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he is not caving into anything...the plan all along was to get saddam out of power so we could leave saudi..we never wanted to be there in the first place...

wanna bet???

just heard it on the score..beat out mussina

tiger outfielder gense kingsdales amkes his debut as "sir" gene kinsdale..playing his first game since being knighted in his home country of aruba (didnt know they had knights in aruba)?? mike maroth takes a no hitter into the 8th...only to become baseball first 7 game loser..maroth was scheduled to pitch yesterday but alan trammell moved him back a day so he wouldnt become the first 7 game loser in april in baseball history... while maroth took the loss...bj ryan gotthe win w/o throwing pitch...came in a picked off a runner for the 3rd out of the 7th inning..orioles took the lead for good in the top of the 8th typical tigers

if he took over catching buehrle or colon and caught 4 of 5 days out i dont see that being a problem...its obvious he is the future..he is here...if he can do it better than alomar right now the get him the PT...sandy knows the deal...he was the benificiary of the same kind of tutoring from tony pena in cleveland..now its sandy's turn to give back and then move over for the new talent...someday olivo will do the same

well..hawk said he got up to 97 on one pitch but he didnt look any faster then he has been....the gun tonight also had kelly wunsch throwing 87 and ive never seen him above 84 so i dont what to think about the gun... no matter how hard he was throwing..the swings against hime were the same as thay have been all year..batters digging in...just thank god durazo didnt get any lift on the single to lf..he smoked it on a line...the two outs were real deep...one into cf just in front of the track..the other a towering shot into the gap that rowand caught on the run in about the middle of the warning track... nobody right now is showing any fear of facing koch..they cant get from the on deck circle to the batters box fast enough..im sure chavez was heart broken marte got the call

he's got a ways to go before he hits the heather line

Posts like this are why Baggs is the man, he is amaising at relating these observations, like this, I am not worthy. thanks guys hey matt..your the guy that warned me about koch...gopt me researching him..got me hating KW even more

maybe he could become the GM next year

whats durham's average???...seems like everytime i see a barons box score he is wearing the collar

wasnt battersby a first baseman last year???

Konerko at 7 I should think not. Lee's 2 1/2 weeks don't make him a better hitter than Paul K OK..then flip flop them back... i think they are pretty much interchangable....maybe go with who is hot at the time

Absolutely I was just pionting out the natural order of hypocracy on the boards sometimes. i really think manuel wants marte as his closer and has all along...just wondering how this goes over with KW

as soon as olivo learns to walk a little more..he would make a great number 2 hitter.. heather...thats cool..flip flop lee and konerko

rex..opnly one person said manuel should be drowned in the chicago river..not all of us who want jery fired hate the guy...i like him and wish he was a better manager...and if he manages more like he did tonight ill be willing to give him a 2nd chance..but he doesnt have much time and has to get it together quick

harris cf jimenez 2b thomas dh magglio rf valentin ss konerko 1b lee lf crede 3b catcher not sure if id do it..just thought id throw it out...2 advantages..an actual basestealer in the lead off spot...and val becomes are lefty power hitting in the middle of the order

i agree..gordon is a blast to watch pitch when he is on...guys have no chance against him

as well said as anyone has tonight. now why did Koch tear up the dugout? Is he mad at himself? That would mean one thing. Is he mad at JM? Then that is another. Unless we know why he did what he did, it doesn't make help me to speculate either way because we just don't know. 4 batters, hit, walk, and two well hit balls to center - JM did the right thing. We needed to beat Oakland tonight, needed to. We have a road trip coming up where we were blown out last year. We needed to win tonight. And JM did what he could to make that happen. Koch walked the guy. Koch gave up the hit. I wish him well - but no need for him torage at anyone but himself, and no point in that unless it helps him get his game straightened around. somebody from WSI who was at the game said koch yelled 'f*** off' to manuel when he came out of the dugout...its 2nd hand so take that into account.. one thing that did bother me was he was still pounting and made in the dugout after marte got the save...maybe im naive but i would have loved it if koch was the first one out of the dugout to congradulate damaso... i remember the 6-0 lead against texas in '00 where foulke gave up 5 runs and howry had to come in and get the last 2 outs...first one out of the dugout...kieth foulke...i would have loved to to seen billy do the same thing...the idea is to get the W..not get koch the save

i explain that as manuel trying to show as much faith in koch as he could have...because a durazo homer ties the game up and doesnt lose it...he tried to give billy koch every chance to close that game out..he couldnt do it so jerry went with marte.. maybe if we were t he yankees we could live with koch until he got his s*** together...we arnt the yankees

on baseball tonight...he said you have to show faith in your closer but when you get to a point where the sox are with billy koch you have to have insurance behind him and thats where the sox are with koch..billy didnt have it tonight and manuel brought in marte and it worked out for him and it was the right move... so bobby v would have made the same move himself i guess

dont forget a quality defesive catcher either thank you KW

not much to say about that

he tore up something in the dugout..the cameras got the very end of it..but a got a shot of him as he elft..he was pissed..not sure if he was pissed at manuel or himself

especially the one hit to the gap..rowand covered alot of ground and made a nice catch

stayed that way till the 9th...gordon pitch 2 2/3, 1 hit no walks 4 k's kock came in gave up a walk , two fly outs to the warning track ..then a single...marte came in and got chavez to ground out 4-3 for the save