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Can't help you 72.

Watching ESPN while the yankees get no hit. Saw the score scroll on the bottom of the screen. 4-0 and a GSHR in the 1st. MB forgat how to pitch. Then later 8-0 and now 10-0. I came down to vent and see what the heck in happening. I see we have one hit. Can't laugh at the Yankees tonight. Cards are getting lambasted by the Red Sox. White is on now so we'l see if he has improved any. I guess anybody can suck on any given night. But, I am tired of the ups and downs of Buerhle. It's one ting to get beat by hitters, but you don't help them along with walk after walk.

It looks like the following Sox games will be aired the rest of June. Might be more of course, but this is what I found so far. 6-14: San Diego at Sox at 6:00 PM ET on WGN 6-19: Red Sox versus the Chisox at 1 PM ET on WGN 6-20: Sox versus Cubs on ESPN (Day Game) 6-28: Cubs versus Sox at 3:00 PM ET (?) on WGN

You need something to show you the real world in all it's fabulous color and magnificence. I am not talking just roses... Gasp and awe in delight at what's in front of you. I am talking baseball here and the Sox going on a win streak. It's up to three now.

Bond(s) is the name and homers are the game. ESPN Baseball Tonight is not about true baseball game highlights as much as it is enticing people with catchy promos for the likes of the Braves, Giants, Cubs and Red Sox. Garland and the Sox deserved more, but at least later in the Sportscenter coverage they showed Garland striking out Bonds and showed Olivo and Jimenez and the game ending DP. I don't like the format on ESPN BT either, but it's the only way to get the final scores and some highlights. What we need is WGN to show more Sox games. I get ticked off at some of the game scheduling done by ESPN too, as well as the Fox Saturday games. If you get their West coast coverage it is almost always the Dodgers. For along time their East coast was the Mets all the time.

I could put up better numbers than the double digit era numbnuts has been toting around... White's not doing so bad... assuming 1 IP per outing, he's averaging 1 scoreless outing per 9, about. So his scoreless IP average is comparable to Loaiza's ERA... :puke on WhiteFlag Maybe we are all wrong and White is ready to turn it around and build on his recent 2 innings of scoreless work.

Do you think that we read to much into seeing people sitting with the bosses? Even read to much just in the fact someone is at the ball park? What experience does Kittle have to manage or general manage the club anyway?

The beginning of the Al Lopez era, which carried through to '65 I believe. The Sox teams battled the hated Yankees to the end almost every year and beat them in '59. Am I foggy in my memory or did it seem the Al Lopez managed a lot of those AL All-Star teams because the Yanks kept firing their manager?

A question I have for these high priced players is this: You are paid big bucks to produce. If you don't produce will you give any of that money back to the team?

One more time for Jose Valentin

Set your alarm and dream sweet dreams.

The more I hear the more I wonder about Reinsdorf. If we have the money what's wrong with these guys in the upper luxury box? If we have the money then why not be trying to sign Colon to a long term deal? Sign Buerhle? What's the take?

Watching the highlights on ESPN Garland struck out Bonds the first time he faced him with a high heater. The at bat in the 4th when Bonds homered looked like a pitch that just basically sailed over the middle of the plate and into Barry's power swing area. I loved it when Marte faced him and got him to pop up on high inside heat. Garland pitched a great game and can be excused for giving up the homer to Bonds. I think a few other hurlers have done the same thing.

Have to do some checking on Wyatt. I do know that the Pioneer League has always had a good reputation. It is a mix of high school age and college players. I have to suffer through Cincinnati Reds ball here, but will be going to some games when the Great Falls Pale Hose come to town.

I liked Ray Durham, but just like Jimenez he had his lapses. I know he had said he wanted to return to the Sox, but I question how much he really tried to make that happen. It is probbaly right that we couldn't have gone adfter Colon, if we had given Durham an inflated amount of money. I think the days of the exorbitant contract may be gone except for a few marque players and anyone signing with the Yankees from Cuba or Japan.

Thought Sox fans might be interested in this story from Great Falls, MT, on the Pioneer Leagure Great Falls White Sox. Interesting to note that Carlos Lee's brother was drafted by the Sox and is in Great Falls. I didn't know that... Sox arrive in town Eight of team's top picks will play in Great Falls By SCOTT MANSCH -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jim Snyder once shared a clubhouse with big-league sluggers like Harmon Killebrew, Tony Oliva and Bob Allison, so he knows good hitting when he sees it. Snyder, the Chicago White director of minor-league instruction, thinks Great Falls fans will be able to enjoy the development of some sluggers when the Pioneer League season begins next week. "We're going to have some guys here who can juice the ball a little bit," said Snyder. "The organization is after pure power; that's one of the things we were lacking. I think several of the kids coming here can provide some of that. It will be interesting to see what they can do." The first wave of White Sox arrived in town Tuesday, a full week before the Pioneer League opener June 17 at Legion Park against the Billings Mustangs. Snyder, who will be in town for several weeks, confirmed that many of the organization's brightest young prospects are ticketed to play in Great Falls. Among them are eight of the team's top selections from the recent draft. Several are still unsigned, including first-round draft pick Brian Anderson. Snyder said the Sox hope Anderson, the University of Arizona slugger selected with the 15th overall selection, will be in Great Falls by next week. Anderson, a 6-foot-2, 205-pounder, batted .366 with 14 homers and 62 RBI this spring at Arizona. In 145 career games for the Wildcats, he hit .342 with 130 RBI. Also slated to play for Great Falls from the 2003 draft are catcher-outfielder Ryan Sweeney (second round), outfielder Clinton King (third round), right-handed pitcher Matt Nachreiner (fifth round), outfielder Chris Kelly (sixth round), right-handed pitcher John Russ (eighth round), outfielder David Cook (ninth round) and left-handed pitcher Frasier Dizard (10th round). King hit .349 with 23 homers and 77 RBI at Southern Mississippi, while Kelly batted .337 with 15 homers and 55 RBI at Pepperdine. Cook hit .345-15-61 at Miami, Ohio. Second-year professionals Bo Ivy and Seth Morris are also outfielders assigned to the Great Falls roster, which means manager Chris Cron may well start the season with a logjam of flychasers. The Great Falls roster also includes first baseman Brandon Bounds, a 6-5, 195-pound 2002 draftee who slugged nine homers last summer in Bristol (Va.); Tim Huson, a 6-2, 200 2001 draftee who jacked four last in Bristol, and Micah Schnurstein, a seventh-rounder from the 2002 draft who starred last year in the Arizona Rookie League. Snyder said third baseman Carlos H. Lee, whose brother Carlos N. Lee is a starting outfielder for the Chicago White Sox, is also ticketed to play in Great Falls this summer. "It's a tentative roster," said Snyder, who played briefly in the major leagues with the Minnesota Twins in the early 1960s and managed the Seattle Mariners in 1988. He was a bench coach with the San Diego Padres in 1991-92 and has been with the Sox ever since. "Sometimes you have injuries and have to fill slots in other clubs. ... Most of our higher draft picks will be here." Snyder said he's been impressed with the Legion Park renovation project currently under way. "It's nice and spacious," he said. Of course, so is the playing field inself. "That's right," Snyder said. "We'll see how these young kids perform. We don't teach jerk-and-pull, we teach stay through the middle. We like to see gap power, and if it's gap power that reaches the fences, that's even better. "I'm looking forward to seeing this bunch of guys hit. I'm scheduled to be only through the 22nd (the completion of Great Falls White Sox' first homestand), but I might make that first road trip with them, too. I'm as excited as you are."

WHAT'S UPPPPPPPP...... IT'S JIMENEZ AND IT'S GONE\ I don't believe it

You gotta love that young talent

Crapola, did I just see what I thunk I saw? Olivo homers!!!!!!!!

Oh well I take it all back. Crede came through. Maybe we are starting to get a few breaks? If we can just get some production out of CF and stay out of the DP's

Probably should have tried to hit and run

I think we are all in agreement to leave Garland in? Manuel plays the 5's too much and loses.

Somebody asked the question about where Rowand was at and I have to ask that too

The CBS line has a better graphics too. I hope that Manuel stays with Garland too. He is doing alright. At least into the 7th.

I was over on that cbs sports line that rafacosta uses. It is different looking than the MLB game day. Garland looks good when he gets ahead. He is battling. Good game by him through 6.