joejoesox

into the shift god i cant bear watching this guy anymore.

QUOTE (South Side Fireworks Man @ May 15, 2008 -> 09:48 PM) Bases loaded...Thome up...inning over. i hope not but, 1-2 count already, whiffed at a 92mph fastball edit: 2-2 count now

Thome is 37 with 8 career grand slams Crede is 30 with 6.

jon at 50+ pitches in 1 2/3 lol

QUOTE (fathom @ May 15, 2008 -> 09:46 PM) Had a great pitch on 2-1, but fouled it off. He has quite the vulgar mouth. thought it was just me hearing things

jon showing velocity up, and on the corners, off-speed stuff over the plate

CQ might not get a very good pitch ot hit in this at bat i'm thinking

my god, AJ is on fire, hitting like .312 or .313 now pick him up Carlos

nice oppo-hitting OC, even though it was an out i liked his approach a lot tie game

LOL look at the gap in right-center gee, the book isn't out on this team or anything is it?!!?

nice, accident swing but i'll take it bases juiced for profundo!

Javy's stats on the year so far: Bolded relevant stats pertaining to tonight's game: vs. Left: .312 vs. Right: .206 Home: 3.29 Road: 4.01 Day: 1.64 Night: 5.10 Turf: 1.93 Grass: 4.26 Current Month: 3.38 Last 30 Days: 3.82

QUOTE (RockRaines @ May 14, 2008 -> 11:47 PM) ha, on the angels board they think Jose throws a spitter. Lackey was loading up the ball with his arm sweat all night and Jose barely licks his fingers and its a spitter. hmm? i watched the game earlier when it aired and i'm watching the encore right now, i haven't noticed either guy loading the ball up with any moisture also a splitter doesn't require any moisture to make it work (???), i think i'm misreading your post though

thank you jose for proving, at least so far this year, that you're gonna give this team much better chances to win than Mark i fear the next time mark has to faces Cleveland, that could be ugly

gun showing bobby at 94, it showed jose hitting 94 a few times too though..

i'll upload the clips of PK stealing 2nd and CQ's grand slam for anyone who wants to add them to their sox video collections

that ball was hit on a line, talk about arm strength, deepest part of the park too, unreal

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ May 14, 2008 -> 02:10 PM) Someone made some posts earlier, which of course I can't find now, about the idea of AJ leading off. Seems like a crazy idea at first, but, give this some thought. I'm starting to think its not a bad idea. Here's why... AJ has the 2nd highest OBP on the team, and the highest average. He's now hitting the ball to all fields, and, amazingly, taking some pitches and extending counts. He's also far and away the team leader in doubles, which is fantastic for a leadoff guy. He's no speed demon, but honestly, he's faster than half the lineup as it stands right now (his weight loss seems to have helped), and he's not afraid to take some chances on the paths. Plus he has fewer strikeouts than any starter on the team. I'm honestly having a hard time finding a reason why it would be bad, other than his lack of speed. Can anyone else give me another real reason? it was me who posted this in another thread, and it was mostly laughed away, i even explained every single hitter's position in the lineup too then someone else comes along and posts it and everyone thinks it's a great idea lol edit: here's my post on the idea of AJ leading off http://www.soxtalk.com/forums/index.php?sh...p;#entry1637091

QUOTE (witesoxfan @ May 14, 2008 -> 02:05 AM) I hate to be the guy that was so negative in the offseason but tries to look at the season with Sox colored glasses on, but I seriously think this offense is a move or two away from turning it on offensively, and the pitching is here to stay. Honestly, replace Juan Uribe with Brian Roberts, Alexei Ramirez with Juan Uribe, and just fire Greg Walker and just see what happens. I have a weird feeling it would work. You'd see a slight regression defensively, so thus, a slight regression in the pitching department, but having just one more guy in the lineup getting on base and getting on 2B consistently would do wonders for this lineup. I've long preached slugging percentage, but what's a bit underrated is just XBHs period, and too many of the Sox XBHs are homers (that sounds terrible, but it should be much more dispersedly spread out). Seeing how the Sox have scored 26% of their runs from the player hitting a home run himself (HR/R), it tells you that they do need to diversify the offense slightly. I feel the 2 (or 3) moves I suggested above will do that. Buehrle & Richar for Roberts!

what's frustrating is if this team could click all at once, or at least 75% of the lineup could click at once, just hit like .265-.270, this team would be scary good, the pitching is just standing there losing game after game where they only give up 1-3 runs via the starting pitcher and almost none via the bullpen, what a disaster. right now, nobody is scared of the white sox, in fact i'd go as far to speculate that a lot more teams have figured out how to play against this team this season than any team ever has before

how, i wonder, did we score so many runs and have such a great year offensively in 2006, if this team has never had the ability to go opposite field or run bases properly, or get the timely hit.. hmm

QUOTE (Jordan4life @ May 14, 2008 -> 12:16 AM) I still can't bring myself to blame Greg Walker. I could see if we were talking about a bunch of young guys. But that's definitely not the case. Hiring a new hitting coach won't in any shape, or form, get these guys to hit. but he's being paid to do nothing, then, we must unleash the hounds! we cannot afford the cut to our payroll by keeping walker employed!

in before the "Fire walker" posts start coming, even though we had 14 hits and 7 runs yesterday it's the players fault they're as bad as they are, period the solution? get different players, or hope these guys decide they can hit something that isn't a fastball, don't see that happening anytime soon though edit: guess i wasn't in before the fire walker posts

QUOTE (WCSox @ May 13, 2008 -> 03:20 PM) Scioscia is probably the best manager in the game. if not scoscia, gardenhire would be a good pick also

QUOTE (lostfan @ May 13, 2008 -> 06:27 AM) Haha... there is virtually everything that could be possibly wrong with that idea all encapsulated into one there. AJ is everything you want a leadoff hitter to not be. perhaps, however I think his approach has changed since coming to the white sox, and i think that's what's happening to nick swisher as well. being in a lineup of big boppers might be giving a few guys "penis envy", so to speak, taking them out of their element and ultimately out of their game that has made them successful over the years i could be well off-base but it would explain some of the circumstances surrounding a few guys in the lineup