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QUOTE (fathom @ Apr 28, 2009 -> 08:38 PM) It's more like he has thrown almost every freaking change-up high in the zone. Just not his night...hopefully he rebounds against Texas and the streaking Kevin Millwood. Even with a few high changeups, he has had command of his fastball both ends of the plate. It just seems every fastball is tagged, and with Stone calling Pierzynski's pitches it'd seem reasonable that Seattle atleast knows whats coming.

Jesus Christ, they're tagging him. Either he's tipping his pitches or Seattle is reading Pierzynski's calls.

Stone is calling AJ's pitches from the booth. You can even tell that Stone and Hawk and indirectly insulting his play-calling by complimenting Miller from game one.

It's going to get ridiculous when the first American dies from this: http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9...;show_article=1

Game Two about to begin in ten minutes.......... Assemble.

QUOTE (bschmaranz @ Apr 28, 2009 -> 12:12 PM) Mets release Freddy Garcia LETS BRING HIM BACK! EVERY FORMER WHITE SOX MEMBER WHO HAS EXPERIENCED ANY TYPE OF SUCCESS MUST BE RUMORED TO RETURN HERE! FORMER WORLD SERIES MEMBER! COOP WILL FIX HIM! WHY NOT? LOW RISK, HIGH REWARD! HE HAS THAT SPICY LATIN PERSONALITY GUILLEN LOVES! Nothing against you bschmanranz, you were just reporting the news, but I have to throw out these lines before anyone else does.

I'm surprised with the collective bashing of the Simpsons. Several seasons ago, yes, the show was horrendous; but I've felt these last several seasons have been really solid. I believe the obvious problem here is the outlandishness of the stories. It's typically one crazy adventure after another involving Homer (possibly Bart), meanwhile, there's a side story that involves Lisa's intelligence or Marge's parenting skills. To the credit of the show, after so many seasons there is only so much to talk about. However, even with these issues I still can tolerate it every Sunday. Family Guy is a show that ran its course very quickly, with me atleast. I can't even watch it. Add this to the fact that the reruns are shown across several different channels, and they seem to broadcast the SAME ONES over and over. I honestly believe it's a requirement of Fox to show the episode where Peter is struck by lightning and has a visit with death every day. It's a shame King of the Hill will be canceled, though. I believe it's very underrated. I've always wondered, with cartoons in particular, why don't they do something to bring more attention to the show; like begin showing episodes where 5-10 years have past? It'd be a great sendoff, and an idea that practically no show (that I can think of) has done.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Apr 28, 2009 -> 02:08 PM) The belief is that the US strain has already mutated, down to a less lethal form. The real danger would be someone bringing in the more dangerous Mexican strain, which we aren't even caring about preventing. I can't imagine it would be too difficult to check people coming back from Mexico to see if they are having a fever, like they are doing in Asia, and then going from there. I'm not a pathologist, or any "ologist,"" but I've been led to believe the reason the Mexican strain has killed nearly 150 is because, well, Mexico is a s***hole. The conditions these people live in can't possibly be one of cleanliness. And even if there is some Mexican strain that is stronger than the one we've seen, several thousand are infected (that we know of) and only a hundred (again, that we know of) have died. Yes, over a large population that is a lot of infected; but it's not like the Bubonic Plague where a 1/3 of Europe vanished. Also, speaking of The Plague, unlike that disease (which had noticeable symptoms) the flu has generic symptoms. I'm sure if you typed in coughing and headache in WebMD you'd come up with thousands of results. If I was someone intent on creating a deadly disease, I know I'd have it based off of the flu. How does someone distinguish the coughing and headaches from an ordinary, healthy person from those of someone infected with the swine flu? I don't know, it just seems to me that the media is doing a great job of fear mongering. WHO isn't issuing travel restrictions, and the government doesn't seem to care. Didn't Obama come in close contact with someone in Mexico with the swine virus that actually died a few days later? He seems to be fine. If the world is throwing it's arms up over this, just wait until the real deadly virus comes along that kills more than .005% of those who come in contact with it.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Apr 27, 2009 -> 10:20 PM) The interesting thing is that the CDC admitted today they are doing nothing to stop it from entering the US anymore than it already has. They aren't testing anyone as they come into the country, they aren't even asking people about it. They also are not stopping anyone who could potentially have it from coming into the country. No one in the United States has died yet from contracting the disease. Hell, we all may be better off getting it now and building some resistance in the event it mutates. Although I'd have to believe, even if the mortality rate was 100% they wouldn't close the borders. You'd just end up with people illegally crossing to receive medical treatment, or something resembling a movie where border crossings become war zones between migrants and soldiers. Didn't someone within the government say something to the effect of "containment would do nothing" and "its already too late." Well, yeah -- that's what happens with viruses; they spread quickly. Especially those which have incubation periods of a few days. It proves to me if the worst were to occur and millions began dropping, we'd just be writing our own version of The Stand soon enough. The government wouldn't do s***. Just look at this swine flu and how quickly it seems to have jumped across the US.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Apr 27, 2009 -> 12:08 PM) Nix wasn't the starter at 2B. And he's barely played SS at all. Brian was not 2nd in the ROY voting in 2006, and Ramirez also has 62.5% of the number of grand slams Albert Pujols has accumulated playing in nearly a decade of games. Second, Wise was 5 for 13 (.385) and made an amazing, possibly game-saving catch in DET, that's what Ozzie meant when he said he (Wise) was playing well (after he moved out of the leadoff spot). Third, the earliest Wise could come back to the team would be mid-June, so Anderson will have had at least two full months to make whatever impression he is going to on Ozzie and KW, in terms of organizational plans for the future (trade for another CF, platoon BA with Wise, release Wise and/or Owens, let Anderson play until Shelby or Jordan Danks beat him out, etc.). You're good at including random, almost useless facts into your posts. Who cares about the number of grand slams he has had in comparison with Pujols? 13 Abs shouldn't mean anything, but if he determines that to be good sample of determining whether someone was playing good, then so be it. The entire point here is if motivation is the key to why Guillen is suggesting Anderson's role in CF may be reevaluated at a later time, why not Ramirez as well? Couldn't you just as easily say after a full season scouting reports have determined Alexi's weaknesses, and as of yet, he has yet to adjust? Up until these last two days, it's not even as if he has had good ABs. They have been atrocious. Let's not ignore his defense, either. It reminds me of people who have confidence in Contreras because of what he did in the past. The past is gone, and there's no guarantee what happened before will happen again. Especially with Contreras and his disintegrating body. With Alexi, however, you just can't sit on his accomplishments of last year and give him a pass if his struggles continue. We don't have any other quality options for SS, but what I feel is even if you have NO intention on removing Ramirez, why not atleast give him a feeling you would? Is this not what many people in this thread are suggesting with the entire "light a fire, keep him motivated" argument?

Guillen should be giving this same speech to Ramirez by suggesting when Nix returns everything may be reevaluated. If it's all about motivation and not having him Anderson feell comfortable, we may as well apply it to other positions, right?

Has anyone ever seen AJ throw out a runner by that large of a margin?

QUOTE (kyyle23 @ Apr 26, 2009 -> 01:13 PM) Can anyone explain to me how the CATCHER just scored on a GROUND OUT TO THE PITCHER!!!!??????!!!!! And I am asking honestly because I am watching gamecast cobra commander wants you to enter the chat.

QUOTE (fathom @ Apr 26, 2009 -> 12:28 PM) The sooner he's out of the rotation and sent to the glue factory, the better. That just wont happen overnight. Contreras is a veteran, has had proven success, has that spicey Latin pride, is emotional; you know, all the excuses that will be thrown out when he's out there game after game giving up runs.

QUOTE (fathom @ Apr 26, 2009 -> 12:23 PM) That was demoralizing. I'm so sick of the awful at bats Thome is giving this team. He's not even drawing walks like he used to. His swing has definitely slowed down since last season. He's still strong enough to pop one over the LCF wall, but it just seems like he cant turn around on ANY pitches.

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This is one of those rare games where NO ONE is exempt from criticism. Pitching sucked, offense sucked, defense sucked. It was just an embarrassing game to watch.

QUOTE (earthshiner @ Apr 24, 2009 -> 10:09 PM) why not. can't be worse than we've seen so far. Plus Coop knows what Viz needs to do. He needs to gain 5 mph on his fastball. Cooper can't exactly work that.

NO. No more Jizz Can. And can we please we stop talking about bringing back former players? I would like to offer a suggestion for the administrators of this website. Find the complete roster of former White Sox players within the, lets say, 5 years and put them in the language filter.

I don't know why Ramirez even attempted to put it in his glove. If he wants to make that play he has to bare hand it. You're not going to have enough time to make the transfer from glove to hand and then throwing it to first in time.

Has anyone ever heard Egbert talk? Does he have that annoying Staten Island accent?

0-2. Time to throw a changeup in the dirt.

QUOTE (southsideirish71 @ Apr 24, 2009 -> 08:05 PM) That was a rotten display of hitting with RISP. Dye swung at a pitch near his head. And before that one in the left hand hitters box. I'd really like to see Tornoto's hitters that impatient, swinging at two straight bad pitches well out of the zone with RISP and 2 outs.

This is the part of the game where Dye hits a fly ball that, had it been less than 2 outs, would have scored Anderson.