Harry Chappas

The thing that will make Beckham great or Mike Caruso is his baseball I.Q. Does he have the knowledge and fortitude to support his baseball talent when the league adjusts or he goes in a slump. If the answer is yes well then the Sox have something between Carney Lansford and Robin Yount If the answer is no, the Sox have something between Greg Norton and Carney Lansford

QUOTE (witesoxfan @ Aug 6, 2009 -> 07:54 AM) anyone remember what happened the last time these two faced each other? Ya Danks gave up a three spot in the first which is the same thing he did to the Dodgers which cost us a sweep. Thanks for bringing it up.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Aug 5, 2009 -> 09:33 PM) ? I've never understood how someone can build a team that can win 100 games during the regular season, but somehow they aren't built to win 3 of 5 or 4 of 7 in a playoff series. Please explain. Watch the cubs. Built to feast on s*** pitching....s*** pitching is gone by the playoffs...... and good enough pitching ot beat s*** hitting teams.......s*** hitting teams do not really make the playoofs and if they do their pitching and defense is lights out.

Floyd should have already had a complete game shut out except for the errors. Good to see the middle of the order do something.

I really want to think this team can win and on paper they should but they are so fundamentally bad at just about every defensive position that they need to score much more then they currently are. Floyd is going to get screwed yet again.

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Aug 5, 2009 -> 02:31 PM) Hmm. Wtf. Nix is a nice sub and all but he needs to get back to bench duties. Day game tomorrow will most likely get Wise and Ramirez back out there. They have not missed Alexi. Kotsay has not been seen for a few games either.

QUOTE (bighurt574 @ Aug 5, 2009 -> 02:04 PM) Although the Buehrle theme gave the team an excuse to lower ticket prices (I buy into that), your theory assumes that the lower ticket prices are the only reason for the increased attendance. I'm not convinced that's the case. One, at least some fans probably did "fall for" the Buehrle theme. Two, there could be other factors at play -- i.e. it's August and the team is right in contention; coming off a good series against NY; excitement about the Peavy trade; excitement about a certain ROY candidate; etc. In other words, in going from the "control" to the "experimental" group, the price isn't the only factor that has changed. Check out a the attendance on half priced Monday. I don't get it as the cost of goods inside the park does not change.

QUOTE (knightni @ Aug 5, 2009 -> 11:21 AM) http://wordsmith.org/anagram/anagram.cgi?a...;t=1000&a=n Good Benchmark For what greatness looks like at 22.

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Aug 5, 2009 -> 09:45 AM) I'm wondering when opposing managers try coming up with 'the Beckham rules' like they tried to do against Jordan in the NBA. Curtis Granderson just walked out of this thread

2008 Carlos Quentin is in awe of Gordon Beckham An almost anagram for Gordon Beckham is......... God ran back home......

QUOTE (Brian @ Aug 4, 2009 -> 09:29 PM) Bad news NL, Pujols is out of his slump. Ya but Tom Gorzalnaey will carry Big Blue to the title

QUOTE (TheBigHurt @ Aug 4, 2009 -> 10:26 PM) What in the blue hell was that? Not sure but I am laughing like those silly high school girls watching pranca run.

I posted in the game thread but I will state here that Pods got a great pitch to hit because Beckham was on deck. The $40M plus payroll of Jose, Dye, Konekro, and Thome can join in whenever they'd like. Great job by the pen...

QUOTE (tommy @ Aug 4, 2009 -> 10:14 PM) Where has he been? cubs road trip Gordon Beckham won that game.......................... How you ask????????? By being the bad muther f***er that was going to walk them off thus Pods got himself a cookie and unlike the 3-4-5 hitters crushed it It is amazing what happens when there are not three automatic outs in the game.....s*** there ain't an easy out no more.

The middle three right now are painful to watch hit. They get the occasional homer but then have simply woeful at-bats. Konerko is not really that bad but it seems Dye gets the occasional homer and Thome the occasional walk. One good game a week is not what they all are all making over $10M to do. I'd like a Derek Lee type roll for about 10 games.

If Dye, Konerko and Thome get their s*** together this team walks away with this division.

The Peavy deal allows them to move Danks or Floyd and only need to find a number 4 in the rotation........

QUOTE (Thunderbolt @ Aug 2, 2009 -> 11:23 AM) Really? Because this is a lot faster of a timetable then the Padres ever had him on. If this is true, Peavy is going to be here sooner than a lot of us expected. The Padres were not going to have him pitch this year as there was no need for it. He was going to be traded in the off season and they did not wnat to risk his value dropping. He said he wanted to be back by the end of August with them and they said no.

QUOTE (dasox24 @ Aug 2, 2009 -> 02:47 AM) "slays puss like no other" Sorry but I love that quote still.

The difference in this series is the ability of the White Sox to score against the Yanks bullpen and keep the pressure off of the White Sox bullpen.

After tonight they will need the 5th starter at home against Cleveland adn KC before Aug 25th.

Stone saying that Peavy was in no hurry to come back..

So when Rolen is out most of next year with and injury will JP lose his job for not selling high on him?

QUOTE (The Ginger Kid @ Jul 31, 2009 -> 12:32 PM) Apparently Morneau and Mauer made it known they were pissed that no deals were in the works to go for it this season. After watching him play defense, they will be even more pissed. Unless they move him to second. His bat will help.

QUOTE (ChiSox_Sonix @ Jul 31, 2009 -> 10:42 AM) Looks like it's for Luke French (who?) and another prospect French doesn't even appear in their BA top 10 prospects list I had him in fantasy baseball when he was a two start guy. He did ok. He has been up for a few weeks. Seemed like a lot ot give up although Washburn could be a Type A free agent and has been doing well.