joejoesox

i hate when our young pitchers are afraid of the f***ing bat, throw goddamn strikes

jackson will have at least 41 pitches after this inning ends

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ May 29, 2008 -> 06:09 PM) You know, if we could just get 1 more bat in this lineup working...just 1 more out of the 4-5 guys struggling... let's DH toby hall

apparently CSN+ is out down here, just static

QUOTE (Reddy @ May 29, 2008 -> 11:56 AM) you can't blow words directly out of a guys mouth out of proportion. he said what he said, and what he said is that he doesn't like playing here... he never said once he doesn't like playing here, that was never an exact statement made by him, not that i've read or seen linked to and besides, my post was about the scoring thing, i guess ozzie actually does call the scorekeepers for his players, that's something i never knew about before until today.

http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=3415430 honestly it doesn't sound as bad as it seems after reading that article, just my opinion i wasn't aware that ozzie actually DOES call scorekeepers to get calls changed, this sounds like the media just making a big deal over nothing other than OC thinking ozzie didnt give a s*** about him, the rest seems wildly blown out of proportion

QUOTE (RME JICO @ May 29, 2008 -> 07:49 AM) KC is making a loss into an art form. Minnesota has allowed more runs than they've scored, so more than likely their record will adjust. not if we keep losing to them.

QUOTE (Chisoxfn @ May 28, 2008 -> 05:14 PM) When you say not pursued, you mean the White Sox aren't going to pursue him or other clubs are backing off him? i figured it was implied the white sox will not pursue him

on B&B just a few minutes ago, they were just told that Cabrera is most likely not going to be pursued in FA after this year, supposedly has something to do with clubhouse issues

didn't we already play tampa IN TAMPA this year? why are we going BACK to tampa to play them before they play us at home?

QUOTE (greg775 @ May 28, 2008 -> 03:08 PM) Not me. Congrats, white sox. I also wouldn't have believed we've yet to play the Royals. Folks, if we dominate the Royals like they deserve to be dominated, we'll be in great shape in this division. tinfoil hat time cubs haven't won a world series in 100 years so far, they've played the pirates an unbelievable amount of times also, their schedule mysteriously blanked the red sox and the yankees this year we've played a pretty difficult schedule, not based on SOS but due to how many friggin roadgames we've had to play IMO we've passed the hard part of our 2008 schedule, or at least a hefty chunk of the hard part

QUOTE (kyyle23 @ May 28, 2008 -> 02:59 PM) Didnt the Sox lose 2 out of 3 to open the season at the Jake? he's comparing our last 7 games vs cleveland, we only played 4 games at progressive field in those last 7 games

who would've thought on may 28th we'd be 6-3 against cleveland on the year

QUOTE (bighurt4life @ May 27, 2008 -> 10:31 PM) coco crisp, jonny damon, melky cabrera, jd drew, and bobby abreu are in the top 15 vote getters, that's all i need to say since probably 70-75% (or more) baseball fans are ignorant about the game, it's players, stats other than balls/strikes/homeruns, they need to take the ASG ballot out of the hands of the fans when a game like this actually serves quite a large meaning ultimately, letting the general public determine the talent that goes into that game is ludicrous.

ironically, hitting is down all around baseball right now, especially in the AL Central robinson cano is hitting .224 grady sizemore is hitting .254 Gary Matthews Jr is hitting .218 Vlad is hitting .262 brian roberts is hitting .258 johnny damon is hitting .265 david ortiz is hitting .247 raul ibanez is hitting .268 the list goes on and on now, granted, we have a bunch of guys hitting under .245 which pales in comparison to a lot of these guys, but the comparison is there (most of the aforementioned guys are .300 or higher career hitters, none of our sub .245 guys are well-known .300 hitters (Career avgsThis Year: -- OC:.272,.241 Paulie:.278,.204 Thome:.280,.207 Swish:.247,.205 Uribe:.252,.198) but, the fact that we have Dye, AJ, Quentin all hitting near .300 or above, I think our offense will start clicking before our fate is decided, that's just my opinion. i don't see this as a team slump like 2007, in fact it doesn't even look like the same type of scenario to me, the guys who are struggling mightily are the same guys who are prototypical sluggers, whereas the guys that are hitting well aren't known through their careers as being that (And CQ is just now coming into his own in his first real big league season) just curious if it's the league catching up w/ these hard hitting sluggers (through advanced scouting, better pitching, etc.) or if it has to do with more strict drug policies being enforced now... who knows.

man, who would've thought we'd be 1 game behind the d-backs ,who started out ridiculously hot, on memorial day in the loss column? crazy

QUOTE (witesoxfan @ May 25, 2008 -> 09:06 PM) even Dotel? Not sure why you say that...his WHIP is ugly at 1.58, but his K/9 is 14.7 and he's been a bit more wild than he generally ever has been, so I expect that to go down...he's been filthy. Barring injury, Dotel's going to have a great all-around year. you took what i said out of it's context, i was complimenting dotel, not disparaging him. figuring he struck out the side in that inning, i was definitely giving him his props.

QUOTE (knightni @ May 26, 2008 -> 02:54 AM) omg lol, awesome. ROCK & ROLL DON'T WEAR A UNIFORM, SON.

QUOTE (knightni @ May 26, 2008 -> 01:36 AM) "You know; John, all Latinos look alike to me." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos_Quintana wikipedia says i'm right! (just because nobody has made a page for the ballplayer yet, lol)

lol Carlos Quintana is a boxer (Whom Miguel Cotto absolutely dominated)

i love you jose, what a game.

The Cuban Sensation Jose Contreras.

trying not to overreact w/ these last two losses. at least we're not losing 13-1 or 8-0. pitching is still there. even octavio had one hell of an inning yesterday. and friday's game had us hitting against a guy with a sub 1.4 ERA on the year, we just got beat that day. it was hard to swallow yesterday's loss (getting shut out is painful), but I don't see that much of a difference in production between us and the Angels to be quite honest. in fact I think our starting rotation as a whole is better than theirs, just wondering when these guys will start hitting. after 2007, i will not hop on the bandwagon necessarily that "They'll come around", though i think warm weather will help

If he continues to give us QS's all the way to July and to the ASB, what competing teams do you think would potentially bite and what do you think the highest possible value (in terms of traded players) would be? I've just been thinking about how bad he was in 2007 and parts of 2006. It looks like he's regained a lot of what has made him successful even at his current age With the amount of money owed to him, would it necessarily be a bad idea if the right team came along with the right players if we're 8-12 games out at the ASB? Oddly enough, I don't see us being out of contention by the ASB by enough margin for KW to even consider dumping any of our players, but it's just something that I've been thinking about lately. Jose's value couldn't be higher, assuming he stays relatively the same as he is now up through the first half of July What do you think?

QUOTE (RME JICO @ May 24, 2008 -> 05:45 PM) Seemed like the ump wanted to get this one over. Several calls outside of the zone on each batter, ugh. Another great effort by the pitching staff done in by the offense. imagine the trade value of any of our 5 pitchers in our rotation right now, i'm not suggesting anything, far from it it's just something interesting to ponder, we could get ridiculous value for any of these guys right now, though i don't think it would be advancing our organization anywhere beyond trading contreras (his value is actually high right now IMO)