Harry Chappas

QUOTE(Kalapse @ May 2, 2007 -> 08:48 PM) He's always injured yet he still puts up crazy numbers and more plate appearances each season than a certain 3B who's last name rhymes with greedy oh and another that rhymes with stolen. Maybe it's just the way of the modern thridbaseman. His career .288/.411/.459/.870 postseason stat line seems pretty stout and he has had some great postseason moments but I guess when you play in 20 postseason series over the course of a career you're bound to have a bad one here or there unless of course you're Derek Jeter. Nothing really stands out though for me when it comes to him. I know he is always good but he seems to me to be just below great. Again I am not researching anything and it is just an opinion. Has he been an MVP or had a great postseason? I guess I would say he is just a really solid player in my mind.

Couch, Mariotti and Slezak are all terrible jounalists. When was the last timne one of them wrote a positive piece. Although I must say I stopped reading them last year. It is easy to say what a GM did is wrong but then explain what the options were. Roto trades and spending other people's money is real easy when your ass is not on the line. That is what each of these writers do.

QUOTE(joeynach @ May 4, 2007 -> 09:06 AM) Has anyone else realized Santana is like night day road to home. Hes like a 21-6 lifetime pitcher at home and 7-19 on the road. Thats pretty ridiculous. Don't they have Escobar-Lackey and Colon going, missing Santana. I also believe that somehow Johan Santana will pitch next week, Gardenhire always lines it up this way. Scores for the next 3 days; Angels 6 Sox 2 ----Escobar 7 scoreless Angels 5 Sox 1 -----Lackey 8 innings 1 run Angels 3 Sox 0 ----Colon 7 shutout innings ---Back end of Angels bullpen gets some work for first time in series and retires all six batters they face, 5 by strike-out. I also think if Santana doesn't pitch, the Sox sweep the Twins in the dome next week. FWIW

These players are doing what they do. None of them (outside of Thome) work a count or take or foul off good pitches. The GM put this team together. These guys are who they are a group that does not have any patience what so ever. Simply watch a game with this in mind. Any at-bat that is over 5 pitches is praised. Watch especially our relievers how oppossing hitters foul off tough pitches until they get a pitch they can do something with. I do not know if this can be taught or what but watching our pitchers work to get hitters out as compared to the Sox giving away at-bat after at-bat is sad. Boston and New York do this incredibly well. With the way pitch counts are monitored now if you work a count the guy is out of the game after 6 innings even if he is pitching well. Not our beloved White Sox. Any time a pitcher gets ahead our hitters are done, a good pitch is either flailed at, popped out on the infield or a 13 hopper to short. Is this the hitting coaches fault......I hope he is seeing this and trying ot do something but I believe our hitters are incapable of adjusting.

QUOTE(caulfield12 @ May 3, 2007 -> 11:31 AM) We need a totally different type of player. Hall strikes out too much, he's not a "young" player anymore and we would be weakening what I would have to consider to be another strength, our infield defense. This would end up weakening our pitching staff as well, as Buerhle and Garland tend to give up a lot of groundballs. I did not reasearch at all, I was just trying to make a point that a Crede could help a team and we would get back something that we need that a team has excess of without analyzing the numbers. Another example would be something like Buerhle/Crede for A-Rod. I AM NOT GM'ing HERE, just pointing out that there is something we need and there is something other teams need as well. I actually believe KW will give away this season before making any type of move.

QUOTE(AssHatSoxFan @ May 3, 2007 -> 10:09 AM) those two women in the Others camp were eye-ing Locke up like they wanted his lovin even if it meant pregnancy and death The pregnancy death thing I find odd....Why didn't Rousseau and Alex die? Ben is the father and has never been off of the island??????

QUOTE(whitesox1976 @ May 3, 2007 -> 01:10 AM) My thoughts exactly! I sure wouldn't trade Crede. Joe Crede was hot for the playoffs and he has a very nice glove. If you could get ML ready talent for him, move him in a second. He gives up way to many at bats. His approach at the plate is comparable to many other players in this line-up. Same thing with Dye. I beleive there are other teams that could use these guys that could have excess in other areas. If Bill Hall shows he can play center could you move Crede for him. I am not certain of the numbers on Hall and am only using an example of the type of moves that need to be looked at.

Kate is a complete disaster of a person. Does she ever make the right decisions. If she wasn't hot I want her killed off. Sayid is the only person that understands you can not trust anyone. If the helicopter pilot was for real why would she be so confrontational when questioned. He has a legitimate beef. For anyone that didn't know the Sawyer/Locke reasoning, the main give away would be that Sayid would be all for killing Ben before Sawyer and would have been the better choice for Locke to take with him. You know who should hook up, Locke and Danielle.

Tonight's a keeper. SAWYER, sawyer, SAWYER, sawyer, SAWYER WHO THE HELL IS SAWYER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

QUOTE(Kalapse @ May 2, 2007 -> 06:39 PM) Chipper Jones is an amazing hitter and Freddy Garcia now knows this. Just watching Chipper, it's amazing he's not talked about even more than he is because he's one of the most disciplined and pure hitters I've ever seen. I can't believe people think Joe Crede is anywhere near the player Chipper is, even at his age Larry is still far superior to Joe. Walking injury machine and I believe he disappears as bad as Bonds in the postseason although I have nothing to substaniate this.

It is going to get worse before it gets better. We may not score a run, a single run this weekend. I do not expect much but I believe they will come out of this and be fine. The pitching is fine. We are missing our 1 and 3 hitters. I do agree with the other thread thought to sign Buerhle and trade Crede or Dye. I think the lack of running ability (not speed) is killing this team and Konerko, AJ and Thome are to viable. We can get good ML return with a Gio and Crede/Dye move or something like that.

Walk....Mack can look at two down the middle then swing at one over his head. K-GO-PO nice day. DP at least he made him work. This team is ff***ing disgusting.

QUOTE(southsideirish71 @ May 2, 2007 -> 04:41 PM) Welcome back to 2003 Ms. Konerko. See you around August when you figure your swing out. Fixed that for you. Dye got all of that one.

Nice cut on the check swing....not to fooled. f***ing sad back under 2 bills for the $15M man.

QUOTE(RockRaines @ May 2, 2007 -> 04:36 PM) First batter ground out. Second pop up, third k for the save. Estimate time of inning 1 minute 38 seconds. I hope when we are playing for three weeks straight later in the season, there is no b****ing about off days. At the start of the game Friday we will have scored 6 runs in 6 days. Gaudin, Byrd, Kennedy, etc. This should be pretty funny to watch the sorry at-bats here.

Last night 3-2 B8 same as today.... Again Putz is going to embarass this pathetic group of fools. I bet he throws 11 pitches 9 for strikes with 2 K's.

3 shots and now an IBB. This game is going to get really ugly really quick. Well it is really ugly already. Sad thing, Danks is one pitch away from giving up 5 runs in 6.1 innings. Very, very sad. The Sox may not score a run in California.

Homer 3-2 M's and that'll be the ball game. Putz may make our hitters cry.

Ed wet himself on the defensive play by Crede.

Crede - broken bat pop up to first Sweeney - broken bat dribbler This just gets worse. Is there going to ba different approach or just sit back and look like morons.

Another tough inning for Batista. This is sickening.

Fly out after fly out after fly out. Quality at-bats are really nice prior to one realizing your average is pathetic.

God if we could only hit. Danks pitching well.

Made him work to get out of that jam.

Followed by the lazy pop up.