Capn12

"...............what have you done for me lately..........." I thought Janet Jackson was the only person that sang that tune. How about lets enjoy the things that go right, aka Sox win, and we'll worry about the bad things if and when they happen.

No, the Yanks managed a split with the powerhouse Tampa Bay Devil Rays. Dunno if that bodes well for us or not. I am definately not too excited about throwing Scott Schoeneweis out there today. Heres to hoping he proves me wrong.

Someone let me know when the "Its the in thing to do on Soxtalk to Koch bash" period is over, please...I'll be here to chat and retort you all season.

Hehe...well, I'll take that nickname all year if Koch continues to get the outs, and close the games. I'm anxious to see him in action against the New York All-Stars this weekend. Heres to seeing Billy at least twice in the 9th!!

OK, I'm gonna go WAY out on a limb here, and make my first prediction of 2004: Carlos Lee will NOT hit 162 HRs. BUt I'll be rooting for him to!

Thats my boy. Billy Koch coming in and pitching the ENTIRE 9th inning for Save #1 of what hopefully will be 40+

Rule #1 - We are to no longer discuss the 2003-2004 USC Basketball Team. I've already moved on. I'm used to Opening Round Failure with my Gamecocks. Now if I get The Cheat to hook me up with a new sig, I can swear off the USC Hoops one for the archives.

Thats it The Cheat, you are outta here!!! Oh, but first, I need you to make me a new sig bro!!! One with Koch, AaRow and Jonny G on it...let your creative juices flow. Then you are so outta here!!!

Hehe, well even I got miffed at him last year. I mean, I'm gonna defend him if he looked solid, and had decent velocity, a la yesterday. Just don't undertand why people started whining about Koch after the loss. Hehe, he prolly looed better than the other guys in the pen.

Hey..someone noticed I was back!! hehe...been kinda MIA since the debachle that was the 2003 season. Yes, I'm back, and yes I'll be defending Billy Koch as long as I can also. I don't ever get to see Soxtalk until 1130 pm or so EST, so all teh excitement is usually over by then.

John Rocker= biggest headcase in baseball of his time. His problems are FAR from just being baseball concerned.

um...97. If someone who throws 97 is "thru", our whole pitching staff is toast.

That maybe one of the funniest things I've read in a while... You are saying that Koch sucked in ST, but Shinjo "didnt blow up" ? WTF, we were watching 2 different White SOx Spring Training squads I guess. Until the end of ST, Koch had looked damn good, and was spotting his pitches. Shinjo, well at no point did he really look like the "demi-God" that people overseas claim him to be. Koch is the closer. Ozzie f***ed up yesterday. Next?

What the hell...how can you people write off Koch because he gave up a fisted double to score a run that wasnt his responsibility. A Billy Koch that can throw 97, and get it inside on left handed hitters, is a helluva lot better than the Billy Koch of 2003. Damnit, I find it so funny that no one bothers to b**** and whine about the fact that Damaso Marte sucked f***ing balls yesterday. I guess hating Koch and being an antagonist is still the cool thing to do on Soxtalk. Good evening.

Yeah Cheat, IMO everyone should be hosting their own sig images anyways. Thats alot of stress on bandwidth when so many image files are stored on Soxtalk. Now....I need a new sig Cheat...

I heard he got traded for Julio Ramirez, the ghost of Mike Caruso, and 4 packs of Big League Chew

brings a new definition to teh term "manufactured music" huh?

Disagree. Anyone that watched Billy throw this spring knows that he has started introducing some movement to his pitches. And his offspeed pitches were hitting his targets off the plate. He lokoed good in his early spring appearances. Now, here lately, indeed he has been pretty bad. I'm hoping its a situation of where Spring Training is just wearing on these guys. Hell, Marte and Politte has the same problems today, and we have argued the case for both of them to be closer too. Lets relax, and see what happens on April 6th guys.

Rest assured BH...i'm here watching on mlb.tv with ya!!! And I'm currently at work. Go Devil Rays!!!

Theres no question that Shoeneweis has been nothing short of craptacular so far this spring, but I'll still reserve judgement until I see him flounder in his first 2-3 starts. Then I'll begin to wonder. I think honestly we know what to expect from Buehrle, and Loaiza can at least win 15 IMO. My boy JonnyG will be strong this year. That leaves Schoen and Danny Wright....2 BIG question marks at the back end of our rotation.

1 IP, 1 ER.....OMG thats a horrid outing!!! Give it a break guys. Let Koch at least do someting in the regular season before you bury him. I know its gonna happen anyways.(The burying, not necessarily the bad things)

I find it hard to believe that Dransfeldt has a shot at making this team....but if Gload is already in, then I'm not sure we need Burke as a 3rd catcher/1B type. We may need the Dransfeldt type of third baseman/shortstop. In other news, nice to see my guy Jonny G getting on track. I'm predicting big things for Jonny G and my boy AaRow in 2004!!!

I dunno about that Steff...before yesterday, like i said earlier, Koch has actually presented pretty good control. Actually, he has been spotting his off-speed stuff quite well. I have confidence that he can control his stuff if he is throwing 93-95. If Billy knows he can get it back to 97+, I fear that he will start the "I'll throw it by you" mentality, and we'll see some screaming lasers going out the other way.

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Yeah, i was listening to the Brewers announcers. They said Billy got one uo around 97. Honestly, I'm not sure we wanna see that, because before today, Koch had been doing a damn fine job of getting his breaking pitches to hit spots he needed to. I'm afraid that if he discovers he can hot 96-97, its back to "Hey, I can throw this fastball right by you" mentality, and we will see some 450 ft lasers going the other way.