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So did Thome magically become a pull only hitter, or was he transformed into one by the instruction of our coaching staff. It seem to work for AJ.

One of our trio of pull monkeys, pulls one out. 5-4 Bad Guys

QUOTE(fathom @ Sep 17, 2006 -> 05:12 PM) Why not have PK ph for Thome here? Because they are playing parchizi in the dugout instead of managing. QUOTE(3E8 @ Sep 17, 2006 -> 05:13 PM) I heard PK's back is hurting him Tell the captain to take a midol, and pass the bottle around the clubhouse.

Thats why a line drive level swing is great. When adjusting to a breaking ball mid swing, a line drive swing hitter just has to drop the bat level a bit. A lift and pull home run hitter, needs to drop and readjust. Its called a hitch when you are 11, but we call it the 2006 whitesox swing. Dong or Die is up. Either he will hit a homer, K or popup.

Odd, When Gload faces a lefty he doesnt look stupid like he is completely overmatched like AJ or Thome or Pods. I wonder why this is. 3 hits for Gload, he will be on the bench tomorrow night.

I guess the chapter on stealing is waste of an possible out in moneyball is all thrown out when you have someone who takes 11 minutes to release the ball, and a catcher who couldnt throw out anyone.

Nice execution of that play. Tombstone this year. Its over.

QUOTE(fathom @ Sep 17, 2006 -> 04:52 PM) Keep leaving Contreras in the game Ozzie. Our playoff shot took a hit when Guillen desided to rest our starters as a group 75% of the time. That was in game 2 of the year. Then his goofy pitching decisions. The first one was the boone logan to pitch to Hafner at home in a 1 run game. He followed that up with more of the same ilk. Cora sending the slowest turtles around 3rd with no regard to how baseball has been played for the last 60 years. Walker not adjusting to being pitched low and away the entire 2nd half, competely shutting down our offense. These are the many reasons that we will be sitting home.

QUOTE(SinkingShip06 @ Sep 17, 2006 -> 04:52 PM) agreed. that's why i personally am not opposed to moving thome in the offseason. he epitomizes that theory Actually we have replaced personelle and we still have the same approach. We have the same hitting coach. Thome and AJ were spray hitters. In fact Thome was very well known for hitting homers in left center. AJ was a spray hitter before he came here.

QUOTE(The Ginger Kid @ Sep 17, 2006 -> 04:49 PM) and while we're speaking of worthless pieces of excrement, here comes Uribe He must remind Ozzie of himself, because there is no reason that he continues to trot out there and play everyday with his horrible BA. I get amused that Ozzies reasoning for playing Mack in center is for offense, and then Taz trots out there everyday to swing at whatever.

QUOTE(WhiteSoxfan1986 @ Sep 17, 2006 -> 04:41 PM) Why are we pitching to him? The fact that Thomas has pummelled our team has made this personal with our goofy manager. He will challenge him to prove that we can get him out.

Well that is the 4 run mark. That should about do it with our O. We dont score more than 4 too much these days.

Cotts and Riske up. Thank God marte is not here.

QUOTE(WhiteSoxfan1986 @ Sep 17, 2006 -> 04:37 PM) 3-2 in the most important game of the year, time to bring hermanson in. No, Boone Logan

QUOTE(Greg The Bull Luzinski @ Sep 17, 2006 -> 04:36 PM) That ass goblin that keeps honking the horn in the stands in Oakland deserves to have his testicles placed in a garlic press. They are going to go to the star trek convention with the 2 virgin men who are dancing and play the drums. Oakland is werido land.

Lift and Pull, Chicks dig the long ball. I feel like I am watching Carlos Lee and Jose Valentin coming up with the bases loaded. I thought that is why we got rid of those selfish players. And we replaced them with supposed grinders.

QUOTE(Flash Tizzle @ Sep 17, 2006 -> 04:30 PM) That was a terrible strike call on Crede before the strikeout. However, that last swing was vintage Choke Crede. Spot it low and away and you will defeat a Greg Walker lead offense.

QUOTE(whitesoxmanager @ Sep 17, 2006 -> 04:24 PM) i guess you dont quite see the intangibles in a player do you... i remember AROW as about as clutch as needed...need a bunt...done...need a key walk...done...need a sac fly...done...need to get hit by pitch...done...need to hit the ball the other way...done...there is no doubt that he tired last year at the end....but i want that guy on my team no matter what! as for your FT comment...i guess you are too young to remember the young FT that came to our team and was a stud from the beginning...he is like Jerry Rice to the SF niners & Walter Payton to the Bears...HE WILL ALWAYS BE THE HEART & SOUL OF THE WHITESOX...do you get it? now maybe you could be more like Tony LaRussa and provide me with some of your neat little stats...? I am 35 years old so you can ditch the "you are too young to remember jazz". The comment I made about heart and soul of the team was dealing with last years 2005 team, which was the context of your crazy talk. Not the 1993 Frank Thomas, or the 1997 Frank Thomas neither of which have anything to do with the Frank Thomas who played for the better part of a month and got hurt. How could he of been the heart and soul of the team when he went home after he got hurt and kind of showed up when they clinched. Arow as clutch, LOL. So he hit .235 in september but it was a clutch .235. He hit great for the first 2 months of the year, and then he and Walk tweaked his mechanics to get more power on the ball. To center it up more. After that he was done in by a steady diet of sliders.

QUOTE(whitesoxmanager @ Sep 17, 2006 -> 04:19 PM) we havent looked like a team with a bunch of "gamers" for a long while now... i will say this one more time...there is no reason to break up a WS team until the midway point of the next season...then you consider major moves to improve if needed... What major moves were made. We took an overrated defensive centerfielder and turned him into Thome and Konerko. Kong wouldnt of stayed if we didnt sign Thome. We then said goodbye to a 270 pound guy who broke his foot 2 times in 2 years who is 40ish. We ditched Damaso Marte who was a mental midget gascan. We ditched El Duque who was 100 years old. We ditched Viz who was blah, sometimes good sometimes bad. We ditched Timo who shouldnt play baseball, and currently isnt. We ditched We Willie Harris who put a little slogan of its my time. Well he is now not on any team either. Mack and Cintron are so far better than Timo and Willie its not even funny.

QUOTE(BearSox @ Sep 17, 2006 -> 04:18 PM) puh-lease. The reasons the Sox aren't winning? Timo Perez and Timo Perez. KW at least took away one of Ozzies pets. Timo would of been our starting CF by about June and balls would of been bouncing all over the OF as he one armed them.

QUOTE(whitesoxmanager @ Sep 17, 2006 -> 04:14 PM) the reasons we arent winning? Aaron Rowand Frank Thomas we let the heart & soul of the team go bye bye... sad very sad... I surely do miss Rowand hitting .245 in August, and .235 in September. And not showing up in the playoffs. God I wish I still had that on our team. Frank Thomas, the heart and soul of the whitesox. LMAO@You

QUOTE(BearSox @ Sep 17, 2006 -> 04:10 PM) Yes, Paulie is a pull hitter first, but he has the ability to go to Right - Right Center. Putting the shift on Konerko would be the best thing for Konerko. Because Konerko knows how to hit the ball to the rightside. He can just aim for that big whole between the 1B and 2B and hit little grounders for base hits. Here is his hitting chart from last year. Pretty much this year its the same thing. And then tell me he doesnt pull the ball a s***load. And if Pauly can go to right on command, why in the name of god does he keep on pulling low and away pitches over and over.

Comcast pans out to some fools banging on drums and dancing. Those two men, still are living in their parents basement. I bet they can analyze the subtle differences between Star Wars I the original and Star Wars I the directors cut.

QUOTE(BearSox @ Sep 17, 2006 -> 04:04 PM) Konerko isn't a dead pull hitter. I hate when people think that. Konerko can hit the ball to all parts of the field. Especially when he is going good. Your kidding right. Pauly is a pull hitter, everyone knows that. When Pauly goes good its when he hits the ball to right center. When pauly is going bad he pulls ever single pitch you throw out. 24 double plays to SS and to the 3rd baseman say hello.

QUOTE(3E8 @ Sep 17, 2006 -> 04:00 PM) While the amount of breaking pitches out of the zone thrown to him has ramped up. On Uribe its real simple. Bounce slow breaking pitch into the left handed batters box for strike one. Throw low and away fastball that he fouls back, with his front foot pointed towards third almost into the splits. Then throw a 55 footer. Strikeout. Shocking how watching Uribe hit like crap last year, it was a small little tweak by Hrniak that kept him closed off, and him centered on the ball. But then again the genius that is our hitting instructor decided that really wasnt what fixed him. And decided to try a spread approach that Pablo uses. The spinoramtic is back in full Tazmanian flux. My question is, when something finally works with a frustrating hitter. Why in the name of god would you change it. And even if you did change it, why would you you not return to it when you have failed.