Harry Chappas

I will not give the pitching that much of a break but when the opponents spend the entire game hitting, they are bound to get on a roll. Tallet has thrown 43 pitches in 3 innings for god's sake. This is the american League you need to hit hte ball. For f***'s sake at least get a hit. Masset threw as many pitches that inning as Tallet has in three. Time to cut the lawn.

That looks like a hit and run and Iguchi saying f you I ain't swinging at that. Can't make 'em pay. he just swungat the same pitch he toook for he Uribe steal. I'd like 0 for 70 that sounds good. They can get close today.

The Owens K was as ideal of a pitch a hitter coud look for.

Comcast sucks 0-48 and a leftie...ballgame.

Well here comes the bullpen........

QUOTE(whitesoxfan101 @ Jun 3, 2007 -> 12:12 PM) Overbay was begging for a reason to not have to keep hitting. Not only did he swing at that, he didn't try to get out of the way. How pathetic. Uh oh, Ozzie gets the heave ho and he's not happy. This isn't Pinella-esque but he's really not happy. Yet another thing the stupidity of White Sox hitters are unable to exploit. When behind 0-2 or 1-2 getting hit by a pitch is a good thing. Why is it other teams can do it but the morons on the Sox can not comprehend this.

QUOTE(whitesoxfan101 @ Jun 3, 2007 -> 12:08 PM) Random note: Josh Fields with the day off today. Does it mean he's one of the changes tomorrow? No, but I can dream right. We're fortunate that didn't get out of here, and darn almost had him at 2nd. Maybe. The thought is to give Crede every third game off. If Fields at least held is own at short there is a chance he could be called up to play a little left or short if needed.

Nice job making them pay for intentianally walking a .252 hitter in the 3rd inning. That is embarassing. DJ with a rip, nice. 8 pitches low and away, dive over the plate......moron.

According to DJ, Crede to rise to the challenge. I bet not.

QUOTE(StrangeSox @ Jun 3, 2007 -> 11:56 AM) Making him work here. Nice to see a Sox player do that. Toronto should go to the pen.

Well pack up the bats and let Danks try and get he next 21 outs before giving up three runs.

I feel bad for Iguchi who has done everything right this series and has nothing to show for it.

QUOTE(fathom @ Jun 3, 2007 -> 11:41 AM) So Hawk is announcing for the people of Europe today. I wonder if he'll educate them about the likes of Catfish, Yaz, Kaline, etc. No way can we count on the return of Pods/Erstad. Both of them have injuries that are very easily reaggrevated. If neither comes back soon which I am not sure is likely this team is toast, unless Owens can produce the .350 OBP. This order right now aged like a dog over the winter and is now done. The only hope is that Iguchi and the lead-off hitter can do their thing. Actually this team needs a bench coach or somebody that can assist Ozzie in figuring things out. I was away yesterday. What was the reason for bringin in McDougal over Thorton in the 7th? AJ in the three whole is a great idea but you have to guess Ozzie has the good old blind faith in Thome-Dye-Konerko. Also Crede should be hitting 8th and Uribe 9th.

Crede and/or Dye need to be traded ASAP, Dye more so especially when Erstad or Podsednik come back. The lack of being able to make an adjustment by these hitters is down right pathetic and teams have figured these asswipes out.

The piss poor middle of this order better f***ing start to hit. Diving out of the way of the inside pitch on 0-2 is nice when you're not hitting .220. These f***jobs need to just put the bat on the ball. McGowan is not Burnett, Halladay or Chad Gaudin. Also the opponents bullpen HAS NOT GIVEN UP A HIT THIS ROAD TRIP. The White Sox are 0-41. Teams have figured how to pitch the White Sox and there is nothing they can do it about it unless they decide to do something about it. Offspeed pitches with movement are the death of them as they refuse to take a pitch and will continue to be. Again sorry for the negativity. Sad that outside of the rookie call-up, the rest of this team has been unable to get a run in 24 innings. I don't care who is pitching and who is injured, people making over $7M a year need to start producing. Enough already.

Buster Olney on BBTN stated that Lou Pinella is losing the club daily and the players on that team need to be cuddled more than being brow beat and there is a whole lot of negative vibe in there. As for Zambrano, he appears to be trying to pitch through an injury. If healthy with Guillen, I think it could work. Health is the issue. If Zambrano tanks, I see the cubs going hard at Buerhle although I believe he really hates Wrigley.

Just wanted to jump on and say this team has averaged under 3 runs a game for the last 9. The middle of this order needs ot be broken up via trade they suck. You get a glimpse at what simple baseball IQ can do. with Ownes and Iguchi. If we lose it is the hitting not he pitching. You need to score some f***ing runs. It is not up to the guys that are making under $3M and are a collective less than Iguchi and get hurt that is the problem. It is the 5 guys making a combined $45M that f***ing suck. Thome and AJ need to do something agaisnt right handed pitching. Sorry to be a downer. This ain't fun to watch.

QUOTE(Steff @ Jun 1, 2007 -> 03:32 PM) ^^, and it's something Z does more often than not. Any team would love to have him. He's a dick off the field, too. But like you said it doesn't matter. Show me production between the lines and I'm happy to send in my $$. I wish our guys had a bit more of a chip on their shoulders. Exactly this can be turned into a positive if it brings out a better effort. Guillen is the kind of guy that can get through to Zambrano.

He will sit on the bench as Mackowiak is hot and Danny Terreo is the only centerfielder on the team. Unless Owens is going ot take time from mackowiak which I guess he is going to as Ozzie needs a somewhat fast guy to lead off. Owens may be able to hit but he is Scott Podsednik and the Rob Mackowiak centerield version in the outfield. Mackowiak is finally hitting so this could be very interesting how how Ozzeroo plays with this. He should try Iguchi or mack leading off and tell them they can not swing until they have two strikes to start the game.

QUOTE(WHITESOXRANDY @ Jun 1, 2007 -> 01:41 PM) The Sox HAVE to trade him. No one can tell me that a guy with his veteran and World Series track record that's just thrown a 2-hitter yesterday after a NO HITTER last month won't be a hot commodity come the trade deadline. The Sox will NEED whatever he can bring them. Even if the Sox trade him, they can still sign him at then end of the season. Proven pitching does not hit .220. What they need is consistent, versitile hitters to surround durable pitchers. Not guys hat sprain their ankle swinging at a pitch. They need to lock up Garland and Buerhle for a long time to come and stop giving hitters big money.

The thing to do is get the Yanks a servicable pitcher via a three way deal think, Ervin Santana. The Yanks playoff staff would be Wang, Clemens, Petitte and Mussina. They need somebody to give them innings. I know Santana is struggling but get California involved in the deal and there could be somehting although I think they would more than likely want to go one-on-one with trading with the Yankees.

3-4-5 would've scored yesterday in the 10th though. Through 4 innings Jim Thome has seen 12 of the 43 pitches thrown to 12 batters. Baseball IQ is non-existent. At least his will be a quick death this evening.

This team is completly lost. 1st and 3rd 1 out guy is thrown out stealing........well at least DJ and Hawk think Erstad is godlike so he's gotta be good. That is as bad as it gets. Through 3 innings Halladay has three called strikes and 5 guys have swung at the first pitch. Nice job making the guy who hasn't pitched in 3 weeks work a little. This is just stupid.

For what it's worth Pods is to go for an MRI Monday and if all goes well (which is expected) begin a rehab assignment next week.

QUOTE(Gregory Pratt @ May 31, 2007 -> 12:25 PM) That was decided a long time ago and the results aren't positive. Come on, we all watch the same games. How can anybody think this team as is isn't average at best? Because there are players on this team that are above average, many of them. 80% of this team is underachieving. I think they ran out of gas last year......kind of like the Tigers are looking right now. You and many other people on this site need to stop looking at the last half of last season. If you are going to look at last year, look at the whole year not the second half and then the first part of this season. They won over 90 games last year. Will they this year.....who knows but the Tigers are within reach and as bad as the Sox have played they are still in it. For god sake it is May31st can they go on a run like the 06 Twins, 05 Indians, 02 Marlins, 83 Sox......I don't know but I am not going to say that because they have played average baseball over a span that is irrelevant that they are done. I will rather say this team hasn't played nearly as well as they can. Facing Halladay and Burnett will not be easy but they have to be better at wha they do and go from there.