Harry Chappas

And always will be losers. It's great to see the "best 2 pitchers" in Chicago choke it up big time. Makes me appreciate Buehrle even more. Reminds me of Garland and Loiaza in Minnesota although a much grander scale.

Unless the gift under the tree is Terry Bevington.

Wasn't it because he was a flashy dresser?

Where was Matt Clement last evening? The guy threw a gem Saturday why not bring him in for an inning or two when it was obvious Wood was done.

I wasn't trying to slam Prior just trying to make light of the fact that unless you are really into baseball you probably haven't heard of Beckett before Sunday and he and AJ Burnett (if healthy,) can be as good as Wood and Prior. Throw in Penny and Pavano and which rotation would you rather have? This was pointed out last evening when they made light of the wins by team of pitchers under 30. Florida was 2, cub was 5, Oakland was 1. An outing like Burnett's Sunday and last eve by Wood or Prior the last two games and the cub plays Saturday. I would love to have both of them.

For the first time this postseason I am going to watch without thinking about cheering for teh team that is more likly to beat the cubs. Tonight's game should be great as I could really careless who wins but want to see a great game. All things aside I really really like the way the Marlins played. Maybe Ozzie will be here yet and maybe that isn't such a bad thing. The little thing about the wild pitch last Saturday may have helped in the end and isn't Josh Beckett what Prior and Wood are to be?

They are taking them out like crazy. I would say the last ten rows, at least, are gone from the entire upperdeck. Not sure why we are kept in the dark. San Fran has renamed their park SBC park. They sure are spending enough dough on ballpark names, don't they own US Cellular "Kept in the dark.."? It was in the paper... just not online. What are the plans for the removed seats? That is what I am in the dark on. I can see the seats are gone. What was reported on this other than the seats are no longer there?

The kid was a SS at the start of the season, moved to third to replace Lowell when he was going to be traded, moved to left, back to third and then at the start of this series to right. He showed something that nobody on the Sox has, pure baseball skills. The guy never player rightfield, EVER, and the play in the gap and the diving catch were great. On the ball he hit to first last evening he was looking over his shoulder to make sure the run scored which was his only intent. He is 20 and accomplished more then Lee or Ordonez. He got a huge hit in a huge game and played awesome defense. The Marlins would chuckle at each of these players. Not to mention he is making no money at all. Juan Encarnacion had a good year and is an excellent defensive palyer and he was never seen in this series because of Cabrera.

They are taking them out like crazy. I would say the last ten rows, at least, are gone from the entire upperdeck. Not sure why we are kept in the dark. San Fran has renamed their park SBC park. They sure are spending enough dough on ballpark names, don't they own US Cellular

If cubs lose he is dead man walking and even if they win some ASSCLOWN will find him. The situation is NOT a good one. They already did. Tires slashed, home vandelized, etc.. Assholes. What has happened?

Sounds like it's as big as that late May game aginst Seattle

I save my thought on this until morning.

That is awesome. How wasn't that on last night. I really feel bad for the guy he seems like a pretty innocent dude. I wish he was a drunk belligerent guy so I couldn't feel bad for him.

Can we trade Colon if we sign him? It wouldn't be a bad idea to sign him and see what we could get. Although I think we need pitching and a trade of Ordonez wouldn't kill me if we got good players in return. Ordonez and Konerko for Martinez and Edmonds.

Complete troll, I don't miss tha MLB boards at all.

Wasn't there a troll by this name on the MLB Board???

You can see this from the Metra as well as the Ryan. UD last rows behind homeplate. Any idea what is happening?

This sounds like it could be true and the Hawk Harrelson mind blowing trade could have included Maggs and starting pitching. Not sure why Jm would reveal this to the guy repairing his garage but hey......

I was responding to the post that the manager have WS experience but not be Cito Gaston. Is there anyone alive other than Torre who has more WS titles than Gaston. I personally would like Cito Gaston. My whole post should've been in green. Any person that wants experience as a crendential should start and stop with Gaston. This is who I am pulling for. He will keep Jesse Jackson at bay and this is good in and of itself.

Who would that be? What other options are there? Going back in time we have Leyland? Out of baseball and would get the job if he wanted it although we canned two of his coaches. Then Gaston, who is unacceptable. Then we have Larussa? He is employed as is Pinella. Roger Craig I suppose would be an option as would Lasorda or possibly Whitey HErzog or Sparky Anderson.

http://www.ajc.com/sports/content/sports/1...03/03torpy.html I am not savy enough to link this up and maybe an old topic but try this out. The site is www.ajc.com and type in Keyowrd TORPY. This story is so on the money.

The question is are you serious? First of all, no we don't spend 70 million. That's not the White Sox way. Secondly, Colon wants more than 13 million, Everett will likely make more than 5 million, Garland will make more than 1 million... I think they'll move Maggs, though. That was my point. A serious organization can take what we have and build something big. I realize we won't spend the money and do this. I believe the dollar amount of Colon is what he will settle for. This was what guys got last year and the market seems to be tougher this year as there are other guys out there. The saving grace is that JR needs to realize that unless he takes huge steps this organization will be at its lowest point come Spring Training. Soxfest will consist of autograph seekers and that is it. The next two weeks and three months following can decide the fate of this team for the ten years. My idea was to bring us to a level to compete with America's Team, if not, a $60M payroll is useless as it will not be compteitve enough to gain and recognition needed to draw more than 10,000 a night.

Somebody mentioned a guy named Meaux(sp?) to me. any word on him I nevere really hear of him here and am too alzy to research myself.

$14M players need to produce to win 1-0 games (Det. twice and San Diego,) I like Maggs and he puts up great numbers. The fact he has one game winning hit in his career and Alex Gonzalez has 7 (5 via the home run) in two years with the cub makes me wonder. Also, Maggs is a great hitter when the weather is nice. This takes away half of our season. This being said, could you sell the Rangers on him straight-up? They are looking to cut $20M in payroll for A-Rod this would be $11M and he could leave via free agency if he doesn't pan out or you sign him for less (Maggs and Texas) next season. This would show me JR is serious. Konerko-Lee-Maggs = greater than $25M for next year. You bring Alomar and Everatt back cheap. Resign Colon and we take some spotlight from America's Team. Alomar-Rowand -Everett-A-Rod-Daubach-Thomas-Crede-Reed-Olivo = $43M assuming $5M for everett and Alomar and $6M for Thomas. Garland-Colon-Buerhle-Loiaza-Schoenweis = $1M,$13M, $3M, $3M $1.5M = $20.5M $6m for the pen = $70M total for team. Are we serious????????

Call 'em up and tell them that you would cancel if you had them.