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QUOTE (scenario @ Apr 17, 2009 -> 12:39 AM) Marquez had a pretty brutal outing. Knocked out of the game in the 4th: gave up 7 runs on 8 hits; walked 4 and struck out 2. He is such an awful pitcher. He'll likely be out of baseball in 3 years. Thankfully we made the right call in not keeping him with the big league club.

Danks just threw 3 straight fastballs past Crawford.

Time to pick off Upton. Just got home, disappointing to see Quentin hit into a DP with 1st and 3rd. Some really bad hitting with runner on 3rd lately.

BTW, can someone keep up the leadoff hitter counter? It's like 2-32 now, I believe.

QUOTE (chimpy2121 @ Apr 16, 2009 -> 11:34 PM) Navarro soft liner to left, Zobrist walks. 1st and 2nd, 2 out. Seems like our starters have walked a lot of batters towards the bottom of the order.

QUOTE (EvilJester99 @ Apr 16, 2009 -> 11:32 PM) So if Getz keep struggling does Ozzie start Nix once he comes back? Can Swisher play 2nd base?

Against a righty, Brian Anderson should never try to pull the ball.

Big game tonight...probably the best match-up you can get against this Tampa team.

Ian Kinsler is amazing. 6-6 while hitting with for cycle.

H. Street is soooooo bad!

QUOTE (DBAHO @ Apr 15, 2009 -> 08:12 PM) Not KW's fault that he had to cut payroll from the 2008 team. He did well just to get rid of Vazquez and Swisher quite frankly. He traded 2 legit major leaguers though and got no one that could realistically play CF or leadoff. He got one potential major league player in the trades, and that guy is Flowers. All I'm saying is that the lack of depth of major leaguers is very evident now after just 2 injuries.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Apr 15, 2009 -> 08:13 PM) He obviously has a mandate from above to cut costs. But his talking up Lillibridge and Marquez and Nunez was just plain pompous. The only team that shred more payroll than the Sox this offseason was SD. I think the Sox are the odds on favorite to win the biggest payroll drop next year. You think the Sox will have a payroll around 75 mil next season?

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Apr 15, 2009 -> 09:06 PM) Negron is leading off for Charlotte and hitting .148. Some wanted KW to call him up. I want KW to say he failed this team this offseason also...we don't always get what we want.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Apr 15, 2009 -> 08:41 PM) I believe the White Sox are 2 for 30 out of the leadoff spot this season. Keep bashing BA. It's sad that I would be happy to see Juan Pierre on this team.

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Apr 15, 2009 -> 07:35 PM) What does Betemit have to do to get playing time? We have a guy hitting well below .100 leading off for christ's sake. He's not a grinder I guess, because he actually has some offensive talent.

QUOTE (whitesoxfan101 @ Apr 15, 2009 -> 07:28 PM) I believe it's Ed Farmer who calls a bad sinker a "stinker". Marquez throws more stinkers than anybody you'll ever find. That's what's so frustrating about Marquez and Lillibridge. Anyone that saw them in the minors last year knew they weren't MLB caliber. Lillibridge honestly looks like a pitcher at the plate.

QUOTE (whitesoxfan101 @ Apr 15, 2009 -> 08:21 PM) A.J. and Ramirez will figure it out eventually. Unless of course I'm wrong, in which case we'll finish no higher than 3rd place. Yep, there's no point in getting worried about it right now. I wasn't expecting a 95 win team this year, as it was obvious there were some holes that might not have been filled. I will say that this team would get better if KW decides to stick Alexei in CF and call up Beckham.

I'd trade Poreda for Lastings.

QUOTE (whitesoxfan101 @ Apr 15, 2009 -> 07:06 PM) Meh. Quentin wasn't a question mark, and Linebrink hasn't proven anything (he's a great 1st half pitcher who struggles and/or gets hurt in the 2nd half). We're probably going to leave Tampa 5-7, and although the division is horrible and our pitching IF it stays healthy is pretty good, I'm not overwhelmingly happy. The organization and Linebrink never really said how worried they were that Linebrink was going to require major surgery if he came into ST this offseason and had no life on his pitches. Linebrink talked to a doctor friend of my dad's in February, and he thought he might be at 60% when the season started.

QUOTE (daa84 @ Apr 15, 2009 -> 07:13 PM) yeah, but i just meant as a stop gap until getz gets back, because fields really doesnt strike out anymore than lillibridge does, and also has shown a keen eye so far this year JD looked like he had never seen a slider in his life in that AB All of our hitters have looked AWFUL against offspeed pitches so far this year.

So after we fall to 4-4, I have to say I'm extremely happy with how things are going. Some of our big question marks, Quentin and Linebrink, look fantastic so far. Fields is having a good start, and showing a lot of improvement from his miserable 2008. To make things better, the AL Central doesn't look extremely strong this season. Considering how awful we swung the bats in the first few games, I can't complain at all.

QUOTE (whitesoxfan101 @ Apr 15, 2009 -> 07:56 PM) Well to be fair to Ozzie this year, his chocies are limited. Our CF options all suck, and we're terrible at 2B with Getz gone (and he hasn't proven anything either). Other than that, who can we hit leadoff, Fields? Ramirez? Yeah, not good. This is much more on KW in my opinion. Yeah, it's more a philosophy of Ozzie's I disagree with than a huge complaint. The more I analyze things, the more I think I wouldn't mind Pierre in CF if he's going to play this style.

QUOTE (jphat007 @ Apr 15, 2009 -> 07:54 PM) Thats what im saying. It doesn't make sense that I'm so angry. I think I just can't stand watching BA play. Jose has actually been really encouraging. The Wise injury hurt. He's not good, but he was the best we had in the organization in CF. His swing was coming around, and you could tell he was more comfortable lower in the lineup.

I just hate how Ozzie seems determined to have a fast player leadoff, no matter how awful they are. If Carl Lewis was on the Sox for a game, he'd leadoff. Betemit desperately needs more playing time against RHP...or else the Swisher trade looks even worse.

QUOTE (daa84 @ Apr 15, 2009 -> 07:53 PM) can someone explain to me why rich harden is so hard to hit? he throws a fastball straight as an arrow ....occasionally hes upper 90s, but most of the time hes 92-94.....he gets so many swings and misses on it, its unbelievable Amazing location on his fastball above the belt. The Cubs rotation is ridiculous if he has any semblance of health this year.