vilehoopster

I just look at the radar and everything seems that it will be completely through by 3:40. And those small storms of “red” to the north look a few hours away and drifting north of Chicago and definitely north of the Rate.

I think that he, like you, want to just continue to complain and b**** about Getz and Jerry; that neither one of you want to or are able to move on from that position and admit that things are clearly improving and that Getz is doing a good (great?) job. And I believe he, and you, dig around searching for this or that stat, post, or source that you can use to continue your narrative that the Sox organization is terrible and cannot change. That is what I believe.

I would love to see Gonzalez solve major league pitching and show some home run power. It would be such a huge boost.

I say this over and over. I don’t give a s%*# who the announcers are. If the Sox win that day, whoever it was were the best announcers in the world.

Just wow! Even when things are going so well (Cleveland rearranged their pitching staff to throw their best starters at the Sox and lost both games anyway), people are still working really hard to find some source, some aspect to complain about. Just wow. Plus, whatever this poll says, I would bet 95%, at least, of the current White Sox players are very happy (not just content) to be on this team, in this organization right now. It’s so obvious.

“Come crashing down” from what?? It’s not like he’s batting .325 with 13 home runs. He’s batting .270 with 6 homers and plus defense at 2nd base. What he’s doing now he can easily continue for the next ten years and probably improve on everything. He’s just a very good, solid player who does a lot of things to help your team win. This is one of your sillier posts.

I think the Sox have four really good guys in the bullpen: Taylor (if used in the 9th), Hudson, Newcomb, and Dominguez (if absolutely never used to close the 9th). But after that it is AAAA level pitchers. That obviously is a problem that I don’t see how to fix. When the Sox are good, we score enough runs that we can get by with those four good relievers. But the problem is that for right now, overall, the team is in a batting slump for various reasons. Also, I agree with the guy who started this post. We need to use Sandlin as a starter again. I know it’s pure speculation, but I think if the Sox had started Sandlin in the 2nd Detroit game instead of the bullpen game, they would have had Newcomb available to save and win the 3rd game. Of course maybe not. But soon, until Schultz gets back, I think thry need to give Sandlin another start.

Did anyone watch the postgame show. Ozzie and Chuck, yes Chuck too, were, as much as they could be, really complaining about Venable and his game choices. 1st of all they gave these stats (this is from memory, but pretty sure these are relatively correct): Grant Taylor has an ERA of 1.07 when he pitches in the 9th closing. But an ERA of 3.90 when he’s not closing. Now this is really nuts: Dominguez when he’s not pitching in the 9th has an ERA of 0.77. But when he closes in the 9th, his ERA is 6.06 with 6 blown saves. (Again from memory) Ozzie was angry! He never said Venable he said “they” but he clearly meant Venable and his staff. “They can see these stats the same as us. What are they doing?” He said it twice: They can see these stats the same as us. Why? You know, Ozzie is 100% correct. Looking at those stats, it’s so obvious what Venable should and should NOT be doing. Then Chuck Garfien, nicer than Ozzie and using “they” again questioned pinch hitting Gonzalez right before Antonacci. (Not sure how he said it but sorta this): Gonzalez was 0 for his last 25. Why would you put a young player who is 0 for his last 25 in that position with the game on the line? Really, what was Venable doing batting Gonzalez there? He was clearly overmatched. I think that choice was worse than his bullpen decisions. 0 for his last 25 and you throw him in there against an outstanding closer. Really, if you look at those stats, there’s some pretty obvious first steps to fixing our bullpen problems.

He was 8 for 16 in Charlotte.

Time for me to step back from all my complaining and regain my optimism. Sox go home to meet a Cleveland team as beaten up as we are. There’s a strong likelihood we win the series and a good possibility of a sweep.

Everyone saying Acuna and Benintendi should be DFAed, which I disagree with (but please I don’t want to start that debate now). But why is Hicks on this team?

A ton of truth here.

Will has to understand that Dominguez cannot pitch the 9th inning. He is a total choke artist. 1st two batters, he’s up 0 - 2. Then a guy beats out a weak grounder and he loses it. All of a sudden he can’t find the strike zone unless he groves it in. Even the 3rd out to Gonzalez was hit hard. Venable can’t do that cute stuff where Taylor faces the tough outs in the 8th and leaves Seranthony to come in for the bottom of the order in the 9th. Dominguez chokes too often, like today.

Potentially their worse series of the year. This is a terrible series to get swept. Terrible just terrible to choke two wins away, and the Sox did choke them away. Detroit was on the verge of giving up the season and breaking down their team, trading off assets. Now they’re gonna be fired up and make a charge for the division. If the Sox could have won 2 out of 3 (yesterday and today), Detroit would have been done. Now they’re gonna be in the hunt in September.

Would really, really, really like to get a couple insurance runs here.

Is it that their bullpen is throwing well, or more evidence that the Sox bats are really struggling now. I think it’s the struggling thing.

Come on Hudson, take care of business.

So, do we bring Martin back in the 7th for an out or two?

Oops!

I agree. That’s not a bad walk.

You know what? Their bats suck too. Martin shut them down for 6 more outs, then Hudson/ Taylor can do the rest for a 2 -1 win.

Good.

Where have you heard this?

Stone keeps telling us that Quero has hit his entire career, and therefore, he’s gonna hit again this year. But when?

So true. Teel can’t get here soon enough.