Antonio Osuna

I've seen worse faces. Much worse. I don't get why you'd call her out on it.

Did you tell him that Frank Thomas gave him Willie Harris's old nickname?

Maybe we didn't get the wrong Hernandez brother after all.

I sit in Section 159 a lot, so I hear this often. One time I heard somebody yell "Viva la raza, Carlos!" at Man Soo.

Right; from an offensive standpoint, the groundout or flyout is superior to the popup or strikeout in that there's a larger chance the fielder will committ an error leading to you reaching base.

Freddy's not the one that hit a bunt into the air.

Widger finally puts the ball into the air in the proper fashion. Top of the order to you in the bottom of the 8th. Maybe we'll get something done.

Strawberry Churros. Nachos Tyson Chicken Stand chicken when in the Club Seats, popcorn chicken Kosher Hotdogs

In theory, people right now should be making a lot of comparisons between the 2000 and 2005 White Sox. After all, both seemed to be chemistry-based ballclubs that won a whole lot of games and established rather sizable leads in the AL Central Division. This is also seen as a warning: the 2005 might, after all, fall apart just as the 2000 team did in the playoffs, its "chemistry" ripped apart by actual well-paid talent. I was bored today, so I looked up some stats. Please enjoy this list of some famous 2000 White Sox and their 2000 and career averages: Ray Durham: 2000: .280; Career: .279 Jose Valentin: 2000: .273; Career: .243 Frank Thomas: 2000: .328; Career: .308 Magglio Ordonez: 2000: .315; Career: .307 Paul Konerko: 2000: .298; Career: .277 Carlos Lee: 2000: .301; Career: .288 Chris Singleton: 2000: .254; Career: .273 Herbert Perry: 2000: .308; Career: .272 Brook Fordyce: 2000: .272; Career: .258 Charles Johnson: 2000: .326; Career: .246 Please note that if a player spent 2000 with different teams (like Charles Johnson or the Milkman), I am giving their White Sox stats only. As you can see, most guys hit 10-20 points above their career average, with only Ray Durham having an average season and only Chris Singleton having an off-year. This backs up the common assertion that 2000 was just everyone on the team having a simultaneous career year Scott Podsednik: 2005: .299; Career: .275 Tadahito Iguchi: n/a Frank Thomas: 2005: .227; Career: .308 Carl Everett: 2005: .273; Career: .277 Paul Konerko: 2005: .256; Career: .277 Jermaine Dye: 2005: .263; Career: .272 Aaron Rowand: 2005: .289; Career: .290 AJ Pierzynski: 2005: .246; Career: .294 Joe Crede: 2005: .241; Career: .256 Juan Uribe: 2005: .233; Career: .266 The only guy playing above his head right now is Scott Podsednik; Rowand, Everett, and to a lesser extent Dye are all just below their average, but Thomas, Konerko, Crede, Uribe, and especially AJ Pierzynski are all dramatically below their historic average. While this could mean that they have declined in talent, it could also mean that they might return to their typical form in the second half of the season. So, no, it doesn't seem like the 2005 team is comparable to the 2000 team in terms of being successful because of a plethora of simultaneous career years. Indeed, our offense is in nothing short of a prolonged slump. Now, if you know me, you'll know that one thing I can't stand is unjustified optimism; I think it is absolutely unbecoming of Sox fans and makes us sound like those "This is our year" folks on the other side of town. But, given the above, I think it can be said with some justification that the offensive production of this ballclub will increase rather than decrease when we get into the second half. That is, if we lose this division, it will not be for want of offense. Rather, it will be for want of pitching. One thing that this ballclub -does- share with the 2000 team is the fact that much of the pitching is having a career year; Garland and the bullpen come to mind, and I believe Buerhle is doing a tad better than he typically does. Also notable is that the pitching is starting to break down; el duque and Contreras are giving up a ton of runs, Hermanson is out, etc. If this trend continues, by the end of the season we may resemble the common White Sox team of 2001-2004; scoring lots of runs, but giving up more.

I distinctly recall somebody on the radio pointing out that it was our first 5 run inning since Game 3 vs Arizona, where we scored 10 runs in an inning. This team puts up 2-spots, 3-spots, 1-spots, often many times in the same game. Unlike some of our pitchers, it doesn't really do "big innings", its more of a consistent attack type thing. The thing is, when it takes 2-3 innings for you to score 5 or more times, it's harder to do that near the end of a game, because you're up against time.

July 26, 2004 was a Monday-night sellout against the Twins.

From what I understand, a sellout means that no more seats can be purchased, but does not include skyboxes that go empty. It might not even include Scout Seats, which I don't believe can be bought for individual games. Why sellouts have attendence of 38,000 and not capacity is that its counted in paid attendence. So free tickets (which the Sox give out, believe it or not) are not counted towards that total. Because there's a different number of free tickets given out each game, the number of a sellout changes.

5 run innings are rare for this team. They tend to score in bunches across many innings.

I guess I'm in the minority when I say that I want to see Magglio take an inside pitch to the kneecap sometime this series, eh?

El Duque deserved to get the L last night. He got bailed out by a great relay to the plate and by an atypical offensive explosion.

Highway robbery. Highway robbery. This blows.

He's still got Timo.

You think an "OH-EE-OH, BIG ASSHOLE" sign would get me kicked out?

Also, remembering what you guys did to the guy who owned the anti-Hawk domain: don't worry about my ownership of fireguillen.com. It's set to expire at the end of this season and I have no intention of renewing it. At this point, I'm pretty close to buying signozzieforlife.com or perhaps ozzieforgovernor.com (he's a US citizen now, isn't he? He will be soon, anyway. Watch out Blaggs)

The trade becomes pointless to me if we have to give up an SP. This trade only makes sense if it lets us add another top-notch starter and put a Cuban in the bullpen/emergency #5 spot. If Florida won't give us SP for AAA OFs, then we need to find somebody who will.

Some entries from my short-lived FireGuillen.com blog: I had the Sox picked for 4th place, 70 wins. It seems they'll probably do better than that.

Used to be the Expos, but I don't really feel for the Nationals the same way I did for the boys in Montreal/San Juan. I liked the Cards, but their choke in the World Series really undid that for me. The Brewers are probably in the #2 spot now for me. Especially now that they have Carlos.

That 9th inning was Paniagua-esque.

Ed Farmer is telling stories from his playing days. So far, its included horror stories about playing in the Indians old stadium and about one about him eating a piece of a hot dog he found in his pocket. He also talked about how the Red Sox used to feed their players pizza after every game, keeping the pizzas warm with a dryer. You don't get this everyday, folks.

Yeah, it sounds overpriced, but how many other US Cellular Fields are there?