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http://www.suntimes.com/sports/baseball/wh...T-sox21.article Lots of good Ozzie (I can't say I disagree with anything he said for a change, except our stadium holding 50,000 fans) quotes with some more stuff from KW...

http://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/baseb...0,190323.column Phil Rogers' take on the early season struggles of White Sox, and possible recovery prognosis...

White Sox 4-1 on Monday and Wednesday. BTW, what was the attendance tonight? Just curious. I didn't see it in the box score at MLB.com. 19,260. Hmmmm.....

Yeah, there's no way you can play Kotsay over Jones for now...it wouldn't even be remotely in the proximity of stupid/foolhardy.

We'd be so much better with Crawford than Pierre it wouldn't even be close to funny/

Jenks at even 96 is a huge difference from 92-94...the Billy Koch Effect, I call it.

Jenks up to 96. I think he remembers last year all to well.

C'mon Alexei and AJ, wake up. We have to get something from the bottom of the order.... OMG, I just noticed that AJ has a lower OPS than Pierre. I didn't think that was possible, unless you were Andy Gonzalez or Esteban Beltre.

Back to "good" Paulie again. Great to see...if only that can kick over to Pierre, Beckham and Quentin's direction, we'd be fine.

"For me to be critical of hypersensitive fans the way I watch baseball games and care about what's going on on a day-to-day basis, you guys know me too well," Williams said. "That's what you pay for. You can't have it both ways. "If you have a passionate fan base, you have to be prepared for a heightened sense of urgency or worry when things don't go your way -- just as you are the beneficiary of extreme excitement when it does go your way. You got to take the good and bad with it. Right now, everyone is a little upset with the way we're playing. So are we. "One thing I've personally had to change about this business, if I'm going to have any staying power: I have to manage myself a little better in terms of that football mentality, and I've had it in the past, where I watch every baseball game, 162 games like a football game," Williams said. "Try having that stress on your body and how you feel at the end of the season." So, for the immediate future, Williams holds a positive outlook and the same sort of postseason hope he had for this team in January at SoxFest and in March during Spring Training. In the past, Williams has talked about needing 60 games to get an accurate read on his team, but there's no doubt Tuesday's lively version of Williams won't be so happy if these struggles continue for another week or two. "It's 60 [games] if you're playing decent," Williams said. "If you continue to play like this, then it's probably not 60. I'll figure it out before then. "There have been some times we haven't capitalized off opportunities which could have turned the game in our favor. But it is what it is. It's 13 games."

Jenks REALLY struggled against this team last year. But you HAVE to go to him, we can't treat Danks like Justin Verlander.

Danks now over 100. I think this will be a game where there will be some recognition that Ozzie trusts his starters and USUALLY has a pretty good feel for them. Although that certainly backfired with PEAVY last time out.

Beckham putting up a similar line to Chris Getz last year. Ouch. Pierre with 455 OPS. Double ouch.

QUOTE (chisoxfan09 @ Apr 20, 2010 -> 09:01 PM) He is on his way to having an atrocious FPT. It nust be hovering around .900 with 3 errors so far. He is killing us at 3rd. Teahen made another error? I was just hearing how great he's been playing in another thread, except for the CLE 2 run error. Well, at least hit in on the ground AND sharply. That's some sort of progress, I guess.

Danks is the man!!! Give him anything he wants KW, we need to push him into that first year of FA with a new 3 year contract extension.

Andruw Jones, for the moment, looks like the most valuable trade piece on our team if it comes to that. Might turn out to be one of KW's Top 10 moves if this keeps up. But he started well in TEX last year as well and then really fell off, so I guess it's best to remain healthily skeptical.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Apr 20, 2010 -> 08:50 PM) ME AND MR JONES Do they play that Counting Crows song for Andruw when he bats?

Cue Balfour/O-Cab dust kicking incident video.

BOS in serious jeopardy of going 4-10...crazy. Minnesota predictably beating CLE at home and the Royals blow another lead at TOR. We'll be tied with KC at 5-9 if we can hold off the Rays tonight.

Great job, Danksie. So much stress on the starters and bullpen, let's hope that we can hold them off, because the offense is what it is right now. I'll never forget that grand slam Zobrist hit, it was off Thornton, wasn't it???

QUOTE (SouthsideDon48 @ Apr 20, 2010 -> 06:50 PM) sheesh, that sucks! I hate how they decided to put the Blackhawks on the regular CSN channel, because I don't even care about the Blackhawks or hockey. Wonder if they would have done the same thing in April. 2006? Had there been a conflict with hockey and the Sox? Hypothetically speaking...

Probably my favorite memory, besides going to Hooter's every night with the coaching staff and having an unlimited free supply of ballpark food...was going on the road in 1995 to beat Jaret Wright in Colombus in a one game, sudden death playoff. That guy was an absolute monster back then...just scary good. We somehow beat him 1-0. That's when Cleveland was producing all those young quality hitters like Sexson, Casey, Giles, etc.

YEP. Hopefully standard means Kotsay now has a "standard/regular" place wearing out the bench except when he's needed to PH or play D for Paulie in the late innings.

And the Yankees/Mets/Sawx would invoke their "territoriality" priviledges and scream until they were blue in the face. Look at how long and hard Angelos fought over Washington getting a team that close to BALT. Just wait and see what happens if San Antonio ever tried, the Houston/Texas franchises would go absolutely nuts blocking it.

I wasn't worried about Reed at all. I was more concerned about Olivo getting his offensive act together and becoming a dominant catcher, but his game-calling and strategic side never evolved defensively. He was like a two-trick pony, that arm and pop/speed from the offensive side. And I liked the versatility of Morse, Seattle really tried to find a home for him at different positions, but he was a "tweener" everywhere you put him on the diamond, like a 6'3" small forward in the NBA. I don't know the actual number, but Abbott hit around .400 for most of the year with Hickory in 1993/1994, one of those years. It was unbelieveable. He overshadowed Ordonez at that point....in fact, it was 94 I'm pretty sure, because I was working in Augusta. JD came in one night and used my phone, he was playing for Macon. Andruw Jones the next year, I saw him maybe 20 times when he was already a legend at 17-18 or whatever his age was back then. Also, Vladimir Guerrero and Ruben Rivera were the Gods then. Missed Jeter's massive error display at Greensboro by one year. Jose Guillen was the best player on our team...since I spoke Spanish, and he didn't, I always had to help him out. He'd actually stabbed one of his teammates in Bradenton, the Pirates were scared to death of his personality even then but also scared to death not to promote him to A ball and see what type of a diamond in the rough they had. That guy had a monster arm, 2nd to VLAD and ahead of Dye back then. Could do everything but run, just amazingly talented. And he's really a small/short guy if you see him in person. I remember him going into McDonald's all the time trying to struggle to order a hamburger, that always cracked me up big-time.