Harry Chappas

Another uneventful first.

QUOTE (Leonard Zelig @ Jun 12, 2008 -> 09:07 AM) Pitchers normally pitch on 4 days rest. Z pitches every 5th day no matter what they skip everyone to make that happen. Not sure about Lilly and Dempster. I would think as their lead grows they may stop doing this to save Z a little but I am not sure.

QUOTE (heirdog @ Jun 11, 2008 -> 10:11 PM) So is there any real advantage to "drafting and tracking" a player other than building a relationship with the player/family? I mean, even with a good relationship, someone else can still draft him later and its simply a wasted pick. I understand the potential for signing the player when he is a free agent but drafting a guy out of high school, then the player going to college, then getting drafted again by another team, then playing in the minors, then cracking the majors, then playing out the league minimum years, then the arbitration years and then hitting free agency...we're talking about 8-10 years minimum. I know you have to take chances with high ceiling players and hope the money will entice him but unless the pick is extremely late in the draft, it seems like a waste. The Jordan Danks example may debunk this theory but I'm not sure why we decided to pull the trigger in the 7th round instead of the 6th (I know we had to get KWJr but still...) or the 8th round? Did we have some inside info that another team might pull the trigger (say a family insider in the know)? The 6th round ended one day and the 7th started the next day. It it possiblethe team contactedthe family after day one and talked about the situation.

Stop it everyone I have the answer. Send down, waive, DFA whatever it takes both Uribe and Ozuna and bring up Strawberry Fields and Cal Eldred as your LH and RH bats off the bench. Why am I even doing this..... Anderson and Uribe could use more playing time and they will get it. Anderson will end up being a more well rounded hitter than Fields when all is said and done. Fields should be left in the minors to pad his stats and should by some miracle Crede resign, traded in a Matt Garza / Delmon Young type of move. I like Josh Fields more than Joe Crede but I think Joe Crede is a better option for the longevity of this club as Fields could net some really young needs for this team (i.e. arm to replace Contreras in 2010).

With the young talent on the major league level, the Sox do not need a top 10 farm system. They need 5 or 6 MLB prospects. If you have a high payroll, you only need a couple of younger guys on the MLB team (Danks, Floyd, Quentin, Anderson, Logan, Janks, Massett) and then a couple of younger veterans (Swisher, Crede, Buerhle, Vazquez, Dotel, Thorton) and some older veterans (the rest). A decent farm system is 5 or 6 guys that can be used to reload the MLB team via trade or taking over for a veteran. Guys like Getz and Wasserman can be more benefical than Braodway and Fields based on teh role they play at the MLB level.

Does anyone else think that OC really tries to avoid any type of contact at second base? The play yesterday was just another example of how whenever there is a play whether a steal attempt or DP attempt that he seems to be really uncomfortable at going and getting the ball and making a tag.

Sad thing is that he was the best of the three the Sox were going to face this series. I find it funny that Justin Verlander turned into a new pitcher last night. The Tigers pitching has bee ntheir downfall and hte SOx needot keep itthat way.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Jun 11, 2008 -> 01:42 PM) NY Times rates ballparks' food and says what to get and what to avoid. http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2008/06...APHIC.html?8dpc For the Cell, they say "avoid: everything" I thought the park was known for having good food/ concessions? If you read the comments, the author is called out to a degree.

Glavine hurt yesterday and Jurrgens hurt walking down the stairs and out tonight. Has a team seemed to catch every possible break there could be.

Pick him up and put him in AA or AAA and have him work on the infield and see what happens. At worst, he can be a September call-up.

I am not sure if this is ag ood thing or a bad thing but this team gives away more games or I should is in position to win more games than they are ever truely beaten in. Again, I am not sure if that is a good thing or bad thing. Guillen and Cox with some really poor decisions. These three games should be balls out. The next six are meaningless after this series. Contreras in the 7th was stupid and pointless. He was getting hit hard, really hard. With the Tiger pen you are never out of it.

PLEASE SEE POST #678 ABOVE. Thank you and goodnight.

Hitters have terrible swings against cub pitching. Every team seems to have a Juan Uribe at-bat in big situations. Also the cub rotation is not nearly as good as advertised and the pen is coming down to a one man show and Wood. What is the over/under on Chipper Jones getting hurt before next week when the Braves come to town and if he does play, chances he goes 1-12....see Lance Berkman when the cub played Houston.

If the guys they have drafted are all low money signable guys, why not take Danks and see if anything can be done. You know some team will.

I wish people would realize that in the middle of June last year, the White Sox gave up on the season as injuries and s***ty decisions in the bullpen over the offseason killed them and for that we have Gordon Beckham. I don't know if Thome and Konerko will get back into the .280's and 30HR range, but guess what, neither are a good number of otehr proven hitters in baseball. The times appear to be a changing as faras offense goes. If those two and Swisher can get to .260/.380 with 20-25 and 85-100 and the pitching staff is close to the top in baseball, 2005 will not be the comparison for what this team can do.

First two guys get on...3 pitches later inning over, sigh Bring in Massett.

Beckham had almost as many home runs (24) as strike-outs (29). That is all I need to know. Nice pick

By doing the stupid slotting system baseball is shooting themselves in the head as the rich get richer and those looking to blame someone else for not spending money are given a convenient excuse not to.

QUOTE (Pants Rowland @ Jun 5, 2008 -> 11:02 AM) That was Charlie Finley's A's that did that, correct? Poof, I love Google. Finley was responsible for other dubious innovations, all adopted in an effort to boost attendance for a losing team in a small market. He installed a mechanical rabbit named "Harvey" (after the imaginary rabbit in the Jimmy Stewart movie of the same name) behind home plate to deliver new balls to the ump. You can count on the fingers of one hand the number of major league stadiums that currently feature the rabbit-o-matic ball service--if you're a one-armed man. He put goats beyond the outfield fence in left field at Kansas City's Memorial Stadium to eat the grass. He adopted a live mule--"Charlie-O"--as a mascot, and once brought it into the press room to annoy reporters after it had recently been fed. In order to keep FoxSports.com free of inappropriate content, I will leave the rest of this incident to your imaginations. Finley eventually moved the team to Oakland and turned it around, producing three straight World Series from 1972 to 1974. He sold the team in 1981, but his legacy of lunacy lives on in those green and gold uniforms. The team's mascot appears on the sleeves of their jerseys as a green elephant, thereby obscuring a part of baseball history.

I believe at this point in time Broadway and Haegar are better served to pitch on a regular basis and increase their trade value in case something needs to be done later this month or next. Loaiza is most likely not going to get a substantial role with this team other than a spot start and an inning here or there. His arm should be fresh whenever it is needed. He has been written off a few times but has bounced back before. Low risk/High reward

This is a game a team that wants to be thought of as something needs to win in convincing fashion. KC has hit more than 10% of their season's home run total in this series.

If the President of the United States is from Chicago the airport will be built in Peotone with some express route to downtown Chicago and the Olympics will be granted to them. People that complain about the impact it will have on the city do not fully understand the magnitude of positive benefit it can have. To have the Olympics in smaller cities, can kill their economy. In the right situation it can be used as an economic springboard. I think Obama winning in November could do huge wonders to the Chicagoland area for the remainder of my lifetime and I am 37.

QUOTE (kane0730 @ Jun 4, 2008 -> 04:39 PM) Same line-up as last night: OC 2-4 AJ 1-4 CQ 1-2 KONG 0-4 THOME 0-4 DYE 1-3 SWISHER 1-3 CREDE 0-4 LEXI 2-4 8 hits is my call and 4-1 Sox victory.

Whatever happened to the rabbit that came out of the ground to give the pitcher a new ball? Did that ever exist or did I imagine that as a kid?

I think Maddux will pitch another year.