Harry Chappas

QUOTE (whitesoxfan101 @ Apr 23, 2011 -> 07:44 PM) Glad to see there are others who understand this. I'd also like one person to point out how the reaction of the fanbase to this start has been overly negative. It's been negative because the team is playing like s***, and there is no other way to react to that. This is nothing new. It cost us last year and may cost us again. Wasn't one of the excuses for falling out of it at the end was due to the fact they had to work so hard to get back in it. Guess what it will be the excuse again this September.

At least they went down swinging.

In 60 AB's Adam Dunn has not put the ball in play for 33 of them

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Apr 23, 2011 -> 05:27 PM) Hitting .251 coming in to today, good for #6 in the AL. .709 team OPS, good for 8th in the AL. AL average is .247 and .711. Come on the sample size is too small. Two guys hitting over .310 and five under .240

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Apr 23, 2011 -> 05:23 PM) According to Oney, Cora wouldn't accept the job. Awesome...I'd take Buddy Bell at this point. Cora does nothing to show he deserves anything more than a clubhouse attendants job. The low baseballIQ is attributable to everyone on this team. The pitchers I will give a pass with as they saw this s*** last year.

QUOTE (fathom @ Apr 23, 2011 -> 05:20 PM) The scary thing is that it's possible they'll promote Cooper to manager if Ozzie gets let go. Not a chance. Cora gets the job. Cooper has never managed at any level.

QUOTE (Wanne @ Apr 23, 2011 -> 05:19 PM) Who's effin' stat sheet is he looking at?... Take the two highest scoring and lowest out of the equation and look at it.

QUOTE (TitoMB @ Apr 23, 2011 -> 05:15 PM) Fix't. No argument there. This game should be about 10 to nothing in about a minute....intentional walk in a 6-0 game when you have one hit. Brilliant..simply brilliant. The decision making of this team is right there with the worst of Little League mangers that think they know everything. Guillen talks about how he does not need this job and he and his staff are really showing it.

Walk the .195 hitter to get to one of the best in baseball....the 2011 White Sox....as baseball stupid as a team can be.

Getting beat is not the problem. Having absolutely no chance to win a game is the issue. Today there is no reason to look as pathetic as they are.

QUOTE (TitoMB @ Apr 23, 2011 -> 05:06 PM) I lol'ed. If whatever he is good at is true he can be the roving hitting instructor or something. There really is no reason to think he is benefiting this team, they could not be any worse. JR likes him so they can keep him on the payroll.

Well I watched this game for two innings. Too nice outside to waste a nice day. I hope this team has a contingency plan as this is not getting any better for the foreseeable future.

Something really has to give with this team right now and Morel being demoted is not it. I see nothing positive to look for except maybe Quentin and Konerko. Enough with Greg Walker you would think at some point he would ask to be reassigned or something. This is a bad team that is getting lucky from time to time to win a game.

QUOTE (witesoxfan @ Apr 23, 2011 -> 03:55 AM) Who decides when postponed games are to be made up? The Twins and Indians got rained out tonight and they didn't schedule a double header for this weekend. Not only does that seem like something that should be made up ASAP as opposed to scheduling something in the future (not real reason I'm upset), but the Twins will almost certainly be healthier and playing better and the Indians more banged up and s***tier when the teams finally do meet. THAT'S BULLCRAP Depends on how often the visiting team comes back to town.

When was the last time Konerko's average was under .300? He has quietly turned into one of the most consistent hitters in the game. Too bad the guys around him have very little to non consistency to their game. KW and firesale scares me as I recall the great Ray Durham trade.

At least the bullpen got the day off. Send Pena to the DL and bring up anyone withe a pulse. Beckham and Rios are killing this team as I Will give Dunn a learning curve to DH and a new league.

QUOTE (Andrew @ Apr 22, 2011 -> 08:08 PM) C'mon boys! Verlander looks like he's rattled.... Thanks, Alex. That's ok the seven pitchers are batting until Quentin comes up again.

41 degrees and raining and the Tigers are not having any problems. The way Konerko and Quentin are hitting his offense should be much more dangerous. Here come a meaningless Dunn hit. Mark needed a much better outing.

Let Pena throw 2.1 innings regardless Verlander will go all 9.

Losing this game is acceptable. The thing about tht White Sox though is that they pitch to contact and then do not put the defense behind the pitcher to give them a chance to succeed

Rios is adding nothing now for really good money. Pretty good bet this game is over.

QUOTE (Marty34 @ Apr 22, 2011 -> 06:38 PM) Verlander has no-hit stuff tonight. I'd suggest the Sox build up that pitch count. He will throw 130 pitches anyway. Hope Mark has his good stuff.

I bet the season ticket base for all of these teams are about what the announced attendance is. Nobody walks up in April and there is little presale in these cities for April games agasint divisional teams or crappy teams. You roll the Yanks or Boston through here in April and you will get a big crowd, yet somehow our schdule always has them coming to town in the summer.

Lapierre with a 10 minute match I think so there goes most of the fun

QUOTE (chw42 @ Apr 21, 2011 -> 10:17 PM) Is this the first game the team has had a lead since the last game of the Oakland series? they were beating Weaver 1 -0