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QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Apr 15, 2009 -> 02:41 PM) Shades of Cabrera versus Grant Balfour with Josh not getting his revenge. I'm still kind of amazed Brian hit the ball, even. If he threw anything offspeed, it would have been brutal. except that Perry threw 4 high and tight and balfour didnt have a single pitch come close to our guys

leave macdougal in....let him hit someone/get suspended, and call up someone

alright thats 4 ....go kick his butt josh

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Apr 15, 2009 -> 02:35 PM) What does Betemit have to do to get playing time? We have a guy hitting well below .100 leading off for christ's sake. ironically....probably face a lefty.....which he stinks at hitting

i understand thats not intentional and this kid is a bit amped up .....but you cant throw 3 high and tight like that with out one of our guys buzzing someones tower also

QUOTE (santo=dorf @ Apr 15, 2009 -> 02:32 PM) Where would Josh's flyout and triple have been if he were hitting at USCF? triple probably would have stayed in the park, it might have been out...hard to tell really....not sure about the flyout, i dont really remember it so im gonna assume it would have been a flyout everywhere

lol alexei looking for first pitch breaking ball nearly walks into a fastball

make a f***ing effort to block the ball at least AJ....hawk blow it out your ass and call it like it is....AJ didnt even try on that pitch to block it....even if macdougal is hard to catch...you cant just try to backhand the ball the dirt with a man on base

good god...im honestly blown away at how good macdougals stuff looks....its really a damn shame he can't locate 95 with tons of life, 92 on a cutter/slider....85 on a hard breaking slider....its really a shame he has no idea where the ball is going

QUOTE (whitesoxfan101 @ Apr 15, 2009 -> 02:19 PM) That's about as bad a 3-1 swing as you're going to find. AJ is becoming my least favorite white sox...its like he predetermines whether he is gonna swing or not...youd typically think catchers might have a better knowledge of teh strike zone, but i guess not

rich harden has 85 pitches and isn't even out of the 3rd inning yet

harden gettign beat up by a pretty pathetic rockies offense....7 of his 8 outs are Ks though already 84 pitches through 2.2 thoguh LOL

QUOTE (whitesoxfan101 @ Apr 15, 2009 -> 02:12 PM) I'm generally not a big "OMG HE STRIKES OUT TOO MUCH!!!11" guy, but Fields whiffs WAY too much to be hitting leadoff. Not to mention, when he's at his best, he's more of a guy who produces runs, and hitting him leadoff kind of offsets that. yeah, but i just meant as a stop gap until getz gets back, because fields really doesnt strike out anymore than lillibridge does, and also has shown a keen eye so far this year JD looked like he had never seen a slider in his life in that AB

FWIW this was in buster olney's blog today

QUOTE (southsideirish71 @ Apr 15, 2009 -> 02:09 PM) They keep stating that OBP is the most important quality. Yet our examples of who has been trotting out there, is not exactly OBP guys. no s*** man, i couldn't agree more.....we hear this BS conjecture of wanting obp guys instead of prototypical laedoff hitter...and they march dewayne wise and his .254 career obp, and his .238 career obp into the leadoff.....now i know getz is hurt, but why not fields leading off and betemit playing 2b????

QUOTE (fathom @ Apr 15, 2009 -> 02:04 PM) So after we fall to 4-4, I have to say I'm extremely happy with how things are going. Some of our big question marks, Quentin and Linebrink, look fantastic so far. Fields is having a good start, and showing a lot of improvement from his miserable 2008. To make things better, the AL Central doesn't look extremely strong this season. Considering how awful we swung the bats in the first few games, I can't complain at all. i'll play devils advocate a little bit and say....middle relief looks horrible, Alexei looks really, really bad out there, and unlike my fellow sox faithful, im really worried about him. I personalyl don't think hes a very good hitter, and i honestly am not sure that he is the hitter he showed last year...i mean only 18 BBs in 400+ ABs...pitchers are really going to take advantage of him...CF looks like an even bigger hole than I expected (and I didnt expect much), and the defense looks terrible....also our base running has been as bad as ive seen.... also, as you pointed out earlier, ozzies philosophy of having someone fast leading off is really unsettling

fields error, bunt single by anderson.... josh anderson just killing us btw...adn we could have had him for virtually nothing, but we decided dewayne f***ing wise and brian f***ing anderson and jerrry f***ing owens were the answer

nice scouting....its inexcusable that such a good athlete as clayton can't field his position

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Apr 15, 2009 -> 01:58 PM) As you guys were talking about Harden, he gave up a 2-run single to Jason Marquis. haha i know that was beautiful....if jason marquis manages to somehow shut down the cubs, it would help take a little of the sting of this game away

im shocked more players (especially in the twins game) haven't bunted on the Fields, AJ, Konerko, Contreras combo stony was right...hes out of the box

can someone explain to me why rich harden is so hard to hit? he throws a fastball straight as an arrow ....occasionally hes upper 90s, but most of the time hes 92-94.....he gets so many swings and misses on it, its unbelievable

damn...that ball was outside...ump has called a bgi zone all game though...can't complain too much

QUOTE (jphat007 @ Apr 15, 2009 -> 01:49 PM) Don't ask me why but this game is making more angry than any game in a long time for some reason. Even more than the Minny series. It makes no sense. well weve had plenty of opportunities to score runs, which has been frustrating...im at least encouraged by what Jose has done against a pretty good lineup though...thats a good sign IMO

QUOTE (fathom @ Apr 15, 2009 -> 01:47 PM) How about this one...Swisher is better defensively in CF than Pods, no doubt about it. he's better out than any of our options except brian....

come on josh...1 pitch? a decent inning and we would be in the tiger pen... where did fields' power go btw?