Harry Chappas

The whole ticket price thing is a marketing ploy. the cub are playing the cards and I know at least one game is at night. If we get 44,000 and they get 36,000 who wins? For once some marketing foresight on the southside.

Wheater he quits or not he is much better than 90% of other players. I wish Koch would quit. Although I see your point I think you are going off the deep end. If you think Danny Wright could add as much to this team as our number 3, I would have to seriously question your thinking. As much as I would like to hope everyone gives 110% every time out there, it is physically not possible. As far as his comments I hold newspaper stories and quotes with about as much regard as I do any tabloid. For some reason in this case the quotes were dead on but when the quotes pertain to Thomas and Manuel, they are out of context.

Aren't they playing the schedule we just played the last two weeks, that we played at .500. We need to beat good teams because we couldn't beat Tampa, Detroit, and Cleveland. Texas and California do have pride and good enough talent that they won't be sheep. Detorit and Cleveland, well their AAA teams have been out there all year. We are in this position becasue of a bad start and then abysmal road trips to Tampa, Det, Clev (3-7,) then to Cal/Tex ( 1-6,) not to mention the May excusrion to Oakland/Seattle (1-5?????) .500 ball then allows us to play at a lower level currently 5-18; turn that into 11-12 and we have a 7 game lead. That isn't even .500. .500 on one of those trips and we have breathing room. One week in a season does not make or break a team but it can sure make things much harder/easier.

Isn't he more of the power slider mentality. I remeber him having nasty stuff before the Tigers got ahold of him. Could make things pretty interesting for Mr. Koch.

The three females here know more about baseball than most of the guys. Do not underestimate them............. How do you know there are only three girls here?

If your a boy, I wanna be a priest. I know it is tastless but what the hell.

If everyone hates Colon how come they use his aluminum bat? If he was a stuffy asshole why would he enjoy batting practice so much?

You guys make him sound like Chan Ho Park, Darren Driefort, or Jamie Navarro. Take money out of the equation and what is the difference between Bartolo Colon and Mark Buerhle? I am saying this as I think they make great #2 pitchers behind CY Loiza. Not trying to bum rap anyone but the view of Colon is pretty jaded compared to the fact he and Buerhle have pretty similar stats, assuming Colon LOSSES tonight.

On thomas slam, how many guys were on via the walk. See the Seattle Mariners, the more you make a pitcher work the better your chance of getting to him.

Well, a loss will give him the same record as Mark Buerhle and if he doesn't give up to many runs, they could have the same ERA. Hope this makes the remainder of your day feel good.

Is Mark retiring after this season? Is he being traded to the NL? He is 24 not 44 there will be plenty of opportunity in the future. If the extra day of rest gets us 6 better starts the next month, enjoy the day of rest. If we were ten out I would agree with his point.

Padres will do the same thing the Pirates are doing right now in three years. Remember when the stadium windfall was going to save the Tigers, Pirates, and Reds. Seatlle did it right by wisely spending their money to build a winning product. The Padres are now to be looking at signing Maddux in the offseason.

AL CY Young = Foulke (sorry); Loiaza or Hudson if they go lights out AL MVP = Ichiro/Maggs/Some Yankee = = Delgado if nobody carries their team NL MVP= Bonds (sentimental vote now as well) Pujols if the Cards win NL CY Young = Prior; Ortiz; Gagne; Smoltz All of these races are open depending on the last month of the season. Whichever player stands out in the next 5 weeks wins it.

The guys we have picked up are have an impact on our team, that is why they cost us good players. Sullivan, Alomar and Everett could have been three of the better acquisitions. Remember we have had two of them for over half a season.

Depends how many poeple are with you. 10 guys in Cleveland, i wore jersey and hat. With the wife at KC, hat only. Bronx, alone, subtle tennis clap for the Sox in Nike shirt and Islanders hat.

I lost my head over that story. Kind of disturbing.

Let's see what unfolds over the next 5 weeks. We may looking to run him out on a rail by the end of the month. Right now I think he and Valentin can add soemthing over the next two years. If Reed and Rowand step up we need defense and smart players, we could have Robbie as a shell of himself. Reed-Lee-Thomas-Ordonez-Konerko(Rowand)-Valentin-Crede-Olivo-Alomar The whole thing will boil down to budget. What we can spend will be spent. An increase from this year may be in the cards and it will go Garland and Buerhle. The more games we play the more revenue we get the increased liklihood we will have a larger payroll.

We have lsot to the Tigers six times and twice by scores of 1-0 nothing is guaranteed with this tem.

Danny Wright should start. I really like how Cotts looked the other night but when every game counts, we could be in trouble. Unless Cotts reinvents himself in the next three days, Thursday could be a long game. As was pointed out in this thread. The Yankess will make him throw strikes and if he can't do that he will not last into the second. Mike Mussina is not going to give us much. This game looks like a disaster waiting to happen. The Yankees and Mariners are notorious for making pitchers worka dn throw strikes. Nothing agaisnt Neil he has done a nice job but he is over his head here. Detroit would have been good work for him.

And I will have to say that Hahn is getting quoted in the papers way more often than ever before... That is becasue Episode III comes out next Memorial Day, man I loved Attack of the Clones.

Also the site that announced the PTBNL got that stats wrong so it is possible he isn't the guy.

You can't just snap your fingers and get whomever you want. If the Royals got this guy, the b****ing and moaning would be endless and then there would be a post about who the Royals gave up and why can't we make this deal. Sullivan is comparable to Jeff Nelson and the Yankees got gave up a major league closer that pitched in the World Series to get him. Take a look at Jeff Suppan's numbers with the Red Sox, last three starts 0-1 8.82 and the guy they gave up, (Freddy Sanchez,) was a guy we would have traded Colon for a couple of months ago on this site.

Randy Myers.

If someone claimed Konerko they would be stuck with him and that big contract, if the Sox don't pull him back. If someone claims Loiza the Sox pull him back, no harm no foul. If no one claims Garland, then the Sox are free to trade him for J.D. Drew. See how this works it is a major game of cat and mouse. Without knowing the exact details of a player, a team may not want to claim them, (i.e. Sullivan.) If you remember the Padres blocked Atlanta from getting that lefty a few years, they claimed him and were stuck with $9M salary from a guy that couldn't pitch, ouch. I can't remeber his name but he was with the cub.....

or Matt Guerrier.