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QUOTE (fathom @ Apr 30, 2008 -> 11:45 AM) With the day off tomorrow, I don't get why AJ isn't playing. Considering our offensive struggles and PK being out, you need everyone you can get in the lineup. Ozzie is resting people for the long October offseason of scratch golf.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Apr 30, 2008 -> 11:43 AM) Heh. He just hit a HR. He's hitting well over .300 as well. You think they will send down Lexi? Lexi would be the best guy to send down, but my guess is Ozzie sends down Brian as his moves are usually a position for a position move. Lexi will then go down when Richar comes off the DL.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Apr 30, 2008 -> 10:40 AM) Tangentially... Lucy is 2-for-2 so far today in Charlotte, including a bunt single. When was the last time we saw a Sox hitter get one of those? Owens will be coming up soon is my feeling.

QUOTE (Jenks Heat @ Apr 30, 2008 -> 10:21 AM) I think the Sox should trade Fields and Broadway for Roberts and suck up the cash and work a deal with Crede. Then move Quintin to the two spot and bat Cabrerra 9th until he shows he is the hitter he has been and hit Swisher 3rd. The inconsistency of the middle of this order has been there for two years and I am not certain it will magically reappear. There are way to many at-bats simply given away every night by many hitters in the line-up. Mr. Sabean you should get back to work.

QUOTE (jasonxctf @ Apr 30, 2008 -> 11:08 AM) nothing like Anderson, Uribe and Hall as the bottom 3 in todays lineup I would rather have Lucy up and not hitting than Hall up and not hitting. At least Lucy can throw a runner out and play good D behind the plate.

QUOTE (almagest @ Apr 29, 2008 -> 09:20 PM) You make a semantic argument, you get one in return. And a strawman is a misrepresentation of someone's argument for the purpose of proving a point. Anyway you look at it, OPS is one of the more useful metrics. More useful than batting average, that's for sure. Pitchers are attacking this team low and away to keep the ball from leaving the premises. So if they pound the zone ( not walk people), and spot low and away how exactly with the worst BA in baseball how exactly are we mounting an offense. Sonnenshine, Blackburn, Bonser are all examples of pitchers who pound the zone, spot low and away, and use their breaking pitch to offset the fastball. These are pitchers that will shut this team down because our lack of a hitting attack outside of the lift and pull lock and launch offense.

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Apr 29, 2008 -> 08:55 PM) Point what out? You said we are constantly choking with RISP which couldnt be more wrong. We were in this game from first pitch to last out even with their guy pitching way over his head and us missing HR's by inches. We had bad at bats, Gavin didnt have his best stuff and I never felt like we were out of the game and I dont think the team did either. Every time this team loses its the same crap over and over, fire this guy, bring this guy up, bench f***ing Thome, all ridiculous awful emotionally crappy posts. This team is a good team, they were beat tonight, but not by much. its going to happen people, get over it. I believe I have been the most consistent in my approach to this. The team is okay from a personnel standpoint. They just need to learn how to hit gap to gap more. It has nothing to do with a leadoff speedy guy, nor does it have with a guys clutchness. We have pitchers who are pounding this team low and away. The way you pitch a pull power team. If our hitters would take the ball back up the middle early in the game, they would get more pitches to hit over the middle later as the pitcher would be forced to come back inside to reclaim the outer half. I dont want Thome to start to hit oppo. I want Cabrera and the rest of the supporting staff to do this. Having guys mindlessly launch popups trying to hit home runs is not going to work over the long season. Sure we with have the occasional bombs away game, but we will have a lot of 3 hit Cy "Insert Pitcher Here" efforts, with a lot of near almost home runs. The Cy Joe Mays attack.

QUOTE (frankie5angels @ Apr 29, 2008 -> 08:49 PM) I'm a big believer in having a prototypical leadoff hitter to win in baseball. You have to be able to manufacture runs, and this team is incapable to that. I am a bigger believe in OBP for the leadoff hitter, and outside of the 3-4-5 having guys who can hit line drives and hit gap to gap. Your bantam weight track star make get a few goofy calls to Rongey about team speed, but it does nothing to improve the team. This is not the NL or 1956.

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Apr 29, 2008 -> 09:43 PM) for him trying to prove a point you cant? OPS is much more indicative of a good offense, runs score is a good offense, batting avg doesnt have nearly as much correlation. Show me a team that was near last in BA that went to the playoffs in the AL. Our team outside of 07 and 05 has been in the top 5 in OPS since 01.

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Apr 29, 2008 -> 09:39 PM) 5th in OPS, yes they do. Sure and scoring 40% of your runs based on the home run is going to last as well. In our best years we were in the 25 to 28 percent. Our OBP was near the top, we have dropped over the last 2 weeks to 7th.

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Apr 29, 2008 -> 09:37 PM) You gave one of the best home run hitting teams in baseball an average rating. Its not harsh, just stupid. Fixed for you. Teams with the worst BA in baseball do not get mentioned as one of the best.

QUOTE (frankie5angels @ Apr 29, 2008 -> 09:35 PM) Well the plan was to have him as the leadoff guy before he got hurt, so evidently the Org. thinks he can do the job. I'm just thinking there needs to be a shakeup. This team needs a spark plug at the top of the order, someone who has speed. This team has zero speed. Alrighty Mr. 1956 offense. The organization thought Erstad and Pods were an effective one two punch. That set of spark plugs worked for crap. Who exactly do you want to sit to put Prancer 2.0 into action.

Can we fire someone yet.

Nice Offense Walk. Wear a mask when you get your paycheck this month. A year and a half of this garbage and you keep getting a paycheck. Last in BA, the OBP is dropping we are now 7th in the league. We are scoring 40% of our runs via the dong. The most in a long time. Teams should just chuck the ball down the plate, we can find a way of getting ourselves out.

QUOTE (Alpha Dog @ Apr 29, 2008 -> 08:21 AM) I put it in here since it is about the military, and the conversation I am sure will get political eventually. It is on PBS and about life on the USS Nimitz carrier. I have seen the first 2 episodes. I was concerned at first that there would be this huge liberal bias being on PBS, but so far, not too bad. On a ship of several thousand, they do seem to find the people who have no clue why we are at war, or a few who insist that it is about oil, but they DO show others ranging from disinterested to ultra-patriotic. They show a lot of the average sailors complaining about their 'jobs', but from what I am told that is par for the course. In episode 2, they talk to some of the fighter pilots. They sure don't look like Tom Cruise or Val Kilmer. And their call signs are not as cool either. I like it so far. I have been watching it since I stumbled across it the other night.

QUOTE (SoxFan1 @ Apr 28, 2008 -> 11:16 PM) If you can be 18 and get recruited to fight in the army and are trusted with automatic weapons, then you should be able to have a beer or 25 too. /thread. And I don't give a s*** what anyone else says. Whether the law is fair or not, its still an active law. How many of the underage drinkers would openly drink in public in front of uniformed police officers. The answer is only the truly stupid, or truly drunk would do that. Well under those security shirts, those are off duty cops. If they ignore kids getting liquored up, and something happens with those kids doing something stupid, or worse off someone gets hurt via the actions of a drunk underage kid and they can prove that the security gave a wink and a blind eye to open alcohol and underage drinking those cops, the whitesox, and the security company are screwed. You know how sue happy this country is.

QUOTE (mr_genius @ Apr 28, 2008 -> 07:58 PM) By end of next year book it Working from home 4 out of the 5 days a week. Book it.

QUOTE (Getupstretch39 @ Apr 28, 2008 -> 04:41 PM) I didn't see this posted anywhere but I found this funny. Apparently the Swisher vs Crede thing from last week (Crede tearing up a "Dirty 30" shirt of Swisher's and tying it around his head and saying 'enough of this Dirty 30 stuff') has continued....according to Coop last night on The Score, Crede has started his own club, called The Hardcore Group. Coop went on to say that it was all in good fun, but the clubhouse was pretty much divided equally on membership in the Dirty 30 club vs membership in The Hardcore Group. Funny stuff. I wonder what players are on each side..... Can we get a hit above .270 group. Thats the one I want everyone to be a member of.

Game to be resumed on August 25th in Baltimore. After this game finishes, there will be a 15 minute intermission for the game scheduled to be played on that day. per PFB on the Score

They will resume it August 25th in Baltimore. We will be the home team. At the end of that game, there will be a 15 minute break between that and the regularly scheduled game that day. per PFB on the Score

QUOTE (WSoxMatt @ Apr 28, 2008 -> 06:42 PM) Jenks ruined Javy's W today Jenks sucked today. I am his biggest supporter, but this 91mph jazz early in the season needs to stop. Throw more if you need to, to clear your shoulder and get your arm loose. The offense and the league lowest BA showed its ugly head when we put men on. Ozzie and that moronic "squeeze" bunt with Mr contact Brian Anderson.

QUOTE (fathom @ Apr 28, 2008 -> 05:10 PM) Can we trade Ozzie to the NL so his hard on for bunting would be more suitable? 1 out, man on 3rd in the 10th inning. We have a guy who is not exaclty a contact guy. So naturally in the American League, we try a squeeze. What a moronic call. The infield and outfield are drawn in. Just see what happens. The man is at third already.

In the next inning, when Quentin gets on. Can someone capture National League Ozzie so we can stop some cutesy play that will rob us of a run.

Bobby Blows another save to the Orioles. We s*** another great start from our starting pitching. Our offense and Jenks f*** this up. Its time for fat boy to bring the velocity up more. This "I can throw hard s***" is great, but actually use it on 2 strikes.

Can we keep Roberts. Imagine that with our team. Good lord.