G&T

QUOTE (southsideirish71 @ May 7, 2008 -> 09:56 PM) Blood pressure is fine. If this team is too stupid to fire the hitting coach after a more than a year and a half of ineptitude then its their own fault. The other team must giggle when they plan their attack. So coach, if I spot low and away I can dominate them. I feel bad for Buerhle who is getting jabbed just like last year. He pitches fine, and the asshole hitting crew cant put together a thing. We would have the best record in the AL by far if we had a medicore offense. I've gotten to the same point. I used to get mad, but now I'm just amazed every day that nothing changes. It's an organizational problem and there is no end in sight.

QUOTE (fathom @ May 7, 2008 -> 09:47 PM) It's just disappointing that after last night's fun win, this team had no energy tonight. I think they have plenty of "energy." They don't have an ability to hit moving baseballs.

Gomez with a triple to the left center gap. Ridiculous. I guess I can go to bed now? eh?

QUOTE (southsideirish71 @ May 7, 2008 -> 10:38 PM) Just like a knuckleballer, they should approach this. If its high, let it fly if its low, let it go. What's really sad is that the ump is only helping that approach. He's calling high strikes, but seems not to be letting the zone go too low. For a HR hitting team, the Sox have no real interest in swinging at high strikes.

QUOTE (ChiSox_Sonix @ May 7, 2008 -> 04:51 PM) Well i have to pick up a friend in Niskayuna first and we're technically going to the boston metropolitan area only, a town on the outskirts so we wont have to drive directly through the city I dont think. But hopefully it wont be an issue regardless, these things arent cheap. Oh, well you'll be fine if you aren't downtown. Where do you live? I'm in Guilderland right now, I work with a guy who lives in Niskayuna.

QUOTE (SoxFan562004 @ May 7, 2008 -> 03:22 PM) The T & E for me wasn't bad (called Wills and Trusts at DePaul). It was straightforward, I think I got like a B because it wasn't overly hard and it was curved. Basically the prof threw in a few hidden gems and those who nailed those got the As. The easiest for me was my Family Law class. I was clerking at a family law firm at the time and a lot of people in the class had little to no experience with it. The final was basically what I was doing 20-30 hours a week at my job! I guess the hardest one I remember dealing with was Evidence... of course not counting the ultimate final THE BAR EXAM!!!!! Well I still have another year until the Bar, and I have to figure out whether I'm moving back to Chicago or staying in New York. But I am definitely sick of these exams.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ May 7, 2008 -> 03:02 PM) His weakness is pitchers changing speeds a lot on him, though. He might have trouble with this guy. I hope not, but that is what I am seeing so far. He looks silly when pitchers go all over the place speed-wise. Isn't that like every hitter's weakness? If a pitcher can change speeds then most hitters aren't going to look very good.

QUOTE (ChiSox_Sonix @ May 7, 2008 -> 03:18 PM) I ended up going with a Garmin nuvi 760...it should come in sometime in the the next few days. We'll see how it works when i drive up to Boston in a few weeks It probably won't. GPS is useless in Boston. I had to use my Verizon GPS (VZ Navigator) on my phone to get out of there. It didn't have a clue where the streets were going. If it works I will be very impressed.

QUOTE (SoxFan562004 @ May 7, 2008 -> 04:11 PM) anyone particularly harder out of those? I remember my evidence final being such a nightmare, like lying awake at night worrying I failed it (I didn't, got a B on a curve) Criminal Procedure and Trusts and Estates. Legal professions was exactly as I expected it to be so that was ok. The other two were totally ridiculous. Apparently the high score from last year in T&E was like 40% for this professor. Meanwhile, one of the deans at the school said that criminal procedure is the hardest exam at the school. Believe me, they both lived up to their billing. I remember evidence being the same way. I got a B+ on what must have been a massive curve.

The last 6 days have brought me a criminal procedure final, legal professions final, and trusts and estates final. That was awful and very difficult.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ May 4, 2008 -> 08:49 AM) Of course, but its ridiculous to think Greg Walker is the reason a guy hits .220 vs .320. If Tiger Woods didn't win a golf tournament ever again, would it be on the swing coach? No, my point is that no matter how good you are, having a coach is only going to help. I'm saying this in response to the notion that some players need a coach and others don't. They all need a hitting coach to some degree, but all should be responsible for their own play.

I love arguments about who needs coaching. My thought is simple: Tiger Woods has a swing coach.

So I'm studying for finals and the TV is on but the sound is down. I look up and it's my theology professor from Marquette talking about God on the History Channel. Still had that crazy beard.

QUOTE (shipps @ May 3, 2008 -> 04:33 PM) Thinking heads tell me to only focus on on base % so I will ignore all other offensive stats. Even when this team was getting on base at what seemed like a good clip, it was only like .335. Basically, after all we heard about getting on base, this team basically went from being totally abysmal to average...and is now falling back to the abyss.

Just so everyone knows, once PK got on, Litsch threw all breaking balls outside to retire the next three. 7 to Dye, 1 to AJ and 3 to Quentin. Awesome.

Litsch = 20 pitches through 2 innings Danks = 25 pitches in 1 inning.

I've never really seen the need to fire Walker because I blame the players, generally. But every time these guys swing they all look the same from the feet to the hips to the hands. I think Walker is probably a fine mechanics coach, but he has no clue how to tell a hitter how to adjust during an at bat. Case in point from an article yesterday: Link Talking about Quentin's stances. Then, if you recall, there was that Rowand article where he basically said that his success was due to the hitting coach in Philly because he taught how a swing should feel, rather than simple mechanics. If true, then I wonder how this organization doesn't know what it looks like to make adjustments, and how long Quentin will continue to succeed, and whether the hitting problems will ever end. I guess my point is, no lineup change is going to turn around the hitting problems that started years ago if, putting together what I read, the organization's hitting philosophy doesn't change.

Sox have never seen this guy. So.

QUOTE (Frankensteiner @ May 2, 2008 -> 08:58 PM) Looks like Buehrle's going to get stuck with the CG loss. Unreal. Roy Halladay can console him.

Cabrera is having a hell of a game.

QUOTE (SoxFan1 @ Apr 29, 2008 -> 09:38 PM) Ballgame over. We're 0-11 in those 42 other ones as of now... Uh...ya know sometimes the other team is better. But even Hawk said yesterday that this team is losing a lot of those 42 games. Yeah. Hawk said it.

QUOTE (frankie5angels @ Apr 29, 2008 -> 09:35 PM) Well the plan was to have him as the leadoff guy before he got hurt, so evidently the Org. thinks he can do the job. I'm just thinking there needs to be a shakeup. This team needs a spark plug at the top of the order, someone who has speed. This team has zero speed. The organization was dumb enough to think Quentin should be in AAA to start the season. They are extremely lucky Owens got hurt or this offense would be much worse than you realize.

QUOTE (sf_soxfan @ Apr 28, 2008 -> 07:15 PM) I'm going with a ding-dong to tie it up. First pitch. I guess I'll give you credit.

Wow. Juan-clutch.

Owens getting hurt was the greatest stroke of luck this team has had all year.