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Eat s*** Twinkies! Sox now have a 4.5 game lead in the division and a 7.5 game lead over the Tribe! :headbang

QUOTE (RME JICO @ Jun 7, 2008 -> 07:44 PM) He will be a year older at SS and will want a pay check that the Sox are probably not willing to give him. And that's the perfect scenario we need to a) win now, and B) get good compensation.

Ball was flying out of the park tonight for the most part. Dye and Swisher crushed balls that got knocked down by the wind. Quentin muscled a ball (helpe by the wind) into the patio area in RF and Dye hit one to center that seemed to get a boost. Great inning there in the 4th or 5th or whatever the f*** it was. Swisher continues to be one the mote unluckiest players in baseball, crushed the ball 3 out of 4 trips and has a single to show for it.

QUOTE (whitesoxbrian @ Jun 6, 2008 -> 10:05 PM) Swisher was 1-4 with a run. Hardly deserves a He smoked the ball all night, should have been 3-4.

QUOTE (daa84 @ Jun 6, 2008 -> 07:24 PM) seriously, this sucks....i hate mlbtv so much...at least 1 game every two weeks i dont get to see because of a malfunction...so aggravating, if i was going to buy for the whole year, and not monthly i would have done extra innings in a heartbeat Mlb.tv is such a garbage product. It's sickening how dumb their tech support people are -- I think they pick up the people Mickee D's fires. Not to mention their horrible bloatworthy marriage to MS, their horrible purchasing system that prevents me from buying their product after it expires. I was forced to use a friend's email address to re-sign up after 2 calls to tech support and an EMAIL resulting in nothing but the standard (oh, part of the site is down, try again in 15 minutes) bull s***.

Thanks for all the gift runs this series Royals! That said, you gotta beat the s***ty teams and the Sox did just that! Great series from the starters and the offense awakes as A-Ram continues to impress! :sweep: :sweep:

Oh come on! I like the article but saying Williams isn't in line with much of sabermetric thinking is silly. This is a guy that loves a flame throwing bullpen and picked up Q because (duh!) he put up great production at a young age in the minor leagues. Just because Beane won a trade once doesn't make KW some neanderthal. I'd be willing to be that sabermetrics has a large bearing on almost 25 of the 32 clubs' thinking. It's clear Kenny is in the majority, if not one of the strict adherents.

The problem is the Sox don't have any really complete offensive forces (hit, hit for power, run, patient) outside of Q. (Thank God for Q) Call me crazy but I'd throw Swisher back up to leadoff. f*** it, so maybe he'll put up a 250/360/380 line -- that's better than O-Cab. Drop Cabrera down to 2nd, as he can acually go the other way and hopefully can get on base around a .340 clip the rest of the way. Q, and so on down the line.

LOL, a 3rd catcher? BA the everday CF? Dye to DH so Owens is the everday RF? hahahaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhahah And no mention of the obvious move (bring up Fields and dump Ozuna) that should be made. How does this guy have a job writing about baseball?

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jun 4, 2008 -> 08:57 AM) I don't ever see Alexei being a guy who walks more than 30 times a year. I could be wrong, but he loves to swing the bat. He's got an IdoD of .022, which is garbage. Don't get me wrong, I like what he brings, good range, a strong arm and can hit the ball with some pop from the middle infield. Guys like that aren't very common. I compared him to a poor man's Soriano (albeit one actually capable in the field) at SSS. I don't think Ramirez is ever going to be a guy that is walking 50 times a year, but he can certainly learn a bit of discipline up there. A 290/330/450 line would be excellent from him at the end of the year.

QUOTE (Jenks Heat @ May 29, 2008 -> 08:54 AM) Know what I noticed that is cool about Ramirez. Watch how he catches groundballs. Uses two hands and gets down. Very fluid. Yea, he's a smooth fielder for the most part, although he needs to learn a primary position (SS I'd say) and stick. I'd love to see him finish out the year as a servicable (talking OPS around 700 here) with good defense 2B. Then he spends all winter at SS and all spring at SS and is the everyday SS next season. It's awesome how much young talent this team appears to have after seemingly having nothing going into the offseason last year. Ramirez, Fields, Q, Swisher, Richar -- all those guys have proven (or sorta proven in Richar's case) that they are talented young cheap players. It's great to see!

QUOTE (Rowand44 @ May 28, 2008 -> 10:44 PM) There's absolutely no reason for this team to have a major change. We're a tweak or two away imo... I would be against gutting the already barren farm system to make any major moves as well. If anything, a minor move should be made to aquire a cheap corner player with some pop to take a seat on the bench -- but those guys don't go on trees. I still am in favor of signing Lofton at the midway point.

I'd love to see the team sign Lofton once Uribe gets back from the DL. DFA ozuna, send down Wise, and bring up Fields. Fields can get some start sat 1B, some starts at DH, some starts at 3B. He can play 2-4 times a week. Lofton is way better an option in the outfield than Ozuna and Wise. If Lofton could give 175 PA or so of 280/345/400 ball it would be a nice boost coming off the bench.

The White Sox should just thank themselves they don't have to play in NYC. It's 10 times worse here for the Yankees and Mets. That said, I have no patience for these hadget job stories. Too often the beat writers and columnist forget that their readers are actually fans of the clubs they are reporting on -- we can make up our own minds and don't mind a little bad with the good.

QUOTE (fathom @ May 26, 2008 -> 11:15 PM) Anyone see this statistical stuff on Chicago Sports? Pretty cool http://chicagosports.inside-edge.com/white...2&dt=052608 That's pretty cool that they are doing that. That said, Fangraphs is still about a million times more useful. I"d rather see the beat writers start to incorporate some easy (but important) stats like OPS and K/BB ratio into the writeups. Until the casual fan realizes how much more important OPS is than stolen bases and average we will continue to see calls for Jerry Owens.

QUOTE (Princess Dye @ May 26, 2008 -> 10:33 PM) not completely, b/c this situation is an execution problem, whereas this situation (the HR swings on a hit and run) points to a lack of player preparation You put your players in a position to succeed. Ozzie is a master of giving his pitchers just enough rope to hang or save themselves. He should know that Ramirez -- who should be in AAA -- is not a guy you hit and run with in a critical spot.

Other than stupidly calling for the hit and run with Ramirez I thought Ozzie was fine. His handling of the pitching staff remains his biggest plus as a manager. His biggest detriments -- a fondness for smallball and slap hitters -- he seemingly has put on the shelf mostly. I'm pretty happy with Guillen so far.

QUOTE (iamshack @ May 26, 2008 -> 10:19 PM) Well, I disagree. I think you're right most of the time regarding trades in a vacuum, but we've heard anecdotal evidence now that developing good relationships with GM's can help with making deals in the future. Kenny has this sort of solid relationship with Gillick and Josh Byrnes. Byrnes is certainly not a bad guy to have a good relationship with. I agree. KW clearly has a good relationship with the Diamondbacks it it helped facilitate the Q trade. We as fans never really get to see the interpersonal side trades, but having a good relationship with your fellow GMs is certainly something that helps faciliate these sort of "everyone wins" trades. That said, I think if you asked KW and Byrnes if (at the time) how highly they valued the "relationship" part of the Vasquez/Young trade they would have put it pretty far down on the list -- but it's a factor to consider when dealing for sure.

It's a bad idea to start doing this whole, "well if we never...then we never get CQ" kinda logic to trades. This is the sort of logic Knicks fans use when they talk about the Curry trade. You look in trades, the great majority of the time, in a vacuum. Javy for Young looks like a win for both sides right now. Javy has given the Sox almost 500 innings of above average starting pitching. Young sucked up until this year but there is no doubt he'll be a 850 OPS guy with gold glove defense in CF for the next 5-10 years. Long term I think the DBacks win, but it's pretty close. I was for the trade at the time despite loving Young. I thought Javy was the inning eater high K guy that would push the Sox over the top in 2006. They came up short be he continues to pitch quick well and reliably. Really this is one of those trades that both teams walk away from feeling like winners, and rightfully so. Although damn would Young look awesome as our everday CF for the next decade.

Cabrera is quickly becoming the most unlikable player on the roster. In addition to completely sucking at the plate and his mediocre (at best) defense we now have to put up with his big mouth too. What a joke this trade is turning into. This guy can't be sent packing soon enough. I just pray he somehow does enough to maintain his type A status before his ass leaves town.

Just goes to show what a dumb f***ing organization the Jays are and how smart Billy Beane is. Yea, Matt freaking stairs over one of the great hitters of all time who is a NOTORIOUS slow starter. I hope the Jays continue to flail about with no offense while Frank mashes his way to another great year with Oakland.

Hmm, Quentin's not even on the map here in NYC. Hopefully a few more big performances and the rest of the nation (outside Chicago) will wakeup and realize how damn good this guy is.

Let's see, a well built player with a crouched stance (very much like Conseco) and a Latin last name gets the nickname Consequito. A diminuative, and a awesome one at that. Give me a break, the testing system is much harder these days and Q has never tested positive for anything. He had no history of injuries while in H.S. and College and then ran into some bad luck -- that doesn't mean he's juicing. It's sad that we even have to talk about this. Christ, I'm as suspicious as anyone, but CQ is just a good player hitting his stride after battling injuries early in his career. He takes good care of his body and has always been a 5 tool player. This is just dumb logic to use his NICKNAME as a basis to suspect the guy is on roids.

QUOTE (Kalapse @ May 25, 2008 -> 09:33 PM) It's strange, whenever Carlos does something amazing I feel a strong sense of pride come over me. I'm not just happy that my favorite baseball play is doing well or that he's helping my favorite team win, I'm legitimately proud of the man. Everything about him makes him easy to root for. He's a rare athlete, blessed with great size, speed and hand eye coordination. He's a quiet and polite guy that doesn't say much but when he does it's all "team team team". He's tough as nails and isn't afraid to give up his body for the team. Oh, and he leads the AL in OPS and his crouch at the plate is BADASS.

Yea, I couple more weeks of hot hitting and there is no way he won't make it as a reserve. Still though, it would be great to vote him in! He's unreal!