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QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Apr 28, 2010 -> 03:59 PM) Google and Baseball-reference. Powerful combo. Baseball reference player index is almost more powerful than any one person should be allowed to possess.

QUOTE (Kalapse @ Apr 27, 2010 -> 04:47 PM) It's much, much simpler than that. He's a "catcher" but he has a ton of trouble catching the ball. He's at the very bottom of the league in doing so. This is a good, if not tedious at times, read. One month prior exactly... Fun facts about miguel olivo. Another good read... The 2009 Yogi Berra Award

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Apr 27, 2010 -> 10:21 AM) I was always under the assumption that the pitcher had the edge when they haven't faced someone before. And what's with all the shaking off of AJ? Wouldn't he know the hitters in the AL pretty well? And how come whenever we've faced a new pitcher in the last 10 years we would be lucky to get 4 or 5 hits for the night? Hard headed on the part of peavy. Just how i see it. Their terrible approaches stem from terrible scouting of opposition they are not familiar with. No other case can really be made as far as i am concerned. If someone has a better explanation, i would love to hear it. This aspect you are referring to is huge in the grand scheme of things... yet it appears to be no big deal to them, much like scouting for the draft. This is far from all on the hitters. Someone higher up, as in not solely the players, is not up to snuff with the task at hand.

QUOTE (T R U @ Apr 27, 2010 -> 02:49 AM) Why not? I go see em every year.. Lucky for you then because 8 is already confirmed. Once upon a time 6 was supposed to be the last one as they were shooting for two trilogies. Nine of them is all but a lock in my opinion as there is word they are looking to now end on three trilogies... as people are putting it.

Carson cistulli from fangraphs (nice little write-ups) expects solid results out of lewis. Marc hulet who is also from fangraphs thinks otherwise.

QUOTE (T R U @ Apr 27, 2010 -> 12:37 AM) i cant believe greg said pods is "great" when hes healthy.. Joe crede and scott podsednik in that order... he cannot get enough of them.

QUOTE (JorgeFabregas @ Apr 24, 2010 -> 10:11 PM) 5 hits tonight for Mauer. What new. /Hawk He's probably going to have a chance for a sixth. A homer would complete the cycle. http://www.baseball-reference.com/blog/archives/5599

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Apr 26, 2010 -> 08:04 AM) Did someone say... SWEEP? Haven't heard that in a loooooong time. I'd like to hear it again soon. So... They only had two sweeps last season. The first was against the royals at kaufman on bewtween may 29th and may 31st. The second sweep was exactly a month later (in the midst of a seven game win streak)... june 29th through june 31st against the indians at progressive field. Their last sweep at home dates back until 2008. In 2008 they swept a double header against the tigers on september 14th at home. The last three game sweep at home was against the mariners on august 18th through august 20th.

QUOTE (SoxFan1 @ Apr 25, 2010 -> 04:02 PM) Is that a winning streak? We have been on one for almost 24 hours now.

96 on that last pitch.

That could have ended up really ugly injury wise.

Should have been a triple right there by teahen. What a scrub. His head is not in the game.

Everyone butchers god bless america in this day and age and it's beyond sickening.

When jones and konerko got those back to back hits fathom and jphat were likley b****ing and moaning to themselves that they didn't have anything to b**** and moan about for a split second.

QUOTE (WilliamTell @ Apr 24, 2010 -> 03:27 PM) Why is he wearing a band aid? I missed yesterday's game. Why do people use a band-aid?

http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/index.php/t...rry-about-peavy Well fathom, at least peavy made those four starts you were talking about...

QUOTE (Jenksy Cat @ Apr 23, 2010 -> 03:49 PM) So count you in as a member of the "2005 needs to be forgotten about" tribe? In that case, I hope you're not also a member of the "OMGz the Twinz are the greatest organization in baseballlll even thought they have't done anything in 20 years" club Should it be forgotten? No. Should people stop dwelling on 2005? Yes.

QUOTE (witesoxfan @ Apr 19, 2010 -> 03:54 PM) I still think the Sox pitching in general and outfield defense is far superior to the Twins. Also, as much as I dislike the offense, I really don't think the Sox are going to put up a .687 team OPS, nor are they going to average 4.07 runs a game (which is a 660 run pace). The Twins lineup is obviously far superior to the Sox lineup right now and could be enough to win them the division. I highly doubt the Sox will simply fall by the wayside, and highly doubt Williams sits on his thumbs all year. 659.34 Liar. Nothing but lies.

How can you possibly say this about the man who brought home a world series in 2005? 2005!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!foreverandever!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I don't blame ozzie for the team that is on the field. I blame kenny williams. I blame the upper brass. I blame kenny williams for granting guillen what he desires. I blame the upper brass for letting kenny williams grant guillen what he desires. The order of blame is the brass, kenny wiliams, and ozzie guillen, in that order, and in no other. When you are a little kid and your parents ask you what you want for christmas you are gonna tell them some things that are realistic and some things that are highly unrealistic. Once in a blue moon you actually end up getting that highly unrealistic item. Doesn't hurt to ask/throw it out there now does it? It just so happens guillens wishes were granted The line-up, once it gets going (which it will, for how long i cannot tell you) will be good, by that i mean slightly above average for stretches. I have no problem with the order of the line-up changing at what seems like a rapid pace like others here do. The line-up is changing at a rapid pace, but it's like that everywhere else also, so there is nothing to be concerned about in that aspect. My complaint is that the line-up gets extremely weak when it comes to our bats (of significance) needing rest. It's weak enough when just one sits, then two? How about three? With this rotating dh you would think guillen would try his hardest to make sure 2 of the best 4 hitters (not jumping to conclusions with jones, not even close) were not on the bench simultaneously (beckham and rios today). Bench your second best hitter and your seventh best, bench your eighth and your second. Two of your top four is not acceptable to me , especially considering beckham just had monday off. Rotating dh's do indeed exist, but the way guillen is/will go about it is baloney, garbage if you will. Beckham is the last person who needs two days off during a one week stretch. We really need to just go to a 24 man roster, as nix is just about useless. How about if they went into the season accounting for injuries? Say one month into the season, any of the top four hitters you want to imagine went down, and went down long term. We then replace one of the best hitters with a hitter who is much below league average. Take a guess who the guy is that replaces him? A below replacement level player, if we are lucky. Chain reaction, just like an arm going down in the pen, it tends to gets ugly, fast. I will be the first to admit that there are 20 teams on average going through the same problems (and even worse... every year) as the white sox. The problem is those are teams who don't figure to contend. Contenders, much, much more often than not have viable replacements, and if they don't, they go out and get one. The problem at hand stems from not properly constructing the line-up from the beginning, and taking this ''wait and see'' approach. If this, if that, etc, etc.

One and a half pages back... terrible.

We should have resigned podsednik. FKW.

If everyone on this site that has been banned from wsi at least once commented in this thread it would have to be a couple hundred.

QUOTE (Jordan4life @ Apr 20, 2010 -> 11:31 PM) You obviously just started posting here. You are on a roll lately... ... and i love it. I think you need to go in the chat more often. Great times. You will get angry. You will get depressed. In the end though, it's more laid back than then game thread could ever be. Pretty darn good discussion in there.

That is f***ing weird. The cubs bulls*** is what i see.