Harry Chappas

They'll let him off the hook.

Baker fell behind Erstad but he just had to swing. Iguchi 4 pitch walk. Thome ball 1, hit, 1st and 3rd 1 out Come on Dye

Crede for A-Rod right now

Who would get better value right now from a team that is selling at the trade deadline Gio Gonzalez or Freddy Garcia? Bad teams looking to move players and contracts have no need for a Freddy Garcia now a young leftie may get you something.

QUOTE(RockRaines @ May 25, 2007 -> 12:33 PM) They just couldnt move the Count up a start. The rotation is no longer a 1-5 situation as the season has already started. Plus its now RLRLR After the Doubleheader they had the choice to start either last Tuesday and bring the Tuesday guy back Sunday which should have been Danks. It was RLRLR just it was RRLRL which turns to RLRLR one time through.

This move last week will cause Danks to pitch in Minnesota Monday and face Santana, again.....instead of facing Kazmir at home. I am not sure if the Sox looked at this when making the decision earlier this week but shouldn't it impact the process, unless they push Danks back with the off day which doesn't make sense either. I get the feeling this organization will just choose to start forfeiting games against Sabathia and Santana. THIS IS NOT A SLAM ON DANKS BY THE WAY!!!!! I just feel you should give the guy a little better shot to win. Unless the organization thinks Danks is better suited to face the divisional rival then Contreras.

Wonder if Cheney shot the bird down?

QUOTE(DBAH0 @ May 25, 2007 -> 09:52 AM) Actually I think it would probably cost more to get Bailey than Crawford. He'll be a stud power pitcher, and he should be the Reds main "untouchable" player right now. I was being sarcastic when I suggested him (or just pipedreaming). I know I just like to talk about Homer's whenever possible.

QUOTE(retro1983hat @ May 25, 2007 -> 09:20 AM) Even if the people on the ship are the "bad" guys, wouldn't you take your chances knowing someone from the outside world is coming. That there is an actual way off the island. One other thing I have thought recently is: Why are they always finding new areas of the island. If you were stuck for 90 days and every few days discovered a new hatch or something, wouldn't you send out a team to explore every inch of the island just in case there is something like .. oh I don't know, a radio tower. Like when they found the cable going into the water in the first year, no one thought to go in the water and look, or follow the cable into the jungle. Same thing with the station that had the TVs, where Eko died. You wouldn't want to hang out there? Even if it took a month, you would want to track the shoreline around the entire island. There was a tunnel that lead to the tv hatch that could have been explored as well. I think other then Locke most of the Losties are afraid of leaving the beach for fear of what is out there. The thing with Locke was he was collaborating Ben's story. At that point in time I guess jack did not have a choice. Time to watch season 2 again over the summer.

QUOTE(DBAH0 @ May 25, 2007 -> 09:33 AM) Homer Bailey please. You know Krivsky loves his defensive players and lots and lots of pitching. Joe Crede would actually be an interesting name to consider here. Edwin Encarnacion has been down in AAA for a while, and they wouldn't have to use Freel at 3rd base for cover. So I could see them having an interest in Joe if he was made available for trade. Griffey's obviously the major candidate when you're looking at the Reds roster. I wonder if they'd also think about Todd Coffey as well, considering he just got demoted to AAA because they've overworked him so much (great bullpen management by Jerry Narron here). Homer Bailey is as untouable as you can get. Didn't the Reds have the last Homer, no not Hawk Harrelson, Homer Bush. It would take to get Bailey the same as it would to get Crawford.

The Sox haven't played a winning team since May 10th, possibly even May 6th.

It depends on the job, that is his point. When I drove a fork lift, it was a whole different atmosphere than white collar work. Sports are as blue collar a mentality as there is. F** was a nice word compared to the other things you could be called. Also how many jobs require 25 men about the same age to esentially live with one another for 9 months. The point is sports figures are not role models and do nothing to help socity other than what society chooses to take from them. They are combative by nature that is what makes them successful. Jay and the rest want them to be passive, that is not an option. There needs to be a middle ground and it will find itself as the Pac Man Jones and Elijah Dukes should find out. To think AJ and Buerhle can not handle their situation or Guillen shouldn't swear is silly to me and not very newsworthy.

This thread will not go away and neither will the Greg Walker ripfest. The reason the White Sox will struggle with this lineup is because they can not make a pitcher work. As good as Gaudin may be, there is no way he should have had under 80 pitches through 7 innings. The guy faced 18 batters through 6 innings. They simply do not make a pitcher work. If there isn't a homerun hit, this team will struggle. A pitcher only needs to be near the zone and they will swing. Cintron, Ozuna, Mackowiak, Erstad and to a degree AJ, Uribe and Crede are not pure power hitters. Yet the appraoch that they all have is to swing at everything close. Sometimes it works out but most of the time it doesn't. The ysit on pitches and can get away with it sometimes other times they look stupid. In a two inning span yesterday there were 3 strike-outs, foul out to the catcher, pop up on the infield and 5 hooper to second. Some balls were hit hard early but that passed after the third and did not come back until the 8th. I think they will hit Boonser and whoever they face Saturday. I would think the thing to do when facing Tampa would be to work the starter and get him out of there to get to the bullpen. The White Sox can not do this at all. A pitcher that is on is guaranteed to go 7 innings. I will use Gaudin, De Los Santos, Colon, Durbin, Elarton, Oldalis Perez as an example. These guys were able to put it cruise control against the White Sox because their appraoch was not good once the starter established himself. Look at the appraoch Oakland took. They hardly swung early in the count and took a ton of strikes. The White Sox may take strike one but then that is it, time to swing away. Good pitches are not taken for strike two or fouled off with two strikes. They are put in play, usually as a seven hopper or pop up on the infield. This is not Walker's fault these are the Chicago White Sox and what they all have always been in their careers.

I read the Spoliers and knew it was the future. What I thought would happen was that Jack was all f***ed up because he let Sayid, Jin and the dentist (forget his name) die and Ben was right. When they were alive I was really fired up. My main problem is the stupidity of Jack to not listen to Locke and always believe he is right. I am not sure if this is intentional though. I felt good for Rousseau and Hugo. The van thing was kind of corny but you gotta like Hugo. I forgot I was watching tv during the episode. I am not sure we are suppossed to even know who the dead guy is right now and it will be interesting to see how it plays out. Awesome show.

The guy is ususally on the money and not an over the top writer. The Downey article the other day is the stuff that is just stupid.

QUOTE(bmags @ May 24, 2007 -> 01:53 AM) so, I went to this game. My bro (damen) kindly paid for me. This is the second game I've seen this season before I'm off to mizzou for the summer. In 2 games, 18 innings, I've seen the sox score 1 run. That one run was walked in. These pitchers? No, not Santana or Sabathia or Bonderman, De Los Santos and Gaudin. On top of that we were sitting in the bleachers, next to the most obnoxious idiot fans I've ever sat next to, and behind us the most benign chatter about childrens movies nonstop for the entire game, and when the entire bleachers were yelling to throw the home run ball back, I just put my head down and thought "I just may have decided to go to the worst white sox game ever"/ I gotta agree with you on the atmosphere in the outfield. Monday was the preoccupation of the wave and then last night was just irritating. It being some sort of Country Music night may ahve helped. Garland struggled all night and with the offense not hitting, there was no way Garland shoud have come out in the 7th. Also Hall should have hit and AJ should have scored that was terrible. Ozzie will not ph his back-up catcher for fear of losing him later in the game. If it is a walk-off situation he will use him. Real bad loss and with three (I do not think Boof is good) good pitcher s coming up may be a rought few days here on Soxtalk. The Indians have beat Santana twic ethis year. The Sox need to figure something out fast aginst leftie's.

Should be good. I find the spoilers help you understand what is going on much better. Need to decide if I hit the Cell or watch Lost...............

ESPN as a whole has gone downhill. The programming in general blows. I am not sure if there was a shift in focus or what but it has become more tabloid across the board in recent years. It began when they had the original programming which was good (Earnhart, Knight, Alabama football) but the football series was a wreck. How about the Bonds reality series. The Dice-K and Clemens coverage are well over the top. When Clemens was returning to Houston this not nearly as publicized. I see the Boston and New York match-up coverage to a degree as they are worth watching but the coverage outside of the game can get outrageous. The thing that irritates me is the coverage that they force for their programming. The NHL had the coverage on ESPN like the NBA does now. The NBA is covered on ESPN and ABC so the inundate the programming with NBA coverage and the NHL gets minimal coverage at best. Also if there is a program that they force on one network they put crap on the other (i.e. Figure Skating or Poker). The personalities that they are giving more air time to on their shows are also geared toward the tabloid point of view. Mariotti, Michael Irvin, Steve Phillips, etc. I actually like the NBA analysis, Stephem Smith included. With ideas that are put out there to garner controversy rather than fact. Case in point Phillips stating Cliff was the best leftie in baseball at the start of last year. Kruk shakes his head and says Johan Santana, next subject. Phillips is a complete moron with a point of view that should not be allowed to be expressed. Charles Barley is incredibly entertaining and that is what ESPN is looking for, yet Barkley makes good sense. I watch Comcast but they seem to be geared toward the cubs. I am not sure if that is the negative media thoughts I posess toward cub coverage or reality. Putiing it best. After the cubs had struggled earlier this season and then rolled off 2 in a row, Linda Cohan states, "cubs back to their usual winning ways." Say what. ESPN creates thoughts about reality that they feel will get people to watch as oppossed to the reality of the situation.

I really think the mindset of a good number of people in the organization is to f*** with the media and the media in some areas is figuring it out. The players that like the pub are getting it. Ozzie/Mariotti/ White Sox thing and poof old issues are forgotten.

QUOTE(Jenks Heat @ May 22, 2007 -> 09:00 PM) Tiggers and Ingins lose and I get to watch Peavy pitch nice evening. Rich Hill getting hit hard this night keeps getting better.

Tiggers and Ingins lose and I get to watch Peavy pitch nice evening.

Danks is now 3-4 with a 3.78. That is good, real good.

Blew an opportunity to lower the ERA. Acording to Hawk and DJ DiNardo is Koufax Terraro has incredible power Stewart is the right handed Tony Gwynn/Wade Boggs Lob it over the f***ing plate asshole!

Throw a f***ing fastball down the god damn middle.

Carmona out after 70 pitches 47 for strikes through 6 innings.