Gregory Pratt

I really hope Floyd gets up before the summer ends and gets to spend a month or two up here -- preferably the last two months of the season, so we can have a better idea whether or not we can count on him for NEXT YEAR and into the future. If we can rely on him, we're in better financial shape going into the future. He's earned the right to be given a look in the Major League rotation and he's earned the right to have it be sustained and see how he goes. Getting him up here is now up to KW, as Gavin Floyd has earned his shot.

I'm singing this note 'cause it fits in well with the way I'm feeling my whole world turns misty blue And even Hitler had a girlfriend She thinks she's the passionate one And it hurts me so much I haven't got time for the pain, I haven't got room for the pain, I haven't the need for the pain I head out on the highway! I love it, and I need it, I bleed it, yeah its a wild hurricane He deals the cards as a meditation And those he plays never suspect He doesnt play for the money he wins He doesnt play for the respect He deals the cards to find the answer The ace that's hiding up your sleeve will cause the world to grieve, the love you had is gone, I know, you know, they know, we all know. Your black cards can make you money so you hide them when you're able. I've got a bad case of loving you Sometimes love don't feel like it should My balls feel like a pair of maracas - My balls feel like a pair of maracas. Oh God I probably got the Gonho-cocca-khackus! I said Doctor (Doctor), Mister MD (Doctor), can you tell me what's ailing me? As I was lyin' in a hospital bed a rock n roll nurse went into my head. I scream! You scream! We all scream! I wanna rock and roll all night, and party every day! Now wai-a-ait a minute! I feel aaaaaaallllllright! (Yeah-Yeah, Yeah-Yeah!) It's adrenaline! You don't even feel the pain! Images of broken light which dance before me like a million eyes. They call me on and on across the universe. Well we all shine on. like the moon, and the stars, and the sun. The sun, the moon and stars, in love we are - 4ever, always. It was just another night with a sunset and a moonrise not so far behind to give us just enough light to lay down underneath the stars listen to all the translations of the stories across the sky we drew our own constellations. She thinks she missed the train to Mars, she's out back counting stars. Where are you little star? (Where are you?) Whoah oh, oh, oh-uh-oh. Ratta ta ta too-ooh-ooh. Where have you gone, Joe DiMaggio? I'm tired of layin' back, hangin' around, I'm gonna catch that train, then I'll be city bound. I should be on that train and gone. I should be ridin' on that train to San Antone, what am I doin hangin round? I'm just wasting my time

I really don't think that Podsednik qualifies as a grinder. I've never heard him referred to as a grinder before. I don't think he's a grinder. He's too...pretty to be a grinder. QUOTE(danman31 @ Jun 22, 2007 -> 11:20 PM) So making fun of him once wasn't enough so you decided to do it again in less than 15 minutes unsolicited. Nice guy. I was making fun of the organization more than him with my second comment, and it was prompted by the Q, "How long before he gets injured."

QUOTE(Heads22 @ Jun 22, 2007 -> 11:40 PM) With all the s***ting you do on our players, I'm surprised if you own a toilet. I don't s*** on all our players. Right now, Sisco has terrible control and his velocity isn't quite what it's been advertised as. Probably because the organization wants him to sacrifice a little velocity for control but it doesn't work either way for him. I wish the best for Anderson, Floyd and Sisco, but I'm sure that two of those three won't, and can't, make any real impact on this organization and the question mark is Floyd who I'm rooting for, but skeptical about. With all the s***ting you do on me...I think you like me. Actually, I know you like me. Like you're coming around on Osvaldo.

Once he gets injured, we'll hear about how he rushed to the rescue after Erstad got hurt and he hurt himself that way...trying to be a hero! Oh, what a guy Podsednik is!

2 innings, 5 walks, 3 hits, lots of runs, no success.

Sometimes, there's been addition by subtraction. Take the Phillies last year, exploding without Abreu, but no, I don't know of anything that TRULY constituted a firesale doing that.

Our hero!

QUOTE(Dick Allen @ Jun 22, 2007 -> 08:20 PM) I read that but I'm pretty sure McDowell was an Al Goldis/Larry Himes pick. I do know they wanted Mike Harkey but the Cubs took him right before Black Jack. They also wanted Jeff Jackson from Simeon a couple of years later, but Philadelphia selected him, so they had to settle for Frank Thomas. That's the nature of the beast, though. I'm not happy with the draft in my lifetime and definitely not in hte last few years but this sort of thing is to be expected. Not signing high end picks for money + durability concerns, however, is what bothers me. Refusing to take risks. Bah!

I'm singing this note 'cause it fits in well with the way I'm feeling my whole world turns misty blue And even Hitler had a girlfriend She thinks she's the passionate one And it hurts me so much I haven't got time for the pain, I haven't got room for the pain, I haven't the need for the pain I head out on the highway! I love it, and I need it, I bleed it, yeah its a wild hurricane He deals the cards as a meditation And those he plays never suspect He doesnt play for the money he wins He doesnt play for the respect He deals the cards to find the answer The ace that's hiding up your sleeve will cause the world to grieve, the love you had is gone, I know, you know, they know, we all know. Your black cards can make you money so you hide them when you're able. I've got a bad case of loving you Sometimes love don't feel like it should My balls feel like a pair of maracas - My balls feel like a pair of maracas. Oh God I probably got the Gonho-cocca-khackus! I said Doctor (Doctor), Mister MD (Doctor), can you tell me what's ailing me? As I was lyin' in a hospital bed a rock n roll nurse went into my head. I scream! You scream! We all scream! I wanna rock and roll all night, and party every day! Now wai-a-ait a minute! I feel aaaaaaallllllright! (Yeah-Yeah, Yeah-Yeah!) It's adrenaline! You don't even feel the pain! Images of broken light which dance before me like a million eyes. They call me on and on across the universe. Well we all shine on. like the moon, and the stars, and the sun. The sun, the moon and stars, in love we are - 4ever, always. It was just another night with a sunset and a moonrise not so far behind to give us just enough light to lay down underneath the stars listen to all the translations of the stories across the sky we drew our own constellations. She thinks she missed the train to Mars, she's out back counting stars. Where are you little star? (Where are you?) Whoah oh, oh, oh-uh-oh. Ratta ta ta too-ooh-ooh. Where have you gone, Joe DiMaggio?

QUOTE(fathom @ Jun 22, 2007 -> 05:24 PM) That's why he would have been the perfect 4th outfielder. Of course, our horrible General Manager thought Podsednik-Erstad-Dye would be a great outfield and Terrerro/Anderson/Owens/Sweeney would be a quality backup plan.

WHAT the f*** was that Cintron? That was absolut garbage. Popped ball four up and it was an obvious ball four. >

What's Buehrle's ERA after this game?

QUOTE(29thandPoplar @ Jun 22, 2007 -> 05:19 PM) Thought you were done responding. Another day in spinsville I guess. Let it go.

Hawk, you can eat my lunch.

QUOTE(CWSGuy406 @ Jun 22, 2007 -> 05:16 PM) Looked like he sometimes got the corner. Seemed very inconsistent with it. He was a bad ump, no doubt, but Buehrle got the corner quite a bit, I thought. Besides, the umpire didn't hurt Buehrle at all. Soriano and Ramirez did. Bring in Jenks.

Buehrle did get the corner.

Firesale, baby. Send Konerko or Thome to LA, too.

Come on guys...spare Buehrle the loss.

QUOTE(fathom @ Jun 22, 2007 -> 05:05 PM) Not faster than his sperm.

Do you like the steady progression of Guillen hatred?

Ozzie Guillen should lose his job.

Ozzie Guillen should lose his job if the great Nicholas Massetolli fails to get the indestructable Alfonso Alfredo Lorenso Soriano Marciano Rapabattatola out.

Ozzie should be fired for not getting Buehrle a win in what might possibly potentially exponentially and radically be his final (at least at home maybe) start for the Chicago White Sox major league baseball professional sporting organization.

Poor Salman Rushdie.