Would anyone start Contreras over Danks Sunday?

[fathom]

You're kidding right ? Erstad has been crucified and continues to be crucified despite obviously being the better choice over Anderson. Every mistake he makes is put under a microscope. Anything to cling to the hate. He's play good all around baseball. Defense ,running, offense, leadership . What more do people want ? . I'm aware of the OBP and OPS. Expecting a high OPS out of Erstad is like expecting Dye to bunt with men on 1st and 2nd with 0 outs. It's just not his game.

 

From my end, it's the total opposite. Every little thing Erstad does well, it gets magnified as if it was the greatest play in history.

[gosox41]

It was brought up on the post-game show, while Danks was being interviewed.

 

Doesn't make a lot of sense not to start Danks for the following reasons...

 

1) Cubs bat .252 vs. LHP, .285 vs. RHP

 

2) You don't want Danks and Buehrle back-to-back

 

3) Ozzie seems to really trust him and I don't think would try to "protect" him from the Cubs' hysteria

 

 

But I can't wait for the Gavin Floyd era to start

 

 

Floyd would crap himself pitching in the Cub/Sox series.

 

 

 

Bob

[TheChrisSamsa]

Give the ball to Count so i can see Danks at the Cell on Monday night against the A's

[Rowand44]

I'll side with Ozzie on this one. I'll say that I'd rather someone make a spot start, hell you could send down Terrero and then when Jimmy comes back on Monday you can just get rid of whoever is called up(if JT is ready). But, if we're going from the current roster, I'd rather have Jose pitch than Danks.

[CaliSoxFanViaSWside]

From my end, it's the total opposite. Every little thing Erstad does well, it gets magnified as if it was the greatest play in history.

I think you would agree that the Erstad haters far outnumber the supporters or are more vocal. I could always waste my time counting positive and negative posts and I wouldn't bother counting the negative ones during the first 2-3 weeks of the season when he got off to a miserable start. Even in the weeks where he's been doing well I'm fairly sure the negative posts far outweigh the positive ones. Most of his supporters , myself included, probably just feel the need to try to balance out the discussion, be the voice or reason or just plain don't understand the venom and ignorance of some of the comments.

Edited May 18, 2007 by CaliSoxFanViaSWside