MiddleCoastBias

Bring back Jerry Owens! Amiright!? Eh? Eh, f*** it... Our outfield is hopeless.

That's a neat and new theme, absolutely love it! Well done, lad.

Great read on Pauli and Walker in the NYT. Link Interesting quote:

Come on, boys- we're taking 3 of 4 this series, Dunn with two moonshots into the jetstream in right. Book it.

My first thought when I saw this thread was that it was posted 2 days ago... Took me a second to remember that there really is a holiday this week

Being that I've moved to Missouri my local news is all Cards and Royals. Found this article very interesting, echoing similar 'board mentality' regarding Walker... http://www.stltoday.com/sports/columns/ber...19bb30f31a.html

QUOTE (Soxfest @ Apr 4, 2011 -> 03:33 PM) KC is still KC they will come back to earth against the Sox. Didn't they start off to an awesome start in the first 20 or so games a couple years ago when Greinke was spitting hotfire? It started off the same way- "they'll come back to earth" but they kept playing well. Well, like everyone suspected, s*** came crashing down on them eventually. That eventuality will be realized today.

What the crap is this, WGN? I see CSN has the cubs' pregame show so I flipped over to WGN for our pregame show... they have some cartoon playing. And in this cartoon they were fighting with card things- except the 'beast' summoned was a plant. Is this seriously what kids have to watch now? More importantly- where is my pregame show?!

QUOTE (ChrisLikesBaseball @ Apr 1, 2011 -> 01:01 PM) Anyone else looking forward to getting a glimpse of the Pirates against the Cubs? I'm not a fan of the Bucs overall philosophy, but I feel like guys like McCutchen, Alvarez and Doumit can be Major League stars if they were on a better team. If they had any starting pitching worth talking about, they could fight to go .500 and mess up that division race like Cleveland does in the AL Central every year. Don't worry, with the Pirates' mentality and payroll they will be gone soon. That team could has fielded some amazing players (for other teams) over the past decade.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Apr 1, 2011 -> 12:30 PM) Are they going to be able to play? http://yfrog.com/h2tnfkvj This is from Mark Gonzalez an hour ago, says it looks good to go.

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Apr 1, 2011 -> 09:38 AM) There it is. NOW it's baseball season.

QUOTE (Kalapse @ Mar 31, 2011 -> 10:58 PM) Those are the last 3 guys on the team I'd want hurling snowballs at me. I imagine a 96 MPH ball of packed snow and ice leaves a rather painful welt. I saw the video earlier and immediately thought of that commercial when they say it's a bad idea to get into a snowball fight with Randy Johnson (can't remember the product, great marketing, right?). But anyway, those didn't look like soft-tosses there, and I love how they used the cameraman as a body shield. But most importantly- almost game time!

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Mar 31, 2011 -> 03:55 PM) It was primarily bottles when it was beers of the world. Green Line is one of those beers that is hard to get even if you are a bar. Its limited production. Edit: I love that you said draught instead of draft. Heres some background on the project: http://www.glproject.com/green-line-project-pages-3.php I LOVE that beer, wish they bottled it. Everything about that makes me want it even more. Now I'm tempted to take the train into the city and a bar with in tap for that game tomorrow...

And how is there no Green Line? I though that beer was introduced as their 'south side' beer?

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Mar 31, 2011 -> 10:32 AM) Gonzales saying that Buehrle to start April 6 vs. KC, Humber in the pen for now Woo! Glad I get to see Burls pitch instead of Humber at Kaufman.

The 1st and 10 crew on ESPN2 this morning picked the AL Central in the WS- Skip has the Twins winning it all, Rob has us losing to the Giants. I know these guys are not baseball guys but still fun to see another person in our corner.

QUOTE (maggsmaggs @ Mar 26, 2011 -> 06:47 PM) Why you heading out to Jeff City? CoMo is just 20 minutes away. See some Mizzou Tiger athletics! I just got a job working on an election so I'll be working out of Jefferson City with a lot of travel to St. Louis as well. In addition to the April series, I see we have a weekend series in KC in September so I'll definitely be heading out that way again.

QUOTE (flavum @ Mar 25, 2011 -> 09:50 PM) First nine games matchups: 4-1 Buehrle - Carmona 4-2 Jackson - Carrasco 4-3 Danks - Masterson 4-4 4-5 Floyd - Hochevar 4-6 Humber - Francis 4-7 Buehrle - Price 4-8 Jackson - Shields 4-9 Danks - Davis 4-10 Floyd - Niemann Bah! I'm moving to Jefferson City, MO in a week and was going to sneak over to KC on the 6th for the game. It will be my first trip to Kauffman (always thought it looked like a great park on tv, heard great things about the environment as well). I was hoping the cards would fall such that I would get to see one of our 'real' starters. Oh well, probably the only game I'll get to go to so make the most of it!

QUOTE (YASNY @ Mar 26, 2011 -> 10:20 AM) It looks like to me. I actually kinda like that. It is a neat concept, though I don't think I would want that as a full-time change. While it good as piping, that would make it the secondary color for marketing purposes, and I can already see those overblown gold hats, shirts, etc.

Is that gold piping (I'm assuming, just can't tell on my monitor)?

I thought AJ's greatest value to us was that he's widely regarded as one of the best game-callers in the league? Do we know how Flowers does in calling a game? I feel it's irresponsible to be talking about getting rid of a clubhouse leader that has great rapport with our pitchers. Replacing AJ's intangibles will be much more difficult than looking at batting averages.

Not to spoil your fruit section but that came out like 6 weeks ago. I just saw the AJ commercial for the first time today; I think it's even better. And might I just add that I think the Sox advertising has been near tops amongst all advertising (up there with the US Army, though I'm obviously biased given that I am the targeted audience). That being said, every commercial keeps getting better (except for the Cabrera commercial, not a fan at all). If you haven't seen it already, check out the AJ commercial here on whitesox.com

I just hope we can bring back Mike MacDougal so I can wear his jersey again. We should probably wait a few more years to let him mature. Anyone want to join my MacDougal for 2015-Closer Fan Club?

Realistically, Milledge knows the consequences of his actions. Even with today's pitchers, you're going to get it high and tight next time up. If the kid wants to do his think at the risk of getting plunked the next time up, I say let him. Maybe he'll learn something.

For Bill Melton's sake in announcing these ST games, we must pass.