Harry Chappas

QUOTE (SouthsideDon48 @ Mar 24, 2009 -> 03:22 PM) I don't think so at all. I just think he's falling victim to a bad rash of injuries and natural declination due to age. Now Andruw Jones, that's someone I think was on PEDs. Travis Hafner came out of nowhere and grew quickly and then became an injury machine now he has shrunken. The doubts of PED's to Hafner are probably as comparable as wheather Sosa did them. Also I think Poreda goes to AAA to work on becoming a starter as he could be a top of the rotation guy. I think he will not get enough work out of the pen.

QUOTE (scenario @ Mar 24, 2009 -> 01:46 PM) Whichever catcher we bring north (Miller or Lucy) requires an addition to the 40-man roster. So, it will be interesting to see who is removed to create an opening. Most likely one of Owens or Wise.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Mar 24, 2009 -> 07:42 AM) I can't find the article now, but I think I read something like the Tigers were going to lose a huge chunk of their season ticketholders and sponsors. I think they are projecting to lose about a million people in total attendance alone. Isn't it somewhere in Soxtalk?????? That was where I read about it.

QUOTE (Buehrle>Wood @ Mar 23, 2009 -> 01:48 PM) Should be done every game. Those who think it would water it down by doing that are flat out wrong. Look no further than Penn State football or Illinois basketball. Seeing a solid one color never gets old. Except it would lose its luster when half of the crowd is black and half is green.

QUOTE (maggsmaggs @ Mar 21, 2009 -> 07:59 PM) Yeah. Bad feeling he could end up with the Tigers, if he starts slipping. MLB draft is the only draft (well NFL sometimes this happens, but not like MLB) where the best players do not go to the worst teams. That really needs to change. Det is running low on cash. Washington will take. $50M for this guy is worth it. He will be their Opening Day starter next year.

If Alexi and Getz mesh this year and do their job, what happens to Beckham........ I say this because Getz could be the player they need and want at the top of the order and have been loking for, for some time. This solidifes the defense as it allows Anderson to play center.

Gotta tell ya it was a pretty good piece. The MLB Network seems to not really bias anyone and are honest. Brian Anderson was all over it. This was the first place you would have heard Fields/Anderson at lead-off and the other media went with it.

QUOTE (elrockinMT @ Mar 20, 2009 -> 04:27 PM) It isn't to increase his trade value it is to get him ready to play CF everyday for the Sox I would imagine so as well.

I think you are going to see Anderson play every day and get a ton of AB's in an effort to get him enough looks to start the season or increase his trade value. As for Jose and Bart, tomorrow and Sunday are more important than today. Hitters are way ahead of them right now. Also they are the #4 and #5.

Anderson at lead-off would be no worse than Owens or Wise.

I really do not think people understand how bad Owens and Wise are.......

I think Lilly makes the team as the 4th outfielder and back-up SS with Anderson starting in CF and Getz leading off. Lilly, Betemit, a catcher, and Wise/Owens make the team and Nix replaces Wise/Owens when healthy.

I was out of comission when NCORG or whatever he went by left his board. I followed him, HSC, Steff and.......Baggio? that dude was a great poster is he still around? What was the story with the Hawaiin dude (NCORG) that hung with Reinsdorf and was one of only three poeple to have seen the diminished skills clause. I remember when he called me a teenage punk who had obviously never been in the city of Chicago. I was workign in the Loop at the time and went off on him. Why'd he leave?

QUOTE (DBAHO @ Mar 19, 2009 -> 02:23 PM) I was going to say Pierre Chang's daughter, but that can't be right since we've seen her father before. Yes but Dr. Chang also started this season off with a baby scene which later included Daniel.......... What is Lepdius role in 1977 as he did not flash but maybe it was only the Oceanic 6 that could flash and thus another reason why Ben didn't as well.

QUOTE (DBAHO @ Mar 19, 2009 -> 11:25 AM) I guess this shows that Locke is in the present also and not in the past. Seeing as he spoke to the folks that Ben, Sun and Lepidus left behind, I would surmise that you are correct. I am going to go back and watch this season all over again. I am drawing a blank as to Ben being in a hospitla bed..... Lasst night's episode was good but it made me dizzy.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Mar 19, 2009 -> 09:50 AM) Getz played 15 games in LF in 2008 with Charlotte, but that is the sum total of his minor league OF experience. He maybe could become a CF, but, even under the best circumstances, it would take some time to get acclimated. Sorry for not being clearer I did not infer that Getz would move to center instead that he would hit lead-off instead of the buffons that they are trying to force in there.

QUOTE (kyyle23 @ Mar 19, 2009 -> 09:12 AM) Im guessing it was B&B that roasted this guy? If you call them and start making outlandish claims they will definitely bully you into backing up that claim with some sort of reasoning. And that is usually when people say some duuuuuuumb things That is exactly what happened. The caller claimed that Orton could some better throws than Cutler and they kept yelling, "what throw"....then he got nervous and spouted out the deep ball. It was really funny actually.

I think the team is trying to keep the pressure off of Getz by feeding the media and everyone all kinds of s*** about the pressure he will be under. This spring is only adding ot his confidence and helping him out. On April 6th he will be the first White Sox to step to the plate and Brian Anderson will be in center. The radio talk about Wise and Getz made those guys sound like buffons. Owens and Wise have zero upside. This is not like Swisher last year where he had some sort of success that did not translate. Getz at worst will be Owens and Wise.

QUOTE (southsideirish71 @ Mar 18, 2009 -> 10:03 PM) Some dufus called up the score yesterday and was arguing we didn't need Jay Culter because Kyle did everything better than him. When pressed on what specific QB function Kyle did better, the moron said. He throws the deep ball better. They ripped him up and down the radio for that dumb comment. If you believe that Kyle throws a good deep ball, then you don't watch the games. That was priceless although he was bullied into saying something.

QUOTE (Chisoxfn @ Mar 18, 2009 -> 04:35 PM) That isn't the worse idea, especially if the Sox happened to have another left handed bat for the middle portion of the order. Unfortunately we don't. It would be very unorthodox but I could see some plusses in having Thome up there. The negative of course is that you are taking him out of a lot of potential RBI opportunities. And creating them for Quintin.

If AJ can bat second, why can't Thome? Should a guy get on first and be able to steal or get to second, the shift is out of play.

QUOTE (Thunderbolt @ Mar 18, 2009 -> 04:11 PM) Poor kid just wasted away his best chance of starting in the big leagues. How'd he get on? What'd Wise do?

Thome got down the line there.

Whoever is playing second is a far better player any CF that we have and attempt to lead-off with. This is just stupid.

Wow does Wise suck.