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QUOTE (The Ginger Kid @ May 12, 2015 -> 02:25 PM) If you're looking for perfection you're not going to find it. The errors cost them, no doubt, yet they found a way to tie the game late and had it not been for a bad outing from a so-far reliable Duke, they may have pulled it out. I'm looking for clean baseball. Haven't seen much this year. Letting a ball go through the wickets in the 1st inning isn't that.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ May 12, 2015 -> 02:00 PM) In the past 2.5 weeks since the last comment in this thread our bullpen has dropped to 8th in the AL in ERA and 18th in MLB. They are 17th in OPS given up, 24th in the league in OBP given up, 23rd in WHIP, 20th in K/BB, and 12th in K/9. Some of that is constantly pitching from behind and using the lower leverage options.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ May 12, 2015 -> 10:26 AM) Noesi is in the bullpen. I think the White Sox have answered the question. I agree with you there. When he came on last night it seemed pretty clear. Some guys just can't work out of the pen and it was always a lot to ask a 22 year old kid that has never relieved to suddenly start pitching high leverage innings in MLB. Just start him. If he runs out of innings in August who cares. Put the best team on the field until then and see what happens.

QUOTE (The Ginger Kid @ May 12, 2015 -> 11:59 AM) good game last night. Nice to see the offense have the ability to fight back like that. Win tonight and win the series. We'll have to disagree here. I saw another sloppy defensive effort and poor starting pitching that was papered over by some offense. Even when the Sox hit, they don't play clean baseball. The error by Ramirez and the ball Micah couldn't get to are plays that absolutely need to be made. Johnson is now at -.2 fWAR. He's in good company however, most of the team is in the negative. What a s*** show. Eaton is showing signs but holy f*** somehow (and I believe based on the eye test) he's been worse than even Avi in the outfield. Hard to win many games when your CF and RF are sitting at a combined -8 runs below average 30 games into the season.

QUOTE (Eminor3rd @ May 12, 2015 -> 01:11 PM) How do you know that? That's not consistent with anything that was said at any point by front office staff, nor is it consistent with the prevailing trends of the industry. Our team, like at least a dozen others, realized that they're better off contending every year, even if it's only for the Wild Card, than they are following the "boom & bust" rebuild cycle. Most of the acquisitions Hahn made this offseason are designed to help for two to three years without sacrificing much beyond that. The only significant move he made for 2015 only is Samardzija, who he'll recoup some of the value on with a QO offer or a deadline trade. I've seen at least three posts now conflating this "all in" with the KW "all ins" (pick your year) and as you said, it should stop. This isn't picking up Alex Rios on waivers or trading for Jake Peavy. The Sox have exactly one contract they might have trouble moving (La Roche) and even then it's not like they are on the hook for much there. The only player of any consequence they gave up was Semien who wasn't going to see much time here anyways. We can argue that picking Micah over Semien was dumb but whatever it's clear they didn't have a plan for him here.

QUOTE (flavum @ May 12, 2015 -> 12:55 PM) 16 of the next 23 on the road. Now or never. The season is pretty much over IMO. The Sox have the worst differential in the AL and nobody was predicting this team had any margin for error. Even the most optimistic were saying 86-88 wins. They'd have to play roughly .560 ball here on out to get to 87, does anyone see that happening? Don't confuse this post for quitting or giving up on this season. Far from it -- but let's be real -- the sands are slipping through the hour glass.

If it makes anyone feel better I saw Semien at SS up and personal this weekend and he was a complete disaster. Whatever you think about the Sox or the trade or Semien at least know that Marcus Semien is not a MLB caliber SS. 2B? Maybe but not SS.

Tax subsidies for sports teams are almost never a good investment for taxpayers and although an "indirect subsidy" this setup seems a particularly egregious example. I'm sure the locals can fill in the blanks how exactly did such a deal come to fruition? What son did JR promise to marry off?

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ May 10, 2015 -> 11:14 AM) IP alone isn't abuse. It all depends on how he worked up to the 250 IP in years past. You have to work up to a marathon, but it is routinely done. Starting pitching is no different. Guys could throw 300 IP if they were trained for it. Hawk is that you?

QUOTE (Feeky Magee @ May 9, 2015 -> 05:51 PM) Pitchers with high K rates and low BB rates almost always tend to see their ERA come down. And so will his K rate.

You can't make this s*** up EDIT: was confused because of the radio crew.

It's a 2 RUN GAME. FFS show a sense of urgency Robin. Is anyone even up working?

Wow Jackson actually real talking the club.

Farmer and Jackson haven't said a single bad word about the club today. apparently saying anything negative in a game you give up a run in a hitless inning that included 2 errors and on the flip side getting shut out through 6/2/3 innings is a helluva performance.

Good job Ramirez get hot dude.

QUOTE (Chicago White Sox @ May 9, 2015 -> 05:28 PM) IMO, the team needs to take a chance on a different catcher. I don't care if that's Kottaras or even Kevan Smith, Flowers has proven he is not starter material. If he didn't have the BABIP fairy in April of 2014 IMO he'd be out of the league. That was the only thing that saved him from a year under the mendoza line.

Pathetic. You can't keep running an infield out with Conor, Micah and Abreu in it.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ May 9, 2015 -> 05:24 PM) Eaton just can't get rid of the ball quickly enough...not the best throwing mechanics. He'd be better off just slinging it sidearm quickly. I have never seen such a long throwing motion result in such a weak, inaccurate throw. He winds up like he's freaking Vlad and than usually unloads a Juan Pierre like squirt.

QUOTE (Condor13 @ May 9, 2015 -> 05:23 PM) Just waiting for game 2 and Carlos Rodon White Sox baseball 2015!

lol ball goes into the outfield on a pitch out.

QUOTE (fathom @ May 9, 2015 -> 05:05 PM) Think about it this inning: - Abreu knocks ball away due to not knowing where infielders are - Conor makes bad throw on DP chance - bad throw by Johnson after Alexei takes his time - Abreu isn't even looking at the ball on scoop attempt - flowers can't block another pitch in dirt Hey they aren't as bad as Cleveland!

will we aever see an infield defense of gordon, ramirez, sanchez, la roche? That is actually a damn good infield compared to the joke we have now.

wow flowers.

Micah needs to hold that ball if the alternative is throwing wild.

defense just cost the Sox 2 runs. Pathetic.