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A CFer....possibly. Rowand might play out in the end, but if a trade for a guy like Erstad came up where we could get Anaheim to take on half of the money in his deal for the rest of his contract, I'd definately do it. However, I really feel that Willie Harris could pan out and become a hell of a 2Bman for us while being a hell of a leadoff hitter at the same time. Kinda like killing two birds with one stone. Unless we added Roberto Alomar or Luis Castillo, there is no reason Willie should move from 2B.

good post - AR is a player and he is starting to roll - he may never hit 350 but that hit was huge and he's not in the HOF yet but give the guy credit - he plays all out and holds nothing back and I still think he can be a very valuable team member and more than adeqete center fielder he certainly was huge today - 2 down, 2 out - without him the 9th inning meant nothing - the thrill when he hit that ball and we realized it was going out - wow! It turned the tide - we were looking listless for a few innings there on offense and sudden;y what looked like a 6-4 defeat looked like a victory - after his homer the game suddenly not only looked winnable but inevitable, he turned it around with one swing - and thus in the 9th, the feeling for everyone - the scrub fans who went and stood in the entryways for a quick exit and the Sox fans standing and roaring all through the bottom of the 9th - it was so great to be there - it was not IF but WHEN we scored the winning run - if AR doesn't come through, it would all be very different - the Sox p[layers all were at the dugout rail when AR came round 3rd and I haven't seen that since 2000 - the post home run roar was deafening - and his team mates got all juiced by what he did - I haven't seen the team members be all at the dugout rail like that since maybe September 2000 and it was AR's homer that did it - Scary huh? We are actually in this f***ing thing. We could be in first place by the end of this weak. I don't know what this means to anybody else, but I see it as a confidence booster, and then if we can get rid of DJ, it will be that much better. Add another LH bat, and we will be looking good. This is the team we have been waiting for. Well guess what....it finally decided to f***ing show up.

He better not play 3B on a regular basis. He has a weak-ass arm, and that would not be good. Just f***ing trade him. I personally like Willie at 2B a whole lot more then I do him in CF....he's a much better 2B, and his weak arm(though not weaker then Jimenez's) is better suited for 2B. I think he will become a much better hitter with a ton of playing time, and I'd then see if we can't get a good CFer at the deadline.....a LH hitter who hits for a good average, who just flat out hits the ball hard. I really don't think we need another guy swinging for the fences. We have enough of those guys already. I just don't know who we could get. A guy that hits like .300-.320 with decent power from the left side would be perfect.

Hes not on it, YET. If I added just about all the players that had a game-tying homer against the scrubs, it'll take up the whole f***ing page. Rowands homer was big, but I gotta reserve room for ELITE Cubkillas like Lee, Jose, and Jenkins that does it game after game. I don't know, that homer was pretty f***ing huge. Coming in against a pitcher who was determined to shut us down and gain some confidence after it was shattered the day before on a long blast by Jose, only to be have a ball get hammered again. Ties the game and sets the stage for a big win. I figure you better reconsider the proposition before making up your mind.

But at the start of the bottom of the 8th, I invisioned Willie Harris getting on base alone with 2 outs and the score still obviously tied, and Aaron Rowand coming up and being a hero. I kind of saw it coming. And I knew we were going to win the game too. I didn't think Carlos was going to win it when he came up, and I didn't think Jose was going to win it when he came up. And tomorrow, I see the Sox taking the 3rd game, sweeping the series, and taking a s***load of momentum into the Twinkie series. You wanna talk about a pick-me-up win for the Sox.....Colon pitches like s***, and the bullpen comes in and shuts the door. How f***ing sweet is that?

I hope he remembers to tell the team to play 9 innings this time

Kid walk-a-lot, "meat" the best pitcher in the majors this year, Esteban Loaiza. Kid walk-a-lot, I'd like to re-introduce you to Carlos Lee's bat. I hope you don't walk the bases loaded and give up a homer to CLee AGAIN

Dude, Roman, I don't know what's up your ass, but I do hope you realize that Rowand's homer was f***ing huge. Can you not be happy about it instead of b****ing about how he f***ing sucks and what not? We DO realize he isn't going to be anything huge(we're not f***ing stupid). But JFC, get your panties out of a wad. I smell sweep. We have all the momentum, we have our stopper, our ace, Esteban Loaiza going to the mound tomorrow. You can call us butter, because we are on a roll. And whitesox247....I didn't look, but your signature better f***ing have Aaron f***ing Rowand in it now

Like Maggs tagging up from 1st to get into scoring position. Right now, with Remlinger coming in, I'd have Jose bunt for a hit. He, at the very least, will get Maggs over to 3rd, and if Jose is safe, we have first and third with 1 out

And then Thomas nearly muscled one out his next time out. As it kept going, I thought it might just go. If only his bat were corked...

NEWEST f***ING CUBKILLA!

You know, I actually think this would be a great idea. He'd then have to clear waivers, and if someone wanted to take him, they could. I'd assume no one would want him, and he'd get his swings in down there and he'd hopefully get out of this funk that he is in.

I personally felt that you did a good job of that yourself. You didn't need any help with that one.

When are you gona get off his band wagon? He can hit, i'll give him that, but he cant do anything else. my defense off teh top of my head in teh past 3 days is not reading teh ball saturday when he should have scored . Should have been the game there without having to go 11 innings. And yesterday with his bare handed bulls*** on a routine dp that almost cost the sox the game vs, the scrubs. This is not just fluke s*** that happens to him. he makes BAD decisions a lot , has a real hard time turning routine dp's cant run bases, no range, and just plain stupid. Young players do need to develop, but i cant remember any player as dumb as him that all the sudden got smart. 1983 the sox had 1 added player that put a charge into them. It was a similar season. they looked like s*** in the 1st half and picked up Julio cruz who was a fire plug speedster who gave his all and fired that team up. Aron Miles might be the same type of guy for 2003. Miles has never been called "stupid and Lazy" by other organizations.Give him a shot. And if Jiminez is worth so much with all this bottled up talent, why are we the only team that wanted him? Great post, and I agree wholeheartedly. I also personally feel that Willie Harris could be the Julio Cruz of the this year, as well as Aaron Miles.

And that right there, what you just said, is what makes the difference between bad starting pitchers, mediocre starting pitchers, good starting pitchers, and great starting pitchers. A bad starting pitcher is going to get lit most of the time, regardless of how is he throwing the ball. A mediocre starter will win with his good stuff and get rocked with his s*** stuff. A good starting pitcher will win with his good stuff and will battle with his bad stuff. A great starting pitcher will give you a very good effort every time out, regardless of stuff. We, right now, only have one great starting pitcher, that being Esteban Loaiza. Colon has been good(but this was a very s***ty start), Buehrle has been in the middle(as has Garland), and, IMO, Wright has also been good, minus a start or two. Josh Stewart early on was just plain bad(he beat the s*** Tigers), and I believe those are the only 6 guys who've started games. Back to the point of my post....every pitcher knows they won't have their 'A' stuff each time out. When you don't have good stuff, you have to battle and keep your team in the game. Mark Buehrle has made a living doing that.

Yankees-Red Sox happens like 19 times a year. You will lose the intensity after about 15 games. We play the Cubs 6 times a year, and every game has the same intensity. It's a lot more fun to watch assuming Chimp isn't the commentator. Goddamn he sucks

wait a second here. You are talking about the best second baseman of this era. He is a defensive genious (though some are calling him cautious this year, which resulted in some errors early in April), and he is a good hitter when not playing for the Mets. I think the change of scenery would do him good. As for the salary thing, the Mets would cover his salary. They don't care b/c it is one year and they just want some young guys and are trying to clean house. On the other hand, it will take more than Jimenez. Maybe comparing him to Jose like I did is unfair. But you are creating double standards here. Just because he was something 2 years ago doesn't necessarily mean he is that same thing now. Two years ago, Phil Nevin hit 41 homers. He played in 40 fewer games last year and hit 12 homers, and this year he isn't even playing. People on here b**** about that all the time. Frank Thomas was the greatest hitter of the 90s, no question. But is a team going to give up anything for him? Maybe if he were in the last year of his deal, like Alomar is, but that's about it. I realize Alomar can be good, and I never said I didn't want him. I just said he can't hit lefties...the same way Jose can't hit lefties. I would also like Weathers, as I stated in another thread.

Except when he's up there in the top of the 9th, his team down by 2, bases loaded, and there's no outs and a pitcher who has struggled with his velocity is coming in. Only then though.

I saw Brooks Kieschnick poke a pitch out to LF against some Nakamura guy, and then Eddie Perez followed that up with a homer to left as well. Question though....if the Royals are still in first place come July 20th or so, do they trade Carlos Beltran in a fire sale, or do they add some players to help make the push for a pennant run?

I know that was f***ing sweet and all, because it was. But IIRC, they only showed the Sox highlights once in the two shows, and that was at the very end of the last show. They showed f***ing Boston twice and they talked about Kevin Olsen twice too....those two talkings took up about like f***ing 20 minutes of the 45 or 50 minutes that BBTN is on(because they show like f***ing 10 or 15 minutes worth of pointless commercials). I know Kevin Olsen getting hit in the head is scary, but he's OK, SO MOVE THE f*** ON. Both the Sox and Cubs are in their respective division races, it's the biggest rivalry in the majors(Don't give me Yankees-Mets, Yankees-Red Sox, Giants-Dodgers bulls***....there is no rivalry bigger then this one. Brando can back me on this one), and yet they show it with f***ing 10 minutes left in the program. I am this f***ing close to just emailing them an email that basically says "Show every f***ing highlight, and use some f***ing common sense you dips***s. Show important games first, not dumbass Yankees-Mets bulls***, just because they're the f***ing Yankees", only it would be a whole lot meaner. And one more thing....JOSE f***ING VALENTIN -- NEWEST CUBKILLA!

Sorry, but we have sucked offensively, but we've been solid defensively. If our offense had been mediocre, we'd be in a much better position then we are in now.

If he just let's it loose and gets real f***ing ugly....he could be a hell of a closer. He has good stuff(I know he can hit 94-96 on the gun sometimes...no reason he can't get that up to 96-98 or so as a closer throwing it harder), and he's got some good movement on his pitches. I could definately see Danny becoming a very good closer someday.

Am I the only one in here who thinks this team could get hot as hell like the 83 team did in the second half?

I'd gladly put up with taking him out, putting Harris at 2B, putting Rowand in CF, and moving everyone in the lineup up one, except Maggs, who stays at his spot, and Daubach, who moves up 2 spots. Harris leads off, Thomas hits 2nd, Dauber 3rd, Maggs 4th, Lee 5th, Valentin 6th, Crede 7th, Olivo 8th and Rowand 9th. That lineup is as good, if not better, then the one we are putting on the field now.