southsideirish71

Its official CORPSEBALL is back. A few weeks into the season and we are making plus 6 ERA pitchers look like Cy Young. Stranding runners, popping out, GIDP and taking home run swings when you need a simple basehit. Its back. CORPSEBALL 2005 aka DUMB BALL

Dye and Konerko both have their hands real high up. Their swing is like a golf swing. If they get solid wood on it they will drive it to mars. But for 9 out of 10 they will pop out.

I like Pauly's new way of resting his bat on his shoulder. Greg Walker is in love with that thing. He had Miggy Olivo doing it, Crede has done it at some point this year. Now Pauly is doing it. And guess what, if you do it late in the delivery you have a hitch in your swing and you pop everything up. Notice how high his f***ing hands are. Keep them down like last year. Why break something that works.

Shingo Koch should never be used again in a save situation. Last year we had Thriller, Koch and Cotts crapping it up. This year its Shingo taking his turn as the rally killer.

QUOTE(Rowand44 @ Apr 29, 2005 -> 10:05 PM) There were a couple but I have no problem with this decision and Fathom no matter what ozzie does you're gonna say it's wrong. Shingo is a righty specialist and a righty specialist only. Lefties destroy him. Anytime a lefty gets up against him its over.

QUOTE(sox-r-us @ Apr 29, 2005 -> 10:01 PM) Fock you racist pig. I am glad to see Takatsu pitching to lefties. We have ourselves a righty specialist.

QUOTE(Capn12 @ Apr 29, 2005 -> 09:59 PM) Bottom of the 9th, no outs, winning run on. You play to win, not to be cautious. Our manager put the strategy to win. Our players failed to execute. Level swings instead of dipping your back shoulder or in Timo's case K'ing when you are a pinch hitter. You can see it in their swings. Constantly watching long swings, fouling pitches off. A short swing puts the ball into play. Make them beat you.

QUOTE(sox-r-us @ Apr 29, 2005 -> 09:56 PM) Man we are a sad bunch....literally begging for one run How the fock will we score against ace pitchers if we get to the playoffs Bases loaded in the 9th. Arow does his job. The rest of the guys are trying to park one to make Sportscenter. I still remember KW and his tirade after watching Carlos Lee do the same thing during the twinks series in August.

QUOTE(Capn12 @ Apr 29, 2005 -> 09:55 PM) Bad approach, 1 AB. He wasn't alone in that all or nothing HR mentality tonight. This sort of game seems to breed that mindset in our guys. Crede earlier in the game against Urbina. The pitch was way on the outside corner and he turned on it.

QUOTE(WilliamTell @ Apr 29, 2005 -> 09:54 PM) I guess I'd still prefere to see Pablo batting, but that's why I'm not the manager. Pablo still cant grab the bat. His wrist is still sore.

QUOTE(Capn12 @ Apr 29, 2005 -> 09:53 PM) He popped out on a good pitch, what else do you want? Was a real good location from Walker. Enough of this BS b****ing and whining about EVERY at-bat someone you don't like has that isn't perfection. No One is getting the job done tonight, except the Sac Fly by AaRow Are you telling me having a speed guy with the bases loaded trying to park one when all we need is a base hit isnt reason to complain. Come on then.

Pods needs to start hitting the ball either on the ground or using a level swing. Watching our super fast guy lifting pitch after pitch up in the air tells me why he had such a bad BA last year. He is a white Wille Mays Hays. Everytime he puts the ball up I want to see pushups.

QUOTE(WilliamTell @ Apr 29, 2005 -> 09:49 PM) I'd be impressed with Willie if he got a walk here. Watching him trying to hit the ball out of the park last inning was about all I can stand of Mr. Pea Pod. I am through with him. 5'5 140 pounds and mr. weakling thinks he has power.

Things I want to see this inning. Willie not trying to jack anything out. My 10 month old son has a better chance of taking the pitcher out than willie. Pods using a level swing. Iguchi doing what he has been doing. Level swing hitting to the opposite field.

QUOTE(IndySoxFan @ Apr 29, 2005 -> 08:53 PM) good for Ozzie That was a message. Pay attention and stop f***ing off. I will take you out no matter what.

Glad to see Marte is keeping the runner on in a close game. The big fat man over on first. Can we keep him from stealing the base. Thank you.

Luis V cant pitch to righties, he is better against lefties. Now we have Marte who pitches better to righties and has problems with lefties. We all can see it, maybe someone can tell the manager to check the stats a bit.

He wraps the bat around his head too high. And then drops his hands down into the hitting zone. This creates a hitch. He didnt wrap his bat around his head so high last year. Greg when people throw 98-99 mph you need a short swing. Quick wrists and the pitcher supplies the power. Yet we all see everyon going up there hacking like its lumber. They take pitches down the cock, while they swing at crap out of the strikezone and try to pull it.

Level swing please. Dont dip your back shoulder to get elevation you POS. Make him get the ball down. All of our hitters besides Everett sit so far away from the plate. They invite people to toss outside all game long.

Jermaine please make contact and lets not try to hit a bomb.

QUOTE(southsideirish71 @ Apr 29, 2005 -> 08:34 PM) Dear Mr. Konerko, Please make contact and try to get some lift. Please do not try to pull the 99 mph fastball. This is not a challenge. Just make contact and put it into right field. Thanks for taking the low fastball down the cock Konerko for strike 3. Yes its low but you should protect the ball. Corpseball. Man gets on. No one can get him in.

Dear Mr. Konerko, Please make contact and try to get some lift. Please do not try to pull the 99 mph fastball. This is not a challenge. Just make contact and put it into right field.

Iguchi hit the ball to right. This is what small ball teams do. They dont pull every single pitch. Nice AB Gooch.

QUOTE(rangercal @ Apr 29, 2005 -> 08:25 PM) I thought a small ball team would be fine against these types of pitchers :banghead whyyyyy? :banghead Small ball teams get deep in counts against pitchers who struggle with control. They get the count in their favor so they can get a pitch in the zone to hit. Small ball teams move the runner over and hit to right to move the runner in. Corpseball teams go up there swinging at everything that is tossed anywhere near the plate. Corpseball teams look to get on ESPN by trying to hit home runs everytime they get up. Corpseball teams are always 1-2 0-2 against pitchers who cant hit the barn with a baseball.

Its the same thing as last year. Our goofy hitters fall in love with pulling the baseball and the entire offense looks terrible. We made every crap soft tossing Plus 7 ERA pitcher look like Cy Young because we got pull happy. Corpseball is back.