Jake

I will say that I left my post as resident optimist over the offseason because I didn't like trading Semien for Shark and I wasn't a fan of the Melky signing

QUOTE (oldsox @ May 4, 2015 -> 08:37 PM) I was reading an article on the Rockies yesterday, and it mentioned that they had the second worst base running stats in MLB. Second to the White Sox, of course. I don't know what goes into that stat, however. Assuming it's UBR where the Sox rank last by a large margin, every baserunning event is assigned a run value. If you steal second base, the chance of scoring a run goes up by X amount, so that goes towards your baserunning value. If you don't take third on a single when others would, your chances of scoring go down by Y amount, so that will knock down your running tally.

On the bright side, it looks like it is still in the right place

Derrick has played really well tonight. Even on the plays where he isn't scoring or obviously making the big play, he's doing the right stuff.

Pau has that all day long. I hope they start to adjust because there will be a great counterpunch available.

I guess that's technically a charge, but you can't have a guy who makes first contact right as he lands get whistled for a charge

Looking vulnerable. Need to play better offensively, we've not been playing the brand of ball that got us a huge portion of our baskets from assists

It stinks that we get Derrick healthy for a playoff run but Taj and Noah have been run into the ground. All year they both have looked like they just don't have the athleticism they used to.

Got robbed on the no-goaltend call

Gotta weather the storm when Kyrie is going that well. Need to get Rose out of foul trouble, though. Also have to make sure to take advantage of his piss-poor defense, which we have been doing a bit.

Disregarding the (usually bad) results, Rose's three point shot is so inconsistent. The arc has a semblance of consistency, I guess, in that it is usually incredibly flat. The most glaring thing is that he frequently releases at different points of his jump. He also tends to have his feet and weight going in different directions.

QUOTE (Boogua @ May 4, 2015 -> 07:44 PM) Noah is pretty useless on offense. He has really lost it. I don't understand, either. He can't even make a decent pass anymore.

I thought Soto would be better than this.

What a rotten call to end the inning. Nasty pitch though

Alexei is by most accounts a real tough SOB but he never fails make a show of it when he gets hurt.

QUOTE (whitesoxfan99 @ May 3, 2015 -> 03:28 PM) It is unclear what Danks has to do to lose his rotation spot at this point. He is f***ing awful and has been for a long time. Retiring would help. QUOTE (fathom @ May 3, 2015 -> 03:29 PM) Avi looks awesome at least. Hit almost all liners in this series. I don't know how many times or how long he has to put up pretty good numbers with iffy peripherals before we just decide that the kid can hit in spite of an approach that needs some work

While it's pretty presumptuous to think this way, I've been dreading the potential Bulls-Wiz matchup in the ECF more than Bulls-Hawks

While I still wouldn't do it nearly so soon, I would think the soonest you see a managerial change is at the end of the upcoming homestand. A long road trip where you miss days of games while locked up in your hotel and then have a bunch of guys get sick probably isn't the time you can make final conclusions about what's going on. And if you thought he had to go before then, you shouldn't have started the season with him.

One thing's for sure. If we want to do another round or two of this rotation with no personnel changes, let's go ahead and demote Danks to 5. No matter what you do, Danks sucks. Noesi hasn't pitched well, but it's hard me to blame him when he's had about 12 days rest in between each outing. Let's go ahead and give the washed up, injured guy the we-don't-give-a-s*** treatment. Makes no sense to jerk around a pitcher who struggles with command like that, especially when it's all for the benefit of a guy who by all appearances is a lost cause and at the least would benefit much more from time off.

QUOTE (Soxfest @ May 3, 2015 -> 03:14 PM) Worst part is Sox brass think nothing is wrong at all. I think they are concerned with the record and the attendance. They may just not have an action in mind to fix at the drop of a hat. Good front offices tend to react much more slowly than fans, because sometimes fans overreact.

I wonder if Abreu is among the guys who have been sick

QUOTE (fathom @ May 3, 2015 -> 03:11 PM) If they didn't think they would be great, then the Robertson and Duke signings were insane It was just a gamble. If two of Danks, Noesi, and Rodon would be good starters, you'd be killing yourself for not having those bullpen pieces. If you can't manage a good 4-5 out of those guys, you weren't going to do much better than that if you knew it from the beginning.

QUOTE (fathom @ May 3, 2015 -> 03:09 PM) Can't believe Hahn went into this season with such an incompetent 4/5 It made sense to give Noesi another look and you had no choice but to hope something good happened w/ Danks. I'm sure he didn't like the idea of paying market price for starting pitchers in a season where we probably weren't going to be great anyway

We've gotta be close to cutting bait with Danks. I suppose we'd try him out of the pen first, but the end is nigh it seems.

QUOTE (Brian @ May 3, 2015 -> 10:48 AM) How does Torii hunter picking Floyd to win make him condone domestic abuse? It was his follow-up tweet about how what Floyd does out of the ring is none of Torii's business, which begs the question why a potentially gay teammate would bother him so much