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I think Adkins should come up. He has proven himself able to pitch in the majors. Hell, bring Baj and Adkins up, and try to get rid of Vizcaino. He is absolutely brutal.

QUOTE(Iguana @ Jun 30, 2005 -> 08:43 AM) Who got the Cy young? Roy Halladay

However... was there ever a better time to trade durham? though we might have been able to get a bit more, ray has done nothing since he left to make me pine for his return.

QUOTE(go-sox05 @ Jun 29, 2005 -> 09:05 AM) Buerhle should be starting this game, but i heard there gonna have Matt Clement start cause he will have the most days rest coming up to the all-star game. Konerko is on pace to hit 40 hr's and haave 120 rbi. Is average should be back to normal to, so if those arent all star numbers i dont know what are. Plust, Clement starting means BoSox fans are happy, and Lord knows the MLB isn't happy unless Red Sawx nation is happy. Red Sawx = MLB right now, which is sad.

Well, for once, thank God for Comerica Park, or else that triple was a homerun and they are still playing. Either way, Hermanson took care of business, and hopefully is heading back to his early season form.

QUOTE(brijames @ Jun 28, 2005 -> 02:47 PM) As much as I hate to say it I feel the Sox are going to get swept by the hated Tigers. Call it 30 yr White Sox fan intuition or call me an idiot but i feel this team is hitting the wall right now as proved by 13straight scoreless innings.. The Tigers are treating this series like the world series knowing if they are to have any chance at all they must beat the Sox now. I think MB is way overdue for a stinker of an outing and then with the kid pitching tomorrow and Garcia who seems to pitch great only in big games lately on Thursday we are looking at a sweep. The Tigers can hit the ball and the Sox are going to have to score a lot of runs to win these games. I just don't see them doing it right now. It's hard for me to not call you any names. This is the Tigers, and we have Mark Buehrle going tonight. Have a little faith in your boys. Maddux + Prior > Robertson you gotta have faith...

too bad garland missed the tigs... he would have been shutout city

If we demote Timo, isn't it waivers time? Not that I care, we need Willie on the roster and its absurd to think he would be demoted. It's G-Load time.

QUOTE(Be Good @ Jun 26, 2005 -> 12:52 PM) People can't figure out where I'm from with a Dolphins and White Sox plate right by my brake lights. Similar to this http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewI...bayphotohosting. But I'm not from Chicago, or Miami. and yet... no one cares, either.

QUOTE(qwerty @ Jun 26, 2005 -> 12:20 PM) Your avatar... :puke Ignignok and err are much better :sleep

QUOTE(Gene Honda Civic @ Jun 22, 2005 -> 05:17 PM) Frank, meanwhile, has a BABIP of .167, well below average. You can't really control BABIP, it's all trends towards .300 the more AB's you take. Speed is the only real factor, so I'll acknowledge that Frank will be below league average in BABIP, but that average is going to go up probably to somewhere in the Konerko & pierzynski range (.250). Translation: Frank's batting average is going to rise, so will his OBP. I would really have to argue your sentiment that Frank's batting average will rise simply because of some statistics you throw out there. Since we are talking batting average, let's talk batting average; not BABIP. Over the course of the last four seasons 2001 .221 (injured early with torn bicep) 2002 .252 (148 games) 2003 .267 (153 games, 42 homeruns) 2004 .271 (74 games) Frank has not been a batting average machine since 2000, and I in no way expect him to hit above .300 ever again. NOW, with that being said, I wouldn't complain if Frank hits .265 with 25-30 homeruns (this would be incredible missing two months of the season.) Frank is currently hitting .275, and i would not expect that to go any higher. However, I do think that his OBP will rise, as you stated, because logically he has always drawn tons of walks. However, I'm not arguing against Frank hitting #3. That is his home, that is where he will hit, that is where he is the man... The Big Hurt.

I completely agree, Contreras has confidence issues. The sad part is the fact that he is absolutely dominating when he throws his hard fastball with movement. I don't know what happened and why he can't just change speeds. AJ should NOT let Contreras throw so many forkballs, and the fact that he actually lets him do it shows a probelm with him/management.

QUOTE(Southside hitmen @ Jun 24, 2005 -> 08:14 PM) I think Frank will sit tomorrow and Carl will be the DH I sure hope not... I paid too much money for my seats to not see the Big Hurt.

I still like Uribe as the starter. Ozuna is an excellent utility man, but if Juan is down for an extended period, I believe Ozuna will begin to perform as expected. Just look at that mutant Neifi Perez on the other side of town. he was the hottest SS in baseball for about three weeks until he came back down to earth.

QUOTE(WHarris1 @ Jun 24, 2005 -> 09:19 PM) I am watching a a replay of the Cubs broadcast and Brenley was saying he was watching Sox film with Maddux before the game and Maddux noticed something that occured with almost every Sox hitter that he would take advantage of. Hmm... hahaha, that is hilarious. Honestly, I have never been more confident that the White Sox will tag a pitcher for a lot than I am of these boys against madd dog tomorrow. he's just trying to syke himself up, but it won't matter. he's so slow to the plate that our boys are going to run all over him.

QUOTE(Buehrle>Wood @ Jun 24, 2005 -> 09:08 PM) All-City manager Who's the manager of your All-City team? 100.0% Ozzie Guillen, White Sox (109307 responses) 0.0% Dusty Baker, Cubs (39 responses) that's a close one...

Tribe lost to Cincinatti (hahaha) Twinks are in the 9th against Milwaukee and losing 1-3... (hahaha) heeeYES

QUOTE(nvxplorer @ Jun 24, 2005 -> 08:26 PM) Did you see those explosions in St. Louis today? The Cardinals probably are the "hottest" team. ohhh, snap.

Freddy Garcia... boy did he need that one today!

50!

YES!!!

QUOTE(Capn12 @ Jun 24, 2005 -> 01:01 AM) Dont get me wrong, I still am very glad we made the deal...but Vizcaino has been doing nothing close to a "great job out of the pen" if by great job he meant good at giving up homeruns, then i would agree with him that vizcaino is doing a great job.

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http://insider.espn.go.com/mlb/columns/sto...yson&id=2092535 Happy to be a Brewer. Now there's a concept not many folks are familiar with. But the moment Carlos Lee realized it described him came in April at Wrigley. Shagging before a game. Soaking in the boos. Then hearing one of his old Chicago admirers screaming from Da Bleachers: "Hey Carlos, go back to the White Sox." "Nooooo," Lee hooted back. "I don't want to go back there." Noooo. He was happy to be a Brewer. But more than that, Lee needed to be a Brewer. Needed to escape the South Side to recast himself as one of the most feared run-producers in the game. Check that National League leaderboard, and up there at the top of the RBI column, you'll find more than one Lee. Yeah, there's Derrek – the Lee getting all the air time. But tied with him, through Tuesday, was that other Lee – the Lee the White Sox traded last December to get Scott Podsednik. When Milwaukee GM Doug Melvin outmaneuvered the Blue Jays to deal for that Lee at the winter meetings, the Brewers knew they were getting the right-handed, middle-of-the-order thumper they'd been missing since the exit of Richie Sexson. What they didn't know, says manager Ned Yost, was they were getting "so much more." What they got was El Caballo. A leader. An energizer. A 6-foot-2, 240-pound offensive monster who lives for the sight of his fellow Brewers in scoring position. "That's when the game is fun," Lee said, "when you know you've got a chance to put your team ahead. That brings out the best in me, when I've got people on base." Not that this is anything new, you understand. Lee did hit .323 with men in scoring position in his final two seasons in Chicago. Just no one seemed to notice him swatting in the shadows of Frank Thomas, Magglio Ordonez and Paul Konerko. "Every time I go to bat with this team, I've got guys on base," Lee chuckles. "In Chicago, with Frank and Magglio and then me, I'd go to hit and there was not much left out there." But that wasn't the only thing different about life in Chicago. Lee was a name in that imposing White Sox lineup. But he was never the name. Of course, even Carlos Lee didn't need to read the media guide cover-to-cover to understand why that was. "When you're on a team where you've got Frank and Magglio and Konerko, we were all four guys who do pretty much the same things," Lee said. "Frank's been in the game so long and been so good. Magglio was an All-Star like five consecutive years (actually four out of five). So obviously, people are going to look at Frank and Magglio before they look at someone like me. I was just one of the guys." Transplanted to Milwaukee, though, he's now the guy. And not just when his time to hit rolls around. "I didn't know we were getting a guy," Yost said, "who would be so good in our clubhouse." That wasn't, after all, his reputation on the South Side. In fact, the week he was traded, stories began to surface in the Chicago papers in which "clubhouse sources" painted Lee as being too selfish, too concerned with the state of his own swing and his own numbers. He was portrayed as more of a me guy than a we guy. But Yost said: "I haven't seen any of that. He's been nothing but a first-class teammate." Lee admits his blood pressure did spike a few points over that talk, "because I never thought I was that kind of person. The stuff that started to come out, I was really disappointed in. But you've just got to move on. I'm with a new team. I want to start moving in the right direction, with all that stuff behind me." Well, he started the moment he got to Milwaukee. He pointed his compass toward the top of the Brewers' clubhouse flow chart. And from the first time he put on his Brew Crew uniform, he seemed to be viewed by everybody around him as the central presence in the room. "Everyone on this team knew the void – the big void – he was here to fill," Yost said. When Lyle Overbay was given his 2004 Brewers MVP trophy this spring, he announced he was just "keeping it warm for Carlos." Which tells you what these guys expected Lee to mean on the field. And when the effervescent Lee merely strolls into the clubhouse, said coach Rich Donnelly, "It's like Muhammad Ali just walked in. He's a ray of sunshine – but you have to wear earplugs." Which tells you what he has meant off the field. "He comes to the ballpark laughing, joking and he's singing all the time," teammate Bill Hall said. "He brings some life to this clubhouse. And no matter what he's done the night before, he's the same the next day." And it's obvious, just from watching him bounce through the room, that they feed off his one-man energy plant. Not that they aren't a little worn down by the sound of Lee bopping around, crooning Madison Avenue's "Don't Call Me Baby." "He sings that line a million times in the clubhouse every day," Hall moans. Which would indicate that, as the great singing voices of our time go, he ain't exactly Alicia Keys. "Oh, he likes to think he is," Hall laughs. "But he can't sing at all." Then again, if he drives in about 130 runs, they'll be willing to pretend he's Ray Charles. “ When I got traded to Milwaukee, people would go, 'That (stinks),' or this or that. But you know what? I like it.” — Carlos Lee Maybe Lee could have led in Chicago if he'd stayed there long enough. We'll never know. But transplanted only an hour and change up the interstate, it was a role that just seemed to fit – because of his personality, and because of what he represented on a team with so many young players working to become what he already is. "You never know about people until they're with you," Melvin said, "and you get to see them in a certain environment." "In Chicago, it was different," Lee said. "The guys in front of me had been in the game longer than I was, and I was just looking up to those guys. … Here, these guys look up to me. I'm the guy they rely on to be there every day. "I like to help everybody. I talk to guys. Anything I pick up on the pitchers, I share. I try to keep everybody loose. I tell them it doesn't matter how much they criticize us. We're the Milwaukee Brewers. Nobody expects us to win." But being a leader is about more than making people laugh. And it's about more than just talking the talk. It's about making the players around you better. And Lee has had an effect on quite a few. "Talk to Bill Hall," Yost said. "Here's a guy soaking up everything Carlos does." "As soon as he saw me hit in spring training," Hall said, "he said, 'Dude, there's no way you're going to strike out 120 times again in 390 at-bats. You'll never do that again.' So he worked with me on coming up with a two-strike approach I was comfortable with. And I listened, because he's a guy who doesn't strike out. He said, 'Allow your hands to work with two strikes and put the bat on the ball, and you'll hit better.'" Voila. At last look, Hall had cut his strikeout rate nearly in half and was headed for the best season of his career. But in the meantime, Lee is headed for the best season of his career as well. Melvin says he thought he was trading for a guy who might hit 28-30 homers and 100-105 RBI. Oops. Through 70 games, Lee was on pace to finish with 39 homers and 139 RBI. So suffice it to say Melvin isn't agonizing about trading away one of his favorite players, Podsednik, plus a reliever who might have been his closer, Luis Vizcaino. "When they asked for Vizcaino, I was a little reluctant," Melvin confesses, "since we'd already given up Danny Kolb. But in the end, I felt that for us to get Carlos, we had to do that. "It came down to us needing someone to bat in the middle of the order, somebody in the prime of his career, who had a presence. There weren't many guys like that last winter. We talked about Jermaine Dye and Richard Hidalgo. But those guys weren't going to sign here. And usually, middle-of-the-order hitters are like No. 1 starting pitchers. They're hard to come by." So now that they've found that kind of guy, it looks as if the Brewers won't be deliberating very long over whether to pick up Lee's $8 million option for next year. And that's cool with Carlos Lee, a man who has heard enough El Caballo chants reverberating around the ballpark to know he's finally found a home – in Milwaukee, of all places. "When I got traded to Milwaukee," Lee said, "people would go, 'That (stinks),' or this or that. But you know what? I like it." Happy to be a Brewer. Even happier to be the Brewer. Sheez, who's the last guy who could say that? Robin Yount? Jayson Stark is a senior writer for ESPN.com.

QUOTE(BuehrleTheAce @ Jun 23, 2005 -> 02:50 PM) That should say "fall for a base hit" you're kidding right? "c'mon Pauly, ball four base hit."