JUSTgottaBELIEVE

anderson has now struck out an astounding 26.2% of his ABs just to give that some perspective, slammin sammy has struck out 26.1% of his ABs in his career this goes back to the point where i honestly do think there is something wrong with Ba's depth pereception or physically something wrong there, unless he develops into some kind of power threat there is no way he should be striking out more than once every four ABs thats pitiful

BA, for once in your life you have a chance to prove all the doubters wrong and come up with a big hit. geez, 3-1 85 MPH cockshot and you swing and miss? dude needs to get his eyes checked or something, seriously. i have never seen some one swing and miss so much on absolute cookies. hell put me in there i can take that 85 mph "heater" from todd jones and hit a line drive back up the middle. im sick of the same old excuses with this guy at the plate, its just brutal

QUOTE(Kalapse @ Apr 25, 2007 -> 12:23 PM) signed deal for 2007 season worth $1M on 1/25/07- + he receives a $750K salary on 2007- + the deal includes a team option for 2008 worth $3.5M or a $250K buyout- + the value of the option rises up to $6M and the value of the buyout of up to $1.25M if he has 600PA in 2007- + value of the option rises by another $250K if he is named Comeback Player of the Year I don't see anything that would make the $6M option guaranteed. If he has 600 PA this year the guaranteed money rises from $1M to $2M and the price to keep him around for another season goes from $3.5M to $6M. thats a win-win situation for the sox as far as his contract is concerned, they are paying him near league minimum this season hard to beat that

QUOTE(StrangeSox @ Apr 25, 2007 -> 08:55 AM) Bad at the plate. Made some good plays in the outfield, but looked lazy out there. alright thanks so similar to much of what he was doing last year solid D and below average offense

didnt see much of the game yesterday but how did BA look? i saw he was 1-4 on the night

I mentioned in a thread the other day that both sisco and thornton scare me a whole lot and logan well hes boone logan not much more you can say. I really think that sisco and thornton are near spitting images of one another. Both have control problems and both only have one quality pitch, a fastball. I know thornton had a nice year last year but I've said from the start of this year that if he turns into a neal cotts-suck fest this year then it really doesnt matter how good he was last year, we need a shutdown guy from the left side in that bullpen otherwise mac-daddy is going to get really overworked. anybody else concerned about these guys or is it just me?

QUOTE(Heads22 @ Apr 24, 2007 -> 11:14 AM) Chris Young is doing as badly as Erstad this year, and he plays in the NL West, in Arizona. BTW, Anderson is likely to start tonight. yea good point hey arizona, hows that chris young thing working out for you so far? thanks for javy

QUOTE(fathom @ Apr 23, 2007 -> 09:48 PM) You don't build it the day after you blew a 2 run lead with 2 outs in the 9th inning basically due to the overuse of your bullpen. If Thornton was available tonight, as he showed he was, he needs to start that inning. thorton isnt very good in case no ones noticed he had a good year last year but the guy has one pitch, fastball actually hes very similar to sisco...wild, one pitch pitcher, hes going to have problems with good fastball hitting teams if anything i would have had mac in there from the start of the inning and not bothered with either of thorton or sisco

QUOTE(fathom @ Apr 23, 2007 -> 09:44 PM) At least we have a lead after one of the worst managed innings in history. i see everyones hating on ozzie but what exactly would you have done differently? i know sisco sucks but they are trying to build this kids confidence and see what he can do late in ballgames. maybe they found their answer tonight

its official thornton sucks

oh man time to bring in the big guns to face ross gload

i think its funny that in 20 at bats this season the only hit mac has given up to a righty is sammy sosa

well apparently coop hasnt quite "fixed" sisco yet...

wow brian looked like he was up there praying for a walk

maybe ozzie knows what hes doing u guys ever think of that?

GAS!

QUOTE(SleepyWhiteSox @ Apr 23, 2007 -> 09:00 PM) Completely agree. I'd rather he strike out and the team keep losing too... i hope you are joking

move over joe crede we got a new clutch hitter in town!

drilled it at the knees! huge!

QUOTE(Kalapse @ Apr 19, 2007 -> 12:22 PM) Yeah because Podsednik was a worldbeater when it came time to get a bunt down. never said he was but i guarantee hes a better bunter than nixon and dellucci and better than what i have seen out of iguchi over the two years plus you forgot to mention that pods is actually a base stealing threat unlike those other guys

QUOTE(CWSGuy406 @ Apr 19, 2007 -> 11:34 AM) I don't think anybody was asking for either of those two. It would've been dumb as hell to pay either of those guys $40 million plus. David Delluci or Trot Nixon, on the other hand... Nixon would've been a great fit for the two hole with Iguchi leading off. Erstad still would've been needed (as a backup starting CFer), and we still would've been short a righty mashing platoon mate, but Nixon still would've been a great pickup. i dont think either of those two guys are the answer at the two hole and i don't want to see iguchi leading off for some reason iguchi forgot how to bunt and i dont want my top two guys in the order being unable to lay a damn bunt down

statistically we are nearly equal of the royals when both hitting and pitching are considered and they are something like 3-11 i think

its hard to believe the sox are even 5-7 at this point. ranked last in MLB in runs scored and 17th in MLB in ERA. so on the positive side things can only get better from here. right?

QUOTE(JUSTgottaBELIEVE @ Apr 9, 2007 -> 06:42 PM) who's your pick to have a big series? I'm thinking jermaine dye blows up in a big way this series. on a sidenote, it's great to see the yanks lighting up ponson's s***ty ass. unfortunately that could actually be a bad thing in the long run as they will be quicker to pull the trigger on releasing him and bring garza back up thata boy JD!!!

QUOTE(NorthSideSox72 @ Apr 10, 2007 -> 07:48 AM) Would you be happy with 1 of 3? Not anymore. haha yea. anything short of 2 of 3 at this point would be a big disappointment.