Jake

I'm on the verge of going gay for Carlos Quentin.

In games that pitchers never allow runs to score in the half inning following their own team's score, you win 70% of the time.

QUOTE (fathom @ Aug 10, 2008 -> 12:57 PM) Gavin's finding his release now. For as bad as he's pitched, I have to say this...Lowell's homer might be the cheapest I've seen this season. Better read by CQ and we're ahead. He made some bad pitches, but was never hit hard enough to deserve 3 runs.

Gavin settling in.

A common theme on WS teams is unlikely heroes, people playing over their heads. You could say the Sox have had some of them already, I think we need another soon to cap off our run to the playoffs.

There is no guarantee that Broadway will be horrid at the ML level. We have all seen guys pitch mediocre in AAA and come up to the majors and really do the job. Sometimes it's almost like it's boredom or something in AAA, or perhaps some guys just really respond to the added pressure. Everyone knows that our bullpen is a weakness, we just made it even weaker.

QUOTE (LosMediasBlancas @ Aug 10, 2008 -> 01:00 AM) Are you guys from Wisconsin? A Wisco. friend of mine says flaig for flag and taig for tag etc. Just whatever you do, don't say malk for milk. I hate it when people say melk.

I'm pretty surprised he is on this list.

QUOTE (Baines3 @ Aug 9, 2008 -> 10:58 PM) I'm starting to think that Griffey was damaged good when we got him. The term general soreness is what makes me think that. Heck I'm sure every player on the team has general soreness at some point in the season and plays through it. For all we know, Ozzie asked Griff how he was feeling today and he said I'm a little sore and Oz sat him against his wishes.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Aug 9, 2008 -> 11:17 PM) I wonder if Josh has played his last game as a Sox. Doesn't seem like anybody that matters is high on him anymore. It's time for Chris Getz to get a shot I suppose. Can Brad Eldred play third?

QUOTE (farmteam @ Aug 9, 2008 -> 09:45 PM) I do the exact same thing and get made fun of for it. Crayons=Crans, Greg=Graig, Egg=Aig, Leg=Laig, Keg=Kaig, etc. Isn't that the right way to say those words?

What kind of stuff does Ramirez have?

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Aug 8, 2008 -> 11:46 PM) Well, I think Jerry Owens would have a 50/50 chance of making it through, due to his results this season and his advanced age. I was thinking this as well, there probably wouldn't be much interest.

QUOTE (LosMediasBlancas @ Aug 8, 2008 -> 09:28 PM) Tell you what Jake, if you and I are ever in that situation, you go ahead and try to grab the guy with the big knife and while he swings around and sinks the blade through your eye socket and deep into your brain, I'll be setting the world record for 200 meters. I'm telling you, just take 5 guys and he won't hit anybody. Soon as he would try to get one guy he would leave an opening for another guy to grab his knife arm and it would be all over there.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Aug 8, 2008 -> 09:09 PM) I don't think the Red Sox choked....the Devil Rays are winning this division. You can't take anything away from what they've accomplished so far this season. No, the RAYS are winning the division.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Aug 8, 2008 -> 04:30 PM) I love him, but cheap is something he won't be. It makes absolutely zero sense Philadelphia would pay more money if 3 seasons after the trade, the White Sox loved his play so much they picked up his option. It makes no sense that the better a player you trade away plays, the more you have to pay. The thing is, we're not going to pick it up. He's going to play enough that we have no choice in the matter, and you can't say the Sox picked it up when we simply put him in the lineup.

My initial reaction was that Florida, Alabama, South Carolina, North Carolina, and Tennessee would not stand for this.

Where I live, if someone is getting killed, I would venture to guess people would come out of about half the houses fully armed.

I want the option to vest. He will be a very cheap, big bat.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Aug 8, 2008 -> 12:20 PM) The squirrel story and the Bobby Jenks warm-up story are two of my favorite funny baseball stories in recent years, and both are from Pablo. Gotta love him. Refresh me, if you will.

My mother told me she read somewhere that the man's ex-wife had already tried to get him mental help.

QUOTE (ChiSox_Sonix @ Aug 8, 2008 -> 10:52 AM) Yes, if he was threatening all of them or as someone said, the driver, and they were all in danger i can see the correlation and i'd agree people would probably band together to protect themselves. But with this stroy, at the point when everyone would have realized what was going on, it was too late for the victim. I just cant see, or justify, putting yourself and others at risk to approach a psychopath with a knife just to prevent him from mutilating the body. That may seem callous, but the guy was already dead, at this point there isnt anything anyone can do. Agreed. However, I wasn't there, but it seems as if it would be difficult to know if he intended on being finished killing after the first kill.

QUOTE (whitesoxbrian @ Aug 7, 2008 -> 10:59 PM) So today at my side job, at a sports store, I bet a customer that the Sox would finish with a better record then Texas. If the Sox do, he owes me 2 authentic jerseys (official game jerseys for whatever team, whatever color, and whatever player). If the Rangers do, I owe him the same. And, don't say we're betting nothing because these jerseys START OUT AT $200 each. I figure he has no chance, with the Sox being 13 over and Texas being 4 over. Thoughts? No chance for him. Can you spare a jersey? B)

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Aug 8, 2008 -> 10:47 AM) If he was say, trying to go after the driver while the bus was moving, then of course you have to try to stop him. The first rule for any responder is to make sure you don't become a victim yourself, because all that does is make it harder on everyone. More EMT's required, more blood spilled, more risk. If a person is having a genuine psychologic episode that you can't deal with, and he's not putting anyone else in danger, the rule is to back off and wait for more advanced personnel. The only reason to violate that rule is if he's legitimately putting other people in danger with his behavior. I guess the point I'm trying to make is that I think it would have been hard to know if he was going to quit eating and run out of that thing knives blazing to get his second course.

QUOTE (whitesoxbrian @ Aug 5, 2008 -> 12:36 AM) Just for sh*ts and giggles, we should just vote for Griffey to be on the September wallpaper. We have to, it may be our last chance.