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Okay, why would you rather have CJ Retherford than Jayson Nix on your roster as the 25th man? Nix has proven (in limited exposure to RH pitching) major league power, and is a "plus" defender at 2B, "pretty good" at 3B and "adequate/average" at SS. CJ could never play major league shortstop. Maybe you can argue he's the 3rd catcher, but how often does that factor into a game??? And you would pick Nix over Retherford as a pinch-runner as well.

I voted for the Pirates. Tempted to vote for us, though. At least the Astros made the World Series in 2005, and they had a pretty good run of playoff appearances or at least competing year in and year out for much of the last 20 years or so. Plus, their park is new(er) and they draw pretty well, all things considered. Royals fans, with the exception of April-July of 2003, haven't had anything to get excited about since George Brett retired. Well, I take that back, there was Bo Jackson.

Has anyone seen the WGN TV ratings? I would imagine that if Nielsen did a survey at 10 pm EST, it might be under 1,000 viewers in the entire US.

Beckham at .189, 542 OPS. Yikes. Has a TSN Rookie of the Year ever been demoted in the first three months (or two months, lol) of the following season? Might break another record with that dubious "achievement."

Balta, is that in green? If CJ hits 240 with his lack of power (and lack of a position where he excels defensively like Nix), he's going to end up sporting a 650 OPS, like Mark Teahen. Plus he can't run very well, just so-so.

I thought of including Florida Marlins, Washington and Cincy, but they have Stanton/Strasburg/Chapman respectively. The other team I considered was SEATTLE.

Only reason to follow this game is Paciorek for me. I really miss hearing that voice. Gordon Beckham one more missed opportunity...Charlotte looms. He's just completely feeling for the ball and not swinging the bat with any authority. Alexei Ramirez leading the majors with 29 foul homers. Ramirez, what were you doing with that 2-0 count?????? Brain/vapor lock again sets in.

Great, that homer just guaranteed Butler would be our DH for 2010.

QUOTE (Jordan4life @ May 15, 2010 -> 07:33 PM) I'd like you to name 3 guys from the '07 team worth watching. Alex Rios and John Danks alone make this team more worth watching over that one. Josh Fields and Jerry Owens were fun to follow the 2nd half that year. Even Wasserman as a rookie. Buehrle had his first no-hitter.

QUOTE (The Ginger Kid @ May 15, 2010 -> 07:27 PM) he's definitely not a 3rd baseman. I'd rather see what Morel can do We want a 1B with a 675-725 OPS, don't think so. You can't have Morel AND Teahen on the corners and expect anything but last place.

That might be the game if Hochevar's A "stuff" is there tonight. Let's hope he lets us back into the game somehow. This HAS to be the bottom, getting swept by the KC Royals goes right up there with 1-5 against CLE. That's a sure sign of lack of competitiveness within our own division against the two worst teams.

They should just give the Gold Glove award to Teahen right now and prevent wasting time even voting...Actually, FWIW, Ramirez probably should have taken that ball, had the better chance to make that throw. Jake Peavy=Dennis Leonard according to Paciorek

QUOTE (The Ginger Kid @ May 15, 2010 -> 07:15 PM) what's with this gun in KC? They had Meche hitting 98, now Hochevar? Peavy at only 90 or 91 to start this game.

Well, Ozzie said he decided between Gordo, Ramirez and Teahen for that spot tonight. None of those options are pleasant. I guess Rios or AJ could figure in there as well, but you need Rios 3-4-5-6 in this order right now.

One hour rain delay. Pierre tries to bunt...once again, Pierre's lack of an extra gear that he used to exhibit has cost him 5-8 extra infield base hits this year. 96-97 MPH "sinker" down the pipe K's Beckham. No hitter stuff so far from Hochevar. 1-2-3 top of the first, what else is new?

Well, on the plus side, we have Viciedo rising and Flowers having a great season so far. Marquez has sort of pitched his way back into some level of consideration as a 5th starter at some point in the future. Daniel Hudson dusted himself off and got up from the deck, just like Peavy. I'll be honest, I never had a great expectation that Danks, Retherford or John Shelby III figured into our long-term plans. But we do need to get something good (eventually) out of Dayan, Flowers, Hudson and Morel (not to mention Mitchell when he comes back).

More solutions: Gordon Beckham at SS Magglio Ordonez was screwed over by the FO, should have been re-signed Rowand shouldn't have been traded with Brian Anderson as the only remaining solution for CF with Chris Young traded Frank Thomas should have been given a long-term contract instead of bringing in Thome (Surprised someone didn't want Carl Jurassic Everett back.)

Originally, 645/635 but obviously that's not happening. If only we had Aaron Rowand, Scotty Pods and Joe Crede still with the White Sox, EVERYTHING would be A-OK. According to some callers to rain delay theatre. Gordon Beckham needs to "choke up" on the bat and start aiming his hits to the "green part of the field." Great! KW has destroyed the franchise single-handedly. Rongey at least stood his ground about Guillen/KW over roster construction and seemed to hold KW more accountable than Ozzie, basically saying that Guillen was "spinning" the moves in the offseason and SoxFest because no manager would say "these moves really suck, I'm a great manager but even I can't do anything with this piece of crap roster..."

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ May 15, 2010 -> 05:18 PM) It's also worth pointing out that there was no guarantee that the other options out there as DH would be doing that well either. Matsui, for example, has a .716 OPS, which is only good in comparison to Quentin or Kotsay. Brent Lillibridge has a 700+ OPS with Charlotte. When (OR IF) we start talking about replacing Pierre or Beckham with Lillibridge, that's when we'll know the season is pretty much unofficially over.

Someone named Freddy Sweaty Garcia.....along with Michael Morse and Jeremy Reed.

Rain delay until at least 645 CST. According to Cowley, very unlikely this game even gets played, they're trying to find at least a two hour window to cram it in. On the plus side, we can't lose if we don't play. We end the day at 7 1/2 GB of the Twins, who are proving once again they don't belong up there with the big boys just quite yet. http://www.weather.com/weather/map/USMO0460 I think they'll play this one after all, it's not a HUGE unending weather system. BTW, the two best bets for the 2 spot according to Ozzie (after Gordon), were, tuh-dah, Alexei Ramirez and Mark Teahen, yikes!

Brent Lillibridge is OPSing (704) ahead of or equal to Jordan Danks, Maurice Gartrell and CJ Retherford. That wasn't predicted by ANYONE.

Not green or teal, Sergio Santos would legitimately be a more dangerous option to homer than 70-80% of our hitters these days.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ May 15, 2010 -> 02:33 PM) The last 5 times the Sox started the season 14-21 per Gonzalez: 1983 99-63 First place, AL West 1987 77-85 Fifth place, AL West 1995 68-76 Fifth place, AL Central 1997 80-81 Second place, AL Central 2001 83-79 Third place, AL Central I think that 2001 team actually would go into an 8 game losing streak from that point, pretty sure they reached bottom at 14-29 or something very close to that, then made it all the back to 6 or 8 games over .500. The 1997 and 2001 teams are good examples of teams with very high expectations entering the season (Belle signed as FA, David Wells and coming off the playoff appearance in 2000) that are quite comparable to our current situation. Although I can honestly say I don't EXPECT that this team will get to 6-7-8 games over .500. MAYBE....

The same way it's possible to have Juan Pierre and Omar Vizquel DHing, that's how. I wouldn't be surprised if JP had more RBI opportunities than anyone on the team, or at least with RISP.