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QUOTE(AddisonStSox @ Apr 10, 2006 -> 01:38 PM) Neal Cotts look like shells of there 2005 selves in the early-going He does? Neal has looked absolutely fine to me.

QUOTE(kyyle23 @ Apr 10, 2006 -> 01:37 PM) This is what happens with the starting pitching staff. Its just my observation, but Buehrle sets the bar, and the rest follow suit. I dont understand it, but I swear that everytime Buehrle has a good start, the rest of the staff mimics him. It seemed to happen a lot last year too. When Buehrle "lost" his changeup late in the year last year, the Sox started skidding big time and the only pitcher who could stop the bleeding was Jose. We all blamed it on Pods being injured, but I thought the pitching was losing its edge as well. Like I said, just my observation. It might have seemed that way but I believe August was one of the better months for the pitching staff era wise.

QUOTE(Chisoxfn @ Apr 10, 2006 -> 01:23 PM) He had one at 99, but in general his FB looked good and that hook that he got Guillen to ground to Paulie may have been the best hook he's thrown all year. After falling behind 2-0 to Shelton, Jenks threw almost all strikes (if not all strikes) and was unhittable. Looked really good. Garcia pitched a lot better (his velocity was back where it should be in the 93-94 range from time to time), Bmac was great, Crede looked fantastic again (in the field and with that HR), Konerko looked good today and Thome hit another BOMB. Pods looked god awful at the plate and in the field. If Bobby is going to throw strikes 96 is enough even though he's going to throw harder. I don't care how hard he's throwing if he's throwing strikes and dropping that nasty hook, he does that and he's be absolutely fine.

Obviously it's to early to early to make this comparison but I definitely think we made the right choice. Thome is going to hit 40-45 homers for us this year, the guy is just a beast and has literally carried the team to our 2 wins so far.

QUOTE(Gregory Pratt @ Apr 9, 2006 -> 09:31 PM) Who the hell thinks Aaron Rowand is on steroids?! There are definitely some on here who believes he was, I am not one of them.

QUOTE(Tony82087 @ Apr 9, 2006 -> 11:28 PM) It would do it to alot fans, me included. For me, Buehrle is the White Sox. He has been the anchor of the organization for 5+ years, and is a CLASS ACT. There isnt a more reliable pitcher in the game today, and he has done nothing but good things for the team and city. It would be a shame if the Sox let Mark slip away. We've lost a lot of big time players the last few years, losing Mark would be by far the hardest player to lose. It would absolutely kill me.

QUOTE(SoxFanForever @ Apr 9, 2006 -> 11:14 PM) I think this would make Aboz cry. It'd make me cry.

QUOTE(Tony82087 @ Apr 9, 2006 -> 05:59 PM) What would be the point of sitting Podsednik? He cant hit the ball now, why would we sit him? How would it help? Pods missed alot of time during ST, and he needs to work himself out of this slump by getting his hacks at the plate. Lets just hope it doesnt take much longer.... Bingo. Sitting pods out would be the worst thing we can do.

QUOTE(witesoxfan @ Apr 9, 2006 -> 09:14 PM) Addy, you should know that the Sox essentially won the division last year in April. If not for the Sox amazingly hot start, there isn't a chance in hell they win 99 games, the AL Central, or the World Series. Ok, but we also had a horrible month of August so you're going to have a bad stretch once and a while and hell this doesn't even count as a bad stretch yet so no point to even talk about that yet.

I think the Tigers right now are exactly what we need to wake up. Get the team that isn't as good as they're playing but have the nice record so far so our guys will get up for the games. I say we win at least 2 of 3, maybe sweep if we can get to Bonderman tomorrow(it's going to be all on our o, freddy is going to pitch well).

QUOTE(SoxAce @ Apr 9, 2006 -> 11:36 AM) Noah is listed as 6'11 and can score. I believe your thinking of Tyrus Thomas. No, he was being sarcastic since we don't have an inside scoring presence.

The Tigers will be safely in 4th place by the time the all star break comes around.

Well, there is some type of conspiracy in Carbondale to not let me watch sox games. Yesterday my mlb.tv wouldn't work and today wgn was out So, I had to watch the damn thing on gameday and right when sweeney came up I said to a friend "this game is going to be at least tied." I didn't see the pitch obviously but Mike is just unbelievable against us.

I'm pretty sure Noah and Brewer are staying, the only one that I'm torn on is Horford.

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QUOTE(SSH2005 @ Apr 8, 2006 -> 01:54 AM) Still, blowing monster leads to the Royals is pathetic and embarrassing. No, it's baseball. It happens every year where good teams blow "monster" leads to teams much worse. In October when we get to keep our trophy Bud isn't going to say "Sorry guys, on April 7th you blew a 6 run lead to the Royals, it was pathetic and embarrassing and because of this we are stripping your championship."

QUOTE(SSH2005 @ Apr 8, 2006 -> 02:41 AM) I didn't think that Garland would repeat his 3.50 ERA from last year even before this season started. A prediction is just that -- a prediction. None of us actually knows what will happen. OH.MY.LORD, I don't think that Garland will repeat on his one season that was insanely better than the rest of the seasons in his career. JUST CALL ME A CRAZY MAN! I think a lot of people on here believe Jon is going to regress a bit, I don't think that is what ginger was referring to though.

QUOTE(SoxFan101 @ Apr 8, 2006 -> 02:41 AM) Maybe you should bother reading the entire post b4 responding to it I read it all but still I don't even like seeing that.

QUOTE(whitesoxfan101 @ Apr 7, 2006 -> 12:40 PM) Yeah, WTF are they thinking? Probably that he absolutely rakes in the 2 hole and that he'll see a ton of fastballs hitting in front of the murderers row that is the heart of the phillies order. Not saying I'd do it but you can make a point for it.

Yup, we'll get these next two. I actually told a few people from here that I thought we'd lose yesterday and win the next two, so hopefully I'm right now. I expect Vaz to dominate.

QUOTE(SSH2005 @ Apr 8, 2006 -> 02:07 AM) Buehrle had his best season ever ERA-wise last year but he will obviously still be really good. Garcia didn't instill any confidence in me after barely touching 90 MPH last week. I still think Freddy will put up an ERA near 4 though. Contreras could go either way. I honestly don't expect another 3.50 ERA out of Garland and I don't think that's unreasonable at all. I do think that Vazquez will be better this season though. Basically, our pitching staff was so good last season that it's hard to see them all repeating it. I still think they will be very good though. Well the way you worded it made it seem like you're saying because of these first four games the pitching is starting to regress. If you think that's going to happen then fine but don't say that it "has" already. As far as your argument, the only pitcher I really see regressing is Garland but I don't think it's going to be that bad. Mark might be a tad bit worse but not too much. Freddy is going to put up around the same numbers and I expect JC and Vaz is obviously going to be much better then the Duke. Overall, I expect the starters as a whole to put up similar numbers as last.

QUOTE(SoxFan101 @ Apr 8, 2006 -> 02:10 AM) if we are 3rd-4th by the all star break or the end of the season. Get that thought out of your mind because it's not happening.

QUOTE(Jordan4life_2006 @ Apr 8, 2006 -> 02:00 AM) Why are we replacing Gload again? Dude rarely plays. You just answered your own question. Listen, I've been one of Gload's biggest supporters on here and I know the guy can play but if he's just going to sit on the bench the whole time then there is just no point of having him.

I'm from Chicago and I like ketchup on my dog. I guess I've entered Timo territory on here now.