Harry Chappas

This is a big game not really the win or loss just to see if we have progressed with the bats. I bet JM uses a funky line-up to rest guys (Paul, Rios, Graffy, Daubach and Konerko.) Wright needs a good outing for 1)Confidenece he is 0-3 witha 6.00 and 2) Save pen for NL park tomorrow. Here is how I see the line-up Harris-Jimenez-Thomas-Daubach-Lee-Valentin-Graffy-Rios-Paul

This and tomorrow afternoon will show why we need a guy like this back if we are seriuos about winning. Pitching and defense win, not the crap we keep trying to go at it with. Whatever Konerko gave us he is taking back twofold this year with both performance and fiscal drain. We are 5 1/2 out and he has cost us more games then he has helped us. One of the problems with this team is JM runs the same s*** out there that shouldn't be. At some point Konerko needs to be dealt with. We have a lefthanded bat that has produced as much in his career as Konerko yet we refuse to give him a shot more than once a week. I would bring Valentin into this but his defense keeps him in there daily and why we should bring him back next year and bat him ninth. IMHO.

5 runs to the best hitting team in baseball is not that bad, watch tonight and tomorrow, especially tomorrow. Bartolo Colon will get big money because no matter the situation he gives his team a chance. If you want to be a serious team you need this. Garland and Wright are two years away if ever to this. My point is that we will not sign him because we are not a serious organization intent on winning. What is another young pitcher going to get us? Three years of inconsistency and then hopefully replace Buerhle when he leaves. Then we can trade Garland for another young guy. Colon is worth it because he is a proven winner, something we all drool over Buerhle for, but one is not good enough, two aren't either. We are the worst hitting team in baseball, this is why our pitchers appear the way they do.

If they are going to white flag, after they are clearly out of it (10+ end of July,) they could work the likes of Colon, Koch, Konerko, Loaiza, White and Lee together along with minor talents (Honel, Reed, Rauch, etc.) to gain both minor league blue chips and major league talent, i.e. Colon, Koch and Konerko to Boston; Fossum, Lyon, Sanchez to Florida; Pierre, Castillo, Penny to Chicago The key here is Boston gets Colon signed long-term and the Yanks don't get a shot at him (Clemens is retiring.) One trade I really like is Colon/Konerko for Johnson/Weaver. Ah, I'm just being an ass.

If we had a GM you would see plenty. I bet you he gets as much if not more than any pitcher since Kevin Brown, why? Because on any given day he can get anyone out. The reason he is 6-6 goes back to every Buerhle argument over the last week. He gives us a chance to win every time out there. It isn't one, two, three good/great outings than two mediocore and one bad one. He is a victim of pitching in a hitters park as well. Watch the Yankees and Red Sox line-up to get him. Oh and on another note. The 2000 team was great to watch but they were not a very talented team. I sure as s*** do not want JB back but I guess if the clubhouse is fun I would rather have him than Colon as well. Who on that team to we miss, that is playing elsewhere? KW did not cause the demise of Eldred, Sirotka, Parque, or Baldwin.

I am tired of the hurt feelings in our clubhouse. This one is a killer. These are grown men we are talking about here. Paul Konerko should bring in Frank Costanza to interpet the conversation if he feels left out. We can't get along with Royce, Kenny yells at us to much. I have come to realize something with this team and its make-up. This team is the biggest group of f***ing babies and...............it shows out on the field. Bartolo Colon is the best pitcher I have seen in this organization since one year of Hoyt 20 years ago. I really fail to see your hatred for Colon, this si for another day. I am sorry but to gain your wish of a nice cozy locker room is impossible and an excuse for underachieveing losers. I am not in the locker room and take you for your word but when will the jackasses on this team wake up and play to their potential. The juvenile attitude of this team as it relates to this topic shows why we are a loser organization and will be for years to come. Watch Danny Wright tomorrow and you will have your answer as to why Colon needs to stay wheather he is speaking French, Dutch/Irish, or Ebonics. A staff needs five guys we have five major league pitchers now neatly slotted 1-5 (Loaiza, Colon, Garalnd, Buerhle, Wright,) to get rid of Colon leaves us short-handed for next year but we will take the cheap and end up as always, failures in the end. Somehow this never gets old though.

I kind of chuckled at 45-20, then I looked at the last week alone and shook my head. Bonds and Oliver Perez beating us. This is the whole season in a nutshell, ugh.

Willie Harris catches with two hands as does Jose Valentin. As for magglio, it is jsut a matter of time before he pulls a Manny Ramirez. Let's hope it doesn't cost us.

I think he is married but good luck.

I doubt that, not becasue of the seats but becasue of the fall when thrown over the rail. The 10' to the patio area is not that far.

I realize that nobody really knows the state of this organization right now and that scares the hell out of me. We are a ship without a rudder (is that spelling right,) and we have issues of marketable players that need to be signed or traded (Colon, Valentin, ) young arbitration guys, (Lee, Garland, Buerhle.) The more I read about KW being on the outside looking in the more I feel this organization is on its' way to the cellar fast. Colon needs to be locked up before the Yankees get in the picture via free agency. BTW, I am/was juicercruz on MLB Board and big defender of Frank. I swing by on occasion to read your fending off of the morons, good work.

Saturday evening Kenny was sitting in teh rightfiedl bleachers. Does anyone have any clue why? He was treated very fairly and signed a ton of autographs. The only hazing was when a ball was misplayed and Loften's name was yelled. I believe he was behind the dugout to end the game as this was what appeared on television. This just seemed odd that he would sit out there. This happens to be where Rios homered Friday so maybe he was looking to catch a ball.

the whole coment is off base... hes not been playing footsie with the cards......are you his agent?? im sure not, or you wouldnt have made a dumbass comment like that in the first place.......he turned down the latest contract cause it was a piece of s*** and was presented three different ways at three different times and no one could make up their f***ing mind what the hell was going on, kw said one thing and jr said something else.........name me one player right now on this piece of s*** team who isnt thinking.... i wish i was on the first f***in plane out of here.........watch and see what kind of offers maggs gets from other teams real soon and see whos the first guy out of dodge... if your gonna critisize then at least know enough to get your facts right.............. a bit of friendly advise......... This is another day that you bring up the deplorable conditions of our locker room. Is it just losing or something other? I thought KW was being shown the door in a modest manner this appears to have changed, is that the case?

It would have been easier to explain walking one of the greatest hitters of all time and then lossing as oppossed to the situation as it unfolded. Like Sparky Anderson used to say, "You do everything in your power to not let their best player beat you." If we were winning you can risk losing this game but we need every victory. Do you think Jerry 'the genius' saw Tuesday and Wednesday as well as what the Angels did in the World Series. That was Barry Bonds that beat us, not the guy that hit the grand slam Wednesday. My point if Santiago hits a three run homer you cringe and tip your hat. This s*** needs to go ASAP but nobody is running this team right now so I give up, f*** this team, they don't care so how can I. I hate in this order, JM, JR, Paul Konerko, Buerhle (just becasue we are losing I actually still like him but I am bitter that he called me stupid.) :fyou :fyou :fyou :fyou

If Buerhle was .500, we would be .500 take hitting, bullpen etc. out of the equation. Colon, Garland, Stewart, Loiza and Wright all have the same defense and offense behind them. They somehow have found ways to win. It is frustrating as hell that he can not. Put this on top of turning down big dollars, "joking" about playing for St. Louis and then telling me I don't know baseball because I boo him, while knowing if he was .500 we would be in contention. Our season is a failure and he and Konerko are front and center, sorry but I am going to jeer them every chance I get becasue at this point in time they are monumental failures.

I don't mind him struggling but when you start questioning the knowledge of the fans for not backing him up when he pitches like s***, I have a problem. The run support thing counts for everyone on this staff yet Buerhle feels he is the only victim of this. Last time I looked nobody was getting run support, somehow we still win on occasion and are above .500 when he does not pitch.

2-10; 5.18 29-35 If you do the math, this is the sole reason we are where we are. Loaiza lost 1-0 to Detroit and left with a shut out in another game yet he perserved and is doing quite well. Bartolo Colon pitches well into a game and keeps his team in it. In the paper today he goes on about how this is one bad outing, 5.18 ERA shows this is not the case. If he wants to blame the team explain how they are 27-25 in games in which he doesn't get a decision. From the Times; ''I can understand, but some of these fans don't realize that I've gone out there and thrown three or four quality starts,'' Buehrle said. ''I've ... done my job these last three or four times, and it was just one of those days today. ''It's expected here. You go out there and throw a ball, and these fans start to boo you. They don't want you to give up a hit or throw any balls, so you just have to throw strikes every pitch.'' ''I understand that they want to see your team win and go out there and try to do well for them, but everybody is going to have a bad day,'' said Buehrle, whose 52 quality starts since the start of the 2001 season are third-most in the American League. ''I've had three or four bad days this year. But I've put a string together, and a day like this happens and they boo you. ''I don't know if these fans don't understand baseball or what, but I'm going out there doing the best I can to try to give this team the best chance to win, and it just didn't happen today.'' Buehrle's losing streak matches one by Jim Parque during the 1999 season. He now has a 6.45 ERA over his last 12 starts compared to a 1.23 ERA in his first three starts when he opened the season 2-1. The left-hander saw his overall ERA rise to 5.18, and his 10 defeats are second in the major leagues to the Detroit Tigers' Mike Maroth, who has 11. Well Mark I do know your arbitration hearing should be interesting and I may not know s*** about baseball but I know you are the number one reason we are nowhere near competing in a horses*** division. Please excuse me for not appreciating your effort and letting you knwo about it.

Valido is the stud shortstop we jsut drafted, correct? I thought he was bordering on unsignable?

Sunday I see KW sitting in plain view for every pitch behind the plate. Then there are comments issued by Rick Hahn on the Rivera pick-up. Based on the other threads this looks like a decent move. Does anyone have any idea of who is calling the shots for this team. The next three weeks are huge in determining the future of this team with the likes of Colon and marketability or picking up players for a playoff run. Just wondering if the Management Team (JR and the boys,) realize this.

No problem with that getting it on with another player, "not that there is anything wrong with that," could cause clubhouse dissention. Maybe there are things going on in the Padre clubhouse.....

I just glanced at USA Today and it stated that the catcher we claimed from the Padres was the 12th pick overall in 2000 and was traded for 'Mean' Gene Kingsdale. Any word on what this guy may have to offer?

That article is exactly right. McDowell is nowhere near managing but that style of managing is what he is talking about. Know your players and what they can and can not do and go with it. I have never seen Backman manager but I have seen him play and loved those late 80's Mets. This is the attitude and style we need. Manuel shoudl know that Thomas hits better when he plays the field and we make up for the loss in defense with a fierce bat but nope we keep the inept stylings of Paul Konerko.

Dumb GMs trade the future. You have to try and see if the GM will bite, because if you don't do it, you'll never know. Smoltz for Doyle Alexander 2003??????

The dude from Texas (he is a sophomore,) is awesome and will be a top five pick and probably go right to the bigs as a closer.

He is lazy and pisses me off but I would be more concerned with Konerko, Crede, CF, SS, and middle relief (White/ Gordon,) rather than Jimenez. I think he will wake up one of these days. I like his approach to hitting. Hell, bring up Miles and DH Jimenez. We really need a centerfielder, anyone that can play any type of defense.