Harry Chappas

ugh.

Walker isn't going to do anything for these guys they are what they are. Look at the last half inning. Every Cleveland hitter saw at least 5 pitches I believe and the last two guys saw about 8 each. I have been saying for years , the Sox can not fight off good pitches, they weakly put them in play. Unclutchness looks like is making a return again this year.

Nothing has changed with this team. Carmona is wild and doppy guys feel the need to swing at the first strike they see. If nothing else get to their crappy bullpen by making him work. 3 double plays great.

QUOTE(RME JICO @ Apr 2, 2008 -> 05:07 PM) This is a must win, otherwise we might be looking at an 0-5 start. 1 game into the season and the Sox are faced with a must win already. Usually these do not come out until around mid-May.

QUOTE(Sox It To Em @ Apr 2, 2008 -> 05:03 PM) Bengals? Bengal Tiger , not referring to Cincinnati football team,

The Brewers bullpen is terrible. Their hitters are also the spitting image of the Sox with overswinging. About to blow a 5-1 lead while they had bases loaded nobody out in the top of the 7th without scoring. Flailing Fonzie bails out Torres.

QUOTE(Jenks Heat @ Apr 2, 2008 -> 09:48 AM) I bet you the line-up is the exact same. Ozzie reads Soxtalk and values my opinion greatly. Oh wait he flipped the leftie rightie thing so that Joe Borowski can come in face 7-9 to end the game and laugh his ass off as three guys that can not hit anything other than straight 94 MPH fastballs pop out and K.

QUOTE(ChiSox_Sonix @ Apr 2, 2008 -> 10:16 AM) I wouldnt be surprised at all to see Anderson in CF though after Ramirez' tough day at the plate yesterday. And to be honest, BA should have played Monday, he should play today and he should also play tomorrow I agree 100% but Ramirez should be at 2B and Anderson CF. Mark Buerhle needs the best defensive team behind him to win and this organization is continuing to show that defense is not as important as hitting. Uribe has had success agaisnt Carmona and Thursday is a day game so who knows.

QUOTE(joesaiditstrue @ Apr 2, 2008 -> 05:10 AM) anyone find an early lineup card posted anywhere for this game yet? i wonder if BA will get a chance vs carmona, and uribe sitting on the bench in favor of lexi? I bet you the line-up is the exact same.

The fact that the so called ideal number two hitter had a simply awful at-bat and that Thome couldn't elevate the ball along with the fact that the Sox got themselves a new reliever that can't throw stirkes is what killed them. The 9th inning Joe Crede made me phyiscally ill. They did show some heart and Masset looked good. Buerhle needed to pitch ove the Cabrerra f'up. Those calls were not that bad, not good but not as bad as the Joe Borowski 9th inning show.

Mike North was going on about this. If Alexi Ramirez is somehow ahead of Brian Anderson in any capacity of CF I really think Guillen will look for any reason to screw Brian Anderson. Oh and Carlos Quintin. Defense is obviously not a concern to this organization. A couple of things facing him, huge crowd on the road Opening Day, Cy Young type pitcher, cold, whatever. If this happens I may have to start to agree with the pessimissim on this board.

Crede stated the other day that the Sox have yet to even make an offer. There is a part of me that thinks that Crede would sign for a fair price if it was offered and Boras can't stop him. It is up to Crede to decide what to do. I think they let Fields tear it up in AAA and move him for an top level prospect.

Have the Sox won a game with your snappy thread titles?

On CSN Sportsnite Guillen thought that it my be serious. It actually sounded a tad like wishful thinking on Ozzie's part.

QUOTE(Gregory Pratt @ Mar 27, 2008 -> 04:37 PM) Yeah, but it's not a big deal. Every General Manager and Manager with a son who wants this gets it. Wasn't Mike Piazza drafted in like the 61st round because he was Tommy Lasorda's godson?

QUOTE(Tony82087 @ Mar 27, 2008 -> 11:58 AM) I wish I knew more of the back stories with the girls but I really don't. Two of the girls I used to be pretty close with, but fell out of touch after high school. The other two were just acquaintances that I bump into from time to time. The two girls I knew pretty well both had boob jobs, and both came from pretty wealthy families. I really don't know what compelled them to do it either, as both were pretty attractive girls, and really didn't seem to have confident issues. It almost seems like they could have done it because they just had the money laying around and thought it sounded like a good idea, which could be really sad. One of the other ones was a nose job, which I actually did understand more. She was a pretty attractive girl, but the bump in her nose was very noticeable. From what I heard, there was a Seinfeld-esc moment where a guy said "You would be so hot if your nose wasn't so big", or something along those lines. She had the money(again, wealthy family) and I guess it made her feel better, or more confident. There are hundreds of thousands of better ways to spend money then cosmetic surgery, but I suppose if you have it to spend, and it really is going to make you more confident about yourself, I don't see a huge problem with it. I can see one huge problem with it, see the title of this thread.

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Mar 27, 2008 -> 12:28 PM) So much for Khabi and the offense showing up when we needed it... Last night had nothing to do with Khabi.

I still can not comprehend how defense could be the focal point of this team over offense. To think that the Adams brothers are thought of as more important than Jason Williams either tells me that I do not understand hockey or the Blackhawks are trying to win every game 1-0 or 2-1.

The end result is sad but the situation itself just goes to show how society is simply becoming more twisted. Unless there is undue pain or deformity what is the purpose of these procedures. The beautification of society is really going over board.

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Mar 27, 2008 -> 10:00 AM) With 5 inning-Danks, Floyd, and a scary Contreras in the starting rotation, I want a guy who can give us 3-4-5 innings in the pen. I don't want to blow up all of these guys because one situational 6th inning guy pitched better in spring training and late last year. We need the guy who makes the most sense to the set up of the team. Even if it isn't Masset, we need a guy who can suck up innings in case starters falter. If Wasserman wants to be that guy, he had better stretch out that arm. I get think feeling that Danks and Floyd will not be pulled on a regular basis and it could get ugly as they are left out there to figure it out. It is my feeling that Ozzie will not kill the bullpen to cover their asses. They will each will throw 100 pitches no matter what. If it is 3 innigns or 5 they will be out there.

Why does this team even have spring training? As KW and ozzie said at Soxfest you can not judge outfield play, infield play and pitching because of the conditions. First off, why hold spring training there than but more importantly I think they build their team in February and spring training is irrelevant for 23 of the 25 guys that are going to make the team. If Jerry Owens hits .090 with an OBP of .125 they would say it is only spring training. RIGHT NOW due to Quintin's health and the inexperienced pitching staff Swisher LF / Anderson CF is to obvious as compared to Quintin LF / Swisher CF. Swisher should lead-off everyday and Ozzie should put his best team out there. Baseball is a game of unpredictable averages the only given is Ichiro will go 2 for 3 off of Mark Buerhle. Yet Guillen insists on changing the line-up daily and moving everyone around. In 2005, the line-up when Pods was healthy Pods-Iguchi-Everett/Thomas-Konerko-Dye-AJ/Widger-Rowand-Crede-Uribe It rarely ever changed. Now this season we will again have the revolvoing door line-up based on who is pitching. Yet they still can not hit LHP with all of these new fangaled line-ups.

Man do the Brewers have a busload of talented young players. If their pitching can stay healthy and Capuano does anything they will walk away with that division.

I think in the end Ramirez is a better player without even taking money into account than Fukodome and I said this in December.

Where is the ridicule on Sheets for giving up a grand slam to Omar Infante. Sorry I think Floyd will be average this year with his ups and downs.

The fact that Ramireez is getting a ton of time all of a sudden in CF scares the crap out of me. I am thinking there is a platoon of Owens and Ramirezin CF in the works and the thought of Ramirez leading off makes sense as it would be stupid.