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QUOTE(Gregory Pratt @ Mar 20, 2007 -> 08:59 PM) I don't think KW traded Rowand + Young away because he wanted to "clear the way" for BA -- he traded them because he wanted Vazquez and Thome. I'd bet KW would prefer either one of them to Brian Anderson. Maybe Young, but not Rowand. Just because someone throws themselves on the ground and smashes their face into a wall, it doesnt make them good.

Actually Brian is hitting .303 right now. But still. If they trade Brian then everything they told us about building for the future is full of s***. They should of trade Crede the minute he hit .234 and should of sent Garland gone a while back. They told us for years to wait on these guys, and now we are ready to jetison a 1st round draft pick who plays great defense and has some potential so we can put some

QUOTE(Balta1701 @ Mar 20, 2007 -> 05:25 PM) Thornton comes in, and promptly blows away Buck on 3 pitches. See ya. In recorded ST games, not "B" games, Logan has an ERA of 0. Including today. 4th pitch is popped up to Molina. 2 outs. Ricky Ledee coming up. Average back up to .303. Prancers OBP is probably not .303 at this point.

QUOTE(jphat007 @ Mar 20, 2007 -> 05:12 PM) And that's why I don't mind (not that it really matters either way) when you get on Pods case. I get the feeling that some people root for him to fail, just so they can be right, despite the fact that it could help the team. I don't even get a small hint of that from you. None of us root for any player to fail. When you see a player fail for most of the time that they have been here, you dont need to be a fortune teller to think that they may struggle again. He is a leadoff guy and he has to be on base for our offense to function properly. If he plays like he did in the 2nd half of last season he will cripple our attack.

QUOTE(CanOfCorn @ Mar 20, 2007 -> 05:00 PM) I really hope Pods kicks some major ASS this year to shut all you up. Actually, if he hits .280 and has an OBP of .345, I think all of you Pods haters are going to have to eat some major crow. C'mon, Ozuna and Mack with Guch leading off? No bueno. .345 OBP is still not good for a leadoff guy. Aim higher. I also hope that Buerhle has 35 wins and a sub 1 ERA. Dreams versus reality is a stretch at times. QUOTE(fathom @ Mar 20, 2007 -> 05:00 PM) Who would have ever thought after last year that we'd be starting 2007 with Pods in LF, Erstad in CF, and a clusterf*** in the 5th starter spot, while our bullpen isn't improved? Our bullpen is a bit better than you are giving it credit for right now. The prancer erstad combo is really going to be teh suck though.

QUOTE(NorthSideSox72 @ Mar 20, 2007 -> 04:50 PM) Well, Terrero o-fers on the day, 3 AB's, 2 K's, then Anderson walks. After a hot start, Terrero is looking like himself. I'll definitely be upset if Terrero and/or Perez make this team and not Anderson. Perez and Anderson should make the team. Terrero and Prancer should be finding new careers. Erstad can leadoff and be our LF for all I care. Platoon him with Ozuna.

QUOTE(Balta1701 @ Mar 20, 2007 -> 04:43 PM) AJ grounds out to first. Fields singles to right. Anderson batting for Mackowiak. That's something I've never seen before. And he takes a 4 pitch walk. I believe I hear Ozzie swearing. Terrero flies out to a leaping CF, I believe first pitch swinging after a 4 pitch walk. Inning over. Terrero is taking the Juan Uribe school of patience at the plate. If someone swings at the first pitch after a 4 pitch walk, his ass should be on the bench right then and there.

QUOTE(Balta1701 @ Mar 20, 2007 -> 03:50 PM) Bradley flies out to Terrero on the CF track. 2 outs. Of course, if Podsednik could still run...there would be no reason to bunt there, as he could just, you know, run. If Podsednik cant run, then he should be a 4th OF.

QUOTE(klaus kinski @ Mar 20, 2007 -> 03:42 PM) I hope that climate is part of the equasion when it comes to evaluating Haeger above all else because of the knuckler. He can be much more effective in the air at home But this could be used for all 3 pitchers. Danks and Floyd have plus curveballs, that will break a bit more outside of the desert. Danks uses a fastball to offset his breaking pitches, and to set them up. While Floyd has a good fastball, and his issue is control and not the desert.

The first inning wasnt a problem from an offensive standpoint. They got a guy on, they got him over and they got him in. If that is how it works great. I just fear that we wont have a guy on, and then we will be working in a drive the ball on every pitch mode to score runs.

QUOTE(AddisonStSox @ Mar 20, 2007 -> 02:48 PM) Tom, If it looks like a duck, and it quacks like a duck... At this point, I think a very logical step to take would be the admission that this organization has soured on Anderson. So, what has led to such a souring? Could his play on the field have merited such a souring? Yes. Could his off-field antics, work-ethic, level of seriousness, maturity, etc. have merited such a souring? (I do not claim to have any inside sources or first-hand information; I am simply using what I have read/heard to make this claim) Yes. So, rather than place the blame on the organization--as so many loyal Soxtalkers/prospect-martyrs have--can we please start to place at least some of the blame on Anderson? Brian Anderson need not look any further than the mirror for a reason as to why he is being thrown to the way-side at the age of 24. This was a once-heralded top-prospect who is in serious threat of losing significant playing time to a very suspect, injury-prone, declining thirty-year-old center-fielder. Is this because the organization had it out for Brian Anderson? No...a resounding no. Brian Anderson finds himself in the position he is in today because of Brian Anderson--no one else. I just can not continue to sit here and read these posts suggesting the organization has it out for Brian Anderson. It behooves the White Sox organization to have found its center-fielder of the future in Brian Anderson. This organization traded the single most popular player on a championship roster and traded one of the brightest outfield prospects in the game because it felt Brian Anderson was the guy. The fact that Brian Anderson is getting s***canned in only his second Major League season suggests that there is more here than meets the eye. But, rather than use any logic, let us all put the blame on the organization for having it out for such a prized prospect. How can a guy like Todd VanPopple (once dubbed the second-coming of Roger Clemens) get chance, after chance, after chance based on his Minor League merits, but a very successful top-center-field-prospect get s***canned in just his second year? I can not believe that this perception has become reality on this once-intelligible baseball fan site. Ian, I am not someone who gets all hyped up over prospects. However I am using some experience in seeing guys like Crede - who even in 2005 I hated and wanted gone, and Garland who I hated and wanted gone as examples of maybe its worth taking a real look to see if the kid can hack it or not. Anderson had a platoon role for the most part of the season last year. Maybe the kid is a bust, maybe he is Borchard II. But we need to find out. If we had gone out this offseason and picked up a real CF sure ditch Brian. But we didnt, we picked up a guy who has declined over the last few years. Someone that doesnt project all that much of an improvement over what we had last year. I am concerned not that Brian Anderson is not on the team, is that we didnt fill that CF role with a honest replacement. And now we are looking at having 2 guys uptop in front of our thumpers that have poor OBP. It just looks bad from a run scoring standpoint. I dont think the organization has it out for Brian. I dont think Ozzie is a fan though.

Terrero is staring in CF today against Oakland. Good to see that we are really getting to see what Anderson can do, and allowing him to fight for the job.

QUOTE(jphat007 @ Mar 20, 2007 -> 02:09 PM) ok. Just wondering. Disliking him because he isn't good is different than disliking him because he's an asshole, as an example. I am sure that Pods is a sweatheart as a guy. However he is a major league baseball player, and there are a few basic standards for his position. Get on base at about a .360 to .390 level, get into scoring position and run like hell when our thumpers crush the ball. I dislike our leadoff hitter and sparkplug for our offense having a .241BA with a less than 300OBP for half the year. I dislike the same player playing really crap defense. His job is a few things. Get on base, try to get into scoring position for big thumpers. When your sub 700 OPS hitting LF cant get onbase, cant hit and is playing poor LF with no arm. I dont see why this guy is our starting LF.

QUOTE(Gregory Pratt @ Mar 20, 2007 -> 12:43 PM) I personally thought that the Freddy Garcia trade would initially bank on how hard he was throwing in the spring. If he regained his velocity after a full offseason, big mistake; if not, then not. I'm really interested to see how he does in the NL. He will dominate it. The NL is teh suck!

QUOTE(SouthSidePride05 @ Mar 20, 2007 -> 12:43 PM) I know we shouldn't worry about attendance, and it's a tired subject, but I'm still interested to see what you all think the attendance will be like at USC in April. Unfortunately I'm stuck at a job with coworkers who happen to be Cub fans (only 2 other Sox fans in my department) and they always talk among themselves about Sox attendance.. and when it's high they turn it around with talk about bandwagoners. It's just fascinating how obsessed they are with all things Sox-related. I overhear them talk about the Cell all the time.. even more-so than Wrigley. With that being said, I have a feeling they're gonna have a lot to talk about in April. I wouldn't be surprised if most games in April are half-full with the outfield seats and upper deck seats completely empty. Checking w/ ticketmaster and calling for tickets yesterday, April games, like every year, are selling the slowest. I also noticed during the broadcast the other day, Hawk, DJ and Brooks were begging the fans to get their tickets early, particularly for April. Personally, I think they should have cut all April ticket prices in half for "fan appreciation month" (in honor of last year's highest attendance record) and promoted the hell out of it. Again, I know it's something we shouldn't worry about it, but it does put a little damper on the excitement when that's all you hear about it April. The easiest way to deal with this is whenver a cub fans asks you about attendance just tell them the only number that really matters is 2005 which the last time I looked is > 1908.

I am upset about this but this shouldn't shock anyone. Last year he trotted out a groinless hitless OBP less Pods who also couldn't play D. All and all he was rotten. He played over and over and over. Why because once upon a time he was fast. Mack should of been in LF, however really where Ozzie felt he should play was in CF. This is like trotting Crede out to play CF. Even when Brian started to hit a bit, f*** no. Keep putting Mack out in CF. So who really believes that Ozzie will give up on Erstad for a long long time, when he allowed Prancer to have a sub .300 OBP and a .241BA for a half of a year.

QUOTE(Y2HH @ Mar 20, 2007 -> 10:50 AM) Sounds to me like it's already set in stone and unless Anderson has an insane final 1.5 weeks in ST, he's going to AAA to start. Oh well...not like I was the biggest Anderson backer anyway. Start cryin' guys. I think we will be crying when Pods and Erstad are not on base, and our 3-4-5 guys hit all those homers with no one to score besides themselves.

QUOTE(Gregory Pratt @ Mar 20, 2007 -> 07:56 AM) Freddy Garcia's velocity sits at 90 now. His top speed is 90, just like Buerhle.

QUOTE(Kalapse @ Mar 20, 2007 -> 10:32 AM) Ha, he didn't do that one time last year. I highly doubt he changes his ways now besides Erstad was partially brought here for his clutch late game hitting and he NEVER pinch hits for Pods. What if he already has Pablo in the lineup giving Crede or Iguchi a day off? He tends to do that a lot. Ozzie is just setting himself up for failure with this top of the order, no manager would stack the top with lefties especially 2 of them as bad at getting on base as Erstad and Podsednik. Why is Ozzie so worried about the right handed matchups, considering we did very well against righties last year. It was the lefties, and the loogy's that just worked us over last year. Maybe he should worry about that. Here is rotoworld on the subject. Jesus f***ing christ. Anderson has no f***ing shot

QUOTE(Kalapse @ Mar 20, 2007 -> 10:26 AM) So what dos he do in the 8th inning when the top of the order (Pods, Erstad, Thome) is due up and a LOOGY is warming in the pen? If we go by last year, he will allow the LOOGY to come in and quickly strikeout all 3 and then hope for the best in the 9th.

Why the f*** is this crap still here. Aren't they supposed to move this junk around to other ballparks.

QUOTE(SoxAce @ Mar 19, 2007 -> 11:54 PM) Ditto. Looking at him, being a starter is his future and I think he can become a damn good pitcher. A great #3 possible #2 if he can have better control of his arm angles. Has balls and attacks the strike-zone doesn't hurt that he pitches inside quite a bit and doesn't walk too many people. After all that, I'd still like him in the minors though. I don't think he's quite ready yet and major league team or not, this was the Royals he was pitching against. And Tizz yes, I know that you love that he throws hard. He says he wants to emulate the Count. So when does he hit the count up for how to throw that splitter. Count gave that to Freddy late last year and it worked well for him. Imagine this kid with this type of velocity and a splitter, hell even if its only 75% of the counts splitter it would be awesome.

QUOTE(IlliniKrush @ Mar 19, 2007 -> 11:34 PM) Random question, but maybe someone will have an idea. I've got a range extender for wireless internet. The connection strength is not a problem, it works fine. However, every 30 or so minutes, like clockwork, the connection on each computer using the range extender sees the internet connection "reset." The wireless connection icon searches for the internet, the finds it within 10-20 seconds and everything is fine again, every time. I'm not sure if it's the range extender resetting with computers, or the original wireless internet modem resetting with the range extender. Is this just something that happens when using a range extender? Or is there some way to stop this "resetting" effect? TIA for any help. I would suspect that maybe someone is sitting in the same channel that you are. About 90% of the people just go with the defaults on their wireless setup for channel selection. Most hardware picks one of 3 channels(6, 11 or 1). Download Netstumbler from http://www.netstumbler.com and run it for a bit, you will see all the wireless networks in your area broadcasting. If your network is configured for one of those channels and you may want to change it. Use netstumbler to figure out what channel is unoccupied. Remember to walk around the area that you want your wireless to run, because depending on the type of antennae and the power it may hit part of your house and not others. Remember other things that can interrupt 2.4gigahertz, like some phones, older microwaves. Hope this helps.

QUOTE(santo=dorf @ Mar 19, 2007 -> 05:41 PM) So if they litteraly (sic) died in 2005, how would it be possible for them to die in 2006? The answer is simple, vampires.

QUOTE(Flash Tizzle @ Mar 19, 2007 -> 05:39 PM) It's funny how every hit and run I've seen this spring has been in situations where the ball has been low/around the dirt, and if the hitter had not of swing the runner would have had second base easily. Why should that be funny, we have poor plate discipline as a team. Bounce it in and you make get someone to wave at it.