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It took Cotts 2/3 of an inning to match his homer allowed total from 61 innings last season.

Balta....remember when I said that PK is going to hit into a ton of double plays this year? Does anyone know what the record is for a season? And the only reason I ask this is because I think Thome is awesome, and will be on base at a terrific rate.

QUOTE(whitesoxfan101 @ Apr 4, 2006 -> 07:54 PM) I agree, and that's the question I asked in here and my thread. However discussion about things that aren't all positive are apparently banned since we won it all last year. And also despite the fact I'll be very pleased with 2 out of 3 in this series and picked us to win the division, i'm panicking and negative. Yeah, I'm as confused as you are. This is as positive of a game thread as ever I've seen in which we were getting blown out.

That Thome kid has a future.

QUOTE(retro1983hat @ Apr 4, 2006 -> 07:51 PM) Pods looks off so far Hopefully he'll have the next 2 days off, and he'll be ready to go in KC.

QUOTE(jphat007 @ Apr 4, 2006 -> 07:49 PM) Your title says it all. I do get a good laugh thinking about what the players might say if the read some of the posts. They could get quite a laugh from it. Freddy had a bad day. They all will. Buerhle could have given up this many if he kept going. I'm not surprised though. I think we all knew it would be like this. Considering that DJ was as critical of Garcia as anyone on here, I don't know what you were expecting people to say about him. I would guess that every person in the organization wants to know what's going on with Garcia's arm right now.

QUOTE(jphat007 @ Apr 4, 2006 -> 07:45 PM) LOL. Yah. It's like clockwork. This team deserves better. Here's the question I have: what are people doing so bad on here that some are talking down to? I haven't seen much besides for complaining about Garcia....who deserves criticism for his effort today.

The worms behind the pitchers mound are thrilled that Rowand is gone. I have a feeling that the worms down the 3rd base line also sent KW a thank you card for trading Rowand.

QUOTE(whitesoxfan101 @ Apr 4, 2006 -> 07:39 PM) Cintron is the only guy at the plate I'm concerned about right now. He looks quite lost, although Westbrook is throwing a very good game today. He hasn't seen many sinkers like what Westbrook is throwing today. I would have liked to see Iguchi play against a pitcher he has familiarity with, but it likely didn't make a difference today.

QUOTE(jphat007 @ Apr 4, 2006 -> 07:33 PM) He looked fine. Just like he did for much of the spring. Maybe this is his dead arm period.... Jphat....he didn't look fine. He was throwing weak fastballs to the plate and rolling offspeed pitches. Not only that, but he was completely slowing down his motion on his change-up.

At least it's a ton of fun to watch Thome hit.

QUOTE(jphat007 @ Apr 4, 2006 -> 07:30 PM) Don't even bother trying my man. It's the way this thread works. It's hilarious. I figured maybe we'd get to the second week of games. LOL. Even I agree with this. You had to know that some people were going to expect us to win 173 games this year, and not lose a game.

Wow, Brian Anderson would NOT have caught that. The ball was hit hard, and Mackowiak had no chance at it.

7-1 now. Just a meatball served up by Logan there.

QUOTE(ChWRoCk2 @ Apr 4, 2006 -> 07:26 PM) true i would have never started garcia game two, i would have had him go the first road game against kansas city It doesn't really matter. Garcia was better vs Cleveland last year than he was KC. Also, people don't know Ozzie if they think he wasn't going to have Garcia as one of his top 3 pitchers.

QUOTE(jphat007 @ Apr 4, 2006 -> 07:25 PM) I don't think Freddy is gonna win a game this year when I really think about it. He'll get his fair share of wins, but it's disturbing to see such a puss arm today. No reason to jump off any bridges Jphat

Looks like we found our #5 starter this year. All along, I've thought it would be Contreras, Buehrle, Vazquez, Garland, Garcia.

QUOTE(JimH @ Apr 4, 2006 -> 07:21 PM) Right, dirt to ankles. The pitch was still down in the grand scheme of things. That pitch is right in Thome's wheelhouse though. It wasn't a terrible pitch.

QUOTE(JimH @ Apr 4, 2006 -> 07:19 PM) DJ is really harping on Garcia throwing soft. That tells me something, and what it tells me is something is wrong. Absolutely. I was going to point out that DJ has been very critical of Garcia's style today. I love to hear that type of analysis from DJ, and as you, me, and other observers know, the announcing crew usually speaks for the organization.

Garcia better get some zip on his pitches, or he's going to be lucky to have an ERA below 5 this season.

Garcia is totally slowing up his motion on his change-up.

QUOTE(CYGarland @ Apr 4, 2006 -> 07:16 PM) i was thinking the same thing. That last ab by Thome is exactly how you got to approach this guy....Make him get it up! Cabrera was just awful though when he came in. Westbrook is teasing these hitters, and the ball is dipping at the end. I've always liked W'brook, and I'm shocked we went 4-0 vs him last year.

QUOTE(RME JICO @ Apr 4, 2006 -> 07:14 PM) At least they are working the count a little better. Not really. They've been swinging over a ton of pitches out of the zone.

Watching this game, it really makes me miss Carl Everett.

If the one on Sunday was 431 ft, that was about 500 ft.