The White Sox thread

but having said that i don't see this team losing the al central race. if the sox can add a quality arm to the rotation (and at this point adding even a middling veteran who knows how to pitch would be an upgrade) i think they can stave off minnesota. should be an interesting summer.

Also, wtf is up with TBS not broadcasting Sox v. Braves last Sunday?

misinterpreting what a woman is saying is so unlike me. i don't follow the chisox nearly as closely as i do the bosox but my current location makes it hard to avoid coverage of the southsiders and i get a weird vibe from the team. maybe it was some of ozzie's early season decisions that have me spooked or maybe it's the white knuckles that billy koch induces (ala d-lowe in his last year as a closer) but i get the same feeling i got from the bosox of 2001. chisox pitching is way better than boston's that year and the al central doesn't have the yankees so i think they should be alright.

i am glad to see paul konerko playing well this year, i wasn't sure what was wrong with him last year but i'm happy it's not permanent.

lotta good that does for us basic cable proles.

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We've had a lot of posts on this thread and no mention of El Caballo's 28 game hit streak! Look out Joe D!

Also, Shingo made the Marlins look foolish last night. I don't know how long he can keep fooling people, but so far so good; he should have been made closer a long time ago, dammit. If the Sox end up finishing 2nd in the central by one or two of the games blown by Koch, I will scream. ANd throw things.

The Twins did it again last night, scored three in the last two innings and then won it in the 11th against the Expos.

Twins win on foul home run

June 17, 2004
Frank Robinson cried foul -- with good reason.

The Montreal manager was irate Wednesday night after Luis Rivas' 11th-inning drive down the left-field line was called fair for a home run, sending the visiting Minnesota Twins to a 5-4 victory over the Expos.

Television replays clearly showed the ball hooked foul in front of the net that serves as a foul pole at Olympic Stadium, but third base umpire Brian O'Nora signaled fair. The rest of his crew conferred, then let the ruling stand.

i don't get how the sox are scoring all these runs though. i guess most everyone is offensively a plus at their position, with a couple plus pluses thrown in. except crede, that guy blows.

business as usual on the South Side, in other words.

Ok, that's not entirely true; the emergence of Uribe and Harris at the top of the order (the latter especially - TOTALLY unexpected, in my case anyway), and their impressive OBP numbers, helps counteract the rest of the homer-happy lineup.

But seriously, Buehrle needs to stop this "OK, I will SUCK for the first two innings and then settle down" crap. For real. I'm getting REAL SICK of the routine, Mark.

Putting a healthy Thome in the middle of that lineup is just sick. It is a bit like when Ortiz took off in Boston a few years ago, they couldn't pitch around Manny anymore and it seemed the whole lineup improved. The White Sox were a good hitting lineup last year, but now they are a great hitting team.

I will be in Chicago next weekend and at the Monday, July 3 game vs. the Orioles. We are in Section 527 (thank you, StubHub). If Stormy or any other ILBBers will be there, email me, and would love to say hi before the fireworks.

love teh tagutchi.

This weekend was ridiculous.

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Sheesh. I have shit to do...

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"They think I cheat? We faced two [expletive] good pitchers in the National League Central. Our division, they have to face [the Tigers' starting staff], then you go to the White Sox and face all our guys? When you're going to go to another team, you're going to go, 'Whew, where is Randy Johnson?' The American League Central? That's baseball right here. Go hard one after another."
--Guillen

"Good, I hope [they keep accusing us]. What happened in the playoffs and World Series? We won 1-0, 2-1. We won so many one-run games, more than anyone in baseball last year. You look at our No. 3, 4 and 5 [hitters], they are the best in baseball. If we're cheating, how come we [don't] help Brian Anderson or [Juan] Uribe?"
--Guillen

"We're cheating on the mound? Our pitching staff gets beat up once in awhile. They're mad. They can't admit that a Latino kicked their ass."
--Guillen

"That's why I love the guy next door. He doesn't give a [expletive]. He doesn't worry about this and that. You win, you kicked our butt. When they clinched in 2004, I was the first one to go over there and congratulate them because they beat us."
--Guillen, on Twins manager Ron Gardenhire

"'Oh, no, I don't like you because you kicked my ass?' Please. That's competition."
--Guillen

"That's why I don't get along with too many managers. Because they hate my [expletive] ass, because I don't kiss their ass, and I didn't kiss anyone's ass to get this job."
--Guillen

"Then they have a Mexican win the World Series in two years. And they're saying he doesn't have experience, he never managed in baseball before. Well, too [expletive] bad."
--Guillen

"What's the difference? No one knows the difference anyway."
--Guillen, after being reminded that he's Venezuelan

Garland and co. give up 32 in a double header.

Buehrle gives up zero in eight innings the next day.

KEEP UP THE RESISTANCE, MR. WILLIAMS.

Four-year extension, apparently.

sucker's deal

It's better than the Burnett & Zito & Schmidt deals, tho. Which is, um, setting the bar pretty low @ this point.

During a 58-game stretch, White Sox relievers posted a 3-13 record and a 7.52 earned-run average.

“I’m not calling them losers, but they’re not ready to win,” Guillen sniffed.

“It gets to the point where you just laugh,” White Sox starter Mark Buehrle said. “Knowing Kenny, I wouldn’t be surprised if the whole bullpen goes. They need to ship some guys out soon.”

That gets a Young Jeezy "Daaaaayyyummmmmm!"

I wish someone would YouTube Uribe showing up the Tigers prior to his fly ball landing well in front of the fence for a routine out.

I loves me a classic pitchers duel, and we've got one going on, but these WGN assholes make me wanna die. Dude's extended riff on Ty Cobb's penmanship was, uh, really something.

a rematch of a pretty good pitchers duel at that!

Steve Stone in the booth with the Hawkeroo tonite! I think I could get used to this!

One minute, Guillen wondered why "people thought I was going to take my shirt off and go butt naked on Michigan Avenue" during the White Sox's victory parade, and the next, when it was suggested that Guillen leave it all and retire to his native Venezuela and get fat and happy, he scoffed.

"Because," Guillen explained, "my wife, when I have sex with her, wants to feel a good-looking man."

i was looking for the chisox thread! doesnt jenks have some impressive streak right now? does anyone care, y/n?

I wonder how many Major Leaguer father/Famous Artist son combos there have been in baseball history:

Cy Twombly

and

Cy Twombly

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these guys can hit

abreu is on a fuckin tear

luis robert is looking very good

also very sss but nick madrigal is batting .400 so far

yeah, luis robert is a future star (current star?), and great in the field too

madrigal is a tortuga-like purveyor of untrue outcomes

the harmony of lies: the nick madrigal story