southsideirish71

Nice flat footed catch Dye.

This is why he doesnt play CF. He can play LF instead of prancer. Now anyone that says Brian wouldnt of gotten that I say you are nuts.

4 innings completed, 1 hit. This is our usual offensive output lately, not matter if Johan is pitching of some AAAA bum who has a 9 ERA. Once a week we will rip apart some guy, then struggle to make contact and get hits for the next week. This offense is frustrating.

We have to lead the league in taking a 3rd strike. What do we pay Greg for again. Its obviously not for coming up with a strategy of how to attack pitching. Swing for the fences, and if the ball is now down the cock middle in, take it.

Its funny how our hitters act like they have never seen a breaking pitch before. I think the Downers Grove cable access has a better video/audio setup than WCIU.

QUOTE(WHarris1 @ Sep 15, 2006 -> 10:01 PM) Wow...ROBBED Prancer would of played that into a triple.

QUOTE(The Ginger Kid @ Sep 15, 2006 -> 09:58 PM) frank flying out to right is a beeeautiful thing. Fixed for you.

Time for the meat of the lineup to hit the f***ing ball so we can shut up the kazoo, trumpet, and horn section at the dump.

QUOTE(fathom @ Sep 15, 2006 -> 09:55 PM) Garland has no command of his offspeed pitches so far. He is nibbling with a high OBP team. They take all sorts of crap just to get to hitters counts. If you attack them, and then pound in when you get to 2 strikes. High OBP teams like to shorten up, and take the ball with 2 strikes up the middle and to right. We like to pitch away, we need to pound in, pound in and pound in.

QUOTE(Heads22 @ Sep 15, 2006 -> 09:52 PM) They should upgrade to S-video cables too.....but then they'd have to go with regular ends on that...so....gold tips on sound or video? On the Coax cable, the gold tipped RG59 for video. They should upgrade to tin cans and string for their audio. Its better than the crap they are using now.

QUOTE(fathom @ Sep 15, 2006 -> 09:50 PM) I wouldn't be stunned if he's traded this offseason. I know KW likes him, and he's supposed to be the Sox CF of the future. However, the more each day goes by, the more I think Juan Pierre will be our CF next year. They can eliminate themselves from postseason play then in 07 if they put that stiff in CF. He can barely hit against the weak ass NL. His OBP and his BA are pretty much identical which projects for disaster in the AL. Plus his arm is beyond horrible.

WCIU needs to replace the duck tape they are using to keep the sound connection together. Go to radio shack and buy the deluxe cable, with the gold tips. Spend the extra 20 bucks. Its worth it.

Okay I admit I was wrong about Mack being in there, He should just be in LF for Prancer the worst LF in all of baseball.

QUOTE(Kalapse @ Sep 15, 2006 -> 09:39 PM) Sometimes I just really want to kick Ozzie in the nuts, this is one of those times. He rests Brian because of being so apendage aware, yet leaves a guy who is worthless as a hitter in at SS. Who has been getting progressively worse as a hitter over the last few months.

Lets f***ing stop nibbling just go after the batters. These guys take like crazy, its pointless to nibble because they aint biting. Pitch around Frank and Chavez and then pound the rest of them into the ground.

QUOTE(Tony82087 @ Sep 15, 2006 -> 09:31 PM) Wow, I cant stand this crowd. Oakland is like a clown convention. Morons honking horns, Waving flags and acting like fools. Why is Mackowiak in CF again, Loaiza's big pitch is a cutter, and if Ozzie doesnt remember he should ask the lefties how a right handed cutter works with them hitting. Anderson would of been better off in CF. But captain platoon is obsessed with the apendage a person is born with.

QUOTE(greg775 @ Sep 14, 2006 -> 02:21 PM) I wonder if Juan is a headcase. You don't hear much about him. It seems like he's pretty damn aggressive at the plate and when he hits his occasional bomb ... wow. In other words, can't our hitting coach get through to him? Doesn't Juan appear to have the tools to be a much more productive hitter? That said ... if we can upgrade we need to IMO. I'd rather keep Iguchi. I think we need an upgrade offensively at either ss or cf, keeping one of the 2 because of their defense and not getting rid of both. Walt Hrniak was brought in last year to see if he could get through to Uribe. He used a leg kick mechanism, and it kept Uribe back instead of lunging at the ball. It worked through September and the playoffs. Then Greg decided that he should ditch the leg kick, and go to a spread stance like Pablo uses. Because he thought the leg kick didnt do a thing. Now Uribe is hitting .230ish. Can we get Walt back to give Uribe another lesson in the leg kick, and tell Greg to help someone else.

Not a bad debut in Europe for the year for Celtic. Losing 3-2 to Manu at Old Trafford. One of the goals was the typical Manu penalty that they get at home just about once a game. Nakamura and Van Hesslink looked good. Manu will probably win the group, we just need them to beat up on the rest and take care of our own matches.

When her son is flipping burgers and still living at home at 40 ala Bud Bundy then she can be proud of the decisions she made.

Pods decides to pull up and dog it to third last night, and now gooch. Great baserunning.

QUOTE(ptatc @ Sep 13, 2006 -> 02:42 PM) That's right. Even more players hitting the oppostie way. Although not consistently enough. True but by the way they where leaning, especially Konerko, I got the sense that they were trying to shoot it the other way. Actually when a player attempts to pull a pitch on the outer half one of 3 things happen. Either a dribbler to the pull side due to getting the bat head out there. The 2nd is the lazy popup to the right side due to being extended with the bat and just nicking it at the very end. And the 3rd is a K. When a person hits the ball to the right side and is set on it, they usually center the ball up more and drive it to right center. You may see some dribblers to the right side if they dont stay back enough.

Nice to see that Walk has the kids ready to play today. How many Ks with this lefty have with our swing for the rocks in left center mode.

Well here is a sobering moment. Take a gander at our offense over the last couple of years. And tell me how has this team changed its stripes. We are on pace barely to hit better than we did last year when we sucked in O as a team Year First Half Runs/Second Half Runs/ TR Year FHR SHR TR 2006 520 272 792 with 17 left to play 2005 413 328 741 2004 462 403 865 2003 393 398 791 2002 474 382 856 runs

If Ozzie was the twinks manager......hmmmm.... mauer wouldnt play against lefties. Moreneau would of been buried last year. And their bullpen wouldnt come into play until the 8th inning Lohse would be still on the team.'

QUOTE(Rowand44 @ Sep 13, 2006 -> 01:11 AM) It's because they don't like communists and since Brian Anderson is one, they hate us. Pods obviously is not a communist. Because no matter what he does to get benched he gets trotted out. bmac and anderson could very well be on their way out due to Ozzie. I bet bmac or anderson is traded for some wittle fast guy who cant hit or some latin pitcher that has a 5 ERA than needs some coop time.