southsideirish71

Appendage Aware Ozzie. And that should about do it.

Right now Anderson should be in the outfield to protect the lead. Yet Ozzie loves him some groinless bad player, so he has to trot prancer out into LF so he can stand on the warning track and watch balls bounce in front of him.

Sisco will be in AAA by next week if he keeps this crap up.

Remember when AJ was an all fields hitter, who killed us with a line drive into the left center gap. I miss that guy.

QUOTE(Y2HH @ Apr 4, 2007 -> 02:43 PM) I still like Pods...but he's even trying my patience. :/ Did he just get a REALLY bad jump or something?! Thank god Crede picked us up there... 3 groin operations later, you not so fast.

AJ with a I can hit the stopped cars on the Dan Ryan cut.

Now that is a fine example of situational hitting. Put the wood on the ball, and put it up the middle. That was textbook.

And we still suck at situational hitting, another f***ing strikeout from a non-strikeout pitcher. Just f***ing hit a line drive, stop the I need to hit the Dan Ryan Crap.

Bases loaded 1 out. Situational hitting time.

Nice hit by Gooch, thats a nice swing. Now at some point someone needs to tell people that striking out does nothing, at least put the ball in play. Jake Westbrook is not a strikeout pitcher.

QUOTE(CYGarland @ Apr 4, 2007 -> 01:48 PM) If i recall correctly, we started 0-4 last year. Lets not jump to conclusions We won our first game last year.

QUOTE(3 BeWareTheNewSox 5 @ Apr 4, 2007 -> 01:47 PM) Getting raped? Have you ever watched baseball before? Thats my problem, I thought i was watching football.

Our guys forgetting that the zone is tight and to not swing at crap that starts at the knees. No lets f***ing swing away.

QUOTE(3 BeWareTheNewSox 5 @ Apr 4, 2007 -> 01:43 PM) A bunch of babies here in this thread Yeah like a real man like you, who looks at the team getting raped and says, more please. I can take it.

The umps need a refresher on this. Over the big white thing in front of the guy that sits in front of you, and from his knees to his nipples.

If you throw a 0-2 pitch or 1-2 pitch down the cock and it gets rocked, your ass better be running foul poles after the game. How dumb is that.

1-2 and we give up a dong. Why the f*** cant we throw a better ball on 1-2. Too much plate just like last year.

Pitching in the cold is great, the only thing you have to worry about is getting loose. Jon needs to throw sinkers and pound them in on the hands. This is all about jamming and breaking bats today, giving the hitters sore hands. This is about the best weather in the world for a contact pitcher.

QUOTE(BearSox @ Apr 3, 2007 -> 09:38 PM) whoa whoa whoa.... leave Timo out of this! That one was a no-brainer to me... El Duque has the experience in the playoffs and had been a beast in the playoffs for his whole career. Sure you were the one dude who wanted that. If I remember correctly, we had El duque getting decked start after start, and then Bmac mopping up looking like Cy Young. Everyone was wanting Bmac on the team in the playoffs.

QUOTE(TheOcho @ Apr 3, 2007 -> 08:01 PM) I'm not defending anyone but since was DH hard to play? I do like Timo though, I was at the game when Big Frank made his return in '05 and after injuring himself a little Timo came in with runners on base in the bottom of the 9th. Line drive down the left field side, tieing run and winning run cross homeplate. DH is not a difficult position to play, but he was hitting at around a 200 clip at that time. So in retrospect, would you have DH'd Brian Anderson circa May of last year. That would be a no.

QUOTE(whitesox07champs @ Apr 3, 2007 -> 07:52 PM) I can make a case that Damaso's experience beat out Brandon's better statistics. And Damaso did pitch good in Game 3 of the WS. I am looking for you guys to back this up with better reasons than that! Can you make an excuse for having Timo DH, play 1st base and just being on the team in general while Ross gload was in AAA hitting 350. Oh thats right, he couldnt play right field, well Timo couldnt play 1st or DH, but at least Ross could hit.

QUOTE(SuperSteve @ Apr 3, 2007 -> 02:44 AM) That could actually be an okay number. I interned for Senator Debbie Stabenow (D-MI) last semester, and not for her, but I went to so many rallies where we would have loved 100 people. Even big names don't draw a million people. A group of Gov. Jennifer Granholm (D-MI), Stabenow, and headlined by Obama drew probably around 200-300 people (def no more than 500) in Detroit at one of the unions (forget which one) leading up to the election, which was hugely debated in Michigan. We drew probably 300 for Stabenow, Granholm, and a slew of others at the opening of the Genesee County Correlated Office. Both went on to win fairly nicely. It'd be different if he declared his nomination to the presidency, but I wonder with the rally. I know I'm generalizing, but a lot of rallies arn't as big as people think. Just an observation, Oh, and I disagree with making English the official language. One question I have is it a requirement for the citizenship exam to be in english? I find it hard to believe people cannot understand ballots enough to vote, but theres always goina be someone who thinks english english english, and someone who says let anyone eligable have a fair shot. I'd rather have someone get the chance to vote in Spanish for who they truely want if they can't distinguish the english. Why not then have a Chinese/Russian/Indian/Farsi/alien language ballot then. Spanish to English is one of the easier transitions and they are in the same family of languages. I have a guy at work that never spoke a work of english, but learned it to get a Visa. He is from Indonesia, and now speaks fluent english. I asked him why he learned it, and he said because he wanted to succeed. So why is it okay for the Chinese/Russians/Polish/and others to come here, and pickup english but because one segment figures that its their birthright to force us to speak their language its a joke. Speak english, you are in America. Make sure your kids speak english if you are having problems. This is how generations of immigrants have assimilated. Come here, learn the language, adapt and then melt in.

Have you seen a movie called Loose Change. See I told Gas cant burn steel. Now give me a jelly donut and lets talk to that nice man from Iran that the US has demonized.

I didnt think Masset looked all that bad. He was a bit nervous in his first inning. I think the IBB didnt help matters. It really put the kid into a hole having the bases loaded. His next few innings were pretty good. Remember its all easy and all to play baseball and to throw to the mitt, then its another thing to step up in front of 40k disgrunted fans who are pissed off that we are down a bunch and now you have the bases loaded. I give the kid a pass and less see how he does in his next appearance.

QUOTE(Y2HH @ Apr 3, 2007 -> 08:50 AM) I love playing symantecs...the Cubs leadoff hitter could bat cleanup...see what I did there?! Don't put words in my mouth. Batting #2 and Batting #7-9 is NOT in the same league as batting #1 and batting #3-5. He's not in the heart of the order, he's dropped so low in the order there is no added pressure, as a matter of fact, there is LESS pressure...so your arguement holds absolutly NO water. Next time rather than just talking, think first. Milkman failed to deliver that time, Herbert. I love the argument that its only the players and not the coaches. If that is the case, then why do you have hitting and pitching coaches. Why not just have AJ work with the pitchers, and the hitters police themselves. Good coaches can help maximize talent. We only have to look here at what a good pitching coach can do. Look at Matt Thornton, sure a major leaguer in the sense of the word, but talented and cannot find the strikezone. Coop works with him, and presto chango a miracle has happened. He starts to pound the zone with high 90s heat. I am sure that if Seattle thought that Matt could throw high 90s heat they wouldnt of ditched him for LTP. Coaches help maximize the talent. They have video and review for flaws and bad mechanics. They help minimize bad streaks, and help keep the player on the straight and narrow. Now its just a coincidence that all of our top hitting prospects come to this organization with the same long looping swing. Now its just a conicidence that Stewart is now hitting after being tagged cannot hit, however when he gets to work with a hitting coach in Texas thats considered the Coop of hitting, he changes his stance and starts to make solid contact. A hitting coach or pitching coach doesnt hit for the player, but they help the player utilize the best of their talent. Now if the approach is to hit home runs, we will see what we see, lots of strikeouts, a lot of one game 12 runs the next game hard to scrap a few hit together. We will see when its hard to string hits together at times. Walk by his own quotes, is producing a home run hitting approach. This is not his fault, this has been our strategy for the last 7 years and 3 hitting coaches. My thought is we need to ditch that as a whole, and get back to a more pure hitting approach. With the park factor, home runs will come, you dont need to try and hit them here. QUOTE(southsideirish @ Apr 3, 2007 -> 10:01 AM) Can't you contribute some of this to Jim Thome benig hurt in the second half and when he did hit he was not the same hitter? I mean he was a big part of that. I am not saying how much, but it did make a difference. Take a look at AJ's splits and tell me that he was the same hitter. To be realy honest, I could care less if the middle 3 try to launch it too the moon. They are monster power hitters. Its when our number 6 and 7 and 8 hitter are trying to hit home runs. Thats when its madness.