Harry Chappas

I really think Illitch really forced the Cabrerra trade on Dombrowski..

Quintin with a checap RBI, Right? Wild Pitch

Nice Dye, that AB and Konerko's were looking bad at first.

Eddings was not really at fault it is windy but not that bad, same with Rogers, Eddings was the only guy that judged the ball correctly maybe by accident.

Jeff Cox and Paul Eddings are really f'ing with Cabrerra.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Apr 13, 2008 -> 02:36 PM) Whaddya mean unafraid of the bat? The problem is, the Tigers hitters can't touch this stuff! He seems to not trust his stuff (ie the first three innings Monday) and tries to be to cute. If he just reared back and threw and didn't think, he'd be fine, like today.

OOOOPA

Thome needed the day off. Would've liked to see Anderson or Ramirez in CF Uribe's defense is good enough to keep running him out there

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.