JohnCangelosi

About one inning too late Ozzie. LOL, what a f***ing joke this organization is. YOU COULD SEE JAKE LOST IT in the 5th. Everyone saw it. f*** you Ozzie, really.

This one is on Ozzie. The whole board knew he should have someone READY in the 6th. Jake had nothing left in the 5th, but got through the inning, and they have 2,3,4 coming up. And now we got Ohman loosening? LOL, it's like we don't see how important this game can be. What a joke of a manager we have, 80% of this board would have had someone else starting in the 6th.

Didn't this whole board see this coming? The decisions from Ozzie are mind boggling.

QUOTE (kapzk @ Jul 26, 2011 -> 08:35 PM) CLE on verge of another walk off win That clown Walden, the closer for the Angels, sucks

Ozzie better get someone up for the 6th. Seems Jake is losing his command and action a bit.

We're stuck with the guy, all we can do is hope he finds his sanity again and can do that 2-3 times a week and we'll take control of the division

I have a hard time believing Alex would be in the lineup tonight if they had plans of dumping him tomorrow, as you figure word would get back to him somehow someway and he'd dog it even more

QUOTE (fathom @ Jul 26, 2011 -> 06:54 PM) If he could trade him and eat 50%, I'd be thrilled. Heck, at this point, I'd be fine with eating 99% of it. I think the effort to get to Peralta's pop up last night really pissed off management, not to mention the near collision with Pierre that would have been disasterous. Alex's head isn't in the game so it's time to give someone else a chance. Although I have to say, Peralta's pop up should have been Alexei's ball from my vantage point, as Rios was playing deep on the play from what I understood... I don't know how they can get De Aza up here without DL'ing Rios though?

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jul 26, 2011 -> 12:58 PM) Can't wait to see it. Still hoping it's of him standing at the plate staring at the pitcher with the bat just above his shoulder. That's how I'll always think of him. You can just imagine the panic going through that pitcher's mind. Indeed. Unless your name was Jeff Nelson, that was true.

QUOTE (The Ginger Kid @ Jul 25, 2011 -> 10:36 AM) I'm psyched...the first "big" series of the season, imo. This one is crucial. To their credit, Tigers are trying to grab this division and run with it right now. We've been hanging around and everyone's wondered when/if we'd make a move. Now is the time. Please don't tell me Below is a soft tossing lefty???

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jul 25, 2011 -> 07:29 AM) If he works out of the bullpen, he's not "Getting a little extra rest". Exactly why I don't think he'll ever see any action out of there unless we have a pitcher go down with a bad injury early in the game...

Edwin has got his run, now shut them down as who knows if we'll get another...

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Jul 19, 2011 -> 05:54 PM) Well, I thought I could do it, too. I was always telling them I could get a hit in one of the games....and NO WAY could I get a hit in the major leagues. When I worked for the Augusta GreenJackets, Bruce Tanner (former Sox pitcher, Chuck's son) let me take BP one day. He kept sawing me off inside and I was flipping a bunch of balls to 2B and Crede pop-ups to RF. I'm sure he was probably throwing only 70-80 MPH. Then I had the bright idea of hitting with the fungo bat and I swung so hard that it flew out of my hands way into the stands down the 3B/LF line and the fungo bat shattered. That was the end of my taking BP with the team, lol. Those fungo bats are expensive, and there's not really any good reason for one to break, so I appreciated that they covered for me with the Pirates and got a new one sent and I didn't have to pay for it. They also timed my "fastball" and it was 78-80 mph, haha. The scout said he did like my "long arm action" and release. 80 MPH not too shabby! Interesting, all I've done is taken some BP in the cage where they serve up some serious heaters, but that can't be anything like the real thing in the bigs, not even close. No way is .065 possible for a layman.

QUOTE (kwolf68 @ Jul 19, 2011 -> 05:41 PM) I do get your point, but I would say no you couldn't hit .065 in the bigs (unless of course you ARE the man, John Cangelosi himself). I respect the game too much to think anyone 'off the street' could do it even at that hilariously bad clip. I had a pretty good baseball career and was asked to walk-on for my college team, but honestly knowing what I know about the sport...if I were given 4 at bats for 162 games against big league pitching I probably wouldn't even foul one off until September. Enuff said - I didn't play past 18 years old and that was 20 years ago! :-)

QUOTE (JohnCangelosi @ Jul 19, 2011 -> 05:26 PM) I told a friend yesterday I could bat .065 in the bigs. Haven't swung a bat in years. Am I on crack? I used to be a pretty good contact hitter back in the day... Probably on crack. But as you can imagine, the conversation came up when we were watching the game and he saw Dunn's BA. (He doesn't follow the Sox, so he didn't have a clue to how bad things really are)

QUOTE (greg775 @ Jul 19, 2011 -> 05:10 PM) It's hard to hit .158. This is like a bad dream. I told a friend yesterday I could bat .065 in the bigs. Haven't swung a bat in years. Am I on crack? I used to be a pretty good contact hitter back in the day...

Seems that Humber lost his release point that inning, let's hope he gets it back in the bottom half

Anyone know what PK's allstar bonus was this year?

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jul 17, 2011 -> 11:38 AM) Read the Trib today to see Walker talking about Rios swing and what he is doing wrong. Here's the online article for the out of towners... http://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/baseb...0,5928417.story

QUOTE (bucket-of-suck @ Jul 17, 2011 -> 11:18 AM) Oz needs to stop with this batting Rios 7th. Bump AJ up and bury Rios 8th or 9th. And he must have lost confidence in the stealth elf as well, because Rios hasn't hit a ball hard in weeks it seems but he still keeps getting starts.

Glad Ozzie didn't go with the B team. We owe Penny a pay back from that game he threw against us in April or whenever it was. Really need to see Humber back to his "old self" after his last outing.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Jul 17, 2011 -> 11:02 AM) I'll hand it to Dick Allen, he's always been consistent in his defense of Walker. You gotta admire that, at least. He raises lots of valid points. Not that many of us necessarily agree, but it's healthy to have that debate instead of just a one-sided crucifixion (unless it has to do with Dunn/Rios). And even I will agree with that as well.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Jul 17, 2011 -> 07:44 AM) "Gordo" started with his own swing and Walker ruined him? Beckham changed his swing from the time he was drafted, and most scouts who thought he would be a bust changed their minds. He also started out hitting about .100, until he got very hot, guess what, working with Walker. Get your facts straight. Rios was acquired on waivers because he sucked. He initially sucked with the White Sox, worked with Walker over the winter and had a great first half of 2010. He has fallen apart since. You call players "mental midgets" and then blame coaches for their failures. The guys that work for you and work 60 hour weeks but can't get the job done, how is that their fault? Shouldn't it be yours? You should fire yourself. Beckham was no different than most every other rookie in his first few weeks with butterflies and still getting adjusted to the show- you know you should throw those first few weeks out because of that, but no, you'll conveniently use them to support your baseless opinion. His swing didn't change from the minute he came up to the end of the 2009 season, so let's quit the nonsense that Walker helped him out of his early rut which 90% of rookies go through if not 100%. The truth is once Walker got time to get inside his head he hasn't developed at nearly the rate we expected out of him. I gotta believe that Gordon has gone through mental midget phases BECAUSE OF WALKER. Yes, coaches can get inside of young players heads. He clearly has the talent, but is getting in his own way, probably overwhelmed with mechanics etc versus just reacting and swinging the bat like he did when he came up in 2009. But you're right, Walker is great, Ozzie makes all the right decisions, and Walker's record of track record of success in developing young talent is flawless. Politics may be a good future role for you or perhaps you can join Rongey on the post game show. Regarding my employees, it is my responsibility to get the right people in the right spot and let them do their thing. When I miscalculate, I ADJUST AND MAKE CHANGES. But in a world where performance doesn't matter and you have a job for life (like working for the White Sox or being a Post Office Employee) then you can sit there and blame others for your failures and take no responsibility. Isn't that convenient. In my world, I am not afforded that luxury, as I actually have to deliver otherwise I'll be on the street. Too bad it's not the same for the White Sox or we might see a team that actually plays up to its ability and gives the fans what they deserve.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Jul 16, 2011 -> 08:29 PM) If you look at the Sox pitching and hitting league rankings since Walker took over, the offense has ranked higher than the pitching 4 times and the pitching has ranked higher than the offense 4 times. I'd bet anything the White Sox spend more money per pitcher than per position player. Walker is fine. Your comparison to your company is hilarious, I guess you don't want Walker or any hitting coach working with players. If you look at the hitting results, it appears they need the extra work. Walker is willing to put that work in. Sign Albert Pujols and players like that and you could have me be the hitting coach, but the Sox can't do that. When our offense was going good we'd still have issues with scoring 8 runs one game and then 1 the next. We've never had a consistent scoring attack since 2005 offensively, and the onus needs to be put somewhere. Secondly, I agree with Caulfield that part of the hatred towards Walker stems from his inability to get Gordo back to anything close to where he was when he entered the league with HIS OWN SWING. If you want to simply ignore this fact to support your own viewpoint, so be it, but the proof is in the pudding IMO. Gordon started with his own swing and now has been a mental midget for the better part of 2 years. And I also take issues with the fact that when Rios hit well with us it was at the very beginning of his tenure with Walker, before he got into his head, as well. These are just facts. Is it all Walkers fault? No. I don't blame him for the debacle Dunn has been, but a change of any sort would certainly be welcome there. The reality is it seems he cannot get out of his own way- his intentions are good, and he is a hard worker, but he ISN'T PERFORMING and for that he should be fired. Of course Ozzie is so pig headed that he won't change anything that clearly isn't working, with the exception of blaming it all on the players and pulling a few of them from their roles. We've all seen the unwillingness to make any obvious changes from this organization and that is probably the most frustrating thing about it when you break it down.

Anyone else watching this Twins game? Funny, the announcers just mentioning that they will gain ground on the top 2 teams in the division if they can hold the lead in the 9th. The way he said it was like the White Sox aren't even on the radar for these guys, and I guess you cannot blame them considering they own us....hopefully we can turn things around and become respectable with them again