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Point taken, but as a person with several Sox fans as friends, this would be almost unbearable. I like my friends (for the most part), and enjoy the silly things that fall out of their mouth when their Short-Man complex gets into full swing. But if they get real ammunition, I'd have to find some new friends. We may agree to disagree, but lets just say for the sake of argument than at any given game, 50% of the fannies in the seats are from the city, 50% are from the suburbs. Moving the ballpark to a suburb such as schaumburg would make the game A LOT harder to get to for half of those people, and only somewhat easier for the other half. And that's a generous ratio for suburb dwellers, as I would assume that most fans at day games on weekdays are from the city. i was amused by how many sox fans were at the game today, i could see them being at wrigley but to make the trip all the way up to milwaukee shows just how pathetic some are. Its hard to say, there would be far less day games if they moved, the only reasons they play a lot of day games now is because the city wont allow them anymore than 26 or something. It would make it harder for the city fans yes, but fans from the far out burbs would be more likely to head to a location like schaumburg for a game than to head all the way into the city durning rush hour (for night games) for a game.

Soriano has flat out sucked at the plate. Let's hope he steps it up soon. I'd hate to see him booed at Wrigley. im guessing because murton has been lost at the plate and no one has really stepped up in that slot this year (well since forever) its only a matter of time im hoping before soriano breaks out

so does murton. I'm not taking anything away from Murton... I'm just saying that I don't have a problem with Theriot coming in late in the game as a defensive replacement [although I would rather see him in the IF rather than the OF]. Matt's gonna get his fair share of playing time, i guarantee it! This whole Murton not playing enough bothers me only slightly. He WILL get his AB's. I would say that I agree with most of the moves Lou has made so far. I just can't help but laugh at the over-reacting on this board. We've played SIX GAMES. SIX. GAMES. OUT OF 162. What's that like, 4%? Settle down, folks. Lou is the new manager on a new team. It's going to take more than SIX GAMES to figure out what works and what doesn't. while one side of me agrees with you on it being very early, the other side says "the games count now"

Agreed. If you watched the play closely, the runner had every intention of taking Cedeno out. Had Cedeno left his leg planted on the bag at the time of the catch, he would be on the DL ala Todd Walker/Carlos Lee last year. That's the main reason umpires allow the phantom tag. To prevent needless injuries. its not even that, its he has been up twice (so far this year) and he needed to be clutch and he blew it twice. its not like the pitchers the brewers brought in were over powering anyone (well outside of turnbow and he was wild, we shouldve scored there as well). Sunday was the first game he's had more than 1 AB in a game this season. As far as not delivering in 2 chances - this is baseball, where getting on base 35% of the time is considered good. 35 percent is great, 30 percent is good, 16 percent is what Cedeno is at. small sample but its not like he tore it up in 2006 either I'm not a Cedeno homer, but give the kid a chance. He has plenty of ability, especially defensively. It was his first MLB season last year. Under Baker/Clines no less. I don't mean to make excuses for the kid, but there are loads of quality major leaguers who had underwelming debuts. The skills are there. give him a chance. he is getting his chances and if he dosent come through again and again, im not going to be the one looking past him for someone else

Is there a problem with playing the hot hand? Yes, yes there is. So when Murton was slumping horribly last season you'd still play him? This isn't the prospect development league. It's MLB. Wins and losses matter. Murton isn't some wildcard unknown, he put up an 800+ OPS last year in pretty much a full season. Floyd needs to be pretty much at his best to be worthy of more than just giving him a day off. "Playing the hot hand" is way too arbitrary and puts too much pressure on either player to produce or get benched. Either platoon them, or let one get the lions share of the starts. Considering there's probably not going to be a significant difference between Floyd and Murton v. RHP(at least one large enough to justify stunting further development of Murton, the difference between them defensively, etc.), then Murton should be starting the majority of the time. They are getting paid very well to deal with the pressure and if they cant perform on the sports biggest stage, they dont deserve to be playing on it

who cares what sox fans think, seriously as soon as the cubs start to win, those black hats they wear so proudly will turn to the blue ones the cubs wear. I disagree with the harder statement, while i dont care for the idea, a burb who really wanted the cubs could probably figure out a way that is no worse than what they have now.

Zambrano is right, there is nothing scary about the lineup the brewers throw out there everyday. wether they get him anytime in the future means nothing as well. people who think the cubs are the only team that need career years to get far are mistaken and if im not mistaken, ill be there on April 23rd

Agreed. If you watched the play closely, the runner had every intention of taking Cedeno out. Had Cedeno left his leg planted on the bag at the time of the catch, he would be on the DL ala Todd Walker/Carlos Lee last year. That's the main reason umpires allow the phantom tag. To prevent needless injuries. its not even that, its he has been up twice (so far this year) and he needed to be clutch and he blew it twice. its not like the pitchers the brewers brought in were over powering anyone (well outside of turnbow and he was wild, we shouldve scored there as well). Sunday was the first game he's had more than 1 AB in a game this season. As far as not delivering in 2 chances - this is baseball, where getting on base 35% of the time is considered good. 35 percent is great, 30 percent is good, 16 percent is what Cedeno is at. small sample but its not like he tore it up in 2006 either

only because the Brewers lineup isint what id call scary, if it were the reds, he wouldnt have lasted the first inning

Murton has been unspectacular at best, not worthy of any of the man love going on in this thread so far this year. i find it funny that "worst looking defender" means anything, he has made the plays and making the plays is what matter wether you look pretty doing it or not

Agreed. If you watched the play closely, the runner had every intention of taking Cedeno out. Had Cedeno left his leg planted on the bag at the time of the catch, he would be on the DL ala Todd Walker/Carlos Lee last year. That's the main reason umpires allow the phantom tag. To prevent needless injuries. its not even that, its he has been up twice (so far this year) and he needed to be clutch and he blew it twice. its not like the pitchers the brewers brought in were over powering anyone (well outside of turnbow and he was wild, we shouldve scored there as well).

whats his name from Baseball prospectus said it sounds like bone chips which he has suffered from before.

fixed you think the blues are ugly, did anyone see the dreadful camo with tan pants the padres wore on saturday night

Cedeno Miller Derosa Eyre i wont rag on derosa too much because he has been great overall the past few games but everyone else has sucked, especially eyre

was there and can say he looked dreadful kept thinking to myself id rather see Guzman

i have my brothers checking at oakton and another friend at some school downtown

hahah Ronny on the radio for that homerun, uh, uh um, the diabetes foundation will donate money, sorry im excited

capuano

he is missing the ball

great at bat by blanco, i knew he could do it

i didnt want lou to come out there or i wouldve killed the next batter

should be YES

Larry just told him, you dont want lou to come out here do you

3 run homer comin up

yuh