Gregory Pratt

Hear hear!

Hey Mike, where's me and my umpire?!

QUOTE(kapkomet @ May 29, 2007 -> 10:19 AM) Well, for once, she's right. When are you "antiwar Democrats" going to learn that these people, who supposedly champion your cause, are nothing but a bunch of lying, political hacks who just used your cause to gain power, only to do an about face on just about every issue, including the war? They are absolutely no better then any GOP person you love to hate, and in fact, they're probably worse, because they're toying with the lives of military people every day. I hope you were addressing Cindy Sheehan and the Strawmen of Soxtalk and not me. I am not an anti-war Democrat.

http://newsblogs.chicagotribune.com/news_t..._sheehan_q.html She's mad at Democrats now, as every antiwar democrat should be. Wonder if she's mad at herself yet, for a) believing that the Democrats would do anything significant against the war and B) exploiting her pro-war, pro-military son's death and ruining her marriage and family as a result.

I have a thought: "This team just isn't very good."

QUOTE(WHarris1 @ May 28, 2007 -> 05:01 PM) I had no idea! LMAO

Ah, well, it's cool. I'm addicted to it too.

I have two things to add: in baseball and softball, during infield practice and BP, I like to run out groundballs just to see if I can beat it out. Often do, and did on all of them yesterday. That was fun. Also, I have a dirty little secret. I was wearing a Cubs shirt underneath my purple longsleeve just because. It's kind of a good luck charm for me.

Lance Storm has a great mailbag feature on his site every few days. Lance is fantastic.

wish I could help. No clue. I too love MVP 2005. I hope that's what you meant. No sports game is in the top ten of videogames ever made.

I've always adored AJ. I rag him every here and there, but he just might be my favorite player of all time when all's said and done

Shut up Kerry.

I'm sure someone can vouch for my cuts and power.

You'd be very surprised what happens when you play a full year of baseball and work out three times a week at the gym Misters I design websites and I'm a pansy but then again so is Slav

I'm still going to absolutely hate your posts but I like you man to man. Definitely. You played a good outfield. By the way, I was teasing you with that line you bolded. Making fun of your constant overreactions. Hey, though, you're a good guy. Really.

Full recap and open messages: I'll be posting very similarly on WSI. Southsider, Kap, Tito, Northsidesox and I all showed up. That's Mike, Bob, Brian (Bill), Matt and Pratt. Southsider is a great little grinder. Batted leadoff. He was very good and friendly. He gave me his shortstop position when I asked him to let me have it midway through the game. I thought I could play it well and did. He's a nice guy. I told him I can hit a baseball a long way. He told me I had a nice cut and he believes it. Sorry to disobey you, Skip, when you said: "Since we've got a good lead, on double play balls don't make a throw." I didn't make any errors at all disobeying that order, but whenever I've got a play, I'm going for it. Kap played second and short right field with a lefty. Very good job. Nice guy, too. Didn't really meet my expectations. I expected him to be a badass sarcastic Texan and arrive on a Harley. Tito played a fantastic outfield for us. Great job buddy. Good job with the stick, too. Northsidesox, my old practice buddy, pitched a hell of a game. Great job. Good hitting, too. Now some notes on my game and the game as a whole: If we had a highlight reel and a lowlight reel, I'd have been prominent on both. First: a baserunning gaffe. I took one to center field and Kap was at first. I thought he'd kept going to third and ran to second. We were both out; me running back to first and he at second. I also ran into their first baseman and kind of armed-him in the chest. That was an accident. Sorry buddy! I also started the third inning for us as NSS and I agreed to alternate every two innings. I walked two hitters, gave up a three run shot, and gave the ball back to Matt. That wasn't meant to be. I hate pitching a softball. Haha. The rest of the game, for me, was And not to mention the clutch two-out rally by us. I AJ Pierzynski'd much of the game and I suppose he'd be a perfect match for me. I've been compared to AJ on every team sport I've ever been on. I was loud to pump up my teammates and myself, as well as entertain teh crowd which was essentially all the WSI Wives and GFs. I had a playful, teasing series of arguments with the umpire, DumpJerry from WSI. Gave him dirty looks after each ball thrown to me. Called him out as a bad umpire. (He wasn't really.) (He was cool. Good sense of humor.) Teased their pitcher for looking like Mayor Daley. When I saw him at the train station, as we were all leaving, I said to him, "Pleasure hitting off of you." It was! I didn't mean that disrespectfully, though. He seemed like a good guy, and he was teasing me too about how I couldn't throw strikes, so it's all in good competitive fun. To show the other team up -- again, for fun, and that's just a part of who I am -- I did such things as, oh, catch a liner for the final out and then spike the softball as I ran back to the :dugout." When I was scoring runs, I'd moonwalk into home or, in my favorite incident, do a Barrel Roll into homeplate. Hey, I'm a showman. As far as hitting, I had a hustle double, and I batted third. I had a bunch of hard hit singles. I hit two of the hardest hit balls all day long but they were both just very, very long fouls. The other guys started calling me a pull hitter. I'm not. Not with baseball, anyway, but I suppose I was pulling everything in softball (you really should though, if you've got power, which I do) but in my last two at-bats I singled into centerfield just because. I must confess, I was playing with a chip on my shoulder. I was a little irritated by the fact that so many WSI guys showed up (about sixteen) when we only had five. That bothered me because it looks bad for us. THeir pitcher kept somewhat jokingly asking, before the game, Where's SoxTalk? Where's your team? and I know he didn't mean it offensively but I took slight offense. Then there's the fact that I take offense at the mere presence of opposing teams, no matter what the situation, simply because I expect to win and play everything to win, and them being there = obstacle to us winning that we have to beat. I love competing. It was a very fun day, though. Tito is a great guy. I didn't have much doubt he would be. Most people posting on a message board are very different than in real life. I'm not, but most people are. Although I do think that Tito was thinking, "What the f*** do we have this guy on the roster for?" when I gave up the three run shot and walked two guys. I liked meeting him, though. Good fun Northside is the same as I remember. Good guy. So's everyone else. In summary, to the WSI guys: 1) In baseball, I'm no pull hitter per se. I think I showed that I'm not completely in softball, either. I had fun hitting to center and left. 2) I hope you didn't take offense by my actions. I was having a ton of fun. I think you guys were, too. I know for a fact some of you were amused, as you should've been. 3) Pitcher, don't be offended by the teasing. I wasn't and I assume we were both going at one another in good humor. (PS: I really liked your attempts to get me to ground out softly by throwing me a softball that doesn't reach the plate. It didn't work, as I took every ball you pitched for a ball, but it was a very good effort and you're a good, crafty pitcher.) 4) Tell your wives/GFs I'm not a jerk, plz. What can I say? I like playing with enthusiasm and effort. Great time. Oh, and I was wearing the sexy plaid pants and purple shirt

I love Billy Joel

I'm bringing my mom. Just in case we need some power and speed off the bench. I am pumped up for this game. Leaving soon. Let's go SoxTalk!

I'm sure that's the answer. Thanks!

QUOTE(El Barto @ May 25, 2007 -> 11:04 PM) McCarthy tonight: B. McCarthy 2.0 IP 1 hit 4ER 4 Walks Why only two IP?

Oh, and I'll retract. I'll be there early but probably not ten o clock early. Maybe ten o clock early but probably not ten o clock early.

I think it's "one block north" of the ballpark. I'm not sure though. You might want to walk off and ask some random person, "Yo, where's Armour Park" or whatever, which is what I'm doing.

QUOTE(Heads22 @ May 25, 2007 -> 09:50 PM) the dreaded walk after the dreaded leadoff walk

Steal your way around the bases, Gooch

QUOTE(fathom @ May 25, 2007 -> 09:42 PM) Nice jump by Terrero. Is it time for Thome's first walkoff? No. Someone's got to walk us off. I'll take it however I can get it