Pastime

I went to Friday's game (which sucked ass, by the way), but I left after the 7th inning due to horrible stomach problems. I had two Kosher Dogs, two bratwurst, and two cheeseburgers, and topped it off with a margarita and two cups of soda. My stomach had a problem with that, and I spent most of the 5th and 6th innings in the bathroom. Needless to say, I made it the 17 miles home, and then spent another 2 hours afraid to leave my bathroom. I guess the chemistry of all I ate wasn't a good mix - OBVIOUSLY. Either that, or I just can't eat what I used to. Dammit.

Muchas gracias, mi amigo!

Chimp Caray is by far one of the worst I've ever heard. His grandfather was and father is a fine broadcaster, so I guess the "talent gene" wasn't passed down through one of his dad's little fishies about 35 years ago. Also, Tim McCarver sucks. He's truly the king of the obvious. A few McCarverisms: "Well, when you have two strikes, you want to make contact." "When you are leading by one run, you can't allow the other team to score." "If you want a 1-2-3 inning, you can't walk anyone." To everything he says, all you ever need to say in reply is "No s***, Sherlock." What a bozo.

Doug Melvin wants 3 top class prospects for Ben Sheets, a very high price. I may be wrong, but aren't we a little short on those commodities these days?

Yo, what's up. I've been busy finishing up with school, and as of Sunday, I am a college graduate at the ripe old age of 32.

You know, this is the same "core" of hitters we've had the past 2-3 years, and I don't know why everyone is so surprised. Most power hitters who swing for the fences are known for going into prolonged slumps once in a while, and when you have a lineup chock full with those kind of hitters, you run the risk of a bunch of them slumping at the same time. This is an all-or-nothing lineup, like it or not. They'll either bash a pitcher's brains in or they'll overswing and barely get 5 hits a game as a team. With this lineup, there is no real in-between (in my mind at least). Trying to play "smallball" with this lineup is like trying to win a drag race against a '67 Camaro with an '87 Impala. It's possible, but not probable. By the way, our offense would look much better if we had just acquired a few "grinders." :headshake

Tony Pena can be as uplifting, excited, enthusiastic, and fired up as he wants to. And he can impart wisdom, excitement, fire, and intangibles all he wants to his team. It all comes down to the same thing - no matter who the manager is of any team - STARTING PITCHING. Ours is mediocre and certainly nothing to write home about, but Tony's starting staff is something that brings nightmares to people. It SUCKS. Rest in peace, Royals. We hardly knew ye.

Loazia would still be throwing 93-94, but now that MLB is testing for steroids, he had to get off the juice.

I can remember when James Baldwin and Scott Ruffcorn were "untouchables." I'll bet that the Sox wish they could revisit some of the trade offers made on those two NOW. And how's Larry Thomas, by the way? Another so-called "untouchable."

CLee should be in the #2 slot in the lineup. He's floundering miserably in the spot he's in, and he spent a lot of time in the #2 hole last year and had his best season.

This team is built more for "Earl Ball" than "Ozzie Ball." (For those of you who don't know, "Earl Ball" refers to Earl Weaver - the former manager of the Orioles back in the 70's and 80's. His philosophy was "sit back and wait for the 3-run home run." Who are the base-stealers on this club? Frank Thomas? Maggs? Crede? Konerko? (LMAO!!) Gload? Alomar? Rowand? Besides CLee, Olivo, Harris, and Uribe, we have by far the slowest f*cking team in baseball. How are you going to use THIS lineup to steal bases or score from 2nd on a single? This is a station-to-station lineup. It hasn't worked for the past 3 years, and I wonder if it won't fail miserably yet again this year. You can "run" and "take the extra base" so many times before the lack of footspeed in your lineup dicates that you do otherwise. Ozzie is stuck with a bunch of plodders and slow oafs. Let's see how he deals with that.

I just call him "Pornstache."

Our 4-5-6 hitters are killing us. Thomas has 11 RBI's, CLee has 10, and Konerko has 13 (but hasn't driven in a run since when?) I expect more out of those 3 hitters than just 34 RBI's combined after 6 weeks. How s***ty are their RBI totals? Willie Harris - a part-timer - has 9 driven in, and Miguel Olivo - another part-timer - has driven in 15. Crede has 16 for cry's sake, and he's not exactly setting the world on fire with his batting average. Thomas, CLee, and Konerko need to pull their heads out of their asses and their bats out of mothballs. Some "potent" middle of the lineup we have - PFFFFT. If not for Maggs and Crede the past week, we could have lost every game on the road trip.

I enjoyed the whole game on WCIU, but then again, I live only 20 miles from Chicago.

No. But an inexperienced GM from another Arby's store took a chance and exchanged him for two young and up-and-coming beef slicers that show real promise. Let's see how it all works out.

If you're expecting Ross Gload - and remember it's ROSS GLOAD - to hit .500 and smash every pitch he sees, then you have a better chance of watching your goldfish slam-dunk a basketball. Even though this is cliche, even the BEST hitters fail 7 times out of every 10 at-bats. Remember this - Gload is a BENCH player. And for the record, Ross Gload, that BENCH player, has 10 RBI's on the season, which happens to be more RBI's than Frank Thomas and Carlos Lee have for the season. Put that in your pipe and puff it.

Speaking of Turd Ritchie, he took my drive-thru order at Arby's earlier this evening. However, he tossed the bag 3 feet to the right of my window. Oops.

But now what's going to happen now to all of "Wright's Wretches?" Oh well. It's just as well. And Mr. Zero, when you say "stupid Cub fans," you can drop the word "stupid" - it's redundant. We know ice is cold, fire is hot, Cub fans are stupid, etc. If Danny Wrong ever wants to even sniff a major-league jockstrap ever again, he needs to work on another pitch and learn what "pitching" is. All he does is just wind up and chuck the motherf*cker towards the plate. Hence his 7.00+ ERA this year, and his 5.00+ ERA when he won those 14 games. Keep in mind that Jack Morris once won 21 games with an ERA over 5.00 because his offense scored a s***load of runs behind him. Maybe I'm just a stat-geek or whatever, but I look at ERA and WHIP a hell of a lot more than I look at wins. If you don't understand, look at Nolan Ryan's 1987 season. He was 8-16, so he sucked, right? Well, he only gave up 154 hits in 212 innings pitched, had a 2.76 ERA, and struck out 270 hitters. However, he had horrible run support and shotty defense behind him. It's not always the win-loss record that tells you how good a pitcher really is. Either way, good riddance to Danny Wrong. I got tired of penciling in a loss every 5th day that "Mr Lob-Ball" started.

Something about 7 right handed hitters in a row worries me. It doesn't seem to bother the Cubs, and they are "World Series Contenders." And it also didn't bother the Marlins much, and they won the whole thing even though their lineup was right-handed from 3-9 in the order (unless Willis pitched). That's the least of our worries. Our rotation is the main cause for concern, IMO. Our lineup doesn't concern me much, and our bullpen doesn't concern me much either. It's our 3-5 starters that make me want to buy stock in Rolaids.

Was he the John Henry Williams that played on a Chicagoland minor league team a year or two ago? It's amazing how fast cancer kills you - leukemia is cancer of the blood if you don't know it already. Everytime someone dies of that horrible disease, I appreciate my wife's work (as V.P. of the Cancer Society) that much more. 85% of cancer is now curable, but that 15% is what is still hurting families and loved ones. But give it time - there will be a cure, someday soon. I just thought I would give some hope to anyone who has seen the horrors of cancer, and we all have. My wife is someone who desperately wants to be out of a job because that would mean the end of cancer. Usually I post blue or sarcastic humor, but I can't when it comes to cancer. Sorry.

You must mean "but they have Wells and FOGG." And last time I checked, that trade was for Turd Ritchie. By the way, Lowe isn't with the Pirates anymore. Pssst - he was with the Royals last year. But carry on - nothing to see here.

Usually, when you invite people to join your draft, you post a link to the site where the draft is being held - and you let them know the team name, the league name, the password, etc. But what do I know. Take your spam elsewhere, buddy. :headshake Yasny, If you read this, you will be stunned. I needed a "starter-long relief" pitcher in my fantasy pitching staff, so I looked and looked, and ended up picking Jon Garland. GULP. Yes, I was ill for a long time, but I took him anyways. He was the most quality pick at that position. I also needed another closer, so I took Koch. If those two cost me the fantasy title, there will be Hell to pay.

The two earflaps will help him drown out the "boos" when he's hitting .223 in July.

If he didn't have s*** for brains, he'd have no brains at all. Let's give him a roll of Charmin, so when he blows his nose or sneezes, he can wipe what little brains he has on something proper. What a complete moron. As dumb as a bag of hair. :fyou

According to the Angels "beat" reporter," Colon is 20 lbs heavier than last year, but the team doesn't worry about it because "the more weight he has, the more power he has in his pitches." When did a pitcher's weight become a measuring stick to their reading on a radar gun? If that's the case, then have Buerhle gain 100 lbs and he'll be throwing in the low 100's. What a stupidass comment.