The Sons of Sam Horn (SoSH) is pleased to announce its annual online auction to benefit amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). The year's auction will be held July 6-19. Last year, SoSH was able to raise the incredible sum of over $65,000, with all of the money going to the Massachusetts Chapter of the ALS Association. This year's auction items can be found on SonsofSamHorn.net. Also, the Massachusetts Chapter of the ALS did a nice story about SoSH's efforts last fall, which you can read about here. Read More...
The annual SoSH fundraiser is about to begin, and while you guys have been great offering to win the Fin some tickets to a future game or a collection of Sox books, this items is what he really wants. So buy it for me. Then buy yourself something for a good cause.
This thread is actually a two-page squabble in which folks parse posts about Manny Acta in a way that is normally tiresome (I can't even summarize it for you, something about whether Acta is actually incompetent or if the Natinales are so awful that Blessed Julian Tavarez himself would not succeed there). Anyway, the reason this thread has some charm is that the real debate centers on the towering achievement of assembling a professional baseball team so bad that its badness warps out ability to judge its constituent parts. That's NATZTOWNE!
It is just your typical game thread until Tek goes deep for the second time in one game (around page 18 of the thread)...the emoticon for a jaw dropping was in play, thanks to poster "Sprowl". That sequence, plus the sequence a few pages later when Bailey scores with an assist from overmatched home plate umpire Todd Tichenor is made all the more fun when one witnesses the confusion among those who can't follow the game live-posters asking for descriptions of the indescribable...
Key Line: "According to my computer, Tek just homered. I feel like I'm missing a lot here." --glennhoffmania
Miguel Tejada! Hanley Ramirez! Jhonny Peralta! Chita Rivera! With Lugo being Lugo and Lowrie being injured this thread has scared up a dozen potential shortstops to be had in trade for one of our dozen grade-A prospects plus the suddenly expendable Brad Penny. There is even a Kayson Gabbard-for-Alex Gonzalez scenario thrown in.
This one started was split out from the Big Random Soxian Megathread. It opens with some pretty good discussion on the percentages in play when Ellsbury took off for third. There's a kind of boring middle stretch where folks get into a geeky dick-measuring contest and feelings are hurt. It seems to be back on track, and for what it is worth the conclusions seems to be that he shouldn't have gone for it, strictly speaking, but we like the aggressiveness anyway. The black hole that is Papi's lineup spot is now warping the fabric of the sabermetric universe.
Key Line: "I am for trying to steal third at times and generally being aggressive. I am not for stumbling or bumbling or starting and stopping and then running anyway against a strong catcher." --yecul
What in the name of Lars Andersen is this thread about? Lowrie might be an .800 ops player, unless he isn't. George Kottaras sucks unless he doesn't, and we should trade the players we don't value for players we do. This thread started on the Main Board, was demoted to the Minor League forum when it seemed to be about trading our prospects and now is about to be DFA-ed Along the way, we learned that Internet Explorer has a spell-check feature. Remember that book/movie "Flowers for Algernon" when Charlie gets stupider and stupider toward the end? That's this thread. Charlie.
Key Line: "I have no idea what the hell you're saying." --Shelterdog
Let's recap: Josh Bard is the one we weren't excited about and thus sentenced to !NATSTOWN!Daniel Bard, a 2006 draft pick, has perhaps the longest adopt-a-prospect thread in SoSH history, eclipsing that of Whitey Wiltse (back on Ye Olde Progeny of Candy LaChance, when "posts" were literally carved into oaken logs that were driven into the ground of Boston Common for all to examine). Anyway, Daniel Bard has already made his 97 M.P.H. debut, ready to build what poster Koufax32 calls "a millitant cult following." The only drama in this thread is the mini-debate between those who wanted Bard left in the minors to follow a structured development program and those who wanted to UNLEASH HELL RIGHT NOW!!!!
Key Line: "I think it's prudent to give him a taste of what it'll be like for him and let him feel his way into it." --Resonance Wright
In one swift move, the Front Office just made life very difficult for one Julio Lugo. Now we must redirect our hate. This thread will drift down the SoSH Main Board, but before it goes, let's compare it to some other "They finally designated X" threads:
2008 Abe Alvarez released : Consensus was that Abe still had a chance to latch on somewhere as a LOOGY. I can't find any signs of him being in MLB this year. Maybe he and Lopez can open a leftorium like Ned Flanders.
We haven't quite figured out what to do when a member of an online community dies. Longtime SoSHer "JohnMal" passed away on April 13th and SoSH founder Lanternjaw started a thread to report the news. I think many of us probably clicked over to JohnMal's in order to recall him via his posts.
It is always fun to debate the relative (de)merits of the Matt Young signing vs. the Ramon Martinez signing (or, as Samuel Johnson put it, "Sir, there is no settling the point of precedency between a louse and a flea"). But Yankee fans will enjoy the minor thread-within-a-thread about how lucky the Sox are for not signing Damon. And by enjoy I mean curse.
Key Line: "The problem is that people expect [Torrez] to win 25 games." --Don Zimmer via Young Hickory via phrenile
