southsideirish71

QUOTE(fathom @ Jul 25, 2006 -> 07:44 PM) Going to right isn't always the option. The most disturbing thing about the offense the last few weeks is the lack of hard hit balls by our offense. I like going to right with pitchers like Johan who have a great change. If you think right you still have a shot at putting the change in play. If you look for the pull, if you make contact with the change you will foul it off. Its not for every single type of pitcher. Its for soft tossing lefties, soft tossing righties who are going away only, and for Johan with the plus change.

Welcome to the whitesox Sandy you will fit in with our offense with that approach.

Uribe goes oppo. This is what our right handers should be doing against Johan. Lets see if old man Alomar can put a good hit together.

Crede looking like poo on a stick at the plate lately. Nice fishing swing Joe. Just put the bat back in the rack and come up with a better game plan than that. Try hitting it to right instead of pulling everything.

QUOTE($I Need Money$ @ Jul 25, 2006 -> 07:37 PM) Tigers are rallying back We are 7 1/2 out of the division. Lets worry about the team 2 behind us, that we are playing. Until we break the 5 game threshold again, we arent in the division.

Well hopefully some of our righties have a plan tonight against Santana. When you get a fastball crush it.

Our team gets the lead, then poof our pitcher gives it up.

QUOTE(soxunited @ Jul 25, 2006 -> 07:25 PM) See, I told you Johan has been hittable over his last few starts Dont get cocky over the solo homer in the first. We have hit solo homers off of Johan before.

QUOTE(Sonik22 @ Jul 25, 2006 -> 07:23 PM) F U C K u johan More like fish ozuna who swung at ball 4. That would of been 2 runs.

QUOTE(ottawa_sox @ Jul 25, 2006 -> 07:22 PM) How about anybody that can keep the bat on their shoulder when it's ball 4. Our other LF'er likes to leave his on his shoulder watching the pitch dwon the middle of the plate. Thank you Thome. There is our run.

Gooch actually puts wood on the ball. Popup to Center. 2 gone.

K number one of many for Johan tonight.

Maybe we can get Selig to get Van Slykes sensitivity training in order. Maybe he can use the same person that Ozzie used.

Contreras gets out of it. Nice. Now lets see if we can get some runs. Well lets first see if we can put the bat on the ball.

Bmac moving into the rotation will free up 10 to 12 million a year. It wont be Joe going, more like something of the spicy latin flavor.

QUOTE(Reddy @ Jul 25, 2006 -> 04:50 PM) i wouldnt. can you really name something that pods does that contributes to this teams success? Well Pods wife is hot. There is a remote possibility that you may see her at the park. But then again I can google her images on the internet, and then watch Soriano make Pods just a remote memory of 2005.

QUOTE(southsideirish @ Jul 25, 2006 -> 04:29 PM) That is one year. His career OBP is only .346. Who cares about his rookie year. So, it is ENTIRELY true. I agree he did a good job at seeing more pitches last year, but this year? NO! Last year he did a great job at seeing more pitches and being a leadoff hitter. I don't see him doing that this year. You are getting a better average, about the same OBP, and only 4 less stolen bases. How does Podsednik possibly become the better leadoff hitter? The only categories that Pods ihas a higher number than Soriano in is triples and caught steals. That is it. There is no way that Pods has better numbers that Soriano that make him more suitable to leadoff. Your only argument is that Soriano is a great power hitter so we have to take advantage of that, however that does not make him any less suitable to hit leadoff than Pods. That is just ridiculous. Can we table this back and forth on OBP and value as a leadoff hitter for another thread. There are going to be two camps on this. Those who think he is a shoe in as a leadoff guy to replace pods, and those who want to see his power used lower in the order. Its pointless to go back and forth for multiple pages in a few threads on this subject. I think he will be a replacement for Pods and leadoff. Lets have KW get the guy, and then lets see where Ozzie bats him. No matter what happens, if we get Soriano he will help the team. If he hits leadoff he will help the team, if he hits 5th he will help the team.

QUOTE(CWSOX45 @ Jul 25, 2006 -> 11:33 AM) Nothing really new. Offman just reported if we were to acquire Soriano we'd trade him for more pitching help. Move Bmac into the rotation and one of our starters will be fixed. I thought that is why we picked up Macdougal.

Our IT and Finance departments are moving from Elmhurst to our plant in Northlake. Nice datacenter move in the middle of summer. No summer vacations for me this year.

QUOTE(soxunited @ Jul 25, 2006 -> 10:39 AM) I don't really understand why a lot of posters are considering this a lost cause before these guys have even played the game. For one thing, Santana has been far from unhittable recently. This is his record over his past 3 starts: Against Tampa Bay at home: 3 runs 6 hits in 6 innings, 7 SO Minn wins Against Cleveland at Jacobs field: 2 runs 5 hits in 7 innings, 7 SO Minn wins Against Texas at Ameriquest field: 5 runs 7 hits in 7 innings, 7 SO Minn loses The White Sox have shown that they can have success against Santana at home this season. Remember in April when Sanatana allowed 2 runs in 7 innings and was only able to strike out 6? Thome was even able to hit a HR off of Santana. The White Sox went on to win 7-1. Sure, Santana and the Minnesota bullpen were struggling at the beginning of the season, but the point is is that Santana isn't the shutout-game over force people think he is. Secondly, Contreras has had success against Minnesota this season, albeit post injury. In April, Contreras was able to pitch 8 innings, allowing only 2 runs against the Twins at the Cell. The White Sox went on to win the game 7-3. The only caveat to those statistics is that neither team is what it was in April. Minnesota has stepped up in both the offensive and pitching departments, while the White Sox have faltered. I personally am not too concerned that Ozzie will be placing Alomar in the game this evening, this series is much too important to rest the starting line-up. Tonight's game is going to come down to whether the cliched statement of when the real White Sox will present themselves, especially against an injured Twins team. You realize that Johan is 5-1 with a near 1 ERA against the sox over his last 6 games right. If we win this game I will be absolutely shocked. I am figuring that we will nick a few hits, maybe a solo homer but will K like 10 times against him.

QUOTE(LVSoxFan @ Jul 25, 2006 -> 10:22 AM) Well let's not get too crazy; the team is still 20 games over .500 and by any stretch that's a great season--it's just that Detroit is so invincible this year. And Minnesota's doing what Cleveland did last year. I think expectations are sky-high this year to repeat and that's what's causing a lot of the tension all-around--including here. When you have a 7 game lead at the allstar break, you are not supposed to lose it in a matter of 2 weeks. This team was built to win, not to drop 9 out of 10. The KC Royals are a team that loses 9 out of 10. No matter how good the tigers or the twins are playing we are the reason we are in the position we are. Ozzie and his retarded managing is part of it, oru offense deciding to go on its annual post allstar break hibernation is another, and 3/5s of our starting pitching sucking is another. Our team was supposed to pitch this year, and sure as hell was supposed to hit. There is no reason this team should be laying the egg it is. And there is no fishing reason we should be starting more than 1 scrub at a time. Last year Ozzie used Timo like he was addicted to him. No matter what the lineup had, it needed more Timo. No matter how bad Timo did, he was in the lineup. Its the same thing this year. We dropped a lot of early games due to his 3 scrub lineups. Last year Ozzie put bmac in the rotation only after kicking and screaming all the way down. He wanted El Duque to be the man, no matter how bad he was doing. No matter how it mad sense to rest him. He kept marching him out there. And even used a piggy back methodology allowing us to go down 5 or 7 runs before bmac came in to mop up. Its the same thing this year. We just dont have a 15 game lead to blow through, we blew through our 7 game lead already.

QUOTE(Steff @ Jul 25, 2006 -> 10:07 AM) That there were words between Oz and Dye because of JD's actions Sunday during the Garland incident. So we had Ross Gload in last night because Ozzie had to prove he was the man. Thats fishing great.

QUOTE(fathom @ Jul 25, 2006 -> 09:51 AM) Are you implying that there's tension between Dye/Ozzie? Also, Cooper was on the radio, and he seemed rather pissed about Vazquez and his performances recently. I thought Cooper was going to have a nervous breakdown on the radio.

QUOTE(LVSoxFan @ Jul 25, 2006 -> 09:27 AM) Steff there's no big drama about why Dye was out. He was getting a day off because he had played a lot and had whiffed four times in the game before. Like Konerko, it was thought that a day off might do him some good. Why do you rest him vs your primary competition.

QUOTE(SoxHawk1980 @ Jul 24, 2006 -> 11:06 PM) Ozzie's stupid decisions speak for themselves. His handling of SP's and the bullpen is indefensible. He stubbornly sticks with SP's for too long and makes poor bullpen usage decisions. And those screw ups are leading directly to losses. It isn't all Ozzie, but his horrible in-game decision making is losing this team games. And it is no defense of his horrible decisions to point to the championship. His in-game decisions didn't win us that championship. And they may well be a big reason for why we don't even get to the playoffs this year. Well between Ozzies handling of pitching which has been poor for a long time, his over insistance in resting starters(especially in the middle of a pennant race with your primary rivals), and his partner in crime who keeps waving our slowest runners around time and time again so they are meat by at least 10 feet its insane. I am sick of it takes a perfect throw to get the runner. No it doesnt take a perfect throw to throw out Konerko when you get the ball in short left field and wheels hasnt even rounded third. In fact like last Friday you can have a throw up the line and stil have time to tag out our slow catcher. Ozzie needs to realize that Javier is a 5 inning pitcher. You cant make him into what you want, unless you want to give up on the season.