Nice zone blue. The umps need to be called to task after this year of asshat calls, and dumb crap like the wandering strikezone.

 

Here's an idea....maybe our manager shouldn't complain publically in the press about umpires during the first week?

No walks by Dotel. Please.

Dotel for the 7th?

Here's an idea....maybe our manager shouldn't complain publically in the press about umpires during the first week?

 

Here's another idea... maybe the umpires should a) learn the strike zone B ) be professional and fair and not hold Ozzie's comments from several weeks ago against him.

Edited May 27, 200817 yr by StrangeSox

They were pretty good pitches. Not that its an excuse not to swing though.

Where those pitches were located, if he swung, nothing good for the White Sox would have happened. Chances are he would miss. I suppose he may have been able to foul the second one off to stay alive.

Here's another idea... maybe the umpires should a) learn the strike zone B ) be professional and fair and not hold Ozzie's comments from several weeks ago against him.

 

Why can't Doug Eddings do all of our games?

Hey, one of our starting pitchers is going to get a No Decision....that RARELY happens this season

 

Although, this is one I'm kinda glad to have at least gotten.

No walks by Dotel. Please.

If he stays 6 inches off the plate, he should get the call.

JD!!!

Nice catch by Jermaine! Ben Francisco = stud

Hey, one of our starting pitchers is going to get a No Decision....that RARELY happens this season

 

Although, this is one I'm kinda glad to have at least gotten.

 

At least it's not S. Chacon.

Why can't Doug Eddings do all of our games?

I know. Its like JR gave him a huge loan, and told him he didn't have to pay it back.

Nice catch by Jermaine! Ben Francisco = stud

 

 

The fact that the Indians kept Jason Michaels on their roster for 2 months when Fransisco was in the minors is amazing. It's Pods-esque.

I know. Its like JR gave him a huge loan, and told him he didn't have to pay it back.

 

It's the main reason I have a hard time completely going off on the umpiring.

The fact that the Indians kept Jason Michaels on their roster for 2 months when Fransisco was in the minors is amazing. It's Pods-esque.

 

Did Francisco have good numbers in the minors?

It's the main reason I have a hard time completely going off on the umpiring.

 

 

Not to sound ill-informed, but what do you speak of with Eddings? The infamous dropped 3rd with AJ? Is there more?

Here's another idea... maybe the umpires should a) learn the strike zone B ) be professional and fair and not hold Ozzie's comments from several weeks ago against him.

 

Its not that they hold it against Ozzie, these f***ers cant call home run calls. Remember the Crede call in Baltimore. A blind monk from Tibet could of called that correctly. The wandering zone is all over the league. Not only does it change from ump to ump, but from inning to inning and not all the time do both teams get the same zone. They are bad league wide.

 

 

For 1 inning or so, Dotel is as nasty as they come.

Dotel looks crisp, he will get the 8th no doubt. When Dotel pitches in the low 90s, he is so much better than mid 90s because commands his fastball. When he throws harder, he always waslks hitters.

Thanks ump!

Not to sound ill-informed, but what do you speak of with Eddings? The infamous dropped 3rd with AJ? Is there more?

 

Nope, just that play.

It's so hilarious that, at this point in the season, OC is universally loathed, and Linebrink's contract is the absolute least of our concerns.

Not to sound ill-informed, but what do you speak of with Eddings? The infamous dropped 3rd with AJ? Is there more?

It seems about 90% of the time the Sox get a huge break from an umpire, Eddings happens to be the umpire.

For 1 inning or so, Dotel is as nasty as they come.

 

 

He reminds me so much of late 90's Ugeth Urbina. Fastball that moves on a horizontal plane - totally unpredictable.

So will our 4-5-6, go 1-2-3?