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Robin is showing megabucks Dunn he has confidence in him. Wait ... Ozzie tried that too. It doesn't work when you can't hit. Not piling on. The bottom of our order might start clicking. We can hope. I'd flip flop Dunn and Viciedo for the rest of the season.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Apr 17, 2012 -> 07:18 PM) He was fine the first week when he wasn't swinging at it. Wasn't he fine one game, maybe 2?

QUOTE (justBLAZE @ Apr 17, 2012 -> 07:18 PM) Do we really need two Gordon Beckham threads, one Beckham/Rios/Dunn/Morel thread and Offensive Shotcomings (Rios/Dunn/Beckham/Morel) thread? Come on! Why not? He's a hot topic. Thread starters get shredded around here.

He does look better at the plate this year ... until they show him the curve and he has no chance to hit it.

QUOTE (Tex @ Apr 17, 2012 -> 06:50 PM) I am trying to keep pitchers into the discussion. Taking 150 games for a starter, can they have 15 bad games? 30? For a starting pitcher 3 outings where they are out by the fourth? Six? Clearly Dunn surpassed any number last season, but what are fair expectations? If your name is Juan Pierre ... two bad games make you a failure.

QUOTE (flavum @ Apr 17, 2012 -> 04:25 PM) Beckham is a career .225 hitter in his home park. That's almost 3 years of a sample size. It's time to do something. I hate to say it, but he's got to go down to Charlotte in a last ditch effort to get some confidence at the plate, and if he doesn't find it, they have to move him. QUOTE (LVSoxFan @ Apr 17, 2012 -> 07:01 PM) Seriously is there anybody who DOESN'T think he should go down for a month or so? Because I haven't heard it. Out of sight out of mind. I think we're all sick of watching him struggle and want a break from Gordon Beckham. He's one of our many candidates to hit ninth. Too bad our lineup wasn't so good Sox could stick him at ninth and we'd have a defensive specialist at second. He's a flop. He can't hit. Send him down to reinvent himself and try somebody else.

QUOTE (Paint it Black @ Apr 17, 2012 -> 06:24 PM) I was told by nearly everyone here that once Greg Walker is fired things will improve. Nope, a lack of talent (Morel), or not wanting to be coached (Beckham, Rios) were not to blame. Doesn't this season so far (albeit a very small sample) prove that hitting coaches really don't matter? Of course they don't matter in any way except making all the tools available for these hitters. Walker deserves an A as a hitting coach because by all accounts he was very organized in getting the hitters tapes to watch, organizing all the time they want to hit, tireless in assisting them to the extent they wanted to be assisted. As far as teaching them how to hit or helping them get there ... get real. These millionaires hit the way they want and sink or swim.

I like Robin, but Rosenthal is jumping the gun a bit. Tonight was a disaster. We've now played a whopping four home games. He overreacted with that column.

QUOTE (lostfan @ Apr 17, 2012 -> 05:38 AM) Beckham still has options. I mean, why not... dude is completely broken right now. Let's just get it overwith. Can't argue with that. I wonder what kind of guy Beckham is. I wonder if it'd help or hurt for Robin to tell Beckham he's thinking of sending him down, a last ditch chance to get him to concentrate, adjust and get some f***ing hits. Or if that simply is not done in sports and you merely send a guy down when he's s***ty enough. That a final warning of sorts is simply not condoned.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Apr 17, 2012 -> 05:36 AM) http://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/CH...201104110.shtml The dreaded Pierre/Thornton game...then there was the game Cliff Pennington drove in the winning run off Thornton, same series. At that point, we were 6-3, and went on to lose 19 out of 24 ballgames, to fall to an 11-22 mark we never really recovered from. We'll see what kind of cloth Robin Ventura is made of soon enough. No matter how good our starting pitching has been, you can't hope to compete with the Detroit Tigers with only 3 legit starters in your line-up (AJ, Konerko, Ramirez). We're crossing our fingers on Viciedo, but over the course of a 162 game season, not even the 2010 Giants had the pitching to cover up for our offense. When you compare our line-up with the Yankees, Rangers or Tigers...it just doesn't come close to matching up. We should be realistic. DeAza hasn't been nearly as good as last season, and Beckham/Morel/Dunn/Rios all look the same or even worse. At some point, opposing pitchers will just stop pitching to Konerko and/or AJ, like Showalter did tonight, in order to face Rios. I guess one silver lining is we are gonna find out if it's the same ol s*** or if Robin truly is a miracle worker. If the team battles back to split this series or gasp win 3 of 4 then he's a special leader. Cause tonight's game as you pointed out is the type to send a Sox team spiraling downward. I'll be impressed if we somehow split this series after tonight. I sure as hell am not expecting 3 of 4.

QUOTE (Jordan4life @ Apr 17, 2012 -> 05:25 AM) I'll say this because i'm 99.999999% I won't get suspended. But would you STFU? I'm not this damn negative. Jordan where were u this offseason? Did you have a life? I don't recall you posting much. Kinda forgot about our fights last year.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Apr 17, 2012 -> 04:55 AM) The article is about 7 or 8 years old. Oh I missed the point. Thanx.

First things first. Beckham should be sent down and let Lilly play second for a month. And Zach must be sent down. No time to panic on DeAza or Morel yet. I would drop Dunn to seventh and leave him there the rest of the year as well. The man is finished. One homer, three ribbies? That's about right.

Couch made a mistake. Fred Brzozowski is deceased.

QUOTE (Baron @ Apr 17, 2012 -> 04:45 AM) Thanks for that Aren't you frustrated? That sucked.

QUOTE (fathom @ Apr 17, 2012 -> 04:43 AM) Agreed, if the team lets tonight's loss get to them, then they're not mentally strong enough to compete. Hopefully the organization starts making smarter decisions and gets Stewart the hell off the major league team, gets Morel out of the 2nd spot and send Beckham to the minors to see if he can salvage his sinking career. I would agree. Put Fukodome in the second spot if you have to. At least he's a veteran who hits in April normally.

Pathetic. It didn't take long for the Sox bullpen to come down to earth. It didn't take long for DeAza to inexplicably pull a Pierre and drop balls 2 straight nights. It didn't take long for fans to expect Dunn to whiff every time up. It didn't take long to lose faith again in Beckham and Morel. Losing sucks. Had we won 4-2 none of these thoughts would have entered my mind.

Baseball players mumble the saying, "one game at a time" enough they better believe that tired cliche crap. Tomorrow better have nothing to do with this game. Win the f***ing game tomorrow, White Sox.

QUOTE (Jose Paniagua @ Apr 17, 2012 -> 04:36 AM) We can't hit. As is, we had gifts given to us due to their awful defensive play (especially at 1b) I know, but why couldn't Sox take advantage of a visiting team's defensive play and bag a simple 4-2 win? A: Cause we're not a good team. We might be .500 if we're lucky, but not a good team.

Since the similarities are glaring, I have to mention it. DeAza drops the fly ball to cost Stewart in a tie game. Just as Pierre dropped the fly ball(s) to cost Thornton. My Q is: Does this mean our fanbase turns on DeAza as it did on Juan? Is it over for DeAza in terms of fan acceptance?

Good luck getting that Wieters (sp) guy out the rest of this series. He's playing with house's money now with 2 home runs in the opener of a four-game set.

Is Zach this bad? Wow.

QUOTE (justBLAZE @ Apr 17, 2012 -> 04:31 AM) I guess we were due for a stinker, here it is, now let's take the remainder of the series. It's more of a shocker than a stinker. You can't blow 2-run leads at home with three outs to go and expect to be better than .500. I guess we could look at it as we lost with our No. 5 starter going. Key is to bounce back with starters 1 thru four and not let this game turn into 2, 3.

QUOTE (fathom @ Apr 17, 2012 -> 04:27 AM) Please let it result in Stewart being demoted to get a fresh arm up here. He's throwing 89 mph as a reliever! That's ridiculous, and it's really pathetic the Sox put him on the roster to start the season. He has to be demoted as you say. No need to trot him out there again as a reliever. Maybe he'll be the long long guy like Pena that one year. When it's 9-1 in the third or something.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Apr 17, 2012 -> 04:26 AM) Might as well let the entire game fall apart. Send Beckham and Stewart down to the minors. Yeah I never thought I'd agree, but Beckham is not a major league hitter.