JorgeFabregas

That's what being chubby and pock-marked will do for ya. Based on those factors I figured Ron Karkovice would look older than he is. He is not yet 46. What do you think? I'm not sure.

QUOTE (scenario @ Jun 3, 2009 -> 11:16 AM) I swear there should be a law against using small samples to support arguments. How about... last year in a larger sample Wise hit righties better and Anderson hit lefties better? Last year is also a small sample size. Brian already has almost 70% of the ABs v. righties that he did all of last year. Dewayne Wise vs. righties in his major league career .641 Brian Anderson vs. righties in his major league career .673. So take your sample size and blow it out your kazoo.

QUOTE (scenario @ Jun 3, 2009 -> 10:44 AM) Brian, of course, could make this whole thing easier by PLAYING BETTER. Amazing how people want to pick any one thing he does well and wave it like a flag as to why Brian deserves to be a regular and questioning why Ozzie 'doesn't get it'. What part of having a sub .700 OPS are you not paying attention to??? Get a grip. When Brian plays well enough to be a real MLB regular, he'll get the job. Don't blame management for his inability to get the job done. BA's OPS was above .700 before this latest platoon business. Regardless, why should one need a .700+ OPS to start over someone with a sub-.400 OPS?

QUOTE (fathom @ Jun 1, 2009 -> 07:46 PM) BTW, Wise is going to be DFA'd in 10 days. He'll get the majority of the playing time this home stand, and then when CQ returns, he gone. Assuming no other injuries, this is undoubtedly true. Which makes one wonder wtf is wrong with Ozzie.

Body odor, duh.

Without looking at the stats, I am guessing that Oakland has the 1st or 2nd most inept offense in the AL.

Has there been much talk of a calendar curse yet?

QUOTE (lostfan @ May 31, 2009 -> 04:10 PM) How do you figure? Because he ran through the hold sign? I don't know, that doesn't explain why Josh went to 3rd. Fields should've been at third easily, but held up because BA was tagging. Getz was all up ons. Yeah, I guess he should've just held up, but it was a weird situation.

QUOTE (The Ginger Kid @ May 31, 2009 -> 04:06 PM) getz > bekham, right now

QUOTE (lostfan @ May 31, 2009 -> 04:08 PM) KC announcers: "now on his way to third is Josh Fields, I don't know what that was all about" Twas pretty much BA's fault from what I could tell. They did not show a replay of the baserunning.

Getz hurt himself on the slide or something.

Podstastic.

Castillo did not approach his 2008 success in 124 ABs this year in Kanny. He OPSed a miserable .532 and is now listed on Bristol's roster. The last game he played for Kanny was May 17. http://web.minorleaguebaseball.com/milb/st...&pid=543010

Colonel Sanders? He's pitching for both teams?

Calm down.

Glad to see they were holding back Quentin for a crucial situation...

QUOTE (WilliamTell @ May 21, 2009 -> 02:09 PM) Wow I've missed a lot since the last time I was on here. 80 page thread, I don't have time to read it all.cc There are about 4 pieces of relevant info being repeated and/or slightly updated in this thread. You've not missed much. This stuff is fun, though.

It was a joke about Thome being unclutch. No one has taken more undeserved criticism on White Sox boards over the last few years than him.

He's starting today with Pods in LF. Obviously CQ being out puts this question on hold for a while.

I worked at Fannie May for a few months. I dug it.

Yeah, that's what I thought too. I did a reverse image search on the url because I had to find out.

I voted. Semi-related...BobDylan's avatar: Wow, they sure put those pups through a lot in their training.

No, of course not, because American Christianity is, on the whole, wrapped up in a sort of Americanism. There are some who draw the connection, however. For instance, Will Willimon, a Methodist bishop in Alabama: http://www.sendspace.com/file/mgrz8u Edit: I just noticed that you saw a memo. Well, you are obviously quite right on that. Kurt Vonnegut made a similar observation Obviously those in government are most interested in empire, order, productivity, etc. Not the stuff of the Gospels. They'll use the language when it suits them.

QUOTE (tommy @ May 18, 2009 -> 02:04 PM) Dotel with 18 consecutive scoreless appearances dating back to last season. Why are you jinxing him? Why? Edit: He has been crazy lucky/clutch with that bad K:BB ratio.

QUOTE (Jenks Heat @ May 18, 2009 -> 12:34 PM) Let him go, he is on a roll. Maybe when the act is administered by one Chris Rongey?