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Camby's a nice player if he stays healthy. Good defensively, but his offensive game isn't the same as it was before obviously. I'd rather take Kaman or even take the troubles of Randolph. Randolph's the best of the 3, but with his history, I don't think it would fit well with the Bulls.

Don't get your hopes up too high, but this was definitely refreshing. First win thread in almost a week...

Why is Gavin Floyd so bad?

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I'm already at step 5. I've given up on this team ever since that those two terrible games against Matt Harrison. If you don't remember, we clobbered him in Texas last year.

And this ball game is ovah. Linebrink sucks against Toronto. He's gonna pick up his second loss on the year against them.

QUOTE (Heads22 @ May 16, 2009 -> 02:15 PM) Lind f***in golfed ball four. That was as much pure luck as anything. When you're hitting .319, you have some luck. It should have never gotten to that point.

Leave it up to Linebrink to f*** around and give up the hit. Had him 0-2 too.

Why do our relievers always tend to live on the edge? It's going to come back and bite you sometime.

QUOTE (winninguglyin83 @ May 16, 2009 -> 02:10 PM) They might think differently when they get a good look at some of the crowds later in the season. Being bad is one thing. Being bad and boring with a $100 million payroll is another thing. The 2008 Detroit Tigers are the prime example.

Tim Floyd was f***ed the moment he took the Bulls coaching job 10 years ago.

Went to do something else when it was 3-0, now it's 8-1. What happened to Danks? Not only does our hitting suck, but our pitching sucks too. WTF.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ May 13, 2009 -> 07:40 PM) Man, I didn't realize he'd been that bad this year, sporting a .629 OPS currently. Is this the last year of his contract? Would have to be, 5 year deal signed in 05 right? There's an option for 2010, which is why the Tigers want him gone. If he reaches a certain amount of plate appearances, the option kicks in. I don't know why the Tigers won't contemplate trading him. But if they don't, that's good for anybody willing to pick him up. He's going to get the league minimum and the Tigers will eat this year's contract. So I really don't see why they can't just give the receiving team Mags and some money. They're already going to eat the deal. If Dombrowski just releases him though, I'd like to see the Sox take a shot. We could have taken a shot on Jones this off-season for $400,000 and look how that's worked out so far. Maybe it's not that bad of an idea to pick up a guy who's over the hill. Anything to get this team going would make me happy. Mags could split time with Thome at DH and start against left handers. He could also spare Dye for a day or two in right every week. It could work out, I just don't know if Mags would want to play for Ozzie again or take the role of a platoon player.

According to RotoWorld, the Tigers could release Mags. Anybody interested? If only Mags was 25 instead of 35...*sigh.

It really does feel like we're 10 games under .500. Maybe it's because we'll probably end up with that kind of record by season's end.

I have no words to describe the dislike I have for this team right now.

This is the first time in about 8 years that I've actually semi-cared about hockey. I think the reason why is because the Hawks are the only team that might actually get somewhere this year, excluding the Bears that is. How much of an accomplishment would it be for this young team to just get to the Western Finals or maybe even the Stanley Cup Finals? Thank god that this is happening because the Sox offense is still in hibernation and the games are really f***ing hard to watch.

At least we didn't get one hit today...

This reminds me of that game that Gavin pitched against the Twins last year. We needed a win badly after going 0-6 on that roadtrip to Minnesota and Toronto. Gavin almost threw a no hitter and I think we won 6-0. Or was it 7-0? Don't remember.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ May 7, 2009 -> 07:42 AM) Palmeiro? He'd have been a for sure HOF had he not taken it. My bad. But Palmiero was on the down-side of his career. Manny's still producing.

Didn't expect this, especially not from Manny. First big name player to be suspended, that's got a real bad ring to it.

All this Tyrus talk when I look up at Lamarcus Aldridge's stats and just start drooling. Damn it John Paxson! We'd still be playing basketball if he didn't make that trade...

Is it just me or the do the Sox always suck really bad in early May?

QUOTE (scenario @ May 4, 2009 -> 07:51 PM) Just looked at last year's standings... One year ago today, we were one game below .500. At least that team had a 5th starter who didn't own an ERA near 8.

QUOTE (fathom @ May 4, 2009 -> 07:50 PM) With how good Greinke was pitching, you have no idea if you'll get another chance to put up a crooked number. You never, ever give up the first out when you're trailing by more than 2. We needed 3 runs. 3. If we had done the little things this game well, we wouldn't be arguing about whether or not Podsednik should have bunted. There was one situation earlier in the game where a bunt could have yielded a run. I'd take my chances of getting a bunt down and then getting Podsednik in on a grounder than trying to hit off of Zack Greinke, who faced 31 batters and only allowed 6 hits. 6/31 is a percentage of 19.4. There was a 19.4% chance of getting a hit off of him today and Ozzie had Lillibridge swing away with nobody out and Podsednik at second base, knowing he has a hard time making contact? I thought Ozzie loved small ball... Then it's a no brainer whether or not Pods should have bunted in the 8th because it could have been a 3-1 game instead of a 3-0 game. And there goes your rule about how you should not give up an out if you're down more than 2.