JUGGERNAUT Posted July 4, 2003 Share Posted July 4, 2003 http://www.suntimes.com/output/mariotti/cs...-spt-jay04.html Kotex Boy: NO WAY SOSA AN ALL-STAR! A cheater should be punished, not rewarded --assuming lessons conveyed to children are still important to baseball. His lukewarm numbers aren't good enough to merit a start, particularly with the added spike of the winner leveraging home-field World Series advantage for its league. The spotlight belongs to Pujols, whose astonishing 2-1/2 seasons--he's batting .378 with 24 homers, 76 RBI and a .698 slugging percentage--have us wondering if he's the new-millennium Ted Williams. It's one thing to market the game globally. It's quite another to invite silly, disproportionate All-Star results by allowing an online voter to cast as many as 25 ballots. In a perfect world, the NL outfielders would be Pujols, Gary Sheffield and Barry Bonds. And a reserve would be Corey Patterson, who has joined Mark Prior and Kerry Wood in saving the North Side season while Sosa has foundered in cork-cheating, helmet-beaning, toe-bleeding hell. But when Sosa is named to his fifth consecutive starting berth Sunday night, it will have a negative domino effect that could keep Patterson off the NL team. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CubKilla Posted July 4, 2003 Share Posted July 4, 2003 What are we to make of Moronotti's new fangled SoxDom? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JUGGERNAUT Posted July 4, 2003 Author Share Posted July 4, 2003 http://www.suntimes.com/output/sox/cst-spt-sox041.html From Tuesday's double-acquisition blockbuster to a just-completed two-week stretch in which they won nine of 12 against two major rivals, the Sox have become the healthiest .500 club baseball has seen in a long time. Help Thomas with his All-Star cause: http://mlb.mlb.com/NASApp/mlb/mlb/events/a.../final_vote.jsp He deserves it as he has become the player/spokesperson for the team. JR & KW could not have imagined a better scenario when they made the new contract. http://www.suntimes.com/output/sox/cst-spt-ssep04.html Thomas needs four home runs to become the 35th player in baseball history to reach the 400 mark. He also is 22 hits shy of 2,000. ''We've played as bad as we possibly can in the first half, and we find ourselves right in the middle of it. With these key additions, I really feel we might go to another level.'' Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JUGGERNAUT Posted July 4, 2003 Author Share Posted July 4, 2003 http://chicagosports.chicagotribune.com/sp...tesox-headlines .244 team suddenly has too many O weapons? When Doug Glanville went on the disabled list April 17, the Rangers used the underwhelming Ryan Christenson in center instead of Everett. That doesn't say much for him defensively, though he has played far more center field than right or left over his career. Everett came up empty on two tough chances Wednesday night against the Twins. In the seventh inning, Everett's sliding attempt came up just short on Torii Hunter's game-tying bloop single. Then he appeared to take too sharp an angle on Luis Rivas' 12th-inning triple. Perhaps it was a one-game thing. Everett might have been gassed after arriving at the ballpark from Anaheim less than two hours before the first pitch. "Is he going to get to as many balls and close as quickly as Willie Harris can? Perhaps not," he said. "But it's a little give and take. Part of why we acquired him was to break up some of the right-handed hitters in the middle of our lineup." With Everett playing center, Harris might get most of his work as a pinch-runner or defensive replacement. Aaron Rowand, batting .367 since his June 10 recall from Triple-A Charlotte, might start only against certain lefties. If Everett doesn't play center every day, he could compete with Paul Konerko and Brian Daubach for at-bats as the team's designated hitter. Daubach, who hit a two-run homer Wednesday, is batting .333 over his last 19 games. Konerko rose from the dead Wednesday with a game-tying pinch-hit homer with two outs in the 11th. It was his first extra-base hit in six weeks. Even before that, Manuel said Konerko would get "most of the reps" this weekend at Tampa Bay. Starting Konerko likely would prompt Manuel to move Carlos Lee into the No. 2 spot behind Roberto Alomar, bumping Jose Valentin back to No. 6 or No. 7. How will the Sox respond to all the changes? "We have a lot of guys focused more on the potential prize at the end rather than individual things right now," Williams said. Does a game tying 11th inning home run warrant starting? It does when it helps complete a sweep of your most hated rival :wink: Help Frank make the all-star team: July 6-9 for voting http://mlb.mlb.com/NASApp/mlb/mlb/events/a.../final_vote.jsp DON'T FORGET! Who's hot: Frank Thomas is hitting .379 during an eight-game hitting streak. He has reached base in 29 of his last 30 games. Jose Valentin is hitting .319 over his last 13 games. Tampa Bay's Aubrey Huff has hit 32 home runs since the 2002 All-Star break. Who's not: Carl Everett, who went 0-for-4 with a walk in his Sox debut, has one hit in 14 at-bats against the Devil Rays this season. Miguel Olivo is 5-for-31 (.161) in his last 12 games. IF EVERETT IGNITES THESE NEXT 10 GMS (AND HE JUST MIGHT WITH THE R-L look the SOX spotted on Wed) LOOK OUT KC !!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Critic Posted July 4, 2003 Share Posted July 4, 2003 What are we to make of Moronotti's new fangled SoxDom? ....that the wind shifted??? That loser f***wipe pisshole is the ultimate frontrunner. He doesn't mean ONE WORD that he writes. He's one of those ultra-negative f***s that actually HOPES that someone fails, if he wrote that they will. Moronotti, Hysteriotti, Kotex Boy.............a f***up is a f***up by any name. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Fainter Posted July 4, 2003 Share Posted July 4, 2003 Before Mariotti landed in Chitown, he wrote for one of the Denver papers. He was worse then than he is now. Kind of a self styled muckraker with a press pass. I don't know if he was run out of town (Denver) or not. Maybe one of you guys knows. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Texsox Posted July 4, 2003 Share Posted July 4, 2003 Gee, I always liked his column. And no that wasn't suppose to be in green Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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