witesoxfan Posted June 26, 2003 Share Posted June 26, 2003 Goddammit. 4.5 out instead of 2.5 out. That is a BIG difference. We now have to go kill the Cubs and we have to kill the Twins when they come to Chi-town. Simple as that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
witesoxfan Posted June 26, 2003 Author Share Posted June 26, 2003 I should add that I am still happy taking 2 of 3. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
southsider2k5 Posted June 26, 2003 Share Posted June 26, 2003 Well we have gone 4-2 so far on this 12 game stretch, while on the road. We easily could be 6-0, but going into it how many would have complained at 4-2? Not me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CubKilla Posted June 26, 2003 Share Posted June 26, 2003 Well we have gone 4-2 so far on this 12 game stretch, while on the road. We easily could be 6-0, but going into it how many would have complained at 4-2? Not me. Hopefully you're saying the same thing at the end of the season Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IlliniKrush Posted June 26, 2003 Share Posted June 26, 2003 If you would have told me 2/3 going into the series, i would have said i'll take it. Oh well, it happens. Big difference maybe, but 3 months is time enough to tell who whould be the champ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whitesox247 Posted June 26, 2003 Share Posted June 26, 2003 I don't mind losing 15-5 but games like that game2 just kill me. When they could have easily kicked the Twins and Cubs' asses and they just let those damn fundamentals get to them. Yeah 4.5 and 2.5 back are a HUGE difference and more likely than not, they're gonna hunt us bigtime. As Brando mentioned, we have lost about 8 games like that? Think how easily we could be in first place right now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mreye Posted June 26, 2003 Share Posted June 26, 2003 Hopefully Milwaukee can stay hot while they're up in Minnesota. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
witesoxfan Posted June 27, 2003 Author Share Posted June 27, 2003 I don't mind losing 15-5 but games like that game2 just kill me. When they could have easily kicked the Twins and Cubs' asses and they just let those damn fundamentals get to them. Yeah 4.5 and 2.5 back are a HUGE difference and more likely than not, they're gonna hunt us bigtime. As Brando mentioned, we have lost about 8 games like that? Think how easily we could be in first place right now. We could easily be 1.5 out right now. If we win that game against the Cubs, and we win last night against the Twinkies....we're that close. All these what if's.....and it's all coming up short. I hope their just starting to play well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BrandoFan Posted June 27, 2003 Share Posted June 27, 2003 I don't mind losing 15-5 but games like that game2 just kill me. When they could have easily kicked the Twins and Cubs' asses and they just let those damn fundamentals get to them. Yeah 4.5 and 2.5 back are a HUGE difference and more likely than not, they're gonna hunt us bigtime. As Brando mentioned, we have lost about 8 games like that? Think how easily we could be in first place right now. We could easily be 1.5 out right now. If we win that game against the Cubs, and we win last night against the Twinkies....we're that close. All these what if's.....and it's all coming up short. I hope their just starting to play well. If this (unlike 83-win 2001) healthy team plays up to its potential, we would be about 20 games over 500 right now, leading the second best ALC team by 15 games or so. The sheer degree of this team's underachiving play up to the LA series was downright scary, and this newfound will to win of the last 6 fays only highlights it more. Oh the pathos. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soxplosion Posted June 27, 2003 Share Posted June 27, 2003 Thanks for reminding me of that wsf. Im glad we did so well but I wish we coulda swept... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
witesoxfan Posted June 27, 2003 Author Share Posted June 27, 2003 I don't mind losing 15-5 but games like that game2 just kill me. When they could have easily kicked the Twins and Cubs' asses and they just let those damn fundamentals get to them. Yeah 4.5 and 2.5 back are a HUGE difference and more likely than not, they're gonna hunt us bigtime. As Brando mentioned, we have lost about 8 games like that? Think how easily we could be in first place right now. We could easily be 1.5 out right now. If we win that game against the Cubs, and we win last night against the Twinkies....we're that close. All these what if's.....and it's all coming up short. I hope their just starting to play well. If this (unlike 83-win 2001) healthy team plays up to its potential, we would be about 20 games over 500 right now, leading the second best ALC team by 15 games or so. The sheer degree of this team's underachiving play up to the LA series was downright scary, and this newfound will to win of the last 6 fays only highlights it more. Oh the pathos. I agree with a lot of your stuff....but will to win? If they had a will to win, the Sox would be on a 6-game winning streak right now. There were many opportunities to win last night, and just when it looked like the momentum could be shifting toward our favor(Minny putting together a huge threat, one ball away from ending the game, and one strike away from ending the inning, and then having them be brought down by electric Flash Gordon), Botch comes in and throws up a meatball that says "Hit me hard Jacque" and, of course, Jacque does exactly that. And I'm not even going to talk about getting shutdown by the Chubbies on Sunday. Talk about a major disappointment. Colon should have stayed in and done the job. We're still not taking care of mistakes, though we are not necessarily swinging at a ton of bad pitches anymore(still more then we should, however....Carlos swung at one in his eyes IIRC last night against Hawkins). If we start hitting mistakes hard....then you can say we are on a role. I've seen too many good pitches be let go. Someone's gotta step up offensively before the July 20th, or else we'll be seeing a lot of guys leave. I personally feel that as soon as one guy gets real, real hot...like sizzling hot...then you will see the byproduct in the final boxscore with a lot of crooked numbers. Hitting is contagious. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
witesoxfan Posted June 27, 2003 Author Share Posted June 27, 2003 And roman.... You are welcome! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Fainter Posted June 27, 2003 Share Posted June 27, 2003 But we are improving. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
witesoxfan Posted June 27, 2003 Author Share Posted June 27, 2003 But we are improving. I agree. We are just not "hot" yet. The potential of this team is very high. It could do some very good things. We need to get the offense and bullpen going before we can even consider going on a huge streak. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BrandoFan Posted June 27, 2003 Share Posted June 27, 2003 I don't mind losing 15-5 but games like that game2 just kill me. When they could have easily kicked the Twins and Cubs' asses and they just let those damn fundamentals get to them. Yeah 4.5 and 2.5 back are a HUGE difference and more likely than not, they're gonna hunt us bigtime. As Brando mentioned, we have lost about 8 games like that? Think how easily we could be in first place right now. We could easily be 1.5 out right now. If we win that game against the Cubs, and we win last night against the Twinkies....we're that close. All these what if's.....and it's all coming up short. I hope their just starting to play well. If this (unlike 83-win 2001) healthy team plays up to its potential, we would be about 20 games over 500 right now, leading the second best ALC team by 15 games or so. The sheer degree of this team's underachiving play up to the LA series was downright scary, and this newfound will to win of the last 6 fays only highlights it more. Oh the pathos. I agree with a lot of your stuff....but will to win? If they had a will to win, the Sox would be on a 6-game winning streak right now. There were many opportunities to win last night, and just when it looked like the momentum could be shifting toward our favor(Minny putting together a huge threat, one ball away from ending the game, and one strike away from ending the inning, and then having them be brought down by electric Flash Gordon), Botch comes in and throws up a meatball that says "Hit me hard Jacque" and, of course, Jacque does exactly that. And I'm not even going to talk about getting shutdown by the Chubbies on Sunday. Talk about a major disappointment. Colon should have stayed in and done the job. We're still not taking care of mistakes, though we are not necessarily swinging at a ton of bad pitches anymore(still more then we should, however....Carlos swung at one in his eyes IIRC last night against Hawkins). If we start hitting mistakes hard....then you can say we are on a role. I've seen too many good pitches be let go. Someone's gotta step up offensively before the July 20th, or else we'll be seeing a lot of guys leave. I personally feel that as soon as one guy gets real, real hot...like sizzling hot...then you will see the byproduct in the final boxscore with a lot of crooked numbers. Hitting is contagious. Yes...but if these were the pre-LA Sox, we would be 1-5 instead of 4-2. So some progress has been made. (As far as letting games get away thing goes, to my count we have a MINUS-9 differential in the last 22 games alone....scary and nothing new) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DonkeyKongerko Posted June 27, 2003 Share Posted June 27, 2003 I hope at the end of the season we all say stuff like "this team could have won 100 games" and instead they only win 92 or so but take the division anyways. I don't like how we lead the league in losses when leading after 7 innings. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cwsox Posted June 27, 2003 Share Posted June 27, 2003 I hope at the end of the season we all say stuff like "this team could have won 100 games" and instead they only win 92 or so but take the division anyways. I don't like how we lead the league in losses when leading after 7 innings. we are? that is a horrid stat. what are the numbers? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greg775 Posted June 27, 2003 Share Posted June 27, 2003 I'll gladly take 2 of 3 also. Even though we blew the lead in game two, s*** happens. 2 of 3 every time means a pennant. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YASNY Posted June 27, 2003 Share Posted June 27, 2003 When you stop and think about it, we have played well enough to really have put together a nice streak. The last three losses, game 4 vs Boston, game 3 vs the Cubs and game 2 vs Minn, we really should have won each one of those games. That would be a sweet little nine game winning streak going. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IndySoxFan Posted June 27, 2003 Share Posted June 27, 2003 i am dumb... but who is the last team we swept? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YASNY Posted June 27, 2003 Share Posted June 27, 2003 i am dumb... but who is the last team we swept? I believe that would be Baltimore... just before the Twins smoked our asses in Minnesota last time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IndySoxFan Posted June 27, 2003 Share Posted June 27, 2003 I believe that would be Baltimore... just before the Twins smoked our asses in Minnesota last time. damn.... that seems like last year Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YASNY Posted June 27, 2003 Share Posted June 27, 2003 I don't mind losing 15-5 but games like that game2 just kill me. When they could have easily kicked the Twins and Cubs' asses and they just let those damn fundamentals get to them. Yeah 4.5 and 2.5 back are a HUGE difference and more likely than not, they're gonna hunt us bigtime. As Brando mentioned, we have lost about 8 games like that? Think how easily we could be in first place right now. Actually folks, we are 5.5 out. 4.5 in back of the Twins. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IndySoxFan Posted June 27, 2003 Share Posted June 27, 2003 I don't mind losing 15-5 but games like that game2 just kill me. When they could have easily kicked the Twins and Cubs' asses and they just let those damn fundamentals get to them. Yeah 4.5 and 2.5 back are a HUGE difference and more likely than not, they're gonna hunt us bigtime. As Brando mentioned, we have lost about 8 games like that? Think how easily we could be in first place right now. Actually folks, we are 5.5 out. 4.5 in back of the Twins. well..... win some, lose some.... with the pitching really picking up... i think this team can contend in this division Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YASNY Posted June 27, 2003 Share Posted June 27, 2003 We are not out of it by any means. But we have missed some golden opportunities. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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