jackie hayes

A mere 7-1 lead, lol.

Gone. Good job, Frank.

I hope Frank does well. You can't do more than FT did for us. Yeah, he's old and his skills are declining (like all old players). Still a damn, damn good player. Best player for this team, was always a team guy last year, I have to say -- Frank, I'd wish you another championship, but, ya know. I wish the A's the 2nd-best-of-luck.

He'll bounce from the starting lineup back to the bench.

Rollins doubles, the streak lives.

QUOTE(greasywheels121 @ Apr 3, 2006 -> 02:08 PM) Good one, and I'm going with Opening Day. Hawk or Rooney. Rooney. DH or P?

QUOTE(SoxPride56 @ Apr 3, 2006 -> 12:54 PM) AWESOME!!!! I will be there in my Rowand Jersey then!!! So right now Aaron is the only ex-sox to attend? What about Willie? Supposedly Willie will be there.

QUOTE(Gregory Pratt @ Apr 3, 2006 -> 03:22 AM) What's a Rosin Bag? Serious? It's a bag of white powder behind the mound that pitchers use to dry their hands. Just don't use Doc Gooden's.

8 teams? How many players per team? What's the scoring? Haren's available? Wow. That's an odd league you have. It won't be the end of the world either way. Use your judgement.

Crap. Okay, the Ravens select Winston Justice. A penetrating dt would help more than anything, but with Bunkley off the board, they take Zeus's replacement.

That's tough. I'd drop Hunter, myself. I think of him as sort of a middling outfielder. He'll give you some runs, some hr, some rbi, his avg is so-so. Not bad to have on the bench, but I think there's usually someone like that available via waivers. He's more valuable if he's running, obviously. But who knows if he'll do that -- he says he will, but he broke his ankle last year, and he hasn't been running in the spring. Lackey and Patterson are both good strikeout guys. Lackey plays on a good team and Patterson had a great year last season. It depends how deep the league is. But in the 12 person leagues that I'm used to, there are guys like Ibanez, Monroe, Sanders, Dellucci... available via waivers. And I think you don't have much of a dropoff from Hunter in those guys. But jmho.

QUOTE(Punch and Judy Garland @ Apr 2, 2006 -> 12:34 AM) 25 homers and 90 plus RBI as a 25 year old third baseman. Those are good numbers. He's young but since he doesn't have a mullet he is not thought of well here. Watch Blalock surprise many of you. Its moot now that it seems that KW will just deal one of the starters for a reliever Ignoring the mullet thing -- -- he wasn't just bad last year, he was much worse than in the previous two years, which at least isn't promising. He's never been good on the road, and Arlington is a particularly happy place for lhb. I actually think it's fun to watch him play, maybe b/c I keep thinking I'm about to see a replay of the ASG from a couple years back. But last year was pretty dismal. I mean, he was hitting cleanup in a lineup with Young and Teixeira ahead of him, much of it in a park that's great for lefties, and he had 650 abs. Why should I be impressed with 90 rbi, in that situation?

QUOTE(Soxfest @ Apr 1, 2006 -> 10:51 PM) Welcome to the "I am not retiring because I want paid final tour" for DH...........2007 is club option Nothing wrong with that. The Sox knew the risks when they got him. But if the Sox knew it was that bad, they'd put him on the 60-day dl instead of the 15. So I gotta think there's some small chance he'll be useful this year. Not much, but some.

It's never about money, for athletes or anyone. If you have enough money to get hammered at a bar, you've got enough for a cab.

No, I mostly meant the 'trading one of our sp for a closer' type ideas. That would be an enormous waste, imo. P&J -- Blalock? Why??? He just wasn't good last year, and isn't good outside Arlington.

QUOTE(3E8 @ Apr 1, 2006 -> 06:27 PM) Because you don't keep a sixth starter that could be a number 2 or 3 in other rotations. Just not how things work. At this rate McCarthy will hit arb without ever being used as a starter for a full season. That's why you trade one of the pitchers making $10M, stick McCarthy in the rotation, spend ~$1-2M on your 6th starter backup plan, use the rest of the money to address greater needs. In the next offseason, it makes sense. But we can't get a half-decent backup plan now. I don't think anything happens until the deadline, at the earliest, and then only if it's an emergency or someone in the minors emerges as a backup plan. This is just a good value signing. If we need to shunt around monies for 2007, I'm sure we'll be able to do that (at least, if all our pitchers come through this season unscathed), but it's a little funny to talk about trades that far away when we have no idea what needs the Sox will show or our minors will fill in 2006.

Why would we trade anyone? Every team must have a 6th starter, either in the pen or AA/AAA. If any of our 6 sp gets dealt, who's our emergency plan? Cotts? Broadway? Haeger? Do we even need to discuss why those are all horrible options? We have 6 good sp but virtually no depth. The Sox were killed for years in having an abysmal 5th starter. Do we want to be one injury away from that situation?

QUOTE(Balta1701 @ Mar 30, 2006 -> 08:25 PM) You know what might be a really nice result of this sort of investigation? Actually learning who the 5-7% (or more) of players who tested positive in 2003 despite months of warning actually were. Since there was an assurance of anonymity, releasing those names would be an awfully low thing to do. And probably illegal. We will never know. It was far too widespread to locate every single juicer and 'tweak' their career numbers. And, even if you could do it, what really is the hope here? Do we say that the home runs didn't count? Weren't real? Then what really happened in those games? Do we change the records? Change the game logs? Reaward championships? Suppose you show that McGwire juiced, but not at the start. Which home runs do you throw out? There's no reason to throw them all out, except for spite. So where do you start? Do you adjust the pitchers' numbers? And on what basis do you throw these results out? What was MLB's steroids policy when the homers were hit? Sure, they're illegal. So's pot -- should we throw out a guy's whole career line if we can prove he toked? Who gets investigated? How? Hearsay? Reporters spend years compiling info on ONE GUY. And MLB thinks they're gonna get a dossier like that on every single player in the next month or so? What a f'n joke. The games -- which are what truly matter, not some number in a Guinness paperback -- have already been played, and not an act of Bud nor an act of God can do squat about those results now. If MLB really cared about steroids, they'd work to strengthen the existing rules. Instead, they're trying to look good by announcing a hopeless, pointless, quixotic investigation while still chickens***ting over the current testing.

QUOTE(Mplssoxfan @ Mar 30, 2006 -> 04:37 AM) That's antidisestablishmentarianism! Hemingway or Fitzgerald? Hemingway. Little Pussy or Big Pussy?

So what? It won't be in the record books? Or only with an *? MLB doesn't give two s***s about the integrity of the game. If it did, it would have done something many years ago. Our good Bud has had a long span of cowardice that says 10 times more than this pissant little gesture. Bonds is in the record books, many others too. It's over, just enforce the steroid policy now.

QUOTE(bmags @ Mar 30, 2006 -> 03:40 AM) at mizzou there is a strip club... All you need to know. Stay far, far away. Ahhh, my 18th. I remember about 1/2 of that. Early in my freshman year, my roommates threw a big party. Good times. I'm pretty sure of that.

Pujols expected to anchor Card lineup Hunter establishing himself in center Royals SUCK Thanks for the update.

Thx, all. Some followup -- I reject the trade, and I include a short explanation, along the lines of, 'Tejada doesn't help me much when I have Reyes and I need steals somewhere. Overall, I don't think we match up well for a trade' -- polite. He sends another trade proposal, Giambi & Vidro for Pujols (!!!), and an all caps message, "IF YOU DONT LIKE THIS OFFER MAKE ME ONE". Lol, what a sweet kid his parents have.

QUOTE(SnB @ Mar 29, 2006 -> 04:54 AM) conan. Can or Bottled? Juicebox. Boku me, b****. Einwohnermeldeamt oder Ernahrungsbewusstsein?

QUOTE(SoxFan1 @ Mar 29, 2006 -> 02:03 AM) American fishing or hunting? Fishing. Leno or Letterman?