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Spring Training Game #26: White Sox @ Cubs -- Javier Vazquez vs. Ted Lilly
Published 3/22/2008 by thewizardsofoz <info@southsidesox.com> at South Side Sox: Front Page Posts
... ***** In other news, BTB: Is BPI (Total Bases allowed/innings pitched) a better stat than WHIP?. Jim previews Alexei. Bill Plashke's Juan Pierre column gets the FJM treatment. Tango fires up his clutch project. Carl's latest 'Palehose 8' comic strip: In Which The Winter is Defeated by The Awesome.

qotd
Published 3/25/2008 by Mr. Faded Glory at High and Tight.
"Juan Pierre hit zero home runs last year. Mythical fairy creature David Eckstein hit three, for Chrissakes, and he swings a three-inch bat carved out of a candy cane." FJM

We don't want to harm your cat, but we will...
Published 3/27/2008 by The Big Picture at The Big Picture
... Fucking Drake, man. That one stung. G'Town shitting the bed didn't really matter much, just the final fuck you to a dismal performance. For those keeping score, we have four total wins and one team left. That's fucking dreadful. ---------------------------------- We were thinking, with baseball season officially underway (even though any fan will tell you Opening Day is Monday), who is the worst statistical starter in the bigs? Juan Pierre's gotta be up there. Pedro Feliz is mind-fuckingly bad. His OBP is terrible ...

This Week's Links (3/24-3/28)
Published 3/28/2008 by Vegas Watch at Vegas Watch
... his bracket, I do not know. Joe Alexander had some amusing comments after WVU's win over Duke. This was probably funnier before the 81% FT shooter missed a vaguely important foul shot last night. Posnanski has now incorporated video into his blog. And a pretty good one at that. Dikembe Mutumbo explains how Isiah Thomas has been an inspiration to his career. Voros McCracken met Brian Bannister. FJM finally gets around to Plaschke's "eternal" Pierre column. "DaJaun" Summers was on the cover of SI. ...

Post-Game 39 Thread: Namaste
Published 5/15/2008 by Steve Sax (noreply@blogger.com) at Sons of Steve Garvey
... I was shocked. I mean, I like this guy (I see him all the time as we have season seats nearby). And I was shocked that any season ticket holder would come to the defense of Pierre. Juan-for-four Pierre? Slappy McPopup? Never mind that the fan's argument was ridiculous, a point eloquently made by firejoemorgan earlier this season after Bill Plaschke made the same insipid point: ...