Dick Allen

I must say El Duque has been great since the gopher ball.

QUOTE(SHAFTR @ Jul 23, 2005 -> 05:58 PM) as much as everyone complains about him, atleast Uribe always gets the Sac fly. Speaking about Sac Flies, I read something this morning about Adam Dunn being one of the worst situational hitters in baseball. He went 2 years without a sac fly. That just blew my mind.

There's the pop up. Konerko is not a money hitter. He should be batting 6th or 7th.

Pauly has a count. Don't pop up or hit a weak grounder.

Its time Pauly earned his paycheck .

Everett could not be standing any closer to the plate. He is right on it.

El Duque has been pretty impressive the last 2 innings.

That call was BS. He did lose the ball in the transfer, but he did not have his foot on the bag.

He looked pretty good that inning. That has to be the quickest inning he has ever had in a White Sox uniform.

QUOTE(fathom @ Jul 23, 2005 -> 05:26 PM) Holy f***ing s***. This is absolutely ridiculous. BTW.....AJP, please stop calling for fastballs down the plate to Manny. El Duque calls his own game. Its what caused the friction between he and Posada in NY. They hated each other. El Duque deck him once.

El Duque is done.

Has Nevin agreed to go to Baltimore? It is one of the teams on his no trade list. As far as Ponson goes, thank God the White Sox low balled him when he was a free agent. He has a lot of ability, but he make Jose Contreras look like the most consistent pitcher who ever lived. Maybe going to SD will do something for him. He was great in 2003 with Baltimore, and was pretty decent the second half of last season IIRC.

The other part of this is I read Philadelphia did tell KW he could have Wagner for Burnett. Then it becomes Marte/BMac for Wagner. Watching Hermanson last night, and for about the last 4 or 5 weeks, I really think it might be a good idea for the White Sox to get a closer. And I know people are going to jump all over me for that, because I think Hermy only has 1 blown save. Just when you're ripping, remember Shingo was 8 for 9 in save chances, and people were willing to pay for his plane ticket out of town. Wagner would be a godsend. However, you may be able to get Guardado for a cheaper price.

Ken Rosenthal of the Sporting News said Florida is going to pull the taking of Lowell requirement and that the Marlins want Marte and BMac for Burnett.

Why would Cincinatti want Konerko? Plus they already have too many outfielders, why would they want Sweeney? Why would Philadelphia want Contreras instead of Wagner?

QUOTE(Chisoxrd5 @ Jul 22, 2005 -> 12:33 PM) Could you hypothetically roll from the patio party to the bullpen sports bar and hang out there without ever actually having a game ticket?? No. You need a ticket to the game to enter the park.

If you remember spring training, Willie had a legitimate chance to win the job. He did not. The White Sox have the best record in baseball, and are 10 games ahead of Minnesota. Iguchi has been solid. There is only one reason Willie Harris isn't starting. That reason is Willie Harris.

QUOTE(Wedge @ Jul 22, 2005 -> 10:26 AM) Didn't Levine crack the Ozzie extension story? And it's not like something has gone down that Levine didn't hint at before... He did crack it, and it was initially denied. Speculation was he got his info directly from Ozzie because it was reported a couple days before in one of the gossip columns, he was out to dinner with Ozzie.

I think he started out 8-0 in the postseason. IIRC he is now 9-3. That's when he was a far more effective pitcher during the regular season. El Duque is nowhere close to a sure win in the playoffs even with healthy. He is also far from a sure thing even being available to pitch in the playoffs. We'll see how he does this weekend. People are calling it a playoff atmosphere. If you expect him to get bombed this weekend, you shouldn't expect anything else come October.

QUOTE(Al Lopez's Ghost @ Jul 22, 2005 -> 05:11 AM) ProSportsDaily.com today is quoting the Fort Lauderdale Sun Sentinel, which says that if Boston obtains Burnett, they might flip him for Billy Wagner. Which would suck a couple of ways, I'd say. I read somewhere where KW was told the same thing. If he could get them Burnett, they would give him Wagner. I'd much prefer Wagner to Burnett. Its truly questionable whether Burnett is an upgrade over the Count.

On the board tonight it said Vizcaino had an 0.60 ERA his last 10 outings. He gave up zero earned runs tonight. He had to get Manny Ramirez out twice after Joe Crede decided to look cool and do a little flip of his glove and dropped the ball. Most pitchers have had enough problems getting Ramirez out once in that situation. If people have a problem with Vizcaino tonight, they should also have a problem with Buerhle tonight, he coughed up some unearned runs as well. Boston is not the team you want to start kicking the ball around against.

He has a championship and another finals appearance the last 2 years and the Pistons are so sick of him they paid him to go away, so therefore just about everyone who knows who he is has to be sick of him.

QUOTE(robinventura23 @ Jul 21, 2005 -> 04:20 PM) Did Willie pack and leave the stadium, too? You know that could be it as well. As much as they felt they needed Willie around because of Crede's back, maybe now they think they need Gload around because of Frank's ankle and Dye's bug bite.

KW was just on AM1000 and mentioned nothing. Either the guy at WSI is full of it or there is something else to the story. Trade ? Maybe its to get him here in the event Dye needs to be DL'd? I wonder where the infection is? It looks like Frank was scheduled to have today off anyway.

Supposedly he has an infection from a bug bite and Timo will be patrolling rightfield tonight.