jackie hayes

QUOTE(thelatinoheat_30 @ Jun 10, 2005 -> 02:50 AM) .305 avg, 30+ hrs, round 100 ribbies and THAT's not a classic slugger? then i dunno what is. plus he was prolly our best hitter last year. I meant it as a compliment. Deer, Kittle, Sosa -- those are "classic sluggers". Pujols will best those numbers you put up, but I don't think of him as a "classic slugger". He does everything well, not just hit the ball hard. Carlos isn't THAT good, but he does many of the same things right.

QUOTE(Buehrle>Wood @ Jun 10, 2005 -> 02:44 AM) With that said, I say the Mods/Admins(what ever they call you guys these days) do a pretty good job cleaning up these parts. They'll ban at the 1st sight of a troll and aren't afraid to lock or delete any controversial threads created by the "regulars". Just to clarify, I think "troll" means something much different here, compared to some other sites -- merely having many people dislike you does not make you a troll. (It takes quite an effort.) I agree w/ this, just don't want anyone to feel cowed.

QUOTE(Jabroni @ Jun 10, 2005 -> 12:16 AM) And successfully stealing 2nd or even 3rd base is even more effective than bunting because obviously you don't burn an out doing so. Yes, I do like successful stealing. When we find a way to do that without the darn unsuccessful stealing, that'll be a great strategy. Once again -- "a classic slugger, Carlos Lee". This idea that we traded Rob Deer is absurd. Carlos has decent speed, draws walks, and hits for average. He's a good all-around hitter, not "a classic slugger". The Sox learn that if you say something often enough, it becomes true?

QUOTE(Texsox @ Jun 10, 2005 -> 12:09 AM) I cannot speak for the other mods and admins but some posters have earned a level of respect and perhaps preferential treatment. Just like the NBA, a known commodity and superstar gets the calls. My thought process a lot of times works like this. Man, that's weird that XYZ poster jumped all over that guy, he's never been like that in the past 12 months. This new guy has been here one week and already he's in a flame war with someone. One flame in 12 months is probably no big deal. One flame the first week you are here, it gets attention. As a mod I feel that Jason (ChiSoxfn) has entrusted me to help in a small way. In turn we trust posters to act like adults and behave at this party. I'd give my best friend the keys to my truck without hesitation, I wouldn't to someone I met a month ago. I trust long term posters to act responsibly and when they get a little out of line, I politely as possible ask them to edit, modify, reword, delete, etc. I can say in the time I have been a mod, every poster who has been here more than a year has complied. The b****ing has always been from someone who has only been here a short time. What does that say? Well, again, all due respect -- but w/ reference to yr first paragraph, it might say that they realize they aren't being treated on the same level as older hands. Not w/ everyone, but w/ some.

QUOTE(SoxFan101 @ Jun 9, 2005 -> 10:18 PM) It really is the newest crop of newbies that have just been causing a lot of problems. Im not saying all of them are but a majority of them seem to be. W/ all due respect, I totally disagree. There are a couple problems, but there always will be. There were problems over the winter, and some have now become accepted. As someone else said, they just became part of the scene. Just scanning the list of recent joiners, you have Milkman, kyyle, Princess, Balta -- all very good posters, in my experience. (Not limited to those -- I had a couple more in mind, but forgot them after leaving the list.) The problem lies just as much w/ posters, old as well as new, who are impatient and carry grudges from one thread to the next. The 'riffing' after a bad idea does seem to drag on and on. It's easy to blame the problems on newbies, but I don't see that. Jmho.

QUOTE(WHarris1 @ Jun 9, 2005 -> 08:56 PM) How is our schedule easier? Who knows? Maybe by the end of the season we'll look back and realize that it's more difficult, in which case it's not fair to us. Unbalanced schedules are going to cause problems as long as you can't predict a team's strength at the beginning of the season -- as long as we have to actually play the games, I guess.

Well, it is unfair, but there's really nothing to be done about it for this season. Which is pretty much what Lohse said, so I don't have a problem w/ his comment. The writer seems to be more upset w/ it than Lohse, who was just stating facts.

Oh, well if they really want it, then I guess it's okay.

This is part of the Phils long term plan to corner the market on expensive 1-inning relievers. At the trade deadline, when a team says, gosh, we really need an expensive 1-inning relief pitcher, they'll have nowhere else to go. And considering the players the Phils keep going after, they'll probably want Royce Ring in return.

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Jun 8, 2005 -> 02:16 PM) I'm not playing. I have access to all of the statistics, and I didn't think that would be fair. For the record, I wasn't being serious.

Unfair. ss2k5 should be excluded -- we're pretty much just guessing how much he'll want to post, after all.

Phew. I'm glad to know that the Sox aren't just picking people on the same page in their scouting reports.

QUOTE(EvilJester99 @ Jun 7, 2005 -> 07:05 PM) Sounds like a "Stretch" Speaking of "stretch" -- he's 6'2" and 165 lb. Now that's some kind of thin.

The subject is "Greg Walker discusses his 'pull baseball' motto". The article, at least the huge part of it you quote, has nothing to do with Walker's hitting philosophy. It's just some niceties about Oh, yes, I know I could be fired just like anybody etc, which I couldn't care less about. I know you have strong opinions, Jabroni, but don't waste my time by misrepresenting something just so you can hear yourself repeat something even I've heard a million times now.

QUOTE(Palehosefan @ Jun 5, 2005 -> 09:25 PM) Gee I wonder where the kids got the racism from? :rolly The whole article is filled with such absurd statements. "The black boy was somewhere he shouldn't have been, although they brought him out there." What do you say to something as mind-numbingly stupid as that? "As Johnson lay unconscious, vomiting and gagging, Amox and three other young men...debated whether to call an ambulance, authorities said. Instead, they loaded Johnson into a pickup truck and drove him 2 miles down a little-used dirt road, tossing him next to a public dump, on top of the nest of fire ants." How the f*** do you make the transition in yr head from ambulence to fire ants?!?! But, as I understand it, it's not enough to show that the crime "happened soley because the guy was black" (in ss2k5's words) -- you have to show that the crime was motivated by the fact that the guy is black. And the article doesn't have much detail on the motivation for the crimes themselves (why he was punched, or how they decided to drop him on the ant nest). So from the article, I'm not sure it is a hate crime. To me, that doesn't make it any less horrid, but I understand that many disagree.

Okay, so the logic is that the current situation is unfair b/c we have too many good players. They won't get as many abs as they 'should', so we have to get rid of a good player just so everything's "fair" -- even if we don't get much of anything in return. That about right? Stupid argument. A team should keep good players if it can't get something better in a trade. Keep them both.

QUOTE(Texsox @ Jun 5, 2005 -> 12:26 PM) Let me get this straight, this format is for people who want an iPod shuffle experience, but don't have an iPod. So, are there many advertisers that want to market to people too cheap to buy their own iPod shuffle? So this is 'Jack' radio, okay. Can anyone tell me how exactly that's different than 'Mix' radio? C'mon corporate goons, don't be cruel. I can't remember any time growing up when that station wasn't on, unless a Beatles tape was in. You might say we rocked around the clock. So no goofy sendoff mixing lyrics from old songs, I'm just sad that the roller coaster trip we took is finally at an end. For now, anyway, the old format is still alive online, at wjmk.com. So it's death is being drawn out a bit. But at least I get to listen to 'My Midnight Confessions' (right title?) while I type -- it's something.

QUOTE(greasywheels121 @ May 30, 2005 -> 01:14 PM) I think I like Wade more than I do LeBron. Carry this league Wade. And apparently you're not alone. From Sam Smith's latest column: Does everyone agree w/ this? I was surprised, but then I don't follow basketball as closely as many people here. Sad to think so many people had Wade going to the Bulls a couple years ago.

QUOTE(Soxnbears01 @ Jun 4, 2005 -> 12:14 AM) and then i see the 2nd thread. it would have been funnier if you had limited it to 1 AND he added a post to one of the PHT Chavez threads. Dollars to donuts he was working up an Endy Chavez thread and looking desparately for news about some Sox minor leaguer or draft prospect named Chavez to make a clean sweep of the front page. Nice work, Tex.

QUOTE(Spod=Ratings @ Jun 3, 2005 -> 06:07 AM) i bet yankees go in panic mode again Drum roll please.... Mt Steinbrenner's rumbling.

QUOTE(Milkman delivers @ Jun 4, 2005 -> 12:03 AM) Two threads started within a few minutes of each other about someone named Chavez. Are you just trying to talk about someone with the last name of Chavez that isn't named Eric? Just what I was thinking. The gig is up, Tex. At least you know you're gonna get traffic.

QUOTE(Flash Tizzle @ Jun 2, 2005 -> 05:52 AM) Looking back in a few years, however, if the next Randy Johnson is drafted by the Royals and they're in contention, their fans won't care too much about these dreadful years. B/c the Expos did so well w/ theirs? I don't know if it's such a big deal that we're drafting low. Johnson was a 2nd rounder, after all. Even if you get the first pick, and even if the guy is signable, you can easily end up with Jered Weaver or Kris Benson instead of Mark Prior. Factor in injury, and you can always miss. Then you see Albert Pujols, 13th round, and you just wanna cry.

QUOTE(Milkman delivers @ Jun 2, 2005 -> 05:50 AM) Can someone explain these two things? Ozzie lashed out at Showalter last year after a rules dispute, at one point listing why Showalter must be jealous of him. And he said that Hunter Wendelstedt lied on a report about an argument and is therefore "not a real man". He added, "I will hold a grudge". No kidding, you?

QUOTE(fathom @ Jun 2, 2005 -> 04:59 AM) Like what he said in the Southtown about Brantley? I can't wait for someone to criticize Ozzie for being a terrible baseball player. Yeah, actually, I hadn't seen that. I was just responding to the linked article given what I'd seen of Ozzie's reaction (basically everything that's quoted in the Southtown, save the last paragraph). The "horses***" comment is stepping over the line a bit, though I don't think it's nearly as bad as what he said about Showalter or the "real man" comment. And dumb, as you point out -- even ignoring the fact that Brantley wasn't a bad pitcher, by that logic, who's Ozzie to criticize anyone's hitting? (Though Ozzie's panned his own hitting ability at times.)

I've been very critical of Ozzie in the past, and I still believe he's made a real ass out of himself too many times to count. And it would have been better had he just shook the guy's hand, fake smiled & excused himself, and walked away. But, this is not a big deal -- Ozzie actually handled himself pretty well here. This was between the 2 of them, he didn't go to the media and yell about Brantley not being a real man. I have no problem w/ that, it's when he's berating someone publicly that it becomes a issue.