Dick Allen

QUOTE (greg775 @ Apr 9, 2011 -> 05:19 PM) Lilly actually did some nice things last year. I don't think your statement above is exactly correct. Linebrink was an embarrassment. Pena and Ohman at times are embarrassments too. Linebrink, Pena and Ohman each did some nice things last year. Lillibridge hit like a pitcher when he got to play when Beckham went down.

Maybe not drill him, but a dusting is in order.

QUOTE (WinorDie88 @ Apr 9, 2011 -> 06:12 PM) Yeah he did. I absolutely agree with you. It's total bs on Lopez's part. To be clear though, my comment about AJ was more referring to a thread a few days ago on here where someone posted a report from an insider that hardly anyone in our clubhouse liked AJ. It really baffles me on why that is. I watch him play the game and give interviews with the utmost courtesy and respect. This whole bad rep thing AJ has is starting to annoy me. If AJ was as despised as advertised, the Sox wouldn't have brought him back. He's not everyone's cup of tea, but there are plenty of White Sox who have his back.

QUOTE (T R U @ Apr 9, 2011 -> 01:20 PM) The flaw in the logic of he would never have even made it to the majors is that there have been plenty of people who have taken steroids, got caught, and still were either never good in the majors or never made it.. Steroids aren't a magic drug that turn you into an all star BS. We will never know if he would have made it to the majors or not. Maybe he was clean for a while. Again, we will never know. What we do know is what Manny was willing to risk to take steroids because of what it could do to his performance. He gambled and lost.

Jose Canseco said he, (JC) would have been a minor leaguer if not for the juice. He almost hit 500 homers, and was an MVP. Manny may have been HOF worthy without the juice, but we don't know, and considering he supposedly tested postive in 2003 when they had the initial tests without penalty, he tested positive at least 3 times. He's a cheat and a fraud who couldn't bust his ass on the field when Boston was paying him $20 million a year. Watching him explode when he got to LA, people focused on that and "Mannywood", not the jackass who was well taken care of but jaked his way out of Boston. He then jaked his way out of LA, and was a bust you could see coming for over 2000 miles with the White Sox. Why the Rays would give him $2 million is beyond me, but they are off the hook as the idiot cheated yet again. Instead of facing it like a man, he took the easy way out. Again. You would have to think he's cheated all along. Anything he's ever accomplished in the major leagues is tainted whether some want to admit it or not.

QUOTE (T R U @ Apr 9, 2011 -> 03:57 AM) Does anyone else love when a bunch of nobodies try to say that someone in the MLB is "terrible" at baseball.. Seriously J4L, STFU, Brent Lillibridge would look like Albert Pujols compared to you.. Theres nothing wrong with having a player who can play up to 6 positions on the field and has solid speed to be the 25th man on your roster.. He is what he is, a guy who is gonna pinch run late or be a defensive replacement in the OF late in the game.. At least we can count on him to not walk after a ball he misplayed or to just have it bounce off his glove completely.. At least he is busting his ass, at least he can get a bunt down, at least he can be trusted to catch a routine pop fly.. Do I wish we had a bench that was full of .300 hitters? You bet your tits.. but no one does.. If you have ever criticized a professional player's performance, you are being hypocritical. Its all relative. Compared to other MLB players currently and in the past, Brent Lillibridge has been "terrible at baseball". There is no denying it. Perhaps the reason Milledge was DFA was because he was "terrible at baseball' the first couple games of the season.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Apr 8, 2011 -> 10:19 PM) We need to go closer by committee. Period. Santos, Matt, Crain, Sale. I hate lefty closers (and yes I know there has been a good one or two). That doesn't work. You need to pick one guy so everyone knows their role, but I'd move away from Thornton. He was awesome and comforable working the 8th. He's been hittable his 3 appearances this season. Pick someone else for the 9th. If they can't get it done, try someone else, but the experiments need to be short.

His defense let him down without question, but put Thornton back into the 8th inning.

I wonder how the Miami writer is spinning his Rose is overrated and can't get good players to play with him even though the Bulls will be the #1 seed in the East.

QUOTE (TitoMB @ Apr 5, 2011 -> 10:51 PM) So, who wants to justify Ozzie not putting Thornton in there? Anyone? I will. The one advantage the visiting team has when a game goes extra innings is they can use their closer to close. The home team cannot. That's what he was waiting for. If he burned him up and Pena had to close and blew it, the argument would be why was Pena closing. After a loss, you could blame Ozzie a lot of ways. Why make Thornton the closer when he locked down the 8th inning? If he pitched the 8th tonight, perhaps the Sox win. I'm no Ozzie apologist, but I don't think he did anything wrong with his pitching choices tonight.

Sale screwed this game up and gave Lillibridge the chance to be a goat. What is scary, but its still really early, the Sox are playing the bottom feeders and have given up at least 7 runs in 3 of 4 games.

QUOTE (JoeCoolMan24 @ Apr 5, 2011 -> 10:38 PM) Vazquez trade along w/ Flowers and I believe Jon Gilmore. Although Vazquez had one good year in ATL, its turning into a garbage for garbage trade.

For all those that love Brent Lillibridge's "versitility". You're right, he's versitile. You'd be hard pressed to come up with another player in MLB history that is bad in as many areas as this minor leaguer. Get him off the roster and call up a pitcher.

QUOTE (Harry Chappas @ Apr 3, 2011 -> 02:03 PM) Because he is a six inning pitcher. Today is the prime example of why he is not an ace. He is a really good pitcher but not worth a contract of that magnitude. Sabatthia and Halladay each went 6 innings their first start. Danks was 26th in baseball in IP last year which included playoffs in which he did not participate.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Apr 3, 2011 -> 02:41 PM) The Heat have "Worked out" Eddy Curry and could sign him for the playoffs. Curry was going to be a train wreck from the get go. Fat and lazy in high school doesn't translate without some discipline in college. He actually dropped a ton of weight with the Bulls and was playing pretty well, although pound for pound, he's one of the worst rebounders in NBA history. That didn't last, and now he's a guy who's going to be in serious trouble. He couldn't pay his bills when he was making $11 million a year. What's going to happen in the next couple? I'm glad he doesn't owe me any money.

QUOTE (Elgin Slim @ Apr 3, 2011 -> 01:27 PM) Because he's a lefthanded pitcher and will get Sabathia/Lee money in 2012 if he has two seasons where he strikes out 200 because of his age. Then one more year of his services plus the draft picks will be a lot better than picking up guys like Matt LaPorta.

QUOTE (Elgin Slim @ Apr 3, 2011 -> 01:23 PM) If Danks strikes guys out like this all season we can kiss him goodbye in the offseason. He's under control for next year. Why to the Sox have to operate like a small market team?

QUOTE (CaliSoxFanViaSWside @ Apr 3, 2011 -> 01:21 PM) With all the debate about the bunt, Danks looking great. Yes he is. Good thing he wasn't traded for prospects.

QUOTE (iamshack @ Apr 3, 2011 -> 01:19 PM) You probably should have just said that the first time then. I did. Post #97 was my first on the subject.

QUOTE (JoeCoolMan24 @ Apr 3, 2011 -> 01:16 PM) It was bad, because it was in the air, but I didn't think it was terrible. A lot of times that bunt would get down, even with the 1 second of hangtime it had. I couldn't disagree more. Bunts aren't supposed to be caught and if they are, they are awful.

QUOTE (iamshack @ Apr 3, 2011 -> 01:15 PM) No, I implied that you thinking it would make sense to bunt with run producers coming up was backasswards thinking. I don't think either of us were in favor of bunting there, but it makes more sense to try and move runners to 2nd and 3rd with Omar and Pierre coming up since they are primarily singles hitters versus moving them along with run producers coming up who have a much bigger chance of hitting a ball deep in the gap. And it makes no sense to move players up to second and third when you have hitters who can drive home runners without having to get a hit? My point is, the guys who bunt should be the guys who know how to bunt. Alexei isn't one of those guys. Asking him to bunt is stupid.

QUOTE (JoeCoolMan24 @ Apr 3, 2011 -> 01:12 PM) So no one wants to say it was a great play by the 1B, but rather that it was a terrible bunt by Alexei? I mean, if it was a terrible bunt, then the fielder would not have to of dove and made a fantastic play to get it in the end of his mitt. A terrible bunt would have made for an easy out, not a spectacular play. Terrible baserunning, sure. Terrible bunt? Eh. It was a nice play. It appeared to be a bunt and run, but under no circumstance is a bunt anything but bad if its caught on the fly.

QUOTE (iamshack @ Apr 3, 2011 -> 01:11 PM) First of all, that's not the thinking, but secondly, they're not going to play Lilli instead of Alexei unless they have to. That's what you implied. You said they wanted Quentin to be able to score on a single so they had a guy who cannot bunt, bunt with nobody out. It wasn't a good idea.

QUOTE (iamshack @ Apr 3, 2011 -> 01:08 PM) I think that is why the bunt was put down...because Ozzie wanted them to be able to score on a single... If they don't think Alexei has any chance against Masterson, he should be on the bench, and there still would have been one out with the top of the order and Pierre, and non DP guy at the plate.

QUOTE (CaliSoxFanViaSWside @ Apr 3, 2011 -> 01:04 PM) This. Because you know it won't be the last time we bunt in the early innings. I don't mind if Pierre or Vizquel bunt if there are run producers coming up behind them, but as was pointed out, even if Alexei gets it down successfully, and it sure seems he had little chance, you're putting ducks on the pond for Vizquel, not exactly a run machine. The OF would be shallow and with AJP on second base, so even if he gets a hit, its only one run. A sac fly is a longshot.