August 31, 200421 yr Since we have this new rule about not personally insulting other people, I'll just make this a general post. Kelly Wunsch cannot pitch 2 days in a row, he's not throwing the ball at all like he was in the past. He's not on the 40 man roster. He will never play for the Sox again.. So I beg of you, please stop suggesting he be brought back for September.
August 31, 200421 yr Poor Kelly, I really liked him but he's kinda like Danny Wright....all but done.
August 31, 200421 yr Author So what your telling me is "Sox 65" was a bad License plate was a bad move??? Unless you we're born in 65, yeah.
August 31, 200421 yr A tribute to our favorite left handed specialist reliever: Ahhh, his childhood days... Ah, what a grin. CUT YOUR MULLET! OH YEAH BABY! The sweeeet days! Don't you worry, Kelly will once again be a successful major league pitcher.
August 31, 200421 yr Since we have this new rule about not personally insulting other people, I'll just make this a general post. Kelly Wunsch cannot pitch 2 days in a row, he's not throwing the ball at all like he was in the past. He's not on the 40 man roster. He will never play for the Sox again.. So I beg of you, please stop suggesting he be brought back for September. No need to beg. Deal with facts instead. As in, Kelly Wunsch has a 1.85 ERA with 28K in 24 inn of work in the Charlotte bandbox. Absolute death on lefties, if anything else. Kelly was very effective while throwing "junk" before going on DL last year, and there is no reason to believe he couldn't have helped the Sox win some close-ass games, at the same alleviating Marte's load this year. None. And since when did heavy-duty inning-chowing become the chief prerequisite for success as a lefty specialist? In the last 8 weeks, Wunsch was "needed" (say, in a tie ballgame and a dangerous lefty on deck with 1 on and 1 out and Marte exhausted from pitching two days in a row.....ring a bell? I bet) maybe twice a week, no more than for 1-2 battters at a time, but it was a great need because Sox were still in the race back then and quite a few July-August games were decided by the narrowest of margins......Did I mention that Adkins-Politte-Jackson-Cotts had a combined 930 OPS-against vs. LH? Oh I did? Well it bears repeating.
August 31, 200421 yr No need to beg. Deal with facts instead. As in, Kelly Wunsch has a 1.85 ERA with 28K in 24 inn of work in the Charlotte bandbox. Absolute death on lefties, if anything else. Kelly was very effective while throwing "junk" before going on DL last year, and there is no reason to believe he couldn't have helped the Sox win some close-ass games, at the same alleviating Marte's load this year. None. And since when did heavy-duty inning-chowing become the chief prerequisite for success as a lefty specialist? In the last 8 weeks, Wunsch was "needed" (say, in a tie ballgame and a dangerous lefty on deck with 1 on and 1 out and Marte exhausted from pitching two days in a row.....ring a bell? I bet) maybe twice a week, no more than for 1-2 battters at a time, but it was a great need because Sox were still in the race back then and quite a few July-August games were decided by the narrowest of margins......Did I mention that Adkins-Politte-Jackson-Cotts had a combined 930 OPS-against vs. LH? Oh I did? Well it bears repeating. You don't think if the Sox felt he could get out Major League hitters he would be up there? Hell yeah he would........
August 31, 200421 yr No need to beg. Deal with facts instead. As in, Kelly Wunsch has a 1.85 ERA with 28K in 24 inn of work in the Charlotte bandbox. Absolute death on lefties, if anything else. Kelly was very effective while throwing "junk" before going on DL last year, and there is no reason to believe he couldn't have helped the Sox win some close-ass games, at the same alleviating Marte's load this year. None. And since when did heavy-duty inning-chowing become the chief prerequisite for success as a lefty specialist? In the last 8 weeks, Wunsch was "needed" (say, in a tie ballgame and a dangerous lefty on deck with 1 on and 1 out and Marte exhausted from pitching two days in a row.....ring a bell? I bet) maybe twice a week, no more than for 1-2 battters at a time, but it was a great need because Sox were still in the race back then and quite a few July-August games were decided by the narrowest of margins......Did I mention that Adkins-Politte-Jackson-Cotts had a combined 930 OPS-against vs. LH? Oh I did? Well it bears repeating. *cough* Brando *cough*
August 31, 200421 yr *cough* Brando *cough* I hate to say it, but that post as Brando written all over it. Jeremy, check your PMs at WSI and answer the one from me.
August 31, 200421 yr Since we have this new rule about not personally insulting other people, I'll just make this a general post. Kelly Wunsch cannot pitch 2 days in a row, he's not throwing the ball at all like he was in the past. He's not on the 40 man roster. He will never play for the Sox again.. So I beg of you, please stop suggesting he be brought back for September.
August 31, 200421 yr You don't think if the Sox felt he could get out Major League hitters he would be up there? Hell yeah he would........ Conventional wisdom says yeah. But White Sox reality has on occasion proven itself to be grotesque and incomprehensible. Spend a few years following this team and you'll know what God made eye-roll smilies for. Considering some of the absolute garbage Sox have been trotting (sometimes out of need, other times out of folly) out there this year, to not give Wunsch even a chance to prove that he could once again be the lefty specialist the team desperately needed (in the process improving on the horrid 930 OPS against LH that the aformentioned foursome put up and helping keep Marte a bit fresher)......Inexcusable and symptomatic. But I do agree that the proper time for outrage was during the mid-July-mid-August span when the team was still alive and desperate for help where it could find it as it struggled to win 1-2 run games against Texas, Minnesota, Detroit, KC, Cleveland, KC, Boston, Detroit and Boston again. Boy did Jackson, Politte and Cotts do rheir best to f*** things up in those crucial situations or what! Now that the race is all but over, Wunsch might as well continue to rot in AAA. Shame.
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