ThunderBolt

QUOTE (MHizzle85 @ Sep 2, 2009 -> 02:50 PM) David Wright's helmet is kinda big. He looks like he's in Space Balls.

Kw got us Peavy, Rios and Castro in season. He did his job. The player didn't

That was one grindy groundout

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Sep 2, 2009 -> 02:50 PM) You watching from Beijing? I wish. The timechange might rid be of the burden of following this team

Castro is f***ing on tonight.

We got Peavy hardly over a month ago. Oh, how the times have changed.

I want Dye gone.

ballgame

QUOTE (The Ginger Kid @ Sep 2, 2009 -> 02:20 PM) cuddyer made a clean catch against the wall, ozzie complained that he trapped it. umps went with ozzie, bad call. Nice! Thanks.

What's going on? What happened?

I'm going to miss gettting my Bristol fix. It's been a fun ride.

Okay, i give people. I misread the play. Just went back and checked and Pods had a good read and Beckham kind hung him out their.

QUOTE (Jenks Heat @ Sep 2, 2009 -> 01:27 PM) There is a difference in a straight steal and a hit and run. The hit and run you are looking into the batter as he is suppossed to swing and the runner is to pick the ball up. There is also the late break to not get picked off on. Assuming Pods has a good read on the pitcher, he's going from when the pitcher hits the windup. Caution exists prior to the pitch, after that you have to hope the other guy does his thing.

QUOTE (MexSoxFan#1 @ Sep 2, 2009 -> 01:26 PM) who do you like for our ace going foward? Peavy, Buehrle, Floyd, Danks, Hudson looks awfully pretty.

QUOTE (ChiSox_Sonix @ Sep 2, 2009 -> 01:25 PM) You didn't play baseball in HS did you? I’m sorry, is this going to be an “I was more of an amateur player then you so, I’m holier than thou” type thing?

QUOTE (MexSoxFan#1 @ Sep 2, 2009 -> 01:23 PM) lol What? He got caught stealing. Scott can't just prance in to second, he needs to run flat-out. It's hit and run, not run tentatively, and hope like hell the other guy does his job

Okay, Buehrle. Pitch Morneau away

QUOTE (iamshack @ Sep 2, 2009 -> 01:19 PM) He didn't. Beckham missed the sign. He still got caught. No excuse not to run under the expectation that Gordon might miss.

Hah, Pods got caught stealing again. Small ball for the win.

QUOTE (iamshack @ Sep 2, 2009 -> 12:16 PM) T-Bolt, I don't mean to make an example of you, but you just happen to be the latest one to make a remark like this, so I want to just point something out. There is a position in the middle of these two extremes. Just by going away from the "softball-type hitting, wait for the three-run homer approach" does not mean you go to the "smallball/smartball/ozzieball method of throwing away outs by attempting only to move runners over by sacrificing all the time. There IS a happy medium. And real baseball teams actually play within that medium. I just think it’s irrational to think that we’d get any better if we steal and bunt more. There’s no reason not to play to the park, the Cell is a home-run hitting park, our hitters job needs to be to get On-base, so we can knock them in. The idea isn’t to advance someone to second in exchange for an out, it’s to drive him in by hitting the s*** out of the ball. I keep hearing about how it takes 4 singles to knock our old core in, but there’s also an equal opportunity for four straight bombs, a double, a single, anything. I’m an Earl Weaver kind of guy, we need to maximize run scoring opportunities, spazzing out on the bases and giving away outs isn’t the way to do that. Ideally, we have faster base runners that can score on singles, but an equal ideal is that these guys can hit bombs and play good as well.

QUOTE (hogan873 @ Sep 2, 2009 -> 10:00 AM) Yeah, major changes have to be made to this team. Obviously the bad things are magnified right now with them playing so bad, but it's time to get away from the "let's wait for the home run" attitude. This team needs to jettison the old slowness and get down to speed and manufacturing runs. Yes, because if our chances have been helped by anything this year it's been by bunting and having Pods get picked off trying to steal a base.

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Sep 2, 2009 -> 08:02 AM) Anyone who hated Pulp Fiction should be killed by a death panel. QFT, although Reservoir Dogs was better.

My dad got my brother and i tickets to Game 2 of the 2005 World Series, but got called into a meeting the day before, so he gave his ticket to a family friend. It was the best damn experience of my life.

Assuming we lose, if I say, “Blow This s*** Up”, I mean both the team and the f***ing MetroDome.

QUOTE (son of a rude @ Sep 2, 2009 -> 01:03 AM) anybody know the talent level of the players that may be entering the draft? im not too sure when players determine whether they are entering the draft or not. It's pitcher heavy with a decent core of high school bats. The kid i want the most (as of now) is LSU pitcher Anthony Ranaudo, but i don't see him slipping past the top 5.