Balta1701

QUOTE(HSC's Biggest Fan @ Jun 10, 2005 -> 09:13 PM) Is he available? I highly doubt it tonight.

QUOTE(ottawa_sox @ Jun 10, 2005 -> 09:12 PM) Klesko and Giles are lefties. But with Marte hurt, Ozzie may not want to tax Cotts. You're right, I didn't think about that. With all the lefties in their lineup, we should really save Cotts's arm. He'll be needed either tomorrow or Sunday. Good thinking. I'm gonna hope we see Dustin now to start the 9th based on your point.

QUOTE(Milkman delivers @ Jun 10, 2005 -> 09:11 PM) To other teams or us? I think Marte is still probably more valuable to other teams, but I'd have to say Cotts is more valuable to us. If Marte is on...he's still the best lefty in our pen. He's been off lately while Cotts has been on. If Marte can turn it around, he's still the most valuable lefty. He gets his control back, and still nobody can hit him.

QUOTE(ReinsdorfSucks @ Jun 10, 2005 -> 09:09 PM) does he move into the rotation next year? Hate to say it, but we've got enough starters. 4 out of 5 are signed next year, and Garland is arbitration eligible (and hopefully will get a "Cy Young Winner" contract). And if we need a backup? BMac will have a full year at AAA under his belt. I'm still trying to figure out how to get him into the starting 5 next year. Left handed arm out of the Pen? Very necessary. Cotts can do wonders there. Especially the way he's throwing now.

I told you Cotts would have it.

QUOTE(ScottPodRulez22 @ Jun 10, 2005 -> 09:06 PM) Becasue cotts is on fire! I'd say its because half of the Padres team is made up of lefties. I would rather have Cotts in to face Klesko than Politte. Klesko finally has figured out how to get the ball out of Petco.

QUOTE(HSC's Biggest Fan @ Jun 10, 2005 -> 09:04 PM) Maybe look fastball only and lay off the offspeed stuff. Timo, what a god. Timo got that hit because the hit & run worked. 2nd baseman was moving towards the bag, opened that hole up. Otherwise it was a weak grounder. (smart baseball btw). Although, I will give him credit for at least hitting the ball fair. That's better than the other 3 guys could do.

QUOTE(fathom @ Jun 10, 2005 -> 09:04 PM) Well, thankfully we got the gift run. I really hope Ozzie doesn't stick with Cotts too long here if he doesn't have it. Cotts will have it.

Man, after that wild pitch, our guys haven't looked that good with the bats this inning.

QUOTE(rudylaw @ Jun 10, 2005 -> 06:48 PM) That would be so bad ass if he did. Old man Madux went deep today. Of course that was Wrigley not Petco. "Chicks Dig the Long Ball"

QUOTE(rudylaw @ Jun 10, 2005 -> 06:44 PM) I got $10 on Garland going yard. He's 1 for 10 in his career. So perhaps that means he's due. After seeing Politte and El Duque getting hits...wierder things have happened.

Lineups have been posted for the Sox/Padres game For the AL Central Leading White Sox: LF Podsednik 2B Iguchi CF Rowand 1B Konerko RF Dye C Pierzynski SS Uribe 3B Crede P Garland And for the Padres: 3B Burroughs 2B Blum LF Klesko CF Giles 1B Nevin C Hernandez RF Fick SS Greene P Williams Late lineup today. Seems like someone was tardy with theirs.

I saw this reported by a bundle of bloggers yesteday but actually didn't believe it...some other people have looked into it and yeah, It actually happened. Ok, so Fox News employs a madman. Classy. Really really classy.

QUOTE(qwerty @ Jun 10, 2005 -> 05:19 PM) Usually they have people who set up leagues and such so that they can scope out the talent for baseball. Not many kids have there own things over their... Most of the equipment they use are just old pieces of s*** hand me downs. Soccer far and away blows out any sport that is a given. I mean they pack stadiums with 100,000+ without any problem. Football is big more so here than any where else... because in alot of people's mind out of the usa soccer>football. I am gonna stick to baseball and basketball being a close number two behind soccer. Just so you know...I am more than happy to agree with you on Soccer.

QUOTE(qwerty @ Jun 10, 2005 -> 05:02 PM) The nba has more followers than any other sport besides soccer. In every other continent kids either have a basketball or a soccer ball. Kids in europe are not walking around with baseball bats and hockey sticks the majority of the time. One reason being is they cannot afford the equipment for either baseball/ hockey. Football is not nearly and big as soccer is world wide either. Kids in Europe aren't walking around very much with baseball bats, but what about Kids in Japan and Latin America? Seems to me like a heck of a lot of them have baseball bats. Korea too. China...well Yao Ming might have helped them corner that market, and that's a pretty damn big market. 1 thing though - it seems to me that lots of players in latin America (Cuba, Mexico, Venezuela, etc.) seem to find ways to get their hands on baseball equipment. I think that Europe is probably a fair amount more developed than Latin America, so somehow I doubt that Europeans being unable to buy the equipment to compete in baseball is a workable reason.

QUOTE(peanut33tillman @ Jun 10, 2005 -> 04:30 PM) guys u knew beltre would be a 1 year wonder..or at least i did sure hes been a solid player with the dodgers, but he wasnt worth that phat contract he signed with the Ms this offseason and he wasnt as good as advertised last season..thats all Even if he was a 1-year wonder, if there was a moderate drop-off in his numbers this year, he'd still be worth that contract. He's getting like 12 or 13 million a year. If my 3b plays solid defense, hits 30-35 home runs, and hits .300, he's probably worth that money. Each of those numbers would be a substantial drop-off from his performance last year. And I don't put any of them out of his reach yet. If he'd put up 45+ home runs, .330 average 2 or 3 years in a row, I wouldn't have been surprised if he earned a bigger contract than Beltran. He was undervalued a bit because he'd only done it for 1 year.

QUOTE(ScottPodRulez22 @ Jun 10, 2005 -> 03:33 PM) We still have the beat the pads there not as easy as the indians and rockies! Um, forgive me, but didn't the Indians just take 2/3 from these same Padres?

QUOTE(TheDybber @ Jun 10, 2005 -> 02:59 PM) I have it. It's ok. Not the best, but it works pretty well. I have a friend that's a Cubs fan and he bought it last year and I just piggybacked off him, so I had to buy it this year. I don't really use it other than having the occasional day game on at work. If you really want to see the Sox, though, it's worth it. Occasionally, you will get the other teams feed though. I don't have DSL, but I tried it on my computer using the school's connection when they gave away a free preview week to start 2003. I was less than impressed, although that was probably in part a function of the quality of my computer - despite the fact its new, it's never played video all that well. Too many skips, not good enough images. I went ahead and purchased the MLB internet radio package, and I use that @ school instead. It's also not great in quality - lots of skips even over a fast connection, occasionally the audio will totally drop out and you'll need to restart, but it's better than nothing when you're sitting in an office processing data. I went ahead and got the MLB Extra Innings package from DirecTV, and am very happy I did. I wish I could get the Sox announcers more often, but at least i get the games and our guys 1/2 of the time. (Except when the games are on WCIU - don't they realize if they license to DirecTV, then more people will watch the game? AARRRGGGHHH) If memory serves...if you wait about another month, DirecTV et al. will start discounting their Extra Innings packages because of people like you who don't think 2/3 of the season is worth the full price. I believe last year they ran a free preview around the AS Break, and had a discount associated with it.

QUOTE(Soxnbears01 @ Jun 10, 2005 -> 03:01 PM) the country? doesn't the universal order go 1)NFL 2)MLB 3)NBA 4)NHL I think in the late 90's, right after the Strike and during the Jordan years, you could maybe have flopped #2 and #3. Those were rough times for Baseball, and Jordan made the NBA as big as it could get.

Man, thank God he's protecting our nation's family values. I never felt like we had Jesus in the White House before, but I do now. Wait, wha? (the 2nd part of that was a quote from one of GWB's town hall meetings last year)

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Jun 10, 2005 -> 06:38 AM) Didn't he get something like $65 million for 5 years? yes, that's about right. But that's still not ARod money we're talking. I still think the guy will snap it around, unless he had some help hitting those 40 some odd home runs last year. He's solid defensively, has a great bat, and is stuck adjusting to a new league right after getting hot in the other one. If he hits like this for 5 years, then yeah they wasted their money. But you don't expect guys to go from #2 in the MVP voting to garbage in 1 year if they're not hurt, especially when they're 26 years old. You know, I probably should have said $20 mil a year.

QUOTE(chi-guy2 @ Jun 10, 2005 -> 10:53 AM) should be a good matchup too bad bradley is on the DL I'd also say too bad Jose is on the DL for the Dodgers...if anyone knows the Twinkies around there, it'd be him. Plus, he's hitting like .290 career against Mays and .333 career against Silva, with 9 hr off those 2 (and he has 5 career blasts of Radke, the Sunday starter, although he only hit .243 against him).

QUOTE(Winnin Ugly @ Jun 10, 2005 -> 02:31 PM) Balta- I have all 4 years stats on the 1st page Can you offer up anything other than ERA and W/L? Remember, 83 and 93 are IMHO 2 totally different eras in baseball. The Canseco/Big Mac/Post 89 A's offensive (and possibly steroid fueled) surge hadn't happened yet. So it's hard to just look at ERA's between these 2 era's and compare. On top of that, the late 80's was really when we saw the proliferation of Middle Relief and closers, who could come in if a guy was struggling and cause a pitcher to get less wins. (When's the last time we saw a 24 game winner?) Therefore, it's also hard to compare a 24 win season in 1983 to any numbers in 93. I think that it's almost safe to compare 93 to today, even though I'd bet that the ERA number on an equivalent staff would still be higher this year, due to the smaller ballparks and/or designer steroids.

With the Bulls finally turning it around after 6 seasons of utter futility, you better believe it I'll be damned furious if they miss playing time. I just can't believe that people would be so stupid as to risk 2 work stoppages in 6 years. I think these guys will figure something out. Remember like 2 years ago in MLB, when it seemed almost certian that there would be a 2nd strike, and at the last minute they worked something out? I bet something like that will happen in the NBA. Last second they'll work something out. The only problem with my theory is that if there is a lockout, they don't immediately start losing games, so that makes the lockout a little more likely, and once its started it gets even harder to stop.

Roughly 1990, give or take a year or two. Started watching baseball in 89, watched mainly Cubs games because that was what was on WGN, was watching Sox games instead a year later. Plus, we lived a lot closer to Comiskey, so that helped in seeing a bundle of games every year Given that I was 9 at the time, that pretty much means my whole life.