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Lineup: 1) LF Ricky Henderson 2) 2B Pete Rose 3) 1B George Ruth 4) CF Willie Mays 5) 3B Mike Schmidt 6) SS Alex Rodriguez 7) DH Frank Thomas 8) C Yogi Berra 9) RF Ichiro Suzuki Rotation: 1) Walter Johnson 2) Pete Alexander 3) Tom Seaver 4) Sandy Koufax 5) Bob Gibson Bullpen: 1) Warren Spahn 2) Roger Clemens 3) Steve Carlton 4) Pete Alexander 5) Nolan Ryan 6) Rollie Fingers (setup man) 7) Dennis Eckersley (closer)

Thanks for A.J. Twinkies and Giants! We can see what you mean when you said he's a clubhouse cancer. A.J.

Well then it's 170-152. My bad, it's fixed.

QUOTE(SuperSteve @ Jun 17, 2005 -> 08:10 AM) Uh, SS. So they're letting him play his natural position full time now?

QUOTE(jerseysox @ Jun 17, 2005 -> 12:13 PM) i think the al east is the best from top to bottom. before yesterday, the yankees were in fourth place. that's a pretty deep division. QUOTE(WilliamTell @ Jun 17, 2005 -> 06:17 PM) Sorry but I'll have to agree to that too. I still believe that Yankee's team will make the playoffs. Somehow, someway they're gonna get in. Why is everyone STILL so quick to give the Yankees, a team that has been floating around .500 at it's best points this year, and is currently only 2 games over .500, so much respect and benefit of the doubt? They haven't shown themselves to be worthy of the $200 million Steinbrenner has spent on them, and they haven't "flipped the switch", like they did last year after a bad April. Anyway... For those of you who are defining the best division in baseball as the one with the best combined record, here's how you would rank them, as of today: 1) NL East 178-155, 23 games over.500 2) AL Central 170-152, 18 games over .500 3) AL East 167-165, 2 games over .500 4) AL West 130-132, 2 games under .500 5) NL Central 188-206, 18 games under .500 6) NL West 154-177, 23 games under .500

QUOTE(Kalapse @ Jun 18, 2005 -> 01:39 AM) Maybe you should take your stats again with Johan Santana. One good season? he's had 2 really good seasons where he had only 14 and 18 starts in each. Then he had his ridiculous Cy Young campaign last year, where he pitched better than Buerhle ever has. Then this year, even though he's gotten off to a bad start he still has sick numbers. A 3.32 ERA, .90 WHIP with 121 Ks in 100.3 IP. In those two years you're talking about, he had 13 and 27 appearances from the bullpen, respectively. I'll admit he has good stats in those years, but don't you think for a guy who's used to starting, it's going to be easier to put up good numbers coming out of the pen? I'll also admit he's building a damn good case, but as of now, I wouldn't want to trade Buehrle for him. It doesn't help him that he plays for the Twins and knowing that if Buehrle were traded for him, we'd have to watch Buehrle pitch for the Twins (an image that would be quite disturbing to me, and I would think to most Sox fans as well).

Better question: Who cares about the NBA Finals this year?

Jake Peavy and Roy Halladay are the only pitchers with equal or better value to Mark IMO. Johan Santana is close, but he's also a 26 year old lefty, and he's really only posted one good season. Everyone else is either too old, or doesn't have the resume that Mark does.

QUOTE(Buehrle>Wood @ Jun 17, 2005 -> 06:58 PM) I look forward to the day that someone actually says they like a certain sports columnist or TV host. Well, when they put a likeable one out there... Seriously though, Rome is an idiot whose idea of a "take" as he so eloquently puts it, is nothing more than regurgitation of the consensus opinion of the media and/or fans. He has nothing to offer, save the abilities to be loud, obnoxious, and annoying to as many people as possible. As others have said here, he shamelessly sacrifices whatever shreds of intelligence and dignity he has on an almost constant basis to try to get people to tune in. His ESPN interview with Jim Everett is a shining example of this. Rather than conductin a mature, intelligible interview, Rome resorts to childish namecalling in a shameless ploy to try to upset the person that has granted him the interview and attempt to garner more ratings from it. Again, as others have said, he's a shameless, spineless, ratings grabber who is willing to tell the public anything they want to hear so that they will keep listening, and most of the time it results in regurgitation of the opinion of the majority of the national media.

QUOTE(whitesoxin' @ Jun 17, 2005 -> 03:57 PM) Jake Peavy

Nice. All team here we come!

Anyone know where I can get a voodoo doll and one of Lew Ford's personal belongings?

No contest. The , because I never have been a Bears fan. Colts fan, and before you go ripping me about fair weather this and that, you had yours in 2001 (Oh boy was that year fun), just my team is making their run last longer and go further.

IMO, he's a much more serviceable 5 starter than our past 5 starters.

QUOTE(Jabroni @ Jun 17, 2005 -> 12:20 AM) The A.L. Central has the top 4 bullpens in baseball. And of course, we're #4.

Probably not, but if enough idiots get the same idea...

Wow, that's bad, but I still think Maggs could continue to be a great player if he ever recovers from his injury.

When healthy, Jose Vidro is near the top of the list. Chase Utley is having a solid season and making himself a viable candidate. Brian Roberts is having a great year, but I think he's playing a little over his head. If Jose Reyes can play up to his potential anytime soon, he'll be right up there. I can't believe Tadahito Iguchi hasn't gotten even a mention as one of the best yet. Still, as of right now, I'd take Soriano's combo of power and speed over any other 2B.

QUOTE(ScottPodRulez22 @ Jun 16, 2005 -> 11:07 PM) The fans will never ever vote Timo in anyway. If some NL fan gets the same idea whateverhisscreennamewas did here, they just might get OMIT Perez into the All-Star game, which is why this is a dumb idea.

I don't think anyone is going to trade for him, I think he'll actually come back and continue his (to this point) stellar career. He may have walked on us and I still dislike him for that, but I can't forget what he did all those years for the Sox.

QUOTE(DBAH0 @ Jun 16, 2005 -> 11:42 PM) Oh I'm goin to hav a friggin field day with this, and I'm going to put in FA signings as well; 1) The Randy Johnson Trade (Garland, Konerko and Anderson or Sweeney) 2) Trading for Jay Gibbons (since the O's resigned him for a year) 3) Signing Crisitan Guzman 4) Signing Russ Ortiz 5) Signing Eric Milton 6) Signing Jaret Wright 7) Trading for Alfonso Soriano 8) Signing Orlando Cabrera 9) Signing Derek Lowe to a big contract 10) Trading for Jerry Hairston instead of Scott Podsednik 11) Re-signing Maggilo Ordonez 12) Re-signing Scott Schoeneweis By now you know where most of these "ideas" are coming from; 1) NO WAY! 2) Nope 3) Nah 4) No thanks 5) Nah 6) Nuh-uh 7) Who would we give up? 8) I think he's going to bust out. He's a SS with power who can hit well and take a pitch. I'd still do it. 9) NO! 10) Who suggested that? 11) When healthy, he's one of the top OFs in the game. We're looking smart now, but unfortunately I think Detroit is going to get the last laugh on this one. 12) If he wanted anything more than $1 million, not worth it IMO.

I'd prefer Lew Ford, but he'll do.

QUOTE(YASNY @ Jun 16, 2005 -> 03:04 AM) I heard a quick run down of the scores on the radio, and if I'm not mistaken, the Twins were the only AL team to lose tonight. Might've been, I know the AL won 12 games yesterday Anyway, just a friendly reminder that the Twinkies SUCK! 14-7 going to the bottom of the 9th after a Joe Nathan implosion followed by the immaculate mopup work of Terry Mulholland Here's to another Twikies loss!

Problem is some NL fan is doing the exact same thing right about now. Ugh, I can see it now. Your starting RF for the AL All-Stars, OMIT Perez! If people actually decide to do this, then that last comment does not belong in green.

QUOTE(WHarris1 @ Jun 16, 2005 -> 09:48 PM) What type of hit will Lew Ford deliver in this clutch situation. HEY HEY HE GOT OUT!!! Lew Ford already used his powers of clutchness in this game by hitting that 3 run homer in the 5th to give the &^$%$#*&^*%^@^#$@*&^$&^%*&$%$@$#@&^#$#@$*^*&%&^%#&&*%^#*^(&^$%@%(*%^)*(&%$^@@ Twinkies the lead.