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QUOTE (Benchwarmerjim @ May 17, 2009 -> 04:50 PM) any Yankee Stadium is a house of horrors for the Twins. Under the Ron Gardenhire regime, they have 3 wins. 3 win in 8 years. thats pretty much impossible to do I still remember the Mike Trombley game pretty vividly

Sox should sign Sonnanstine for offense cuz hits!!!!!!!!!!1!1!1!

QUOTE (SoxFan1 @ May 17, 2009 -> 12:57 AM) Danks is 8-22 in his 1st 5 games. 2 2B, 2 BB, 1 SB, 1 CS. HOW MANY K'S

Chipper Jones, 1990 (#1) Tim Costo, 1990 (#8) Derek Jeter, 1992 (#6) Preston Wilson, 1992 (#9) Michael Tucker, 1992 (#10) Alex Rodriguez, 1993 (#1) Matt Brunson, 1993 (#9) Josh Booty, 1994 (#5) Chad Hermansen, 1995 (#10) Michael Cuddyer, 1997 (#9) Felipe Lopez, 1998 (#8) Corey Myers, 1999 (#4) Luis Montanez, 2000 (#3) BJ Upton, 2002 (#2) Scott Moore, 2002 (#8) Drew Meyer, 2002 (#10) Matt Bush, 2004 (#1) Chris Nelson, 2004 (#9) Justin Upton, 2005 (#1) Troy Tulowitski, 2005 (#7) Mike Moustakas, 2007 (#2) I count 21. All were drafted as shortstops according to B-R. I'd say that statistic can be interpreted any way you would like it to be.

Sounds like Ted Lilly.

QUOTE (knightni @ May 14, 2009 -> 11:45 PM) Too bad that guy committed suicide afterward. yeah he didn't commit suicide, he died of a drug and alcohol overdose

Tom Moore retired. Wonder how that's going to affect Peyton Manning. My guess is not at all.

Hunter would have pissed people off here something intense. His defense isn't what it used to be 2-3 years ago, and he put up an .810 OPS last year. Do you really want to pay someone like that $18 mill a year?

Just wondering if the Twins are worried about their starters too -Liriano is at 2-4, 5.75 ERA, not averaging 6 innings a start (and his peripherals are mediocre too) -Baker was at 6.83 going into the game today and he's now at 6.95 through 6 against Detroit. I have a feeling the Twins are gonna give those two more than 3 starts before finding someone else.

I have 20,000+ posts and I have an average of like 8.7 a day. Suck on that!

QUOTE (Kalapse @ May 14, 2009 -> 01:32 AM) The right is normally reserved for star players but the White Sox have notoriously low standards. Brent Lillibridge has 65 ABs and Jimmy Gobble is on the roster; yeah I'd say those are low standards BUT KEEP YOUR HAIR CUT OR ELSE!

QUOTE (MexSoxFan#1 @ May 13, 2009 -> 08:43 PM) Ozzie's suppossed fart was probably the highlight of today's stinker vs the tribe. /PUN'D

s*** I didn't even know you could change numbers midseason. That's f***ed

COMMUNIST

I actually called that shot. Brought up the two-homer game with the grand slam to win it from back in 02.

anybody that thinks Bonds is the man is my friend

QUOTE (Greg Hibbard @ May 13, 2009 -> 01:19 PM) And that's what I'm advocating - we need to have a plan B and C for what's happening with this. I'm not saying ditch him outright in May of the first year of his contract, but we'd better damn well know what else we have to work with if we're stuck with this f***ing contract for four years. It's all about options. I just don't know what you do with him if he pitches the entire season abominably badly. Also, to be fair, Gavin Floyd strung together just 4 good months in 2008, from April through July. Those were exceptionally good months, to be fair, but over his last 13 starts in August September and October, he had a 4.84 ERA and a 1.38 WHIP. To be fair, Gavin Floyd had a good 2008. Cherry pick all you want, his full season totals were good.

QUOTE (Greg Hibbard @ May 13, 2009 -> 01:02 PM) By all means, correct me. Statistically speaking, who is the worst AL starter of 2009? Just to be clear, is the position that you are advocating to keep throwing him, no matter how bad the numbers all, all season? If he has an 10 ERA with a 2+ WHIP? Quentin's hitting .235, when are the Sox going to consider moving on from him? Alexei had an OPS of .500 going into today, do you consider next year without him if he hasn't gotten his average up to .250 in 12 days? Yes, I'm going to keep throwing him no matter what. Because he's not a 7+ ERA pitcher, and he's not a 6+ ERA pitcher. He's not really a 5+ ERA pitcher either. Just to keep it in perspective, Johan Santana was 2-4 with a 5.50 ERA after his first 12. After that, he was 19-3 with a 1.36 ERA the rest of the way. I'm not suggesting Gavin Floyd is going to put up a 1.36 ERA in his last 22 starts; I am suggesting that it's a bit early for you to be freaking out about 7 starts.

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QUOTE (Greg Hibbard @ May 13, 2009 -> 10:53 AM) Here's my question. At what point do we swallow 15 million? Because if the idea is that we keep running him out there because we gave him this contract, somebody needs to lecture this organization on the economic concept of a sunk cost. If this guy has an ERA even above 6.00 (let alone above 7.00) by the all-star break, we potentially have a major meltdown on our hands. I'd give him 3 more starts and then if the regression continues, I don't know what you can do but find out what else you have in the minors to potentially replace him. I'm not going to claim to know what's wrong with Floyd. But he's a better pitcher than he is right now, and it's only been 7 starts. He may never justify that $15 million contract, but he will be right around a league average pitcher for the duration of the contract, and he could very easily be gone by the end of that. Posts, such as those quoted, are absolutely hilarious. The fact that people are this close to the ledge with this many players is absurd. 3 more starts? Really? After he threw 206 innings of good baseball last year? You're willing to give up on him after 3 more starts? You may as well just jump off that ledge, because if you don't, I might come and push you off.

I also do not understand much of the standings watching. Standings right now are like college basketball top 25 rankings before conference play even starts - they just don't mean a whole hell of a lot.

QUOTE (jasonxctf @ May 12, 2009 -> 06:06 PM) and by the way, since joining Seattle's AAA team, Owens is 10/29 with 3RBI's, 4SB's, 0CS and a .406OBP. 10 singles?

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ May 12, 2009 -> 10:20 PM) Royals fans are blaming it on the WBC, of course. Somehow the White Sox are only 2.5 GB, if we could somehow win 2 of our next 5 (knowing that we NEVER play well at TOR and face Doc Halladay again this series), we should be in decent shape before we come home to face the Twins in a crucial home series. Not sure I'd use the word crucial in May.

QUOTE (Jimbo's Drinker @ May 13, 2009 -> 03:33 AM) yay, these guys still suck. Lillyflower, Pods and Richard starting make me a sad panda. I think you would try and find something wrong if you were having the best sex of your life.

I thought Thome was worthless