Harry Chappas

Wanna hear about a guy screwing up an organization. Jon Garland was a nice chip that had to be traded for a guy because the guy making $4M+ can't do his job. Why the bus has never even set it's sites on Uribe while the league minumum rookie is costing the Sox seasons is yet another example of a double standard on this team. Partying with the "honies" is worse than spending a winter going to court and having the team wonder if the SS would be in prison, the buffet line or starting. Thinking of last spring really ticks me off. Anderson is the best defensive CF and because he was about as productive as Juan Uribe considering the $$$ invested he is crushed with the bus. I will point out again that I not joking when I say this organization puts winter ball ahead of spring training (see Nick Masset in Mexico, the Venazuela uprising, Anderson winter 2006, 2007 & 2008, and Joey Cora v. Jerry Owens) and hte fact that last spring the regular hitters were gettting all of their at-bats and pitching in B games or at various Tucson Park District Leagues. 2005 lead this organaztion to beleive they are smarter then they really are.

QUOTE(Athomeboy_2000 @ Mar 12, 2008 -> 08:52 AM) Based on a mix of MSNBC and CNN delegate counts, Obama has roughly 1400 to Hillary 1243.5. So, that is a difference of 156.5 with 9 delegates in CO yet to be assigned and that was an Obama blowout. If Hillary wins 65% of the remaining PLEDGED delegates, she pulls to within .5 delegates. That's not 65% of the vote, it's 65% of the DELEGATES. THat's darn near impossible. If she "only" wins Penn by 10% of the delegates (83-68, aka net 15), she needs to win 73-75% of the remaining delegates to win. It just wont happen. She needs to back out now and let the party heal for a strong run in November. SHE DOESN'T CARE ABOUT THE PARTY. She can now set he sites on Govenor of NY.

QUOTE(Athomeboy_2000 @ Mar 11, 2008 -> 04:51 PM) Sorry, did who have his own show? hood or Goff? Here is the history of both: Goff has been for several years a producer for BandB. He occasionally hosts his own weekend show. Hood: He started as a producer for BandB. After a while he moved up to his own show late at night and then to a show right after "The Wise guys". I believe he was let go, or his contract wasn't renewed, by WSCR. He then left and works with ESPN1000. I dont know his role there since I rarely listen. He joked once with a Score producer to go work for SportingNews Radio because they payed better. I honestly thought hood would go there when he left the Score. Goof thanks. Hodd is good to.

QUOTE(SoxFan562004 @ Mar 11, 2008 -> 04:21 PM) OK, let me rephrase this, I agree that BA is a no-brainer choice for CF at that point, I mean have the Sox discussed this at all publicly. I know you can't go off of what happens in ST, but BA was playing LF while Swisher was in CF. That was a head scratcher for me, even if it is ST They know Anderson is far and away a better CF than anyone on that roster. He has nothing to prove in ST defensively. What they did not know was how good Swisher is in CF thus giving him the time there. Same with that Bourgoise. Anderson has been jacked around after being handed the job. This organization really turned quickly on him after he strruggled and they watched Mackowiak make a fool of himself then handed the job to Erstad saying they need a number 2 hitter while Iguchi was still on the team. As far as I know anything bad about Anderson's personality has actually come from the team and not really external media unlike many players that are trashed. Anderson chirped about the honies and what not but that was cool until he failed. Think also of the pressure he was under replacing the icon that is Aaron Rowand NOTE I DID NOT USE GREEN. I'd like to see him get a shot as I think he could be a real asset.

QUOTE(Athomeboy_2000 @ Mar 11, 2008 -> 03:21 PM) I dont know, btu i did hear an off-air conversation here about the "upward mobility" of producers of various shows. Basically, no North producer has gone on to do anything while 2 BandB producers have gone on to be the sports director (cant think of the exact title).. and several have gone on to have their own shows. Being a North producer can be a dead end. He was MANY years ago. He got his own show that used to air after Norths afternoon show (the Wise Guys) and has since moved to ESPN 1000. I thinkyou are thinking of Jason Goff or Matt Abatacoloa. Both of them are GREAT producers and a lot of fun to be around. I think it is Jason Goff he is pretty good. Did he have his own show or was he on ESPN 1000 at one itme?

QUOTE(SoxFan562004 @ Mar 11, 2008 -> 04:09 PM) If Anderson continues on this roll and makes the team, do they put Swisher in LF and Anderson in CF? Would that be their best defensive option at that point? I pointed out in the Anderson thread that is the best option in my mind to compete this year. I like Anderson's all-around game much better then Owens and even Quintin at this time.

QUOTE(SoxWS05 @ Mar 11, 2008 -> 03:30 PM) Anderson just hit a HR. He's really making a case for himself this spring. I still think their best team is Swisher leading off and playing left and Anderson in center. Neither Quintin or Owens has produced enough in their professional careers to make me believe otherwise. Darin Erstad really f***ed this team up.

What is funny about what you wrote is that she knows nothing about sports but is yet a producer on that show. I like Fred Hubner and will listen becasue of him. Why did the ND chick leave she was a drag to. Why does that show keep producers/personalities that know nothing about sports. Is Jonathan Hood the Boers and Bernstein producer. I think that is him. He works well with them although he doesn't chime in much.

QUOTE(Tony82087 @ Mar 11, 2008 -> 01:37 PM) I am posting a lot in this thread all the sudden, but I need to get caught up, I feel so behind! Another idea that I thought about after getting fully caught up. Granted, I don't know what kind of exposer Rousseau's crew had to radiation or EM, but I think they were not "infected" as much as they were "time shifted" like Desmond and Winkowski. I wonder, then, if Alex has been her constant this whole time on the island, and that is why she didn't end up like the rest of her crew. I think I am pretty hip to Lost but maybe I forgot this but was Alex born on the island or brought over with the boat. I think the sickness is related to the same thing Desmond suffered. It would jsut make sense to be and not have to be another whole minor plot deliniation. If Alex was born on the island she would be an exception to every other pregnant woman.....oh wait if she was pregnant before getting ot the island she'd be ok. Oh the rules. Also what is so funny about Ben asking if the rabbit had a number on it?

QUOTE(Tony82087 @ Mar 10, 2008 -> 09:37 PM) The only reason I think it could be in question is Ben if clearly off the island in the flash forwards (working with Sayid). Granted, Ben has been on/off the island this whole time, but I just got the sense that him being in Germany was sort of a long term deal. But we pretty much know Locke never gets off, then there are people like Sawyer who really seem to not have any desire to leave, along with minor characters like Rose/Bernard. Unless the whole island goes to s***, I would have to believe there are still people there, and they told the "six" to never speak of them again. Sayid could have been back on the island when he met with Ben....... There are still more on the island that for some reason do not get off. You find out this season why do not get off. Next season entails whey they '6' want to get back. The final season entails what happens when they get there.

QUOTE(RockRaines @ Mar 11, 2008 -> 09:42 AM) We would be lucky to get any player for Crede right now, I dont know how anyone is saying we should get a legit starter or prospect. He's not even the best 3B available on the market right now. Its ridiculous how much this board overrated Crede. We are going to be lucky to get a player that has even a slim chance at making the mlb roster. I am not a Joe Crede fan and hope to see Fields soon but right now Crede IF HEALTHY is better than Fields. After this season if Fields improves his defense at AAA than I take Fields. I also belive Inge is not a better option than Crede. Inge is 3 years older than Crede and that Inge contract is not really benefical to anyone.

QUOTE(Al Lopez's Ghost @ Mar 11, 2008 -> 09:21 AM) Service time for free agency is determined by number of days on the major league roster. Crede keeping Josh in the minors would delay Josh's progress to eventual free agency. As well as arbitration. That was what I thought. I am really struggling to understand why Crede at third if healthy is a bad thing as compared to Fields. There are plenty of players that are rushed and fizzle. While I am not sure but how many players fail because they were kept in minors to long......I guess there is no answer to this as it is all speculative. A healthy Crede will be more productive this year then Fields.

If Crede is healthy he will stay here and play in front of Fields. I have heard media types most recently on the CSN Chicaog tribune show talk about releasing Crede and crap like that. Fields could use a little more work in the minors to tighten his game. How exactly would this hurt him? If he wins the AAA triple crown then maybe I was wrong. Also how does another year AAA affect his service time toward free agency? If we get Fields for an extra year while playing Crede this year I am all for it.

QUOTE(GreatScott82 @ Mar 10, 2008 -> 03:24 PM) Owens reached base 4 times today... and stole 2 bases... in a split squad game... Jerry Owens is my boy!! I think it was B game. Those of the one's where Thome would lead off every inning and most of the regular players worked on their skills last year. If he can put up a .350 OBP that would be ideal. I know that is wishful thinking at this point.

QUOTE(elrockinMT @ Mar 7, 2008 -> 02:22 PM) Am I wrong or is Massett showing good stuff this spring? He has at least decent stuff same old song as other Sox pitchers just needs to do something with it. Liefer bad baserunning. BA K's seems to do this every game. 2-0 D'Backs although it sounded like a mix of hits and bad defense.

Farmer seems to talk just to get noise in there. They sounded better than Farmer/Singleton. This is much better already.

Not to turn this into anti-cub but Vegas hedges their numbers based on the fact that people will play them regardless of the true expected result. Same thing with a lot of west coast football especially USC as money is put on them regardless of the spread. In reality the Sox and cubs probably a lot closer than this.

First off why do you get to post two game threads. Also please inform the folks that this is the game that Sox fans have waited for since the tragic news of late 2005. WSCR is covering this one with and is the only spring training game with Stone. Enjoy

I originally thought it was just an ok episode but I gotta tell ya Juliet reallly does it for me. I used to think Kate was all that but Juliet....I was not sure whay she couldn't go all Kung Fu on Charolette. Ben is great and I am really liking the dead pan humor, "see you at dinner" was the best. Right up there with Thomas Magnum, Norm (from Cheers not Norm McDonald) and Kramer as best television personalities in my television watching life. Also if you know who the Oceanic 6 are that episode was great because you then need to try and think how and why they come to be well at least four of them as the last two are easy. Charles Widmore you should have saw coming from the last episode. Michael's name is in the opening credits and he has an episode about him this season so he has to appear somehow at some time in some place I would suppose. After really looking at it though know you see why the boat folks are bad and it is not in an endangering way to the Losties but they are dangerous to the Ben style of life. The thing though is why would Penny not want to be associated with them.....................+ In the end I though t it was pretty good. Off to read the Blogs.

QUOTE(Tony82087 @ Mar 6, 2008 -> 09:39 AM) Fields doesn't have anything left to do in AAA. He is well beyond AAA. There is no reason to think in 500 PA's Josh can't hit 30 HR's this season. You don't put that in the minors because Joe Crede has 1 year left on his deal. It's an incredibly short-sided move. Josh should be the front runner for the 1st base job. He is younger, healthier, has a much longer future with the Sox, and in a short time could be a better overall player than Joe, if he isn't already. If healthy Crede is the better player and should be traded if it nets you something. Younger players are blocked all of the time and Fields may be blocked this year. It is not going to hurt him or the team if Crede is healthy it'd be nice to see what he could do this year but a healthy Crede is better than Fields at this point in time so you do not give Crede away just so Fields can play. Fields may hit 30 HR and K 160 times this year and make 20 errors He could do this at AAA this year and next year hit 30 HR K 100 times and make 12 errors while Crede produces for the Sox this year and nets a pick or two next June at worst. Josh Fields is not a sure thing and Crede is a better player at this time.

McDougal will be given a shot to come north regardless of his spring. I think Wasserman will really have to outpitch Massett to make the team. Uribe is really getting close to a DFA.

QUOTE(NorthSideSox72 @ Mar 6, 2008 -> 12:41 PM) The FL and MI situation is getting a little uglier. A senator from FL is telling Howard Dean that the DNC should either accept the original results, or pay for a do-over. Dean says a do-over is all good, but that the DNC will not pay for it. What kills me here is that the voters in FL and MI, and the rest of the nation indirectly, are now paying for the poor decision making of whomever in FL and MI decided to move their primaries up too far. My question is, who are those people, and if they still have jobs, why? They will need to come to a decision pretty quick. As it stands now, the re-addition of 2 big primaries probably helps Clinton the most, since she is behind. I have a feeling they will end up re-doing both primaries, and splitting the costs somehow. And that changes the math a bit. I could be wrong but wasn't it determined by the govenors of the respective states? Jed Bush says hi.

QUOTE(joeynach @ Mar 6, 2008 -> 02:06 PM) Why was Gavin scratched from his start today. Flavum saw him throw up ---- see his post above

With Quintin and Owens hurt Anderson is really getting an opportuntiy to improve his status within the organization. I still get the feeling he starts in CF and Swisher in LF and Bourgoise (sp?) and Ramirez are your backup outfielders as Ramirez is doing nothing to prove he needs to be sent down and both of these guys add speed and can play vital positions.

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Mar 6, 2008 -> 08:23 AM) That is just awesome. When Hillary talks about another Bush term in office, she must be talking about if she gets elected. She would absolutely start a 5th term consecutive of lies, deceit and corruption, in the Presidency, because she is already doing it in her campaign! The thing that really pisses me off is that this specific lie is new but the idea of her being a liar, cheater and self righteous is overlooked and should be the foremost media point regarding this campaign. She is turning it ugly because she was getting smoked. The media will gloss over this and move on to something new. Her smear campaign may in the end give McCain the White house and she does not care yet the dolts that are the Democratic party will not mess with the machine. If she beats Obama the GOP will trash her and Big Bad John will be the president. Then Obama can take a run at him or whoever the GOP put up in 2012.