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QUOTE(soxunited @ Jul 15, 2006 -> 05:04 PM) There isn't much of a choice now, is there? Who do you honestly expect to get for Garcia and Vasquez? You are certainly not going to get two quality starters in return. McCarthy I agree, should have been starting long ago. It is a disgrace that he has been left to languish out in the bullpen. Bmac needs to step into this rotation. As of right now he could pitch better than 3/5s of our current rotation. Maybe KW used him in the bullpen to keep him fresh for the 2nd half push. A lot of young starters tire out in the 2nd half due to never pitchng that many innings. He threw 180 innings last year and should be fresh for the 2nd half run.

Politte needs to be designated. He is done. Hermy has back discomfort. If we rely on either of them, then we are nuts. Remember if a player, no matter how crappy is on a team, ozzie will play him. Timo Perez was a DH, a 1st baseman, and our leadoff hitter last year. Buerhle needs to start to get his pitches down in the zone a bit more. And throw his cutter into righties more. Pitchers like Buerhle live on deception, guile and control. He needs to run that cutter in on the hands of righties to get his changeup away to be effective. Today all he did was throw medicore fastballs belt high over the middle of the plate. Garcia needs to start throwing hard, get traded, or get an MRI. Vazquez needs to throw his slider more o 2 strike pitches to righties. He likes to throw his curve or his two seamer which seem to get him beat. Garland needs to do more of what he has been doing. Pitching in and running his sinker down and in to righties. Contreras needs to keep on his track. He is almost turned the corne. And Ozzie needs to stop trying to get X pitcher the victory and worry more about the Whitesox getting the win. To many times he lets a pitcher start an inning hoping that he will get the victory, instead of letting his bullpen take care of it. Or worse, he lets a pitcher get mauled over the coals for 8 or more runs, only to have us come back just short at the end of the game. You dont need to let a pitcher give up 8 or more to figure out he is having a bad day. Bmac needs to be in the rotation. His arm is electric, his change is nasty and this kid is chomping at the bit to start. Putting him in the rotation will give this team life

QUOTE(Dick Allen @ Jul 15, 2006 -> 01:34 PM) Considering people in another thread were saying Garcia and Vazquez would be the best starters on the market, I think you're right. The only way the Sox improve the rotation is either their pitchers pitch better or they move McCarthy into it. The series in Detroit is going to be big for Detroit, huge for the Sox. Its actually going to be huge for the sox, and not so big for Detroit. We have to sweep them to make something up. If we keep choking here we will be 4 1/2 or 5 1/2 games out. They could literally put us out of the race quickly.

BTW hopefully at some point we stop drafting guys who can barely break a plane of glass with their fastball.

QUOTE(chitownsportsfan @ Jul 15, 2006 -> 01:33 PM) True, but the sunk costs, AKA the rotation, might just have stretched JR's purse strings a little too tight on the operating budget for midseason trades. Not if we ship Freddy and his mid 80s fastball out of here. That would clear up some money.

We need someone to get a hit with RISP. Just a base hit please or a double in the gap. Yet we choke again. Stop launching every pitch into the air. A couple singles or double will work. Yet I forget we score the most on the dong in all of baseball. We live and die by the dong.

Buerhle has before todays game a 11.91 ERA in July. Freddy is at 7.36 Vazquez is at 5.54 Garland is pitching well in July 2.35 and the Count is at 2.15

If we lose today and the tigers win this is how its going to break out. We will be 4 1/2 games back on our division. And the Yanks will only be 4 games out of the wildcard. We are playing ourselves into a pretty precarious postion. We need to wake the f*** up.

QUOTE(Heads22 @ Jul 15, 2006 -> 01:19 PM) When does 2 runs = 5 or 7? I am going over the last few weeks. Check out how many runs our starters have given up. Plus 2 runs have now become 4 runs. And its early.

QUOTE(rangercal @ Jul 15, 2006 -> 01:18 PM) you cried all year in 2005. I think we did all right that year. I dont think we should bunt all the time. You have the wrong guy, I am the guy who is on the hit it the other way and not try to hit the dong guy.

Nice pitching by Buerhle this inning. We need bmac in the rotation. We cant have every f***ing pitcher giving up a 5 to 7 spot outside of Contreras.

Smallball being executed by the Yanks. Ozzie will overmanage now, and try to bunt to match torre.

QUOTE(jphat007 @ Jul 15, 2006 -> 01:14 PM) Dammit BA> Need a productive out there with Moose on the mound. I know you love BA so much. But BA hit a swinging bunt. Cintron should of been over at third on that play. Pods and Gooch also s*** the bed.

QUOTE(Greg Hibbard @ Jul 15, 2006 -> 01:13 PM) that was a strike, guys. Well lets see if Buerhle gets the same pitch. I am betting the answer is no.

f***ing Froemming. I know you want to get watered, but good lord that was a strike?

Pods cant hit a f***ing single.

QUOTE(Felix @ Jul 15, 2006 -> 01:04 PM) If Cintron was off with contact, I think he could have made it. Probably not worth the risk though. He should of been at third. That was like a swinging bunt.

I am hoping that we trade for some bullpen help and ship Garcia and his dead arm somewhere in the NL. I think bmac is the kind of kick our rotation needs.

QUOTE(aboz56 @ Jul 15, 2006 -> 12:56 PM) I can't see the game except for on Gameday, how's Mark looking? Leaving pitches up.

Buerhle walking people is f***ing dumb.

QUOTE(fathom @ Jul 15, 2006 -> 12:54 PM) Actually, I agreed with Widger playing. We saw with Thome last night how difficult RJ is on lefties. AJ would of given us a fightin chance. Widger is worthless up at the plate. We migh as well let the pitcher hit and DH him.

QUOTE(fathom @ Jul 15, 2006 -> 12:54 PM) Outside of Contreras being out two weeks, what other injuries have our starters have? The Cubs haven't really had their starters all healthy for an extended period. Don't get me wrong though, outside of Zambrano, their starters suck. Well someone needs to explain how Freddy lost so much on his fast ball in a year. The clock didnt suddenly strike 40 on him.

Uribe goes down. Shocker.

QUOTE(Dick Allen @ Jul 15, 2006 -> 12:50 PM) AJ hadn't played in nearly a week. I think Widger played because Johnson was on the mound and he took him deep last year. Again that was last year. This years Chris Widger is a shadow of last years. THis years Chris Widger is every lefty pitchers b****.

Odd that Jorge Posada can catch last nights game and todays game, but we have to insert a poor hitting Widger who is a terrible caller of pitches in because we need to rest our catcher.