SuperSteve

QUOTE(KWs OK for Me @ May 2, 2005 -> 01:45 PM) To say that people who use Aderol makes them appear dumb is kinda ignorant. I'm not saying you are ignorant person, but when it comes to this you might be. I have not used nor ever plan to use Aderol but I know plenty of people who do, have, and presecribe it. I completely understand why baseball players would use it. imagine playing 162 games in something like 180 days. THat is a grueling lifestyle when you factor in the travel too. Aderol or other amphetamines would give the players the lift, the energy, to get through the game. When their livelihood is based on their performance in a grueling sport one would take that in order to succeed. I am not talking about people who are prescribed to it. That is different. It is the people who take it and don't need it who act dumb. You can't tell me a girl sitting under her desk laughing her ass off at nothing is intelligent thinking. One of my friends wanted to run the entire dorms one day when she was on it, and sure enough she did. Baseball isn't that grueling too...sorry.

QUOTE(Balta1701 @ May 2, 2005 -> 01:34 PM) It's worked for Oakland. At some point you have to decide what you want your team to do...they can be good almost every year if you keep the right people in...and then you can take your chances in the playoffs, sometimes with unproven guys. Or you can be great for 1 or 2 years, have a better chance in the playoffs for those 2 years, and then have a sudden dropoff when you lose those people (see Cleveland in 2000). Personally...I think that our best chance is to try to put together a very good team every year, and hope someone like McCarthy magically does a Josh Beckett and pulls off a miracle during the playoffs. Given how volatile things can be in the postseason...if you're in there, you've got a chance, even if its just as a wild card. Unless of course, you're the Yankees and you can buy everyone and their grandmother to fill your pitching staff. Well they did win back to back World Series'...they also got a ton for Giambi and Tejada. How did it work for Oakland, I cannot recall them trading a SP to use a minors SP midway through the season.

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QUOTE(Balta1701 @ May 2, 2005 -> 01:17 PM) I think moving a pitcher might be a smart move, but I'd disagree with the "after the season" part. As far as I've been able to see, your best chance at getting an absolute steal in a trade is to make a deal just before the trading deadline. If you've got a starting pitcher to move...2 months into the season, you'll have guys lining up at your door offering the shirt off their back if that's what it takes. Look what we gave up for Garcia! Or again, look what the Mets gave up for Kazmir, etc. And if we were to consider moving a pitcher...I'd suggest Hernandez before Garland - assuming Garland only goes through arbitration, both of their contracts will be up at the end of 2006, and Garland has much mor eof a future. So trade a proven guy so we can going into the playoff race with guys who have never been in the majors before?

QUOTE(LosMediasBlancas @ May 2, 2005 -> 01:10 PM) I'm not sure I understand how 'uppers' would help you in a sport like baseball. I can see it in football or hockey, where you have to stay geeked up due to the running and hitting, but baseball?? If anything, I would think they might hurt your game. The only thing I can relate it to is when I have too much coffee just before my work outs. Yes, I have tons of energy, but I have a hard time controlling my muscles sometimes, like they're spastic. In baseball, you need good timing and to be more finessed and in control. The only one of them I am firmilar with is Aderol, and it makes people so dumb...seems like they're high almost. I guess they do get alot done...I have never taken them and never will (no need), so I couldn't say what they exactly do to a person. I have to think baseball players have better types of "uppers" than Aderol, as they do have designer steroids and all. Baseball has a history of this though. Only cracked down on Ephedra after the Oriole's pitcher died...only on steroids after Congress got involved.

QUOTE(Punch and Judy Garland @ May 2, 2005 -> 12:58 PM) Listen, I do not claim to be an expert on drugs. I am not. Are they detrimental to one's health. Sure. I just don't think that sports should randomly test for them. One's performance whould be what they are judged by. If they negatively affect your performance, the system takes care of you. As far as being uninformed on everything else, I do have it on good info that you are a dick Huh? You have a good idea on all this...ya just said ya didn't. You're not an expert on drug testing or drugs, that is what this talk is about. I am sure that I am one of the few to be tested through athletics (a test 100x's different than a drug test for a job). It isn't the kids who don't perform who are the only ones who get tested. I could tell you so many stories including kids who have tested positive for all kinds of different things (I'm talking about NCAA athletes). So something that is illegal in the United States should be allowed in baseball? So clubs should not give a damn about the well being of their athletes? If I am going to put millions of dollars into someone, I am going to make damn sure they are in peak health and stay away from any drugs. I also like your comeback...wow, callling me a dick makes you such a big man. :headshake

QUOTE(Punch and Judy Garland @ May 2, 2005 -> 12:53 PM) I won't even dignify the comments of one of the above posts but as for the last one, I don't think many jobs do drug test after hiring. Huh? You won't dignify any of my posts...Aderol would be a performance enhancer...drugs are bad for people. Shouldn't baseball be worried about the health of it's players. I have seen many people drug tested after they have been working on a job. I have also been drug tested for sports, so I have a good hunch you are very uninformed on drug testing and everything else.

QUOTE(Punch and Judy Garland @ May 2, 2005 -> 12:50 PM) Right, but baseball shouldn't be in the business of doing the job of law enforcement. Why is an athlete any different from a normal citizen when it comes to drug enforcement? I think you're just trying to get a rise...

QUOTE(Punch and Judy Garland @ May 2, 2005 -> 12:48 PM) I am not pro-drug by any means but I realyl do feel that it is not our business if an athlete is using recreational drugs. IF they want to drug test them when hired like a normal job-that's fine but I think testing for drugs is not really our business when it doesn't involve steroids, etc. It's a performance enhancer....

I'd see only 3 year contract at most.

QUOTE(KWs OK for Me @ May 2, 2005 -> 11:35 AM) Aderol is common in baseball now? Wow. That's scary, its popped like tylenol in college, but that truly doesn't surprise me. It works the same way on the body that greenies do basically. They both are amphetamines, speed up your circulation, brain activity, etc. These in conjunction with anykind of dietary supplement i can't imagine would be good for your body, but if you were outlaw it it could very well change the nature of the game Aderol is used a ton on college campuses too. I could write you a long list of my friends who use that crap. I can't imagine it really helping someone in baseball, because it seems to make you, while more energetic and enthusiastic, very stupid. They all act like retards. They end up looking like fools, so I am weary of it being so overused in baseball.

So let's just hope the Twins get a bad stigma about them now.

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ May 2, 2005 -> 09:46 AM) Which way does Cintron hit? We need a RH bat off of the bench really. I would like the move if it didn't cost us much, but as guys get healthy it is nothing we HAVE to do. Switch.

QUOTE(Balta1701 @ May 2, 2005 -> 01:02 AM) Right now we have 2 guys on the bench who can play the infield - Harris and Ozuna. We have 1 backup catcher who can also play a little 3b (and it seems...also pitch?) We will have a backup 1b when Frank gets back. We have 1 backup outfielder in Timo, another backup outfielder in Everett who also does some DH work, and until Frank gets back, we have Gload who can also play 1b or DH. This team is loaded in terms of quality reserves. There is not a single reason to even consider trading for another one unless someone ends up seriously hurt - it would hardly be an upgrade over what we have now, and there's just no roster spot open. Hell, I could see us being a team that has reserves to trade - both Thomas and Everett have contracts that end this season, and I can picture teams (Houston, Atlanta) giving up a ton for an additional bat. There are only 2 reasons why we seem so banged up - 1, a string of bad luck, such as A.J.'s toe getting hit, and 2; the Bean(e) ball war that Oakland launched...hitting Pablo & Crede repeatedly & pitching so far in on Uribe that he pulled a muscle getting out of the way. Give us a few more days and things will suddenly correct themselves. No, we have a backup 1B in Ross Gload when he gets back. I venture to guess it would be Konerko, Gload, Ozuna, Iguchi, Widger, and Dye at the very least before Frank. I don't want to see Frank in the field this season with the ankle the way it is. Only way I can see Frank in the field is if he is crushing the ball and it's interleague.

We have all five locked up for another season IIRC.

Ichiro Suzuki, Vlad Guererro, Jim Edmonds, Aramis Ramirez, Carl Everett, Frank Thomas.

In the keeper here...I have Bonds and Isringhausen...try that one on for size.

QUOTE(Mr. Showtime @ Apr 30, 2005 -> 07:32 PM) :banghead Yeah. EDIT: I did make the changes, and sent it to Heads. Should be up soon. Thanks, ya have no idea how much that helps me plan my week.

Gladiator, Braveheart, Gangs of New York, Zoolander, Space Balls, History of the World Pt. I, Scarface, UFC Greatest Hits vol. 2, Where the Boys Arn't 12 (haha).

Last month it had what channel each game was on...I liked it because I knew when I could see the game. Is there any way to get those on here?

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Apr 30, 2005 -> 04:02 PM) It was said that Gload was hurt a few days ago. Supposedly that is why they didn't go with Konerko at 3rd and Gload at first. I have to imagine Konerko was never going to play 3B.

QUOTE(Rowand44 @ Apr 28, 2005 -> 11:16 PM) I believe Gio and Tyler were supplemental's... Yep.

QUOTE(Al Lopez's Ghost @ Apr 29, 2005 -> 10:44 AM) All I want is the White Sox in postseason play. Something to keep Widger behind the plate, Crede at third and Willie not at shortstop would help achieve that goal. I like Pablo better, and I wouldn't do it Pablo for Perez, so why Pablo and Politte for Perez?

QUOTE(3E8 @ Apr 29, 2005 -> 12:51 PM) I don't buy that. Of the "sucky" teams we've faced Millwood (2), Westbrook, Bonderman, Ledezma (not great stats, but given us problems), and Grienke. Franklin is one of Seattle's best pitchers right now (2nd best I'd say), and we found a way to win that one. Last time I checked, Sexson wasn't Seattle's best hitter either. Let's not take anything away from the Sox by saying they've played s***ty teams, because they haven't. We still have a chance to equal and better the best April in the organization's history. Also, being "only" 2.5 games ahead of the Twins isn't half bad considering 30% of their games have been against the worst team in baseball. I agree. I'd say we did face their two best hitters.

Sunny and Skip...