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QUOTE (Baron @ Sep 30, 2012 -> 04:48 PM) Whats your plan Mr GM? I cant wait to hear this I bet it involves removing Cubans from the roster.

QUOTE (WhiteSoxNews @ Sep 29, 2012 -> 08:40 AM) BREAKING DOWN CHRIS SALE AND JUSTIN VERLANDER: If you compare the division race to a poker game then it is certainly time to bring out the aces. Today both Chris Sale and Justin Verlander will take the mound in separate games. After pitching in today's games, they will most likely not start again for the remainder of the regular season, with the exception of the tiebreaker, in which both pitchers are slated to start. Some have also alluded to the idea that Verlander could possibly start on Wednesday on short rest, if the race reached a pivotal point. Thus the stage is set for the ultimate showdown of pitching performances to occur today. Ultimately, these starts will be the most imperative outings for both Sale and Verlander this season. So imperative that it is necessary to break it down. Pitcher Profile: Justin Verlander: 16-8, ERA 2.72, SO 231, BB 58. Chris Sale: 17-7, ERA 2.86, SO 185, BB 48. ERA- Earned Run Average. SO- Strike Outs. BB- Base On Balls. Analyzing the numbers: Differences: Chris Sale has a better record and Justin Verlander has a better ERA, but both of these upper hands are separated by a small number margin. Significant Differences: Justin Verlander has more strikeouts than Sale this year. (Indicates that hitters have a harder time reading Verlander's pitches) Chris Sale has less walks than Verlander this year. (Indicates that Sale has better control) Overall, the pitchers are both remarkably similar. They both have great command, which means that they both have the ability to properly pitch their arsenal of pitches, getting the correct spin and movement. They are both able to reach speeds between 95-100 mph. They also have the ability to control their pitches, or pitch them in the intended location. Match-Ups: Verlander will face the Minnesota Twins line-up (2.61 Batting Average) in Minnesota. Sale will face the Tampa Bay Rays line-up (2.40 Batting Average) at home. To conclude, the match-ups are also very similar and what it really comes down to is which one of them rises to occassion and is able to handle the playoff race pressure. Tampa Bay has had issues with left handed pitchers. They are 12th in the AL in BA, 10th in runs scored and 12th in OPS when a person of the left handed persuasion takes the mound. Sale absolutely destroyed them in Tampa when he faced them last.

Stone makes the broadcast tolerable. Having Wimpy back reminds me of two old men bantering about nonsense. They might as well discuss their sock drawer. Hawk is already heading into Santo territory with the groans, grunts and nonsense. I don't want a sidekick that enables him to be more of what he already is.

QUOTE (kitekrazy @ Sep 27, 2012 -> 10:32 PM) more mental midgets 2nd tier NL talent free agents who never been in a post season too much financial resources in the DH position That's the KW era. I'll take better scouting and better minor league instruction. Drafting guys with fundamental swings. Not looking for light tower power. You can do that once in a while, but good lord every year we are picking more Borchards up hoping that one will land.

QUOTE (Jake @ Sep 27, 2012 -> 10:23 PM) I realize how futile the ra-ra stuff is in baseball, but I'd be interested to see if someone tries it I would rather that they concentrated on squaring up a pitch.

Slow clap for the offense. 2 runs. Basically gift wrapped for us by the Rays. Time of death. 9:26pm 9/27

Our guys should take note. That how a player comes up in a situtation and drives a mistake pitch into the night. Our guys have a hard time swinging with the cold yellow liquid flowing down their pantleg as we put the pressure on ourselves. Bases loaded, no outs and we tinkle down the pantleg.

Its like we are pulling every trick in the bag of choke tricks. Not touching the base. Christ. Well you can tell he came through our minor leagues. Fundamentals I tell you.

So what we have learned about the bunt. The sox cannot bunt. The only thing the bunt does for the sox is generate outs or get players into 2 strike situations quickly.

QUOTE (JoeCoolMan24 @ Sep 27, 2012 -> 09:15 PM) I am officially done with Beckham. In his past 3 underperforming seasons, I have always given him the benefit of the doubt. Coming in to this season I said I would give him a year with Manto to see how he does. But still, not much improvement. Slight, but not much. I'm officially ready for an upgrade. I don't think he is a black hole, because his glove is very good, but if we can find an upgrade at 2B, I say we take it. He has an .882 OPS in September. He is always the popular candidate for grief. In the thick of it, he is holding his own.

Well Peavy and our pitching has been good enough for the most part to win this thing. We need to figure out how to score and quick.

Robin Guillen is getting a bit predictable with these 2 out steals.

QUOTE (The Ginger Kid @ Sep 27, 2012 -> 09:05 PM) there's a serious lack of leadership on this team There is leadership. I dont know how motivated it is.

QUOTE (bucket-of-suck @ Sep 27, 2012 -> 08:54 PM) There are no words for how mentally toast this team is at the plate. Its whitesox baseball once you get past the ASB. The minute the race gets hot, their bats go silent. The minute they are out of it, the bats heat up again.

Every year we find new and inventive ways of struggling at offense. I thought the definition of misery was watching Carlos Lee and Valentin popup against the Twins. God those offenses look like the All Star team compared to this pile of crap.

Well with the groans and grunts from our lead announcer and the belief of lucky trinkets and charms we are one step away from cub fans. Maybe we can see if we can walk a goat into Comerica to top it off. Just f***ing hit the ball.

QUOTE (Wanne @ Sep 27, 2012 -> 11:07 AM) The thing about Konerko is the guy was hitting close to .400 the first quarter of the season...and he just fell off the cliff. Still don't see how his avg is around .300...but you just don't go from being that spectacular to over the hill in a month. Something has to be wrong with his wrist... Then what happened to Jermaine Dye.

QUOTE (chw42 @ Sep 27, 2012 -> 01:46 AM) In your case, where you were required to buy one, I'd totally understand. But for the average person looking for a laptop (AKA glorified typewriter for porn and viral videos), I don't know why you'd bother to spend the money on a Macbook unless you care a lot about aesthetics or the brand name. Asus and Samsung make equally good and equally good looking laptops (even thinner than the Macbook Air) and they usually sell them for less (since retailers actually put these Laptops on sale, unlike Macbooks). Any extra money you're paying is for Mac OS (and whatever bundled software you might need) and the Apple brand name. I am not required to buy an Apple. We have Apple and non-apple people at my company. I purchased a Mac purely based on its UNIX base. Before Steve Jobs was tricking people with the pretty he was at this company called NeXT. That became the basis for OSX. As a person who had administrated UNIX systems and prefers that over Windows I could go 2 routes. I could save a few hundred bucks and place Linux or BSD on my laptop and jack around trying to get little things to work ( drivers/3rd party hardware) or I could buy a Mac. OSX is an excellent operating system and it was the selling point more than the pretty. The turning point for me was when I spent 2 hours extracting firmware from my HPs built in 3G modem then compiling another program, the debugging and cleaning up the messed up code I found to flash the 3G card only to have my work destroyed a month later when I updated my kernel. That's when I ditched Linux for OSX. There are enough people who pick the os for reasons besides how it looks as an accessory.

QUOTE (chw42 @ Sep 27, 2012 -> 01:18 AM) If they want to waste a few extra hundred bucks, it's not really my problem. Do I tell my friends to buy Macbooks when they come to me for tech advice? No. Do I give them s*** if they buy one? Yeah, usually, if they're real close friends. That's usually because I don't want them to spend the extra money when there are equally good alternatives. How exactly is it a waste of a few hundred bucks. Is that the case for everyone who buys one.

QUOTE (chw42 @ Sep 27, 2012 -> 12:39 AM) There's your typical Apple user these days. I was in a gen-ed class the other day. I sat in the back and in front of me...I saw a sea of Macbooks. At least 50% of the class had laptops open and at least 75% were Macs. I think the "it just works" motto is more like "it looks really really nice and it's expensive". The anti-apple crowd is funny. Nothing offends your sensibilities like a person with a Macbook. Considering the average person uses a computer as a glorified typewriter with access to porn and Gangum Style does it really matter what they buy. Probably not.

QUOTE (Jake @ Sep 26, 2012 -> 11:11 PM) I was referring more to the comment about Alexei. I wouldn't move Youk now, but I would have moved him 2-3 weeks ago when it didn't look like we were moving things around out of sheer panic. The fact that Carl Everett was our 3 hitter for any stretch of time at that stage of his career is kind of frightening in and of itself, btw My lineup tomorrow would be the following DeAza Beckham Rios Dunn 1B Viciedo Johnson DH Youk AJ Alexei

QUOTE (Jake @ Sep 26, 2012 -> 11:05 PM) 1. Don't move the lineup around based on game to game play 2. This past week has been the unfortunate logical end to a pretty long-term trend of worsening play for our boys. The talent is there to surge to the finish, but the health, mindset, luck, and everything else may not be. I'm happy to get to worry about this crap in the last week of September. 1.) We are not talking about day to day game play. He has struggled for over a month. Its do or die. So in your world. Carl Everett is our 3 hole hitter in 2005 through the playoffs. Because if we apply the same rules to that season do you think we win without that move.

QUOTE (Jake @ Sep 26, 2012 -> 10:53 PM) Whether it's right or wrong, no one will ever sign a FA contract with you if your reputation is such that you bench former All-Star starters in the last week of the season with no prior indication that you'd do such a thing. You know why people sign FA contracts. Money and winning. They dont care that you pinch hit for a guy you picked up on the scrap heap in the 9th when he is hitting under 200 for the month. This logic is insane. By your logic we should of never moved Carl Everett out of the 3 hole because it disrespected him.

QUOTE (Jake @ Sep 26, 2012 -> 10:51 PM) Gonna win or lose with these guys now. Nothing would make your manager and team look worse than benching a bunch of veterans in the last week of the season. He's batting under 200 for the month. He is batting .233 for the year. He wont be here next year. What exactly are you holding on to here.

So this would be example A on Robin Ventura's dont do this s***. You dont let a guy hitting under 200 for the month and allow him to bat in the 9th down by 2 with a man on.