Harry Chappas

Sox lose to Mitch Talbot no are dominated by Mitch Talbot while the Twins beat Grienke and the Tigers lose to King Felix....all you need to know about why in September and the Sox are playing Boston the last week of the year and the Twins are beating whoever they are and people b**** and moan about pitching matchups and the schedule. Last night proved to me that this offense has not changed and this season and will be the same as last year if Jon Rauch does his job the Twins will walk away with this division. Hitters do not work a count and do not know how to foul off a pitch and overswing. Juan Pierre needs to be better but I do not think he will be good enough to ignite the offense. Beckham at this point in his career will have good and bad at bats and Guillen will continue to do stupid s*** on those occassions when Pierre gets on base. Quentin, Konerko and Rios can have great games and can also be atrocious. Teahen, Ramirez and AJ are at this point are average players that compliment great players the Sox do not have these type of hitters. Until Guillen figures it out I am not sure what to make of Jones but Kotsay has shown why he was DFA'd last year. These things along with the fact that Guillen thinks he needs to change the lineup daily will keep this team inconsistent as the players are not allowed to get into a groove. I am not sure why other guys can play 150 to 162 games a year yet the Sox feel a guy should not play more then a 140 games...Guillen thinking outside the box is not a good thing.

Playoff beards are irritating and I am not sure why.

QUOTE (SoxAce @ Apr 17, 2010 -> 01:15 AM) That was a terrible TO by Brouwer. Niemi, Brouwer, Hendry, Versteeg even Toews who had chances were bad today. Kane, Seabrook, Hammer, freaking Sopel and Hossa seemed like the only ones who showed up. Hossa to me seems somewhat tentative maybe I am just being overly negative. The Brouwer TO was unacceptable and Hendry was brutal. After the Sox game it just seemed that, that was the way it was going to be. The preds did to the Hawks the same thing the the Habs did to the Caps. One stat I noticed compared to the regular season Q's playoff record is no great shakes. The CSN continued flashing to the cubs did not really exude championship to me.

I can see KW trading Santos for Adam Dunn

QUOTE (fathom @ Apr 16, 2010 -> 08:12 PM) Keep going through the motions guys!! I really think this starts in spring training and carries on. The guillen resting and catering to the veterans is lulling everyone to sleep.

I see nothing that says this team is any different from last year except they have less power. Mitch should have a CG shutout and less then 100 pitches. Nope nothing wrong with this offense nobody can work a count.

Just got home. Glad the Hawks are on. No reason whatsoever to start Kotsay other than to give Konerko a day off. He is brutal. I also think the lineup tinkering is not working. Start same nine 6 times a week.

QUOTE (fathom @ Apr 16, 2010 -> 03:26 PM) What I don't get is leaving Paulino out there to die. You have Byrdak, Lindstrom, and Lyon...use them in the few games that you're winning. Real bad managing.

QUOTE (SoxAce @ Apr 16, 2010 -> 03:12 PM) They are awful, but to be fair when a couple of your better hitters are hitting like .091 comming in, your best hitter is on the DL, and you play the two best NL teams early on in PHI and STL, and faced the 2 headed monster early on in SF (Lincecum, Cain, though even Zito who has been very good) you are not gonna look good either way. Come on, you put Berkman in that line-up and it is decent but that staff after Wandy and Oswalt is terrible. Does the NL even look at bullpens.

QUOTE (Kalapse @ Apr 16, 2010 -> 02:27 PM) Over the past 2 seasons only 3 players in baseball have a UZR/150 of -20.00 or worse, those players: Brad Hawpe (-36.1), Jermaine Dye (-22.9) and Vernon Wells (-20.9). He has the 6th worst UZR/150 over the past 3 years at -13.5. +/- has him at -26 over the past 2 years which is the 4th worst in baseball regardless of position. Regardless: Wells is 3 years younger, has shown some signs of life at the plate and should be able to play a mediocre corner outfield and won't destroy you with just horrendous mistakes late in games. It's a $14M difference over the next 4 years (2011-2014). Wells is infinitely better in the outfield than Soriano. Any metric that does not agree with this is garbage.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Apr 16, 2010 -> 12:38 PM) No, $36,000 bail bond. Not a fine. Somebody clocked him pretty good see the photo. What a douchebag.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Apr 16, 2010 -> 12:14 PM) I wonder if Toronto would trade him straight up for Wells. Come on Wells can at least play defense and is an ok hitter. Soriano has no baseball skill any longer. 5 years $90M.......WOW My lord the Astros are bad. They really need to move Oswalt, Pence and Lee for whatever they could get. The cub oughta clear out their farm system for Lee and Oswat and give them Soraino and $$$.

QUOTE (FlaSoxxJim @ Apr 15, 2010 -> 10:41 PM) My parents are addicted to Chi Tung, and go there probably weekly when they're in Chicago and not snowbirding down here. But that's not the calibre of sushi this thread was angling for. I work in Lincoln Park on Clark street and there are literally two sushi joints on every block they all are good and Chi Tung is right with them. Chi Tung is always packed and for some reason they added a Hitachi Grill the place is good. Hit Wonderburger again last night you are missing out.

I do not want to hear "I Like it I Love it"

Does the guy even have value as a DH? The end result will be that the cubs move him to first after this year and let Lee go....which would be a PR nightmare BTW

QUOTE (kjshoe04 @ Apr 16, 2010 -> 10:29 AM) I would. I think Hudson will be alright pitcher and I think Santos has potential. I'm still not sold on Flowers. AGon, however, is a superstar once he leaves San Diego. I look at the Brewers and the cubs for example and the Brewers may have one maybe two guys that could make the Sox pen and the cub Marmol and maybe Marshall would be it. Williams stinks but I think Guillen is just going to ditch the LOOGY thing as he has guys that can get lefties out. Something Williams is not good at.

I was in the third row behind the scout seats for a Cleveland game and there were two Phillies scouts there. I thought that was odd unless the Indians play the Phillies later.

QUOTE (Jenks Heat @ Apr 15, 2010 -> 03:33 PM) The cub will end up with at least 9 runs today. Which is just about to happen.

7 men batted there have been no walks and a ball has not left the infield....only the cub bullpen

QUOTE (SoxAce @ Apr 15, 2010 -> 03:59 PM) They will be at the top of the league in strikeouts. Guaranteed. Acquiring Carlos Gomez doesn't help that cause either. He and Edmonds are platooning. Zaun is an idiot. Edmonds at least looked like strikes. At least I will not have to worry about getting stuck in cub traffic up here as this thing should drag on until at least 4:30. How did the cat that has 9 strike outs in 4 innings not pitch yesterday before hawkins. Please tell me LaTroy will not be pitching today!!

QUOTE (Jordan4life @ Apr 15, 2010 -> 03:07 PM) Yeah, a whole 10 days into the season. If Liriano establishes himself as a legit #1, then, yes, we're in some trouble. I don't see that happening, though. Their games against the Sox were far from effortless. Have not seen the rest of them.

QUOTE (Jordan4life @ Apr 15, 2010 -> 03:39 PM) Who the hell is this Chris Narveson? All this dude does is give up runs. Tony Pena would be the best pitcher in their pen. Linebrink would be a close second. Wow PH for Marshall may be a slugfest now. Zaun swings 3-0 Escober Swings 1-0 Inglett walks See a pattern here

QUOTE (maggliopipe @ Apr 15, 2010 -> 02:22 PM) And Sayid was also there, and could return to see his brother. Last we left Sawyer he had Kate pinned to a fence. Should she try to get away and become injured they could both end up there. As I said before the Hurley chicken thing screams heart attack. There is also a philanthropic possability with him there.

If they were smart they would use Marshall for the remainder of this game to get to Marmol. He is their best shot of shutting the Brewers down and there is no way the Brewer pen which could be worse than the cubs is going to keep the ball in the aprk. The cub will end up with at least 9 runs today.

Jason Giambi is still in baseball and on the Rockies