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QUOTE(GoSoxGo @ Aug 26, 2005 -> 04:03 AM) By the way, are you Hawk Harrelson? Would you rather have Aaron Rowand over Ken Griffey? But seriously, have you been watching Crede at the plate the past two seasons? I just don't see how anyone could defend him. His bat is so bad that he is a defensive replacement in my mind. I would never wish injury on anyone but sadly, if Crede is hurt and Blum replaces him full-time at 3rd base it would actually be an improvement to the bottom of our lineup. Joe Crede: .251 career AVG | .300 career OBP Geoff Blum: .253 career AVG | .316 career OBP And Blum was brought here to be a BACKUP 3rd baseman! A lot of these comments, not just you GOSOXGO, make me wonder what team folks have been watching this season. The White sox have been winning due to above average pitching and above average defense. Added together this equals outstanding. They lead the league in fewest runs yielded. Giving up the fewest runs means fewer runs are enough to win. They rank 10th in runs scored, yet have won the most games. So the imperative, to keep this machine running, is defense. I don’t think the White Sox should contemplate any personnel change that would weaken the defense. Bellhorn doesn’t have Crede’s glove in the field. As fine a hitter as he is he would be a square peg in a round hole on this team. As Tom Kelly used to tell his rookies on the Twins, if you can't play defense we can't use you.

This is from the Hall of Fame Inside Pitch newsletter. Happy Birthday Senior, and I hope many more to come.

I'm losing track, how many hits has Feddy given up?

Just popping in, this is a great game tonight!

QUOTE(The Ginger Kid @ Aug 23, 2005 -> 05:35 PM) Wow, a great point by Ozzie that I'd never really considered: "Poor defense means a worn-out pitching staff. When you give away one out, that can be another 10-15 pitches in an inning." Jon Garland, in particular, has benefited from the improved defense.

Pretty cool pix

QUOTE(joshe800 @ Aug 22, 2005 -> 12:27 AM) Just wanted to check in and say what a great time picnic in the park was!!! Only players I didn't see there were AJ, Vizcaino, and El Duque. Anyone see them there??? All in all, it was a very fun evening. I was very impressed how nice Dustin Hermanson, Chris Widger, Geoff Blum, Brian Anderson, Bobby Jenks, Scott Podsednik and Jose Contreras were. Dustin said his back is terrible and isn't getting any better at all. If anyone wants to see pictures, i could post some. Anyhow.. I wanna know what other people thought about the Picnic in the Park!! You might be the only one who a: can afford picnic in the park and b: posts at Sox talk That said, thanks for the report. I hope Hermanson was exagerating.

If the Twins are blocking, who are they blocking Soriano from? I'd doubt they would care enough to block a move to the NL. I've also read Soriano has refused to play the OF so lets look at second base. Here are the AL teams above the Twinks in the standings: Chicago Boston Los Angeles Oakland New York Cleveland and their 2B Starters are Iguchi Graffanino Adam Kennedy Scutaro Canu Belliard

God bless the Chicago White Sox.

QUOTE(Ozzie Montana @ Aug 20, 2005 -> 09:45 AM) Thats why ive tuned into rooney and farm last 2 weeks and will continue to do so. They dont keep on repeating the same things and actually have some contructive things to say instead of "where's that pitch" or "yay, a strike". Id recommend this transition to the radio for any who have grown tired of the announcers. The quality of the broadcasts have taken a nose dive this year. They put in a commercial for everything from the speed gun to the legal disclaimer. They routinely miss early pitches to read promotional drop ins. The worst is when they do interviews during the games. Depending on the guest they completely ignore whats going on in the field. You can hear the pitch hit the mitt, or the crack of the bat in the background but they don't stop to tell you what happened. They have missed entire at bats. They are awful. I listen to Vin Scully on GameDay at night and while he has to read all the extra commercials that Rooney and Farmer do, I don't remember him having guests or EVER missing a pitch. He is a joy. Unlike Scully, I think the Sox team has lost sight of the fact that the reason people tune in is to hear the game.

QUOTE(daa84 @ Aug 19, 2005 -> 10:19 PM) i swear to god ozzie sits a guy if he breaks a nail. lets not forget ozzie sat jermaine dye for 4 goddamn games because of bug bites. BUG BITES! i dont care how nasty the infection was, there are guys who go out there and play through alot more than a topical skin infection from a bug bite. i know we dont want to risk players getting injured, but someone could stub his toe and be out a week.........................maybe im just too frustrated right now Sox players are logging more innings that it seems. This is where the starts rank in the American League in innings played at his position. [DH is by games]. The outfielders are all lumped together so the rank is against 42 starting positons instead of 14 for everything else. Rank Player 17-- Podsednik 5--- Rowand 20-- Dye 7--- Crede 7--- Uribe 5--- Iguchi 3--- Konerko 3--- Pierzynski 4--- Everett They all play as many or more innings than the average American Leaguer at the same position.

Full lineups: Minnesota Twins Lew Ford CF .257 Nick Punto 2B .245 Brent Abernathy LF .321 Justin Morneau 1B .246 Matthew LeCroy DH .265 Michael Cuddyer RF .261 Terry Tiffee 3B .206 Mike Redmond C .267 Jason Bartlett SS .242 Johan Santana P (11-6 3.48) Chicago White Sox Pablo Ozuna 3B .272 Tadahito Iguchi 2B .278 Carl Everett DH .266 Paul Konerko 1B .270 Aaron Rowand CF .281 Jermaine Dye RF .261 Juan Uribe SS .250 Chris Widger C .253 Brian N. Anderson LF .286 Mark Buehrle P (13-5 2.99) Umpires: HP: Ed Montague 1B: Jerry Layne 2B: Paul Emmel 3B: Tony Randazzo

Full lineups Minnesota Twins Shannon Stewart LF .273 Nick Punto SS .247 Joe Mauer C .295 Justin Morneau 1B .246 Matthew LeCroy DH .259 Lew Ford CF .257 Michael Ryan RF .183 Michael Cuddyer 3B .260 Brent Abernathy 2B .318 Brad Radke P (7-10 3.71) Chicago White Sox Timo Perez LF .214 Tadahito Iguchi 2B .279 Carl Everett DH .269 Paul Konerko 1B .271 A.J. Pierzynski C .267 Aaron Rowand CF .284 Juan Uribe SS .252 Joe Crede 3B .246 Brian N. Anderson RF --- Freddy Garcia P (11-5 3.64) Umpires: HP: Tony Randazzo 1B: Ed Montague 2B: Jerry Layne 3B: Paul Emmel

QUOTE(Gene Honda Civic @ Aug 15, 2005 -> 11:33 PM) yeah, Uribe was 2-3, and reached in 3 of his 4 PA's. Add those in and it makes the numbers look respectable. --and his 1 for 2 with a walk on Sunday was also wiped out. He is stringing together some pretty good at bats, in his own style. He fouled off a couple over his head, can't lay off them but he was missing them entirely earlier. He saw 30 pitches last night. He's a streaky hitter, if he could put together a 2 month hot spell of .350 --as he did last year, he could really be a shot in the arm.

I expect them to play it. The Red Sox will insist on it. Boston is sold out for the year so they can't just hand out rain checks to the full house from Sunday's game. They would need to [gasp!] refund money or at least credit next year's tix. Either would be out of charactor for any MLB team.

Sorry to doubt you GreasyWheels but I had to see this for myself to to believe it. Ozuna is indeed starting in LF. And look at Boston: no Damon, Milar or Varitek. -If Garland shuts them down they will say he didn't play against the A team. Chicago White Sox Pablo Ozuna LF .281 Tadahito Iguchi 2B .283 Carl Everett DH .264 Paul Konerko 1B .268 Aaron Rowand CF .285 Jermaine Dye RF .265 A.J. Pierzynski C .270 Joe Crede 3B .243 Juan Uribe SS .248 Jon Garland P (16-5 3.29) Boston Red Sox Gabe Kapler CF .367 Edgar Renteria SS .279 David Ortiz DH .297 Manny Ramirez LF .287 Roberto Petagine 1B .286 Kevin Millar RF .276 Doug Mirabelli C .211 Bill Mueller 3B .289 Tony Graffanino 2B .307 Tim Wakefield P (11-9 4.13) Umpires: HP: Ted Barrett 1B: Rob Drake 2B: Rick Reed 3B: Terry Craft

Just wrote the check.

QUOTE(AddisonStSox @ Aug 12, 2005 -> 10:01 AM) Could you imagine if this is the first real season the Yankees suffer from depleting their farm system to a steaming pile? The Sox are reaping all the benefits. I think it cost them the World Series last year. They want Freddy Garcia badly but couldn't match the White Sox offer of Olivo/Reed/Morse. If they had gotten Garcia they would have swept the Red Sox.

I have seen many blogs and comments about how lucky the White Sox have been this year. Some folks just can’t believe the success of a team that has no Zito, Johnson or Schilling to blather over. We are deep enough into the season to use the classic measurement of luck, Bill James’s Pythagorean formula: Runs Scored^1.83/Runs Scored^1.83+Runs Allowed^1.83. The difference in team record and what the formula predicts is attibuted to luck. The formula is very accurate, over the 2,092 MLB team seasons played since 1901 the average difference between the formula and the actual results is .0002 per season. The largest differences ever recorded are +.090 by the 1905 Tigers and - .089 by the 1993 Mets. About 14 games at the maximum. These are the results from this morning’s standings, P = Pythagorean and A = Actual: Team----------- RS_ RA_ PW PL PPct AW AL APct Diff Chicago-------- 550 452 67 47 .588 74 40 .649 +.061 Boston--------- 653 569 64 50 .561 67 47 .588 +.026 Baltimore------ 537 567 55 60 .470 56 59 .487 +.017 New York------- 617 573 61 53 .526 62 52 .544 +.018 Oakland-------- 562 481 66 49 .565 66 49 .574 +.009 Los Angeles---- 543 459 66 49 .574 66 49 .574 0.000 Tampa Bay------ 541 696 45 71 .379 44 72 .379 0.000 Cleveland------ 545 487 64 52 .543 63 53 .543 0.000 Minnesota------ 503 475 61 54 .522 59 56 .513 -.009 Kansas City---- 488 668 41 73 .360 38 76 .333 -.026 Texas---------- 639 619 59 56 .513 56 59 .487 -.026 Detroit-------- 520 526 56 58 .491 53 61 .465 -.026 Seattle-------- 492 527 53 61 .465 49 65 .430 -.035 Toronto-------- 572 489 66 49 .565 60 55 .522 -.043 The White Sox are indeed the luckiest team in the league. But what I rarely hear is the White Sox are also the best team in the league according to the theorem with a .588 PPct. If you discount the ‘luck’ that many pundits attribute to the team, they still project to win 95 games! If they stay as lucky they could hit 105. It’s not impossible to stay lucky all season, last year’s Yankees finished +.076. And good teams do make their own luck, the average 1st place team since 1901 finished with an APct +.013 greater than PPct. The Sox are lucky AND good.

QUOTE(NUKE_CLEVELAND @ Aug 9, 2005 -> 09:29 PM) EAT s*** SPANKEES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Count was totally on a mission tonight and you overpaid s***bags paid the price. OUTSTANDING EFFORT BY THE COUNT!!!!!!!!!! GIMMIE A HELL YEAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! HELL YEAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! GET'EM NUKE and God bless the Chicago White Sox

QUOTE(ptatc @ Aug 9, 2005 -> 09:33 PM) This season Ozzie has consistently put players in a position to test them. Theonly thing I can think of is that Ozzie was testing Marte to see if he can get LH out in pressure situations to prepare him for the post-season. Either that or KW still has a trade up his sleeve and they're show casing him. Ozzie is building himself a baseball team.

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