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QUOTE(Gene Honda Civic @ Jun 7, 2005 -> 09:56 PM) After the season last year, the sox leaked that Timo played all season with hamstring issue... Regardless of whether you buy that bulls***, it tells you all you need to know about what the Sox organization thinks of Timo and Ross... Timo is allowed to be on the roster and play the OF while hurt. And when he's healthy they even let him play out of position. Ross isn't allowed anywhere near the roster, let alone the OF (where I think most of us want to keep him away from anyway) while he's injured. So Timo at first tomorrow night. Give Kong a night off while we can watch the midget twirl and jump for the rox fans. See how high I can jump to catch a normal throw. I am a 5'5 midget.

QUOTE(Unregistered @ Jun 7, 2005 -> 12:38 PM) I remember reading his name last night on the Tribune site and praying that they don't draft him. "Lance Broadway" just sounds like one of those players that 3 years from now you'll be saying, "What the hell ever happened to that 'Lance Broadway' guy?" I hate the picks that the Sox sign and everyone is like "Why would they sign him?" cause my guess is that he is a guy they know they can sign cheap, and don't want to be burned by another Borchard clone. Prove me wrong, Broadway. Not happy at all. We should of picked Carillo. Good control, better stuff. Broadway jumped up due to his last three starts, not the entire body of work. We have enough of these "great control guys with a good curve" in our organization that cant hit 90 on a daily basis. We need a stuff guy to mix in. We have BMAC/Diaz/Honel are all control guys with good breaking stuff. I would rather have a guy to break up the mix who has the control and the velocity and my god a sinking pitch. http://www.usatoday.com/sports/college/bas...-carrillo_x.htm

QUOTE(robinventura23 @ Jun 7, 2005 -> 10:35 AM) Ozzie Guillen seems more worried about Frank Thomas not playing for a week than Thomas is. Guillen has fretted over how to use Thomas with the Sox playing in National League parks until Sunday. He said using Thomas in the field is a possibility. Maybe he should of pinch hit Frank last night instead of his Fluffer. Doublespeak from Ozzie. he wants AB's for Frank but in the first instance he can pinch hit he puts his girlfriend in the game. He will have at least 1 AB a night to pinch hit Frank to keep him going. As long as Ozze keeps it in his pants and doesnt worry about his girlfriend getting upset. If Timo was big and red.....

QUOTE(Palehosefan @ Jun 7, 2005 -> 10:03 AM) Yeah I hope nobody expects Carillo to hit 95 regularly, or you will be displeased. Not many guys in the draft process can hit 95 regularly, and if they can they are either a top 10 pick or a later round guy because of their control. Carillo has nice sink on his fastball that sat at 91-92 when I watched. A guy who is thin as hell and can rush it up when needed to 95 and above with sink on his fastball. I would take that in a hearbeat over Felix straight fastball diaz who has no sink and cannot rush it up when needed. Pitchers who have sinkers or a sinking fastball are a must with the Cell playing the way it has over the last few years.

I hope they draft Carillo. Its hard to pass up guys who hit 95 reguarly and have a plus curve and change. He has faced quality batters in his conference and plays in a big time program. His last start he had 113 pitches, he hit 95 on his last pitch. This is Zambrano territory. Enough with the 91mph Felix Diaz type pitchers who have great control and get bombed if they misse on their spots. I would rather have a filthy ace to complement our staff. Gio/Bmac/ and Carillo would give us deep pitching for years. Pitching wins. Lets get the best filthy pitcher.

They should have DINGO throw batting practice today so they can see the side arm delivery ahead of time.

Nice win On another note, you have Frank Thomas who needs AB's. You have a pinch hitting situation. What do you do? A.) Bat Frank let him get as many AB's during this series. Future HOF B.) Bat Everett, he needs his Abs also C.) Bat the fluffer, because your bed will be lonely if you piss off OMIT Ozzie predictably bats his lover and personal fluffer Mr. 197BA. Who promptly swings at the first pitch pulling it softly to the 2nd baseman. Timo runs back to the dugout, gets a playful pat on the ass from Ozzie and then a look of you are going to get a good romp later from Timo. f***ING get over your LOVER OZZIE. Great pitching effort by Garcia. Nice offense tonight. Walker has learned japanese. Gooch is now pulling the ball more, and his hips are flying open trying to pull the outside pitch. Walker has not seen a hitter he cant turn into pull only. f***er.

QUOTE(Whitesoxfan56 @ Jun 6, 2005 -> 04:28 PM) DONT TELL ME TO SHUT THE f*** UP...WHO ARE YOU, YOUR A NO ONE.... f*** YOU ASS HOLE Someone needs a nap.

Barnes is out for 3 months. He broke his clavicle falling in an accident at home. Thats sucks for the rox. Last year we had all of the injuries this year its all of our opponents.

QUOTE(BlackBetsy @ Jun 6, 2005 -> 02:11 PM) I voted Sweeney. He's more upside (risk) than performance at this point. He might bite you in the ass, but he also might not develop any power and become a .290/.340/.400 guy that isn't worth wasting a corner outfield spot on. Anderson, I think, is a major league ready player. I'd personally rather have him on the roster than Dye, but that's not going to happen. McCarthy just needs to resolve his dinger problem - not sure what that relates to - and he's a top of the rotation starter. Those are rare and must be preserved at all costs. Gio Gonzalez is just too incredible at this point to even think about trading. He could be better than McCarthy. You can't even think about trading him until you see what he does in AA to know what he's got. Speaking of which, wasn't McCarthy moved up to Winston-Salem by about this point last year? Brian Anderson is the most likely to go guys. He is major league ready, which is a major requirement of getting a high priced arm or bat near the deadlline. Did you think it was Miggy who got the deal done for freddy or was it our major league ready OF prospect Reed. Sweeney will be ready in 07. Which Ironically enough is when Dye 's contact is up. He has a sweet swing and we are getting away from the home runs. Plus Ozzie loves Sweeney ever since last years ST. Pods in CF, Arow in RF and Sweeney in LF will probably be what it is in 07.

QUOTE(Chisoxrd5 @ Jun 6, 2005 -> 11:58 AM) HA...glad your not the manager!! The least of our worries? Well I can only speak for myself but I get pretty damn worried everytime I see him on the mound with the ball. If he needs work he should go down to AAA for a while, we couldnt possibly let him pitch in that many games up here. Wasnt it Koch who made comments like that last year. I am throwing 91 but if I pitch a lot I will get back up to 98 again. The pitched him more and he got lit up more. We are facing Shingo's older brother on Tuesday Byung Yung-Kim. He is still working it out also.

QUOTE(RockRaines @ Jun 6, 2005 -> 10:11 AM) There are 1 million reasons why Timo will not be off this team anytime soon. They would eat the money, see Ben Davis. Its the fluffer issue.

They really need to consider bringing Baj up in the next few weeks. His stats are pretty good in the bandbox and we need an infusion at right handed reliever. Do we trust Dingo to come into a game, especially in Coors. We get to face Dingo's pitch-a-like in game two.

I figure Pauly, Uribe and Cruddy will all fall over trying to park every single pitch into the stands. This is way to much of a temptation for them. Pods, Gooch and Arow run wild and free men. Run until you cant run anymore.

Ozzie and Pods should be licking their chops at the opps they have to run freakin wild on the Rox. I know Cruddy, Uribe and the rest of the Walker fixed hitters will be swingly wildly for the fences, but we shouldnt abandon smallball at coors.

So let me get this straight. Ross gload is hitting .350 at AAA in his rehab assignment. But cannot join the team until he plays the OF. We need a backup 1st baseman, but we are really concerned that he plays the OF. We already have 5 guys who can play the OF, why is this a requirement. Why have a good defensive 1st baseman to backup Konerko who has a good left handed line drive stick. Another reason to keep his fluffer on the team. When logic fails, Ozzie can make up some serious s***. Gload will sit down in AAA for another month or so. What a f***ing raw deal.

Thank god Crede is so solid over at 3rd base. Next time stretch a bit Sally and catch the f***ing ball.

QUOTE(Jabroni @ Jun 4, 2005 -> 08:36 PM) Yeah, we already know that Timo is Ozzie's personal fluffer in the dugout. The X factor on why Timo is still on the team after Gload comes up.

I am a huge anti-cotts guys, and I have to take my hat off to him tonight. Nice f***ing job. Nice Job offense, hitting the ball the other way. This was a great job of hitting the ball where its pitched. Nice approach.

QUOTE(Gene Honda Civic @ Jun 3, 2005 -> 04:27 PM) Well of the guys who are out of options (I think) and are candidates to be waived, Here's my completely subjective opinion on their likelihood of passing through waivers. Timo - 90% Gload - 40% Ozuna - 35% -- Though I really don't have a good guage on him because any team could have had him prior to the season Willie - 5% -- Almost every team in baseball would find a spot on the roster for him. Vizcaino - 25% -- He's probably not as bad as we think, and lots of teams are looking for bullpen help including us. You are trying to use logic here. Timo is very slow. Timo cannot get on base. So lets bat Timo leadoff when Pods is out. This is crazy, yet happened a few times. Timo is short, Timo doesnt play INF, Timo doest have a 1st baseman glove, lets play him at 1st. Timo is our first option off the bench. Timo is everywhere. Timo and his .197 BA and terrible OBP are obviously some of the "playing the game the right way" that ozzie looks for in a player. If we are trying to view this with logic, here is another thing. We have Ross Gload hiting .345 in his rehab start. We are playing a team where we could use a good left handed bat for pinch hitting. A good glove in the late innings at first. Gload is ready to come off the DL. He hasnt been activated. Why?

QUOTE(Gene Honda Civic @ Jun 3, 2005 -> 04:11 PM) Ozzie is wrong... No team even gave Chris singleton a look after he got Waived recently... He's making half of what Timo did, and producing the same (minimally) if not better. (actually looking for verification on that, Singleton was outrighted. I think that's a different process. Sigleton opted for Free Agency after being outrighted, but will still draw a full salary from TB because he wasn't dropped in the first 45 days of the season) Timo has an OPS+ of 74 and 58 the last two years, and a career mark of 81. His best days are behind him (Am I the only one who thinks he may have a forged B-day too?) Singleton, for comparisons sake, has an OPS+ of 87 and 75 the last two years, and a career mark of 88+. His best days are behind him too. No team wanted a 32 year old 5th OFer who pretty much sucks for $550K, why would a team want a 30(?) year old 5th OFer who pretty much sucks for $1M? Logic doesnt follow suit here. I But last year watching Thriller march out over and over well into July after he screamed for release. Everytime I watched him give up homer after homer. It was just a logical decision. Yet they kept with him because he is a competitor. Bad players+bad results does not help the team.

QUOTE(fathom @ Jun 3, 2005 -> 04:02 PM) I've caught a lot of heat on this board for saying that if Timo wasn't a latino/hispanic player, he'd be off the team by now. I know that's a pretty controversial statement....but it's something I honestly believe in. Pablo is latin. Bye Bye Willie. Too bad your last name wasnt Harrisriquez.

QUOTE(ScottPodRulez22 @ Jun 3, 2005 -> 03:55 PM) Where did Bruce Levine say this AM1000, And also to get me in a worse mood made a comment that he didnt think that Timo would be the first to go because Ozzie thinks he is important to this team. The soxtalk rumors about Timo and his special relationship are true if he sends down Willie or places Pablo on waivers so he can keep his .197 Batting girlfriend on the roster.

QUOTE(EvilJester99 @ Jun 3, 2005 -> 03:58 PM) This just makes me think there is a deal in the works even more... Kenny always says things like that...like Steff said about Olivo... Did he giggle and then say he has to get off the radio also. Thats what happend in the offseason when a FA was about to be signed. Are you going to sign Jermaine Dye. HE HE HE HE HE, Jermaine WHO, HE HE HE HE, Next question.

QUOTE(fathom @ Jun 3, 2005 -> 03:54 PM) Timo is going nowhere. There's not a doubt in my mind. Ozzie values Timo as much as anyone else on our team. If Borchard was latin he would probably be up now playing in RF based on this. Thanks Ozzie. Way to double speak.