2 hours ago2 hr Author 25 minutes ago, tray said:Kelenic bobbled a ball in RF allowing a single to get turned into a double.I think it's more like he couldn't find the handle on what might have been a close double, but it turned out to not be close. All he's got to do is hit. He'll calm down in the field.
2 hours ago2 hr Author 27 minutes ago, CaliSoxFanViaSWside said:I love when you talk good baseball !Hmmm, a team can see him more than once in a short period, and he still dominates. Game 1, game 4 and game 7...
2 hours ago2 hr Author OH, God!! I was doing the French 60s pop hits last year, and this one was taken down, I think for being so creepy. I must post. Oh, go Sox!!
1 hour ago1 hr 1 hour ago, Capn12 said:Its time to discuss just how good Davis Martin can be...He throws 6 pitches all at 10% or more. It's hard for hitters to know what's coming. His command has been amazing so far this year. As long as he can command the zone, his stuff is good enough to keep pitching well.
1 hour ago1 hr The veteran relievers are starting to pull it together.I like Beckham in the booth. He's understated, which seems to temper Schriffen's schoolkid patter.Stone's style seems to exacerbate it.
1 hour ago1 hr 46 minutes ago, CaliSoxFanViaSWside said:Wrong decade sir.I remember Ventura would have Sale throwing his 117th pitch in 92 degrees in July.Looked like Davis was getting a bit tired anyway.
1 hour ago1 hr 46 minutes ago, tray said:Kelenic had 3 hits...well actually 2. The third one should have been an error. On one of his hits to Center he challenged the arm of Mike Trout. Gunned down. Kelenic interfered with Tristan Peters and collided with him, after Peters called for a fly ball. Kelenic bobbled a ball in RF allowing a single to get turned into a double. But, if you didn't watch the game, you would think he just had a great game. I'm hoping Kelenic improves but we shall see.Beckham seemed to suggest Peters was close to straightaway RF when he cut in front of Kelenic.
1 hour ago1 hr 2 hours ago, CaliSoxFanViaSWside said:Guess we're going to have to wait for a losing streak to get the Fire Getz thread back to the front page.I hope it never comes back onto the front page!!!
1 hour ago1 hr 47 minutes ago, DoUEvenShift said:Very quiet from the Panicans, must be past their bedtimesThey’re probably more to be found in Detroit…
1 hour ago1 hr Late Night with Chuck and Ozzie and Roger Bossard telling stories about corking bats and his 1st year in 1967 talking about names of players who were my heroes.He brought up Ken Berry ( CF ) who was my favorite player along with Joel Horlen. Berry I think actually was a consultant on Eight Men Out and might be in the credits as such.Also he had a confrontation with Rickey Henderson because Henderson was pissed Bossard was watering down the area around 1st base so Rickey had a hard time getting started on steal attempts.
1 hour ago1 hr Author 5 minutes ago, caulfield12 said:Beckham seemed to suggest Peters was close to straightaway RF when he cut in front of Kelenic.Peters did that to Acuña with Acuña in CF and Peters in RF. Maybe collisions was a big part of early Banana-ball.
1 hour ago1 hr 1 minute ago, CaliSoxFanViaSWside said:Late Night with Chuck and Ozzie and Roger Bossard telling stories about corking bats and his 1st year in 1967 talking about names of players who were my heroes.He brought up Ken Berry ( CF ) who was my favorite player along with Joel Horlen. Berry I think actually was a consultant on Eight Men Out and might be in the credits as such.Also he had a confrontation with Rickey Henderson because Henderson was pissed Bossard was watering down the area around 1st base so Rickey had a hard time getting started on steal attempts.From my interview with Ken:ML: You also got the opportunity to be the technical advisor on the baseball movie, “Eight Men Out,” directed by John Sayles. How did you get that chance?KB: “I was managing in Appleton, Wisconsin for the Royals. The Twins farm club was being managed by a friend of mine Don Leppert. We had a good season but they had an outstanding June draft and those guys were assigned to that team and they caught us for the league title at the end. They won something like 13 in a row. Anyway Leppert calls me after it’s over and asks me what I’m doing in the off season. I told him just going back home. He asked if I’d like to help on a movie. He was in charge of the Twins instructional league and couldn’t help on this picture. So he gave me the number of the person to call, I did and got to be technical advisor on “Eight Men Out.” It took about two months and I had a great time.”ML: Some of the actors involved in that movie, especially Charlie Sheen, had been around the game all their life and had played it competitively. I’d imagine you could tell fairly quickly who could play and who couldn’t. Was their anybody else besides Sheen who impressed you that way? (Author’s Note: Sheen, while attending Yale University, was the last cut from the baseball team his freshmen year. He was a pitcher and later used that experience playing Ricky Vaughn in the movie “Major League.”)KB: “D.B. Sweeney knew what he was doing. He had a good idea of how to play the game. John Cusack was pretty athletic it’s just that era-wise he wasn’t quite right. He was trying to do a lot of things that just didn’t happen on a ballfield in the 20's. He did make some athletic stops at third base in the movie, he’d just dive fully extended and make the catch. I was hitting those balls to him off camera with a fungo bat and I was hitting them good.”“I enjoyed working with John Sayles. He was a good director. He’d give me the scenes that we needed to shoot and we’d work on them. I remember one where Sheen had to make a catch and hit the unpadded portion of the park we were shooting in. (Author’s Note: The game scenes were filmed in Indianapolis where the White Sox had their top farm team for many years. Berry himself played there in 1963 and 1964.) I showed Charlie how to make the catch and then spin into the wall so that he really wasn’t hitting it that hard. So we did the shot and Charlie unfortunately forgot about spinning and just slammed right into it. He also tore up his leg pretty good when he caught it on a piece that was sticking out from the door. One other thing about Charlie stands out. I was throwing the ball and he had to dive and make the catch. On one play he did it fully extended directly over his head. Just remarkable. It was something like Willie Mays did in the World Series.”ML: You also got the chance for a small on-camera speaking part in the film. What’s the story behind that? (Author’s Note: Towards the end of the movie, as “Shoeless” Joe Jackson is playing under an assumed name in a minor league game, a fan heckles him over his lack of intelligence. After Jackson belts a triple, while standing on third base he gives it right back to the fan. That fan was Berry!) KB: “I was actually supposed to play the part of the thug that threatens to kill “Lefty” Williams’ wife if he doesn’t throw the last game. So I practiced the role and had it down right when the girl in charge of casting said that she wanted to make a change. She said that hearing my voice every day during filming made her think the part of the heckler was the right one.”“So I started working on that and felt I had it O.K. One day Sayles comes up to me and says “are you ready?” He also said that because it was late in the day and the sun was going down it had to be done in one take. You talk about pressure! So we got into position, I had called up a friend of mine Dick Kenworthy, who lived in the area and asked him “you want to be in a movie?” he was sitting right next to me in the scene. (Author’s Note: Kenworthy played for the Sox in 1962 and from 1964 through the 1968 seasons. His best year was 1967 as he had four doubles, a triple and four home runs in 97 at bats.) So we did it and I was so proud that I was actually able to do it in one take.”
1 hour ago1 hr 1 minute ago, WestEddy said:Peters did that to Acuña with Acuña in CF and Peters in RF. Maybe collisions was a big part of early Banana-ball.I had no idea he played Banana Ball. There can't be that many ex-Bananas players that ended up in the Majors.
1 hour ago1 hr 55 minutes ago, Autumn Dreamin said:Your Chicago White Sox are 17-18, and winners of 6 in 7. Shutout wins in 2 of 3.Team ERA since April 3 is 3.29, the best mark in MLB.Since April 20, the offense is 5th in OBP and HRs, 6th in runs per game, and 7th in OPS.Longest tenured Sox Davis Martin with an incredible start, dropping his ERA to 1.64 (4th in MLB.)Offense continues to show out on the west coast, 5 guys turned in multi-hit efforts.They are 0.5 GB for the division, and finish May 4 in possession of the last ALWC spot.I can't add much to all that good stuff but I think they are 8th in baseball in walks .
1 hour ago1 hr 4 minutes ago, Lip Man 1 said:To me the biggest shock of the season so far has to be how well Davis is pitching.I'd say it's been Murakami. Just goes to show you that in this day and age of Data and metrics and all the scouting that so many can be so wrong. Hitting a baseball isn't ,nor will it ever be, an exact science. That's why top draft picks can bust and late round picks do good.
1 hour ago1 hr 10 minutes ago, CaliSoxFanViaSWside said:I can't add much to all that good stuff but I think they are 8th in baseball in walks .Murakami and Vargas combined have almost 40% of the team's walks.
1 hour ago1 hr 5 minutes ago, CaliSoxFanViaSWside said:I'd say it's been Murakami. Just goes to show you that in this day and age of Data and metrics and all the scouting that so many can be so wrong. Hitting a baseball isn't ,nor will it ever be, an exact science. That's why top draft picks can bust and late round picks do good.Peters in the sense that you never could have dreamed he would look like a 2-3 fWAR outfielder extrapolated out from 30+ games.Still might not be. But he's holding his own?and doing a lot of little things to complement the big boppers.Quero on the down side.
1 hour ago1 hr 10 minutes ago, Autumn Dreamin said:FYI. Might be the Mune rest day then.We had April 30th off, we have an off day on the 7th and 11th, not sure why he would need an off day.
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