Random Thoughts: White Sox Party Like It's 2005
Random thoughts while wondering whatever happened to Tim Fortugno:
- After watching this game Saturday afternoon, I had to check my calendar. For some reason, I thought it was 2005.The White Sox hope to break out the brooms this afternoon in the Murder City.
- The big debate with the White Sox is the fate of outfielder Brian Anderson. Even with a lefty (Nate
Robertson) on the mound Saturday, Ozzie Guillen elected to sit the right handed hitting Anderson and play left handed hitting Darrin Erstad. Anderson appeared as a pinch runner for Jim Thome in the eighth and scored the tying run, but was removed for a pinch hitter in the tenth. I think Kenny Williams still wants Anderson on the roster and Ozzie does not. The key will be Boone Logan. If he pitches well (and he did Saturday) they may elect to keep him and send Anderson down to Charlotte when Scott Podsednik comes off the DL. Charlotte is already crowded with outfielders including top prospects Ryan Sweeny and Jerry Owens. What boggles my mind is, if the kid is going to hit, he needs at bats. If he doesn't get at bats in the show, he needs to get them in Charlotte. Or for another team. But right now, Ozzie is handling him like Ross Gload and Anderson is more talented and more valuable than Ross Gload. I'm not a big fan of Anderson, but if you don't want to play him, give his seat on the bench to someone you can use. Or trade him for something that you need. - Dear NHLPA. On behalf of all Chicago Blackhawk fans, please hire Don Fehr to run your union. Please, we beg you. Thanks.
- In the chase for Lord Stanley's cup, Detroit's big win over Calgary is secondary to the big question of "what was Jamie McLennan thinking?" It's a new hockey first, the goon goalie, who comes into the game, hacks at people and gets tossed. The guy was in there for eighteen seconds. And then there is the non-call on butt ending by Jerome Iginla. He's immune from prosecution because he's a star. If he was a third line skater, he'd be banished for at least three games. Game six is tonight on Versus.
- In the other game Saturday, Dallas has caught Vancouver and tied their series at three. That one got a little chippy for me too near the end, but what an effort from Brenden Morrow who wanted to get a piece of Alex Burrows on one leg. Dallas will have problems in Monday night's game seven if Morrow and Sergei Zubov can't go.
- New Jersey tries to knock out Tampa Bay this afternoon. Marty Brodeur has a less than stellar road record in the playoffs, but if New Jersey can play defense like they did Friday night, it won't matter.
- Turns out Pittsburgh Penguins teen sensation Sidney Crosby had a broken foot during the Penguins playoff series with Ottawa. If he;s that good on one foot, imagine how good he'll be on two next year.
- It looks like Cub outfielder Alfonso Soriano will move to left field when he returns to action early next week. That's because Lou Piniella wants to serve Pie in center. The kid's hitting isn't there yet, but boy, defensively, Felix is one outstanding player. Since Soriano is not on the DL, the Cubs are not obligated to make a roster move. The larger question is, you still have Jones, Murton and Floyd to play. Jones is probably the best out of the three, but will you give him enough ABs to be effective. Can he play center? How well? And, why didn't all of this get solved before the Cubs left Arizona?
- Willie Aybar is not very smart. It's one thing to miss class. It's compounding it when you get called to the principals office and don't show up.
- True fans do not distract the other team with flashlights. This reminder coming from someone whose favorite team has had muggers on the field.
- Jeff vs. Tony with twelve laps to go. Stewart, wedges in between Jeff Gordon and Martin Truex Jr. to take the lead, only to have Gordon grab inside position two laps later and retake the lead. Gordon got his first Phoenix win and tied Dale Sr. on the all-time wins list all in the same night. Next week, it's Talladega, restricter plates and big, multi-car wrecks. All right!
- 92,000 jammed Bryant-Denny Stadium to witness Nick Saban's first spring game as Alabama head football coach. Kool-aid anyone?
- ESPN is reporting that Rick Majerus may take the St. Louis job vacated when Brad Soderberg was shown the door last week. Personally, I think Majerus would live a lot longer if he stayed on TV, albeit at the four letter network. Of course, given the fact that Soderberg was fired last week instead of right after the season, give pause to the theory that this may have been fixed a while back.
- In Arkansas, a man is suing the city of Bentonville because his sons found a book about lesbian sex in the library. The man claims that the book has traumatized his two teenage sons. The most likely reason for the trauma is that his sons learned the dirty little secret that all middle aged men know: Women don't need men to have sex.
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