Dick Allen

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jun 19, 2008 -> 09:00 PM) Frank Thomas's career nearly ended because he was playing 1b during interleague play. Frank tore a muscle in his arm in a game against the Seattle Mariners. I think it was in May of 2001, and it was very cold.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jun 19, 2008 -> 03:33 PM) .309 in June coming in to today. Best in MLB. If they would have fired Walker, they probably would be hitting .400 this month.

Walker needs to sign an extension.

Greg Walker is having a good series

QUOTE (chw42 @ Jun 19, 2008 -> 01:30 PM) Sox pitchers have a lot of trouble pitching over errors, I don't blame them. When you have to get 4 outs with men on base, it ain't easy. Errors happen. They do seem to have more trouble pitching over them than any team I can think of.

Well Gavin's ERA won't be hurt today, but he's been batting practice. 4 homers last outing and this outing now can't do much for his confidence, and from what I understand, he's very fragile.

QUOTE (TCQ @ Jun 17, 2008 -> 08:12 AM) ...I really thought you were joking, i wrote it in my diary that you made a very funny joke today...Wow. I thought they wanted to win, but hey he led us charging into the humiliating sweep in seattle in 2000 maybe he can do it again And Ozzie led the Sox to getting swept in Detroit and losing 2 out of 3 to the Rockies. Don't blame the manager on 3 freaking games. How is it Manuel's fault that Thomas and Konerko didn't get a hit the entire series?

QUOTE (NorthSideSox15 @ Jun 17, 2008 -> 04:31 AM) http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=3447973 Hope the Mets don't think this guy can actually take them to the promised land. Jerry Manuel is not a bad manager, even though he didn't kiss Hawk's butt and run the wheel play.

Is Fields hurt or sitting tonight for a possible call-up?

QUOTE (ChiSox35 @ Jun 15, 2008 -> 02:24 AM) Not looking at any RISP stats, or any stats at all actually, I get the impression that Uribe has come up big in important situations over the years. In order to get me to feel this way, you have to, well, come up big in important situations. I'm not easily impressed. Maybe laziness or a lacksidaisical attitude can account for what we often see. What was Freddie's forte? Big Game pitcher. Did that work out for us? Well, I guess. Uribe is hitting .357 with runners in scoring position. The Sox should release him immediately. Right now, I'm sure Ramirez is the secondbaseman, but he hasn't done much the last four games or so and Ozzie needs to get his bench some playing time, so it was a good time to give Ramirez a break. Ozzie has been known to play his bench a couple of games in a row, and this substitution worked out well. Uribe was a big part of Friday's win. Its unlikely Ramirez being in the line-up yesterday would have resulted in 2 more runs, so even though the White Sox only eeked out 3 hits, and Uribe was 0-2, the blame on him being in the line-up is just so ridiculous, its amazing. Frankly, if Ramirez played Friday and Saturday and Uribe sat, there's a good possibility the White Sox would be trying to avoid the sweep today.

QUOTE (Cubano @ Jun 14, 2008 -> 07:50 PM) Guillen is going to mess up Ramirez timing now with all this crap about benching him. Ramirez must think what do I have to do to play on this team regularly? Do I need to hit a HR every time? I want somebody in the media to question Guillen hard on this decision. I do not want any reporter being pay by the White Sox asking stupid question, but somebody independent. I am mad as hell. If Alexei sucks, I will be the first one saying send him back to Cuba. I am going to sleep now. I can't take this nonsense anymore. He's 3 for his last 14 and 0 for his last 6. Uribe hadn't played for a month. It was a good time to give the guy a rest. He sat on his ass a lot longer earlier and it had no ill effect.

QUOTE (Friend of Nordhagen @ Jun 14, 2008 -> 07:45 PM) Well, he's 1 of 9 reasons, I guess. 1 of 2 since Thome isn't playing. Uribe and Walker.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Jun 14, 2008 -> 07:44 PM) OC should be embarrassed; he hit it right at the defense. My god. Its not his fault. Walker teaches that.

QUOTE (Tony82087 @ Jun 14, 2008 -> 07:43 PM) Wow, thats sad DA. Its in response to all the b****ing about Uribe playing 2 games in a row. He actually did have a big hit last night, but according to some, he's the reason the Sox haven't scored tonight.

QUOTE (Wanne @ Jun 14, 2008 -> 07:35 PM) Set your bar a little higher Dick. Know when to sit guys. Don't bag on people who bag on a team that clearly should be performing better than it is....REGARDLESS of the size of there lead in the division. It's like $100....IT. DON'T. LAST. LONG!!!!! What should be the line-up tonight? How come the Sox only could get 1 run at Detroit with the great Ramirez at 2nd base on Thursday.

QUOTE (Wanne @ Jun 14, 2008 -> 08:28 PM) Disregard the fact Q's hand hasnt' been right according to reports. I swear....if I owned for Enron Corp...I'd want you as my PR guy. You're Kevin Bacon in Animal House....."Remain calm........ALL IS WELL....." Why play the hurt guy? Why isn't all well? A 5.5 game lead is a lot better than every other team except 1 in MLB. I complain about a lot of things, but not a first place team that most including myself was hoping to be around .500 this year.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jun 14, 2008 -> 08:27 PM) Injury. I know that. What I'm saying is you have to play your bench every once in a while. Uribe was a big part of the win last night and might be today.

QUOTE (Brian @ Jun 14, 2008 -> 08:23 PM) Two different situations. You don't bench Quentin for a guy hitting .200. I was being sarcastic. If a high batting average is required to play once in a while, then why did Ramirez get a shot?

QUOTE (Brian @ Jun 14, 2008 -> 08:22 PM) Good pitch to drive that he popped up. I know one poster who would think that's either Uribe's or Walker's fault.

QUOTE (southsideirish71 @ Jun 14, 2008 -> 08:20 PM) Ask him why we benched our starting 2nd baseman for a guy who has hit .235 for the last 2 seasons. Oh I understand he got a hit last night, but why bench the guy hitting near .290. Why do they start Quentin who hasn't hit for a while? Your complaining is hysterical. Teams laughing at the first place White Sox with their pitiful offense. Just disregard they are 3rd in the AL in runs scored.

I went to Detroit and watching Loaisa, I think he is still injured. There is something in his motion, even when he's out playing catch in between innings with the LF that makes me think he has shoulder problems.

QUOTE (daa84 @ Jun 8, 2008 -> 08:39 AM) regardless we cant give walker credit for the good things and not rip him a bit for the bad things... Fine. Just give him credit for the good things, and the board needs to get off the Walker teaches everyone to swing from their heels BS. Its simply not true. The day Ozzie blew up and people were calling for Walker's head yet again, I believe they had 13 hits, but couldn't do anything with RISP. To blame Walker for hitters choking is beyond ludicrous. They had a great plan that game, they were going the other way, but for some reason when it came time to drive them in, the hitters got away from the plan.

Crede's giving Walker credit for the hot streak. Must not be Greg Walker.

Since the Sox traded him, his slugging pct. is about .230. I see no reason a first place team needs this Nationals reject.

QUOTE (BearSox @ Jun 7, 2008 -> 07:32 AM) No they didn't and that was something completely different. It was a tribute to all the living Negro players. Each team drafted one in honor of them. And lol if actually believe it was the scouts call on drafting KWjr. How naive can you be? While you might consider the MLB draft a "crapshoot", you still drafted the BPA, especially in the first 10 rounds. I'm not very naive. No way KW would overrule his scouts and pick his kid in the 6th round. I do agree to a point, I don't think if the guy was exact same player and his name was Jim Hendry Jr. there is any chance the White Sox would have selected him there. And it is pretty scary in a draft where you pick a ton of players, they seem to be out of names by that round, but 10 years from now when you go back to the 6th round, KWJR will most likely have the same amount of major league success as everyone except perhaps 1 or 2 from that round, if that many, and he'll have the same amount of success as some of the names thrown around on this board for the Sox to draft in the first round paying them millions.