StrangeSox

QUOTE(Wealz @ Aug 27, 2006 -> 10:54 AM) He won a WORLD SERIES with the Chicago White Sox for goodness sake. Won 99 games, went 11-1 in the postseason, with a team that many didn't think would finish higher than third in its division, some said fourth, before the season started. That's why no one is near Guillen's level. Kenny Williams traded for Vazquez, gave up an awful lot for him and is paying him big money. How should Guillen handle him? I don't understand what's been bad about the handling of Anderson or McCarthy. I don't understand how you can believe that. The pitching carried this team last year, plain and simple. It was OK for Guillen to leave guys in until the 7th or 8th because they were just pitching that well. The bullpen was also untouchable, for the most part. Guillen could stick Pollite, Cotts, Hermanson, or Jenks out there and it didn't matter. If you think that another manager couldn't have won with that team, you're delusional. Guillen should pull Vazquez before he implodes like clockwork. He does it almost every single start: get into the third time through the lineup, and he gets knocked around. PULL HIM BEFORE THIS HAPPENS. McCarthy is rotting away in the pen, rarely being used and often having his role change. Use him effectively. If this is what they wanted to do with him this year, they should have kept him in AAA to keep getting starts or traded him away for a good player at the deadline. Right now he's basically a waste and Ozzie has made it clear that he doesn't think that highly of him. Anderson hit poorly for about half the season. Defensively, he's always been at least good if not "great" or "one of the best in the league." Offensively, he's turned it around since the ASB, pulling his once-terrible AVG up to ~.227. Mackowiak is a butcher out in CF and screws up every time he's out there. At least once a game he screws up a play and often it leads to a run. Offensively, he's now no better than Anderson. There is NO REASON AT ALL that Anderson should be sitting on the bench, aside from every once in a while for some rest. This BS of sitting him every other day is just retarded.

Damnit. Crede not so clutch there.

AJP HBP

Awww yeah!

I love you JD.

Has the "fake to third go to first" ever worked?

Nice break for the Sox!

QUOTE(BigSqwert @ Aug 27, 2006 -> 01:48 PM) Take a chill pill. Put him on ignore if you can't stand his posts. Some people take sports a little too seriously. Nice bunt Pods.

QUOTE(Greg Hibbard @ Aug 27, 2006 -> 10:43 AM) I wonder if fans of every team quit so easily on their team when they are 1.5 games out of a playoff spot in August I guess we need a "Anyone who thinks that this team can catch Minnesota is crazy" fanclub. The concern isn't that the Sox are only 1.5 games back of the WC race; the concern is that they have been slipping further and further back since the ASB now, and aside from a few flashes of brilliance, have shown no signs of turning it around. Unless Minn. and Detriot completely fall apart, the Sox' current level of play will lead to some golf outings in early October.

QUOTE(Wealz @ Aug 27, 2006 -> 10:34 AM) Far from great? Call it like it is, the starting pitching has been brutal. Give any other manager THIS year's starters and they are nowhere near 5.5 games behind the best team in baseball, in the toughest division in baseball. The pen hasn't been much better either. Why do you think no one else is near Ozzie's level? How can you possibly support the way he's handled Vazquez, BMac, and Anderson?

QUOTE(The Critic @ Aug 27, 2006 -> 09:45 AM) Good teams make good managers in general, not only in Ozzie's case. I agree completely, that was my point. I was responding to the "they wouldn't have won with anyone but Ozzie" comment.

QUOTE(greg775 @ Aug 27, 2006 -> 02:20 AM) I can't believe after last year anybody would want Oz gone so quickly. That is so f***ing ridiculous I can't beliieve it. We won the f***ing World series. You think we would have won it with ANYBODY but Oz? Give me a break. I mean criticism is fine. But this team's pitching has been HORSEs*** Is that Oz's fault??? If you want Oz gone, fine, bring in Piniella or LaRussa when he gets fired after this season. I wish Oz well as he manages the next 25 years in some other city. He'll win several World Series. s***, he's already won 2. Ozzie Guillen is not a good, but a GREAT manager. You give Joe Torre, Leyland, Gardenhire, etc. the success of the White Sox pitching staff last year and they win, easly. The pitching this year has been far from great. Part of that is Oz's fault because he routinely leaves his pitchers in too long and misuses the bullpen. Another part is playing a different lineup every day and not putting the best defense out onto the field.

I really, really, really wish someone would just ask Ozzie point blank why he thinks Mackowiak should ever play CF. EVERY TIME he's out there he blows at least one play and usually costs at least 1 run. On the other hand, Anderson has made some great run-saving, game-winning plays and has finally come around at the plate. And don't even get me started on the crap with BMac. Ozzie is just not a good manager, period. His "style" worked last year because the players were still able to execute when put into bad situations. Now that this strategy clearly isn't working, Ozzie has done nothing to change or adapt. He leaves the starters in too long, misuses the bullpen, and puts out retarded lineups every other night.

Does anyone else find it retarded to declare a war on things like cancer and drugs? WTF does that even mean?

QUOTE(southsideirish71 @ Aug 25, 2006 -> 08:25 PM) Its almost time to warm up the pen. 2nd time through the lineup, once we get to 3 its magic time. I'm pretty sure Ozzie thinks there's a rule that starting pitches have to pitch into the 7th.

Gooch flashing some leather.

QUOTE(southsideirish71 @ Aug 25, 2006 -> 08:21 PM) Plus he had the ball well before Gload even was turning at third. The hot dog guy could of thrown him out from the OF on that one. The throw was gunned straight to the catcher. Its not like he was out half way down the line.

QUOTE(Felix @ Aug 25, 2006 -> 08:18 PM) I missed the first 2.1 innings (saw the DP!), so someone explain to me why Cora sucks this time? He sent a runner who got thrown out at home. To his credit, the LF had a perfectly aimed throw and it was still close.

HUGE DP!

QUOTE(Balta1701 @ Aug 24, 2006 -> 10:59 AM) Actually, there's been a fair amount of debate as to actually how Plan B works...a bunch of different ideas have been presented...that it prevents release of the egg, that it prevents conception, that it prevents implantation, etc. I don't have a link right now, but IIRC, the most recent evidence has gone in the direction of suggesting that the main way it works is the first of those...preventing release of the egg. It may also do the others, and it's not a 100% case yet, but that seems to be the primary means. And, just to make another point...you say it's "a different story" that the egg doesn't implant. So what is your reaction to the fact that failure to implant is actually something that happens at least a non-trivial amount of times on its own? I've read that it depends on when exactly during the cycle that the sex occurs. Most times, it'll simply prevent the egg from dropping. However, if the egg already has dropped, it can prevent it from attaching.

QUOTE(mreye @ Aug 17, 2006 -> 09:10 AM) I don't usually get too upset about individual losses, but I was ready to punch a hole in the wall last night. Wow. Anderson has a 6 game hitting streak and is hitting .444 over that span. Ozzie, tell me why this 24 year old needs a rest! Ozzie Guillen is a terrible manager and I hope he's gone next year.

I'm done with this game.

Ah s***.

This team is so damned frustrating to watch sometimes.

QUOTE(TitoMB345 @ Aug 13, 2006 -> 01:55 PM) What happened?? Bases-clearing 3 RBI double for Cintron.