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QUOTE(diegotony06 @ Apr 29, 2007 -> 09:09 PM) Why would they pick today to decide to send him down. Are they gonna try to blame him for keeping our players out late at night, and having a bad influence on all our offensive players!! He wasted a month on the bench, they should have just kept Eduardo Perez in the first place. I honestly have no idea what this org. is doing and I don't think they know neither. There's a struggle going on between KW and Ozzie. QUOTE(hitlesswonder @ Apr 29, 2007 -> 09:09 PM) I hope he gets picked up by Texas or Florida & gets another chance. He's still pretty young and a bunch of guys have managed to turn into productive major leaguers after 400 lousy at-bats. Hopefully he'll be one of them. He could start for the Marlins right now.

QUOTE(Gene Honda Civic @ Apr 29, 2007 -> 09:00 PM) 1. He sucks. 2. he's got a bum arm. 3. all we need is another left-handed hitter with no power. Are you saying that the ball doesn't jump off of Sweeney's bat?

QUOTE(WhiteSoxfan1986 @ Apr 29, 2007 -> 08:57 PM) You forgot about Masset, who has lost the most velocity. I think you have to look at one man. How do we know he's lost velocity? Scouting reports on minor league players are usually 3 mph way too high. I never understood why we put so much stock into Arizona Fall Leagues/winter ball leagues this offseason.

QUOTE(Kalapse @ Apr 29, 2007 -> 09:00 PM) Brian Anderson will never again play for the Chicago White Sox. It's amazing what has taken place all thanks to that Vazquez trade.

QUOTE(joeynach @ Apr 29, 2007 -> 08:44 PM) Mercy that was ridicolous. They had like 12 hits id say half were these little 4 hopper ground balls or jam shot bloopers with broken bats that just reaching the outfield. This is getting a little too aberration-like for me to consider quality baseball play. We had 8 hits yesterday drew 4 walks and stranded all 12 with 0 runs and then today. Man I dont remember ever before seeing this much un traditional like stuff. Just weird. Thanks Hawk...it's called not having a massive uppercut swing.

QUOTE(WHarris1 @ Apr 29, 2007 -> 08:37 PM) Punch yourself in the f***ing head Hawk. Next time you are gonna play this heartless just f***ing stay home, offense. GOOD APRIL? WHAT THE f*** ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT HAWK May will be better with Mackowiak and Sweeney or Cintron in the lineup every game.

Yep, we suck. 4th best team in the AL Central.

QUOTE(winninguglyin83 @ Apr 29, 2007 -> 08:34 PM) Cheer up. we're going to Seattle, where we play so well. And we get to face Cy Weaver and Cy Escobar again.

QUOTE(diegotony06 @ Apr 29, 2007 -> 08:33 PM) I say the Cubs. Better manager, thats for sure. Pinella is overrated as a manager. I love their offense though.

QUOTE(Milkman delivers @ Apr 29, 2007 -> 08:32 PM) Once again, confidence in our softer-throwing, fat-body closer is declining. I've never seen so many players have their velocity drops. The sooner this whole coaching staff is gone, the better.

QUOTE(WHarris1 @ Apr 29, 2007 -> 08:29 PM) No Hawk, it's not a f***ing joke. Isn't it amazing what happens when you don't have an uppercut on every swing? Interesting question: who has better team, Cubs or Sox?

QUOTE(Flash Tizzle @ Apr 29, 2007 -> 08:28 PM) That's the book on every pitcher. Cooper preaches "throwing strikes," which is good when you off an ability to locate offspeed pitches and throw them at any count over the plate. AJP seems to get stupider every game.

QUOTE(CWSGuy406 @ Apr 29, 2007 -> 08:27 PM) 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. You and I must have been the only people watching this team during the 2nd half last year. Hey Bobby.....stop throwing first pitch fastballs at 95 mph.

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? It won't happen....they'll use the injury excuse. If we're going to suck on offense this much, at least there's a chance we can trade Dye at the deadline.

It's obvious the book on Jenks and Thornton is to swing at the first pitch straight fastball. Never in a million years did I think Wood would make contact against Jenks.

You know what's impressive: you can easily say that we have 7 positions in our order that are not contributing at all right now. Only Dye and Erstad can be counted on to have a good AB

QUOTE(WHarris1 @ Apr 29, 2007 -> 08:22 PM) That was a simply f***tarded AB. Stare at 2 fastballs for strikes so you have to try and his his nasty offspeed stuff. These hitters are so f***ing clueless. I don't know where their publicist is these days.

Ha....great AB by Erstad. Looks at four fastballs, then chases a hook off the plate. Even my dog knew a curve was coming.

In 3 of our last 4 games, Hawk has talked up the pitcher as if they were Johan Santana's equal.

QUOTE(Flash Tizzle @ Apr 29, 2007 -> 08:16 PM) Hey, what do you know? Someones on base who may score on a double in the gap. I'd have no problem letting Sweeney try to steal here. K-Rod has such a long motion anyways.

QUOTE(CWSGuy406 @ Apr 29, 2007 -> 08:12 PM) It's okay, guys, Cintron had an AWESOME day at the plate. Hawk just said so. A seeing-eye single never sounded so hard hit. Sweeney looks like Buehrle at the plate.

QUOTE(shawnhillegas @ Apr 29, 2007 -> 08:10 PM) I dont understand how you can hold your head up like this. I would be f***ing ashamed of my team and the effort if I was out there right now. Don't worry, our AAA pitching staff is now loaded for years to come.

I'd love to know how many hits were averaging against starting pitchers this year.

Have no fear, we got Cintron/Uribe/Sweeney up next inning. QUOTE(Greg The Bull Luzinski @ Apr 29, 2007 -> 08:04 PM) Excuse 1 - Weather Excuse 2 - Injuries Excuse 3 - ??????? The Answer - Greg Walker sucks as a hitting coach Excuse 3 = never could get into a rhythm due to weather and injuries.

QUOTE(diegotony06 @ Apr 29, 2007 -> 08:03 PM) Watching this teams offense is absolutely painful. Something has to be done, because the weather excuse is no longer available We'll hear the injury excuse for the next month, guaranteed.