Dick Allen

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ May 2, 2012 -> 09:24 PM) I am glad to see your dropped the earlier charade of not comparing Cooper and Walker. You have to admit, 13 runs against a team starting Roy Halladay is pretty impressive. What a coach.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ May 2, 2012 -> 09:21 PM) 8, but go ahead and keep rolling. 8 against Halladay, 5 off the bullpen. He keeps this up, he'll be the next Rudy Jaramillo.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ May 2, 2012 -> 09:20 PM) Thornton has to be out, you don't use Reed here against a LHB in this situation. He's not out, he's the closer and Santiago isn't coming in when the game is this tight.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ May 2, 2012 -> 09:18 PM) Greg Walker should be in the position coaches Hall of Fame in Galesburg, Illinois. Especially because they're putting up those numbers against the vaunted Phillies, give him a gold watch. Yeah, scoring now 13 runs against Roy Halladay is nothing. But credit Don Cooper for Phil Humber's perfect game against those hard hitting Mariners.

QUOTE (Buehrle>Wood @ May 2, 2012 -> 09:17 PM) "Lift and pull! Lift and pull!" must work in the NL. It's the only three words Walker knows. That's right. 3 words is all he knows, but he know them well and the Braves are an offensive juggernaut.

Greg Walker has the Braves with a 12 spot against Halladay tonight. Great coach.

Robin is playing with fire every time Ohman is on the mound.

QUOTE (jeffro2525 @ May 2, 2012 -> 09:13 PM) In a tie game leading off the 7th with a new reliever I may give the 3-0 and 3-1 take to Morel and Beckham. Everyone else can swing away on 3-1. Especially with who was on the mound.

QUOTE (jeffro2525 @ May 2, 2012 -> 09:07 PM) I wouldn't be surprised if he had the 3-0 take and the 3-1 take. If I were Ventura I would have had him take both. As Wimpy used to say, take 2 they're small. Hawk has been using a Wimpy line lately when the opponent hits a flyball he'll sometimes say we have a man there.

QUOTE (Baron @ May 2, 2012 -> 09:01 PM) Good AB by Gordon. Morel's last at bat looked like me batting. He did have a hit earlier tonight, but he has looked real bad too many times this year. Making outs is one thing, not having a chance is another. This one though is a sidewinder, and they can make batters look real silly.

QUOTE (jeffro2525 @ May 2, 2012 -> 08:58 PM) Would rather see Ohman more than anyone besides Thornton and Reed tonight against this particular line-up. Thornton-Santiago or Reed-Thornton to finish this thing? Santiago is another guy that can't be trusted with anything less than a 3 run lead. His entire existence on a major league roster is entirely placed on spring training games.

QUOTE (jeffro2525 @ May 2, 2012 -> 08:54 PM) No reason Ohman shouldn't pitch effectively tonight against a left-handed heavy line-up. Perfect game for him to see some meaningful innings. If the Sox were playing Simeon, I'd be nervous if Ohman came in.

Damon's a DH at this point. Its a 3 inning game. He has maybe one AB left in regulation and can kill you in LF. Removing him is managerial genius.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ May 2, 2012 -> 08:41 PM) That guy always reminds me of the actor Michael Rapaport. Would anyone take a 4.68 ERA on the season for Humber and be contented with that? Probably better than the average for a 5th in the AL by a wide margin, or even comparable to a 4th for some teams. Lowering expectations? I thought Cooper works miracles.

One thing I don't understand about Cowley getting the intern fired, (I do think the kid deserved his fate) but if this wrestling heel persona is what Cowley was using, wasn't his goal pissing people off and getting the exact reaction the kid gave him? Maybe there is some good in this. Perhaps Cowley will take his job seriously and become a respected writer. If the twitter being taken away is a temporary thing, I don't think it will happen, but if he's off the twitter, he has a chance. If Cowley returns to tweeting, he'll either get fired, or get another final warning.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ May 2, 2012 -> 03:16 PM) The plan is for Dunn to play more 1B, but this is because of PKs stiff neck the last few days. As Wanne would say, he has a neck. He has a foot. He'll be fine.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ May 2, 2012 -> 12:58 PM) No, you're the one who came out after the recent losing streak and called out Manto, seeming to celebrate Walker (or called out Walker and compared the Braves with the Sox, or vice-versa). So the point of all that gloating was what? But way to deflect by accusing me of drinking, that sure supports good debate here. Well, I guess enough of us rose to nip at your bait to make it worth it, lol. Maybe I actually need to start drinking...this repeated argument loop/deja vu feeling will never go way!! As I explained, I was just playing with you about the fire Manto, just like I play when I say fire Cooper, which I will post again if Humber gets lit up like his last outing. I'm just mimicking the posters who would say fire Walker after every failed AB. I wasn't even aware of Atlanta's turnaround offensively until it was posted here. But if you're giving pitching coaches credit for perfect games, you should give a hitting coach credit for an NL leader in runs scored. People made Greg Walker out to be an incompetent idiot who knew nothing about hitting. Those people know nothing about Greg Walker. It is pretty sad how this site's expectations have fallen. Jim Thome was hated by many, remember the all or nothing, the Sox have to get rid of him and his .933 OPS. Now people are happy with Adam Dunn and his .864 OPS striking out 35 times in 81 AB, striking out in 23 straight games to start the season, and they are paying him a heck of a lot more than they paid Thome.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ May 2, 2012 -> 12:41 PM) If Don Cooper would have been "poached" by another team this off-season (let's say, by the NY Yankees), there would have been a thread bemoaning it and worrying 5X longer than the current Cowley thread. Nobody would have been celebrating it or saying "finally!" If you want to believe I'm the only one who has ever compared their accomplishments, that's cool. Everyone would have been MORE upset with Ozzie and blaming him for Cooper's departure, etc. How many times do we see "Coop will fix 'em" or "In Coop We Trust" or Don Cooper is the best or one of THE best or one of the top 3-5 pitching coaches, etc., in MLB? Have we ever seen that about Walker? Well, because he found a job, he's great. So did Juan Pierre and Omar Vizquel. Jeff Cox must be bad too, right? Are you drinking? This isn't about Cooper, this is about Atlanta at least until this point, turning their offense around. You give Cooper credit for every Sox success story, you should give Walker credit for Atlanta's improved offense, not making excuses as to why it has nothing to do with Greg Walker. Currently you are the only one making a Walker vs. Cooper argument.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ May 2, 2012 -> 12:19 PM) Dick, Dick, Dick... It's not EITHER/OR as you always say. Comparatively, Cooper has been a better pitching coach than Walker a better hitting coach. And you will never admit or agree to that basic tenet of Sox baseball since 2003, which is an idea that 98% of the posters here would probably also agree with. Last time, I gave the examples of Konerko, Lillibridge and Carlos Quentin. We can argue this on a day-by-day basis, too. We can say Cubans always start out slow and/or Alexei Ramirez is getting old or his real age is much older than the "official" age, etc. Or that last night was the culmination of months of work for Gordon Beckham and he's going to go on a 2009-ish tear that will have everyone wondering "where did that Beckham do?" for all that time? And then you can respond with some anecdote about something Gordon's father or UGA coach or whatever worked with him over this past off-season...anything to not admit Manto might have had a positive effect on him, lol. Most here would agree things just weren't working or had gotten a bit stale here with the Sox...whereas the White Sox pitching numbers have been up there with any team in the league. Then you'll say that's expected because of Peavy's salary, or Danks' salary, it will go back and forth forever, lol. People forget Beckham put up an .877 OPS the second half of 2010 before breaking a hand. He hasn't been awful since 2009. He was bad last year but maybe he wasn't really over his injury and things spiraled. He was bad the first half of 2010 and bad the first 22 games of this season, but he'll be just fine. The only one really comparing Walker and Cooper is you. I just would like you, instead of trying to make excuses how the Braves improvement can't have anything to do with Walker, to admit, if the same thing happened with the Sox, you would say Manto is apparently doing a good job.

QUOTE (pittshoganerkoff @ May 2, 2012 -> 10:52 AM) I think you're right that some people thought Walker was bad, but I would hazard to say that more people thought Walker was not right for the Sox or vice versa. So far it seems like he's a great fit for Atlanta. Good for him and the Braves. So far, Manto seems like a good fit with the Sox. But, whether we're talking about Manto or Walker, we have to remember that we're one month into their first seasons with these teams. A year from now, Braves fans could be calling for Walker's head or we could be screaming and crying about Manto. That's why I'm saying it's premature to start gloating and say "I told you Walker was a good hitting coach!" Maybe he is, but one thing was certain, he was not the right hitting coach for the Sox. No one is really gloating, just trying to get Walker the same acknowledgement Manto would get if the Sox were 4th in MLB in runs scored. There are more than several posters who will never admit Greg Walker wasn't the problem with the White Sox offense, it was the hitters. This isn't little league where the coach teaches players how to hit. Many mention how the offense has improved this year, yet its virtually the same statistically with more strikeouts. The Sox actually scored more runs the first 23 games last season than they have this season. If the record was the same, people wouldn't be saying the offense looks better this year.

Gordon Beckham and Albert Pujols have the same OPS.

QUOTE (pittshoganerkoff @ May 2, 2012 -> 08:59 AM) Greg, this is why you sometimes get picked on. A blurb comes out about the Braves hitters doing well and you write a post basically saying all of the hate directed towards Walker was misguided and anyone who thought Walker wasn't doing a good job with the Sox is dumb. If you'll go back and look at quite a few of the posts after the blubr about the Braves, you'll see that the consensus was that Walker just wasn't cutting it with the Sox, not that he sucks at being a hitting coach. Maybe he is making a difference in Atlanta, or maybe it's just a change that's making the difference. The change from Walker to Manto seems to be positive with the Sox, but that's not necessarily saying Manto is so much better than Walker. Considering the posts when the news broke ATL named Walker their hitting coach, you would have thought it was impossible their offense be anywhere near what it has been. People thought Walker was bad. They were wrong. They don't want to admit it. That's all it is.

QUOTE (onedude @ May 2, 2012 -> 08:45 AM) Duncan hit one last night didn't he? Did he? I fell asleep when it was 6-1. If he did it was their first as a team in 2 weeks.

Cleveland hasn't hit a homer since April 17. Don't start now boys.

QUOTE (ScottyDo @ May 1, 2012 -> 07:31 PM) Woah, go out of town for a weekend and come back to this! I had to do a lot of digging to find the original story, but it's not at all surprising. The 19 year old male has always been his persona for some reason. I hope it's not genuine -- you'd think having a job at a newspaper would force him to grow up a little bit, or at least stumble upon some professionalism -- but I see no evidence to that effect. So he HASN'T been suspended? That's stupid. Those were some very clearly offensive statements made using the CST moniker. There really is no debate there. I don't care if you were personally offended or not, that sort of commentary was simply inappropriate by any standard. Oh well, it's only a matter of time before his besmirched reputation catches up with him and costs him his job permanently. On the whole, Chicago won't put up with his bulls*** long enough for his antics to generate a net gain for the CST. His days are numbered. That's the thing. He'll do it again. He can't help himself.