southsideirish71

One turn through the rotation our guys look good, 2nd time through the rotation and it looks like s***.

QUOTE(CYGarland @ Aug 17, 2006 -> 01:22 PM) Lumsden was traded to KC for Macdougal Flash of all people knows the status of our minor league system, especially pitchers. He forgot to put the /sarcasm

Buerhle gives up another meatball.

Yeah lets hit home runs. Its the way this offense clicks.

QUOTE(fathom @ Aug 17, 2006 -> 01:10 PM) If we go on to not make the playoffs, that Joey Cora play sending home Iguchi on Tuesday night will be one of the turning points of the season for me. Actually for me it was game 2 when Ozzie stopped playing his regular lineup in 80% of the games.

JOO BISH!!!!! Happy Birthday to the guy who makes Chat the place to be and the last bastion of profanity on this site.

Hit the f***ing ball, catch the f***ing ball, throw the f***ing ball. Its a simple game. This is the royals. Lets salvage a split for the love of all that is holy. Lets stop making crappy pitchers look good. At least its Odalis Perez, and they have heard of him. Maybe they will actually try today. The key to todays offense is working the count, hitting line drives, playing good defense, and playing smart. Lets not do the following, lift and pull trying to hit the Dan Ryan, kick the ball all over the field, and throw a meatball on an 0-2 count. If we can avoid this, we should be fine.

I have a question. Before his time on the DL. Contreras threw his forkball over the top. He threw a hard 95 to 97 mph fastball. And then would drop down on righties from time to time to give them a different look, and then would use his slider from that angle. Now after the DL stint. The counts is throwing pretty much side arm all the time. His fastball is down to 91. And with his drop down, the ball seems to sail up in the hitting zone a bit more. He cannot get ontop of his forkball anymore and its either hanging or not dancing. Now for my question. If you are successful at sometime for a long period of time. Why in the name of God would you decide to completely change how you go about it. Either that bone spur still hurts, or Cooper and Ozzie need to get Jose throwing over the top more

QUOTE(Greg Hibbard @ Aug 16, 2006 -> 10:54 PM) How many times has any team swept a four game series at home in the past 20 years? It happens less than 5% of the time. Well the twinks just swept these same cagey royals at Kaufman in a 4 game series. The Tigers have beat them 11 out 12 times.

Pods on the game tonight. Well the ball didnt bounce our way tonight. Pods catch the f***ing ball, dont worry about it bouncing. Just catch it.

QUOTE(Greg Hibbard @ Aug 16, 2006 -> 10:42 PM) I was prepared to lose one game against the Royals, and I figured it was Vazquez. Honestly, that loss did not bother me that much. Did you really think that Hernandez and his 8 ERA would shut us down at home and go deep into the game. I mean if we lost 6-4 or something its understandable, Vaz put us in a hole. But when we lose 4-2 and we struggle to hit a crappy pitcher its pretty sad. I didnt think we would lose a game to the Royals when we beat Redman in game one.

The PFB show is brought to you by skype. Nothing like your postgame show being brought to you by a piece of shareware, written by the same folks at KaZaa. QUOTE(Greg Hibbard @ Aug 16, 2006 -> 10:35 PM) Count the number of unacceptable losses in the last 19 games. I count one. Last night was acceptable???? The best O in the game, going against a pitcher with an 8 ERA, and the team they are facing is what 14-40 something on the road.

QUOTE(Jordan4life_2006 @ Aug 16, 2006 -> 10:25 PM) Let me ask you this, Irish: Save the first two weeks after the all-star break, and the brutal showing the last two nights, when exactly has this offense looked like corpseball? I am not saying that this team overall has shown corpseball offense this whole year. But one of the tenants of corpseball was playing like s*** against the worst teams in baseball. That is what I am talking about. We play them like Freddy pitches against them.

The PFB show is pretty funny tonight. someone called up and asked why is ozzie resting so many of his starters. PFBs answer. Well there was a right hander starting. Oh so you start a corner OF in center because he was born with the left appendage as his primary appendage. Awsome.

QUOTE(Greg Hibbard @ Aug 16, 2006 -> 10:19 PM) before you guys hit the panic button regarding contention, let's talk about how "flawed" these teams are: 1) the Twins without Liriano (think they are going to Prior him? he will be shut down for the year eventually. They will NOT f*** with this this year, I guarantee you) 2) the Red Sox who suddenly can't field a major league rotation. Southside, were we ever in the lead for the wild card that year? And we are healthy and playing an inferior team at home. We should be putting distance between us and someone. Boston and Detroit played each other. We should of stretched it out against one of them. The wild card never was part of our equation. I am talking about how our team dealt with a playoff hunt before. We ran and played well before the ASB. Then had problems in the 2nd half keeping consistant. Playing pretty much 500 ball, and playing poor against bad teams. We are healthy, our biggest wild card opponents have a major injury in their rotation, and the other one has been playing poor. How many games are we up with our great healthy team.

QUOTE(Jordan4life_2006 @ Aug 16, 2006 -> 10:13 PM) I know our offense was near the top most of those years. I don't remember any of those teams hitting like this team has with RISP, though. And most certainly none of those teams had the comeback ability of this team. The offense has been simply pathetic -- the last two nights. That's all I'm saying here. This offense is not like the '01-'04 offenses. We are hitting .316 this year with RISP. But remember we didnt drop off that much during those corpseball years. In 04 and in 02 we were 3rd in all of baseball with scoring runs. In 04 we hit .291 with RISP In 03 we hit .281 with RISP In 02 we hit .290 with RISP

QUOTE(Greg Hibbard @ Aug 16, 2006 -> 10:04 PM) there are a lot of differences between this year and 2004. For one thing, I'm not sure we were ever 27 games over .500 that year. Sox fans, I'm sure every year from now on when doubt creeps into your mind your tendency is going to be to draw parallels on the most heartbreaking season in recent memory, however, I would always caution you against comparing a team a few games over .500 to a world championship caliber one that has flirted with 30 over, and probably will end up around that number. I compare it to a team that is in a playoff fight, chasing a team ahead of them, trying to make up ground while that team is playing a tough opponent while we drop games to the worst team in our division. That is the parallels to previous seasons. We were within a few games of the twinks, they started a bad streak and we couldnt take advantage of it because our pitching was inconsistant, and our offense would go to sleep vs the worst teams in baseball. The situation is similiar no matter where the records are.

QUOTE(Jordan4life_2006 @ Aug 16, 2006 -> 10:01 PM) Yes, we've struggled with the Royals. It makes no sense. Didn't the D-rays own the Yankees last year? I still don't buy the corpseball crap. take a look our our offense and how they ranked in baseball in those years. Our team has always been near the top in the league in homers, and run production. Last year was the first year in a while we took a dump as a team overall.

QUOTE(Greg Hibbard @ Aug 16, 2006 -> 10:00 PM) hence the phrase that team... In 04 we were fighting with the twinks for the division, and we had a hard time beating the worst team in baseball the Tigers. Now Ozzie is giving excuses. Jose looked good. And our defense was just inbetween.

19-45 on the road vs one of the best home records. We are not in the lead with a 15 game cushion.

QUOTE(Jordan4life_2006 @ Aug 16, 2006 -> 09:52 PM) Do corpseball teams have as many comebacks, many of them miraculous, as this team has had this year? I don't see how anybody can have any complaints about the offense. Every team has games, or maybe a week, where they look flat offensively. The corpseball teams would take a dump when they played a poor team. They would play uninterested and swing for the fences and have multiple defensive gaps, and poor situation hitting against bad teams. In 2004 we had a hard time beating the crappy Tigers. They were on a record losing streak and we were playing game for game with them.

Pablo and his light frame swinging for the fences. Flies out to CF on the first pitch. Now why did he come into the game instead of Anderson again.

QUOTE(CYGarland @ Aug 16, 2006 -> 09:48 PM) Great, now we get to hear about how we made a comeback Its what the PFB will use as a cornerstone of his post game show tonight.

Well there is that home run that they have been feverishly have been trying for since AB number 1 tonight. Swing for the fences on every swing and eventually the KC royals will let you hit one.

I have finally figured it out. The 2006 whitesox are the Freddy Garcia of teams. They only play good when they consider the competition good enough to show up.