Princess Dye

Why do fans boo pickoff attempts? And for gods sake why are the booing a completed pickoff? I have never understood that. Are they booing Buehrle? should boo their guy

Great atbat kotsay irrational fear time: they dump thome because they're so confident in kotsay's LH bat spelling people. ok now back to the game

babe ruth in da haus

QUOTE (iamshack @ Aug 12, 2009 -> 07:55 PM) I live out of state and don't listen to those goofs. I will grant that Boers is extremely weird and bad even for an older man

that might be a reference to boers & bernstein often playing a clip of Marcus Fizer saying this word

Pods has no arm, CQ has an arm but rarely gets behind his throws, and cant hit cutoff men to save his life. Pods at the very least can get to balls, CQ has been really hobbled out there. It's been noticeable. It's kinda like, do you prefer s*** or s*** with chocolate sauce topping...but i have to say Pods or Rios must be the RF, and i'd prefer Pods depending on pitcher/park

QUOTE (EvilJester99 @ Aug 12, 2009 -> 06:21 PM) Pods still in CF is just stupid. Rios should be there. Who do you put in RF?

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Aug 12, 2009 -> 05:51 PM) Nix against Felix? WTF?! Nix has been getting on base, and also when Dye sits you could use a power infusion I was surprised to read Nix has a HR every 18 atbats, nearing Thome's team lead (with every 14). Oddly enough Getz has hit lefties better than righties this year. His OBP against righties still beats Nix's by 24pts but I suppose Jayson's pop offsets that. Nix has 12 RBIs vs righties in 65 atbats

I cant believe people are expressing shock that dye sitting would mean Pods in CF, Rios in RF Coming from Ozzie's track record, that was easier to telegraph than a Chad Hutchinson pass

QUOTE (longshot7 @ Aug 12, 2009 -> 04:20 PM) I was just talking Pods' performance. If you think he's an everyday major league LFer, then I have a bridge to sell you. Get a real corner outfielder and use him as a 4th guy off the bench. Do you see him starting for either Boston or New York next year? Then he shouldn't for us either. The Cubs have a huge payroll and expected to contend for a WS at the beginning of this year They would take Pods and start him. It depends on fit, leadoff is such a problem leaguewide....a lot of teams will take on some bad defense to have one, and we're one of those teams right now. I would love for someone to take over that leadoff spot next year, but if Rios duplicates his Toronto 09 performance...... you'd have to think the Sox will try to bring Pods back with a cheap one-year deal.

For the most part, I have no problem with Dye wanting to play. It's unnatural for a player to hear that theyve added another starter to his filled position....and not care If he'd went off publicly, I'd have a problem with it. But he barely said anything of consequence, surely nothign we'll remember in a week

QUOTE (WCSox @ Aug 12, 2009 -> 02:15 PM) Quentin is also playing with plantar fascitis, which undoubtedly is slowing him down right now. Oh, no question I would want CQ in right field if the current injuries completely subside. It's just a matter of when that's going to be. Everything we hear is that it bothers him but he plays thru it.

QUOTE (suicidesqueeze @ Aug 12, 2009 -> 02:06 PM) Ozzie should be thrown in a rubber room if he ever puts Pods in Cf over Rios if/when both are in the outfield/lineup. That would be criminal and about 100 times worse than Toronto shoving Rios to RF for overrated Vernon Wells. I agree, but I think Ozzie's initial comments said something like-- he sees Rios playing LF/CF/RF. aeh. Fortunately Ozzie has a history of saying one thing to reporters and never putting it into practice.

QUOTE (WCSox @ Aug 12, 2009 -> 01:51 PM) I'm not opposed to putting mediocre arms in RF under certain circumstances, but Pods' arm is even worse than Johnny Damon's. It comes down to Quentin's inability to cover ground in RF vs. Pods' total lack of an arm in RF. Great throws from the OF...it is great to have, but your team can be solid in all categories except this one, you sacrifice it. no team is perfect. I also have to say that Quentin (playing with soreness) in RF might actually be a guy who cant get to balls AND cant throw people out. CQ has a strong arm but it seems like most of the time he just doesnt get anything behind his throws. CQ got absolutely abused in LF sunday.... Pods has poor OF instincts but at least gets to balls. When Dye sits, it's a tough situation, no question. I'm sure Ozzie's brilliant solution will be LF:CQ, CF:Pods, RF:Rios. I would flip the last two.

Crawford returning to what he normally is....it would still be great, but I think that price might be too high for us I might pay that price for a corner OF who will slam moonshots. albeit with Crawford's career avg and obp I'm worried about going HR deficient in the next few yrs.

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Aug 12, 2009 -> 01:20 PM) Putting Thome in the 2-hole and Alexei in the 3rd spot pretty much proves that its wrong right there. Stats are stats and are useful to a point, but they arent absolute and they dont have the ability to take all game factors into account. I hate to say it, but if it shows Thome as a 2-hitter...... it may not necessarily show that the program is wrong, but more shows that we're ill-equipped as an offense. Obviously Thome is not an ideal 2-hitter, but it kinda makes sense that if Beckham is being moved up...the program is telling us we really dont have another 2-hitter. Ouch. For instance, put the Yanks into this program and I'm sure just about any lineup is going to be great.

Maybe too depressing to do this while we are about to enjoy our new team, but we now have a poll considering who might be odd man out next yr

If Rios keeps hitting doubles as he's been known to, I like him as a leadoff hitter next year. That is supposing we had no better one. Beckham just has to be 2 or 3, that RBI bat is too valuable. If Beckham is our leadoff hitter, well to quote Ozzie, "we're in trouble"

We should keep this. This is 2009-helpful, there's little firm for 2010

QUOTE (GO CHI SOX! @ Aug 11, 2009 -> 09:00 PM) Contreras has to be who he meant. Dye took the collar in that game. I took it as a general shot at the team This is a can of worms but i'll open it anyway. Our manager and GM are really really open with the media. I think it's great. But one offshoot of this is occasionally the puzzling free agency exit of one of our players. Colon left kind of inexplicably when he was a great player. He seems like the paper-thin ego type. Magglio is another situation, also at his peak. I love KW but that and the recent poll about managers..... well, I just hope it doesnt cost us in free agency down the line.

I had an eye on the game here and there, but I only fully started watching til the 8th.

Just grabbed a blkberry to say 'iloveyou this game' a la gheorghe muresan on his draft night woooo

What is the one thing slower than Konerko? Konerko TRIPPING OUT OF THE BOX Uy.

conchords is a great show

Hey the outside the box thinking is eventually what KW will do, one way or another. By 2011 we wont recognize two of our 3-4-5 hitters somehow