Harry Chappas

While I berated Uribe in the game thread and Hall is bad, the trio of Cabrerra, Thome and Konerko are what is keeping this team in teh ugh mode. A good AB by THome when it was 7-3 the other night could have changed the complexion of that game. Cabrerra has shown nothing on offense or defense.

Todd Jones just made them look silly.

Sorry Cabrerra does not impress we with his defense nor his offense thus far.

QUOTE (fathom @ Apr 11, 2008 -> 09:10 PM) This will be a better team when Wasserman is called up for MacDougal. McDougal flat sucks. Hopefully that call has been made already.

OK AJ ISN'T PLAYING BECAUSE THERE IS A GAME AT NOON TOMORROW, IT IS AGAINST A RHP AND IT IS COLD. He can not play 162 games. Anything in the air is a strike yet the Sox pitchers can not get it close enough. Clete f***ing Thomas, come on. McDougal, Uribe and the 2-4 are embarassing right now. Man they are giving away runs now.

Toby Hall crushed that ball, enough venting, sorry, back to work.

There are 5 guys in the line-up right now that are hitting under .207.

That Uribe at bat was simply sad. This is the traditional cold weather corseball approach we had grow to know and love. Why is it the opponents can handle the cold and the Sox just run away and hide. This game should have ended the Tigers bullpen for the series. Instead........well let's see that chemistry that Hawk stated was the best he had seen in his 85 years of baseball. Inge simply kills this team.

In 1988 parked on 37th street while still legal, I and a lady friend entertained ourselves nicely while waiting out a rain with a 12 pack of Old Style and yada, yada, yada, the rest is as they say, history. BTW the neighborhood was not as cheery back then.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Apr 11, 2008 -> 01:22 PM) Todd Jones appreciates that Forgive me, I was on a roll.

QUOTE (CubKilla @ Apr 11, 2008 -> 11:47 AM) I understand that also. You can tell just how much of his terrestrial show was commercials during MTT. MTT starts at 6 and is usually over around 8:30-8:45 even with the Sirius commercials included. And yes, Artie has his moments. But "real guy" mentality? If talking about gambling, drinking, whoring, and the Yankees makes Artie a "real guy" then yes, he brings this to the table. But most "real guys" would know where their bread is buttered and not call-in sick every so often after playing 5 comedy clubs over the weekend at $6000 an appearance and whine about it. The thing is that Artie's bread and butter is the comedy club circuit not he Stern show. The Stern show is a great promotional tool for him but I do not think it would pay the bills like the comedy circuit would long term. He is kind of caught on what to do there. I personally think he could do his own show and would be pretty good at it as he has gotten better on the Stern show. The attributes you pointed to above are exactly what I am saying were missing as compared to the attributes of Howard and Fred. Sometimes it is good to have someone rip on American Idol/Dancing with the Stars, know about sports (not just the Yankees) and counter what Howard and Robin like as they share many of the same intreests.

QUOTE (CubKilla @ Apr 11, 2008 -> 09:19 AM) Replaying the Monday show after Artie got physical with a show staffer again and walked out was a joke. What the hell am I paying $12.95 a month for? I guess I'm one of the few that thinks Howard has been mailing it in since, "The Revolution." A 4-day work week, a weeks vacation seemingly every second or third week, 9 out of 10 guests are of little or no consequence, etc. While never a big fan of Bubba the Love Sponge, he works longer hours, does 2 shows a day (terrestrial and satellite), works a 5-day work week, has limited vacations, etc. And at least with Ferrall, I can guarantee myself entertaining sports talk minus the American Idol and Dancing with the Stars BS which, I think most Stern fans, can care less about. As far as Artie goes, WAAAA!!!!! Cry me a river fat ass. WAAAA!!!!! The thing is, is that his show is almost commercial free now as oppossed to the 20 minute commercial breaks when he was on KROK. While his show has some guests that are pretty meaningless he still has about 4-5 hours of daily entertaining programming which is pretty incredible. Arte brings a real guy mentality into the studio that was missing. He seems like normal dude as comapred to what Jackie was. He is normal and pretty funny as well.

The odd thing is when Gallardo comes back they could use Bush in that role as he once was a control type of guy.

Their bullpen has nobody that would most certainly make the Sox bullpen NOBODY! As a matter of fact McDougal or Thorton would be their top set-up candidates. Doug Jones sucks!

Howrad was why I got Sirius and baseball is why I got XM, different cars BTW. The music on the sattions is ok. For whatever reason there seems to not be a real good mix and the narrow focus of the stations seems to limit the amount of songs you hear. The commercial free makes it really worth it. It is something that is really worth the price if you are in your car at all.

Detroit is getting eaten alive by righties. Buerhle getting pushed back three days??????? Buerhle and Danks back-to-back is scary. I think this sets up Floyd being bumped in the Yanks series if need be.

QUOTE (Texsox @ Apr 10, 2008 -> 10:14 PM) I was straining for a topic that was totally new, that had not already been discussed. I was not trying to trivilize anything, and actually it would be an interesting topic. A small ball, bunt style team would want slower grass and slope the lines in, a hard hitting, power team wants them slanted away, short, and fast. The "fresh" remark rings very true with me. When I was strictly a mod in SL&P, if the front page started to get stale, I worked to toss some new topics out there. We should be creating some urgency for people to log in each day, in fact several times per day. I think if you miss for a day, you should have to scroll back to the previous page to start "catching up". I sit at a computer all day 5 days a week so I am pretty tuned in to most of the topics here. The problem is that in a catch-all thread there could be a topic that could gain legs but does not for whatever reason. This happened a-lot in the offseason with FA signings that were overlooked or not posted. For instance, I did not know Cory Patterson was on the Reds and the royal screwing of Kyle Lohse did not have topics and while they may have been in a catch-all or something I think these would have been valid threads. I think any daily Sox story should be given it's own thread simply for the sake of posting something that may spark a conversation. New posts or infrequent visitors will get scared off by the catch-all threads. The Ozzie Guillen/Phil Couzzi story is still draging on with ESPN Radio's Mike & Mike while there is no talk of it here. The size of the Catch-all threads is not the probelm but if you are off the site for a few days you can really miss somehting as oppossed to having to scroll through a page or two to see topics which if they were nonsense have already passed by. BTW, I sent a PM to Jason I beleive back when these started out and have never liked them so this is not a recent thing. The thing I am trying most to emphasize is that this site is where I come on the internet and it used to do a great job of keeping me informed about everything rather easily now it is much tougher.

The drive home was a replay of Monday's show, ugh. As far as relevance is concerned Howard's show on Sirius is amazing and Arte Lang is a big reason why.

QUOTE (Texsox @ Apr 10, 2008 -> 04:00 PM) I think you've made some good points there. If you would please clarify something, do you mean if someone has yet another idea on Crede and Fields to start another thread, or if someone has a new idea about the height of the infield grass? It is my understanding, and someone correct me, we were trying to avoid a page of 20 threads and 6 were on Crede/Fields 5 were KW is an idiot 3 KW is genious, and the rest a smattering of anything. 5 threads on Crede v. Fields could be grouped as could the KW sucks threads. Funny thing, these threads are started anyway and are forced to be grouped together. If the size of the forum due to new threads is the issue, than that is understandable. If you search through a Catch-all thread I am sure there could be one or two new threads generated from these a day. The fact that there is a thread with 284 pages is ridiculous. The fact that there are maybe two new threads a day causes the board to become stale. I believe many posters maybe look at the most recent page of the catch-all and that is it. If you are not on the board daily you could miss ten pages of a possible catch-all thread and a good topic may be buried. I also think the fact that the daily periodicals are not linked is also a detriment to new ideas on the board. As for the size of the infield grass I will ignore this thought and believe I misunderstood the intent of your comment. But for argument sake there is probably a legitmate post about this at a cub site because their infield grass courtesy of the Sox groundskeeper is making them look bad thus far. I guess this could go in catch-all horiculture thread under SLaM.

Superman agrees

QUOTE (tonyho7476 @ Apr 10, 2008 -> 11:10 AM) This was crazy stuff today. Artie was crying when he left the studio. Artie Lange walked out on the Howard Stern Show after an argument with his personal assistant on the air, and now the question remains whether he will ever return. The argument between Lange, who joined the show permanently in 2001, and his assistant of 2 years, Teddy, quickly escalated from a simple squabble over travel accommodations. As the spat continued, Lange became enraged and physically lashed out at Teddy, but the physical confrontation was apparently diffused by other members in the studio. When Lange returned, he said Teddy would be "dead" had he reached him and that he'd be in jail. Stern said he cannot condone Lange's actions, but Artie (who's been prone to such outbursts) said he can't guarantee he won't act out in the future. Artie then offered his resignation, and Stern accepted but told Lange to leave and cool off. Teddy returned to the studio several minutes later and said there was overreacting from everyone. Howard Stern and producer Gary Dell'Abate said they "did not know what to make of it all." You know what blows, my satallite was not working this morning and I missed it. I am not sure what was going on as traffic blew, ugh. Maybe I'll catch it on the way home.

I beleive this forum went downhill when everyone was expected to go elsewhere for general information and then everything was thrown into a catch-all thread. Threads with 260 or even 26 pages do no good. What is wrong with starting a new thread for each new thought? It either gains legs and grows or falls to the next page. When I originally signed on to this site there were links to every Sox related story for the day and then a thread. I came here for one stop shopping. Game threads used to have a Play-by-Play feel to them now if you ask for this, someone will link you to MLB.com or some other site that may update you in 3 minutes with the correct information. Instead of a new thread a good topic is discussed in the game thread and never heard from again. The fact that the Sox have struggled has this site turning into a dump on the Sox and an advesarial mood and the content is really decreasing.

Oh Jim Thome.

QUOTE (FLsouthsider @ Apr 9, 2008 -> 07:30 AM) However, pardon me if I think it's a long-term mistake to squeeze families and casual fans, turn them upside down and shake every last nickel out of their pockets before they leave the stadium. If you have ever gone anywhere as a family, the zoo, movies, monster truck racing, church, etc. The price you pay is outrageous. Family of Four Monster Truck Racing total spent $150 (tickets $80, parking $15, food for four $55) Matinee Movies $60 (tickets $32, food $28) if you thought ballpark food was expensive, the movies cost more and it is terrible Zoo ($110 annual membership, food same as the ballpark, parking is like $8) As for beer prices, I got no real problem with it and I drink anywhere from 0 to 7 a game. The JR cheap thing is so overblown it is sickening.

Anyone think Illitch had more of a say in the Cabrerra deal that Dombroski lead on during the interview Sunday.