In Which I Announce My Return And Seek Your Semi-Reasoned Info

Cheat, this place without you is a mess.

brought a new litter of posters, some ok, some trollish.

Jenks has been not great. But Ozzie says if you dont like my closer dont watch the games, so hes sticking to his adamantly defined roles for the pen.

Pods has let a couple shots drop in front of him in leftfield after being moved over there late in the game. One especially costly one yesterday. I sort of feel he should stay in center, but that of course costs Buehrle his no hitter/shut out/ perfect game so who knows. Basically, the not so good defense by our guys in the outfield really stuck out this weekend.

Konerko has gone ice cold. Going 0 for 11 this series with a walk and a strikeout, and htting .130 for the week.

Jerko or one of the other ESPN radio monkeys asked MB in the post-game if he thought the perfect game would propel the team into the weekend series and beyond with all that shiny momentum. #56 responded that he didnt think so, and in fact in 07 the season went into the crapper after his no hitter. I can only hope that was prophetic.

what did she take? the cat’s hunger?

say after the perfect game the sox win these last 3 from the tigers. would you never come back? wait till the next losing streak?

in any case, this place tried to collapse upon itself in your absence. larry’s posting minor league updates wherever he sees fit. colin isn’t familiar with time zones. the right rail has been commandeered by idiots and children. hsa thinks the perfect game has something to do with her. people are talking about dewayne wise’s roll with the team next year. scott podsednik’s, too. thecip is drunk again. and u-god and wtgtd are bff’s now.

this place blows.

certainly not any more pouty than any other worker who realizes that he has no future with his current employer and decides that it’s a good idea to move on to someplace else. unfortunately for BA, he works in an industry where he can’t just quit quietly and get another job that suits him better. team control sucks for him.

it’s fairly obvious that BA is a prime candidate to be non-tendered this offseason. he acknowledged the reason why he has no future here: he hasn’t been good enough. there are, however, other places where he would be considered good enough to hold down a roster spot at the major league level. and he’d be in a much better position for doing so next season if he catches on with some team this season and can audition. i somewhat doubt the sox will trade him this season due to their somewhat precarious major league outfield situation but it’s not like BA is wrong. i’m sure all of us would want to go back to making 7x our current salary and at a job where we’re sufficiently challenged and value by our employer.

Have Buehrle pitch out of the pen on his throw days

in the form on Alan Snipes

I’m kinda peeved it got cancelled. I wanted to see how it played out.

Q has swung at 11 first pitches, the results of which are 1 swing and miss, 4 foul balls, 6 immediate outs (2 ground outs, 4 pop ups), no hits.
of the 13 first pitches he didn’t swing at, 7 were balls (1 hit him), 6 were strikes.

ultimate results as follows:
when swinging at 1st pitch, 2-11 (1 single, 1 double)
when taking first pitch, 3-10 (all singles), 2 BB, 1 HBP, 3 K.

conclusion: he swings at the 1st pitch a lot and since coming off the DL, when he has put the 1st pitch in play he has made outs each of those times.(and actually, none of the balls were hit well either). he is swinging at the 1st pitch 46% of the time since his return from the DL. he swung at the 1st pitch 46% of the time before he went on the DL. last year he swung at the first pitch 36% of the time. that is all.

converting tony pena jr. to a pitcher.

Pena showed the Royals something when he pitched the ninth inning of the Royals’ 19-4 loss to Detroit last July. Pena, who throws three pitches, sat the Tigers down 1-2-3 and punctuated the inning by striking out Ivan "Pudge" Rodriguez.

"I saw touch and feel and I saw a lack of fear (from him), even though the situation didn’t promote a lot of fear," Hillman said.

http://www.kansascity.com/385/story/1346950.html

As you’ve probably heard, Mark Buehrle (y’know…my favorite player) pitched a perfect game on my 25th birthday.
[Hazy noticed that] Dewayne Wise (y’know…whom I sponsor) saved the game with the catch of his career for the 25th out, and I just noticed something new while watching the game again last night….Sox scored in the 2nd and 5th innings. :D

So when MarketMaker says I had nothing to do with this one, I have to tell him to lick bag….because life’s been unrelentingly rough on me for a couple months now, and I think last Thursday was supposed to happen to renew my soul (I woke up that morning not excited to be having a birthday at all, aside from knowing Buehrle was pitching that day). I’ve been on top of the world since! Not even dead bodies can get in the way of this stoke!

I deserve a big fucking man-made sandwich.
;P

Glad you’re back, Chief.