southsideirish71

QUOTE (Jake @ Sep 26, 2012 -> 09:18 PM) I think a huge confounding factor here is the fact that players aren't doing as well. It makes every decision less likely to work out while simultaneously making each decision a higher leverage one. Well not moving Rios into the 3 hole or Youk who has struggled for a month out of the 2 hole. Yet scraps off the bench can come and occupy these roles because of some mythical set in stone lineup. 3B must bat Second... I mean thats insane. Carl Everett ran out of gas in sept and was moved out with Dye going in there and it sparked the offense a bit. Leveraging guys in a pennant race for starts that were independent league players. Leveraging your worst bullpen guys at the end of a game because you are holding out your key players for a later AB.

QUOTE (Cerbaho-WG @ Sep 26, 2012 -> 09:14 PM) I certainly don't think he should be fired. Frustrated, yes, but I'm not calling for his head. I figured he would get better as the season went along. Not to regress and to regress at this point in the season.

QUOTE (chw42 @ Sep 26, 2012 -> 06:44 PM) The Royals are so f***ing useless. At least Minnesota beat the Tigers twice. The boogieman known as the 2012 KC Royals is a fantasy made up by the Hawk and members of the 2012 Chicago Whitesox. If we approached the Royals like they were any other team we would beat them most of the time. We for some reason elevated them as something that they are not. This started with the mouthpiece doing the same crap he did with the Twins over the years. We are our own worst enemy. This would be on the verge of being clinched today if we decided to play baseball against the Royals instead of turning their crappy pitching into the Atlanta Braves and if our pitchers would stop throwing fastballs to Billy Butler and Cain.

Well you could see the writing on the wall when Kenny broadcasted to everyone that was within a mike that this would be a down year. That impacted season ticket sales which is the staple of our attendance. Walk up which helps to fill it out was hurt by uncertainty of the team by early play, the economy and by the dynamic pricing. You want to know what will fix this, winning. Put a consistent winning product on the field and attendance will follow. Win a year, and then suck the next makes it hard to drive season ticket sales.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Sep 25, 2012 -> 02:37 PM) southsideirish71 won't be posting until something bad happens. Look its my keeper. Well I am actually working. Thanks for checking in though. Like the back to back Jacks.

Okay Guillen needs to stop with the random calls to rid our bases of runners by having them run into outs.

Well we need to stop stealing for the sake of just trying to steal. Its running into outs early in the game.

QUOTE (The Ginger Kid @ Sep 24, 2012 -> 09:33 PM) holy s*** i will never bad mouth that guy again Yes you will. Nice game for Dunn. He didn't get the memo that the Indians are unhittable.

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Sep 24, 2012 -> 09:11 PM) Ventura has been a borderline disaster. If we're in any other division he'd be even more exposed. Sept has exposed him already.

QUOTE (Buehrle>Wood @ Sep 24, 2012 -> 09:09 PM) Good job. Good effort. 10 strikeouts so far. You would think we faced Verlander and not joe smith and a guy pumping in a 93 mph fastball.

QUOTE (RZZZA @ Sep 24, 2012 -> 09:03 PM) But he's not grimacing or limping or nothing. What makes you say he looks hurt? Just because he's playing bad? Well what's the alternative. He is Jermaine Dye?

QUOTE (C_LEE45 @ Sep 24, 2012 -> 09:02 PM) oh no THORNTON Nothing like giving a fastball hitting team a pitcher who only features a fastball.

About f***ing time someone made solid contact. Need two more.

QUOTE (Chet Kincaid @ Sep 24, 2012 -> 08:50 PM) No it isn't. How many full years have other team's top 2 starters gone through? Our guys are young and aren't used to a full season yet. How about the hitters. What's thir excuse.

3 f***ing hits and only one run is why we are losing. Not because our pitcher gave up three. Our pitching staff has no wiggle room. Throw a shutout or you probably will lose.

QUOTE (Noonskadoodle @ Sep 24, 2012 -> 08:42 PM) Whats the point in getting these pitchers runs when they just give em right back majority of the time? Well if we were talking about runs as in plural I might agree. We score a run here and maybe there. It's not 1954 and we are allowed to score runs.

That might be game with our rotten s***e of an offense.

It's a total sox thing to have a pitcher throw fastball after fastball basically becoming a one pitch pitcher and have this result. Even the corpse ball teams could hit this guy. Time to stop thinking and to start hitting.

Guillen figured out that Everett needed to move out of the 3 hole.

QUOTE (WHarris1 @ Sep 24, 2012 -> 08:13 PM) Dunn swinging right through 93 mph meatballs over the plate Yet we keep batting him 3rd. We can't move Rios there however we can move Wise, and even Lopez and olmedo in the two hole. Yet the rest of the lineup is concrete.

Adam Dunn the out maker.

QUOTE (whitesoxfan101 @ Sep 24, 2012 -> 08:01 PM) Here's the $64,000 question: is the offense choking, tired because Robin has used the regulars too much this year, or some combination of both? And, if think it's both, is it MORE the choking part or the tired part? It's because someone applied a bit of pressure to the team. Their back ends pucker and everything becomes swing to be a hero.

Running into outs. Is Ventura reading the Ozzie Guillen approach to losing the division. Let Beckham concentrate on the AB and not forcing the situation.

Alexei is swinging for the red line.

QUOTE (Y2HH @ Sep 22, 2012 -> 09:16 AM) Not unlike the design of the HTC One X and the Samsung GS2/3, which are also amazing designs...I simply don't understand it when I hear Apple fans say similar things when reviewing them. To hold a Samsung GS3 and play with it, and then claim it's nothing special baffles me, and I've seen this happen. This seems to be a glaring problem with judging modern electronic design these days, especially that of phones...there is almost no objectionability anymore, this fanboyism that's crept into the conversation has seemingly destroyed objective opinion. I'm a known Apple user around here, but you HAVE to admit the GS2/3 and HTC One X are awesome phone designs. The iPhone 5 design is simply stunning. I have an iPad 2 and a MacBook Pro. I absolutely love my S3. It is a fantastic phone. Just an amazing piece of engineering. My only complaint is more on the android side. Its on the lack of security in the play store. You download an app and parasite garbage may drop down. You download an app and poof there is another app that came down as well. I had an app recently alter my browser settings to show advertisements. More QA needs to be done to check apps before they get admitted to google play. I got spoiled with how much control that Apple had with their store. Now it's back to reading more about the app and treating it like its an untrusted source.