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QUOTE (fathom @ May 1, 2010 -> 02:22 PM) Nice splitter! Yeah, you called that earlier. That's the difference with him and Linebrink, the confidence to use his secondary stuff in big situations. Liney has been reduced to relying on a BP fastball (well, for a short reliever, the equivalent, 91-94).

We've made it to the 8th with the lead. Yay!!! Please get some insurance runs...I don't think I can stomach Jenks with anything less than a 2-3 run lead against the Yankees.

Why is Ozzie so hesitant to use Santos? Just overprotecting him after what happened to Aardsma?

QUOTE (iamshack @ May 1, 2010 -> 02:11 PM) I welcome CONSTRUCTIVE criticism and discussion. It doesn't have to be all shiny happy people in here. Trust me, I throw s*** and swear at my tv all the time. But some people need to learn to take deep breaths. This place has the emotional stability of a pregnant woman on a roller coaster sometimes. Which is no different from how KW has acted until he's made a concerted effort his year NOT to get upset and live and die with wins and losses on a daily basis. Except we NEED him to be that post-game buffet overturning lunatic again, as long as he thinks rationally when he calms down and makes good moves. Abraham Lincoln wanted to fire almost every general that led the Army of the Potomac until Sherman and Grant came along...he would write 100's and 100's of letters tearing their predecessors apart and relieving them of command, then throw them all in the fire. The only difference in 2010 is that we put our immediate reactions into cyberspace instead of taking a deep breath and step back. I've been upset twice since 2004, the game where I woke up and we blew the big lead late (against KC) in Sept. 2005 and the Jenks/Carlos Gomez series sweep towards the end of 2008 where it looked inevitable the season would get away. That last week of baseball was probably the most interesting I've ever seen, except for 05, because expectations were so high that year with the lead almost the entire year, running away until the Indians showed up in the 2nd half.

QUOTE (iamshack @ May 1, 2010 -> 02:05 PM) Look, this is a FAN forum. The general definition of that is a place where one goes to CHEER on his team. Not beat down others who still have some enthusiasm, unlike yourself. If I wanted that, I would go down the street to one of the casinos and play Let It Ride all day long til my bank account is empty, then stumble down to the strip club and get my ass kicked by a bouncer for trying to touch a stripper inappropriately. I do not need it here. Which is why I very rarely say anything negative in the minor league forum...because I still have hope that things will turn around, SOMEHOW. Not that there are a LOT of tangible reasons to hold onto that belief, but just because you have no other choice. Yes, I'm disappointed because I wanted Mitchell to be able to doing things on the diamond so we'll forget JUAN PIERRE ever existed. And I'm not even a Beckham worshipper (nor was I Brian Anderson one, I was crucified over him last year until he decided to prove he wasn't a major league ballplayer instead of the victim of a JFK-worthy conspiracy), but you would like to see signs of him not regressing like Ramirez and Quentin did in 2009.

This game is filled with irony. Swisher's homer, now the White Sox raking against 2005 WS ring holder Damaso Marte.

QUOTE (iamshack @ May 1, 2010 -> 01:59 PM) [/b] Are you a fan, or a masochistic voyeur? I don't understand how one can claim to be such a hardcore fan, but constantly revel in everything negative. Because suffering with the White Sox (68-76, 78-82, 84 to the most exciting team, the one in the final year of old Comiskey Park) is a family birthright. It's something that you can't run away from or turn your back on, no matter how frustrated or aggravated you get.

QUOTE (iamshack @ May 1, 2010 -> 01:55 PM) And yet you come back every morning to remind us that. Seriously, what is your issue? Why is it that some of you absolutely seem to thrive when this baseball team is playing like horses***? Because every game offers renewed HOPE that things will change...and no game is exactly the same as any other that has happened in the history of the game. I could quote from James Earl Jones' "bleacher" speech to Annie in Field of Dreams but I'll spare myself citing it at the moment.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ May 1, 2010 -> 01:54 PM) So why waste your time if you aren't getting any enjoyment out of this, and you have no expectations? 1) See answer from Fathom, same exact reason. 2) I will shift more towards being excited about success from our minor league prospects and maybe the possibility that KW makes the right move again when/if he starts trading. 3) Being a White Sox fan means you have to stick with every season (well, not 2007) from beginning 'til end. Always.

Of course the Cubs are winning, too. What else could go wrong...will go wrong. An injury is probably next, lol.

QUOTE (jeffro2525 @ May 1, 2010 -> 01:49 PM) I love how people get on here on their soap box/high horse..."we're winning. Why are people so negative"...screw them. Obviously they don't watch this team enough. God Damnit!!!!!!!!! If you have watched this team at all YOU KNOW WHATS COMING!!!!!!!!!!!!!! GOD DAMNIT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Exactly. I've been a Sox fan for too long (since 1970's) long enough to see the writing on the wall with this team's abysmal start. We'll hear 16-24 (83 start) and how we went on to win the division by nearly 30 games and ended at 99-63 or whatever, but that's NOT HAPPENING THIS YEAR.

QUOTE (iamshack @ May 1, 2010 -> 01:45 PM) Jesus Christ dude...you are like the f***ing Grim Reaper. Yes, I caused that to happen becaues I'm on the field. If the players EXPECT to fail like they seemingly do, why should I be optimistic??? That would be pretty stupid.

But then with a split, you risk the wild pitch or PB. Santos would be my pick, clearly, Pena 2nd. But Pena went yesterday....one hit away from "goodbye pitching your a-- off for the win Danksie." This type of loss could really be the death blow in the early season psyche of this club. Have to get this one, it's simple...anything else is a disaster.

I don't care about match-ups anymore, if I'm Guillen, I go to Santos or Pena over Williams. Probably not Putz, his stuff is too much like Linebrink's...about 85-90% of the pitcher he was b4 the injury.

You can't throw 85% FB's at 92-94 over and over again with this Yankees' line-up. EPIC FAIL.

Linebrink pitching too cautiously, like he's a bit gunshy to let go with a fastball over the center of the plate. Farmer hyping up Liney's FB, how he's at 94 this year vs. 88-91 MPH in 2009.

Williams here against Gardner? Santos? Pena?

Linebrink at 90-93. Have yet to see the 92-95 MPH fastball consistently...maybe he's letting up a bit more in an effort to get better command/control in the zone after working with Cooper?

Wow....goes against convention with Linebrink instead of Williams here. Maybe Ozzie's learning?

QUOTE (kane0730 @ May 1, 2010 -> 01:29 PM) When we need him to retire, he signs an extention. I swear, the next big Sox news will be Kotsay and Vizquel signing extensions (with salary bumps and incentives built in) through the 2012 season.

Big dilemma. Williams against two lefties in the bottom of the 6th? Or Matt Thornton 2 innings too early, in the Zumaya-esque extended two inning appearance a day after being nicked by the Yankees the night before, in a day game? No good options for Ozzie.

When we need a fly ball from Pierre for an RBI, we get a ground ball to P/3B/1B, foul out, DP or K. When we need him to slap the ball and beat it out, he flies out. When we need him to run fast and beat out a play at first, he doesn't have that "burst" or extra gear to shift into anymore.

Great job by Danks, what new?

110 and counting. All "high stress" pitches.

Proverbial rock and a hard place for Ozzie. Pull Danks now? I don't think so.