Harry Chappas

I don't think the Orioles are all that great but Helling and Ponson are respected major leaguers and worthy of giving our hitting some credit.

I used to live in Tinley and moved to Beverly. I got off the train at 6:30, ran in the house got picked up and was in my seat with two Kosher dogs, brat and two beers by 7:05. I picked up two tickets in the lot for $15/each. 11th row behind the Orilole dugout. Steff if you heard someone berating Joe Crede after grounding into a double play that was me. I went to the can (6 beers later) after the 8th and missed the fun of the ninth. The commute is a breeze and the taxes on my home are a 1/3 of what they were. Ten $1 hot dogs from gravely voiced hot dog vendor - $10 Two Super Tacos and Super Nacho - $10 Two beers from vendor that never get warm (actually colder the longer they sit there) - $10 Watching Colon drill Jr. and Frank show he is the man - Priceless Let's kick mansandwich's (Twins 1st base jagoff) ass!

I meant to go off on a tirade about a one page article that carol Slezak wrote about him. This f***ing article was longer than anything I could remember seeing about an actual Sox player. I wrote to the Times asking them who their audience was on this. He must have photos of her fooling around or something. I may have been out of line by telling her that nobody in Chicago thought he was worth a contract at anything other then AAA. Thanks Carol but I'll Loiaza over Jim Parque. She gives women a bad name.

I can not read the link but in the Times yesterday it reported he said we played like All-Stars one day and like we are dead the next or something along these lines. Isn't that what we have been saying for a couple of years now?

Stats right now are all we have and Frank Thomas is hands down our best hitter stats or no stats. Our hitting is pathetic stats tell me this. Jimenez is having a decent year stats tell me this. If guys are not producing we see this in their stats. We are hitting under .250, Jimenez is hitting over .300, am I missing soemthing. If the guy is a dick maybe soembody should pick up their game then get in his face. I find it hilarious that guys are getting pissed at him because he is getting on them that they are not producing. Maybe just maybe some production from these guys (Valentin, Konerko, Lee, Crede, Ordonez,) would shut him up. I am ready to give on this team becasue they are the biggest group of f'ing crybabies around. Let's blame KW's meddling with the great JM (he is living on one half of a season.) Then the pitchers are not grooving them to our good hitters. f*** this play baseball and shove it up someone's ass don't sulk like a group of two year olds.

I totally agree, his baserunning and defense are sub-par but he is doing the job at the plate, one of few that are. He was brought in to work the count and get on base both of which he is accomplishing. He was moved to a new position and is trying to learn it. He does remind me of Carlos but he seems to have a very good plate presence. I look at Willie Harris and he doesn't have a chance. Thomas .160 with RISP are keeping Jimenez from looking really good right now. Also he isn't the pop-up machine that Durham was.

Why does the team allow him to hold press conferences and what not if this is so close? Just curious...

I don't know him personally but DJ seems to go out of his way to praise him. I suppose if Loaiza got lit up last evening he would be blasted for leaving the team over the weekend because it was a big series. I recall Valentin forgetting how many outs there were in Cleveland and getting doubled off of second on an infield pop-up. I guess he was just instilling his aggresive style. I agree with you totally but we all have our own opinion.

There are plenty of flaws in his game that people like to point out. For some reason Paul Konerko and Jose Valentin get a pass for all of their mistakes yet any time Jimenez does anything wrong, he needs to go and is a dickhead. Jose Valentin has an OBP that is not even in the same range as Jimenez and Konerko adds nothing to this team but for some reason they are not the problem. There appears to be the feeling that being nice rah-rah guys supercedes one's ability to produce. Mark Buerhle, Paul Konerko, Jose Valentin, Billy Koch, Gary Ward and Carlos Lee are the reason we are not winning, yet somehow hitting over .300 and have an OBP over .400 are not good enough. I don't understand.

If this team wants to be taken seriously, Colon negotiations should heat up. Loaiza, Colon and Buerhle should give us real hope year after year. Imagine where we would be without Loiaza....hoovering around Cleveland.

At least he got on base. When will Jose Valentin's average (identical to Thomas,) become an issue. I agree that Jimemez has done some stupid things but compared to Konerko and Buerhle he is not on the radar screen of reasons we are failing. If he wasn't thrown out at third he probably wouldn't have scored anyway. This play is Kimm not being clear to stay at third when rounding the bag. I really do not understand why Jimemnez is blasted here he is doing his job and has soem flaws but over-all I think we can win with him.

The gig was for KW to state he is reconsidering his status with the team. Nothing final or new that we didn't already know.

I have a feeling this is a clear the air bulls*** thing. The players would be in the dugout as bating practice is about to begin. I also think the media is not allowed into the locker room at various times during game day. With no media coverage this is problem jsut a "team meeting' thing.

I thought this as well but did not want to get my hopes up to high. I changed my name on this Board hoping this would happen. I can't take much more. let's give KW the ole I actually like KW and the moves he has made.

This could be to clear the air on the KW kids ordeal remember he was heading home today.

You do not have to believe them. You can make something up and if it falls through we will never believe you again. Not sure about Steff but HSC has in the past lead us to believe things that were true and we had insight into things that were happening that affected the club we follow. If you don't trust her fine but why not just state that and let it go. She is not trying to form a cult, despite what my name may say, she is just spreading info and keeping us up to date with our team.

Could we have gotten a healthy Loften? As I am beginning to beleive that KW is the main problem here, did he and Loften differ in their thinking? He would look great right now.

Leave it to the soccer crowd to blow my cover.

ok so who are you from the mlb boards and when can i get that beer??????lol.. The next home game that KW is not the general manager. I will tell you that I am not the guy from Kansas City and I love the former second baseman that was traded for Tony Bernazard.

Didn't Graff homer off Mulder last week?

I am from the MLB Board and if this is true, I owe many an apologize and you one of the biggest beers they could roll into the place.

My candidate to CYA in this whole thing would be to bring in Dave Stewart. We could then have Bike, jockstrap night and Jack McDowell growth chart night.