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PK should have stomped harder...

QUOTE (fathom @ Apr 21, 2010 -> 07:42 PM) Tampa has a pretty damn good pen with Soriano anchoring them. They're the best team in the AL, IMO. I thought that was the twins...

QUOTE (fathom @ Apr 21, 2010 -> 07:42 PM) And not a single f***ing change will be made until 60 games in, it seems. Unless you want to see Jordan Danks, there is nothing they can do now.

They had to get Davis early when he couldn't find the plate. NOw they have to wait for him to hit his pitch count.

QUOTE (fathom @ Apr 21, 2010 -> 07:39 PM) He didn't? When you don't strike hitters out, you run the risk of bloopers. We've seen dozens of games like this from Buehrle, and we'll continue to see them. He is what he is. Against good teams, he often struggles. It would have been a whole different story if the golden boy called a ball.

QUOTE (jphat007 @ Apr 21, 2010 -> 07:35 PM) Our starting staff has the 11th best ERA in the league. And that was before this game. The thing is someone is going to look at Mark's statline and think he pitched badly tonight.

We have one hit today, and that was a slap single by Pierre. It doesn't matter who hit where, we'd still have one hit and no runs.

QUOTE (chw42 @ Apr 21, 2010 -> 05:51 PM) Toronto had its attractions. Roy Halladay, Carlos Delgado, Vernon Wells. It's not like that team didn't succeed at all or give the fans at least a glimmer of hope. Playing in the AL East sucks, but it didn't prevent Baltimore from drawing 2-3 million fans annually since the opening of Camden Yards. The Orioles are also setting records for their smallest crowds since Camden opened.

Now they are starting to hit him hard, and in comes Pena.

It is amazing how a team can't hit anything hard, get picked off twice, and still manage to score 5 runs.

Alexei with the heads up play?!?!

QUOTE (HeGone33 @ Apr 21, 2010 -> 03:47 PM) Just heard on the Score, they quoted Sun-Times and Tribune tweets.........Zambrano being moved to bullpen. Awesome. He ought to go insane down there. The interesting thing is that it could actually turn out better for the team if he can keep his head in it. He can go full out now, and not have to worry about throwing 125 pitches. That pen is so awful, he can't do any worse. Plus Lillly can step in and do better as a starter.

QUOTE (whitesoxfan101 @ Apr 21, 2010 -> 03:32 PM) The young players have gotten better, but windows in the NHL to win are small with the cap as it is, and if they lose to Nashville, this entire season was a complete waste. I see nothing that suggests to me Q can take this team beyond where they were in last years playoffs either. He's not going to be gone after this season though, so if the Hawks can't rally in this series, we'll just have to hope they stay healthy and improve in the playoffs next year I guess. I'd be a lot more panicky if we weren't missing the two top offensive threats on defense. You can literally see the difference with and without these guys on the team right now. That has more to do with this than anything Q is or isn't doing.

QUOTE (DirtySox @ Apr 21, 2010 -> 11:09 AM) Paraphrased from BP's FutureShock portion because I'm not sure if I'm allowed to quote paid content. Trayce Thompson, OF, White Sox (Low-A Kannapolis) Monday’s stats: 2-for-6, HR (2), R, RBI, 2 BB, K, CS Thompson was an uncertainty during last year's draft. He was still rather new to baseball. Despite this, his tools and ceiling ranked with the best of the prep prospects. He might have flown under the radar due to his unimpressive high school stats and rawness. The quickness of Trayce's adjustments has been remarkable. He arrived this year with a better approach at the plate, and has been using a much shorter and smoother swing. It's evident from the two home runs in in the previous 3 games that these changes are paying off, and Thompson has considerable explosive potential. Thank you for that. The copying of paid material is not allowed on Soxtalk.

QUOTE (whitesoxfan101 @ Apr 21, 2010 -> 03:19 PM) I remember finding that decision puzzling at the time too, given Q's playoff history. All you have to do is look at the development of the young players and the regular season improvements we have seen since Q took over.

Someone needs to get on with photoshopping that new Cubs marketing campaign with all of the W flags in the W words, and change that to all of the L flags with the L's instead.

QUOTE (Thad Bosley @ Apr 21, 2010 -> 12:49 PM) Is Jones really as brittle and injury-prone as everyone seems to be making him out to be? This is guy who, from '97-'07, played in no fewer than 153 games in any one of those seasons. Yes, he's had some injury issues the past two seasons, but clearly the reason for that was because he showed up completely out of shape in both of those years. But now that he's back in fightin' shape, along with still being relatively young, I don't see why he can't be more like the Andruw Jones of 2007 than the one featured the last two years. More like, not exactly like, but more like. It seems like everyone is willing to ignore his recent injury history and chance having Kotsay as a full-time starter, that is for sure.

QUOTE (whitesoxfan101 @ Apr 21, 2010 -> 02:34 PM) I don't think i've ever been to a sporting event by myself. But I've gone to movies and things of that nature alone and there was no problem, so I can't imagine it'd be much different. And besides, in the unlikely event somebody does such a thing, a person that points and laughs is probably just an asshole not worth worrying about anyways. Especially in Shipps case.

I've done it.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Apr 21, 2010 -> 09:40 AM) Except there's no way in H-LL that Kotsay would stay in the line-up as a full-time player for very long in June/July unless he was playing well. The team's tanking, there's no future use for him and he'll be replaced by youngsters or another KW acquisition. Also, if the team's not playing well and he's actually hitting, he's merely trade bait. If he's not hitting, he simply will end up on the bench, traded or DFA'ed. If both Kotsay and the White Sox are blazing to glory, then obviously that's the one way he sticks, but the odds are about 1/5 X 1/2 of that happening. Or 10%. Not scientific, lol. Who exactly?

QUOTE (Controlled Chaos @ Apr 21, 2010 -> 09:19 AM) The only time I ever went to that site was when this one went down and I didn't know what was going on. I knew a few people from here posted there, so I signed up to see if I could IM anyone. Really haven't been back since. I'm loyal to this place and there really can't be anything they offer that soxtalk doesn't. This place has it all, highly intelligent posters, jump off the cliff posters, hang on the fence posters, logical and illogical posters and my personal favorite...Soxtopian posters...it's a perfect blend. Not to mention the Sports Pub, Future Sox, SLAM, Fillibuster.... To each his own, but I certainly don't see this place as a backup plan to WSI. The nice thing is that now we have the facebook page as a back up in a worst case scenario.

QUOTE (WHITESOXRANDY @ Apr 21, 2010 -> 09:14 AM) Just the fact that the Braves dumped him off so quickly makes me feel that there's little chance that he'll amount to anything. The Braves also got a guy they thought was a front of the rotation pitcher. Its not like they got nothing in the deal.

QUOTE (daa84 @ Apr 21, 2010 -> 06:58 AM) theres a crowd, and theres certainly an advantage for them, but its nothing like it is in our building, and nothing like it was in vancouver last year Their crowds get raucous, but definitely different.

QUOTE (bmags @ Apr 20, 2010 -> 11:15 PM) If he is a productive hitter and he goes down that is a losing situation, no matter how much he makes. He's an old 33 having been up so long, playing so many innings. He started off hot last year too. Exactly. People need to make the realization that if we ride Andruw like a starter, the odds look pretty good that his body will break down and we will have Kotsay full time. Ozzie has to make the choice between playing Jones 4 to 5 days a week tops to try to make him last the season, or starting him all of the time until the wheels fall off and you see Kotsay play as long as it takes. Also realize that once Jones gets injured, even when he comes back, he doesn't seem to maintain his form using recent seasons as a guide. This isn't about a Kotsay man-crush, its about protecting Jones, and you aren't going to hear anyone on this team actually say that.

So now the Hawks have to figure out a way to win three out of four, without home ice advantage.