Dick Allen

QUOTE(Bhay99 @ Apr 4, 2008 -> 12:50 PM) Well come on, you can't have your prime time .230 hitter just sitting on the bench for a guy who can actually play defense. Who do the White Sox have that is better defensive at second than Uribe?

QUOTE(daa84 @ Apr 4, 2008 -> 12:45 PM) nice non-interference interference there by polanco Did you know the White Sox drafted Polanco in the same draft and after they drafted Carrie Schueler?

QUOTE(witesoxfan @ Apr 4, 2008 -> 12:35 PM) The real Joe Crede gets to go sit down again The great Josh Fields didn't exactly wow anyone with the Knights last night. 0-4 3ks and an error.

Quentin reminds me of Canseco without the roids.

QUOTE(Tony82087 @ Apr 4, 2008 -> 12:27 PM) Is Uribe paying your mortgage or something? It will be interesting to see when board favorites make an error if there will be 20 posts saying f*** him or he sucks or I hate him. You popped off about overreaction to a bad Gavin Floyd inning. Read the posts on 1 error,

Without Uribe in the line-up, the Sox may still be looking for win #1.

QUOTE(Greg Hibbard @ Apr 4, 2008 -> 12:24 PM) Are we going to go the next 8 pages and argue this semantically or are we going to agree that we should be playing a different second baseman. Who should be playing 2nd?

QUOTE(kyyle23 @ Apr 4, 2008 -> 12:23 PM) F***ing Juan Uribe. That was the inning ending DP right there He hit a homer yesterday , struck out a couple of times and made an error today. He's turning into Josh Fields.

Cabrera is going to be back in the line-up tonight at DH per rotoworld.

Crede is an on base machine.

Fields would have it it farther.

QUOTE(ChWRoCk2 @ Apr 3, 2008 -> 12:36 PM) This is an odd question to ask here but..... For you business people: I got an interview today at 2, I have a 3 button suit, do I button the top 2? Middle only? I'm kinda stumped. Figured I'd get quickest response in this thread thanks. Top 2.

That's OK. The Sox will get them next inning. Uribe will be hitting.

Anyone who thinks Paulie won't get a statue is sadly mistake. He's becoming a statue while still playing before our very eyes.

How much longer until the first fire Greg Walker post?

QUOTE(witesoxfan @ Apr 3, 2008 -> 11:38 AM) I don't know how a .625 OPS can ever be considered "better than people think." That's all in all quite terrible. He has his uses, but it involves either catching a lot of balls in the hole at SS in a lineup that absolutely mashes - ala 2006 - or on the bench as a super sub/home run threat off the bench. It's not as a starting 2Bman, because any value he has to a club is ruined there. He's going to shock the world this season.

QUOTE(witesoxfan @ Apr 3, 2008 -> 11:36 AM) He also scored 29 fewer runs than Swisher too with Piazza, Chavez and Cust hitting behind him (of whom only Cust had a good year); taking out the 2 homer difference, that's 37 more runs that Swisher created either by scoring or driving someone in than Uribe. I also can't believe you seriously compared Juan Uribe to Nick Swisher. I only compared their RBI totals. I think Uribe, while frustrating at times, is a lot better than most think. Every game he gets ripped. Every time he does well, its ignored. If he has a bad game, everyone has to mention it. He's supposed to be so horrible, it reminds me of Contreras in 2004 and April and May of 2005.

QUOTE(witesoxfan @ Apr 3, 2008 -> 10:22 AM) The Cardinals won a terribly weak division and got hot in the playoffs, and they won with (surprise) superb pitching throughout that postseason. Comparing the 2005 White Sox and 2006 Cardinals is an insult to the Sox and all good World Series winning teams everywhere. To go along with defense for a moment here, if what people have reported are true, Crede is not that good defensively right now. Again, you are comparing 2005 and 2006 Joe Crede with a moderately healthy back to Joe Crede coming off back surgery. So, he's got a mediocre stick and he's mediocre defensively. That sounds like a pretty mediocre player. Josh Fields offers upside, something Crede really doesn't offer much of anymore, and the potential to improve defensively. And if you feel that OBP is an asinine stat, I'll simply say that you are wrong. OBP is arguably the most important stat in the game (though it's not far superior to slugging, which some people seem to think it is...slugging is quite important too). And Juan Uribe hits .230-.240 to go along with not ever walking. That means he's never on base which in turn means he's never in a position to be driven in and more or less just drives himself in, and even that's sporadically. Juan Uribe is not a good player, and was among the worst hitters in the league last year. The fact that he is now starting at a position that hurts his one major quality - defense - hurts the team even more. You also seem to be ruling out the possibility that Anderson himself could put up 20 homers and 70 RBI as well, or that Quentin could put up 20 and 70, while also getting on base quite a bit more frequently. Or Alexei could do it while also getting acclimated to major league pitching. Juan Uribe and Joe Crede are not good players, and, as I said, I don't think the Sox can contend with them starting. Nor Jerry Owens for that matter, but he atleast offers a bit of upside (though I'd prefer Anderson or Quentin starting over him). Uribe bats ninth. For a guy who is so bad, he drove in 10 less runs than the almighty run machine, Nick Swisher last year, while batting ninth on a team with perhaps the worst offense in the league.

MacDougal pitched 2 innings, so he will probably be unavailable tomorrow. BA and/or Quentin should get in the line-up tomorrow. 2 positives, and I'm supposed to be so negative.

QUOTE(Jordan4life @ Apr 2, 2008 -> 09:32 PM) Mayble will score 2-3 more runs and lose 7-5? Then we can hear once again about how this was a "positive" loss? Yeah, I've never understood the "positive loss" crap. It certainly didn't carry over to anything special tonight. They tried that reasoning last year a few times and the team stunk up the joint the next night.

QUOTE(fathom @ Apr 2, 2008 -> 09:28 PM) Marlins, but that was a different situation. The Cardinals are looking pretty crappy now. The White Sox and Marlins are the only teams to finish below .500 the second year after winning it all. St. Louis should join them this year.

AJ is in a lot better shape this year.

QUOTE(GreatScott82 @ Apr 2, 2008 -> 09:20 PM) haha only time will tell... not too impressed with our SP early on. And they are our 1-2 punch. I really am nervous to see what Contreras, Danks and Floyd do next... if our offense cant get it going in April we are in big trouble. I think Contreras will be OK. Maybe not the mid 2005 to mid 2006 Contreras, but who is? I think he can put up decent numbers. If Danks can go 6 or 7 tomorrow and there aren't extra innings, the bullpen should be in good shape for Detroit.

Thornton, MacDougal and Masset need to throw strikes. If they can't, they need to leave the roster.

Pitching won't be a problem in 2008. KW promised.