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QUOTE(LosMediasBlancas @ Aug 31, 2005 -> 09:29 AM) I'd be SHOCKED, no FLOORED if the Cubs helped us in any way. This is more Levine B.S. The cub fans wouldnt help us, but the Cubs are a business like anything else. There is some history here of these teams making deals.

QUOTE(RockRaines @ Aug 31, 2005 -> 09:25 AM) 1. Levine is about as accurate as.... 2. Do you really think the cubs, after having an extremely dissapointing season, would trade their starting 2B to their crosstown rival for their playoff run? I am going to have to get that copyright on point one. LOL At this point the cubs dont care where they are getting prospects from, as long as they get prospects. And last time I checked we have lots and lots of OF prospects and they have no OFs' . We dont have to trade a good OF prospect to get Walker. But we have a crapload.

For me the only question mark this year is the offense, how many runs we can score. The last month has been worse than I could of even predicted, and hell I was b****ing when we were hitting 250 as a team, 250 would be nice. The last time we hit like this was the Baltimore series. This is the approach they should take, not trying to do too much. Hit the ball up the middle, hit some line drives, not every run scored by the dong. It was a very refreshing display of our offense. Hopefully they dont go back to trying to hit dongs when they get back home. I am not as worried as some have been with the starting pitching. We have racked up a lot of innings in the starting rotation, and its bound to affect them a bit. If they can start to go more on lowered pitch counts, and start to try and give our starters a bit more rest we should be ok. Bmac what can you say, He looked like the pitcher in ST. He threw strikes and kept ahead. This was nice piece of pitching. What everyone forgets is Bmac is only 22 years old. And that he barely sniffed AA last year. So we are really talking about a pitcher one year removed from A. He looked good. Our defense has been a bit crappy lately, but I blame more the grind of the season and the fact that they are looking ahead. Lets see if the O can keep this up for more than a single day. If they can turn it on we will be fine.

Bmac nice job. Lets put a hand together for the whitesox offense. Hitting the ball the other way, going up the middle and mixing in some power. More of this and our normal pitching and we will be fine in the playoffs.

The only drawback to this is the personal goals(Cy Young, 20wins). Outside of that the only other thing is the routine. From a playoff standpoint, resting our starters probably would be helpful. Its no coincidence that our starters have been dropping off in August a bit, showing a bit of tired arm after all the innings they have been chunking through. A 6 man rotation would save the bullpen and possibly some of our starters for the playoff push.

The team isnt done. Our offense needs to hit like they have today for the rest of september and into October. If the offense hits like today we will be ok. This was one of the best hitting examples I have seen since the Baltimore series. Our pitching will be fine. Maybe Ozzie can work Brandon into the rotation and go with a six man rotation and give our starters rest. Our starters are tired and probably overworked. My only worry is the offense, if that part can get its head out of its ass we will be ok. I have been saying that since opening day.

I watched the game while working out at Lifetime. What a performance. Congrats to Brandon. One of the better pitching performances of the year. This kid became the stopper. Hopefully the rotation feeds of this energy and gets better.

QUOTE(jphat007 @ Aug 30, 2005 -> 05:57 PM) As long as we keep getting 5 out of 6 in between they will. And we didn't even play well in that stretch. We'll get hot at least once more this year. What part of watching this team over the last month says that another run is in them. They have been folding for a month now. We have lost half out lead in 2 weeks.

QUOTE(jphat007 @ Aug 30, 2005 -> 05:54 PM) Probably around 2 or 3. I doubt it will get to that though. I doubt it drops below 5. When we get to play KC for two weeks, even though they took 2 of 3, that will help us out tremendously. That and the indians aren't going to play .650 ball the rest of the year. I would guess our lead is right around 6 at the end of the year. They wont have to play at a 650 clip if we keep dropping 4 or more in a row at a clip.

QUOTE(jphat007 @ Aug 30, 2005 -> 05:49 PM) I'm worried about how they are playing, not about losing the division. Our lead is 6.5. Every team in baseball would KILL for a lead like that cept for the Cards. After this series is over we have an easy schedule just like the Indians have had. After tonight our lead will be 6. We have to play detroit who took 2 out of 3 the last time we faced them. I am glad we are resting on our first half laurels like these teams we play in the month of september are just going to roll over.

Well its nice to see after a 7 game losing streak, we play okay for a week and then go back to the same type of play that gave us that 7 game losing streak. No pitching + no defense + no hitting(outside of this game) = no playoffs

Its nice to see them completely abandon the pitching and defense gig that helped them out.

Now we need Garland to hold them. Lets keep them in the park this inning.

For you math geeks. Here is the physics behind Garlands last pitch to Texas.

QUOTE(RockRaines @ Aug 30, 2005 -> 04:31 PM) SSI, any thoughts? You know my thoughts on this.

QUOTE(robinventura23 @ Aug 30, 2005 -> 04:30 PM) Just remember, this is only Game 1. He still has to face BMac Maybe swinging for the fences will tire out the texas hitters. Like Rocky getting beaten up for 10 rounds, then jumping to life to get the knockout.

Here is a close up of the last pitch Jon threw.

QUOTE(RockRaines @ Aug 30, 2005 -> 04:06 PM) here we go fellas, lets keep it up. Nice an easy This is what we did in Baltimore. If we took this approach every game we wouldnt be having this many issues with the big O.

I have to say as much as Garland pitching has pissed me off. This hitting has been spectacular. Not doing too much, hitting singles back up the middle. This is great. I have faith Garland and our pitching will be fine in the long run, our hitting needs more of this.

Our starting pitchers have racked up a ton of innings this year. Leaving the pitchers in have done wonders for their confidence, not so much for their durability.

Our guys need to hit tonight. Keep scoring runs.

I am going to take your Cy Young away and your little dog too.

our 1-2-3 punch has gotten pummeled in the last 3 games. our pitchers not pitching well + our hitting + our defense lately =

We are off to see the wizard

QUOTE(3E8 @ Aug 30, 2005 -> 03:38 PM) Because even that would be a fair comparison. I'm just saying there's a lot of windsocking going on. Well considering that Crede hit at a .100 clip in August. Anything that can barely hit is an upgrade over that production.