Leonard Washington

I was going to vote 2004, but it wasn't there.

QUOTE (MHizzle85 @ May 3, 2011 -> 11:20 PM) Nice 'Pac reference. Appropriate too. This team's as dead as he is.

QUOTE (Soxfest @ May 3, 2011 -> 11:22 PM) >The only thing the White Sox lead MLB in is excuses -- am sure there will be another boatload of them tomorrow We lead MLB in losses with 20. Next closest is 18. Yay!!

QUOTE (flavum @ May 3, 2011 -> 09:57 PM) Just watching it, you could tell it wasn't that dominating of a performance. Loud outs, double plays, and a lot of swinging at bad pitches. The Sox just suck right now. Sad part is...not many loud outs. Quentin's hanging liner, Dunn's final out, Castro's liner to CF....what else? There was that play made by Valencia, but that wasn't a "loud" out so much as it was a softly hit chopper right down the line that he made a good play on. But it wasn't a hard hit ball.

I don't know if it's been noted or not, but according to Bill James' game scores, we just fell victim to the worst no-hitter of all time. Liriano scored an 83 ("beating" out Joe Cowley of all people who had the previous worst score at 84 lol)

QUOTE (Paint it Black @ May 3, 2011 -> 10:09 PM) I was dreading the feeling of being no-hit. It happened, I cleaned my room, and I now I couldn't care less. I'm about to read and I feel oddly great. And let it be known I was watching the Twins broadcast on the Internet. How did Hawk take it? Hawk took a sick day. Good thing too or he probably would have died tonight.

QUOTE (Kenny Hates Prospects @ May 3, 2011 -> 10:00 PM) I think Walker needs to grab a bat and go take some hacks himself. No joke. At his reflection, preferably.

I've been shuffling through the steps pretty quick. I'm reaching acceptance.

QUOTE (Soxfest @ May 3, 2011 -> 09:56 PM) I know 2 guys who come in every year to catch a Sox series in the summer the both cancelled the last 2 days and I do not blame them at all this team is not worth watching! I've been trying to decide between visiting Chicago or Vancouver this summer, and I've made up my mind after this. I'd rather visit my friends and have a good time than feel like I've been kicked in the nuts by a horse (and paying for it)

I might be wrong, but I seem to remember any White Sox email being in the form of [email protected]

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ May 3, 2011 -> 02:39 AM) I think it was OF Alex Escobar, who we'd just claimed and never even ended up playing in our system. That sounds right. Too bad, too. He had some serious potential, but his body just couldn't hold up.

QUOTE (witesoxfan @ May 3, 2011 -> 01:31 AM) There is just the one fast black guy that played WR at UCLA that also played for the White Sox, and that would be the one and only Jerry Owens. He transferred to The Masters College to focus on baseball, as I recall. He was drafted out of The Masters, I remember that much. 2nd round by the Expos I think. Traded for a guy whose name I can't remember that was once highly touted out of the Indians org, and he promptly killed it in AA and got all our hopes up.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ May 2, 2011 -> 05:54 PM) If it were Minnesota or Detroit they were 10 games behind, I may consider it a lost cause, but its Cleveland and KC. I just cannot believe they can't make 10 games up on them, and they are 2.5 behind Detroit. That's one series. These are my feelings. I'm down on this team, as I think pretty much everybody should be. But this gives reason for hope. I do think the Indians are going to hit. They have a very underrated offense. But that pitching is bound to regress. As for the Royals, they are going to be a legit threat, and possibly powerhouse reminiscent of the mid-90's Indians in a best case (for them) scenario. But not this year.

QUOTE (scenario @ May 3, 2011 -> 02:07 AM) I don't believe he's hated. Talk radio people (especially Bernstein) love to dramatize this type of s*** and blow it way out of proportion. No controversy. No callers. Sensationalism is the name of the game in sports' narratives.

QUOTE (Thunderbolt @ May 2, 2011 -> 11:38 PM) This is just based on an observation i made in spring but I think AJ is a lot closer to the coaching staff then he is a lot of guys on the team. That being said i doubt that the team actually loathes him as a collected unit and i think a lot of this kind of reporting is reactionary and overblown. I like this post. I'm still curious about the credibility of the source, because I have no idea who they are. But something like this can get overblown pretty quickly, especially in the midst of a horrible slump. Sensationalism sells, and negativity/positivity is an easy thing to try and snowball for the sake of mob mentality, and thus ratings.

QUOTE (Andrew @ May 3, 2011 -> 12:48 AM) I watch like a fiend and I don't think I EVER saw Santos get over 95 on the gun until this year. I remember him being 95, 96 pretty consistently last year. And I think you might have mistook my post about velocities being down. The whole point was there's no reason to worry about that this time of year unless it's massive. It's cold, guys arms aren't as loose, and they don't have the muscle strength/memory built up yet. So I'm not worried about Thornton or Sale's velocity being down. That's not the issue. It's location and confidence, which are almost definitely intertwined.

QUOTE (witesoxfan @ May 3, 2011 -> 12:44 AM) As the season goes on, pitchers' arms get in better shape and they start throwing harder. Oh, and you will find similar trends to that all around baseball. I can pretty much guarantee it. Exactly.

QUOTE (Andrew @ May 2, 2011 -> 11:27 PM) You know - even THE catch tonight shows he's slow. Nobody can be that bad reading a line heading foul and he barely caught it in fair territory against a right hander.... Something has to be wrong with him. I'm starting to think he's lost a step. The jump he got off Guthrie tonight was awesome. I didn't think they had a chance at him. Obviously, I was wrong. He honestly couldn't have got much of a better jump, if at all. That's what scares me about him improving going forward.

I still have a hard time putting too much faith in this. I'm not from Chicago, and I assume the guys who reported this are local guys. How reliable are they?

Danks' FB is down 0.3mph Floyd's is down 1.8mph Buehrle's is down 0.5mph Santos is down 1.2mph Ohman is down 0.7mph Jackson is down 0.8mph Crain is down 0.9mph Notice a trend? Fastball velocities are almost always down at the start of the season. That's not the problem.

QUOTE (joeynach @ May 3, 2011 -> 12:06 AM) Im not worried about their confidence, If I can see from their stats on Fangraphs that they have been unlucky and bad in a small sample size then so can they. My concern is why have consistent strike throwers struggled throw strikes and why have consistent fastball throwers posted lower than normal velocities this year without any mention of injury. Wasn't the whole thing that turned Thornton's career around is growing confidence in his stuff, and not trying to do anything fancy? To me, it looks like he's lost that. He doesn't have the same confidence in his fastball that he used to. He's trying to finesse, when that's not his style, and it looks like he's nibbling too much and he's falling behind in the count too often. I don't worry about his stuff. The velocity might be down a tick, but not by anything absurd. Sale's is down a bit more, but still not enough to have me worrying just yet, especially early in the season. As the weather warms up and they build a bit more arm strength their velocity will be fine.

What worries me the most is their confidence.

I find this surprising (which is surprising in itself). I thought he was generally liked, even if he could be annoying at times.

Well I thing one thing's for sure. Goldstein's giving Escobar a shout-out in tomorrow's Future Shock.

Trading Huddy for Jax was absolutely silly. The fact they added Holmberg is f***ing disgraceful.