Dick Allen

The weather hasn't exactly been ideal for a lot of offense so far this year. I wouldn't get too pissed at the lack of offense or too excited about good pitching performances yet.

Byrd is the only pitcher who beat the White Sox in the 2005 playoffs.

QUOTE(RockRaines @ Apr 14, 2007 -> 01:02 PM) Jason Bere-my pick He and Willie Alvarez were close to unbeatable the last few months of 1993. I remember there was a little controversy having Black Jack open the playoffs because those 2 and Alex Fernandez were throwing better than him at the time.

QUOTE(fathom @ Apr 14, 2007 -> 12:57 PM) I'll take McCarthy from 2005 as the best 5th starter. And I think that Vazquez as a 5th starter last year put up better numbers than anyone we can have for the entire year. Actually, in April of 2003 the Sox 5th starter was Loaisa. He was pretty good that year.

Danks is fortunate its not a nice 70-80 degree day when the ball is really carrying. His key to survival will be how he does after there's solid reports on him and hitters have seen him a few times. I hope he becomes unhittable, but I really think he'll be a Knight in the next month or so.

QUOTE(Capn12 @ Apr 14, 2007 -> 12:45 PM) HAHA, good call fathom. grindErstad 1 for his last 18, 5 K's and down to a paultry .194 BA But its a grinder-like .194. I don't mind Erstad, there paying him next to nothing baseball money-wise. I do think Anderson could hit .194 though.

QUOTE(shoota @ Apr 14, 2007 -> 12:43 PM) Wager? I'd bet anything you'd like. He could be good some day, but he is being rushed now because he got a few guys out in spring training.

QUOTE(SoxAce @ Apr 14, 2007 -> 12:41 PM) The thing is alot of people here liked BMac. I think you mean Ozzie will say he'll never ammount to anything. There are a lot of people that say he allows too many homers, obviously feeling that it is something he will never be able to improve upon.

QUOTE(SoxAce @ Apr 14, 2007 -> 12:40 PM) I'll take a bet that Danks will be second on our team for the most K's. He has givin up some homers but he has also K'ing an impressive rate. I'll take your bet. Danks is going to be in Charlotte most of the summer.

QUOTE(SoxAce @ Apr 14, 2007 -> 12:38 PM) Danks still isn't pitching bad though. If Brandon McCarthy was doing the same thing for the Rangers, we would have a ton of people saying how he is never going to be anything. Danks has now allowed 3 long balls.

QUOTE(witesoxfan @ Apr 10, 2007 -> 07:44 PM) Thomas tore his tricep, and the way he fell, it really doesn't surprise me that it tore at all. I mean, I'm sure there's physics and medical science and all that gibberish that I don't understand and never will, but when 275 pounds goes from running to falling/diving at full extension, hitting the ground hard, and landing from 6'5 in the air, I'd imagine that type of force could very easily tear a relatively small muscle on the back of the arm. I was at that game and it really wasn't a violent injury at all. Really no action that you don't really see every day. He probably came down on it the precise way you would have to for that kind of damage to occur, and he probably couldn't have done it if he tried to do it 10,000 times. He was definitely hurt, but at first I don't think even he thought it was all that serious. The White Sox didn't even know how injured he was until several days later. Remember David Wells sort of questioning him about not playing hurt? Frank still with the 1 homer and 4 rbi on the grand slam for the season. No other extra base hits. He's literally limping to 500.

QUOTE(knightni @ Apr 13, 2007 -> 12:38 PM) I beg to differ. I was in the old park in the eighties. It needed to be replaced. If you think it needed to be replaced in the 80s, you should have seen it in the 70s. Really run down. I have a coffee table book of the park from 1977. Reinsdorf should have had this book when he was angling for a newpark. Its quite evident that he and his group threw a lot of money into old Comiskey. But it was a great place to watch a game.

QUOTE(max power @ Apr 13, 2007 -> 06:05 AM) That dude sings like a wemun. Leave Geddy alone. He actually isn't nearly as high-pitched as he used to be, but he can still get up there on occassion. A lot of Rush cover bands do have female singers though.

Old Comiskey was great. I love Geddy, but I think he's wrong about the new park. I don't think he's been there since any of the renovations. His least favorite is Skydome and he's a Blue Jays season ticketholder right behind home. Rush in Tinley Sept 8. The new album May 1 is supposed to be awesome. Even Rolling Stone is handing them backhanded compliments.

According to weather.com there is a 30% chance of precipitation on Friday, a 10% chance on Saturday and a 40% on Sunday. As long as the field has been fixed from all the snowfall, they will be in Cleveland.

Steroids or not anyone who gets intentionally walked as much as Barry Bonds has to probably be the most intimidating ever.

Randy Johnson, Frank Thomas in his prime, Albert Belle.

I think it wouldn't be wise for the Indians to move the series unless its almost a lock they can't get at least 2 games in. They will lose so much money with the concessions, parking and the killer, no suite revenue. They don't have to draw as much in Cleveland as the do in Milwaukee to get more money. You are also at risk for alienating fans who may only have tickets to a game this weekend. If they play in Milwaukee and the weather is playable for any of the games in Cleveland, some fans will be pissed.

I have the feeling if Jenks threw 91 when the Angels waived him, KW probably wouldn't have claimed him. I couldn't care less what his velocity is as long as he gets outs, its just that there isn't much history to suggest closers that lose 7-8 mph off their fastballs can remain effective. Maybe he's the exception. I wish people would get off the "just like last year" with him argument. Does that mean his second half will be "just like last year"? It wasn't pretty. He needs to be better than last year when he came into camp woefully out of shape.

Let's see, Buerhle got shelled the second half of last year. He got shelled during spring training, and has been hit hard both starts this season. I'm not going to blame the umpires. I think he either has some sort of flaw where he's tipping his pitches, or he has lost his command and/or stuff. I am not encouraged.

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Apr 11, 2007 -> 11:10 AM) I am concerned, but not quite sure what to think. Part of me wonders what his weight loss program was like, and if it cost him either flexibility or strength (or both). If done wrong, a diet can do more harm than good. If Jenks really did lose 30 lbs. it looks like he found at least most of it. The pictures at the beginning of spring training did make him appear slimmer, but I now see no difference. I think there has to be concern considering the way he finished up the season last year, and he still is topping out at 93 or 94 and not hitting that most of the time. He reminds me of Bob James, a guy who threw very hard, took no care of himself and was gone quickly. Jenks most likely doesn't have a long career.

QUOTE(Felix @ Apr 10, 2007 -> 10:22 PM) Yes, but think of how many more opportunities there would be if he were actually being a productive hitter. Suppose he were to start getting hits instead of those weak groundouts to second with the runners on second and third. He would be so much more productive, and both his numbers and the teams performance would benefit greatly from it. The RBIs are too dependent on the players in front of him in the lineup that they just don't show a players performance during the year. If the players in front of CY aren't getting on, and he doesn't get the RBIs that he has thus far, how do you look at his season? I'd say its pretty crappy thus far, and the fact that the people in front of him have gotten in scoring position isn't going to change my opinion on it. Thats not really the point. The object of the game is to score more runs than the other team. The beautiful thing about baseball is that it doesn't necessarily take a hit to score a run, but if you read the earlier post, this guy does seem to hit pretty well with runners on base. He's obviously contributing greatly to the offense without getting on base very much. At least he's driving someone in. Using your theory, if he gets on all the time, he's just going to be dependent on someone else driving him in. At least he's producing. Driving in 8 runs in a week is being a productive hitter, regardless of his batting average.

McDowell should be in somebody's booth.

QUOTE(Wedge @ Apr 10, 2007 -> 09:58 PM) In other news... Twins getting hammered, down 10-1. Are the Yankees that good? Or are the Twins that bad. Getting shut down by Pavano took a little luster off of Danks' performance.

QUOTE(bmags @ Apr 10, 2007 -> 09:55 PM) is it just me or has WGN's presentation been f'n up all year. I've seen 3 games on wgn and they've had numerous scoreboard problems and today they've cut into every inning at least one pitch too late. It's getting on my nerves. I'm going with the conspiracy theory. Where's hangar?