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QUOTE (Balta1701 @ May 13, 2009 -> 11:56 AM) He needs to be coaching these guys not to go in to bases hard where they land all their weight on their heels. Is that his job? Needs to be someone's job. We still have NO idea what Baines really does... Bring in Broadway, maybe he can be the fifth starter. He pitched well the other night, might as well save Mark's arm for later in the season.

The White Sox are actually 7th in the AL in pitching, and somehow KC is still first after last night's 12-3 pasting by that offensive powerhouse, the Oakland A's. Wonder where Stone got the idea we were 2nd from the bottom? Hitting and defense, well, that's obvious. We have guys playing out of position every game these days...Nix at SS and RF, Lillibridge in CF, Pods in RF, etc.

Harrelson is smoking weed...."we're a good ballclub playing not so good baseball." 2nd from last in fielding, runs scored and defense. Ozzie should be Manager of the Year just for keeping us near .500.

Buehrle 9-12 lifetime against CLE, but not good at all there. Garko around 350 with 7 HR's and 31 RBI's career against us. I don't think Lillibridge will equal those 7 or 31 in his entire career. Could we give them back Alexei's bunt single and see if we can get no-hit to make this game more interesting and put more heat (somewhat deservedly) on Walker??

QUOTE (Kalapse @ May 13, 2009 -> 11:48 AM) This is one of the absolute least interesting lineups we've seen during the Ozzie Guillen era. Not much to get excited about. Pods 5 years past his prime against a LHP in the 2 hole, Betemit against ANY LHP and Lillibridge are just terrible, terrible, terrible. Nix at least LOOKS like a hitter and has a short, compact swing. Game, set, match. We now return to our regularly scheduled programming. Garko, it seems, absolutely kills us.

QUOTE (hogan873 @ May 13, 2009 -> 11:46 AM) I realize it's early in the season, and we're missing a few keys guys because of injuries, but I'm starting to see what fans of the Pirates have been feeling for over a decade. add in the Royals, Nationals, Padres (now), Reds, Orioles and Mariners since the glory years at beginning of decade

Only one ball out of the infield so far through 12 batters. Ummm....can't believe we're starting Richard again when it's pretty obvious he has only one pitch and gets crushed the 2nd time through the line-up. Try Carrasco or Omogrosso next time. He's only given up 1 run through 4 IP today and has an ERA under 2.00. If he fails, it's not a huge deal, because he's expected to end up as a reliever anyway. The consequences aren't the same in terms of development with Poreda getting flattened three outings in a row and going back to the minors.

QUOTE (ChiSox_Sonix @ May 13, 2009 -> 11:38 AM) 08: 1-3 07: 1-3 06: 3-3 5-9 the last 3 years. Didn't realize we struggled so much there. But I think overall, we were something like 1-9 or 2-8 in our last ten games against them...what was our head to head last year and in 2007?

QUOTE (Brian @ May 13, 2009 -> 11:36 AM) Mark looks good. Didn't think Victor's HR was that well hit. If we get 3 off Lee, we will win. /crosses fingers That ball was hit VERY hard...it was on the outer half of the plate and up, Victor drilled it to RCF almost 400 feet. Didn't look like it was gone right off the bat, but he had a lot of underspin on it and it just kept sailing. But it certainly wasn't muscled out like Thome's ball to RF last night (2nd homer).

QUOTE (Friend of Nordhagen @ May 13, 2009 -> 11:34 AM) Again, with Lillibridge, I just don't get his whole set-up. He's got the bat held high, with his hands way up above his shoulders. Now here's a guy whose swing is too long; why would a hitting coach let a guy who can't get around on the ball start so that he has to bring his hands down and then try to catch up? Lillibridge has a long swing that's not mechanically sound, and he has a really big uppercut...they showed his swing from the side last night and it was comical how it looked liked Willie Mays Hayes from Major League. He has hit two ball to the left of 2nd base all season, one was last night. I think the other was on a hanging curveball he flared into LCF for a single.

QUOTE (Jerksticks @ May 13, 2009 -> 11:33 AM) Jordan up to Bham. Hawk just made him sound like a major leaguer already; easy there Hawk. Good to see he's up hangin out with all his future buddies tho Jordan has now slumped to .429 as we speak. I'm with Harrelson, Birmingham is a lot more interesting than the major league club.

I swear Getz is faster than Lillibridge and might have beaten the relay there. Esteban Belte, Jr., your ticket is already purchased for Charlotte Friday. Yesterday was the first time all season we beat a pitcher who entered the game with a +6 ERA, and we face three "no names" (Cecil is known to some) at Toronto, where we've won about 1 of our last 10 games against TOR.

Jordan Danks would be doing better than Brent, he's already 3/6 at BIRM. I think Brent only has 10 hits all season. Viciedo all the way up to .246 and 21 RBI's.

Lillibridge better have an AB where he fouls off 10-12 pitches so we can see the Indians' bullpen in the 7th or 8th if we want to have any chance to win this game...

Sounds about as good as the taunting from Borat's sister to his retarded brother Billow..."you're not going to get this, you're not going to get this..."

Josh Fields will have 200 strikeouts this year if they don't send him down to Charlotte first. Has anyone ever struck out more than 150 times and hit less than 10 homers in a season? My mom asked how Josh missed that second strike by so much, and why Konerko is so slow...at least it's humorous.

Starters against Lee are averaging an ERA below 1.00...but he's been pitching really well the last 3-4 outings. Viciedo hitting clean-up today for the first time his career for the Barons. Go BIRM!

I think Illinois/ND baseball has better attendance than the Indians these past two games... Picking Pods for the "pick to click" today is suicide!

The options were to play Betemit, Nix, Getz or Ramirez in CF.

QUOTE (fathom @ May 13, 2009 -> 09:44 AM) Really disagree with benching Thome, unless he's injured from running the bases last night. It should be fun watching Fields and Lillibridge attempt to hit Cliff Lee's high fastball. Throw a no-hitter Buehrle. Pods hitting 2nd and Fields at 6th tells you everything you need to know about our AAA line-up. Earlier in the season I said our Birmingham line-up was stronger, and you can definitely make that case versus what we've had to put out there the last couple of weeks. Just the very presence of Lillibridge screams "automatic out" and the reverse Thome shift to RF for Lilliquist as Harrelson calls him.

Also, I think that Detroit game where he (Floyd) had 7 walks....nobody could have thrown strikes in that weather, it was ridiculously cold, he could barely feel his hands that day.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ May 13, 2009 -> 09:43 AM) The Walker bashing is ridiculous. The results speak for themselves. Everyone bashes every White Sox player as they are done but when they don't go 4 for 4 its the hitting coach's fault. Its BS. Look at the line-ups and tell me how someone is going to get more out of what is out there? And if Walker must go, no one has come up with a name of a replacement to date. There have been a couple of "get the Texas coach's assistant" from a few. First off, does he even have an assistant? I'm not for firing Cooper. I just think the Walker bashing is beyond old and beyond ridiculous, and just wanted to point out that the offense generally outperforms the pitching staff during Walker's reign and the pitchers generally do better at home than on the road so USCF isn't the reason. Not so fast. WHITE SOX TEAM ERA on the Road (the best independent variable we can use to compare the offense and pitching) 2008 5th in AL, 13th in MLB 2007 7th in AL, 15th in MLB 2006 8th in AL, 18th in MLB 2005 1st in AL, 1st in MLB 2004 7th in AL, 19th in MLB AVERAGE ranks for White Sox pitching on the road, 5.6/14 in AL, 13.2/30 IN MLB Runs Scored Per Game on the Road 2008 12th in AL, 23rd in MLB 2007 14th in AL, 29th in MLB 2006 4th in AL, 8th in MLB 2005 8th in AL, 11th in MLB 2004 7th in AL, 13th in MLB Average ranks for White Sox RSPG on the road, 9th/14th in the AL, 17/30 in MLB

Fields just has WAY too many moving parts in his swing now. It's no wonder he can't hit a Pavano fastball down the pipe. Lillibridge is probably beyond hope for this year...he wasn't even able to pull Jeremy Sowers, but continued to flare lazy flyballs to RF. Getz stands almost as much on top of the plate as Quentin. Of course he's going to get busted inside, and unless he turns on those balls and drives them to RF, it's going to keep happening. It's strange to see a LH hitter struggle so much will pitches that are low, but it's the pitches that are low AND inside that he's specifically dealing with, like a cutter from a RH pitcher.

http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20...sp&c_id=mlb Article hyping him as possibly the best pitching prospect ever (kiss of death!) at MLB.com

Yeah, but the sex has to end sometime, the girl has HPV, and we have to return to the reality of Lillibridge, Pods and Fields facing Cliff Lee. And also try not to worry about Chris Getz not looking so "short and quick" anymore, either.