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Pitching can only keep this teams in so many games where they score

southside 'til college, Champaign IL, after college FL, AZ, NH, currently CA.....

QUOTE (Mplssoxfan @ May 25, 2008 -> 09:47 PM) Half empty. half empty, but unfortunatley, full of truth

QUOTE (chitownsportsfan @ May 25, 2008 -> 09:36 PM) Everything about him makes him easy to root for. He's a rare athlete, blessed with great size, speed and hand eye coordination. He's a quiet and polite guy that doesn't say much but when he does it's all "team team team". He's tough as nails and isn't afraid to give up his body for the team. Oh, and he leads the AL in OPS and his crouch at the plate is BADASS. Did anyone hear Joe Morgan call him "QUENTANA" there at the end????

QUOTE (joesaiditstrue @ May 24, 2008 -> 05:45 PM) we get swept tomorrow and we're still in first place, that's how bad this division is right now. sad. Dear American League Central, You are weak and embarrassing, yet despite that fact, this team refuses to win and take what could be ours with relatively minimal effort. A regression in the development of our youngsters, and blown opportunities with amazing pitching our anemic veterans simply don't deserve on their side, we look forward again to handing the trophy over to the star-free roster of young Twins players who will find a way to grind out just enough wins to take the division in the final week of the season. Sincerely, Chicago White Sox

QUOTE (Jordan4life @ May 24, 2008 -> 05:05 PM) Jered Weaver owns the White Sox. that's just the bottom line, don't know how a guy with a 4.5 ERA throws a 0.45 against one team over a period of time where the roster saw many changes, but it just happens. As soon as I saw Weaver was up today I said, oh sh*t, Danks will have to throw a no-hitter to get the W today. Gotta sign off on this one, just too freakin aggravating, waste of a Sat afternoon.....

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ May 24, 2008 -> 05:00 PM) Hmmm, interesting stat. The Sox have actually scored the 2nd most runs in the AL Central in May. The #1 offense in the Central right now, by far? Minnesota. Both the Sox and Detroit are at 84, Cleveland is at a league worst 69 runs this month. feasting on Seattle, SF, and Cleveland teams that are all baaadddd, that 8gm streak was very deceiving

wow Thome has just lost it, with 2.5 innings to go down two and a 1-2 count you don't watch balls like that!!

good thing Hunter doesn't have a history or raping the Cell

sometimes you can just "feel" when a team doesn't have it in them to rally from a measley 2 runs down, today that feeling is quite strong

QUOTE (The Ginger Kid @ May 22, 2008 -> 04:03 PM) detroit wins the battle of the two worst teams in the AL. still can't believe the 133M payroll Tigers can be called worst in the AL, amazing....

feel like we need a 4 run lead to be comfortable in the 9th the way this thing is going

who's coming in?

QUOTE (fathom @ May 17, 2008 -> 09:37 PM) I hate the National League. Up to OC to avoid 11 left on in 5 innings. I've officially had it with the veterans, time to let them sit and think about their careers while the young guys (who cannot possibly do any worse than 11 LOB each game) get some time

QUOTE (NCsoxfan @ May 17, 2008 -> 09:31 PM) Im going to go insane watching Konerko and Dye hitting (or trying to hit) Can anyone tell me how many runners Dye has stranded in the last two weeks? 30? Honestly? He is 0 for the last two weeks with RISP BA should be put in CF, and Swisher at 1b, --- either konerko or dye needs to sit amen to that, enough is enough!!!

QUOTE (fathom @ May 17, 2008 -> 09:25 PM) Well, here goes the bad defensive effort behind Buehrle again. Should be a 5 run game or so...but Giants are right in this. should be 7-0, easily, a single in three different situations could have brought in 5 more runs. I cringed when I saw Hall and Ozuna in the lineup, who'd a thunk they would not be the problem

watching Dye on Konerko has become flat out depressing, to be unable to make even solid contact in so many at bats for guys of their stature is mind boggling. Dye is an automatic RISP popup, and PK an automatic dribbler to short, not just on the ground, but on the ground slower than my 6yr old hits em

QUOTE (Jenks Heat @ May 15, 2008 -> 11:21 PM) Is it me or does Cabrera have limited range and no arm ugh, not good and that's where SPEED wins ball games!!!! PK hits hit triple bound chopper that half the league would have beat out, they hit a routine backhander and beat it by 3 steps Crede gives TWO Games away!!!! on routine plays!!!!!

QUOTE (Jenks Heat @ May 15, 2008 -> 11:14 PM) Is there a bigger waste of $27M in baseball than the 5 and 6 hitters in the White Sox line-up, that was pathetic. Sit his f***ing ass down if he is that f***inn hurt. What is the point of playing him? For some reason I think this game is going to get ugly quick. No there isn't None Yes it is, you can only have so many LOB before it comes back to bite you late, especially with the Matt Thornton Adventure warming up!!!!

QUOTE (Chisoxfn @ May 14, 2008 -> 03:26 PM) Nope, I'm only 25, so no kids yet. I went to school and spent pretty much my whole life in Irvine though. Springbrook (Elementary), Southlake (Middle School), and than Woodbridge (HS). I know in my time in Irvine I've almost never seen anyone sporting any Sox gear. so how does a guy who grew up in Irvine become a rabid CHW fan of all teams? Since leaving the SouthSide, I've lived in four other states and the Sox are a team whose gear you only see outside Chgoland as an urban-esque fashion statement (most unfortunately).

QUOTE (southsideirish71 @ May 14, 2008 -> 03:08 PM) Teams that are in the top 5 in in the AL pitching with a 3.77 ERA and are within 2 games of first are not out of it, especially in May. Our ERA in 05, was 3.61 just for a comparison. speaking of ERA, I remember watching the real time ERA on the board last night as Weaver's was dropping inning by inning from 5.12 to eventually

QUOTE (Chisoxfn @ May 14, 2008 -> 03:02 PM) I just want to say, it is weird having another poster on this site from Irvine, CA. any chance you have kids that go to Westpark elementary, I used to see a guy there for school events wearing an early-era Sox hat, which is beyond rare in these parts?

QUOTE (letsgoarow @ May 14, 2008 -> 09:49 AM) im so sick of everyone b****ing... all it does is make it worse. Saying its impossible for a team who is 2 games out in May to win a division is ridiculous. if this was 2nd half of 06 yes, but we saw this exact same thing for two full seasons of baseball now, facts are sometimes facts when you take out the emotion of HOPE (I'm as guilty as anyone when they pull out a 7-1 win but it's fleeting).

QUOTE (Vance Law @ May 14, 2008 -> 02:35 AM) We will never be able to put up offensive numbers like the speedy World Series Champs, the Boston Red Sox. that team had some speed mixed in, our fastest guys are just average at best, there's no crisp, pedroia to offset the other 7 on the field with the sox, and Ramirez can get on his horse if needed, he's certainly much faster than Konerko, and they have not one player nearly as slow as AJ or Thome, they are down right sloths.....

QUOTE (NorthSideSox15 @ May 14, 2008 -> 12:41 AM) So dang frustrating how arrogant and stupid the front office can be. This is my main beef with KW and Ozzie. There are obvious problems when your pitching staff is as good as ours and we have a record like we do. You see an offense that has been mostly terrible as a whole for over a season and a half and yet the hitting coach is not on the hot seat. Our pitching has been great, but they have to be flawless due to this anemic offense. Its sad then when the opposing team scores a pair of runs in the first inning it feels as if the game is already over. It is also sad that when the game is on the line, your team is down by a run or two and the "heart" of your order is up, and again it feels like watching is pointless. That is, unless you're a masochist and like watching guys like Thome and Konerko look like shells of their former selves and strike out or swing at the first pitch and pop out. Yet Ozzie is stubborn and won't move these veterans from their spots in the heart of the order, or rather the part of the order with no heart. Remember in spring training when Ozzie said he wasn't going to tolerate losing? Remember when KW was busting Swisher's balls for not hustling on a ground out? Where is that intensity from Ozzie and KW when this offense has blemished so many quality starts from our pitching? I hear you but when you have $27M in payroll between PK and JT, what are you going to do, bench them on principle? You have to sleep in the bed you made this season, like it or not. It's the resigning of dead weight that's the problem......a simple inability by KW to make tough moves before they get out of control