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And of course Konerko cant f***ing help himself. He pulls the first pitch to the SS. You realize Konerko that right field is not out. You dont have to pull every single pitch.

I just came in, is this a case of the pull and lift offense hitting everything on earth to the 3rd baseman and the SS tonight. When I see a few hits over 7 or so innings by a pitcher who has been getting hit.

QUOTE(fathom @ Aug 21, 2006 -> 08:50 PM) This team looks absolutely fatigued. I can't even begin to count how many foul balls our hitters have hit to the opposite field. The bat speed is slowing down right now, and this is the point of the season where the adrenaline of being in a pennant race has to give you that extra boost. Unfortunately, it's nowhere to be found with our guys right now. Where was this problem in his last start against the Tigers? The foul balls are more a product of pitchers throwing us low and away, and our guys trying to lift and pull.

Tigers magic number is 34.

Conteras 9-0 in the first half, 3-6 in the 2nd half. Beltin Bill Melton thinks Contreras has a back problem, and he is dropping down a lot more.

QUOTE(Dick Allen @ Aug 21, 2006 -> 08:33 PM) The pitcher is a lot less talented. So was Runnynose Hernandez and Boof Bonser.

And Mack pulls it for the out.

Now this is frustrating. Now we start hitting the ball the other way, and back up the middle. Why do we wait until the 9th inning to actually hit.

How many popups, or ground outs to the pull side we will see.

QUOTE(Flash Tizzle @ Aug 21, 2006 -> 08:27 PM) I'll save you some time: "I really believe Contreras pitched well aside from those two hitsbatsmen, which threw off his rhythm." You can insert any of our pitchers names during any of their crap performances and cite one moment where they wet themself. "I believe this team will turn around because it has the talent to turn around." He blamed Konerko for Vazquezes problems on Sunday. Nice job PFB.

Can we hire their hitting instructor.

QUOTE(Jordan4life_2006 @ Aug 21, 2006 -> 08:23 PM) Good god is Neal Cotts bad. Well the league figured out his sneaky fast crap. Its time to teach the two pitch pitcher how to throw another pitch. I mean if Freddy Fastball can learn a splitter, why cant Neal.

QUOTE(cgaudin @ Aug 21, 2006 -> 08:17 PM) Our pitching is no longer a "concern". It is a bonafide disaster and KW and Ozzie need to go into emergency mode. They can no longer afford to "wait" for the pitching to "come around" 'cause it ain't gonna happen. It is what it is, and Ozzie needs to shift his managing philosophy with that in mind. I think even though he's only got a 4th grade education, Ozzie has a pretty stout baseball IQ and he will understand that the hook needs to be applied swiftly at first sign of trouble. This season really makes me appreciate last year even more. A bunch of rag-tag scappers somehow found a way, while this team full of All-Stars is barely cuttin' the mustard. Baseball's a funny game. I love it! He doesnt understand why Vazquez has a plus 10 ERA past 75 pitches, and still tries to get him to deep into games. He thinks that this is the 2005 whitesox and tries to have his 5 + era pitchers go deep into games no matter how many runs they give up. He takes one of our hottest hitters out of the lineup every 3rd game so he can put a corner OF in center field. One of our best pitchers in the stretch last year, he called lousy and hasnt stretched him out even though SP is our problem. Well now we cant hit either, but for most of the year SP has been the problem. He let boone logan pitch to Travis Hafner in game what 3. And he starts his starters less than some bench players play in most games. So again with the high baseball IQ.

Shockingly Paulie hit that to the 3rd baseman. Of all places, I never thought he would hit it there. /sarcasm I am surprised that teams dont do the paulie shift and put 3 infielders on the left side of the diamond. Paulie would hit probably about .216 if that were to happen.

Leyland goes for the throat here. He goes with Zumaya here. Just like using Nathan in a non save situation for the twinks. Now our manager likes to use hybrid lineups without using the starters. He likes to use our best reliever in the 6th inning of a blow out, and our crapiest reliever in the 8th of a tie game.

PFB show should be like a funeral march tonight.

Well the Cleveland Indians who are not in it this year because of their pitching, will be passing our pitching numbers by the end of the week. This is with gascan Carmona closing things out.

QUOTE(klaus kinski @ Aug 21, 2006 -> 07:56 PM) A trade deadline Yankees get Abreu-get hot Dodgers get Maddux-get hot We get nothing-thats 17-22 folks It would be explainable if we were good at the deadline But KW asked Paulie and company if they needed anything. And they looked around and said we can win it with this.

QUOTE(CYGarland @ Aug 21, 2006 -> 07:55 PM) I dont think their choking, they just don't have IT right now. It has nothing to do with IT. Its to do with a mathmatical formula. Our hitters are trying to pull everything in sight for whatever reason. Our pitchers are throwing low and away, its almost like they are trying to pitch to our hitters. And with Mackowiak in CF do we really believe in D. Our young CF is hitting over 290 since what June, and he needs to rest like every 3rd day

QUOTE(CWSGuy406 @ Aug 21, 2006 -> 07:53 PM) If McCarthy doesn't even warm up tonight, I'm going to start thinking that something is going on. He wasn't used in the Minny series, despite the fact that there were plenty of times to do so. He hasn't been used since August 16th. God bless Kenny, Coop, and Ozzie if they're actually stretching the kid out. God bless 'em. Keith I think you are giving them too much credit. The 2006 Bmac === 2005 Ross Gload. Ozzie thinks that this rag tag group of guys with 4 plus ERAs is better than anything the kid can give us. I want whatever they are smoking.

QUOTE(Jordan4life_2006 @ Aug 21, 2006 -> 07:52 PM) And I won't believe a single one of them. Plus someone needs to ask the question at soxfest, Ozzie and KW what happened to Freddy's velocity.

QUOTE(Flash Tizzle @ Aug 21, 2006 -> 07:44 PM) Someone else posted my exact thoughts (I'm too lazy to back track on this thread and credit you, sorry ) concerning McCarthy's odd absence from consistent work. I wonder if he's currently conducting side-sessions. His work lately has been far too sparse. It's either he's injured, in Guillen's dughouse, or currently pitching on the side. I realize it's unlikely, but not entirely out of the question. This isn't something you'd want to mention in the media and risk further clubhouse issues. Ozzie is too stubborn to put Bmac in. Remember last year he decided to use Timo at 1st base, instead of calling up Gload. In his revisionist history Bmac was bad last year, Timo was great, and we won everythin due to him resting our starters every other game.

When we s*** the bed against the Royals at home, and our great O got shut down by Runnynose Hernandez and a AAAA bum, we should of knew that warning signs with this team was going off. What I love is the adjustments. Pretty much every team throws our right handers away away away And they keep pulling it. Occasionally, someone leaves one over the plate and its gone. But for the most part Crede pops it up, Konerko does his suicide shrug, and its over. Now our pitchers pretty much go away away away. yet the opposition figures it out, and slaps the ball oppo and beats us. How f***ed up is this. And why does our 24 year old young centerfielder need rest every 3 or so games.

So why in the hell are we wasting our back end reliever in the 6th inning of a blow out. This makes no sense. This is where Matt pitches, and then Cotts will come in to a tie game in the 8th tomorrow night. WTF

QUOTE(CYGarland @ Aug 21, 2006 -> 07:33 PM) Looks like their heading right into the dump....Our starting pitchers have lost velocity, and our power hitters cant hit Hr's.....This is bad Well in 2004 we got raped by the twins when Carlos Lee was doing his windmill impersonation at home plate. And then we went into Detroit and couldnt beat them and lost like what 7 or 8 in a row. This kind of feels like then. Danny Wright = Vazquez Felix Diaz = Garcia Conteras = Contreras