Dick Allen

QUOTE (TitoMB @ Apr 22, 2010 -> 09:30 PM) Oh man, that made me throw up in my mouth a bit. At least Danks is pitching out of his mind right now. Hopefully, when he falls back to earth a bit, some of the other guys start pitching better as well. I don't even want to think about what happens if these guys keep this up all year.. I don't think they all will though. There's no chance they will be that high all year, but the 3.20-3.70 ERA's many, including me, may have expected from at least 3 of these guys, is probably unrealistic. Floyd started out awful last year, and for some reason he is so much better at USCF than on the road.

We talk about the lack of offense, but check out the current ERAs from the greatest rotation ever assembled: Buehrle 4.56 Floyd 9.00 Garcia 8.10 Peavy 7.66

I think Peavy will be alright. I think too many people saw his stats in September and assumed he'd win 25 games with an ERA about 1.00.

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Apr 22, 2010 -> 09:18 PM) We've got a guy hitting .105 with no speed or power hitting 2nd in the lineup. Which other team in MLB would do that? When he was signed, it was like Mardi Gras on this board for some reason. He, like Kotsay, are fine to have on a team if they are getting 150 AB tops a season. When they are getting more than that, you're in trouble.

If the Sox lose tonight, they will be 4 games over .500 since winning the WS.

JR stated last year that the 2008 team was boring. 2007 was worse, 2009 wasn't exactly riveting, and so far this season reminds you of the Bill Veeck days of the 70s sans 1977. They better get this turned around pretty quickly.

Isn't there some stat that shows a very high percentage of teams in first place May 1st wind up in the playoffs?

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Apr 22, 2010 -> 09:05 PM) Now Williams get the 1-2-3 I think they would have sent him down, but the one lefty they would probably like to call up, is on the DL. I would just screw the lefty, and call up Torres to pitch garbage innings. There seems to be a lot of those lately.

QUOTE (jphat007 @ Apr 22, 2010 -> 09:04 PM) Keep telling yourself that it doesn't matter. I do wonder with all the people saying the losing doesn't matter, when it actually does matter. Every game they win now is one less they have to win later.

QUOTE (elrockinMT @ Apr 22, 2010 -> 09:00 PM) That was not agood at bat by CQ And the Bullies pulled one out, so not a lost night all around.

This is a dissappointing game. I really thought Peavy was going to pitch a gem tonight. Now you have to start wondering if there's something wrong with him.

TB's defense has been high school like this series.

How come when Sox hitters don't hit its Walker's fault, but when the high priced White Sox pitching staff gets lit up, Cooper doesn't get a mention?

This is going well.

Hawk laying the groundwork for blaming the umpire if the Sox lose.

QUOTE (justBLAZE @ Apr 22, 2010 -> 07:24 PM) Pierre steals second. If he would have done that when Vizquel was batting, he'd be on 3rd right now.

QUOTE (justBLAZE @ Apr 22, 2010 -> 07:16 PM) What's the attendance tonight? I assume Bulls and Hawks have a lot to do with the empty seats? I say a 5-11 record and 40 degrees has a lot to do with empty seats as well. Stubhub today, you could have had premium lower levels for $11.

So Beckham bunts with a guy at first when he's batting second, but Vizquel swings for the fences?

I think the Sox take this one tonight because the opposite of what you think has to happen. TB was hot coming in, the Sox playing pretty poorly, so the Sox win game one. Buerhle pitched a perfect game against them last time, and struck out the side in the first last night so you figure the Sox may roll, but no. The line up tonight makes it seem 2 runs would be a dream, so perhaps a 6 or 7 run effort tonight.

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.

The Cubs hired Rudy Jaramillo. Boy are they whacking the ball around. The bottom line is you have to have the personnel to do the things you are asking. The White Sox roster in the past wasn't capable or it would have been silly to ask some of their sluggers to go the other way. This year's team, most will admit, is short offensively. They still score via the homer, but they just don't hit as many. I don't think there is one person on this board that would have thought the Sox wouldn't go through a stretch of 15 games when they only won 5. Everyone always uses 2005 as a measuring stick. That team lost 14 games in the standings at one point. That said, I think there is plenty of reason to be concerned. The pitching staff isn't going to have a 2.98 ERA. KW better get some offense somewhere, somehow. This is a team that has had Kotsay hit 3rd and Omar Vizquel lead off. Blame the hitting coach all you want, but the blame is misdirected. This is the American League, not the American Association. The sooner White Sox brass realizes they need more offensive talent the better.

Hawk is talking about this team error. Why would owners want to approve that? All it would do is lower ERAs and make pitchers more expensive.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Apr 21, 2010 -> 08:37 PM) The thing is someone is going to look at Mark's statline and think he pitched badly tonight. White Sox defense has to improve if they are going with this NL style. Buehrle also has to pitch over mistakes, something he's really had trouble doing the past couple of seasons, but tonight it was a bunch of bloops and dinks.

Teahen apparently doesn't like pitches over the plate.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Apr 20, 2010 -> 06:02 PM) I wasn't worried about Reed at all. I was more concerned about Olivo getting his offensive act together and becoming a dominant catcher, but his game-calling and strategic side never evolved defensively. He was like a two-trick pony, that arm and pop/speed from the offensive side. And I liked the versatility of Morse, Seattle really tried to find a home for him at different positions, but he was a "tweener" everywhere you put him on the diamond, like a 6'3" small forward in the NBA. I don't know the actual number, but Abbott hit around .400 for most of the year with Hickory in 1993/1994, one of those years. It was unbelieveable. He overshadowed Ordonez at that point....in fact, it was 94 I'm pretty sure, because I was working in Augusta. JD came in one night and used my phone, he was playing for Macon. Andruw Jones the next year, I saw him maybe 20 times when he was already a legend at 17-18 or whatever his age was back then. Also, Vladimir Guerrero and Ruben Rivera were the Gods then. Missed Jeter's massive error display at Greensboro by one year. Jose Guillen was the best player on our team...since I spoke Spanish, and he didn't, I always had to help him out. He'd actually stabbed one of his teammates in Bradenton, the Pirates were scared to death of his personality even then but also scared to death not to promote him to A ball and see what type of a diamond in the rough they had. That guy had a monster arm, 2nd to VLAD and ahead of Dye back then. Could do everything but run, just amazingly talented. And he's really a small/short guy if you see him in person. I remember him going into McDonald's all the time trying to struggle to order a hamburger, that always cracked me up big-time. Those are some pretty cool experiences.