southsideirish71

QUOTE(max power @ May 9, 2007 -> 09:31 PM) Sweeney or Booner that is the question. In reality it should be Terrero who provides no value. Thats the first time I have seen 97 on the gun this year from the sox.

QUOTE(Sonik22 @ May 9, 2007 -> 09:25 PM) Boone stays Well who the f*** goes down then. I dont want to see the Ozuna/Macowiak house of horrors out in LF. I want sweeney up here. Teams dont need 3 f***ing lefties in the pen.

If Ozzie is so hell bent on keeping Terrero when Thome gets back. How about sending the legend of boone logan down. We really dont need 3 lefties in the pen. Plus ozzie needs less toys. Keep Sweeney in LF until he either proves he is overmatched or whatever. The Mack and Ozuna platoon is not something we should consider putting back into effect when Thome gets back.

QUOTE(Gregory Pratt @ May 9, 2007 -> 09:00 PM) No reason to let the young kid who's getting squeezed go even deeper into the game. You don't want to overpitch your youngsters. To me the lesson of him dealing with guys on in a game situation is more valuable than getting MMAc some work. He wasnt overpitched.

Here comes some Micro Managing here. Danks has plenty left in the tank. Why do this.

Thats the man Ozzie wants to replace Sweeney with in the starting lineup. A platoon of Mack and Ozuna over Mr. Contact.

Kenny will take a shot of getting Torii and/or Ichiro next year. Just imagine Ichiro in right, Torii in center, and Sweeney in LF. I need to clean my LCD now.

QUOTE(SoxAce @ May 9, 2007 -> 08:27 PM) We need a Gustavo meter or prediction of which game he'll finally get a hit if ever in the big league level. June 12, 2009 as a member of the Washington Nationals.

QUOTE(fathom @ May 9, 2007 -> 08:00 PM) Wow Molina....hopefully this is his last start in the majors. Sweeney worked that count nicely....he'll be so good when he learns to clear his hips. Keep him away from Walker. He is making contact and is hitting it where its pitched. Unlike the usual prospect IE Molina. Who gets pitched away, and looks stupid trying to pull the outside pitch.

QUOTE(CWSGuy406 @ May 9, 2007 -> 07:28 PM) Somewhere, ssi71 is smiling at Sweeney taking that low-and-away pitch into LF. Nice job, Ryan! I remember seeing him a few years ago when we went down the ST. All I thought of was when can this kid come up, he has a better approach than most of our hitters. Danks and Sweeney are my reasons for optimism. Hopefully more ABs like this will squash Ozzies silly idea of platooning people until Pods comes back.

Notce how good things can happen when you put the bat on the ball with men on. He didnt K. He got the bat on the ball thinking oppo the entire way. Sexy AB by Sweeney.

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ May 9, 2007 -> 02:31 PM) Many of them are not old enough to remember some really bad teams, such as the late 80's and then back into the 70's... I think that is why you don't see the same reactions from the 30+ crowd as you do from the Mike some of us remember the late 80s, the late 90s, and the early part of this century. I dont want to experience that again. I liked the packed park. I like the winning ways. Those teams had low payroll and a lack of talent. This team doesnt have that problem. There is no acceptable reason that a 100 million dollar payroll team is hitting as bad as this one does. One person, I mean just one should be able to hit. Its just the law of averages.

Its a simple formula that I have talked about for a while on this site. Its the Joe Mays pattened 'How crappy pitchers shut down a lift and pull offense" You throw the first pitch, a fastball low and away. You then throw the 2nd pitch a fastball low and away. The batter will foul it off. Then you go fishing. You throw a 58 footer, prefereably into the opposing batters box. You keep low and away and you will shut this team down. Its sad, because I have seen glimpses of crappy pitchers using this. Now all pitchers are using this against us. long looping swings + low and away = pwned Ryan Sweeney and his sexy swing will be back in the minors when Thome comes back. Ozuna/Mackowiak will be kicking balls around in left and looking stupid against pitching. Thome will get walked, and the Dye and Konerko crew will be forced to hit. That has worked out well so far.

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ May 9, 2007 -> 12:16 PM) One interesting thing I read, is that Konerko swears he tagged the player on the first hit in the eight inning, but the umpire missed it. So how differently does the inning turn out if there is one out and no one on? Thats a hard play for an ump to get right. The sweeping tag when he and the runner shield the ump. The big problem with that was the poor feed by Iguchi. He short armed the throw and it sailed up the line causing Konerko to come off the bag and try a swipe tag.

QUOTE(fathom @ May 9, 2007 -> 09:26 AM) Maybe he should have kept Eduardo Perez and not carried 3 lefty relievers? Dont worry he will send Sweeney down so he can play the poop platoon in Left because he needs like 25 LOOGY's on the team.

QUOTE(RockRaines @ May 9, 2007 -> 08:51 AM) You flat out dont load the bases there with the winning run waiting to be walked in. You just dont. That would be putting your player in a position to fail miserably. Especially with a young arm who doesnt always have pinpoint control. If he walks in that run, you blame ozzie for walking Morneau. So if you had Konkero or Dye of 2006 up to bat, and you had say Pods up behind them. You would pitch to Kong or Dye and not pitch to Pods.

QUOTE(NorthSideSox72 @ May 9, 2007 -> 08:51 AM) Yes. If he can play 5 out of 7, then I say keep him up here. Send Terrero down, and let Mack and Ozuna be the 4th and 5th OF's. Although, one caveat - can Sweeney play CF defensively? I didn't see his one game out there so far, and haven't watched him play there in AAA. Is he soild enough to be a backup there once a week? He played CF most of last year, due to BA being on the watch list. He played CF up last year a few times.

QUOTE(RockRaines @ May 9, 2007 -> 08:47 AM) Wow, this loss was Ozzie's fault? I coulda sworn it was the bullpen. Hes right though, If Sweeney isnt going to play everyday up here, its more beneficial to have him play everyday at AAA. Its the correct decision. Yes if Sweeney isnt going to play everyday sure. But Thome is a DH. Why again cant Sweeney play everyday until Pods comes back. Please dont say Mack and Ozuna. You have a valid opportunity right now to see what you have in this kid. The other options to play LF are not as good as Sweeney right now. Let Ozuna get the tough lefty.

QUOTE(RockRaines @ May 9, 2007 -> 08:45 AM) Wow, this loss was Ozzie's fault? I coulda sworn it was the bullpen. The managerial decision to pitch to Morneau the reigning MVP was stupid, with crappy hitting Cirillo. Here is my goats of the game. Gooch not fielding that play late in the game was a big goat of the game. The sox offense not hitting again(thank god for another AL Central pitch boo boo helping us to score 3 runs) AArdsma double clutching and not throwing out the lead runner on the bunt. Hell he should of caught that bunt in the air. MacDougal getting into hitter counts, in fact the entire relief core pitching away from contact.

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ May 9, 2007 -> 08:34 AM) If Sweeney was going to play everyday, I would want Sweeney up here. If he is not going to play, send him down. Why cant he play everday while Pods is out. So far he doesnt look overmatched. He goes deep into the count, and puts the bat on the ball. His defense is good and his arm is great. He can play everday until Pods comes back. Thome has no impact on this kid getting ABs.

This makes no sense. So the kid who has been giving us quality ABs and has shown more plate presence than anyone on our .207 light hitting attack. We send him down, keep crappy Terrero. How about getting a clue, while prancer is out actually seeing what you have in this kid. So when Thome comes up its back to the crappy Mack/Ozuna no defense no hitting platoon.

I went to Claim Jumpers over the weekend. The meatloaf was awesome. Their bar is pretty good as well. I will have to try capital grill.

Its getting worse. In April we batted .225 with .317OBP and a .696 OPS. We are batting a grand .207 in the Month of May with a .247 OBP and a sexy .590 OPS. .207 so far.

QUOTE(RX Bandits @ May 8, 2007 -> 11:21 PM) Knowing people on this board..if Cirillo had beaten us then im sure the masses would be starting threads like "WHY DID OZZIE PITCH TO CIRILLO!!!!!1111". It's dumb and useless to complain about it. I'm all with ya on the lineups. I'm tired of seeing pablo, Rob Mac, and Cintron (although I know uribe is out to due family issues so i cant complain about that too much). defensive alignments and bullpen might not all fault on ozzie. Im not trying to be an ozzie ass kisser, but what about scouting? Dunno, just a thought. Hes going to masset and logan late because the rest of the bullpen was bad tonight. Look my whole argument is that anything can be seconed guessed. so really, whats the point? I am sure there will be a time when he doesnt play the L/R numbers and some bone head will complain about it here. Are you for real. If you have a choice of pitching to the reigning MVP or Cirillo, you choose Cirillo. If you think pitching to Morneau is a good idea with a chump batting after him, then turn off your xbox 360 and call it a night.

So let me get this straight, because I am confused on this. We walked people to get to the MVP of the league. This is like someone walking Pods to get to Kong of 06.