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Wasn't there also some stuff about him playing cards instead of preparing the pitchers and also watching college football games in the clubhouse when he wasn't in the line-up, like the Univ. of Florida? Plus, there's all of his wrestling stuff. Personally, I don't think it even matters anymore. But if we want to maximize the value of Danks, Buehrle and Jackson, I don't think Tyler Flowers is the one who should be doing it. I also don't see AJ being on this team in 2012, despite our $6 million commitment going forward to him.

Discuss.

Ozzie will probably meet with Jerry soon, but I find it hard to imagine him quitting and forfeiting the guaranteed payout for next year, as he's already complaining about how much money he just spent on a house (might want to rethink that move). KW is the one, in the end, who I would expect to offer his resignation to JR and fall on his own sword with the way things have completely fallen apart.

QUOTE (Pale Sox @ May 3, 2011 -> 01:34 AM) He was drafted out of The Masters, I remember that much. 2nd round by the Expos I think. Traded for a guy whose name I can't remember that was once highly touted out of the Indians org, and he promptly killed it in AA and got all our hopes up. I think it was OF Alex Escobar, who we'd just claimed and never even ended up playing in our system.

QUOTE (Chisoxrd5 @ May 1, 2011 -> 03:17 PM) Nice outing by Bobby Jenks today, brings his ERA to 9.35 for the year. Glad I don't have to hear that idiotic argument anymore from coworkers about how we screwed ourselves by not bringing him back. Imagine if we also had Jenks, Aaron Rowand/Fukudome/Hunter, Figgins, etc., on our roster. The one move that we REALLY missed out on was Miggy Cabrera. As much as he's an ass, he's just about the best hitter in baseball. Just didn't have the pieces the Tigers did, even though Maybin and Andrew Miller turned out to be busts.

Loading up with his hands too much, not getting going quickly enough. That's DJ's theory on Beckham's struggles. Same problem with Rios, except that's even more exaggerated. Wow, it's amazing. Another Beckham double. Once upon a time, we thought he would consistently lead the AL in this category.

They might need to close down this entire website for the next two weeks until there's some type of change with the organization we can actually discuss instead of merely speculating about.

Even the Tigers are now 7 1/2 GB. I think that's more amazing than where the Twins and White Sox are, based on the way the three teams have played. (I know, I know, someone will point out that the Sox and Twins were like 6.5 and 7 GB at the 2003 ASB to the Royals.) But the Indians just don't have the feel of that Royals team.

QUOTE (fathom @ May 1, 2011 -> 03:07 PM) One observation on the year: Jeff Niemann must really suck And Miguel Cabrera is the new/real Manny Ramirez.

I'm now starting to wonder with our current 3-15 stretch if we can actually go 2-11 over the next 13 games to "reverse" match our WINNING streak last year? TWILIGHT ZONE TIME. 6 in a row lost at home, no more than 4 runs scored in any of those games. BTW, Oakland and the Angels are 1-2 in AL pitching, both with ERA's under 3. And we face Pineda and King Felix. Perfect Storm, here we come!

Speaking of swagger, the Indians are going for their 5th series sweep of the season. This year in insane. Sox and Twins both down by 5 runs and on the verge of total self-immolation.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ May 1, 2011 -> 01:44 PM) You guys continue to have no idea what the average "4th starter" is. That's a guy with an ERA around 5.5. Fine, Mark Buehrle is still a 3rd starter, too. It doesn't matter, the Indians are about to put us 10 GB. 100+ years of baseball history is against us now.

Might as well just go ahead and bench Rios and play Lillibridge instead. Things couldn't be any worse. PS: When's the last time Beckham and really turned on a ball and driven it to LF?

Well, if it's any consolation, Detroit finally untied the game and the games back margin MIGHT not sink to 10. Royals up by 3 runs on the Twins, 5-2. Eerie how the Sox and Twins are sliding and sliding downwards in tandem and meet for the ultimate season-saving showdown.

QUOTE (Chet Kincaid @ May 1, 2011 -> 02:30 PM) I usually listen to Farmio and DJ, but I'm getting tired of DJ's "We got some wo-rk to doooo". I didn't know it was this bad for Hawk. I've never ever seen this much bad luck before in any sport. The way he says Carlos Qwenn-TIN is more annoying by far. At least those guys have the Bears to promote with the draft pick in the box. Rios showing how NOT to play a flyball by drifting, drifting, drifting with it instead of going back to the wall right away and then readjusting.

At this point, it's pretty clear that Gavin Floyd is never going to be better than a 4th starter with occasional flashes of brilliance. Still has a lot of trade value though.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ May 1, 2011 -> 02:23 PM) I know they've been terrible, but do the stats actually show they've been the worst in MLB? I don't know about the SABR stats like UZR, but I'm sure about 50% of the misplays by Pierre and Rios these past 30 games haven't been ruled as errors, thus not accurately reflecting the true profundity of their suckiness. Quentin has actually been almost solid out there compared to the rest of our outfielders. Milledge was also horrible. There's trouble/danger lurking here SHEREEE.

Dog Day Afternoon has now become "Old Yeller" for the Sox marketing team. Have to put this team and season out of its misery soon. At least the 2007 team gave us a couple of months of entertainment.

QUOTE (fathom @ May 1, 2011 -> 02:19 PM) I wonder if Ozzie will play Dunn against him. I would have rather had Dunn sit vs Liriano and play against Britton, as the sinker ball is more in his wheelhouse than the Liriano slider. Liriano doesn't have any control at all so far this season. It's an absolute crapshoot trying to figure out match-ups on an individual game basis with the way things are going.

Unbelieveably, Sizemore just left a runner on 3B with one out. Still tied 2-2 going into the 8th in CLE.

Twins are also losing 2-0 in KC and are in danger of losing their 6th in a row I think. Detroit and CLE tied 2-2 going into the bottom of the 7th.

The dreaded 1-2 change-up to speed up Scott's bat. MAKE IT STOP! Correction, hanging/rolling slow curveball. Exact same pitch on 2 straight.

Well, the 1983 White Sox were 16-24 and 7 games back on May 26th. That was their low point. Of course, citing examples that happen once every 20-30 years (or 2006 Cardinals, 05 Astros, Rockies, etc.) doesn't instill too much confidence.

Wow, one of the slowest starting gamethreads of the season. Can't say it's not completely understandable.

http://www.imdb.com/media/rm807242240/nm0050584 Thought Carl Everett was one of the Rock's DSS agents at first. The resemblance isn't quite the same in his pictures as I saw in "Fast Five."