Chicago White Sox

QUOTE (Soxfest @ Apr 9, 2013 -> 07:36 PM) WTF is he doing i would bench his dumbass right now.............no excuse EVER for that to happen. What is McEwing doing? How far could De Aza have gotten before someone told him to head back??

God f***ing damn it De Aza!?!

QUOTE (Buehrle>Wood @ Apr 9, 2013 -> 07:32 PM) Better than Flowers and Viciedo Unfortunately this is true.

Nice De Aza!

No hits but Peavy with two great ABs tonight.

Nice pitch Peavy! Now let's get some f***ing runs!

Come on Peavy, don't walk him.

QUOTE (Big Hurtin @ Apr 9, 2013 -> 07:17 PM) How is Washington's bullpen? I know their rotation is solid. They got some good arms, but I'll take my chances against them, especially if they're forced to use 3 or 4 of them tonight.

QUOTE (Buehrle>Wood @ Apr 9, 2013 -> 07:13 PM) Protip: don't first ball hunt Gonzalez when he has this many pitches. Yeah, we need to keep working the counts and get him out of this game early. Could help us tomorrow and Thursday.

QUOTE (flavum @ Apr 9, 2013 -> 07:09 PM) The thing with Viciedo that's frustrating, is that he hasn't shown that he's a good baseball player. He's got bat speed and incredible power, but he has no process at the plate. He's still a work in process, especially against RHP. A little surprised he's striked out twice already though.

QUOTE (Reddy @ Apr 9, 2013 -> 07:05 PM) without whom we'd have two more losses... it's early guys. seriously. No doubt. It's frustrating, but let's not jump to conclusions based 6 1/2 games.

Nothing more frustrating than watching a guy go from 3-0 to a strikeout. Having said, Viciedo is probably going to hit a HR in his next AB.

51 pitches through 2 innings for Gio. Now we just need Peavy to be a bit more efficient. I'd love to get to their bullepn early tonight.

What the hell was Harper thinking.

It could have been better, but I'll take 33 pitches and a run in the 1st against Gio.

Come on Tank, let's f*** Gio up.

I think this having to win multiple years in a row to expect fans to show up at the park is complete bulls***. If a team is in first place in the middle of any given season, then fans should want to come to the park. Why else are you a fan if you don't want to watch your team when they're actually competitive? I don't blame anyone for not supporting a s***ty product and obviously I wouldn't expect season ticket sales to increase without sustained success, but in terms of single game tickets the product on the field right now is all that should matter. It might take some time for expections to catch up with actual results, but once a team is clearly in a playoff race the fans should want to be at games supporting their team. How a team did the previous season or how they may do the next season should be irrelevant. I guess I don't get what your point is Marty.

QUOTE (The Ultimate Champion @ Apr 9, 2013 -> 04:16 PM) If salary is no issue I would take Verlander + Cabrera over that duo, and the Tigers have definitely been beatable since those two hooked up. They still will be this year since we're taking this division. f*** yeah. Unfortunately, salary will be an issue, especially with Strasburg. Given that Boras is his agent, I don't think there is a chance in hell he signs a long-term deal with the Nationals prior to testing free agency. God only knows what he'd get on the market as a 28 year old, especially if the Yankees have some money to play with by then. The point is that even if the Nationals find a way to sign him long-term, it's going to be at a price so ridiculous it will cause more harm than good. Therefore, the Nationals should get as much out of him while they can, which makes their decision to shut him down last year all the more stupid IMO.

QUOTE (Marty34 @ Apr 9, 2013 -> 03:53 PM) Wow, the Tribune did a great job of brainwashing Sox fans over the years to make them think they're 2nd class fans. What does this even mean?

So in other words, the reliever let some or all of the inherited runners score.

QUOTE (CryptviLL @ Apr 9, 2013 -> 08:47 AM) Nationals are my favorite team. They are building one of the best dynasties ever seen. I think you're jumping the gun quite a bit.

QUOTE (HickoryHuskers @ Apr 9, 2013 -> 06:52 AM) Comparing teams 1-5 Cincinnati and Detroit are pretty even St Louis is better than the Sox Pittsburgh and Kansas City are pretty even Cleveland is much better than the Cubs Minnesota is better than the Astros So overall the divisions are fairly comparable. I don't think strength of schedule will be the reason the Twins win more games than Houston. Why are you comparing the AL Central to the NL Central?

QUOTE (witesoxfan @ Apr 8, 2013 -> 04:42 PM) We are talking about literally the most extreme of sample sizes here, but Alexei currently leads the MLB in SS UZR. Like I said, it means literally nothing, but it's ironic to consider nonetheless. Which is hilarious because Berstein normally quotes advanced metrics as gospel. I get the sample size is too small to truly take anything from it, but he's looked really good in the field so far this year. Hell, he had one play the other day where he had to run halfway across the infield and still almost got the guy out. I get that he makes some errors, but his range is definitely elite.

Bernstein just said that Alexei was only "OK" defensively. Every time he talks about the Sox, the more I'm convinced he doesn't actually watch them play and just looks at their boxscores.

There's no point in worrying about attendance right now. You simply don't get a ton of walk-ups in April. Once it gets warm out and if the team is still playing well, then we can see if the price changes made a difference.