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Therein lies the problem, bringing in Callaspo gives you "decent" improvement for the remainder of the season, but probably not enough to make us a contender. Our record might be 2-3 games better, but then we still have the ongoing issue of finding a permanent 3B and the chances of finding one in the first round of the draft have been further eroded.

Carmelite nuns? where did that come from? was he in the "human baby pills" discussion too, lol?

QUOTE (Marty34 @ May 15, 2012 -> 06:37 PM) Of course there's a reason. He's a poor CF'er. And Alex Rios was even worse, so there you go. And he didn't hit when playing that position in 2011, either. And most truly great defensive outfielders can't hit a lick, so there you go. When you're not getting consistent offense from 3-4 spots in the line-up, then you have to do the best you can under the given set of circumstances. Based on what we're paying him, based on what it cost to acquire him, he's one of baseball's biggest bargains and hardly one of the biggest problems with our team going forward. You can't expect every CFer in baseball to be Matt Kemp or Josh Hamilton. I wonder if you were on the boards of those teams if you would have been criticizing Hamilton for being "injury prone" and never playing more than 130-odd games per season or ripping Matt Kemp for underachieving for a couple of seasons?

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ May 15, 2012 -> 03:25 PM) If everything about the White Sox upsets you, why do you continue to subject yourself to it? First you cry not enough people are going to the game, then say Peavy is going to be bad when the warm weather hits. Well, its warm, maybe they stayed away because they knew Peavy would suck, although somehow he was able to get away with it for 5 innings. Where were you earlier in the game? What's your excuse? I woke up at 2 am to listen to this game, and I have to work in 2 1/2 more hours, at 8 am. Why did you just pop into this game thread when the White Sox lost the lead?

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ May 15, 2012 -> 03:25 PM) If everything about the White Sox upsets you, why do you continue to subject yourself to it? First you cry not enough people are going to the game, then say Peavy is going to be bad when the warm weather hits. Well, its warm, maybe they stayed away because they knew Peavy would suck, although somehow he was able to get away with it for 5 innings. Okay, here's what I am going to do Every time you complain for the rest of the season about something, I'm going to call you out for it. Every time you bring up Greg Walker, I'm going to tell you to go watch the f------ Braves if you like them so much more. Do you want me to go back and start bringing up every thread from the past when you complained about Reinsdorf?

QUOTE (2nd_city_saint787 @ May 15, 2012 -> 03:16 PM) My god dude, one bad inning!!! wasnt it you that was saying Reed is the only reliable guy in the pen, based on your logic why is he still good? Nope, I didn't say that. Second of all, Peavy flat out is a fly ball pitcher. The weather is warming up now. He's not going to get away with a lot of those pitches like he did the first six weeks of the season. Throwing 89-93 now, he has to have precise location and movement on all of his pitches. It would be great if Jake was a 3.50-3.75 ERA pitcher. A sub 2.00 ERA or Cy Young talk was clearly premature. That's it.

So much for the good Peavy. It was nice while it lasted.

Another misplay by Viciedo...this time it results in a lucky double because Fielder should have been out by 15 feet at second base.

QUOTE (Harry Chappas @ May 15, 2012 -> 03:01 PM) Beckham does with his glove. Inge would look good but one of Lillibridge or Morel need to go somewhere. I think you mean Escobar. Lillibridge is our primary back-up for the infield, a great pinch-runner, and Fukudome's given us nothing in the OF, so we need him. Not to mention he can also play 1B in a pinch. But if Ventura's not going to use him at all, maybe he would be better off hitting everyday in Charlotte to get some type of offensive rhythm going. Whereas Escobar is never going to be a starter in the big leagues.

QUOTE (justBLAZE @ May 15, 2012 -> 02:57 PM) You're last two posts have been nothing but complains, enjoy the damn game homie. Fine, go ahead, praise Brent Morel and Gordon Beckham all you like. If we want to compete this year, one of them needs to contribute something. And how is pointing out that Adam Dunn had 3 great swings complaining? I am enjoying the game, but thanks for your concern, at any rate. And the reason for NOT adding a veteran 3B or taking on additional payroll is going to be attendance and KW saying he can't spend $1.00 when he only has 25 or 50 cents crap. So it is very relevant, whether you choose to acknowledge it or not.

Seems like AJ was stuck on 21 RBI's for like two weeks. 3 now today, 24 already this season.

Dunn went entire months last season without having three liners like he's had today... 98 pitches and still only 12 outs for Scherzer. Ballester? 21,473 on one of the nicest days for baseball all season? Yeah, yeah, school's not out.

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ May 15, 2012 -> 02:48 PM) Twins just got shut out by Derek Lowe's corpse Tristan H. Cockcroft ‏ @SultanofStat Derek Lowe is the first player in more than a decade to throw a shutout without recording a strikeout. (Scott Erickson, 4/28/02.) Ironic then that he did it against the team that Erickson pitched for most of his career.

QUOTE (Marty34 @ May 15, 2012 -> 01:34 PM) Rios is a better CF'er than De Aza, switch them. Did you watch Rios play CF at all last season? Seriously? Did you get tired of picking on Viciedo so the new target is DeAza? Why not Morel or Nestor Molina? Shouldn't Dave Dombrowski get fired if the Tigers don't win the AL Central this season?

QUOTE (fathom @ May 15, 2012 -> 01:41 PM) At least Crain is back For awhile, it looked like Santiago was on the way out but Ventura seems to be confident enough to stick with him...hopefully his patience will be rewarded, and Hector has stabilized a bit the last 10 days or so.

37th K for Morel this season. 105 AB's. 5 walks. Beckham about to go back down under .200 after getting his average up close to the .220 mark.

Very good baserunning from Beckham for a change there.

QUOTE (Marty34 @ May 15, 2012 -> 12:20 PM) It's clear that you are ok with him in CF. I am not. And you want Josh Hamilton, Kemp, Granderson, Austin Jackson, Adam Jones, McCutchen, Jay or Michael Bourn? And which one of those CFers are realistically available to the White Sox?

Good throw and then the relay by Alexei Ramirez. Nice to have two "plus" arms out there to make up for misplays. Pierre out there, forget about it. Easily could have given up 2 runs there. Nice to see the game start the opposite of yesterday, when everything was going wrong with Danks and the defense.

QUOTE (Jake @ May 15, 2012 -> 12:16 PM) Cabrera gets SO many cheap singles Frank Thomas got a lot of shanks the same way...everyone in the OF playing way back except in RF.

Another example of a ball falling in front of DeAza. DJ's theory is that the circular winds at USCF are really playing havoc with Alejandro's confidence, and causing him to play back so far.

Peavy really has a knack of getting timely double play balls this season. Austin Jackson totally shocked he went to 2B for the out there, should have slid and probably would have been safe.

QUOTE (Reddy @ May 15, 2012 -> 08:06 AM) so in the history of the show we should have had, what, one black and maybe one hispanic? how longs the show been running? I remember a Hispanic woman being one of the final two or three women on Bachelor, and getting rejected by the guy and being torn up about it (I think she was a single mother). I can't recall off the top of my head if they ended up taking her as the Bachelorette or not...

QUOTE (Marty34 @ May 15, 2012 -> 12:51 PM) He plays so deep many times his first step or two is in that's how he got burned last night. 90% of our outfielders are better coming in rather than playing shallow and going back for anything hit over their heads. (See Edmonds, Jim). Rios was atrocious at that. Hopefully it's something he can improve on over time. For right now, he's our best option. And it's not like it's 100% automatic he would put up such good numbers against RHP if he sat against all LHP. There's something about playing everyday, the confidence of knowing your name will be in the line-up when you get to the ballpark no matter what, which you can't underestimate. Would Dunn be hitting so well overall if RV had benched him from the beginning of the season against all LHP and given those at-bats to Lillibridge? I think not. Sometimes statistics do not just exist in a vacuum. And you can't assume Brent Lillibridge will hit 12 homers again in limited at-bats just because he did it one season, which looks like it might turn out to be something of an anomaly in his career stat line.

QUOTE (2nd_city_saint787 @ May 15, 2012 -> 12:42 AM) Actually, according to espn, right now its a 37.9% chance at making the playoffs, which is the 5th highest % in the AL and 5 teams make the playoffs... My "position" is that if your team is built to compete, and with a good Rios and Dunn, they are then by god you compete.... If Danks, Lexi, and Tank are still shaky and they're out of it in the standings come time for the trade deadline then yes trade away....but on MAY 15th when they're right in the thick of things its not time to talk about trades, like you smarks are doin already. Unless youre getting someone like Dylan Bundy, Trevor Bauer, or Bryce Harper there are no sure things as far as prospects go. So there's no guarantee that a "fire sale" or whatever you "fans" on here want is gonna mean you're gonna be be any better off in the future. If they're competing as the season goes on more fans are gonna come out, there's zero doubt there IMO whereas if you sell off the team no ones gonna wanna come out and watch that team. Look this team is a year removed from being "all in" and what failed about that team?? Dunn and Rios being historically bad...From the looks of it so far this year were getting what we expected last year out of them this year...What has changed from this year to last year?? They lost MB, okkkk but this year we have a healthy CY Peavy. They lost Juan Pierre, okkkk ADA is one of the best lead odd hitters in the game right now. They lost Sergio Santos, okkkkk well before yesterday Addison Reed had an era of 0.00. They lost CQ, ok well the books still open on Tank but it was long believed that he can equal the production of Carlos....Am I missing something here on why this team CANT compete and I should be talking about trades on MAY 15! You're forgetting replacing Mark Buehrle and the fact that John Danks except for one start has been one of the worst starting pitchers in all of baseball. Talking trades and actually consummating one are two quite different things. I'm sure if someone made an amazing offer for Matt Thornton or Jesse Crain that KW would pack their bags for them. As Balta kept on saying all offseason, we had/have to replace 8 wins just to get back to a 79-83 team. That was predicated on getting positive contributions out of Dunn/Rios/Peavy (check, check and check) but also Viciedo, Morel and Beckham. If you take the steady contributions of Buehrle out of the equation and add in Danks as one of the worst and Humber continues to look more like a 5th starter than he did in the first half of 2011...as well as figuring in Sale in all likelihood can't withstand pitching anything above 125 or max 150 innings, and you're going to be shutting down Sale or putting him in the bullpen in the heat of the pennant race, well, everything that can go right almost has to go right, and that means we also have to rely on DET to falter for almost the entire season. Finally, add in the mysterious disappearing bat of Alexei Ramirez. Even in the rosiest point of view, we're an 84-85-86 win team as currently constructed. Is DET likely to finish that low? Second, we KNOW Detroit and Illitch will be willing to go "all out" in June/July to make improvements to their bullpen, 2B, DH abd RF positions. We're certainly not in a position to add payroll this season, either. And we have almost nothing in the minor leagues to work with in terms of commodities that could get something useful back for the major league roster. Best case scenario, we find a veteran 3B ala Herb Perry in 2000 and he catches fire. I suppose that's possible. But it's also trusting KW when he hasn't shown any reason for us to trust him since the end of the 2008 season.