southsideirish71

So you have a 2nd baseman shading towards the bag, then you throw a pitch away and the hitter goes with it. Then we wonder why he has been having problems lately. Dumb f***ing pitch calling.

Well hopefully Thome squares one up this next inning, because we seem to get the runners on tonight, but we need some extra go go whitesox power to get them in. We should seriously be leading this game 6-3.

That would of been a single, however Taz was amazed by the pretty white ball and decided to wait to run to first.

Chris Widger batting a stout .175 versus lefties, which he primarily plays against.

Another one of our pitchers makes a dumb f***ing 2 strike pitch. What is the point of just throwing a cookie up there. 3-2 Red Cubs

Widger now establishing his outside lawn chair for the rest of the evening. Remember to keep throwing inside.

Buerhle needs to keep baserunners off of base for Pig Fatty.

QUOTE(redandwhite @ Jul 7, 2006 -> 04:31 PM) There is no more payroll excuse, no more World Series excuse, You guys are mighty bitter. I am still waiting for the supposed fan of both teams to update his avatar. You should have the current world champions in your avatar, not the team we swept out. 2004 was so 2 years ago.

Beat the s*** out of the Red Cubs. Keep the big pooper in check and we should be good. I want 2 out of 3 in the series, and I want the Count to beat Bloody Sawk on Sunday. His b****ing and moaning, and campaigning for an allstar spot is sick. He can eat s*** and move on. Brian Anderson is hitting .267 this month. Keep it up kid.

QUOTE(Milkman delivers @ Jul 7, 2006 -> 09:56 AM) Why do people keep saying that? I don't rememer Jose's ERA being over 5 at any point last year. Everyone was all over Contreras, I was I will admit it. I watched him get absolutely bombed against Arizona for an 8 spot. He was in between, throwing his forkball more than his fastball. He looked like he was taking a step backwards. With him and El Duque there were comments about the Cuban pitching crisis we had. Then poof, he turned it on. Does it happen with Javy, maybe maybe not. He has the stuff. Its just a few pitches that get him in trouble. Its not like they are just bombing the crap out of Javy. I would like to see him attack the zone more, and use his slider more to right handers with 2 strikes. I think he is trying to throw his two seamer more than he should because of trying to keep the ball in the park. I think that takes away from his game. Lets see what Coop does with him. I think its small adjustments that need to happen to make Javy into a winner for us.

QUOTE(BFirebird @ Jul 6, 2006 -> 11:01 PM) It appears to be a lack of confidence problem to me...which in turn effects his location. His location has been terrible and thus he has been hit around a ton. If he can regains his confidence he would be fine but I do not see that happening any time soon. Cliff has 2 things going wrong for him right now. One is his control. He is not getting ahead of hitters, and is constantly getting into 2-0 and 3-1 counts. The second issue is he no longer has an explosive fastball like he did when he first came to the sox. When he first signed with the sox, he was 94-96. Last year we saw a slight dropoff as he concentrated on his control more. He was still 93-94 in the zone. Now he is mainly 90-91. When a reliever gets into a hitters count, and is a two pitch pitcher and has a very straight medicore fastball, what you have been seeing happens. They hit him all over the park. Cliffy needs the bone spurs removed from his elbow so he can throw free and easy. However that will need to happen for another team. Cliffy is in his walk year, and with his terrible performances wants to make something happen so he can get a decent contract. You cant blame him for that, so he refuses the surgery, and is trying to pitch through the pain. But when you are a hard fastball, hard slider guy and the speed differential between those two pitches are not that much, then you are going to get hurt. Maybe we can send Cliffy to the Reds for a prospect of some sort. They are absolutely desperate for pitching, and will give Cliffy a chance to work through it. We however dont have the luxury to let one person burn our pen down. KW will most likely go out and get someone, Montero will get a chance for right now. Thank you clifford for all the memories of 2005. You are a warrior, however its time to part ways. He doesnt suck, he isnt bad. He is injuried. He needs to recoup however somewhere else.

The whitesox start selling lucky Irish shirts with sox logos in Gaelic. And we win the vote, coincidence. I think not.

QUOTE(Cuck the Fubs @ Jul 6, 2006 -> 05:31 PM) Who should go from the NL?? While I was voting for AJ, I also voted for Nomar. Whats the NL? Who cares, if Dipsy Doo went as long as AJ wins.

I feel a baseball tonight lecture coming from the tools talking about how X player should of made it over every single whitesox player. And how OG is ruining the game by taking his players, when Torre did it, they were the bestest players that ever played the game. To quote Sacrimonius, Eatith s***ith ESPNith.

The polls have closed Monster.com and MLB.com thank you for voting.

QUOTE(Flash Tizzle @ Jul 6, 2006 -> 04:53 PM) RALLY DOUGLY!!!!! RALLY DOUGLY!!!!!11 MY EYES!!!! WHAT IS THIS SOME SORT OF PLOY TO GET A MINNY GUY IN. YOU BLIND THE SOXTALK SITE.

QUOTE(Kalapse @ Jul 6, 2006 -> 02:46 PM) Well, they probably have the worst pen in all of baseball right now, Weathers, Yan and Merker aren't exacly world beaters. He's probably their best arm now, maybe outside of Coffey. going from a pitchers park like Safeco, to a homer field like GAB will probably help him out, LOL. The only hting going for him is that the NL Central sucks.

QUOTE(Milkman delivers @ Jul 6, 2006 -> 02:34 PM) Rally Monkey Humpers, ha.

For your afternoon voting entertainment. From the ESPN Angels board. A sweet thread titled. f***face Is Leading The Final All-Star Vote? My favorite quote. I never thought for one second he'd actually be leading the damn thing Eat s*** Rally Monkey humpers. I have almost 500 votes today for AJ. Keep voting we can piss off more people than the Pods vote pissed off last year.

QUOTE(Athomeboy_2000 @ Jul 6, 2006 -> 01:59 PM) I heard someone call the score the other day saying he had a friend who "hacked" the all star game voting and voted like 800 times. Anyone knwo how this was done? To be 100% honest, I have no intention of actually doing that, the geek in me is just curious how. I have seen some people with some creative ideas, using javascript to autofill in some of the fields, but nothing so far that gets around the validation code. You can autovote, however without the validation code attached to it, the transaction wont be counted. The validation code is a gliph, a randomly generated flash image. Is it possible for someone to write some logic around it, to scrape the image, then have some other logic make sense of it to autofill in something. Sure, is it likely that its some guy who called into a show to brag who doesnt know s***, probably. I am seen some research in the security community and some sample code about gettting around image driven validation codes. But as is it works in real life, most of the people who jockey with the self-proclaimed tag of "hacker" barely know anything about computer security, coding, or how any of it works. Most likely it was some kid, pumping his chest out, making himself seem really cool on a radio show.

QUOTE(S720 @ Jul 6, 2006 -> 09:48 AM) Man, there are someone on the ESPN Message Board going from team to team to rally everyone to vote for Liriano instead of AJ. Those damned jealous Cubs or Twins fans! I checked it out, Its a retarded cubs fan.

QUOTE(Sox It To Em @ Jul 5, 2006 -> 09:34 PM) Three straight K's! Mercy! He recorded 4 outs, all on strikeouts. He gives up a run, but mans up and records the save.

Jenks with the big fist pump celebration as he Ks Javy Jopez. Onto the 9th.

Garland found his sack, and the ability to pitch in. Hopefully they videotape tonights performance, make Jon watch it the night before his next start so he remembers to pitch in. And throw strike one. Lets see Matt light this team up, and get a few Ks and lets hand it over to Bobby for the save.