Dick Allen

QUOTE(Heads22 @ May 27, 2007 -> 08:22 PM) Are you honestly b****ing about a guy who we signed to a minor league deal? I think he's basically saying Wilson is a longshot to really help the White Sox. Its worth a shot, but not very exciting or bold.

Order the WS rings. He's been a mess for a couple of seasons.

QUOTE(DBAH0 @ May 27, 2007 -> 06:22 PM) MacDougal's caught the dreaded "Cliff Politte" syndrome. I was thinking the exact same thing at the game today. The crowd is brutal with him. It may be a case if it goes on much longer where he's going to have a tough time being successful in Chicago if he does get healthy.

QUOTE(JohnCangelosi @ May 27, 2007 -> 06:24 PM) Who do we want to see replace these guys? Since we've already seen BA and Sweeney this year, we mine as well take a look at Owens? He looked pretty good in ST as I recall, and you never know he may be ready to make an impact with his speed. And regarding Sisco's replacement, I cannot even venture a guess? Maybe Haeger? I'm probably way off on this one though... I think it will be the Printz guy and Ozzie mentioned Gonzalez a guy who really isn't even a prospect in my mind.

QUOTE(whitesoxfan101 @ May 27, 2007 -> 06:21 PM) Do you think he could ever have the consistent control to be a starter? I gotta go with fathom on this, figure out a way for him to get his velocity back to the upper 90's and get it over the plate enough to get people out in relief. There are way too many things to take care of for him to be a starter. I can't see him being a starter right now. I agree with fathom. He needs to get his control to the level that he can pitch in the major leagues. They have to get there first. Maybe he works on things and next year its good enough to be a member of the bullpen. If it improves from there, he can try and be a starter. I'm sure the vendors would love to see him in the rotation. Games would be 4 hours long.

QUOTE(BearSox @ May 27, 2007 -> 05:28 PM) I disagree with no. 2. The home run to Pena was a high fly ball that carried. It wasn't hit that well at all. Take away that, and Mack giving up that triple, Vazquez has a very good day. Its the story of his career. Look at whitesox.com, Vazquez strikes out 7. It doesn't mention he has 10 starts and 2 wins this year. It doesn't mention he blew the 2 run lead (not implying the bullpen wouldn't have blown it anyway). $12.5 million a year, you should get more than that. BTW, the ball Pena hit, he hit pretty well.

I'll never fault KW for making the Gload/Sisco trade. I'd make it as well. The thing is, Sisco has no business being in the major leagues right now.

You can tell Mack is injured just watching him run. If MacDougal has this problem, why is Ozzie throwing him out there every damn game? Its at least 2 and 0 on every hitter.

This loss comes down to 2 things you could see a mile away at any point from the winter until now: 1. The bullpen is for the most part very inexperienced,and right now, sucks 2. Vazquez is a so so pitcher who strikes out a lot of guys.

They said on the news that if the game gets called, Ozzie doesn't want a split DH tomorrow. Just a regular DH.

Buster Olney on his insider blog was talking about the CF free agents after this season. He was mentioning that very few of the teams that like to spend money will be looking to do so on CFers. Cameron, Ichiro, Hunter and Jones are the 4 big ones. He figures Cameron will get a lot of interest because he will be the cheapest. He thinks he will go to Atlanta. He thinks Texas with sign Hunter, who is from around there. He thinks Jones will sign with Seattle and Ichiro with the White Sox. I don't know if he's ever been right, and its a long time between now and the end of the season, but this looks like a pretty good scenerio to me.

QUOTE(Controlled Chaos @ May 26, 2007 -> 07:17 AM) I heard them say that on the radio this morning as well, but when watching it I just thought Mark was laboring a bit. Since when can't Mark drill a guy when he wants. He was inside on the bunt by Navarro and then was inside on his first two pitches to Harris and then inside again and drilled him. Then he was inside on his first pitch to Dukes. It seemed he was trying to be too perfect on the corner. Then when he couldn't hit it...he through a cookie right down the middle of the plate. It could have been an intentional drill, but as I was watching the game I didn't get that feeling there. Drilling the #9 hitter in the line-up to bring up Dukes as the tying run would be pretty stupid if it was intentional.

AJ has more big hits since he became a White Sox than any other player on the team. He also brings with him an attitude that has rubbed off on guys. The winning percentage of the teams he's played for is incredible. I know you can't give him full credit for that, but you probably can give him some. The White Sox would never have won in 2005 without him. I'm sure some on the team find him to be a pain in the ass, if not most, but I think they all respect him when the game starts. He may be an ass, but he's not going around beating women, taking drugs, breaking laws. The Sox are lucky to have him.

Maggs Ordonez is on fire. 4 for 4 today. He's hitting .361 with 12 hr and 45 rbi. He also has 23 doubles already.

QUOTE(caulfield12 @ May 23, 2007 -> 08:51 AM) The streak was for consecutive starts of 6+ innings, not "quality" starts. They had quite a streak of quality starts. Anyhow, with the starters giving you that much, it really makes me concerned about a bullpen that really hasn't been asked to do too much. It does seem like Thornton is coming around, and Jenks, although adding some drama into several of his appearances is getting the job done. The others have been very inconsistent to down right awful.

If the Sox fired Walker last Thursday and started hitting like they have been, people here would have said its proof positive that he was the problem. Now that they have begun to hit, maybe he isn't.

QUOTE(iamshack @ May 23, 2007 -> 01:21 AM) I'd sign him just to face Frank. Why do you think KW signed Nelson last season? He wanted Frank to look like a fool in his USCF debut. It didn't quite work out.

I wonder if Hawk understands he's doing Marriotti and the Sun Times a favor talking about his columns almost daily now.

Erstad at this stage is probably average at best, but he does get big hits. I like the way he plays and for what they are paying him, it was a fine signing. The guy has driven in 5 less runs with one of the most pathetic offenses in baseball than the great Pods did in his HOF season of 2005. I know, RBI are not indicative of what type of hitting you are doing, or so I've been told on this board, but when Pods was the greatest leadoff hitter of all time he was 0-7 with the bases loaded with 1 RBI on a walk. Pretty clutch. I do know that I admire the fashion in which Erstad plays and probably would have been fanatical about him when he was an elite player.

The offense seems to be making a comeback. Greg Walker will be able to go out in public again soon.

QUOTE(caulfield12 @ May 21, 2007 -> 10:17 PM) Supposedly he had one at 99 in the Cubs' series. Since our gun is slow, I'm guessing he's around 95-97 now. He was 94 on the Urinal gun. He may be a little looser today

QUOTE(chisoxfan79 @ May 21, 2007 -> 10:17 PM) Well I think it is safe to say we have no bullpen for tomorrow with Mac and Jenks throwing too many pitches Masset unavailable till Friday and Sisco, Aardsma and Logan ineffective right now I wonder if thats good or bad.

QUOTE(IlliniKrush @ May 21, 2007 -> 10:11 PM) DJ is an idiot, you don't make the 1st out at 3rd down 3 when it's not 100% you will make third base. I thought that was kind of odd. Why don't they use that freezing stuff on injuries anymore? I wonder if AJ was just playing around with those throws.

QUOTE(kyyle23 @ May 21, 2007 -> 10:10 PM) Is it me, or was Crosby bulkier last year? Jenks appears to have regained any of the "bulk" he may have lost.

Jenks has the lowest ERA on the Sox, followed by the 5 starters, followed by the rest of the bullpen. That's kind of weird.