sox-r-us

With Mulder pitching, I wil be happy if we do not give up a no hitter tomorrow

Since Randy is not a rental only for this year and he will pitch next year for us too, I woul definitely do this deal of JG and Rowand Then I would go out and get Everett That way, Everett plays DH, Willie and Timo split CF, Uribe plays 2B when Willie plays CF, and Maggs gets back to RF Once Big Frank comes back, Everett can play CF when we are facing tough righties in the playoffs (if he produces in the regular season)

When is Burhle ever going to become a #1 pitcher? Never

If you have balls, go tell Frank this on hia face....and hopefully if he did, I hope Frank would kill the asshole Frank is a franchise player...Valentin is a big mouthed asshole who could not bat >0.260 to save his f***ing life

Everybody definitely pitches better than Blow-le

I'm not going to get in his face and tell him, 'You've got to do this and this and this.' f***ing chickens*** pussy :fyou Kose

Yeah and the of course Burhle is the best thing since sliced bread....when is that loser going to bolt to St Louis? When Buerhle pitches like a real #1 pitcher, call me (and no the run support he gets is not to be ignored)

Play ball....I hate breaks Today was the only day in the entire year when there was no major league sports played Pin this up mods

Also consider: There is no better second half team than the A's (their pitching really picks it up in the second half every year with that core of pitchers) Garland is Garland...he can have 8 shut out innings and he will implode in the 9th The A's know Garcia well and have beaten him in the past In 2003, Garcia was 0-2 against the A's with a 5.40 ERA In 2002, he was 1-2 against the A's with a 8.27 ERA

Man that is so wrong at so many levels

The color green means he is being sarcastic/joking

If Randy Johnson does not get to the Yankees, and if the Yankees lose out Kevin Brown and Lieber due to injury during the playoffs, and Mussina and Contreras continue to suck, the Yankees will be killing themselves for losign Garcia to us And I will love that

Mystic Is that really you in the avatar?

The 8 game road trip to begin the second half has me worried a lot. 8 games at the A's, Texas Rangers and the Indians can kill us in the standings. We all know how badly we have played in Oakland since 2001. Indians and Rangers are very good in their home park. And all 3 teams are still in contention. Given we will be without Frank for at least most if not all of this road trip, I am very concerned of going 1-7 or some crap like that and getting 3-5 games behind the Twinkies. I would love it if we can go 4-4....

Yeah I am sorry I meant Garland instead of Scho Oops

Jeckle Bro ... I love you for the enterntainment you provide here man....but chill man That avatar of yours (banging your head on the puter) seems apt with your posts

I know getting RJ means we have to increase our payroll significantly next year and it almost definitely means Maggs is gone from here, I am willing to do it because this guy is so freaking special A pitcher with his nasty slider is very useful in a homer friendly park like ours. Also, I have no faith any of our pitchers (including Garcia) can shut down the Yankees O in the playoffs Also, we do not need to do a firesale if we lose in the ALCS or WS....all we have to do is let Maggs, Valentin and Elo walk We have a pitching rotation of RJ, Garcia, Buerhle, Scho and some cheap FA for next year Let Borchard play RF, Rowands continues at CF, Uribe goes to SS, Willie to 2B Get one solid bat in FA (someone who can hit lefty preferably) and we are fine until we trade at the deadline next year again to go for it

If Boston does get Randy, unless their pitchers are suffering from injuries, we will get swept if we met them in the first or second round....no doubt about that I can only imagine our "big game ineffective" O going against their pitchers...

I can finally use this smiley .. Thank you DaBearSox

One thing that no one knows is how much of the $ Kenny will ask Boston to pick up if they do go through this Remember last year when Texas and the Mets picked up almost all of the $ remaining on Everett and Alomar's contracts? I can bet anything that if we trade for Nomar, we will give up fringe to solid prospects (not stud prospects) and we will definitely get Boston to pick up some or most of the $ still to be paid

I am talking about the hit that set the record

Remember the hard on kenny has for Nomar should be well known now He did try to get Nomar for Maggs in the off season I am pretty sure Kenny is looking at getting someone to add the bat that we will lose with Frank's injury. Valentin could be DH and Nomar could play SS Suddenly you have two players who can hit LH, and you solve your problem of all right handed hitters (If and) When Frank comes back, then let the better out of Valentin and Crede play 3rd B (if Crede picks it up in the second half) and let the better out of Willie and uribe play 2B and let the better out of Willie and Rowand play CF

Jokes apart, isn't it amazing that we are at least mentioned in these trade rumors I love the excitement Kenny has brought to this organization. I still remember the 2000 season and the fact that we did not do squat to improve our pitching at the deadline that year (I know we got Charles Johnson but we could have got a pitcher that year to help us put us over the top)

If we get Nomar, Randy Johnson and Beltran, I will personally go to Chicago and bow in front of Kenny William's home

I am shocked no one (including the two biggest El Caballo fans) here has mentioned this one but what the heck The biggest play of the first half is Carlos Lee's 28th consecutive game hit ... record setting That hitting streak improved Carlos' average from 0.230ish to 0.300ish and despite not having Maggs for quite a bit of time, Carlos helped us stay afloat with that streak