southsideirish71

Another crappy pitcher spotted a fastball on the outside corner, while hitter after hitter tried to park pitch after pitch into the stands. To beat this club, just spot a fastball on the outside corner and let the mopes do all the work for you. Radke will 3 hit us tomorrow night and Santana will 4 hit us on Wednesday with this lineup.

We lose because we cant score more than 2 runs off of Kyle Lohse. We are ready for the playoffs now. Lets go.

QUOTE(jphat007 @ Aug 15, 2005 -> 08:57 PM) Not when you are a pinch hitter. Nobody here is trying to argue that Timo is a good leadoff hitter or table setter. He's not. He's horrible at that. His splits say as much. But when he needs to knock in the big run, he usually does it. Thats the bottome line. You are sitting there trying to argue that he's not a good leadoff hitter. I KNOW. That's not what I'm arguing. You probably are one of the guys who didnt mind Valentins 214BA or his countless errors or Ks because of the occasional homer in the late innings. LOL

QUOTE(jphat007 @ Aug 15, 2005 -> 08:50 PM) Wow. For someone who spouts off numbers left and right, I didn't figure you'd be so ignorant. RISP .397 .419 .500 .919 RISP 2 out .412 .444 .500 .944 Men on , 2 out .296 .333 .352 .685 in 54 Abs Including numerous game winning or game saving plays. Three year splits Runners on .314 .338 .428 .766 in 428 ABs RISP .332 .359 .466 .825 in 277 ABs RISP with 2 out .323 .359 .468 .827 in 124 ABS. Anything else you'd like to say. Three year splits. You have got to be f***ing kidding me. How about this years splits. Does that sexy .215BA show you something. But if those sexy stats dont make your mouth water. How about that lovely .167BA after the allstar break. And he has a .234OBP. That sounds like he is worth a million dollars.

QUOTE(Brian @ Aug 15, 2005 -> 08:49 PM) Easier said than done. It's not like Juan Rincon is some kind of slouch. His fastball moves. Well I just did a frame by frame on his fastball and it doesnt move that much from my angle. The two 94 mph fastballs that he threw Carl were down and in. Aka the sweet spot for a lefty. His head came off the ball as he swung hard at the pitch. He wanted to be a hero.

QUOTE(Brian @ Aug 15, 2005 -> 08:44 PM) You don't know if they are swinging for the fences or not. When a guy is throwing 96 mph fastballs, you're gonna take hard swings. Actually I have Tivo, and when they finish up off balance on every swing. Its a bit different that the swings they had earlier in the game when they werent trying to make sportscenter. And the third pitch was at 96. The other two straight 94 mph fastballs down the cock probably should of be hit.

QUOTE(Brian @ Aug 15, 2005 -> 08:42 PM) If they take these pitches from Rincon, they are strikes anyway. Except Kong's 3rd strike. Its nice when Rooney makes the call. He had a home run cut on that fastball. Make focking contact. There is no reason he should strike out the side. And if I remember Konerko was a supposed super fastball hitter. At least he used to be, remember when he used to be able to hit Matt Anderson fastballs over the fence at 100mph. Now he cant catch up with 94mph fastballs down the cock. Cruddy has an error. This is focking last year. I am glad we dump our load everytime its August and we play the twins.

But if you really want to talk about last year. This game smells of last years Twins series in August when we died as a club. We had the Carlos Lee like admiration of a possible homer and then the rush to get thrown out at second. We have the men on late in the game, and our hitters are trying to hit the game tying homer instead of making contact. I remember Pauly and Carlos Lee King in this same situation last year. Trying to park a pitch. GAME OVER

QUOTE(jphat007 @ Aug 15, 2005 -> 08:38 PM) He had the game wiinning HR earlier in the year against the TWins, though that was a start, he beat the Angels against awesome closer Krod, he tied up the game in a huge game against the A's and awesome closer Huston street. Had a huge 9th inning HR against FLA to win last year, Huge bases clearing double against LAA last year. A bunch of others. Last year Billy Koch was our closer. Last year Thriller was in our relief crew. Last year we didnt have a 5th starter. Dont use stats from last year to bolster what happens this year. If someone hit 400 last year and is hitting 100 this year. They suck this year.

Carl doesnt shorten his swing up one bit and Ks because he is behind the fastball. Way to adjust on 3 pitches in the same place.

QUOTE(Brian @ Aug 15, 2005 -> 08:30 PM) My line up tomorrow. Iguchi 2B Uribe SS Everett LF Konerko 1B Dye DH Rowand CF AJ C Anderson RF Crede 3B Mix and match Anderson, Dye, and Everett for OF or DH. Timo has a .294BA against Radke lifetime. Ozzie will use him for this game. If he starts him against someone that he is 0-7 against, he will most definately start him against Radke. Carl has a .179BA against Radke. Dye is batting .148 against Radke. Uribe is 143BA against Radke. Nope Ozzie will start Anderson on Wednesday against Santana. No matter what he does, Timo will bat leadoff again on Friday.

QUOTE(jphat007 @ Aug 15, 2005 -> 08:28 PM) Very rarely do PH numbers impress anybody. Many have said that it is incredibly difficult to pinch hit. Timo has a bunch of big hits, a couple game-winning. This is one situation where Hawk's "don't tell me what you hit, tell me when you hit it applies." Timo hasnt been a pinch hitter. He has been our first bat off the bench. He has more ABs than any of our bench players. That is not a pinch hitter, thats a sub.

And we forget that Timo is slow and also does that one handed hot dog swipe at the ball s*** in LF. I am waiting for the ball to hit him in the junk one day on that. Then Ozzie will cry.

QUOTE(jphat007 @ Aug 15, 2005 -> 08:25 PM) He'll definately be back. Hopefully it won't be for a significant time as a starter. He's been solid enough as a pinch hitter though. He's no Lenny Harris, but he has some big hits. The problem with Timo on the roster is that Ozzie thinks that Timo is a super sub. He has more ABs than any of our subs. How can Ozzie play a midget at 1st. He did. How can Ozzie play Timo as a DH when he cant hit. He did. How can Ozzie have Timo leadoff with a bad BA, low OBP and an 0-7 lifetime against Lohse. He did. Tomorrow night Timo will leadoff. And for his clutch hits, he had a few times up with men on and what did he do, slap the ball on the ground and GIDP.

Timo is to Ozzie as Hollensworth is to Dusty

Timo and his 216 BA shows why he is so clutch.

QUOTE(Benchwarmerjim @ Aug 15, 2005 -> 08:10 PM) no no. I am not trying to start trouble. I dont remember Mauer ever plowing anybody over. And the Hunter thing was like 2 years ago It was last year and if I remember correctly it was considered good baseball. All we are trying to do is play some good baseball.

Crede should of dropped Mauer to his ass on that play for payback from last year. But he pussed out. Konerko pulls a Carlos Lee and watches what he believes to be a homer and then gets thrown out trying to run to second. This is shades of last years August series.

The lineup tonight should of been Arow CF Hits .292 against Lohse Gooch 2b Hits .667 against Lohse Everett DH Hits Lohse well Konerko 1B Doesnt hit Lohse AJ C Hits 500 against lohse Dye RF Blum 3b Timo LF Uribe SS

QUOTE(fathom @ Aug 15, 2005 -> 07:32 PM) And it's the worst I've seen Lohse look against the Sox in a long time. His slider is spinning and is not moving. The only one that is moving is the one in the dirt. He is spotting his fastball on the outside half. And our meathead hitters are pull crazy. Thanks Ozzie for the crappy 1-2 punch tonight.

Well Cy Lohse has a 2 hitter going.

Maybe its time to sit Uribe who hasnt been good. Fock that he starts day in and day out. Gooch who is good, bench his ass every couple of days. We are saving his bat for the postseason. What other major league team would bat Timo leadoff? Name one.

We just spotted a team who cant score 4 runs but who has the 3rd best pitching staff. We have a lineup that the Tampa Bay Devils Rays outhit. And in about an inning they will start going for the dong if they havent already ala corpseball. Then we face Radke and Santana. Glad my tickets are 9 focking bucks tomorrow night. I wont feel bad when Ozzie puts another turd of a lineup tomorrow because Timo is great in his eyes.

QUOTE(The Ginger Kid @ Aug 15, 2005 -> 07:22 PM) YIKES! are those stats for real?? Yes they are. But Ozzie doesnt have these stats or doesnt use them. He just goes on gut and feel and who is giving him the occasional handjob.

QUOTE(fathom @ Aug 15, 2005 -> 07:21 PM) Is Iguchi hurt? If not, I have one thing to say to the White Sox "Don't take you foot off the f***ing accelerator!" I get the bad feeling we're just sitting back and hoping we can coast the rest of the way without things getting tight. Gooch is not hurt. Ozzie just is letting yesterdays reserves play today. They got cheated out of their game.