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Contreras is just brutal now.

I just love Sandy's veteran presence behind home plate.

QUOTE(Heads22 @ Aug 26, 2006 -> 11:50 PM) And Mack misses one in CF. Can't say Brian could have got to it, but I don't know if Rob even saw the ball. Simply put, we don't deserve s*** when we have such stupid decisions as continuing to put Mackowiak in CF.

I'm sure glad we have Mackowiak out there. Hey Jose...stop hanging every freaking offspeed pitch you throw. Your slider stinks....where's the f***ing forkball?

If you keep throwing 3-1 fastballs down the plate, guys like Morneau are going to do a lot of damage. It looks like Contreras has no clue where his pitches are going so far.

QUOTE(WHarris1 @ Aug 26, 2006 -> 11:39 PM) Johan getting a pretty sizeable zone early The umpire last time we faced him had a small zone, and it allowed us to have better ABs vs him. With the way we struggle against Johan, a no-hitter isn't out of the question.

Minorsfan nailed this one. The Sox called up Owens and put him on the DL. According to my source, they didn't have to send anyone down for him. Owens is now being paid the MLB minimum though, so congrats to him.

QUOTE(whitesoxfan101 @ Aug 26, 2006 -> 10:40 PM) What happens first tonight: Sox runner is thrown out at home, or we see Neal Cotts in the game to face Morneau/Mauer? Sox runner thrown out at third

QUOTE(Wealz @ Aug 26, 2006 -> 04:56 PM) A game is never "on the line" in the 6th inning. Says? I don't see how the last out in the 6th inning, with 2 guys on in a 2 run game, is less important than the first out of the 7th inning to start that inning off.

QUOTE(Friend of Nordhagen @ Aug 26, 2006 -> 10:19 PM) No question about Ozuna being on there. Maybe they see Owens as the Willie Harris addition of this year. But, as we all know, there is only Willie Harris. And he dominates regularly. From my source who's seen Owens play a lot, he described him as a lesser hitting Willie Harris.

QUOTE(Dick Allen @ Aug 26, 2006 -> 10:19 PM) Ozuna, LF Iguchi, 2B Dye, RF PK, DH Crede, 3B Gload, 1B Uribe, SS Mack, CF Alomar, C Jose on the mound Well...that looks like a losing lineup. QUOTE(Rowand44 @ Aug 26, 2006 -> 10:21 PM) Can't wait for this day. Is this sarcasm?

Yes, Ozuna deserves to be on the playoff roster. He's a great situational hitter, can play numerous positions (not well, but at least he's an option), and is the fastest guy on the team. Sweeney is a much better player than Owens is, and if we're calling up someone to start in LF, it should be Sweeney.

QUOTE(BigSqwert @ Aug 26, 2006 -> 10:09 PM) It's official. Ozzie is mentally handicapped. Mackowiak in CF. Per the Score. I hate our manager. If Anderson isn't injured, then Ozzie deserves to be fired.

QUOTE(Friend of Nordhagen @ Aug 26, 2006 -> 10:07 PM) And that, my friends, illustrates just how little faith they have in Podsednik going forward. I don't think it has anything to do with Pods. I think it's more that they want a possible pinch runner on the bench for the playoffs (I don't see how he'd make the 25 man roster though).

QUOTE(minorsfan @ Aug 26, 2006 -> 10:04 PM) If my info is correct (I trust my source) I think they are going to bring him up and then DL him for a minor league rehab assignment-- not really sure how all that works but he would be available in the playoffs if needed I think. That would mean that the Sox would still have to DL someone else in order to call him up prior to 9/1. My source is going to talk with the Charlotte radio guy soon, and I'll let you know what he finds out.

QUOTE(santo=dorf @ Aug 26, 2006 -> 08:50 PM) Sox currently have a 3 game winning streak on my birthday. Happy Birthday

QUOTE(Gene Honda Civic @ Aug 26, 2006 -> 07:16 PM) The one to Young definitely wasn't a double. He Ole'd it on a hard hit ball that would have landed against most RFers. Your source is inside the D-rays org, right? We're getting similar info, though I suspect from differing outlets. Yes, he's with the DRays.

QUOTE(Balta1701 @ Aug 26, 2006 -> 05:53 PM) If you go back to May, you'll find me asking what the Hell Greg Walker was doing to earn his money. He's earned it since. Crede has finally learned how to hit. Anderson has finally learned how to hit. Uribe got his average out of the toilet. Dye, Konerko have both managed to avoid getting into anything resembling a prolongued slump. AJ has spent most of the season going the other way. Beyond that, there have been plenty of games where the Sox have come in and clearly had an excellent plan for how to deal with pitchers, and that's the work of the hitting coach too. I think the best example of one of those games was the game against Halladay. I just find it hillarious that after yesterday's game, Walker was the person who had a "Fire" thread about him, and not some of the other legitimate culprits.

I talked with someone who saw Sweeney play last night, and even though he said both of his doubles should have been errors, he did say that Sweeney should definitely be playing instead of Pods right now. He said Sweeney made a great running catch on a tough play in the outfield. His reviews of Fields weren't nearly as good though.

QUOTE(Jordan4life_2006 @ Aug 26, 2006 -> 06:17 AM) No argument here. I haven't liked our approach at the plate as much since the break. There's really nothing to like about this team outside of Dye and Garland. Crede and Thornton

QUOTE(Dam8610 @ Aug 26, 2006 -> 06:11 AM) Maybe this is a good thing. Maybe if these guys have to sit home after winning it all last year, they'll get hungry again and will it all next year. And we'll make some personnel changes on and off the field!

QUOTE(southsideirish71 @ Aug 26, 2006 -> 05:56 AM) I think Ozzie needs to realize that Cotts cannot get lefties out, just like Marte last year couldnt get lefties out. Why is he option A out of the pen. It's disturbing that we're about 125 games into the season, and it seems like Ozzie has been coaching this particular group of players for about a week. He keeps making some of the same mistakes.

BTW...may I recommend moving Gload into the #2 hole in the order, and putting Iguchi 7th in the lineup.

QUOTE(jackie hayes @ Aug 26, 2006 -> 05:28 AM) Got it, ha ha ha, so very very funny, enough already. From both accounts. It's funny how we've seen a string of those type of posts. Why can't we just simply have one that says: White Sox, plz play better baseball. A lot of us take out our frustrations by venting on this board...and then there's a lot of people who take out their frustrations on those posters who are taking out their frustrations on this board.

QUOTE(Dick Allen @ Aug 26, 2006 -> 05:02 AM) Did anyone catch Hawk conceding the Central on channel 5 yesterday? It was actually shown on Detroit TV. Hawk said the Sox wouldn't catch the Tigers. Yeah, he said their pitching was too strong to collapse.