Harry Chappas

Poeple in St. Louis like larussa a little bit more than we like Manuel. Wheather you want to beleive this or not is up to you. He is by far the most academically learned person in baseball, or close to it. This allows him top talk a great game and make you feel he is right. He tinkers to no end. He is a good manger but not as great as his numbers. My point was only that Hawk is with the team and spoke of their feelings something he rarely does. It had nothing to do with his ability as a G.M.

Why not pinch hit daubach? At least to get him a swing or two.

Willie should steal, JM has been wanting to loss this game for four days now.

Carl can flat out hit unfortunately instead of taking away the big hook by pinch hitting for Sandy Alomar and Konerko the genius flys by the seat of his pants. Konerko hits a long single 6-5!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Crede pops out on the infield after a long at-bat. Bottom 6.

Top 6 man on 1st two out Crede up as are the Yanks 5-3.

Konerko tests the infields ability to catch a popup. valentin swinging wildly again then tests the outfield ability to catch a popup. I am losing faith in valentin as the days go by.

As stated in another thread I was indifferent on the whole thing. Earlier in the year Loiaza was being pushed back. I think you pitch your best pitchers as much as possible and you don't look ahead. Playing odds and such should be left to Vegas. Wright has bailed out Cotts again. Cotts really could be 1-3 if not 0-4.

He is 8 games over with a team that should be at least 15.

Before the Neil Cotts debacle they were both, mostly hawk talking about how the clubhouse was completely against Buerhle getting pushed back. From two guys that are around this team their comments against JM were numbing. They spoke of how this came could have pushed the Sox to a new level and how Buerhle was f***ed. They went on to talk of the undue pressure on buerhle tomorrow and how badly this team wanted the sweep. KW looked like he was going to kill someone. I have never heard them talk like this before. Wanna see Buerhle comment on St. Louis now. Four days after coming of the DL Matt Morris is pitching on three days rest as St. Louis understands every game is important. JM believs that at the end of the season it is what it is and he plays no role in anything. What a f***ing asshole. I was indifferent on the situation until I heard Hawk and DJ break it down. What the f***. Did JM not see Cotts struggle to throw strikes. Many on this board sure did. well unlike Colon at least Cotts gave it everything he had.

The best what? You talk about Colon not being the same here as before he got here. There is no saying Colon may not be hurt. You blast Colon's physical condition yet he turned one of the best 3-6-1 doubleplays you will ever see and covers his position quite well. Colon is a power pitcher that takes more out of you than a soft tossing lefty yet you will defend Wells condition (party life style) and mock Colon's which is much more muscle than Wells. I like David Wells and wished we had he and Colon but to mock Colon and defend Wells condition is foolish. Wells is injured becasue he is out of shape. Colon pitches well and works well with the big body. I think Colon is in much better shape than Wells as well. By definition Wells is the definition of Goo.

If you don't want the back and forth, then get it right, it is NOT personal against Colon. It is strictly what he has done in a White Sox uniform. Nothing more, nothing less. His appearance is no more than 'easy' ammo to chide him, but the fact remains he has not pitched for us as he has for other teams, and other fans. That I take personally. I'll hug Steff, or HSC or Heather but I'll take a pass on you hairy ones. How about your thoughts on David Wells. Did he pitch at a much lower level than previous and look at what he had done since moving to a place he enjoyed. Yet not resigning him is one of the moves you point as being a KW mistake. There was no way he was signing with us. He used the D'Backs and he would have used us. You defend a guy that was 100x worse than Colon but then chide Colon who is pitching better than Wells and making about $4M less. I miss the rational here.

The whole ticket price thing is a marketing ploy. the cub are playing the cards and I know at least one game is at night. If we get 44,000 and they get 36,000 who wins? For once some marketing foresight on the southside.

Wheater he quits or not he is much better than 90% of other players. I wish Koch would quit. Although I see your point I think you are going off the deep end. If you think Danny Wright could add as much to this team as our number 3, I would have to seriously question your thinking. As much as I would like to hope everyone gives 110% every time out there, it is physically not possible. As far as his comments I hold newspaper stories and quotes with about as much regard as I do any tabloid. For some reason in this case the quotes were dead on but when the quotes pertain to Thomas and Manuel, they are out of context.

Aren't they playing the schedule we just played the last two weeks, that we played at .500. We need to beat good teams because we couldn't beat Tampa, Detroit, and Cleveland. Texas and California do have pride and good enough talent that they won't be sheep. Detorit and Cleveland, well their AAA teams have been out there all year. We are in this position becasue of a bad start and then abysmal road trips to Tampa, Det, Clev (3-7,) then to Cal/Tex ( 1-6,) not to mention the May excusrion to Oakland/Seattle (1-5?????) .500 ball then allows us to play at a lower level currently 5-18; turn that into 11-12 and we have a 7 game lead. That isn't even .500. .500 on one of those trips and we have breathing room. One week in a season does not make or break a team but it can sure make things much harder/easier.

Isn't he more of the power slider mentality. I remeber him having nasty stuff before the Tigers got ahold of him. Could make things pretty interesting for Mr. Koch.

The three females here know more about baseball than most of the guys. Do not underestimate them............. How do you know there are only three girls here?

If your a boy, I wanna be a priest. I know it is tastless but what the hell.

If everyone hates Colon how come they use his aluminum bat? If he was a stuffy asshole why would he enjoy batting practice so much?

You guys make him sound like Chan Ho Park, Darren Driefort, or Jamie Navarro. Take money out of the equation and what is the difference between Bartolo Colon and Mark Buerhle? I am saying this as I think they make great #2 pitchers behind CY Loiza. Not trying to bum rap anyone but the view of Colon is pretty jaded compared to the fact he and Buerhle have pretty similar stats, assuming Colon LOSSES tonight.

On thomas slam, how many guys were on via the walk. See the Seattle Mariners, the more you make a pitcher work the better your chance of getting to him.

Well, a loss will give him the same record as Mark Buerhle and if he doesn't give up to many runs, they could have the same ERA. Hope this makes the remainder of your day feel good.

Is Mark retiring after this season? Is he being traded to the NL? He is 24 not 44 there will be plenty of opportunity in the future. If the extra day of rest gets us 6 better starts the next month, enjoy the day of rest. If we were ten out I would agree with his point.

Padres will do the same thing the Pirates are doing right now in three years. Remember when the stadium windfall was going to save the Tigers, Pirates, and Reds. Seatlle did it right by wisely spending their money to build a winning product. The Padres are now to be looking at signing Maddux in the offseason.

AL CY Young = Foulke (sorry); Loiaza or Hudson if they go lights out AL MVP = Ichiro/Maggs/Some Yankee = = Delgado if nobody carries their team NL MVP= Bonds (sentimental vote now as well) Pujols if the Cards win NL CY Young = Prior; Ortiz; Gagne; Smoltz All of these races are open depending on the last month of the season. Whichever player stands out in the next 5 weeks wins it.