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QUOTE(Gene Honda Civic @ Sep 17, 2005 -> 11:00 AM) 2005 AVG WHIP vs. LH .260 1.20 vs. RH .206 0.95 yup...but Ozzie has to go with the guys who got him here :rolly (minus the qualifications, Iguchi only 5 times a week, etc)

QUOTE(wsox08 @ Sep 17, 2005 -> 10:42 AM) I'm expecting at least six solid innings from him.. We need him to keep us in the game. Get runs early and often.. Let's go! Are you often left disappointed and wanting more when you set such high expectacions all the time?? I'm hoping he doesn't get shelled can make it through five with us down less than two runs and give a chance to win it late...even though that is a mighty task against Santana and the twinkies bullpen.

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Sep 16, 2005 -> 02:12 PM) That is true. They have some excellent content, such as pictures and articles. They are just amazing at the rate that they are driving people off at an incredible rate. You must have been typing this at an incredible rate But in all seriousness, it has been crazy how they have been banning people lately.

QUOTE(scotty22hotty @ Sep 16, 2005 -> 11:51 AM) This post has been edited by the Soxtalk staff to remove objectionable material. Soxtalk encourages a free discussion between its members, but does not allow personal attacks, threats, graphic sexual material, nudity, or any other materials judged offensive by the Administrators and Moderators. Thank you. Thanks!! I'll keep that in mind...

QUOTE(DBAH0 @ Sep 16, 2005 -> 11:13 AM) With his OBP, you can't take him out of the lineup. The thing is, and I think this is an issue the Sox are going to have to decide on, I don't think you can keep both Rowand and Pods for next season, and hear me out here. Yeah Rowand is great defensively, but has he done enough offensively for an OF position? No I don't think he has. The issue is though, is Pods good enough defensively in CF? Well at the monent probably not, he's be a major downgrade from Rowand. And you've got Brian Anderson waiting in the wings as well. The thing is this, our offense has basically struggled all season. We need more power production from our lineup. Uribe has turned his season around, and is pretty much a lock to return next season as the starting SS, unless someone like Rafael Furcal decides the Southside is where he wants to be. That pretty much leaves 3B, and a DH/OF spot to upgrade (assuming Konerko re-signs). I think if you want to upgrade this offense, one of Rowand or Pods will probably have to go, and I would go with Rowand, because I think the difference Pods makes leading off is bigger than what Rowand offers from his defense. It's probably not going to be popular, but it's something we have to consider to upgrade the offense. Doubt it will happen though. Great post Our entire outfield collectively has not produced enough offense. Plain and simple your OF has to house some serious run producers and we have definitely missed that all year long. Dye has been about what we all expected offensively (defensively, meh)...but in total the offense just has not been there. If I was to choose between Rowand and Pods, I would possibly consider keeping Pods. Mostly because I think Rowand could pull a lot in a trade.

QUOTE(tonyho7476 @ Sep 16, 2005 -> 10:45 AM) Of course not...did you not look at Pods stats in September? He is doing great. If the Everetts, and Dyes, and AJs turned it up, we might have something. And Ozzie, quit taking TAGUCHI out of the lineup. The point of my thread was more that Scott Podsednik's best is not currently good enough to play a starting corner outfield position on a major league club. I'm not saying I'm right by any means, I was just wondering what everyone elses opinion was on this topic.

QUOTE(3E8 @ Sep 16, 2005 -> 10:33 AM) Rowand. I would be all for giving Rowand a try in the leadoff spot...btw, this is NOT going to be a popular recommendation on this board.

I've been one of his biggest supporters all season. He was arguably the offensive MVP of the first half and his ability to steal bases ignited and undoubtly changed the whole mentality of the offense from station to station HR ball to a more fundamental approach to scoring runs (moving over the runner, etc). His value as the White Sox LF is and always has been tied to his SB's and OBP. If you look at the second half of the season both of these crucial statistics are on the decline. He is no longer having as many quality at bats (note that his walks are down slightly and his OPB is down .033 from the first half). As we all have noted he is unable to steal bases at the same clip. G AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI BB K SB CS AVG OBP SLG OPS Pre All Star 74 282 50 83 14 0 0 17 34 41 44 9 .294 .369 .344 .713 Post All-Star 40 163 24 46 12 1 0 7 10 26 12 12 .282 .326 .368 .694 Now, I understand he was injured and in fact still looks a little gimpy out there now. If he is still slightly injured and it is indeed hampering his ability to steal bases should he be on the field? Probably not. A speedy leftfielder who has no power and plays average defensively is not a valuable asset when you take away the stolen base. His throwing arm has been exploited a few times in the past week and his routes to flyballs has been described as poor by numerous posters on this site. So this brings me to my question. Do we stick with him because he got us to where we are today? Or do we use Brian Anderson, Joe Borchard and yes, TIMO PEREZ in LF. Brian Anderson single handedly won us a game in Seattle and Joe B is 3-3 since rejoining the team. I did also look at Scotty's stats against Cleveland (.324 avg, 9/10 in SBs in 10 games) so he has been a catalyst against them. But I ask you, is this the same Scotty Pods that played against the Indians in April and June?

QUOTE(Rich McKinney @ Sep 15, 2005 -> 12:59 PM) I actually don't understand....Did the Sox really play that badly in the final week? You'd think that someone who writes for MLB.com would be able to identify game logs such as this with ease...

Game 1 - that was my friends job he failed miserably Game 2 - 4 in Section 109, row 9 (yeah that was my job) Game 3 - Didn't even try So anyone have any extrax for Game 1 and 3???

QUOTE(ceffa2000 @ Sep 15, 2005 -> 09:01 AM) What happened to the Fox broadcast? I sawa a snippet before the news last night that they aren't going to be able to televise the game for some reason. Ok...I didn't read up on this but I think this is the situation... Fox owns the rights to broadcast all Saturday Morning MLB games. They paid a large sum of money to obtain exclusive rights to these games... The Twins scheduled the game on the 17th to start at 11:10 in order to be able to pull the metrodome doubleheader, Twins in the morning, Gopher football at night. The problem is the game starts at 11:10 and not 12:20 as Fox always has it's games begin. So...they are not going to pickup the game and have already tagged the Cubs-Cards game as their midwest regional game. So that leaves this game without a home... I did hear that WGN or Comcast is trying to get a waiver from MLB/Fox so they can air the game on tv...we shall see

QUOTE(Queen Prawn @ Sep 15, 2005 -> 08:40 AM) Thanks for letting me know I am not a Sox fan. I guess I should be happy and dancing around that they are choking and looking completely listless on the field. :rolly Good to know the "overally optimistic" and "ridiculously pessimistic" battle lines have been drawn. Regardless of where you truly stand, we will all be herded into one side or the other. When you're life is insanely White Sox and you witness them blowing a 15 game lead, which has not happened yet, I know...is you're reaction not going to be one of utter dismay? But does that make anyone any less of a fan? Blind optimism and 'doom and gloom' are both equally wrong stances to take right now...watch the games, cheer them on, cuss them out, act like you always do... Odds of this post getting a response: 3%

QUOTE(Heads22 @ Sep 14, 2005 -> 08:42 AM) With the car that doesn't exist? Didn't bring one to Ames, plus it'd be a HAUL. Ames to Chicago???? I've done that trip on three seperate occasions. It's far from a haul...plus its a very scenic drive

As if things couldn't get any worse-now the score is getting positive hype from the Trib in adding Mike North to the booth: Chicago Tribune - Rick Morrissey :headshake

QUOTE(Nokona @ Sep 13, 2005 -> 04:48 PM) Against all-white pitching staffs who weren't in the shape that today's players were. The argument for Babe Ruth is that his stats were far and away better than anyone he played against. He was pounding 50+ HR's a year when the guy hitting the second most was only hitting 15-20. He lapped the field in almost every offensive category. Plus, he was a premier pitcher... Pretty good argument there...IMO

QUOTE(AddisonStSox @ Sep 13, 2005 -> 01:18 PM) Is there anyway we can email this thread to the good people at WSCR? Complete with all vulgarities? If nothing else, it may at least rule out Mike North. Let me just say this, the White Sox-WSCR relationship could not have started out on worse terms. WSCR won't care what most of us have to say...since the majority of us don't fall under their target market of ages 25-44 which they are convinced all love Mike North... :rolly I never imagined the switch would be this negative, but on the other hand, as I said in my previous post, I am not suprised. Edited for stupidity...

Please excuse SnB...hes been 'irritable' ever since he found out the germans didn't bomb pearl harbor. hehe...Actually this has been discussed in excess and to think they have lost their focus at this point in the season is kinda ridiculous. I would lean towards the 'trying to hard' philosophy than the 'not trying hard enough' belief that is often described on this board.

QUOTE(SnB @ Sep 13, 2005 -> 11:54 AM) no one should ever get this worked up over anything associated with the royals, ever. exactly...why all the hate for the lion? He seems like a good enough guy who struggles at the game of baseball without the use of posable thumbs

QUOTE(LosMediasBlancas @ Sep 13, 2005 -> 09:05 AM) Didn't he beat us in the 2000 playoffs? That doesn't count he only beat the White Sox. :rolly He actually didn't pitch all that well in that game anyway. But in six career postseason starts hes 3-2 with a 3.71 ERA...not exactly bad by any means

QUOTE(LosMediasBlancas @ Sep 13, 2005 -> 08:47 AM) lol what about dat play der? what about movin' boat uh dem guyz over der? I'm sure it will happen. I just assume the worst possible outcome in any situation... This came at such a great time...USA Today honors the sox by putting them as the second best duo in the AL and what do we do a few weeks later? Break them up...and then threaten to bring in a buffoon whos Mic would be better served stuck up another orifice than anywhere near his slobbering mouth. It comes as no suprise to me... :headshake

QUOTE(Stocking @ Sep 13, 2005 -> 08:35 AM) ahem.......he is amazing. Kinda like how rapidly reproducing bacteria and uncurable quick-evolving viruses are amazing? Then I agree...

QUOTE(YASNY @ Sep 13, 2005 -> 03:46 AM) Buehrle and Garland carried this team a long way. You've got to stick with them. If Garcia loses game one at home, then we have to come back with Buehrle and Garland as they are pitching now, things would look bleak. I'll take my chances with Mark and Jon, then Freddie in game 3. I read through ^^ three times and still can hardly comprehend how you came to the conclusion you did. If Garcia started game 1 and lost how would things look any more bleak than if Buehrle and Garland started games 1 & 2 and lost and then Garcia started game 3??? I'm kinda hoping for a Garcia, Buehrle, Garland rotation. Because IMO that goes from least likely to implode in a playoff start to most likely not look too good.

Bonds and it's NOT EVEN CLOSE... Mostly because I have TO on my fantasy football team...

I have Verizon...its very average but the service area is pretty large and their customer service is second to none. As long as you deal with the corporate level and never go into the local stores.

QUOTE(Goldmember @ Sep 12, 2005 -> 02:04 PM) Cricket England vs. the Aussies Congrats to the Brits!