I hope you aren't comparing Johan Santana to JP Howell.

 

I'm not, but the way Hawk was gushing over Howell, you would have thought it was unfair to compare Santana to Cy Howell.

Freddy needs to do better than his last outing in KC. That was also a really bad series for us though. Considering we lost to the Royals twice.

DO IT

Everett is out of his mind to think he is a three hole hitter... he is also out of his mind for other reasons...

The second time around theory really hasn't held up this year. The Sox are 14-17 in the second decision against pitchers who have more than one decision against them. When you only count those where the time between decisions is 14 days or less, they are 4-4.

 

As to Howell, he went 5 IP 5 ER June 22, 6 IP 2 ER on Sept 8. Both in US Cellular.

 

I guess they'll have to play the game tonight to see who wins.

No Carl your numbers are pitiful.

Borch in right

 

Dye DH

 

Anderson LF

 

Ozuna 38

 

Ozuna - Iguchi - Rowand - Konerko - Dye - Piez - Uribe - Borchard - Anderson

 

Can't do any worse than last week and I think this is a better defensive team.

 

 

This is tonight's line up?

 

I don't like it at all

This is tonight's line up?

 

I don't like it at all

 

That's not the lineup.

That's not the lineup.

 

 

Oh good

Pods, LF

Iguchi, 2B

PK, 1B

Everett, DH

Rowand, CF

Dye, RF

Uribe, SS

Widger, C

Crede, 3B

 

Garcia, RHP

Pods, LF

Iguchi, 2B

PK, 1B

Everett, DH

Rowand, CF

Dye, RF

Uribe, SS

Widger, C

Crede, 3B

 

Garcia, RHP

With Tribe facing Zito we need to take advantage of facing a pitcher with an ERA of 6+. I see the Widge is back, hopefully he can contribute with the rest of the others.

 

If Everett doesn't K tonight I will lay off of him...lol.

 

Go get those damn Royals!!

Howell's best outting of the year, coincidentally, was against our Sox September 8th. Although I'm happy to see him again since I'm confident we'll hit him.

 

This offense fails to scratch across 4 runs there's something wrong. His ERA isn't knocking on 7 because he's the recepient of poor luck or a bullpen which surrenders inherited runners. He's just that bad.

Edited September 14, 200520 yr by Flash Tizzle

Thought widge was down with a hammy.

 

When does Cassanova get his chance?

The players in this lineup were 2-25 with 5 BB's and 9 K's the law of averages which are so prevalent in baseball dicate we should be ok.

 

Sorry though I liked my lineup better. This guy didn't throw a breaking ball his last outing I'd hate to see if he has one tonight.

 

Let's do something different tonight.

Everett is out of his mind to think he is a three hole hitter... he is also out of his mind for other reasons...

 

I thought that was well-established....

why the hell can we give borchard or anderson a shot instead of slumpy carl. WTF Ozzie, he isnt going to break out of it.

 

If Everett doesn't K tonight I will lay off of him...lol.

 

Get ready to hammer him.

I'm still waiting for Dye to get his chance to bat 3rd or 4th. He deserves it. Carl should be hitting 6th.

Chicago White Sox
Scott Podsednik LF .291
Tadahito Iguchi 2B .277
Paul Konerko 1B .277
Carl Everett DH .252
Aaron Rowand CF .281
Jermaine Dye RF .269
Juan Uribe SS .264
Chris Widger C .250
Joe Crede 3B .237
 Freddy Garcia P (12-8 3.75)


Kansas City Royals
Aaron Guiel CF .296
Terrence Long LF .276
Mike Sweeney DH .296
Matt Stairs 1B .272
Emil Brown RF .284
Mark Teahen 3B .236
Angel Berroa SS .263
Paul Phillips C .256
Andres Blanco 2B .200
 J.P. Howell P (2-5 6.63)

Umpires: HP: Adam Dowdy 1B: Jerry Meals 2B: Bruce Froemming 3B: Mike Winters

Gotta make Howell bring the ball up just like they did to Wood last night. They laid off that ball diving low and started rapping out some hits. Howell throws similar junk.

 

by the way, did anyone else notice that Carl looked like he was sort of limping rounding the bases last night?

Get ready to hammer him.  

haha, I don't have a problem with Carl but the other day I saw enough K's from him, I just felt like throwing my remote to the TV. I don't even think it was an important AB, he just sucks, throw it down and in and hes a goner.

 

You would think after going through a tough series against Angel pitching they will capitalize on facing Howell and well...pretty much KC in general. and I hope those damn Indians lose.

Edited September 14, 200520 yr by Sox Hustler

Indians/A's 0-0

 

Top of the 2nd

 

Delayed by Rain

Why is Everett hitting cleanup and not someone who actually has a chance to hit something like AROW...

I swear Aaron gets no respect on this time... Being buried behind has beens like Everett....

This is the lineup Ozzie needs to use...

 

AROW 3rd, Kong Cleanup...

 

When we were at our hottest that was the freakin' lineup most of the time...

I bet it was just a coincidence though...

Why is Everett hitting cleanup and not someone who actually has a chance to hit something like AROW...

I swear Aaron gets no respect on this time... Being buried behind has beens like Everett....

This is the lineup Ozzie needs to use...

 

AROW 3rd, Kong Cleanup...

 

When we were at our hottest that was the freakin' lineup most of the time...

I bet it was just a coincidence though...

 

.727 ops verse righties and .761 overall seems like a ttrey hole hitter to me...

 

You overate your man crush to no end offensively. But i will tell you what if he keeps hitting like he has so far this month ( i like the patience he has shown) then he would be perfect in the trey hole.

AROW 3rd, Kong Cleanup...

 

When we were at our hottest that was the freakin' lineup most of the time...

I bet it was just a coincidence though...

Actually, it seems like according to the numbers, it probably was a coincidence...or at least it had nothing to do with Arow hitting 3rd.

 

In the 3 hole this year, ARow's numbers (Avg, Obp, slug, ops) are:

.275 .319 .412 .731

 

In the 5 hole:

.309 .381 .491 .872

 

Aaron has been significantly better in the 5 hole than in the 3 hole. So if we got hot when Aaron was hitting in the 3 hole, we did so more likely because of the performance of someone other than Aaron, who's numbers went down when he was hitting there.