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QUOTE(dasox24 @ May 1, 2007 -> 05:04 AM) What pitches do you throw and how confident are you in each of them? Just wanted to emphasize this. It needs to be asked, especially so for Eggy, but for Gio as well. For Gio: Everyone knows about your great breaking pitch, but how confident are you in throwing your other pitches (fastball, changeup) in a 3-2 count? What is your outpitch? What major league pitcher would you compare yourself to? Egbert: What enables you to get so many groundball outs? Does your fastball just have a natural sink or two-seam action to it, or are you working with a splitter-type pitch? Do you model yourself after any specific pitcher? QUOTE(Tony82087 @ May 1, 2007 -> 06:08 AM) -Without burning any bridges, what was the difference between the Sox and Philly organizations? I really like this question too. I don't know if this is what Tony was going for, but I'd be interested in knowing if there is a difference in what the organizations stress/teach?

QUOTE(Gregory Pratt @ May 1, 2007 -> 02:36 AM) I don't know much about him so at the risk of sounding silly, let me ask: doesn't he suck? That's what I'd heard. Yeah, he's pretty much what Jerry Owens is. Maybe he can play some CF. Even if he can, he's at best a fourth OFer.

Baron Davis is the f***ing man. Warriors up 3-1 on Dallas. Amazing.

Baron Davis hits a three from half-court to tie the game at halftime. Amazing... this is the most enthusiastic crowd I've seen since the Montreal-Toronto season finale in the NHL. It seems like they're standing up during every possession.

QUOTE(fathom @ Apr 30, 2007 -> 02:56 AM) and you could theoretically say that El Duque was as well. No you can't. How much did the Sox pay El Duque, $4-6 million? El Duque gave the Sox 120 innings of a 5.10 ERA, not to mention what he did in the playoffs. What El Duque did for the Sox in 2005 was much better than the average fifth starter around the league. My question is this -- when was the Sox lost a bidding war to a player that they realistically wanted? Then again, that's not really a fair question, either, because most of that is based on speculation, not real facts.

QUOTE(AddisonStSox @ Apr 30, 2007 -> 12:01 AM) How's the surfing in Charlotte? Better yet, how's the pot? Why stop at pot? Let's keep going, I love baseless attacks. Cocaine -- yeah. Heroine -- you betcha. PCP, LSD, ecstacy too. And Brian is definitely shroomin'. Oh, and steroids. Steroids too.

It's Brian's fault the offense sucks. His bad attitude is rubbing off on all the other hitters. Now the offense is guaranteed to pick up! He can take his surfboard and flowing golden locks to Charlotte.

Funny how Hawk never makes any of these type of comments when Erstad pokes a dribbler back through the middle of the infield.

QUOTE(fathom @ Apr 29, 2007 -> 08:28 PM) You and I must have been the only people watching this team during the 2nd half last year. Sometime when I head to the library in a bit I'm going to go on baseball-reference and see how many runs the Sox have averaged since August of 2006. I'd say it's gotta be under 4.5.

QUOTE(Milkman delivers @ Apr 29, 2007 -> 08:24 PM) How deep into the season must we get before there is actually a real chance that Walker is fired? Not saying Walker has done a good job, but the talent in the lineup is probably the worst in the American League. This specific lineup fields five (!) below average hitters (Sweeney, Erstad, Uribe, Cintron, Mackowiak), two average hitters who are playing below average (Pierz, Crede) and two good-to-very-good hitters who haven't gotten going yet (Dye, Konerko). This is an awful lineup and no hitting coach would make a difference.

It's okay, guys, Cintron had an AWESOME day at the plate. Hawk just said so.

According to DJ, Mike Sweeney is in LF today. He's moving better out there than I thought!

Who the f*** is that coach? Get out of the f***ing way...

QUOTE(fathom @ Apr 29, 2007 -> 06:38 PM) And it's not like we're hitting into tough luck. AJP in the 4 spot is sickening. Stupid decisions by both managers today. Izturis hitting third? AJ hitting fourth? Apparently they don't want their better hitters to get more ABs...

QUOTE(hitlesswonder @ Apr 29, 2007 -> 05:26 PM) Fields K numbers are pretty bad. That like of ability to make contact has derialed better prospects than Fileds (Borchard, Dallas MacPherson). I'm not real optimistic that he'd hit at the major league level. But, that's just my uninformed opinion... You're absolutely right. In comparing their first years at Charlotte, Fields struck out in 29% of his ABs in his while Anderson (only) struck out in 26% of his ABs. Of course, Fields hit for a bit more power (about 65 OPS points), but anyone who thinks Fields is going to come up here and not struggle is fooling themselves.

That's pathetic. That's an easy throw to first. You can't throw that ball away.

QUOTE(hitlesswonder @ Apr 29, 2007 -> 05:20 AM) Trading Gonzalez for a player that has proven they can play in the majors would be a good move, in my opinion. Just becuase he's the Sox best prospect doesn't mean he's in the same league as Bailey, Pelfrey, Hughes, Hirsh, etc. ... If some team likes the numbers he's putting up in that huge park in BHAM, do a deal. He might turn out to be a decent pitcher, but he also might be exposed in park where it's possible to hit HRs. The problem is that the Sox will still need someone to replace Buehrle and possibly Garland next season. But I personally liked the "win this year" philosophy better than counting on prospects. I don't think you're being very fair to Gio. You seem to be penalizing him for pitching in a pitcher's park, but don't cut him any slack for pitching last year in a hitter's park. Gio is still only 21 years old, so he's still well ahead of the curve as far as pitching prospects go. I also don't think it's fair to compare him to Bailey, Pelfrey and Hughes. So what you're saying is he's not the best pitching prospect in baseball? He has his flaws, sure -- his control still isn't great and the GB/FB ratio isn't very good, either. But he's a lefty throwing in the low-90s who's striking out batters at a spectacular rate. If he continues the success he's had in his first five starts, he's going to be considered one of the top lefty prospects in baseball. To add to that, getting your own homegrown starting pitching is going to be huge with guys like Miguel Cabrera, A-Rod and Andruw Jones becoming FAs in the next couple winters, not to mention the fact that it's usually safer to go with the hitter. IMO the Sox shouldn't trade any of Russell, Gio or Egbert unless they're getting a young player (mid-20s) back in return. I also don't get this statement: What, Philly can't make mistakes? The team that gave Adam Eaton a three year deal? The team that made their best pitcher a reliever? The team that KW got the better of in the Thome deal? That isn't relevant in the least bit.

QUOTE(Flash Tizzle @ Apr 29, 2007 -> 02:02 AM) I agree with you, here. Except we'll likely see Perez sharing times with Sweeney at DH and Mackowiak/Ozuna splitting time in LF. Guillen won't forsake his veterans for playing time in the outfield. I don't think Perez would come here. That would make little sense for him -- come here for a month (or however long) and immediately go back to AAA once Podsednik comes back?

QUOTE(fathom @ Apr 29, 2007 -> 01:53 AM) They're playing too well. I had thought of that. I honestly think we might bring back Timo. Milwaukee needs bullpen help, right? Of course, if Jenkins were to be acquired, that would sadly mean the end of the Scott Podsednik era.

QUOTE(BearSox @ Apr 29, 2007 -> 01:59 AM) You don't waste his AB's by sitting him and having Cintron in the K'ing 3 times. You don't, but Ozzie does. Won't that be nice, Anderson and Sweeney sitting side-by-side on the White Sox' bench? In all seriousness, you're right. Sweeney does need to come up here and be the everyday LFer or RFer with Dye or Mack/Ozuna moving to DH. But I think we're going to see more Cintron at DH.

Looks like Sweeney is probably going to be called up. I'd rather have Fields as he has more power and can DH, but Sweeney is fine. I'd put Sweeney in RF and DH Dye just to everything you can to avoid injury. And it improves the OF defense, too.

QUOTE(fathom @ Apr 29, 2007 -> 01:45 AM) The only spot KW upgraded this team was at back-up catcher, but Ozzie ruined that. He didn't significantly improve our starting spot, relief core, or offense. ? Aardsma? Masset? What an awful call. That's terrible.

QUOTE(fathom @ Apr 29, 2007 -> 01:42 AM) Then we might as well hope to struggle enough to be far out of competition by the trade deadline so we can get a return on Buehrle and Dye. There's no excuse to have the odds stacked against this team. KW failed this offseason in regards to 2007. I suppose, but if sacrificing one year means we're better in 2008-2012, I'll gladly make that exchange. I don't know why you think he's failed so much. My only issue with KW is resigning Podsednik. That roster spot can be used for so many better things. But even that's not a collosal mistake -- he'll be gone next year (or should be), and it's a mistake that's only costing us $3 million bucks.

Wow, F-Rod's velocity seems to be down a bit. Nice to know that there are other players out there who lose velocity... Too bad he hasn't lost anything on his breaking ball.

QUOTE(fathom @ Apr 29, 2007 -> 01:34 AM) You'd be doing this team a disservice though to not field a competent DH. With Thome and Pods not coming back until June, you can't let this team fall too far behind. Considering this is likely our last year to compete for the championship for the next few years, you can't sit on your hands and do nothing. But you can't sacrifice 2008-2012 either, though. Even with a healthy Thome, the odds are stacked against this team. And that really has nothing to do with this team, per se -- it's just, there are three other very good teams in this division. I know it's a defeatist attitude to say something like this, but chances are we don't win the division. If you can find a match by trading Broadway, McCollough, Haeger, some of the excess relievers, then by all means go and do it. Who knows, maybe we can find this year's Wayne Krivsky who is willing to give up a very good OFer (Kearns) for a bunch of relievers. Philly is having bullpen trouble -- maybe they'll let us take Pat Burrell off their hands for half the AAA pitching staff.