Harry Chappas

QUOTE (The Ginger Kid @ Sep 1, 2010 -> 11:28 AM) here's the guy i want to see get going. Would love to see him take CQ's spot in RF Are you talking Teahen or Jones? I think Teahen should get a shot as a LHH to break up all if the RHH if Quentin does not get it together. I like Jones once in a while.

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Sep 1, 2010 -> 11:29 AM) I think he already deserves to play out there more than Q. If he is as bad in RF as he is at 3B, it is still a defensive upgrade.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Sep 1, 2010 -> 11:27 AM) Did he ground out to the shortstop? Who?

Choo kills the Sox. This got me thinking as I was watching hte Twins Indians game and the Alex Avila home run lead me to think about the guy. I thought he had homered against the Sox a few times. He has 10 career home runs only one agaisnt the Sox but 4 against the Twins.

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Sep 1, 2010 -> 11:17 AM) Pardon my ignorance but whatever happened to Grady Sizemore? Knee injury

QUOTE (Swingandalongonetoleft @ Sep 1, 2010 -> 11:16 AM) The frustrating part of this is that he did at one point resemble 2008 Carlos. That was a good weekend.

I just want Fred to keep us in the game.

If Quentin could do anything resembling his 2008 self, there could be some real trouble a a brewing offensively.

QUOTE (lostfan @ Aug 31, 2010 -> 07:53 PM) Long read but worth it: http://thetribunalbar.wordpress.com/2010/08/30/753/ This guy's blog covers in detail the rise and fall of the Angelo regime. It pretty much helps explain why the Bears are mediocre, basically it has to do with Jerry Angelo's terrible drafting, blatant and outright neglect of the OL, inability to draft WRs, and fetish for making odd DL choices. He actually started off halfway decent and looking at the drafts and how the team was being built I can actually justify the fact that I used to defend his moves. Since 2007 his drafts have been brutal. So the drafts began to suck when Lovie was given player personnel input after signing his new deal......odd

The scene in the 8th inning of that crowd was amazing there was literally nobody there.

QUOTE (fathom @ Aug 31, 2010 -> 09:02 PM) If the Sox don't make the postseason, I will be cheering for a Rangers/Reds World Series. The Reds could be a very good team for a long time. The cubs really need to hope no other team in that division steps up as they could lose a whole lot of games until the money opens up. Anyone but Yanks or Red Sox.

QUOTE (Jordan4life @ Sep 1, 2010 -> 12:18 AM) At least Scherzer is going today for the Tigers. He's been pretty f***ing nasty since May 30: .214 BAA, 6.77 H/9, 9.47 K/9, 2.20 ERA. and Verlander tomorrow Also I really think Joe West is guessing when calling balls and strikes as there were some terrible calls yesterday with Austin Jackson's AB in 8th topping them all. Kudos to MLBN for the varying games they put on.

QUOTE (JorgeFabregas @ Aug 31, 2010 -> 09:23 PM) He had a fantastic first half for Detroit last year. His success hasn't come out of nowhere. He must have a sign on his back that says "I like throwing too many pitches." Leyland had him throw too much (thus the second-half slide), then he threw 150 pitches in his no-hitter, now Ozzie (who is usually excellent on managing pitch counts) has him throw 130. The guy hit 100 with his last or next to last pitch. I do not think he was tiring. I do not know what Edwin Jackson is going to turn into but this is what an ace looks like. He is also 26 years old.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Aug 31, 2010 -> 02:12 PM) If Manny simply isn't ready to go today, they may find some way to keep him inactive for 24 more hours until the rosters expand, and thus not have to lose a reliever. Dale Tallon agrees with you. Although they could gamble that the game ends before midnight or do soemthing like that and maybe not lose the reliever for the game.

Manny likes to shove it right up the old wazoo when people are against him. The Sox need this mentality and I think he can perform.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Aug 31, 2010 -> 11:07 AM) You can't DL someone for 1 day, he'd have to be on for 15. The best suggestion I have seen is to option someone down to Bristol, whose season ends in a few days, then bring them back (you can get around the 10 day option rule if they are assigned to a minor league team and that team's season ends). Probably would have to be a reliever, someone new, like Santos or Sale. Santos is out of options.

QUOTE (nitetrain8601 @ Aug 30, 2010 -> 06:42 PM) Soldier Field is atrocious, but you can't really blame that on Daley. He wanted an indoor venue to host many different things. Either way, I've never met anyone who likes Soldier Field's design. PLUS THEY HAVE BLUE SEATS!!! As far as the Cell, I like it a ton. They have come a long way with that ballpark. I don't forsee them moving for a while though. I'd probably say maybe in 50 years if that. The United Center is a place that should've been moved. It's in a bad location, but it's arguably the best venue we have. The United Center is actaully one of the easier venues to drive to as all major highways have access to it. As for Daley I never heard him pitch an indoor venue. The Forbes valuation of the Bears and the the debacle that has become Chicago finances are the issues. Daley did some great things for the city in the early to mid-90's now it is a joke. Millenium Park and Soldier Field are the most wasted $1.6B you could have without actually burning the money. There is no reason why the Bears are not in an indoor faciltiy or the Sox playing with a retracatable roof. The Final Four, Super Bowl and now one of the Big Ten tournamants/championship games would be played in Chicago annually. The NFL is willing to play outdoors to get NY a game...... A smart NFL owner should try and move a team to Chicago and build a stadium like this in the suburbs. The Bears could use an onus to get better as they are as poorly run as the Wirtz run Hawks. Chicago fans deserve better.

Aren't x-ray techs about as capable as reading an X-Ray as a newspaper photographer. I get echocaridograms and my wife ultrsounds and the person administoring the test nly knows how the machine works and what they are suppossed ot take pictures of.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Aug 31, 2010 -> 08:01 AM) LOL, I understand it looked bad, but its funny to go back and read this thread with everyone writing off his season. Man, that sucks about the X-Ray tech. Not cool. I bet the guy is a huge Michael Scott fan...I think it is great.

Accordign to Guillen he would not play today if he was on a red eye. A red eye leaves at midnight not 6AM There are thousands of people that got on a plane at 6AM that are expected to work during their flight and as soon as they land. How does Fuentes end up with the Twins in time to save a game almost immediately and the Sox may now play 5 games after being awarded Manny rights. Nothing with this team is ever easy.....I understand it is not their fault.

I like Jenks but he needs to make these easy, jesus

QUOTE (fathom @ Aug 30, 2010 -> 09:00 PM) 2006 was the worst of all...the pitchers had nothing left in the tank by the end. ya but they won over 90 games and were beat by good teams....also as I was watching the 2005 post season I thought that would happen and was ok with it. I think it is more indicitive of the fact that sustained success results from a big money team and deep farm or in the Yanks case the ability to take on $$$ to get over the hump.

I am asking this honestly but the Sox seem to always run out of gas. This year and 2000 come to mind as well as either 2003 or 2004 when Esteban got torched in Minnesota.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Aug 30, 2010 -> 02:43 PM) The only reason he isn't a convicted felon is because baseball isn't releasing his drug tests from 2003 if you believe the reports. There could be a bunch of trafficing and using charges against him to do with that alone. but he hasn't half of baseball would be in jail if that is the case.

QUOTE (bobryansson @ Aug 30, 2010 -> 02:34 PM) Let's carry this to its logical extreme, just as a mind exercise. I am absolutely not minimizing the horrors of the soon-to-be mentioned individual to the completely-trivial-in-comparison level of cheating or quitting in a sport-as-entertainment. I am absolutely not raising the cheating/quitting transgressions to any higher level than to use them as evidence of, or lack thereof, a certain moral fiber that I would like to see in the sporting events I choose to watch as entertainment. If Hitler could hit the ball like Babe Ruth, would you be in favor of him being the DH for the White Sox? For those who say they'd not, yet are in favor of Manny doing so, where is the line of differentiation? I draw that line at convicted felon.....I think Hitler had a decent shot at being convicted of some sort of felony offense. What crime against society did Ramirez comit? He violated his own body but so did a poster on this site on more then one occassion within this thread alone.....and at work none the less.