southsider2k5

Wow, just about knocked it down at the buzzer.

Geesh, they can't miss from distance.

QUOTE (Chisoxfn @ Apr 22, 2010 -> 07:41 PM) Seriously, STFU people. You are the same guys that were busy talking about how awful Floyd was last year and what a joke of a pitcher he was too when he started rough. Give it a rest people. You are ruining the game thread.

QUOTE (Jenks Heat @ Apr 22, 2010 -> 08:38 PM) An ace gives your team a chance to win every night. By that definition, there are no aces in MLB.

You have got to hit some f***ing freethrows.

Nd QBs don't exactly have a good recent history...

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Apr 22, 2010 -> 03:11 PM) Some writeup on Harper from BP. This paragraph caught my Eye. When you have been told you are the greatest all of your life, eventually you start to believe it.

There was no way Deng was set. LeBron got the shaft.

heh, Earthers.

Rose is killing LeBron, awesome

The Hawks really looked like themselves in that first period. Hopefully they got the memo.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Apr 22, 2010 -> 06:54 PM) If I was hiring Guillen, it would be as Sox Baseball Academy Director in Venezuela....Assistant Scouting Director/Caribbean-South America. That would be it, right now. Hire Guillen as a scout? Wow.

HE GAWN!!!!

94 on the first pitch strike to Evan... Its nice to see the velo early.

Peavy at 95mph on the K of Crawford.

Bartlett gave that one a ride.

Damn that would have been a nice one to get at the half.

QUOTE (qwerty @ Apr 22, 2010 -> 04:38 PM) I don't blame ozzie for the team that is on the field. I blame kenny williams. I blame the upper brass. I blame kenny williams for granting guillen what he desires. I blame the upper brass for letting kenny williams grant guillen what he desires. The order of blame is the brass, kenny wiliams, and ozzie guillen, in that order, and in no other. When you are a little kid and your parents ask you what you want for christmas you are gonna tell them some things that are realistic and some things that are highly unrealistic. Once in a blue moon you actually end up getting that highly unrealistic item. Doesn't hurt to ask/throw it out there now does it? It just so happens guillens wishes were granted The line-up, once it gets going (which it will, for how long i cannot tell you) will be good, by that i mean slightly above average for stretches. I have no problem with the order of the line-up changing at what seems like a rapid pace like others here do. The line-up is changing at a rapid pace, but it's like that everywhere else also, so there is nothing to be concerned about in that aspect. My complaint is that the line-up gets extremely weak when it comes to our bats (of significance) needing rest. It's weak enough when just one sits, then two? How about three? With this rotating dh you would think guillen would try his hardest to make sure 2 of the best 4 hitters (not jumping to conclusions with jones, not even close) were not on the bench simultaneously (beckham and rios today). Bench your second best hitter and your seventh best, bench your eighth and your second. Two of your top four is not acceptable to me , especially considering beckham just had monday off. Rotating dh's do indeed exist, but the way guillen is/will go about it is baloney, garbage if you will. Beckham is the last person who needs two days off during a one week stretch. We really need to just go to a 24 man roster, as nix is just about useless. How about if they went into the season accounting for injuries? Say one month into the season, any of the top four hitters you want to imagine went down, and went down long term. We then replace one of the best hitters with a hitter who is much below league average. Take a guess who the guy is that replaces him? A below replacement level player, if we are lucky. Chain reaction, just like an arm going down in the pen, it tends to gets ugly, fast. I will be the first to admit that there are 20 teams on average going through the same problems (and even worse... every year) as the white sox. The problem is those are teams who don't figure to contend. Contenders, much, much more often than not have viable replacements, and if they don't, they go out and get one. The problem at hand stems from not properly constructing the line-up from the beginning, and taking this ''wait and see'' approach. If this, if that, etc, etc. Sounds right to me. Ozzie always talks about fans not understanding his job, I am guessing that there is a reason no one tried to make Ozzie a GM...

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Apr 22, 2010 -> 06:46 PM) There were quite a few people around here hoping KW brought Bradley to the White Sox this past offseason. Bradley is one of those guys that no matter how big a dofus you think he is, the reality is he's probably even a bigger one. A surprising amount of people at that... Can you imagine AJ and Bradley in the same clubhouse? Now there is your reality show.

QUOTE (fathom @ Apr 22, 2010 -> 03:54 PM) It's interesting viewing the reaction to this lineup on all the White Sox forum. There's literally only one person I've seen who's defended it. I don't see anyone. I must have missed it.

QUOTE (JoeCoolMan24 @ Apr 22, 2010 -> 05:45 PM) Nix>Vizquel? Or am I just crazy?? At least Kotsay is out of the 5-hole.... Give me Omar. I know it isn't popular, but the occasional HR isn't worth the rest of his game.

Bulls offense is really looking good, even with Rose on the bench getting a blow. Rose really looked like he wanted to lead tonight. Now hold on.

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Apr 22, 2010 -> 02:31 PM) So, CSN+ is 285 on Comcast. Where might I find CSN+2? Looks like it is 138.

lol... well people wanted changes...

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Apr 22, 2010 -> 01:28 PM) So WTF is Comcast Plus 2? Answering my own question... http://chicago.comcastsportsnet.com/pages/zipcode