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QUOTE(JimH @ May 15, 2006 -> 10:36 AM) #1 for Pods. Way too soon for his 1st. He's now on pace for like 12 more than last year, LOL.

Pods hammers a 2 RUN HR to RF and its 3-0 Sox.

QUOTE(JimH @ May 15, 2006 -> 10:34 AM) BA K's and he looked slightly confused in that AB. I'd assume Anderson has some experience versus Baker from the IL league last year. Pods just swung at a high and away 2-0 pitch. He loves doing that. 3-1

Anderson strikes out on a fastball down and over the middle part of the plate. Nice movement on the pitch, but bad AB by Brian.

Anderson just pulled off a good FB to hit. 1-1

Hot off the presses...Josh Fields was the IL hitter of the week.

Widger comes through. Hits a high fastball over 2nd base for a RBI single.

Of course we have the wrong guy up, but he does seem to hit a lot of fly balls, so hopefully he can hit one deep enough. 0-2 count nad he just swung at a horrid pitch and somehow caught up to it. Had he not, he would have been hit in the face.

QUOTE(Balta1701 @ May 15, 2006 -> 10:29 AM) "The key with the bunt is to make sure you put it in fair territory" - Singleton. Sounds like something I'd say. No wonder some people compare me to Singleton.

Juan hits it to deep CF and Mack tags to 3rd base. Now lets get him home.

QUOTE(JimH @ May 15, 2006 -> 10:27 AM) Jason do you think the WBC somehow messed with Garcia's velo? It looks like he's settling into a nice little groove now. I think he may have been throwing more sooner than ever and because of it, he had a dead arm period early in the year that he seems to be getting through. I also think some of it had to do with his legs not being as under him because he was out of shape early on. Mack just hammered a double.

QUOTE(JimH @ May 15, 2006 -> 10:24 AM) Well Podsednik had a nice long AB in the first inning, I think he looked at 8 pitches. Hopefully that pays off later. Not sure if Konerko and Thome are awake yet though. 2 quick outs for Freddy, looking better than last nite's bottom of the 1st. Yep, Freddy had a real nice 1-2-3 innings. His offspeed stuff looked real good there.

1st pitch of the day for Freddy was a strike.

QUOTE(Heads22 @ May 15, 2006 -> 10:18 AM) Ooh Paul, that was a pitch for you. Paul with some trouble pulling the trigger there. IT was a ball though. Horrid pitch but there is no way it crossed the plate in the zone. We blew a golden opportunity to start things off right though.

QUOTE(greasywheels121 @ May 15, 2006 -> 09:23 AM) With this weather, I've got nothing else better to do. I'm planning on loafing and watching a White Sox winner! i'll be watching the game while writing two papers. I love morning games. Just finished up our latest ST on the Air show and now its time for the Sox game.

Nevermind.

QUOTE(Whitewashed in @ May 14, 2006 -> 10:38 PM) What exactly happened with Buehrle's error? Did he throw it too low and Uribe missed it or what? Bad throw. He threw it to the left of the bag mainly because he was kind of falling off the mound (didn't get a good plant).

QUOTE(SoxFan101 @ May 14, 2006 -> 10:31 PM) With how well he has done in AAA im starting to get excited about him. I know KW has a history of trading away prospects but him, Sweeney, Valido, and Getz im kind of looking forward to being future whitesox starters. Its kind of far fetched but oh well one can dream. Fields is a definate masher. I could see him playing Left, 1st or DH for a long time. Hell, he has the arm for RF but I don't think he has the range (plus such little experience). The flaw is it will be hard to fit him at any of these positions. I don't see Ozzie getting rid of Pods unless we have a new base stealer at the top of the order (which means no hole in LF unless Anderson stinks and we move Pods to CF; I'm high on Anderson so I don't see that happening). First base we have two poppers, but one of them could get hurt and than you have 3rd where Crede is a freaking stud (especially with the way he's hitting as of late) so if we sign him to a contract he'll be there a while. Of course holes open up. I do think we'll see Fields later in the year (september) if he isn't dealt and he may turn into one of the top hitting prospects in all of baseball. He's really starting to click and he has MASSIVE power.

QUOTE(danman31 @ May 14, 2006 -> 10:22 PM) They did have the #1 pick with Bush, lol. Exactly

I just want to say...we are truly spoiled. It felt like we hadn't won in forever and I was really pleased to see us win. Turned on the game when it was 7-3 and saw the Sox turn things around from there. Big win and hopefully we can split the series tomorrow.

QUOTE(greasywheels121 @ May 14, 2006 -> 10:19 PM) Is MI:3 worth seeing? Pretty good aside from the fact I hate Tom Cruise.

QUOTE(SoxAce @ May 14, 2006 -> 10:27 PM) I tell ya what Jas, I'm really pulling for this kid. One of the rare 1st rounders we have that can turn out to be a great player. I really hope he succeeds. Seriously, and he isn't just rare...he'd be the first 1st rounder to pan out since Alex Fernandez IIRC.

QUOTE(Balta1701 @ May 13, 2006 -> 01:58 PM) Maybe just for a couple weeks while he gets his head together, rests up his arm, and works on whatever he's missing? A ton of people here get furious with Ozzie when he loses games with the "Sunday lineup", giving the regulars too much rest, we can't sacrifice a single game, etc. Well if Garland is turning into a terrible loss every other time out, maybe we ought to give the kid a shot. Right now the best thing for the Sox is to get Jon Garland rocking. We do that and we can win each and every start. The only way we get him through this is by pitching him completely out of the world (ie he gets shelled all over the place) or by letting him get through this. I think part B is going to happen. Ozzie shows a lot of faith in his players and because of that for the most part they come through. QUOTE(Felix @ May 13, 2006 -> 02:29 PM) You don't give out 29 million dollar contracts to mediocre starters either, but that was already done. He is not a mediocre starter. We can argue whether last year was a fluke, but he was one of the best pitchers in baseball last year. You don't do that without having talent.

QUOTE(Chisoxrd5 @ May 13, 2006 -> 12:31 PM) This boggles my mind over almost anything I have previously seen. Whenever someone posts how we should, can, or will trade for Rowand I want to throw myself out a first story window. As for Garland, all i have to say is that he is making my beginning of the season prediction look pretty good. In fact, I might have been overly optomistic. This does not make me happy I definately think there is some reason to be concerned with Garland. On the plus side I really think its upstairs right now, but on the downside sometimes things upstairs can really go south fast and you never get them back. I like Coop a lot and Ozzie has faith in Jon (plus Jon doesn't have a ton of pressure on his shoulders right now) so I think if Jon can just go out there and getting some things to go his way we'll see him get into a groove, but it may take a couple steps. Right now he's in a baby step stage. He needs to forget about his prior starts and what was going wrong and start focusing on the new starts and how he needs to just execute. I honestly think for a while he was out there trying to bring his ERA down to 0 from teh get go and because of it he was leaving a lot of pitches up. Now after he's made those mistakes he tries to make even better pitches and that means he's over throwing a lot of the time and again having less command. HE goes out there and goes 6 or 7 giving up 4 runs or less where he makes some good pitches and I think we'll see him start to build from that. He's a good to very good pitcher thats in a funk right now. He isn't over-powering but when he has the command he had last year, mixed with his stuff, he's a very good pitcher who will give you a lot of innings and keep you in games (and from time to time WIN you games). QUOTE(NUKE_CLEVELAND @ May 13, 2006 -> 01:04 PM) Contract year dude. Now that he got his money he's back to his old form. We all talked about the possibility of this happening. Technically last year wasn't a contract year. We just took care of him with an extension. We held his rights for this year regardless.

QUOTE(Heads22 @ May 14, 2006 -> 10:02 PM) I looked at Brian's stats on MLB.com....in his last ten games: Avg: .350 R: 6 HR: 2 RBI: 4 BB: 2 K: 3 2 k's were against Santana and this was just in 20 AB, but hey, you gotta start somewhere. At least he no longer looks like a child left alone in the mall. He also still has not committed an error in the majors (jinx) and has 3 assists this year. His range factor (whatever that means) is 3.51. I don't even nkow if thats a good range factor or not (I think nothing of that stupid stat) but I do know he's been one of the 6 best defensive centerfielders thus far this season. I've been incredibly impressed with his defense and I think I'm being harsh when I say top 6 (he could very well be higher than that). Offensively he is starting to look more comfortable and I see him starting to swing more and more at his pitches rather than just being up there trying to protect from everything. He seems to be developing a plan at the plate and I've been impressed. Either way I'm a big proponent of playing him pretty much every day and letting him grow. He has all the tools so hopefully he can come up with a plan of action at the plate thats sucessful.