CWSGuy406

HE GONE!

Fans of Crede keep saying he'll come around and shorten his swing. I think he might have caught a bit of PaulKonerko2003-itis this year... Hopefully I'm just jumping the gun, and hopefully I'm wrong, but it sure as hell isn't looking good right now...

That a boy Carlos! 22 Game Hit Streak! More importantly, 1-0 SOX!

Frank is GOING to come through here. Harris, get your ass to second, any way, any how!

That a boy Willie!

Oyyy-Vey! I think Moyer is feelin it. :headshake Come on Sox, get those bats goin!

Well, at least we are seeing a lot of pitches. Olivo swings at ball four and strikes out. Come on guys!

Come on White Sox. Just get out of this game and for now the West Coast is over. Just get through this game with a W. Let's go Sox! Let's go Sox! Let's go Sox!

Me too. I was thinking - even though Crede is slumping: Would Cleveland take Crede/Cotts and a lower level prospect for Sabathia? I'm just pondering the Otis rumors, that's why I brought this up...

Leadoff double..... And nothing...

Crede f***ING DAMNIT! HOW ABOUT A f***ING HIT! Sorry about that, I'm really pissed at him now...

Joe Morgan just said "NOt a great defense, as far as the Sox are concerned." That's pretty uninformed and stupid to me.

SOLID!

I'd give up Reed and Honel for Mulder, but I don't think Beane would...

I want Sandy here. He is the one who catches Buerhle and Scott S, and look how they've done so far this year. Keep the rotation how it is - Olivo gets Garland and Esty, and hopefully Garcia, and Sandy gets Buerhle and The Show.

The only place Borchard should be going is to Chicago, as he passes Jamie Burke on his way back to Charlotte.

Right on, Brando!

What time does the draft start? And, I can listen in on MLB.com, correct?

Maggs, get well soon buddy! GL with the rehab!

That's why I think the MLB should allow pick trading. The Sox have a ton of picks, but no one really high one. That would be awesome, the Sox offering their sandwich pick and their first rounder and get a top 10 pick, and take one of the boys from Rice. Ah, dreaming...

Look - Sometimes Timo does stuff that pisses me off to, but the fact remains: We do NOT have a major league quality STARTING right fielder right now without Mags. Timo, Aaron Rowand, Gload, Burke? They are BACKUPS! You can only expect so much out of them. However, I totally agree that if he was in fact 'dogging' it, that's pretty pathetic, and playing the game hard should be expected out of EVERY player.

Well, guys I had a great time. I saw three games (Notre Dame vs. UC Irvine, ND Win, Arizona vs. Kent State, Arizona Win, Notre Dame vs. Kent State, ND Win). All were fairly close and pretty fun games. The ballpark was good. The popcorn sucked but everything else was fun. The burgers were delicious, good nachos, good ice cream. OK - now to the ballgame! -First game was fun. Notre Dame vs. UC Irvine. Unfortunatelly I wasn't able to see Brett Smith of UC pitch, however, I saw Grant Johnson pitch. And, let me just say this - if we select this guy over someone like JP Howell, I will be really pissed. Grant looked pretty good at times, but he left a hell of a lot of pitches up in the zone, and he god hit hard when he did. He seemed to like to leave his offspeed stuff up in the zone (ala Felix Diaz), and that hurt him a lot. He didn't do too badly, something like five/six innings and four runs, but I really didn't like what I saw from him. The guy that really impressed me from Notre Dame was Sophomore Craig Cooper. He had four RBIs in the game, he hit the ball hard almost every AB. He had a three - run homer, and came within five feet of a Grand Slam in his second at bat. Any info on this guy? I know he can't come out for the draft this year, but he looked very good to me. -Second game was a close one between Kent and Arizona, Arizona coming out on top 6-5 IIRC. Unfortunately I wasn't able to concentrate on how John Hardy did, so my apologies. Kent State really shot themselves in the foot this game, though, they had six errors. Not gonna get it done. -Third Game between Notre Dame and Kent State was the best and funnest in my opinion. Notre Dame won this one pretty easily, something like 7-1, IIRC. Again, Craig Cooper hit the ball hard multiple times this game. He really impressed me. However, Sophomore pitcher for Notre Dame Tom Thorton really stole the show. He went 8 1/3 innings, three hits, one walk, 12 Ks. He struck out 7 in a row at one point and carried a no-hitter through 4 1/3 innings. He was pitching a lot of offspeed at the beginning of the game, but as the game wore on, he was really blowing it by hitters. One play stands out - it was a line-drive that hit him square in the chest. You heard it from where I was sitting, which was pretty right down the third base line. What was amazing was how he actually sucked up the pain, got the ball, and threw out the guy at first. After that he just fell down and was basically out cold for a minute or so. He got up, and just dominated the rest of the game. He looks to be an awesome pitcher. A Notre Dame season ticket holder explained to me that when he is on, he is almost unhittable, and that during the season, he went 27 innings and gave up only 3 runs at one time. Well I hope I provided some nice info. I was hoping to see Brett Smith and Andrew Sonnanstine pitch, but I didn't, so I was pretty mad that they didn't pitch today. THe only other somewhat - high (Top 10 rounds) rated prospect - people were telling me that Steve Sollmann was someone to look out for, but he really didn't impress me much either. Overall, fun trip - college athletics are always a good time!

Grant Johnson - ugh. I was none impressed by his performance vs UC Irvine in the Regionals. He reminded me of Felix Diaz - he was leaving way too many pitches up in the zone, and when he did that, he got hit hard. I think he only gave up something like four runs in five or six innings, but he was in a ton of jams that he kind of lucked out of.

Sorry - I'm a bit tired after watching three games at Notre Dame for the Regionals at ND. I had a great time too, but I'm a little pissed now because I got burned up there. Ill explain more in Future Sox. (BTW, Just wanted you to know JReed - I did not like what I saw from Grant Johnson of Notre Dame.)