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QUOTE(Felix @ May 28, 2006 -> 08:50 PM) As much as I hate watching Garcia pitch (he always gives me heart attacks), I've grown fond of him. I definitely think he'll have the better year this year, and will have more value on the market, but I think that the Sox are more likely to hold onto him and deal Garland to a team desperate for pitching, which there are plenty of. Put feelers out on both of them...see what bids they draw. Take the one that is the best deal considering all things, including the performance of both pitchers for the remainder of this year.

QUOTE(whitesoxfan101 @ May 28, 2006 -> 08:45 PM) I agree btw WHarris1 that it was a bad call...but there are so many bad calls in every NBA game that it evens out anyways IMO. People only remember the bad calls at the end of the game.

QUOTE(greasywheels121 @ May 28, 2006 -> 08:26 PM) I remember Juan giving some credit to Frank, for his success at the end of the year also. So Frank also seemed to play a role into Juan's success the past couple years. And it's quite apparent that Juan has not spoken to Frank or Walt in a while. Perhaps he has been talking to Frank, and this is Franks' revenge?

You know what I think is really going to kill the Suns? It's not Amare being out, it's Kurt Thomas having been out and out of shape since Feb. Back early in the season, the Suns were still playing run & gun, but they were able to do so much much more effectively when they had Thomas in there to occasionally slow down the other team. When you play as fast as the Suns do, you don't need a stop every time down the court like a team like Detroit, you just need a stop and a rebound some times. Without Kurt Thomas, the only size they had left was that joke named Tim Thomas. They can't outrebound the Mavs, they can't slow them down, and they just can't win while playing someone else's pace. If they can bring back Amare and Kurt Thomas next year, and Nash can stay healthy, this team could be frighteningly good.

I can't wait until 30% of the Hall of fame voters or more are stubborn enough to keep the #2 home run hitter of all time out of the Hall all the way to the Veterans committee.

Jim Leyland snuck in during the winter and killed the leg kick.

QUOTE(SSH2005 @ May 28, 2006 -> 07:52 PM) Garland's problem was giving up too many flyballs today. He's a damn sinkerballer, not Eric Milton. I think the fly balls weren't actually the biggest problem. A lot of those fly balls were on pitches that were actually down that the Jays stayed back on and drove the other way. They didn't hit a lot of those for power, or really do anyhthing with them. JG's big problem was that he kept drifting. When he was hitting his spots for the first 5 innings, he was fine. But he got killed on like 5 pitches that just sort of drifted a little too far over the plate. Those pitches to Overbay were just not inside far enough, for example. He had the right idea, he was just about an inch or two off on a few pitches, and the Jays just hammered all those pitches.

Good work to lots of folks, including Garland today. Jon...you had your good and bad today...pay attention to the good, and keep doing it.

QUOTE(Gregory Pratt @ May 28, 2006 -> 12:53 PM) Is it just me, or does Jenks look better when he's in Chicago? (I trust him here, don't get me wrong, and this observation is autonomous from this game. It's just something that's been on my mind of late.) The whole team's playing better at home right now, and Bobby's been getting a lot more chances at the Cell, so it could just seem like that. This run he's been on lately started in Minny, IMO.

BA in. Mack in Left. Bobby in.

Let's wrap this one up Bobby.

QUOTE(BigSqwert @ May 28, 2006 -> 12:47 PM) Trade JD and Paulie for Erstadt. Only if they give us Romero too.

QUOTE(southsideirish71 @ May 28, 2006 -> 12:45 PM) Maybe we can have an exorcism. It seems to have worked for Thornton.

QUOTE(BigSqwert @ May 28, 2006 -> 12:43 PM) Paulie looking bad against bad pitching. Trade him, he stinks.

QUOTE(southsideirish71 @ May 28, 2006 -> 12:42 PM) Which guy is the real guy. The guy who pitched like an ace for the first half of last season. Or the medicore guy who would give up the big inning and you would have to make sure your bullpen was on alert the minute the 5th inning started for most of his career. They're both in there. It's up to Garland to figure that out at this point.

QUOTE(southsideirish71 @ May 28, 2006 -> 12:41 PM) Well its all in definitions: Arnie Munoz and Felix Diaz and Jason Grilli were stoppers circa 2004. Didn't our 5th starter spot go like a year and a half without a win?

QUOTE(Heads22 @ May 28, 2006 -> 12:38 PM) I know that he did look good, but you still can't call 5 ER a good outing. Right now I think some of us are just looking for hope from this kid. The guy who threw those pitches last year is still in there somewhere. We saw some glimpses of him today. He still has the fastball, the sinker, the changeup, etc., but he just hasn't been able to actually do what he wants to with them. Even if he had a s***ty outing today...just showing some positive signs is something to latch onto. We're gonna need Garland if we want to stay ahead of Detroit.

QUOTE(Heads22 @ May 28, 2006 -> 12:35 PM) STFU, hawk He actually is right...Garland looked damn good today for about 90% of his pitches. He just missed on a couple pitches, and those pitches wound up in the seats. He threw a lot better than the numbers will show. No excuse for the ones that wound up in the seats though...a lot of those he just missed locations.

Wheee! Flying baseballs! Wheee!

If the big guy doesn't start the 9th...anger will be present in this thread.

Thank you Kiddo.

And of Course, BMac starts the inning against the Lefty with 2 dingers.

Mack whack tally whack thank you!!!

Pods has more errors already this year than he has any other entire season of his career.

Thank God. Ugh. Good work Brandon and Joe.