At least BA is in there.

Here are the bets I made with a Cub fan at the beginning of the season. $1 per game in the win column. Currently up $26 $25 Garland wins 15 games. Winner $25 Sox are 10 games out on August 15th. Winner. $25 Sox win the WS. Pending Now, down, he wants another bet. He wants to bet me $25 that the Sox don't catch the Tigers. With 31 games left and 5 game deficit to make up, I am not going to take that bet. Unless.... If you are familiar with golf, you may know a bet called the scotch game. A 2-man team bet worth 6 total points per hole. Low ball (individual score) is worth two points, low combined total strokes is worth 2 points, closest to the pin (prox) is worth one point and a natural birdie is worth one point. If you get all six points on one hole you get an umbrella, meaning points are doubled for a total of 12. Each point is worth a $.25 or $1. I am thinking of countering his offer with an umbrella proposal. If I take the bet on catching the Tigers, an Umbrella clause would be imposed on all bets. If I sweep, all bets double in value. That would mean the Sox win the WS and I win somewhere in the neighborhood of $250. If I lose the Tigers bet I could still win the WS bet but at worse I am still up $75 roughly. Think he goes for it?

A save awarded to a player when his teams scores 12 runs... Ungood. Anyway, great effort by the bats. Got through another Garcia start and all the right people played the field today. 31 to go.

Let's get Bobby another run here. I get a shiver every time I hear the name Neal Cotts.

This is an outrage. Flooding the work force with well dressed, English speaking, literate young people can only drive wages down. I for one appreciate the half-assed effort of today's education system that creates about 40% of graduates who can not fill out a job application and show up for interviews with their asses hanging out pants. It keeps my fat paychecks rolling in. I say yea to Ebonics classes and the right to free expression through ill-fitting clothing. Donate to the ACLU. It is better retirement security than a 401K.

QUOTE(greg775 @ Aug 26, 2006 -> 10:41 PM) Attendance has been awesome. Fans deserve an A for their support. An A plus really. The Twins have to be laughing their ass at us now, the way they own us. They don't own our fans, though. Great great year of attendance. Every other post on the Cubs boards sounds just like this. Just replace the word Twins for Cards... well, replace it with any team really.

That is not Uribe in the photo on the card unless he had the Micheal Jackson race change operations. The card contains a swatch of a game used jersey, a Rockies Jersey. I would say it is worth somewhere between nada and bubkis.... leaning towards bubkis.

QUOTE(Rex Kicka** @ Aug 27, 2006 -> 11:48 PM) Apparently, the plane may not have ever left the ground. The signs point to the plane overshooting the runway and bursting into flames as a result of the impact. It got off the ground. The impact site was more than a 1/4 mile from the end of the runway over a fence, several banks of trees. There is apparently damage to the fence and to the tops of the trees but there is an impact skid, then a break and a second impact site near the final resting point of the fuselage. They got up. But obvioulsy not very high and not very long.

Buehrle's game should not come as a surprise to anyone. He has had several solid outings in the last several weeks only to come up short for a lack of support. 4 ERs vs. Det. Aug. 21 (Kenny Rogers threw a gem. Sox got blanked.) 2 ERs vs. KC, Aug. 17 (Bullpen almost let this one slip away from him too.) 3 ER vs. Det, Aug. 12 (MacDougal got the win, he left w/it tied 3 all) 2 ERs vs. KC, Aug. 1 (Thorton gave up 2, Sox come back in 10 and Riske gets the win.) His lone failure was against LAA when he blew up for 6 ERs and gave up 3 gopher balls. His August stats are not that bad. Record 1-2 in 5 starts (the worst stat of them all, ofcourse). Total earned runs = 17 (6 vs. LAA) 30 innings pitched 8 BB (2 vs. LAA) 8 HRs (3 vs. LAA) 17 Rs (6 vs. LAA) Welcome back Mark? He came back August 1st after a horse s*** July. Take out the game against LAA and give him some run support and he had a pretty good month. Does he need to get his ERA back under 4? Hell yes but I don't think it was all as bad as some here have made it sound. Given that his ERA was over 11 in July, I think he rebounded nicely. He just has not gotten the breaks. Today he got great support on both sides of the ball. We owe that to all our pitchers for the month of September. Let's hope the rest of the boys can give it up. It starts with playing BA every friggin day. He has earned it and the alternative is spin chilling. Pods seems to have gotten his act together a little but here in the last three days. He got a clutch 9th inning double on Friday, a clutch bunt single in the 11th on Saturday and went 3-4 w/walk and 2 thefts. Today he reached on another bunt single and he hustled out an infield hit. This is the guy you may have been looking for. I think he got the message. Play him. Uribe is tough to watch at the plate some times but we need to remain tough up the middle. Play him too. Lets just play our guys and not over think it the rest of the way.