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So basically with a .216 team BA. Every pitcher we face is the equivalent of Cy Young. The numbers pretty much are about that.

Here you go guys. We had to work hard on this. The whitesox are officially the 2nd worst team in the AL with a .216 team BA. We are 12th out of 14 teams in runs scored. 4th in homers though, so some lift and pull is working.

QUOTE(shawnhillegas @ Apr 11, 2007 -> 03:05 PM) Watching Kennedy makes me think I should be a big league pitcher. If you are a lefty and can spot low and away you can 3 hit this team. You may get decked by other teams, but this one. Pure pitching excellence. You will make sportscenter.

This keeps getting better.

Sox offense, hit the f***ing ball...that is all.

QUOTE(iamshack @ Apr 11, 2007 -> 11:59 AM) Right, and all this is REALLY easy to say right now, after the fact. I wonder what you said after Scottie hit the homer in Game two. Because if it were up to you, you would have replaced him, and who knows what might have happened. Again, the second guessing around here is a f'ing joke. To all the extreme armchair generals here, I want you to keep track, for one entire month, every move you would make in every one of our games. Type it in here, in real time, and allow us all to curse your pathetic ignorance everytime you are wrong or something doesn't happen as you thought it might. We make our comments in chat, thats in realtime. Maybe someday you can join us, and enlighten us on the hug-the-bear method of managing.

QUOTE(iamshack @ Apr 11, 2007 -> 11:41 AM) I'm going to just agree to disagree with you. Try managing or dealing with a staff and then get back to me. You can spout off about professionalism all you want. But there is an art to manipulating a group of human beings that is entirely lost on you. What might have hurt us strictly by bizarre chance last night might help us tenfold in the future by how Ozzie handles some of his players. How hard is that to understand? Well I was a manager of a engineering team. I found that being honest with someone's skillset, and helping them develop as a person by not putting them in places where they have a higher probabilty to fail is a good way also. Not everyone is an expert at everything. Pods is not a defensive stud. In a 1-0 game its okay to replace him. If he doesnt understand that then he needs a shrink. I have had good people that have worked for me, that I have had to take a specific part of a project away, and give it to someone who has key technical knowledge in that area. Guess what, they were okay with it. And it motivated them to become better at that specific skill area. But then again maybe I should of taken a chance at shutting down my business because I didnt want to hurt one of my employees feelings.

QUOTE(iamshack @ Apr 11, 2007 -> 11:27 AM) Oh that's such a machismo bs way to look at things. "They're professionals." How long have you been watching sports where you honestly think most players handle being demoted or being replaced in a strictly "professional" manner? They're human beings like everyone else. And while they must accept what their manager tells them to do, that does not mean that it does not affect their performance later on. And if you think it's weak that it does, well, aren't you just Ivan Drago's trainer in Rocky IV. Mr. Tough. It's well-known that Iguchi DOES whine when Ozzie benches him. When Toby Hall was signed and Ozzie said that AJ would sit against the lefties in our division alot more, guess who started WHINING about it? AJ. What about in 03' when Paulie couldn't hit a thing and was benched for it? He clearly was affected by his inability to perform well. What about when Jerry used to pull Jon Garland in the 4th inning every game when two men got on base? No one is saying these players should be whining about anything. After all, they are professionals, and they get paid extraodinarily well to do their jobs. But they are also human, and things affect their play. I'm merely suggesting Ozzie is trying to get the best out of his players at times by rewarding them for their efforts, even when perhaps it is not the best strategy in that situation to win the game. What are you talking about, demoted? Its a defensive replacement. It happens all over baseball all over. Thank god we are not in the national league, or you would be upset if we pinch hit for the pitcher because it may bruise his ego. Its a defensive replacement late in the game. He is not taking ABs away from Pods. How hard is this to understand. You know what doesnt help with ones confidence, jumping up to catch a ball, landing, closing your eyes, and feeling an object that you know is the baseball smack you in the melon. Because if I am pods, stay away from ESPN highlights for the next week or so.

Congrats Kap!!!!

QUOTE(iamshack @ Apr 11, 2007 -> 11:10 AM) Yeah, I got your point. And I got it last night when Fathom and Kalapse said the same thing. Once again, I am not arguing that that is not the correct strategy in that situation. I'm arguing that Ozzie manages a team of human beings here and it's not quite as simple as a lot of people try to make it. If you've ever managed people before, you know that there can be extraordinary benefits which come out of keeping your employees happy. I simply think Ozzie is trying to build Scottie's confidence up, and reward him for his solid play. The difference in the team Podsednik makes when he is playing well and he is confident is so huge as opposed to when he is struggling and beating himself down. I know the vast majority of people will disagree (and most have already), but I'll take the once in a blue-moon blunder in the field by Scottie if he is stepping to the plate with confidence 600 times a season. Well maybe Paulie will get a complex about being slow when Ozzie pinch runs for him. So lets keep Ozuna on the bench. Or maybe just maybe Gooch will get suicidal if Cintron starts a game. Maybe AJ will drop dead of a broken heart if someone else hits for him late in a game. Who cares. These are profesionals. Being taken out for a defensive replacement is common place in baseball. The very idea that we have to put a butcher out in the OF in a 1-0 game because of a fragile ego is sad at best.

QUOTE(caulfield12 @ Apr 11, 2007 -> 09:15 AM) The problem is that MacDougal's velocity is also way down, he's throwing 93, 94 maybe 95. But I don't trust him to be much better than Jenks at this point, having watched his entire career in KC. I think he'll convert around 7 or 7.5 Save Opportunities out of ten, but we can't afford to give up an extra 4-5 games this season....because the best closers are all at 85-95% conversion rates. You realize that Coop was on late last year on the Mike North radio show, saying that they are trying to get MacDougal to be more in the strikezone and would rather have him in the zone at 94-95 than out of it for most of the AB at 97. With him its more of concentrating on throwing strikes than all of a sudden his arm is dead. MacDougals ball moves all over the place. If he throws strikes, even at 94-95 its hard to hit. Velocity doesnt equal success. Bobby needs the velocity because his control isnt great, and his fastball doesnt move that much. But he can get by in the middle 90s with this offspeed stuff. Koch whom you keep comparing him to, had no control what so ever and didnt have any of the secondary pitches that Bobby has. Bobby needs to get his fat ass throwing hard again, thats not a secret. But all of the bullpen guys, need to throw strikes. So if they can throw lots of strikes a few mph's off their top velocity its a hell of a lot better than if they are jacking it up, and walking the world.

Our pitching has been awsome. Our offense needs to get their head out of their ass. We cannot be up only 1-0 when Gaudin is pitching. Thats a joke.

QUOTE(Jordan4life_2007 @ Apr 11, 2007 -> 01:49 AM) You guys are so lame. Pods' d has been good this year (I know, sample size). Yeah, you can question the 9th inning of last night's game, but Pods had been playing good d to that point. Pods D is good? Okay goodnight everyone.

" There you go, OG is blind.

QUOTE(Kalapse @ Apr 11, 2007 -> 01:37 AM) If Scott really has a problem with getting pulled late in games for a defensive replacement then something seriously needs to be done about him because he has some serious mental issues. Either he comes to the realization that he sucks in the field and pulling him is best for the team or he figures out how to catch and throw because if he's really going to pout or react poorly to Ozzie doing what's best for the team then Pods isn't much of a team player. The wierd thing about baseball, no matter what level. You put the little leaguer who has 2 left feet in RF the ball finds him. You put Mack in CF, the ball finds him. Guess where the ball goes 2 times with Prancer in LF in a 1-0 game. Bingo.

QUOTE(Jordan4life_2007 @ Apr 11, 2007 -> 01:35 AM) I blame the fat dude in your sig. The fat dude in my sig is to blame. Also the guy who left the prancing bad OF in a 1-0 game, and said prancer who tried to head the ball on goal instead of using the big brown soft thing on his right hand. Baseball travelling like that hurt, even for self defense, put the big brown leather thing on your head and protect yourself.

QUOTE(iamshack @ Apr 11, 2007 -> 01:28 AM) To rest this entire BS on Scott Podsednik is just absolutely s***. Jesus, get off him already... I blame the ball, how dare it hit Hotty Scotty in the melon. Doesnt it know that fat 13 year old girls with Mrs. Podsednik shirts who go to the cell would be destroyed if the ball hit his face. Thank god it didnt hurt his most prized posession. f***ing gravity, pulling on all objects till they rest on earth. I blame Gravity.

QUOTE(SoxFan1 @ Apr 11, 2007 -> 01:27 AM) That's exactly it. I'd really like to know what Ozzie's thought process was in that situation. This is what was going threw his melon in that situation " I AM THE GODAMN MANAGER AND MAKE THE f***ING LINEUPS. "

QUOTE(SleepyWhiteSox @ Apr 11, 2007 -> 01:26 AM) ... Anyways, I still think it's laughable to call it "Ozzie's F Up." A defensive replacement may have helped, but there's no guarantee that what likely would've happened, which is ba in CF and Erstad in LF, means that throw is made on the money or that last out is caught. I'm still putting about 80% of the blame on Jenks for just flat-out not getting the job done. That's what pissed me off the most. Jenks blew dog. No question about that. Prancers OF defense in LF was horses*** also. The ball bounced, it bounced off of his melon. If a baseball can come crashing down on your head, your mitt can be put up to catch it.

I found our problem. Ozzies magic 8 ball is broke. He shook it and asked, should I put the devil Anderson in for a defensive replacement. QUOTE(SoxFan1 @ Apr 11, 2007 -> 01:21 AM) I don't know. We seem to second guess everything he does, or doesn't do, so maybe to him, it's regular not to make defensive replacements, or make bullpen changes too often, etc. What we never seem to find out is why Ozzie does what he does. In a 1-0 game Slav. How many 1-0 games with a terrible OF, do you not replace him defensively.

QUOTE(Kalapse @ Apr 11, 2007 -> 01:16 AM) If I did call it then why wouldn't I post about it? I had a discussion on the board this morning about the use of Anderson as a late game defensive replacement and guess what? That just happened to play a big part in tonights game. I happened to be on the right side of the argument this morning, of course I'm going to talk about it now. It only makes sense. I just don't like it when obvious moves are not made and they end up costing the team runs or games, I'm going to b**** when that happens, you should probably get used to it. It could not have been more obvious, exact same talking points. I think people started questioning Pods defense when we actually saw him play defense in LF. Last year he was downright terrible. He was defensively replaced about everytime you could last year. This year, we leave him in. People need to review the game threads this year. I think there have been questions in all close games, why is pods still out in LF. Why hasnt he been replaced defensively.

QUOTE(SleepyWhiteSox @ Apr 11, 2007 -> 01:11 AM) How does having ba in CF guarantee that the ball gets caught in LF? Don't tell me you knew that's where the ball was going and would've had ba in LF. Well lets put Joe Crede in LF, and then put Dye at SS. Sure maybe they dont make the play, but there is no definitive proof that either's real player would of made the play either.

QUOTE(fathom @ Apr 11, 2007 -> 01:08 AM) Explain Interesting call about some theory about hitting the lip of the wall, and how the ball came down. And then some complaints about how bobby isnt the same and doesnt throw hard anymore. Same call

Someone just called in from the site.

QUOTE(Kalapse @ Apr 11, 2007 -> 12:47 AM) 2006 is making a horrible return right now, I actually managed to wipe the name Chris Rongey from my memory bank for 6 months. Fantastic. I feel likes its 2005 right now at least offensively.