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QUOTE(Brian @ Jul 26, 2006 -> 01:53 PM) Beutiful 0-2 pitch by Buehrle to Morneau. Do our pitchers go stupid when they get ahead in the count 0-2? Because our pitchers are dumb.

1-2 with 2 outs and Buerhle throws something down the middle. 3-0 twins Nice pitching ace.

How many times does Gullen go to the mound to talk strategy, and then the next pitch is a dong.

Leadoff triple for their leadoff hitter. I wish our leadoff hitter was still good.

Maybe playing your regular lineup day in and day out might get you a rythm at the plate. But at least we will be fresh for whatever.

1st and 3rd with no outs. And we dont get a run. Classic Corpseball

2 hits back to back. And one to the right side, how is this possible.

Now Singelton with the why cant the tigers struggle like the sox. Well DJ Leyland isnt going to rest his starters like we do. So they get a consistant lineup. And Leyland realizes to use his pen a bit, a not let x starting pitcher give up runs like crazy after the 7th. And Leyland reads a scouting chart instead of going with his "gut"

QUOTE(Friend of Nordhagen @ Jul 26, 2006 -> 01:24 PM) Strange that Mack broke back on that one. He's usually right on it. You will see at least 5 balls drop between Mack and Cintron today. Glad we have our best D out there today.

QUOTE(Balta1701 @ Jul 26, 2006 -> 01:20 PM) 11 pitch first inning for Carlos Silva. Welcome to the 2006 edition of the Whitesox Corpseball. We will make any crappy pitcher look like Cy Young.

QUOTE(Balta1701 @ Jul 26, 2006 -> 01:18 PM) Here's the good news...when Silva shuts us out today, it may give the Twins reason to keep Silva in the majors for a little bit longer instead of calling up Matt Garza to give the Twins a 3 headed monster of young pitching for this season. You mean the guy the twins drafted after we selected Broadway. thank god our scouting department got that one right.

QUOTE(fathom @ Jul 26, 2006 -> 01:17 PM) I LOVE giving up outs via the bunt when we're losing. Thank God Cintron is in here. Gooch needs his rest.

Pods is willie mays hays from major league II. No more speed, glorified singles hitter who thinks he has pop.

QUOTE(StrangeSox @ Jul 26, 2006 -> 01:07 PM) Seriously. Someone needs to sit Ozzie down and tell him to stop marching out these retarded lineups. If there is someone on the 25 man roster outside of Gload, he will use them. Last year he couldnt find enough places to get Timo into the lineup. Need to give Kong a rest at 1st, 5'8 Timo can play there, need a DH Timo can play there, need a LF or RF Timo is your guy. Now Timo couldnt hit, wasnt very good but during our slump last year he was running out there day in and day out. Now Ozzie has more toys to play with. The regular lineup is not the norm, these carnival lineups are more of the regulars lineups.

QUOTE(NorthSideSox72 @ Jul 26, 2006 -> 12:53 PM) OK so, I'm typically a defender of the Ozzie patented Sunday Lineup ™. I think his resting of players and playing the bench is a key to the team's success. But here we have just plain poor decision-making. Anderson is red-hot and 3/5 vs Silva, and Gooch is 3/5. I mean, come on. Rest our guys and get the bench some time, but do it the smart way!!! Not this default lefty-righty crap. We are trying to hang on to the wild card, and save a possible sweep at home. And he dicks around. I hated Manuel and his sunday lineups, but he only did it once a week. Gooch and Anderson have to be the most subbed out on our team. Followed by Pods. Anderson can get hits off of Randy Johnson and Mike Mussina, but he needs to rest against the mighty carlos silva.

QUOTE(Balta1701 @ Jul 26, 2006 -> 12:47 PM) Uribe is 12/23 in his career with 3 home runs against Silva. How about this lineup Pods Gooch Thome Konerko Dye AJ Crede Uribe Anderson This is the one we should be using against our rivals.

QUOTE(BigSqwert @ Jul 26, 2006 -> 12:43 PM) But we'll have the freshest lineup when we are 12 games back in late August. I am going with a big inning started by a ball that drops between Mackowiak and Cintron, just like it has the last few times they have both been on the field. Ozzie should just admit it, we dont have a starting CF, we have a fishing platoon. Anderson is 23, how much rest does he need.

I am glad that Ozzie is consistant and keeps not playing regulars against the WC competition. We need a win today, so lets bench Anderson who hits Silva well, and lets bench Gooch who is hitting well. Bench worthless Pods and put Mackowiak in if you are so bent on using him. And Cintron can rest Uribe who cant hit. These lineups were stupid in April, and they are even more stupid now in late July.

QUOTE(nitetrain8601 @ Jul 26, 2006 -> 11:51 AM) Guys you got it all wrong. This is typical Kenny flying under the radar. We're not getting Zito or Soriano. We're not getting another reliever either. There is only one man that I see us getting. The Man, The Myth, The Legend... ^^Coming soon to a Sox game near you. We dont need another reliever. Our bullpen looks real solid now. The only way you get another bullpen arm is if for the love of god you are putting bmac into the rotaiton and sending one of the pitchers away. However that isnt likely considering one of them is a golfing buddy and the other is related. A left fielder who can hit better that our glorified singles hitter out in LF would be nice.

QUOTE(LosMediasBlancas @ Jul 26, 2006 -> 10:38 AM) I'll trade a few bombs for a well balanced, smart ball offensive attack that produces the 7 runs you're predicting. Its the annual whitesox corpseball offense power show. The weather gets hot, our hitters take a look at the short porch and try and park every pitch. Then after 7 innings we look back at 4 hits, a ton of popups, maybe some warning track shots, and we lose. I will give anything for some line drive cuts, some nice gappers. But alas we are now into year 5 of watching us take the pipe in the second half. The only thing that was going for us is we had a 15 game lead. We just blew a 7 game lead in the WC in 2 weeks.

People are missing the KW boat here. Every single trade deadline, we are literally linked to every single possible person. A few days before the deadline, x trade is about to go down. And its never the person we think. Hopefully we get something. Because we need it.

How about a new rule for our manager. When you have a pitcher in a tie game after the start of the 7th inning. If he allows a batter, or more to the point 2 batters to get on, used one of the 3 guys who throw near a 100 to come in and get the out. I am sick and tired of seeing a pitcher give up a big late rally because he is a bit tired. Maybe we can get a managing pitching for dummies book for Guillen. I so wish we had a vet bench coach like Nosek on the pine sitting behind him, being a sounding board. How many times does Guillen have to let a pitcher get lit up late to learn this routine. If the pitcher gets in trouble, use one of the 3 100 mph arms out of your pen. Just a thought.

QUOTE(Kalapse @ Jul 26, 2006 -> 01:01 AM) HEY! The replay of today's game is just starting on CSN! At least after the replay you dont have to listen to the PFB doing his "everything is smiles and puppy farts" routine. Konerko has 4 hits in the last week, all of them dongs. I wonder what he is trying to do.

Over the last 7 days. The Annual August slumber for our bats started a tad early. How the fish does an entire team go bad on their bats. Dye is hitting pretty good over the last week. So we rest him on Monday. Thome is batting .120 Welcome to Whitesox late summer slump baseball AJ is batting .125 His new pull only mode is pretty cool. Pods is batting .167 What again does he do. Konerko is at .190 Pretty much hits hits a home run or he gets an out. Crede is hitting .240 He is popping everything up. Iguchi is hitting .260

39k people are paying to see the whitesox day in and day out perform. They have our support. However unlike a cub fan, I am not just going to smile, get drunk and pretend that if I wish hard enough they will get better. This team will get better when our team starts hitting line drives instead of trying to hit homers, when our pitching staff realizes the best pitch to throw on 0-2 is not something center cut, and our manager learns when to pull a starting pitcher, and when our 3rd base coach learns to send fast guys and be careful with slow guys.