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QUOTE(ScottPodRulez22 @ Aug 19, 2005 -> 08:45 PM) Still timo haters and yet him and konerko have been the only ones not slumping lately. With Timos brilliant hitting he has raised his August average to .192. with a .276OBP. Thats f***ing stellar.

QUOTE(Sox Hustler @ Aug 19, 2005 -> 08:35 PM) Anyone else a little bummed out Mussina held us down? Pretty much all our hitters had to do tonight is be patient, Yanks are and their getting stuff going their way. All I can do is shake my head. Check the OBP for this team. And look where it ranks in the AL, we are not a patient team. We are a bung of swing monkeys. The minute a pitch is remotely near the plate we are hacking. No working the count, no taking a walk.

QUOTE(Brian @ Aug 19, 2005 -> 08:24 PM) If I see Timo leading off tomorrow, I'm charging the dugout and strangling Ozzie. ANYBODY but Timo could lead off. Rowand, Iguchi, I know they are not ideal lead off guys, but they have to be a better option. Play Anderson in LF. Timo will start every game as the leadoff and LF unless its a lefty. Then Anderson will start and Ozuna will leadoff probably playing 3rd. Timo must be a jedi because he really has Ozzie fooled on his talent level.

QUOTE(jphat007 @ Aug 19, 2005 -> 08:23 PM) You guys are acting like KW didn't think we needed to get KGJ. He tried. It didn't work out. There owner didn't want to give them up. Yeah because KGJ was the only hitter available on the market.

QUOTE(Ozzie Montana @ Aug 19, 2005 -> 08:13 PM) Just to let you know, Konerko was injured in the final round of batting practice before the game and is listed as day-to-day. Maybe Timo can get some time at first.

QUOTE(CWSOX45 @ Aug 19, 2005 -> 08:05 PM) I thought it was just a small slump...obviously its much worse than that.. We hit in the 250s in April and May. Then hit in the 270s in June and July. Now in the .220s in August. Every crappy pitcher seems to get 6 or more strikeouts on us.

QUOTE(CWSOX45 @ Aug 19, 2005 -> 08:02 PM) Corpse Ball is back ladies and gentlemen......what the f*** is wrong with this team... CWSOX45 Corpseball has been back all month. 40% of our runs are scored by homers and the BA is below 230 now as a team.

Timo Perez is our leadoff hitting. Thats f***ing insane. He wouldnt start for any f***ing team in either league. Yet he is option number 1 for Ozzie. I hope he really is good at whatever pleases Ozzie because baseball is not one of those things.

Well Ozzie had a team meeting and they have had a players meeting according to the Score. And this is the sign of desperate times.

Nice to see Crede playing the line like usual.

The YankMes need to eat ooo about 200 million dollars worth of s***!!! Lets get back to kicking ass and taking names.

Tony the Tiger said she's GREEEEAAAT At some point even morons have to realize the taking pictures with a tiger is a bad idea. This is not a movie, big predators will eat you if they get a chance.

Riping off the irish again. We had this first. GUINNESS IS ALREADY GOOD FOR YOU

QUOTE(White Sox Josh @ Aug 18, 2005 -> 04:14 PM) You are damn right she is hot. Ever see Underworld? She is back in leather for underworld 2. She is shooting it right now.

Kate Beckinsale is a hottie and is my choice number 1. And of course Keira Knightly

QUOTE(Kalapse @ Aug 18, 2005 -> 11:29 AM) Well Griffey just hit his 29th. He's now homered in 3 out of the last 4 games. If this is only about money ...... GET THE f***ING DEAL DONE, NO MATTER HOW MUCH WE TAKE ON. Its a deffered contract, this has Reinsdorf written all over it.

I have decided to keep the sound down on the broadcasts and listen to rooney and farmer after hearing the "WHERE WOULD HE PLAY" crap or the "WELL THE BOSTON RED SOX HAVE A GOOD OFFENSE, BUT LETS GO OVER POSITIONS SO I CAN TELL YOU HOW I WOULD SELECT EVERY MEMBER OF THE s***TY HITTING WHITESOX OVER HITTING STUDS" And for next years soxfest, THIS IS THE BEST WHITESOX TEAM I HAVE EVER BEEN AROUND, THIS IS THE BEST SOXFEST I HAVE BEEN AROUND, KENNY WILLIAMS IS THE SMARTEST MAN IN THE WORLD, Hopefully we get KGJ. When Frank came back this team hit over 270 for two months. In the previous months we hit in the 250s. Now after he goes down we hit in the 230s.

QUOTE(3E8 @ Aug 18, 2005 -> 12:23 PM) Or is it that Duque had a nice 4-week break while all the other pitchers have gone through their regular and side starts? Well when Ozzie does stupid things like has Freddy Garcia after a 1 hour rain delay and throwing over a hundred pitches on the downside start a 9th inning against a good hitting Detroit team at home with the bullpen rested, you can question that decision.

Kind of funny. This is the same s*** I have been saying now for months about the offense going for the dong. Now reporters are saying the same thing. Maybe its this f***ing obvious. Couch Article

Everyone has been saying Uribe has been more patient at the plate. Hrniak works with Uribe Maybe Walt can work with a few more of our hitters so we can get our OBP a bit higher and these guys to work the count more. He was one of my favorite hitting instructors.

QUOTE(The Ginger Kid @ Aug 17, 2005 -> 11:30 PM) I am sipping the kool aid. Seriously. I have been since this team jumped out to a lead in the division from day one and never looked back. Okay, I didn't start sipping right away. But sometime in May/June I saw the light, brethren, and sold my soul to the sox. I can't get it back, either. The biggest fear around here is that the Sox are first half posers and second half losers on their way to a record dive in the standings. Let's play 162 before we draw that conclusion. We are all sox fans and want this team to win the WS. But we keep being an imbalanced team. For years we have been all bats and medicore pitching, with no 5th starter. Last year if we didnt have injuries and a 5th starter this team would of slugged its way to the playoffs. This year the pitching and defense is great. Our hitting is now abysmal. We have been spoiled with multiple 300 hitters with power for years. Now we have a bunch of Jose Valentins at the plate. All or nothing. This is what frustrates. The biggest fear for me is to go into the playoffs and watch this team get swept out with scores of 4-2, 5-2, and 7-4. In 2000 we were a hitting team that went silent in the playoffs. This year we are a pitching team that will face some real good hitting teams. If any of our pitchers have an off day it could be a blowout in a hurry.

QUOTE(Dam8610 @ Aug 17, 2005 -> 11:03 PM) I don't think the offense has been "stellar" all year long, far from it, however, I also don't think that our offense has been horrible either. They've been about average, and with the stellar pitching that the White Sox have had for most of the season, that's all it has needed to be. I wouldn't call allowing a .275 BAA great either, and the pitching was part of the reason the Sox had trouble in July. Obviously, the hitters have had trouble this month, and that's why the team is struggling now. However, I don't feel the need to say that everyone on this team sucks just because of a few bad games, and there isn't a logical reason as far as I'm concerned for saying such things. Actually our offense is horrible. Lets look at the stats. Our BA is 11th out of 14 teams in the AL. Minnesota, KC and Seattle are still behind us. So stringing some hits together is a tough sell. Our OBP is 12th out of 14 teams. Again we are ahead of KC and Seattle. So we are never on base. We are last in the AL in singles. We are dead last in the AL in doubles by a good margin. But we hit a s***load of homers we are 4th in the AL. And a lot of solo ones by the OBP and BA numbers.

QUOTE(IlliniKrush @ Aug 17, 2005 -> 11:00 PM) Not to mention we faced a Rochester lineup tonight. I don't like Ozzie's leadership right now, at least what isn't happening behind closed doors. I thought this offense would be bad this year, but not this bad. When we lost Thomas and Maggs last year we still hit .262 in August. We hit like crap in July and that was to be expected with the two losses. But they bounced back. And that was with marching Timo and Borchard out in RF. We didnt pitch well in August and had the 5th starter disaster. Last year before Maggs and Thomas went out we hit in the 280s.

QUOTE(IlliniKrush @ Aug 17, 2005 -> 10:34 PM) Konerko: "we're going to go down swinging with the guys we have" Maybe the sox just don't get it...the objective is to not go down swinging, it's to win the f***ing thing. I turned off the radio when Kong said that. When he starts talking about not making the playoffs and if we go out in the first round its all about going down with the guys you have. :puke

QUOTE(BamaDoc @ Aug 17, 2005 -> 08:56 PM) I know someone can do this: percentage of runs via homer early(prior to Frank) and avg runs per game percentage via homer with Frank and rpg percentage via homer post Frank's injury and rpg. Most think small ball has disapeared and I agree, but I would like to see the numbers and what Frank's presence had on scoring. This may also indicate if adding a bopper like Griffey would have a similar effect. Right now, I think we have a team slump, possibly by players trying to do more than their role. Are we pressing or just in a flat spell? I had this posted in another thread. In April we hit .255 as a team Our opponents are held to .229BAA 20% of our runs are via the dong In May we hit .254 as a team Opponents held to .252BAA 29% of the runs are via the dong Big Frank comes back In June we hit .271 as a team Opponents held to .241BA 28% of our runs are via the dong In July we hit .279 Pitching starts to slip. Opponents batting .275BAA 24% of our runs are via the dong Frank is on the DL on July 22nd In August we hit .234 Our opponents are held to .254BAA 40% of our runs are via the dong in August But where would Griffey play on this team. I mean do you think he could help the .234BA come up or maybe the .295OBP in August at all. Thomas injected this offense with life. That life died the minute he stopped playing. Hitting in the 250s as a team is sad. That is near the bottom of the AL. Hitting in the 230s is why this team is not winning. You cannot win in the AL if you hit 230 as a team. No matter how great your pitching staff is.