Balta1701

AL Manager: Ozzie. After the last series of the season it's not even a challenge. AL ROY: Huston Street. AL Cy Young: Bartolo Colon. AL MVP: Ortiz. I simply refuse to call a person valuable when they don't perform when the pressure is on. ARod never does. Ortiz does. All the time. AL Exec of the year: KW. It's even less close than the Manager award. NL Manager: Bobby Cox. If he doesn't win this year...the voters should be replaced with drones trained to vote for him. NL Cy Young: Clemens. The guy simply has had an amazing season, even without getting the proper number of wins. I'd rather vote for Carpenter or Willis, but the season Clemens had is just too incredible. NL ROY: Ryan Howard. Francoeur had great numbers...but Howard's were better. NL MVP: Andruw Jones. I'm still just too much of a fan of winning both the home run and RBI numbers at the same time. NL Exec of the Year: Schuerholtz. Hell, he should win for the next 5.

QUOTE(Greg The Bull Luzinski @ Oct 15, 2005 -> 09:25 AM) If you want to be technical, we were 2 games away in 83 because it was a 5 game ALCS series then. Actually I believe I was technically correct...I said we have not been LESS than 2 games away since 1959, which is exactly the case. We are currently tied with that mark, set in both 83 and 93. 1 more win and we enter territory uncharted in my lifetime...hell in almost 2 of my lifetimes stacked on top of each other.

QUOTE(beck72 @ Oct 15, 2005 -> 07:10 AM) Having a $4, 5 mill long man or set up guy in the bullpen doesn't make a lot of sense, financial or otherwise. El Duque should go to the Yanks where he'll get to start, be a long man, get lots of offense. If we can get something of value from the Yanks for him, then sure...but if not, there's no good reason right now to go out and rapidly dump him. He's not necessarily just a setup man...he's a backup starter as well, and that can be important if any injuries do crop up next year. He may not be worth the full $5 million in that role, so I'm at least open to the trade possibility, but if we have to keep him, the results aren't all necessarily bad.

QUOTE(qwerty @ Oct 15, 2005 -> 01:34 AM) ... and on that one leg he had the 7th highest slugging percentage in baseball ( he of course did not have many at-bats, just over 100). I'll take a guy hitting .220 if he hits like 12 home runs every 70 at bats.

More authenticity doubts.

It appears that in that teleconference, they tried to pass off a military spokesperson as a normal combat soldier too.

I don't care what it ends up costing us unless we lose Konerko or Garland because of him....that's the 1 man I want back next year. I don't care who's roster spot he takes up.

Jon Garland is making an effort to overtake Mark Buehrle as my favorite pitcher on this staff to watch. Although...Mark's making a hell of an effort to stay there too. Jon...that was absolutely f***ing incredible. Extra Rest? What Extra Rest? The dude was popping 95 and 96 all day depending on who's gun you watched. I haven't seen him have that in the 4 seamer all year. Oh, and 1 for each of our 3-4-5 hitters too...just because they did their jobs. I know that when the Sox games were on WGN/CSN/etc., the guys gave player of the game awards. I'd love to know if more than 20 went to anyone who isn't a pitcher on this team. This staff is f***ing awesome to watch.

Right now, we are as close to the Fall Classic as we have been since 1959. We have not been less than 2 wins from the W.S. since that year. Freddy...GET US 1 GAME CLOSER. It's all you big man. Prove to us once again why we wanted that arm of yours.

How's this for a change of pace, with RISP tonight, Konerko is 2/3 with 3 RBI's.

QUOTE(wherehaveyougoneharold @ Oct 14, 2005 -> 06:40 PM) It seems like their bullpen is better than their rotation. Yeah, but I keep telling you...their bullpen can only take so much. The Yankees took them to extra innings int he 2nd game of a 3 game series earlier this year...ended up winning that game because the Angels ran out of their top 3 guys - Shields, KRod, Donnely. The next game, it was like the 4th game pitching in a row for KRod and 3rd for Shields, and I think Shields wound up with the blown save. The Angels lost hte next game in their bullpen too. You get these guys to work and they wear down. The A's did it to the Angels a couple times this year too. We've got like 6 guys who can get outs, a couple who can pitch multiple innings, they've got a bunch of 1 innign guys that you can wear out and beat if you do so. If we get to their bullpen in the 6th tonight with a 4 run lead...that's massive. Because we'll have a good shot at winning and a good shot at wearing out their top guys at the same time.

49 pitches for Big Jon through 4. 69 pitches for Lackey through 4.

QUOTE(Antonio Osuna @ Oct 14, 2005 -> 06:37 PM) Vlad Guererro just realized there was a playoff series going on. Well that's better than ARod. He still thinks it's fall training.

QUOTE(BigEdWalsh @ Oct 14, 2005 -> 06:33 PM) No can do in Utah. MLB Gameday Audio. Worth it just to hear Rooney's last games for the Sox.

Thanks to some nice at bats from the Rally Crede and Uribe, that was a 23 pitch inning for Lackey. He's thrown 39 through 2.

QUOTE(Felix @ Oct 14, 2005 -> 05:50 PM) This is "pre-9th inning rally crede". In the 2nd inning of a game 3 in a 7 game series where the other team has a damn good bullpen, I'll take a 10 pitch at bat every time even if the guy does make an out. Wear that starter down, get the bullpen in early, and end up coming from behind to win game 5. The Yankees and A's both did it to the Angels a couple times this year. Once you get past Shields, K Rod, Donnely, and maybe Escobar, or even if you get those guys working 3+ days in a row...they really do wear down.

Pitch 10 coming up to Rally boy.

QUOTE(Felix @ Oct 14, 2005 -> 05:47 PM) So basically, besides the hitting part, he's Manny? I'd take either one on my team.

QUOTE(fathom @ Oct 14, 2005 -> 05:44 PM) Looks like a lot of 4 seam fastballs so far. Well, it worked to start the game...and there's sometimes very little reason to show all of your pitches in the first inning, especially when people are trying to work the count. If he can get people on the 4 seamer and hold the 2 seamer for a couple innings...it'll catch people more off guard when it starts dropping. Has he thrown many breaking balls? It's been the off speed stuff, not the fastball/sinker, that has hurt him in the 2nd half. On games when he didn't have it working he'd give up some walks and get hit a few times.

Boom Shauka Lauka

That's the first walk given up by White Sox pitching this series I believe.

Come on JG...no walks...especially not this guy

QUOTE(Felix @ Oct 14, 2005 -> 05:40 PM) Great call there by the ump. Was it right or left field?

QUOTE(qwerty @ Oct 14, 2005 -> 05:37 PM) Time for garland to promptly give some runs back. If you're not kidding...that makes me sick. Hell even if you are kidding it makes me feel ill.

All right big Jon...let's do this thing. Next time I sit down in this chair...I want 9 up and 9 down. Go get em. Just do what you did for us every time we needed you to step it up all year long. Destroy them.