Texsox

Oh Tex.. you're so stupid and you don't know anything about baseball.... I know. I just look at other boards and repeat s*** here. If Billy starts pegging the gun at 99 with some movement we could almost breath easy in the 9th. I just thought of this now but the guys in Oakland must be laughing their asses off

Today's Award for best use of Green goes to Rex!

LMAO Come on we all wish we had someone like him at the Trib shilling for the Sox. If I was a KC fan I'd be buying his paper. And remember, by our estimates, the Royals are months overdue with their swoon. Here it is almost the end of August and guess who's hanging around?

Why bring him back now? I agree that the 2002 edition of Billy Koch before he transformed into Billy Botch :fyou would have me thinking WS instead of getting into the playoffs. However I don't see how two weeks of IR changed much. He was already on reduced pitches. As I recall almost everyone here cheered when we got him. If we must have him back on the roster, give him spot work in middle relief but not too many pitches. Perhaps have him come in for a couple batters then go to Sulllivan or whomever.

1) Who will win the series (CHW/NYY) (2 points)? CHW (not worth 2pts to pick Yankmees) 2) Will Frank Thomas have an RBI (Y/N) (2 points)? Yes 3) How many errors will the Sox make (4 points)? 1 4) Which Sox bullpen pitcher will face the most batters (4 points)? Sullivan 5) How many hits will Joe Crede have in the series (5 points)? 5 6) How many innings will Esteban Loaiza pitch to the nearest third (5 points)?62/3 7) Who will lead the Sox in batting average for the series (min. 6 ABs) (4 points)? Maggs 8) Which bullpen will give up more earned runs (CHW/NYY) (2 points)?CHW 9) Who will lead the AL Central after the series (2 points)? CHW 10) Will Hideki Matsui hit a homerun (Y/N) (2 points)? Yes TIEBREAKER: White Sox total number of runners stranded as a team for the series 15

One possible reason is Buerhle vs. the Tigers is as close to a guaranteed win as you'd find in MLB. A win is a win and taking a chance with Neal vs. the Yankees may be a good strategy. I'll bet he wants to pitch against them in Yankee Stadium.

I don't agree with automatically dumping the worse X number of umps. I would rather see a system where you need to maintain a Y% of correct calls or you are sent down. This way if X+? could be reassigned if they stick instead of a bad one keeping his job because a few others were worse. Or allows more to stay if they are getting the calls right. I'm still amazed we haven't seen a woman umpire at the MLB level.

Yeah its a given you give the pitcher the benefit of the doubt there. I have NO idea what that ump was thinking. The Ump has to call each play as if it was the only play of the game. Once they start making calls based on the situation, we have anarchy with the umps picking winners and losers. I don't agree with NBA refs who swallow the whistle the last 60 seconds and "let them play" or a NFL official who allows some extra contact away from the play. Call it like you see it and let the chips fall where they may.

At least from a fan's perspective the expectations are 3-0 vs. the Tigers. Anything less is kind of a disapointment. With the Yankmees, grab a win and leave 1-2 and life isn't too bad. On the other hand 3-0 vs. the Yankmees and start printing the playoff tix (from a fan perspective)

4-2 This week will be very nice and 3-3 would be acceptable no matter how it comes. Scary that the Tigers are probably licking their chops waiting for us

We rate threads already, see the number of replies? I wouldn't want to see a rate a thread. Most really good threads get a nice thread all ready and the s***ty ones get a go f*** off so why bother rating?

Frank

Frank on the weekend

Lee

Lee

Maggs

Maggs

Help, the type is getting smaller and smaller. Some of us are old and did bad things early in life. Can we get a slightly larger font por favor?

Come on he hasn't busted a rum bottle on his adoring wife in years

I would think one would be a Cub fan from down under. If everything is reversed the bottomn becomes top and the top becomes bottom ahh s*** that made no sense

I have no idea what you posted, the avatar was soooo cool. Welcome.

I thought the post season didn't come into play for CY voting. From what I remember they vote before the playoofs start. While he's close he may not be a shoo in. A playoff berth should put him over the top.

I'm sorry did they start printing the standings by revenue? Damn I've got to get a subscription to the WSJ to follow MLB

I'm wondering why I'm not bothered by those and then I realized -- I don't read them. To recap the season: Gonna win it all Maybe make the playoffs f*** this dispassionte, underachieving . . . Hey we may make the playoofs we suck we're great f*** this dispassionte, underachieving . . . we suck why the f*** don't they care? We're kicking ass

Let's add a Pick the Paid contest to the YNOY and PTC