Balta1701

This = not good.

The ump today has been inconsistent enough that Fox was showing questionable calls in the 4th inning.

Thornton 1. Swisher 0. OUCH.

QUOTE(fathom @ Sep 16, 2006 -> 03:14 PM) Vazquez is at 98 pitches, but he's been up in the zone the past two innings. Ozzie will probably let him start the inning, but I hope MacDougal and Thornton are ready this inning. It wouldn't be a terrible idea to give this to the bullpen starting the inning.

QUOTE(fathom @ Sep 16, 2006 -> 02:42 PM) Don't forget Mackowiak is going to be making nearly 3 million next year. That's a decent price for a super-sub...it's a terrible amount of money to spend for a platoon player.

Uribe should really be trying to take the walk here. He shouldnt' even be swinging, as many pitches as Zito has thrown and as wild as he's been. And as soon as I click post...

You know, with Konerko's numbers against Zito, this wouldn't have been a bad day to give him a day off.

QUOTE(fathom @ Sep 16, 2006 -> 03:05 PM) Vazquez hasn't seen an offspeed pitch he won't hang in the 6th inning. Seriously, did you even look at the replays of Frank's swing there? He barely got that pitch, and he just muscled it out.

QUOTE(fathom @ Sep 16, 2006 -> 03:02 PM) Jim Thome....that's how you pick your team up. It was still a hanger. It fooled him quite a bit, and he adjusted to it mid-swing. He's just that good.

QUOTE(fathom @ Sep 16, 2006 -> 03:01 PM) Vazquez and the 6th inning. What a mental midget. Ok...that one wasn't a ton Vazquez's fault...that one is all Frank Thomas.

Come on Javy...man up against the big guy. Frank Thomas is pretty good.

QUOTE(Tony82087 @ Sep 16, 2006 -> 02:54 PM) He needs to have a great winter. Rest up, get healthy. That will be the best thing for him. It might not be the worst idea for next year to give Thome 1, 2 days off a week. Keep him fresh for the whole season. It probably wouldn't have been a bad idea to just pencil in a day off per week for Thome this season, but we didn't do it. The only guy we give that much rest to is our center fielder...cause you know, we're gonna dominate winterball.

QUOTE(fathom @ Sep 16, 2006 -> 02:52 PM) I'm not sure if he'll be mediocre....but I think he's going to have to be very lucky to match his numbers from this year. Hopefully he'll work just as hard this offseason as he did last offseason.

You know...back when we had Ordonez/Thomas, any time they'd walk Thomas to get to Ordonez, you just knew Magglio was going to crush the ball solely because he didn't like being shown up by the intentional walk.

OH COME ON THE BALL WAS RIGHT BY HIS GLOVE!

BRIAN ANDERSON SUCKS MORE NOW THAT 2 RUNS SCORED BECAUSE OF HIM. BENCH HIM.

BRIAN ANDERSON SUCKS.

QUOTE(southsideirish71 @ Sep 16, 2006 -> 02:35 PM) Check out when we started losing and playing sub 500 baseball. That was right around the Boston series when we stopped scoring runs. When crappy pitchers with 8 ERAs started mowing down this team. We had a 6 game Wild Card lead at the break, and a 9 game lead on Minny. The pitching might of f***ed us for the division, but our offense s*** the bed an completely ruined the wild card. Our team ERA in July was 5.64. ERA's in July: Buehrle: 11.48 Vazquez: 6.82 Garcia: 5.52

QUOTE(Chisoxfn @ Sep 16, 2006 -> 02:23 PM) I'm to the point that if we get good value I have absolutely no problem moving Brandon. Because of the amount of money we have locked up in our starting rotation, it has to be better than good value, it has to be great value. Maybe better than Crawford value. Like Crawford-level-talent except at AAA this year...to the point where we could start someone off next season and still have several years before they hit arbitration. We can't put $55 million into our starting rotation next year and expect that it won't cost us in the end unless we get really good and really young somewhere else.

QUOTE(southsideirish71 @ Sep 16, 2006 -> 02:31 PM) The reason we are not going to the playoffs this year, will not be because out pitching s*** the bed. Even though that is the popular belief. It will be because our offense died at the ASB and stop hititng and scoring runs. If our pitching hadn't wet the bed prior to August we'd be sitting where Detroit currently is. Hell, if Mack hadn't played so often in CF I'm convinced we'd be tied with Detroit at the worst. QUOTE(fathom @ Sep 16, 2006 -> 02:30 PM) The turning point of this game could easily be Sandy's 4th inning AB. And wild pitch.

QUOTE(WHarris1 @ Sep 16, 2006 -> 02:21 PM) Harden when healthy is better than Johan? He has a shot to be. But so do a lot of guys. Liriano has a shot to be better than Johan while healthy, Contreras has a shot to be better than Johan when 100% healthy, Harden, etc. Johan has been so great not only because he's a great pitcher, but because for 3 straight years he's been constantly healthy

QUOTE(southsideirish71 @ Sep 16, 2006 -> 02:18 PM) Sandy failed with RISP and less than 2 outs, and now his great D helps a run cross the plate. I have an idea...I think Alomar would make a great Center Fielder.

QUOTE(AssHatSoxFan @ Sep 16, 2006 -> 02:17 PM) so crede couldve gone to 2nd on the deep fly from uribe but he doesnt but bradley easily advances on a deep fly Ok, that one's not entirely fair...2nd base is quite a bit closer to LF, even deep LF, than 3rd base is to RF. And going to 3rd, you're running away from the ball, at 2nd you're running into the throw.

At least we got the out.

Alomar...