May Catch All White Sox Thread

[iamshack]

because we have the day off??

 

i sat up in the booth with hawk and dj back when they were partners. dj was very cool and talked to me a lot between innings. hawk pretty much ignored me. another time we were at a team party in the offseason and i introduced my girlfriend to hawk. he proceeded to slobber all over her face. she is still traumatized by it.

Are the two of them going to be back in the booth again for some reason or other though?

[Balta1701]

Are the two of them going to be back in the booth again for some reason or other though?

Apparently Tom Paciorek will be doing color along side Ed Farmer for the KC series filling in for DJ. So you'll have Hawk and the Big Hurt on TV with Farmio and Wimpy on the radio. What a bizarre weekend of White Sox broadcasts.

 

[iamshack]

Thanks

[chetkincaid]

Just bring back John Freaking Rooney!!!

[iamshack]

Just bring back John Freaking Rooney!!!

I cringe everytime I hear one of his calls...

[hogan873]

I find the banter between DJ and Farmer to be pretty funny. I can never tell if they are just joking around or there's actually some tension. DJ always seems to have that slight tone of taunting, like he's trying to make Farmer angry.

 

I think they are better together than DJ and Hawk were together.

[Balta1701]

I think they are better together than DJ and Hawk were together.

Absolutely.

 

And Stoney is about as good of a match as you can find for Hawk as well.

 

(Of course, he's the best color man in baseball, so he's probably a good match for most people, but the ability to understand Hawk's obscure 1960's Red Sox lineup references helps a lot).

[NorthSideSox72]

Absolutely.

 

And Stoney is about as good of a match as you can find for Hawk as well.

 

(Of course, he's the best color man in baseball, so he's probably a good match for most people, but the ability to understand Hawk's obscure 1960's Red Sox lineup references helps a lot).

Problem is, even when Hawk is at his best, Stoney and Hawk work poorly together because they are both color guys. Neither are good at PBP. My hope is that Hawk retires after this year, and they bring in a good PBP guy to go with Stone.

 

[dyuen]

Absolutely.

 

And Stoney is about as good of a match as you can find for Hawk as well.

 

(Of course, he's the best color man in baseball, so he's probably a good match for most people, but the ability to understand Hawk's obscure 1960's Red Sox lineup references helps a lot).

 

I agree. I do miss Rooney but I think both broadcast teams are a pretty good match. I don't listen to the Cubs so I can't express an opinion on how they are but when I read reviews in the paper they tend to give higher ratings to the Cubs teams. I find that hard to beleive.

[iamshack]

Problem is, even when Hawk is at his best, Stoney and Hawk work poorly together because they are both color guys. Neither are good at PBP. My hope is that Hawk retires after this year, and they bring in a good PBP guy to go with Stone.

Blasphemer!

[chw42]

You know what really bothers me about WAR? It's the 10 runs/win.

 

Think about it, you have all these complicated numbers calculated out to 3 or 4 significant figures. OPS of 1.012, wOBA of 0.352, UZR numbers of 10.5, on each of those you're calculating and probably keeping more significant figures to calculate runs saved.

 

Then, you just slap a single significant figure on it, 10 runs/win, and voila.

 

Really, it's not 9.453 runs/win? It's exactly 10.0000, in every circumstance, in every season?

 

It's 10 runs because it has something to do with the Pythagorean W-L record.

 

"Once you have obtained a player's RAR value, the translation to wins is fairly simple. Using a team's pythagorean winning percentage (RS^2/(RS^2 + RA^2)), it can be proved that for every ten runs that are lost or gained a win is similarly lost or gained. For every 10 runs a player is above a replacement level player, he is worth 1 win to his team."

Edited May 13, 2010 by chw42

[scenario]

Not sure if this has been posted already... if so, sorry. I'm too lazy to look into it before posting.

 

Here's where the WhiteSox rank in MLB in a variety of offensive categories as of today (5/13)...

 

Hits - 27th

Doubles - 25th

Triples - 24th

Homeruns - 4th

RBI's - 24th

Walks - 14th

Strikeouts - 1st

Stolen Bases - 2nd

Batting Average - 29th

OBP - 24th

SLG - 19th

OPS - 20th

 

 

[justBLAZE]

Not sure if this has been posted already... if so, sorry. I'm too lazy to look into it before posting.

 

Here's where the WhiteSox rank in MLB in a variety of offensive categories as of today (5/13)...

 

Hits - 27th

Doubles - 25th

Triples - 24th

Homeruns - 4th

RBI's - 24th

Walks - 14th

Strikeouts - 1st

Stolen Bases - 2nd

Batting Average - 29th

OBP - 24th

SLG - 19th

OPS - 20th

 

Strikeouts 1st, with the most strikeouts as a team or with the least?

 

[chw42]

Not sure if this has been posted already... if so, sorry. I'm too lazy to look into it before posting.

 

Here's where the WhiteSox rank in MLB in a variety of offensive categories as of today (5/13)...

 

Hits - 27th

Doubles - 25th

Triples - 24th

Homeruns - 4th

RBI's - 24th

Walks - 14th

Strikeouts - 1st

Stolen Bases - 2nd

Batting Average - 29th

OBP - 24th

SLG - 19th

OPS - 20th

 

They're also 19th in wOBA, which makes sense since they're around 20th in OPS.

 

It's amazing, because the Astros have a .266 wOBA.

[scenario]

Strikeouts 1st, with the most strikeouts as a team or with the least?

 

Fewest

 

Link

 

 

Edited May 13, 2010 by scenario

[knightni]

Fewest

 

Link

That's because they're too busy being #5 in GIDP.

[TitoMB345]

I find the banter between DJ and Farmer to be pretty funny. I can never tell if they are just joking around or there's actually some tension. DJ always seems to have that slight tone of taunting, like he's trying to make Farmer angry.

 

I think they are better together than DJ and Hawk were together.

This! This is why I LOVE the radio broadcast team. DJ and Farmio have such awkward dialogue sometimes, and I can never tell if it's serious. Whatever it is, the broadcasts always have me laughing, therefore, its a success. Oh, and they do a good job getting the game across too. But that's just my opinion.

[TitoMB345]

Fewest

 

Link

Beckham must have like half of those too. I swear, he K's twice a game it seems like.

 

Actually, Beckham does have the most K's on the team (28) in 31 games, so a little bit under 1 a game. His 28 are ~16% of the team's total.. I really hope he starts figuring it out.

 

EDIT: Jones strikes out more times per game than Becks though, so he's not leading that category. Jones has 25Ks in 27 games played.

Edited May 14, 2010 by TitoMB

[SoxAce]

Beckham must have like half of those too. I swear, he K's twice a game it seems like.

 

Actually, Beckham does have the most K's on the team (28) in 31 games, so a little bit under 1 a game. His 28 are ~16% of the team's total.. I really hope he starts figuring it out.

 

EDIT: Jones strikes out more times per game than Becks though, so he's not leading that category. Jones has 25Ks in 27 games played.

 

Ya Jones K's alot in less at-bats. But he and Beckham make up for it by the number of walks they take instead of someone like alexei who only has like 3 BBs to 17 or 18 SO. I kinda figured when you have Pierre and AJ (or even Kotsay) in the same lineup, you probably will have the fewest amount of K's and that is what KW wanted in the off-season. Guys like Quentin, Beckham, Konerko (though his BB's are very high with reason), Jones, Teahen, etc.. will walk quite a bit.

[Quin]

This! This is why I LOVE the radio broadcast team. DJ and Farmio have such awkward dialogue sometimes, and I can never tell if it's serious. Whatever it is, the broadcasts always have me laughing, therefore, its a success. Oh, and they do a good job getting the game across too. But that's just my opinion.

 

I love Farmio and DJ, but I love DJ when he was with Hawk too, because he fed of Hawks energy.

 

[TitoMB345]

I love Farmio and DJ, but I love DJ when he was with Hawk too, because he fed of Hawks energy.

I loved him there too, but I don't like Hawk. I used to, but he has just become way too annoying to me. I count it as another benefit of my job requiring me to be in my car most of the day, listening to DJ and Farmer.

[TitoMB345]

So, Alex Rios last season (when we all hated him) was batting .199. We currently have three starters under that mark, along with 3/4s of our bench. Our other bench member, Nix, is batting .211, a tad bit above this mark. Just thought it was interesting. Ironically, Alex Rios is actually our best hitter (by a lot) right now.

[chetkincaid]

I loved him there too, but I don't like Hawk. I used to, but he has just become way too annoying to me. I count it as another benefit of my job requiring me to be in my car most of the day, listening to DJ and Farmer.

 

 

Eh... you can have Farmer. His home run call is kind of lame. And why does he refuse to call Ichiro Ichiro? He calls him Suzuki...

[jeffro2525]

I love Farmio and DJ, but I love DJ when he was with Hawk too, because he fed of Hawks energy.

 

I really don't see how anyone loves DJ. He irritates the hell out of me.

[BigSqwert]

I really don't see how anyone loves DJ. He irritates the hell out of me.

I feel the same way about Farmer. It's like listening to Al Gore on Xanax.