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thank you!

QUOTE(Frank the Tank 35 @ Sep 10, 2006 -> 09:50 PM) The players you mentioned have at least SOME semblance of power. When a leadoff hitter hits a few homeruns, he can score himself 10-20 more times per season. Honestly though, how many leadoff hitters have an outstanding OBP this year? Youklis and Sizemore are the only two at .380 or higher. Youk's not fast and Sizemore, while quick, doesn't have blazing speed. Pods is hardly the success story when it comes to stealing bases. He doesn't have that natural speed and relies on technique. Bottom line is he isn't that fast and gets caught far too often. He lacks any sort of power which would help negate his .330ish OBP like it does for Rollins. You could even make a case for him if he was a great defensive OFer. But alas, he brings little to nothing to the table. Getting that high OBP, fast, moderately powerful guy to lead off would be ideal, but there are only a couple of those in the league. I'd settle for either the Youk-type, who can get on base at a great clip, or a fast/moderately powerful/good D Rollins-type. Outside of actually getting Rollins, I think the best available option would be a high OBP guy. I really hope the Phils continue their sale, and we can somehow get Rollins though. you forgot freel.

Yay Javy. Boo BP & Offense. There is a little bit of baseball left to be played; twins take on the A's with out CYtana, but Liriano will be back(anyone know if he will be on a pitch count)? Detroit is in freefall, we will face both teams 3 more times, and Kansas City has been the death of contenders in the past (cle last year), so let the chips fall where they may. i hope everyone gets out side and enjoys this great fall day.

Nice Work Javy 7IP 2BB 4H 2ER 10K Keep it up.

serh lame

hats off to Javy, 7IP 10K, 2 ER 4H 2BB

QUOTE(Chisoxfn @ Sep 9, 2006 -> 07:14 PM) I think part of it is that DJ doesn't have to worry about stepping on Hawk's toes. These two just shoot things off each other as if they were just talking as friends. thats what i really liked about last nights broadcast, it was laid back but very insightful. I like hawk even though he is a huge Homer, and i wouldn't mind this combo in the future.

Razorlight loosly reminds me of Hot Hot Heat and I like Hot Hot Heat

QUOTE(Kalapse @ Sep 9, 2006 -> 01:27 PM) Or a NAZI!! he does have blond hair and blue eyes.....it all makes sense now.

i concur +44 > A&A

QUOTE(Brian @ Sep 9, 2006 -> 09:40 PM) There will be riots in Detroit no matter what. It is Detroit, after all. Zing!

QUOTE(Chisoxfn @ Sep 9, 2006 -> 09:33 PM) I should add, right now I'm pulling for another Twins win cause I think our best chance is both the Twins and Sox passing the Tigers in the division with both teams making the playoffs. there might be a riot in bum town err Detroit if that happens.

there are 20 games left do you think Konerko hits 40? he needs 8 more, and if tonights a sign it looks like he found his power stroke again.

made my heart stop. but a W is a W, detorit is hearing foot steps

game!

i no choo sucks against LHP, but MacDougal is dealing!!!

has anyone heard +44? its mark and travis's new band, im excited to hear the LP. www.purevolume.com/plus44

even though you may not agree with it, at least my trade porposal makes sense and is quasi realistic, unlike a "podsednik for crawford trade".

QUOTE(Kalapse @ Sep 9, 2006 -> 03:23 AM) I could find you articles from people who cover baseball for a living who think Scott Podsednik is a great leadoff hitter, which couldn't be further from the truth. Just because some guy who writes for the Daily Herald thinks Ozzie should be considered for manager of the yaer doesn't mean that it is reality. Hell in the same article he mentions Mike Cameron and Torii Hunter as possible replacements for Brian Anderson, which is a crock of s***, so yeah I'm not sure how much credibility Scott Gregor has right now. I couldn't agree more, its like he just thru some Buzz names out there, like Toriiiii. Brian is our Future, embrace it, he isn't going anywhere except winter ball. Now for what i would like the sox too do this offseason, as i've mentioned before on this site. Deal Jose, hes arguably been one of the best if not the best pitcher in baseball for the past year before he hit his rough patch. Sell high and hopefully we can spin him and Uribe into Michael Young and some 'spect/s here is why i think we could get Young. Texas is still very high on SS Joaquin Arias who they aquired in the a-rod deal; Uribe could be a stop gap for them because he has a club opition in '08 with a $0.3M buyout. Texas needs pitching(Vicente Padilla will be a FA) and with Zito's departure from Oakland (and for no draft picks ha!) Oakland will be weaker. Texas has always had the hitting but the pitching had eluded them, between Jose and Millwood they could cotend in the west. Seatle doesn't know if its coming or going, LA has a plan, and A's are going to get a blow to their pitching staff and have to decide if they want to commit to the big hurt. With the addition of Jose they could make the west a two horse race. So to sum it up we give them Jose + Uribe, in return we would get Michael Young & some 'spect/s. Deal Garcia, Cotts and Podsednik to the NL for 'spects Re-sign Riske, Bring in Tracey and Boooooone! to the pen, let Sweeney take over in LF and leading off. Sign MB + Crede up long term with money saved from from dealing Garcia + Jose, along with the money coming off the books for Hermanson 3.5mil .5buy out. 2007 Opening Day Roster SP - MB, JG, Javy, McCarthy, Haeger BP - Jenks, MacDougal, Thornton, Logan, Riske, Tracey LF - Sweeney L SS - Young R RF - Dye R DH - Thome L 1B - Konerko R 3B - Crede R C - AJP L 2B - Iguchi R CF - Anderson R Bench - Mackowiak, Cintron, Ozuna, Gload, Stewart And even if we can't aquire Young, we can try and get Lugo or some other top tier SS, if they're a lead off hiter, move Sweeney to the bottom, i don't think we need someone whos "fast" just athletic and gets on at a good clip. Regardless i would deal Jose, Garcia, Pods, Uribe and Cotts this offseason. restock our farm and aquire the peices to make another run at the central/wc, next year if cleveland gets some semblance of pitching from both their starters and bull pen its going to be a dog fight in the central all season . The twins are the twins, detroit after sucking for so long are finally seeing the fruition of those loosing seasons, and cleveland has alot of young talent. Also to people that aren't high on Haeger, the organization is obviously high on him(exhibiton games against Atlanta, spot start, sept call up). He can get out ML hitters, and when his pitch is on its filthy. Having a knuckle baller on the staff allows us to keep a really tight leash on Javy and all starters for that matter. We have the least used BP in mlb for the past two years and that allows us to tax them even less. All our starters are having career worst years and i think next season we will see the emergance of Vazquez as a #1 and MB will rebound JG who has been great for the second half will come out strong, McCarthy will at the very least be average but i think he will be much more than that, and Haeger well its a gamble but its one im willing to take with Broadway waiting in the wings by mid '07.

Bruce Willis's real name is Walter and he was born in West Germany

Solipsist by Henry Rollins heres an excerpt. Not disabled, unable. In my dream I die and come back as a brick. Yes, a brick. The brick that I come back as is lodged in a wall that was built in 1951. The exposed side of the brick faces the window of a woman who I love but who turned me away years before. Day after day I stare into her room, into her life. I watch her come and go. I see her with different men. I cannot call out, I cannot move. I am embedded in cement. I can do nothing but silently and motionlessly watch. I see her alone. I watch her cry and her head in her hands. I am forced to watch relentlessly. Sometimes she stares out the window and looks right at me. It is excruciating to look directly into her eyes and know she does not see me, she only sees a wall. She leave for weeks at a time, and I wonder where she is. Who she's with. I wait. All the other bricks are just bricks, they do not speak, they don't do anything at all. It is only my discontent that makes me believe that I am alive at all. I have no arms or legs. I feel neither hot nor cold. I do not sleep. I do not hunger or thirst. My face is a small rectangle of smooth red clay, anonymous. Sometimes I think that I am a man merely dreaming of being a brick, but the days pass and I can see enough to know that I am indeed a brick in a large wall. One day she moves away. Days turn into months, and soon the first year of her absence arrives. In this time I have done nothing but think and make up every possiblebility of her return. to my view a potential reality. Five years pass. My mind has begun to drift. I watch the squirrels and birds in the tree to my left. I watch a few families move in and out. See a few traffic accidents, a robbery. I watch the leaves explode into colors and fall off the branches. But at night when everything is quiet I think of her. She is somewhere. I am here. Always here. Not waiting, just here. Please do not let me live my life untouched and tormented. Please help me escape the tragedy of myself. I envision my face: contorted and agonized, wild-eyed, my mouth frozen in a mid scream. Never able to say the truth. Forever trapped, suspended inside a solid black eternity. Embedded, silent, identical to the hundreds of others symmetrically stacked around me.

QUOTE(Heads22 @ Sep 8, 2006 -> 11:16 PM) Nary a mention of Boone. Tsk tsk. i said Boone!, hes the future, Cotts is the past, notice has been served. QUOTE(Whitewashed in @ Sep 8, 2006 -> 11:35 PM) Then whose going to set them up? We need Jenks. If he's gone for a few games okay, but hopefull for no extended period of time. thats what im saying, give bobby a few days off and a shot, and hopefully he will be golden.

QUOTE(Whitewashed in @ Sep 8, 2006 -> 11:04 PM) If Jenks is hurt then we are hurt big time. Our savior in the first half can't be missing during crunch time. False!, we have MacDougal and Thornton, and i trust both of them with a frest start in a save situation.

AJP FTW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Garcia keeping us in the game! Boone! making his case, and looking P-I-M-P while doing it. thank god we have MacDougal+Thornton, Jenks get healthy.

AJP FTW!