Jake

There are only a couple things that could make it likely that he'd be back: 1. White Sox make deep playoff run, led by Peavy 2. Peavy wins Cy Young or has similar type of year and White Sox are a contender

QUOTE (witesoxfan @ Apr 23, 2012 -> 11:52 PM) This has been a really good road team the past couple of years, so winning streaks on the road against bad teams isn't much of a surprise. It would be nice if they could win a few at home this year. I just like having a pitching staff capable of putting together winning streaks. The pitching staff is constructed so that as long as the offense is hot, we should never lose.

Great to get a win in front of so many fans.

I want Peavy to get to know his limits here.

They're bad at baseball by all accounts

White Sox are trying to single handedly undo the badness of the Nick Swisher trade

Can we classify this as a real sign of life from Morel? If we only have to replace one of Morel/Beckham that'd be great.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Apr 23, 2012 -> 04:08 PM) Well, most Sox fans are more educated than, say, Cubs' fans. Until the product out on the field proves itself, sustains that success for an extended period of time....driving the bandwagon effect, that's when Sox fans will start to come out. It's like those two Japanese dudes in MAJOR LEAGUE kept saying..."yeah, but they still suck" all the way through the season until they finally jumped on board at the end, too. Except the fans' acceptance or embrace of a winning team will trail their actual performance by about 4-6 weeks. It's only 7 games (four weeknight against an Orioles team nobody cares about or expects much from)...but we are 28th in the majors in attendance. That's not so easy to do. The Royals, without having won a single game at home and with a 3-12 record, are still outdrawing us at home. Those are facts we can't argue with, incontrovertible. We can explain them or excuse them or rationalize them away...but they still exist on paper or on computer monitors. So basically what you're saying is..."I'll believe the Sox are for real when they have played more games" I, too, would have more faith if we played more games and were still playing winning baseball.

QUOTE (SleepyWhiteSox @ Apr 23, 2012 -> 03:50 PM) cliffnotes: Coop fixed him I was in a "too long;didn't read" kinda mood, so thanks for that

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Apr 23, 2012 -> 03:53 PM) If anything, the White Sox should be somewhere in the middle 10 teams, 14th-16th seems pretty fair. Beating Seattle or throwing a perfect game doesn't make your team jump 10+ spots magically in one day or weekend. That's a bit of an overreaction or overcorrection. Maybe a better indicator of belief is not the pundits/analysts but our attendance numbers. If they start to tick up from big walk-ups, that's always the best trailing indicator in terms of looking at how good the White Sox are actually going to be...if they can overcome the skepticism of their own fans and detractors. Competing with Texas in Texas (holding their offense down fairly well), beating Detroit 2/3, THEN sweeping Seattle in Seattle along with good starts from Dunn, Rios, Peavy, AJ, Paulie are why analysts like us so far. The fans don't know s*** and that is literally the worst way to evaluate the team. That's asinine. I'm not going to pretend I evaluate every single team so I won't say definitively where we fall -- but 10 seems to be fair based on our performance so far.

QUOTE (The Ginger Kid @ Apr 23, 2012 -> 01:13 PM) Dry Charlie Vergos' Rendezvous

QUOTE (The Ginger Kid @ Apr 23, 2012 -> 01:10 PM) best bbq in Memphis? Depends - wet or dry?

QUOTE (JoeCoolMan24 @ Apr 23, 2012 -> 12:12 PM) No Ps3? My college blocks internet connection from game consoles

nananana boo boo stick your head in doo-doo Many local fans can't see this game on CSN+ But I can with my MLB.tv in Memphis

If Humber is a fixture in our rotation, it may be the best one for Coop yet. It seemed to this point that he could teach a cutter and he could help guys with poor control. Humber when he was acquired: -Satisfactory control -Had a cutter Coop teaches him a slider and (along with a myriad of other things I'm sure) he had a near All-Star caliber first half this year and looks great so far again this year.

I lol'd didn't wanna leave you hanging

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Apr 23, 2012 -> 11:34 AM) I don't think many are too concerned with backup catcher in the bigs right now given how much of a workhorse Mr. Pierzynski is, and AJ is rocking an OPS north of 1.000 in the Majors right now - so I'd say "no". Haha well AJ is certainly not going anywhere this year unless we collapse and sell everything. I was thinking more along the lines of next year's backup and/or starter depending on the variety of things that can affect that stuation (team's success, AJ's contract, Flowers' performance as backup, etc)

QUOTE (elrockinMT @ Apr 23, 2012 -> 10:59 AM) Tue 04/24/12 White Sox @ Oakland 9:00 PM WGN (EDT) Thu 04/26/12 White Sox vs Boston 7:00 PM WGN The game on Thursday versus the Red Sox may also be on MLB Network and Humber is scheduled to pitch. See you all behind the big screen I don't at all regret paying for MLB.tv, but I love being able to watch on my TV instead of laptop

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Apr 23, 2012 -> 11:23 AM) And Molina and Castro having a couple good outings in a row, and Josh Phegley putting up a .956 OPS at Charlotte. Could we have a catcher controversy on our hands? Could we flip one of these young catchers for a decent 3B/2B if we continue to stay in the race?

Now you're gonna tell me our system is going to be ranked something other than last.

QUOTE (CaliSoxFanViaSWside @ Apr 22, 2012 -> 10:14 PM) I only like small sample sizes when it's good for the Sox so hooray for Rios and keep the train a rollin ! I'm not sure that Rios ever had a stretch of games this good last year.

I feel much more confident with hitters who try to go the other way. Rios is making me feel confident because his approach has gotten very contact-oriented.

QUOTE (SoxFan1 @ Apr 21, 2012 -> 12:17 AM) So I've been having a lot of trouble building up my shoulder muscles like I want to. It's my main problem area. I'm not sure if it's technique or what, but anyone got any tips of a good routine to really hit the shoulders? What's your routine look like? Overhead pressing can do the trick, but doing it wrong might make your shoulders esplode

If anyone has questions about dietary supplements, nutrition, etc. I'd be happy to answer them (PM works best but I'll make a habit of checking here). I've been working in the industry for quite a while now and I have a ton of overly-specialized knowledge that I'd be happy to share.

Leave the defense as it is. I am not opposed to moving Rios up to 2 in the order though. That spot may just be cursed though -- bring back the Gooch!