southsideirish71

Nice throw Crede. So much for last nights game feeding over to todays. Now we need Jon to man up and pitch over this. And he does, nice pitch.

Bases loaded, 1 out. No runs. Thanks Pods for your efforts. I am so glad we have a glorified singles hitter, who plays bad D, has a noodle arm, and has a bumb wheel. Can we replace him with something. Please KW, for the love of god. We have a terrible pitcher, who has one pitch and he cant locate it. And all he has to do is throw it low and away and magically our hitters get themselves out of it. This pitcher show of given up a 8 spot by now.

Why is Pods on our team again. He doesnt do anything at all for this team.

Mr. Dergan aka Willie Mays Hays f***s up. Glad you are on our team. Pathetic.

Mr. Dergan with the bases loaded.

QUOTE(fathom @ Jul 29, 2006 -> 04:12 PM) We have to get at least one of these runs in. This pitcher is TERRIBLE! He is a fastball pitcher only pretty much.

Nice hit Gload.

High pitch on the outside corner and Crede tries to pull it and pops out. Nice AB Joe.

I am still trying to figure out how the rookie got out of the top half of this inning without getting destroyed. He had nothing but a medicore fastball. He threw a hanging curve for a strike, and managed to get out of it with only giving up one run. Jon on the other side, decided to forget that he is good when he throws strikes, but not high ones. Hopefully he will take off the ruby slippers for the rest of the game.

Nice fishing pitch on 2 strikes. High straight change. Dumb I was hoping that Judy wouldnt make an appearance for the rest of the year.

QUOTE(kyyle23 @ Jul 28, 2006 -> 10:00 PM) I was totally pumped with the way the bullpen shut them down. MacDougal is fishing nasty, i dont think I have seen many pitchers who can throw a 97 MPH fastball that moves sideways like that. I dont know if anyone remembers a fastball he threw to Conine, but I swear it went from the left batters box all the way to Conines feet and he still swung at it, awesome. I swear Thornton throws the easiest 97 MPH fastball in the world. Ozzie needs to trust his pen more to shorten his game. McDougal, Thornton and Jenks are a hard group of guys to hit more or less score runs on. This should be a wakeup call that when Vazquez hits the 5th, you can use bmac or cotts to give you an inning or two to get you to the back of that pen. Pretty nasty. We dont need to let a starter go to the magic 7th inning. The win is more important that x pitcher getting a win.

Sweet Jesus Christ. I went to the movies tonight to see Clerks II, probably one of the funnier movies I have seen. I kept refreshing the mlb.com page on my blackberry until the movie started and we were down. I figured that I would just watch the movie, take my mind off it. I come out of the movie, and see that Gload hit a grandslam. What a nice way to end the evening. Nice

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QUOTE(Gene Honda Civic @ Jul 28, 2006 -> 04:09 PM) Via BTF http://translate.google.com/translate?u=ht...Flanguage_tools Sign him up now. Maybe he can learn how to play LF and send Mr Pods apacking. Countreras needs to give this kid a call on how the Yankees helped him out by sending him here.

We could be ranked 30th for all I care. As long as we start winning games, and we get into the playoffs some how. These polls are subjective bullspiff at best.

QUOTE(southsideirish @ Jul 28, 2006 -> 10:17 AM) Holy smokes! They gave up a bunch! Kevin Mench, Francisco Cordero, and Laynce Nix!!!!! WOW!!!! Right about now Bowden just blew his load. Jackpot city for any Soriano deal. The spiffload for Carlos Lee

Well tell Konerko and Thome to start mashing the ball again. And tell our pitchers to show the hell up.

QUOTE(ZoomSlowik @ Jul 27, 2006 -> 03:47 PM) There's our general problem. The TV gun has been very erratic this year. It has been up to 8 MPH off, and it generally seems to be slower. I forgot who it was against, but we were facing someone that consistently throws 94 and the gun kept showing it at 86. It's also not uncommon to see Jenks at 92 on obvious fastballs. I go by the one at the park. Mark was at 86/87 in the last start I was at hitting 88 a bunch of times also. Then in Garcias last start against baltimore, he was 86 most of the time, dialing it up to 88 a few times and then popped on in at 90. The same radar gun in the next inning woudl have Bedard at 93/94 consistantly.

QUOTE(Jake @ Jul 27, 2006 -> 03:19 PM) 88 and 84 are vastly different. And as I said it makes his changeup more ineffective even when thrown correctly. Right now batters can guard the low part of the zone easily because they have plenty of time to adjust to the high pitches. Yesterday's game he hit 87 only once. I don't know if it's the career innings or innings of late or even an injury or lack of effort, but he needs to make some kind of change. If he ends the year above 5 ERA, I don't expect the Sox to pick up his option. Below 89 its not that much different for a major league hitter. Its more about location and speed differential, adding subtracting of velocity that makes a pitcher successful below the 90 mark. A major leaguer can destroy an 88 mph fastball and an 84mph fastball. You take Mark Buerhle of last year. And if you took his control away and had the same control this year you would see a similiar effect. Now Freddy Garcia is a different cat altogether. He is a guy who had a 93-94 mph fastball which ran down and had movemen. When you have that type of fastball you dont need to paint the black at the knees to be succesfull. That plus his breaking pitches made him very tough. This year he has poor location, plus a medicore fastball. Buerhle had a medicore fastball, but pinpoint control. Losing a few mph for Buerhle is not as bad as him losing a few inches in his control. Garcia never had the pinpoint control, so when he dipped below 90 he was meat.

QUOTE(Jake @ Jul 27, 2006 -> 03:08 PM) Has anyone else noticed Buehrle's drop in velocity? He was never a hard thrower at all, but he was usually in the 87-90 range with his fastball and usually 77-79 with the change. In his last few starts, his fastball has been around 83-86 and his change is the same speed (He also threw several 81 mph cutters yesterday). Not only does this drop in velocity cause a smaller margin for error, there is a much smaller difference in speed between his fastball and change-up, which is ideally 9-12 mph slower than your fastball. Mix this with imperfect location, you get the Buehrle of the last month. Location is killing Buerhle more than his velocity. He has survived with pinpoint control at below 90. His control is off, and worse is he is leaving pitches up.

QUOTE(aboz56 @ Jul 27, 2006 -> 02:03 PM) Vazquez just isn't that good. It's no secret he's bounced around the league lately and there's a reason for it. He's a mental midget. Well if he pitches great in this next start through 5, and Ozzzie and Coop let him go into the 6th and he gets rocked on cue, then I will have another couple of mental midgets for your list. And Coop is still going back and forth about letting him go into the 6th because of how it helped Garland when he was a 5 inning pitcher.

QUOTE(champ @ Jul 27, 2006 -> 12:40 PM) Detroit (still should have won that series despite struggles), Oakland, LAA... If you think that this is the team (the way they're playing right now), feel free to jump off the bandwagon. Regardless of their record in the last 15 games, I still believe this is, by far, the best overall team in the majors. And I believed that before Kenny improved the bullpen...now that the bullpen is improved, I seriously don't think (if they're not struggling), that any team can beat them in a playoff series. You realize that we need to start more than 2 guys in the playoffs right.

QUOTE(Kalapse @ Jul 27, 2006 -> 01:17 PM) The Tigers have managed to go 4 months without "comming down to earth", what makes you think they'll do that now? Just curious. I am still trying to figure out with 3 out of 5 of our pitchers pitching like Danny Wright/Felix Diaz/and Anrie Munoz do we think that we have a .750 run left in us.

QUOTE(Kalapse @ Jul 27, 2006 -> 12:15 PM) Alfonso Soriano just went deep. Pods is still trying to leg out that hit from yesterday.

LOL at him hanging hit hat on one center field dong, and one oppo dong as a reason for "were not trying to hit homers" Sure Kong and company are just trying to make contact. its just plain luck that they are pulling everything and popping things up.