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Speaking of Everett, did he get his legal problems from a few months ago behind him?

Wasn't Milledge a butcher in LF until we DFA'd him?

Starting out in Great Falls.

QUOTE (lostfan @ Jun 29, 2011 -> 09:17 PM) Can we splice Pierre and Rios's genes, put Pierre's brain in Rios's body? We'd end up with a Pinky and the Brain kind of situation, we can just DFA Pinky and keep the Brain, it'd be totally worth the cost. Kenny would screw it up and do the opposite, and tell us he would do it again in a minute.

QUOTE (Stan Bahnsen @ Jun 28, 2011 -> 11:47 AM) Jimmy, Longshot, ElGonzo, Kevo, Parker, Bob, etc. I've got obligation for tonight's game, but I was wondering if any of you will be going to Thursday afternoon's game and want to meet for a soda beforehand. There's any number of sports bars in the immediate area that are pretty much the same, so let me suggest The Sports Column at 1930 Blake Street (stone's throw from home plate) at around 11:30-noon. I'll be wearing the red '71-'75 cap. I'm sitting in the WellsFargo club level tonight, but on Thursday, I'll be getting a ticket at the Park, or scalping something cheap just outside, which should be easy on a weekday afternoon. I'm posted this in each of our threads to make sure we see it. Don't know how to merge, sorry. Hope to see you Thursday! Stan, I'll be looking for you.

In the post game interview the Rockies' manager, Shirley Tracy, threw RF Seth Smith under the bus of his awful throw home in 9th.

QUOTE (Soxbadger @ Jun 29, 2011 -> 08:41 PM) Its kind of like watching the Titanic after the first compartment is breached. Part of you is thinking, well they can come back from this. But the other part knows better. LOL

QUOTE (Soxbadger @ Jun 29, 2011 -> 08:06 PM) How is Giambi more productive than Dunn. Im sure someone would have bet a ton of money that would have never happened this year. Giambi's salary is in the neighborhood of $1MM. One year deal. And no draft pick surrended. Way to go, Kenny.

Two comments from Colorado media: Dunn playing RF tomorrow Rockies should sweep this week, 3 games against Sox and 3 against KC= softest part of the schedule.

The Colorado announcer informed us that Rios had a tough game last night. That was about 10-20 seconds before he botched Gonzales' triple. De Aza???

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Jun 29, 2011 -> 06:46 PM) We both got clowned/owned with the suggestion he even consider running again. Jimenez used to get it up there in the upper 90's. He's 90-94 tonight. That's quite a drop-off. Any rumors? 1. cuticle problem 2. brain problem

So, two right handed hitters, Morel and Quenten, try to pull outside pitches and ground out to the SS. Ozzie really shook them up.

QUOTE (Jordan4life @ Jun 29, 2011 -> 04:01 PM) And I now see Ubaldo has been pretty damn good this month. So I'm even more discouraged. Mark needs to be good this night. Ubaldo pitches much better on the road for some reason.

QUOTE (CaliSoxFanViaSWside @ Jun 29, 2011 -> 12:45 AM) I'm not sure Lilli was loafing. Yea he didn't bust his ass to field that blooper but it's entirely possible he just showed his lack of experience. I doubt he was expecting Tulo to go from 1st to home on it. He probably just figured he's stop at 3rd. Looked like he was playing at no doubles depth so was pretty deep to start with. Lilli was loafing. Then, in post game interview, he explains how it should look to the world, that the park is SOOOO big he has to play deep and he couldn't make the play. Ozzie can't to anything about Rios other than bench him, but they can send Lilli back to Charlotte and bring up De Aza, who at least is a real outfielder and is playing well in AAA.

QUOTE (witesoxfan @ Jun 26, 2011 -> 08:35 AM) Ivan Rodriguez has only been implicated on steroid use by Jose Canseco when Canseco was in Texas. Other players in Texas during his time there were Dean Palmer, Juan Gonzalez, and Rafael Palmeiro. All you had to do was look at Pudge. He grew huge muscles overnight, and his HR production went up. He will probably pass the 3000 hit mark next year, so I won't object to his selection 7-10 yrs from now.

QUOTE (ptatc @ Jun 24, 2011 -> 05:40 PM) Don't forget to blame the players association. Selig started drug testing in the minors long before the players union agreed to it. He isn't innocent by any stretch but he tried and it took congress to get the MLB players to agree to it. Totally agree. MLPA had opportunity to come down hard on steroid abuse, and they used it as a bargaining chip.

Kenny's professional hero is Josh McDaniels.

QUOTE (Chisoxfn @ Jun 29, 2011 -> 09:17 AM) I already consider him a bust. He isn't very good. Maybe that will one day change, but as of now, I see nothing that I like offensively. What would you do, Jason? Send him down to AAA, move him back to SS?

For what it's worth Dunn hit some bombs at batting practice.

There was a similar play in middle of game when Rios was in; he jogged over and lobbed the ball to second, baserunner could have scored easily. He went from first to third, coach could have waved him in. I was at the game, Rios looked liked he was on muscle relaxers.

QUOTE (buhbuhburrrrlz @ Jun 28, 2011 -> 10:46 PM) can someone explain what happened? I missed the early part of the game. Rios dropped a fly ball? Colorado pitcher hit a lazy fly ball to medium deep right center, Rios jogged over in a semi hot dog fashion and dropped it. Next guy went out, no harm. Later in the 13 inning, Lilli dogged it and let Tulo score from first on two out single.

QUOTE (Jenksy Cat @ Jun 28, 2011 -> 10:32 AM) I don't get these posts, and there were a few. The "I saw Adam Dunn play in person in the NL and he sucked". So you saw him hit 40 homers, 100 RBI and score 100 Runs and thought he sucked? What? I saw him try to play right field, and he was awful. I saw him try to play first, and he was awful. He certainly wasn't going to get any better. Giving him that much money for that long blew my mind. No other DH is getting that, with the possible exception of Papi. And, he doesn't have a four year gig. My first negative post was in ST; like everyone else, I wanted him to do well. But anyone who can't run and can't field should not be offered a contract like his, 40 homers a year notwithstanding.

Whether you guys are right about Kuhn or wrong, he should go to the next level now and see if he regresses or coninues to hit. Then, if he does well at AAA, we will continue the discussion.

OldSox will be right behind the Sox dugout tonight

Giving Dunn $56MM is one of the things wrong with baseball and wrong with our GM. Living in a National League city, I have seen Dunn try to play the game in the last couple of years, and he was awful. No National League team was going to give him any serious money, so his only chance was to get a DH gig in the AL. Who was Kenny competing against? Are there any full time DH's getting anywhere near the money that Dunn is getting? Big Papi maybe, but look at his record. Didn't Thome kind of set the market for this type of player? I just don't get Kenny Williams. Regardless, I'll be at the games in Denver this week. Tonight, I'll be right behind the Sox dugout. At least, I won't have to watch that slug try to play baseball.