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1983 comparisons... When your #5 pitcher is your best pitcher, and the other 4 is pitching lights out, combined with Greg Walker's lifeless offense is good enough to go all the way. Freddie is way better than Jerry Koosman. If our pitching remain steady all year, which rotation would you rather have?? Hoyt/Dotson/Burns/Bannister or Peavy/Danks/Buerhle/Floyd??

"Sign Vizquel to a 3 year contract extension..." I was thinking the same....LOL....one more year as a player and 2 years as a COACH (year 2 could be as a player as well, if the performance continues). P.S. If 47 year old Jamie Moyer can do it, why not Omar?

8:30 P.M. Start time ...

Linebrink for Fukudome? rid ourselves of Linebrink and get a lefty outfielder. Linebrink may actually do ok when he goes back to the NL.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jun 19, 2010 -> 05:05 PM) Our offense in 2005 was #9 in the AL, this year it's #10. #10 in what? Batting Average? Runs scored? RBIs? ...

like Viciedo as a DH. The kid can hit! Maybe Omar can work w him on his fielding. Right now Omar looks great in the 2 whole and defensively @ 3rd. Nix's POOR DEFENSE and his Josh Field's type approach @ the plate (pull everything, go for HRs, too many Ks) were his undoing. That's why I thought Lilly was the better choice for a BACKUP player.

White Sox record is 7-2 vs. the NL. Thanks to the White Sox's 3 game sweep vs. Pittsburgh, the White Sox have more wins vs. the Pirates than the Cubs have. Cubs record vs. the Pirates 2-7. LOL.

White Sox's web site reporting Peavy to start Saturday. http://chicago.whitesox.mlb.com/news/artic...sp&c_id=cws

Hawks drought is over, the Cubs must be pissed now. They the only futile team left in Chicago ..lol

This has been going on in baseball forever. It's part of the game because much of the rules are, indeed subjective. No apologies or overturning rules. This is so much the "pussification of the USA" that I've ever seen!

QUOTE (Kalapse @ May 28, 2010 -> 08:24 PM) I retract my previous comments regarding Joey Cora's handling of the pitchers in today's game. Agreed, Cora made the right moves with the bullpen...

Call any of the umps Elliot Ness. They are all Untouchable. West got fined for something off the field, not anything to do with his actions. As head of the umpire union, he's laughing about the decision. I'd like to see the fine amount for each. If Maddon and Crawford only got fined and not suspended after their onfield tirade, it didn't look like Guillen or Buerhle would be suspended.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ May 15, 2010 -> 08:46 PM) Hopefully Thornton's elbow won't be an issue. Watched through the seventh whats the issue with Thornton's elbow?

QUOTE (southsideirish71 @ May 14, 2010 -> 09:35 PM) The post game conference is quite telling. Ozzie literally is lost. Has no idea what to do. Losing Is a Disease Like Bubonic Plague sound bite Frank Carpenter sound bites Please don't feel bad for Walker. Not just this year, bad offense on the southside has been going on for years. Can you name 1 player Greg Walker has worked with, and made that player hit better?? As a fan, today I'm watching Alexie Ramirez strikeout twice leaving guys on base, because his swing is too long. Mark Teahen swing is too long with strike 2. You can't have a smallball team that consistently can't put the ball in play. Quentin is lost offensively. It could be the player's fault, but someone has to take the fall. And that guy is Greg Walker or Ozzie Guillen because they are the captains of the ship..

Well, Starlin's replacement is already in the works: http://mlb.fanhouse.com/2010/05/10/full-sc...-ju-lee/?synd=1 In this article, Hak-Ju Lee is compared to the Mets Jose Reyes. His biggest weakness is hitting, but he's got great speed and defense. He's touted as being a future gold glover, but hey, it's not like we haven't been lied to before...lol.

QUOTE (whitesoxfan99 @ May 10, 2010 -> 08:10 PM) 3 errors for the golden boy tonight. It doesn't look like Castro was a good defensive player in the minors either: http://www.baseball-reference.com/minors/p...id=castro001sta 2009 - almost 40 errors in 119 games.

KW has really wrecked this team. You get the ball started toward "remaking" the team by trade and you always give up more than you get when you are looking for short term results. Not having taken the long view will be KW's demise when players like Getz start fulfilling their potential. The Peavy trade is really evidence of just how much KW would give up in potential for someone he thought could be a difference maker right now. In retrospect, it looks like it was done out of desperation. Here's looking back on the Jake Peavy deal. So far this year, Peavy is off to a horrendous start with the White Sox. Jake was 0-2 with a 7.85 ERA in 5 starts in April and went winless in a "full" month for the first time since June of 2006 (0-3, 5.28 ERA). He lowered his ERA to 6.31 after beating the Royals. Peavy went to the White Sox in a trade that sent Clayton Richard, Aaron Poreda, Adam Russell and Dexter Carter to the Padres while Jake Peavy was still on the DL. What did KW give up? Clayton Richard was 5-2 last year for the Padre's after the trade. Line for 2009 in SD? 12 GS 64 IP 4.08 ERA .244 BAA. 2010 line? 6 GS 3.34 ERA Aaron Poreda was rated the #1 prospect in the White Sox entire system in 2008 by Baseball America. In the 2009 Baseball America Top Prospects listed him as the #63 prospect overall. He's got a 1.93 ERA as a AA reliever this year. Adam Russell is a 6-foot-8, 255-pound AAA closer for the Padres. He had a 3.15 ERA in 15 games with the Padres last season and 2.45 ERA in Spring Training line securing one of the final spots in the bullpen. In 3.1 innings of work he did not surrendered a hit and walked just one batter. He was sent back to AAA when the Padres re-called a player that had been on the DL. Dexter Carter started this season in the minor leagues in Single-A Fort Wayne. When the Padres acquired Carter last season, he was leading the Class-A South Atlantic League in strikeouts. In fact, at one point was leading ALL of the minor leagues in K's! He was 6-1 with a 2.23 ERA in 2009. In 2010 Carter is a starter with the Single-A Fort Wayne is 1-3 with a 4.68 ERA in 25.0 IP and 23 K's. Because Richard is producing better than Peavy, it is clear that the Padre's robbed KW. When these other players start having an impact at the MLB level(especially Poreda), KW will be looking very stupid to everyone.

QUOTE (jasonxctf @ Apr 28, 2010 -> 08:02 PM) Peavy down to 7.53ERA It'd be interesting to know what it was inning to date, right after the 1st....near 10 would be my guess.

That Aardsma FB that Rios killed straight as a string. just below the letters. outer middle of the plate. GONE!!!!!!!!!!! ROFLMAO

QUOTE (maggsmaggs @ Apr 23, 2010 -> 09:15 AM) Hopefully it will be the end of Guillen, too. I am sick of his horrible managerial moves and what's more, I am sick of his antics. All the stupid Twitter stuff, Oney, Web sites and everything else. I want a manager who only cares about the team, not these superfluous marketing ploys. His gig was funny for a couple years, but it's stale and detracts from his ability to manager. Maybe instead of updating his stupid Twitter account, he should be scouting the no-name lefty who will be one-hitting his team in the 7th inning. White Sox Record when hitting 2 or more Home Runs: 6-1. White Sox Record when playing "small balls" and hitting 0 or 1 home runs: 0-10. White Sox Home Runs in 2009: 184 3B - Less: Jason Nix HRs (Beckham to 2B): -2 3B - Plus: Mark Teahan 2009 Home Runs: 12 OF - Less: Jermaine Dye Home Runs: -27 OF - Plus: Andrew Jones 2009 Home Runs: 17 DH - Less: Jim Thome 2009 Home Runs: -23 DH - Plus: Juan "Flea" Pierre 2009 Home Runs: 0 Adjusted 2009 Home Runs by 2010 starters: 161. Last White Sox team to hit less than 184 Home Runs: 1999 Chicago White Sox: 162 HRs, 75-86 record. The last I checked the White Sox play in one of the top 3 home run parks in MLB and in the American League. If they played at the real Comiskey Park when the CF fence (in 1977 - the year of the South Side Hit Men) was 445 feet from home Ozzie's "small balls" may have made sense. Today, playing "small balls" in a home run park and home run era is asinine.

Where's Dwayne Wise when u need him? Needed another 6 inch on that jump.

This club is finding new ways to steal defeat from the jaws of victory.

good outing by Floyd. White Sox starting pitching has been an enigma all year. Fix one hole and spring a leak somewhere else.

QUOTE (Soxbadger @ Apr 10, 2010 -> 02:57 PM) They wont fire Walker because last I checked hes not making millions to hit a ball 1 out of 3 times. Players who listen to Walker, seem to get better. Players who dont, seem to do the same s*** every year. The guy works hard and is well liked by management. I believe he actually offered to step down but they wouldnt let him. The guy is a class act and honestly no hitting coach is going to change this team. Let's see how those ex-Sox (players gone in few years) are doing now that they're not getting hitting tips from our batting coach: Nick Swisher .318 Juan Uribe .344 Aaron Rowand .318 Scott Pods .457 Chris Getz .207 (oops!) Makes ya' wonder ...

QUOTE (Thunderbolt @ Apr 12, 2010 -> 02:50 PM) Rios in CF and Jones in Lf. As it should be. Thank you, Ozzie. Ozzie's going to play the left/right game, until he realizes he hasn't got the kind of horses to be successful at it. The last time I saw that work real well was when Weaver was managing the O's and he had four outfielders, real outfielders, not infielders masquerading as such, two lefties and two righties, all hitting in the .280's at least, and contact hitters. Worked very well for then, in the low 1980's, when pitching was still 80% of the game.