Anyone think the Rays would make Wheeler available? If MacD and Masset continue to suck, I think he would fit in nicely as a 7th inning type b/c unlike MacD, he's not a walk machine!

Anyone think the Rays would make Wheeler available? If MacD and Masset continue to suck, I think he would fit in nicely as a 7th inning type b/c unlike MacD, he's not a walk machine!

If the Sox decide they need to replace a righty reliever, they have a solid option sitting down at AAA that will cost us less to get (aka nothing) than trading for someone.

A-Rod went down with a strained quad today, looks like he might miss a few games. That could be huge for this week...

 

IIRC, the Sox have always had decent "success" against Arod, but missing a guy like that is never a bad thing.

I was at a game last year where arod hit a grand slam against us. We lost.

 

On the plus side, jeter made at least one error, maybe two.

This is kind of a random question, but what happened to augustin montero?

I hate off days.

This is kind of a random question, but what happened to augustin montero?

 

He signed a minor league contract with Oakland in the middle of last year, and that's about it.

I just got a new Sony LCD this weekend and I'm upgrading the cable to HD. What package do I need to get CSN HD and ESPN HD so that I can catch all of the Sox games?

Directv or Comcast

Sorry, I didn't say I already have Comcast cable and signed up for the Digital Starter and HdTV packages yesterday. I didn't have any time to play around with it, though. Will I need a different package than this?

The Sox are going on quite as tretch here. The 22nd to the 18th with just one day off.

Sorry, I didn't say I already have Comcast cable and signed up for the Digital Starter and HdTV packages yesterday. I didn't have any time to play around with it, though. Will I need a different package than this?

 

Nope.

These are two White Sox "prospects" previous numbers in Charlotte. Both account for about a full season.

 

Player A - .297/.374/.443/.817 in 639 PAs

Player B - .267/.347/.353/.700 in 760 PAs

 

Both players have, at one time or another, led the White Sox in stolen bases. One of these players is in his 5th organization and is generally considered a pretty terrible player. The other is a player some people wanted playing CF for this team coming into the season. Guess who's who.

Player A is Willie Harris and Player B is Jerry Owens

Player A is Willie Harris and Player B is Jerry Owens

 

You'd be correct.

 

What's interesting is that Harris was versatile, seeing as how he could play 2B, emergency SS, and CF/LF, whereas Jerry's left-handedness prevents him from doing that, and the Sox cut bait with him pretty quickly.

 

The one thing Jerry does much better is steal bases, but that alone shouldn't get you a spot in the starting lineup; quite honestly, that should be the last factor that gets you into the starting lineup. If Jerry can't prove that he's capable of putting up something like .300/.350/.350 (essentially Pods' numbers from 2005), he shouldn't be anywhere near the starting lineup.

I didn't see this posted, but, it may have been and I missed it.

 

Joe Cowley, Sox beat reporter for the Sun Times, was dogging AJ about throwing out only 16% of basestealers in 2007. Cowley said he wasn't sure he could throw that many out, but that he could sure steal 50% of the time on AJ. AJ challenged Cowley to prove it. To Cowley's credit, he gave it a try - 10 steal attempts on AJ. Here is the video. Its awesome. You need the audio, but be aware, some NSFW language.

 

I didn't see this posted, but, it may have been and I missed it.

 

Joe Cowley, Sox beat reporter for the Sun Times, was dogging AJ about throwing out only 16% of basestealers in 2007. Cowley said he wasn't sure he could throw that many out, but that he could sure steal 50% of the time on AJ. AJ challenged Cowley to prove it. To Cowley's credit, he gave it a try - 10 steal attempts on AJ. Here is the video. Its awesome. You need the audio, but be aware, some NSFW language.

 

yeah it was posted already and it was in the sun-times couple weeks back. It was real good, Cowley got smoked

haha @ that

It was kind of unfair though, considering that AJ knew he was going to have a runner stealing on him... But Cowley woulda been toast either way.

 

You can tell how out of shape Cowley is by how he was gassed from running 90 feet a couple of times.

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Really random but... can anyone remember that Frank Thomas baseball card that shows him as a little leaguer? looking like Gary Coleman and what not?

 

looking for it online to show someone. was it Classic?

Buehrle schooled Hester.

Buehrle schooled Hester.

Huh?

 

Huh?

Devin Hester threw out the first pitch to Buehrle. When Buehrle ran up to Hester for the handshake he did a little juke spin and went right around him.

Devin Hester threw out the first pitch to Buehrle. When Buehrle ran up to Hester for the handshake he did a little juke spin and went right around him.

 

Awesome. I wish I had gotten to see that.

 

I wonder when the league will put to use the scouting report on Swisher,throw him strikes because he isnt very skilled at hitting the baseball.