Harry Chappas

2 of 3 for the cub would not be that surprising to me. Maddux always pitches good against us and Zambrano has been going good. We do not fair well against lefties so Saturday is by no means a cakewalk. They will be up, we better be as well. They also will be rested being at home, we fly in late Thursday for an afternoon game. I also hope we don't look past the Rays.

QUOTE(Dick Allen @ May 13, 2006 -> 08:40 PM) He looks like the second coming of Santana. Could we trade AJ for Liriano and Nathan? How does that guy keep his job. Latroy hawkins for anyhting.

I like both charts, thanks. I like to see what we are drawing and there was some pretty serious work put in on these and hadn't seen them in a while. I did not mean to have any cub talk in this.

Can the cat that did all of the charting for attendance reappear. I am to lazy to look for it but it was a cool little graph with some great detail. Two sell-outs against the Royals and 60K plus thus far in this series has got to be nice. This stems from the Trib gig about the attendance.

I take the losses as hard as anyone. Ask anyone who saw me Friday. Last night would have been great and could have really killed the Halos. We had no business being in that game. My problem is that Ozzie seems to get in trouble when he goes to the pen to often. McCarthy or Cotts would have been fine to finish. Why only let Jenks face two guys. If you want him in bring him in to start with or not at all. He did this with Thorton the other day. The best thing about last night was McCarthy getting his groove back in order to give him a start Monday or Tuesday if today is rained out. Jenks is fine all is still well. Charlie.........................well McCarthy has to feel a tad better about himself.

My take is that there will always be pain and discomfort and he may be thinking, I can do this for three months with pain killers and what not but not for a whole season.

His agent is driving the bus and is not the type to do anything for the good of the organization.

For May 19th.......1908

It is probably some sort of sponsorship thing and teams can phase them overtime.

QUOTE(Whitewashed in '05 @ May 8, 2006 -> 03:38 PM) So the only thing that's keeping this thread going is that Count might have a small ache in the back... Like Hermanson has..........

Wasn't a relative of Chuck's a poster here? The credence to the story is this. Can the Angels hit a knuckleball? Haegar can not come out of the pen. Therefore I can see him get a first look.

Rumor as in the guy next to you or a credible source rumor???? Someone would have had to have been moved for this to happen.

My thoughts; Mackowiak is showing he can not be relied on as anyhting more than a 24 or 25th man. Jenks pitched three days in a row he should not have been in that game at all. Now he is unavailable the rest of this series in my mind. Thorton looked great in the 8th and he should have gone longer in the 9th. His problem is that he has trouble putting guys away Bloomquist the other night and Guiel last night. Last night it was cold and pitchers have trouble getting warm, see both bullpens. My problem with Guillen's use of the bullpen is this, either go with your gut or go with the lefty/righty thing. The sad thing about last night is later in the season we will be b****ing about teams getting to play the Royals while we are playing tough teams. You have to beat the Roayls. Oh and the Sox sent 19 men to the plate through 6 inninngs, that is not good.

I have eaten more crow in the last year.....the taste never leaves my mouth. I will still complain and second guess, that is the best thing about baseball. I am not used to following a team that actually is better than everyone else and having a manager that is becoming very good at winning.

Let Logan, McCarthy and Thorton get work. There is no reason for Buerhle to still be in this game. This is really bad managing all day.

You can add Mackowiak to the list of guys that should be looking until they get a strike especially after the long at-bat by Konerko.

If there is a pitch count and Uribe, Anderson and Ozuna swing before they at least have one strike they should be benced following the at-bat. The Indian bullpen is overworked.

I believe Farmer mentioned Konerko's slow start last night. I think Brantley was just confused and that comment could have been overlooked but stating that Papelbon is the best player in baseball is just stupid. Isn't Jenks younger and more experienced??????????? If Jenks pitched in NY or Boston there would have been a whole segment on the 9th inning--- 4 batters, 11 pitchers, 1 broken bat single, 3 strikeouts----that is sick.

After seeing that I think it will be a pretty long time. Regardless of who is calling what this was not a toss or a flip. He threw the bat, again the year sounds about right.

When talking about their greatest White Sox moments recently, DJ--- hitting a homerun on Opening Day 1999, his last Opening Day Hawk --- winning the World Series This was an answer to an e-mail question which maybe DJ misunderstood but it also tells of who appreciates the organization more. In terms of career achievement Hawk being named GM would be greater then the Sox winning the series although he kind of stays away from this subject.

QUOTE(Wanne @ Apr 26, 2006 -> 07:14 PM) Who's really positive that he's got back spasms? Maybe it's the "phantom" spasms and Ozzie just really doesn't want to pitch him this series being Seattle and all. Just convenient it came right before the Seattle series IMO. Who knows.... He hasn't pitched in over two weeks.

He looked servicable but still unable to consistently throw strikes when needed. He also was hit pretty hard and benefitted from the ballpark. I think Thorton brings more to the table but hasn't been used much. Cotts, Politte, McCarthy and Jenks will make it really hard to get these two into any games with the starting pitching going as they are, assuming the other four are doing as they have.

QUOTE(whitesoxfan101 @ Apr 23, 2006 -> 03:45 PM) They play in the national league, so they aren't going to be playing against good teams very often..... The Marlins and Pirates could be two of the worst teams I have seen. The NL in total is very weak. I really can not think of a good team. Every team has at least one glaring weakness.

QUOTE(Gene Honda Civic @ Apr 24, 2006 -> 12:28 AM) Paul Konerko (May 5th 2005) -- .190/.302/.430 -- To think some people here thought he would match his 40/117 performance from '04. Jermaine Dye (May 13th 2005) -- .192/.230/.358 -- To think some people here thought he could replace Maggs. /me thinks its a little early to be tossing around the "to thinks" Michaels is IMHO a little bit better than Mackowiak.

QUOTE(SoxPride56 @ Apr 25, 2006 -> 09:22 AM) Am I the only one that thinks Uribe could have stopped that ball from going into the outfield? I think he could have dove for it, and kept the runner at 3rd. I like to b**** so I will run with this. Uribe did a few things badly yesterday. Not sure if I am being overly critical but he swung at some horrendous pitches. The ball that Ichiro hit was perfectly placed. Both the tying and winning runs were 12 hoppers/rollers with nobody in site. I was fine, almost happy with the lineup as Moyer has made us look sad before. They got some nice hacks off Putz for once and hit Guardado. I think Tad may get the day off for Cintron today. If I wasn't up until 12:15 I wouldn't have cared.