Tuesday, May 25, 2010

Finish The Game

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7EdWjjkx9yA

Peavy preaches but does not Practice spoken word

CLEVELAND — Jake Peavy spoke up Monday night, and his teammates responded.

Hours after the White Sox's highly decorated pitcher emphasized the need to start winning series, the Sox responded with a four-run first inning en route to a 7-2 victory over the Indians.

John Danks (4-3) worked the first five innings, then the bullpen allowed no runs and one hit the rest of the way.

"There ain't no ifs, ands or buts about it," Peavy said before the Sox cruised to their third win in their last four games. "(Cleveland) has a few injuries. We have to win this series. I'm not sugarcoating anything. Hey, we've got to play good baseball. We've got to beat teams that we feel

Ball to Contact

Peavy struggles

As Jake Peavy continues to struggle in 2010 and Clayton Richard and Jon Garland do very well in San Diego the questions remains is Kenny Williams the right man for the GM job of the White Sox? Here is a guy that drafts his son and Ozzie's son too. Come on. Really? We have a DH starting tonight in the name of Carlos Quentin. He is batting .216, you know you have a bad team when your DH is hitting .216 and your ace pitcher Peavy can't mow down the weak ass Cleveland Indians.

Really if this team doesn't get to .500 soon this blog will be about the TV and radio announcers.

Thursday, May 20, 2010

Thirdbase Coach Jeff Cox wish he had more action this year

Hey No Batter

Thus far in the season the White Sox have shown no signs of an offense. I miss the days of the South Side Hit Men. Zisk, Gamble, Solderholm, Bell and Lemon. It gets me thinking that Kenny Williams the White Sox General Manager may be thinking the same thing. This was the year that Manager Ozzie Gullien got his kind of team. The single guys who can bunt and run and take the extra base. Well 40 games don't make a season but it is what it is. I am not sure who thought Mark Teahan could be a 25 hr 90 rbi guy for the Sox but this third baseman would really need to go on a tear to reach those numbers by October. I wonder if anytime soon Kenny tells Ozzie enough with this "Ozzie ball" and lets bring back the South side hit men type of players.

Jack Peavy started tonight and gave up two quick runs in the first. When a team that can't hit see that 2 go up on the board before they grab their bats the pressing begins. That is probably the reason why A.J. tried to make a single turn into a double, only to get thrown out at second.

The State of the Sox address

May 19, 2010

WHITE SOX BLOG

It’s May 19 and many White Sox fans may be in shock at the awful start by their south siders. six and a half weeks into the season and little promise on the horizon. The big problem is the teams lack of hitting. I think I can count on one had how many times the Sox have had 3 hits in a row. When General Manager Kenny Williams passed over signing Johnny Damon to a two year contract and not pursing Scott Podsednik not many fans blinked an eye. They figured the Sox were secured in the outfield with Alex Rios, Andruw Jones and Carlos Quentin. Plus having Juan Pierre as a DH/OF made it easier that Damon went to Detroit. Also many fans were excited about Jordan Danks thinking he could come up and contribute. Plus in Chicago a name like Jordan gives fans some excitement. Even names that rhyme with Jordan. (See Gordon Beckham).

So basically is hard for me to sit here on May 19 and second the moves by Williams. The pitching looked solid. My only concerns were Mark Buehhrle’s shoulder and John Danks finger tips. So far so good for them. Jake Peavy struggles a little bit here and there. But I think he gets too pumped up out on the mound. He needs to control his emotions. Or as in Bull Durham breathe through his eyelids. To me Peavy, Buehrle, Gavin Floyd and John Danks seemed like a strong front four. Anything you got out of Freddy Garcia was frosting on the cupcake.

What kills me 38 games into the season is the bad base running. We have ran ourselves our of some potential big innings. I don’t see why they feel the need to take a chance going first to third on a single to CF after 3 solid hits against the pitcher. Like I wrote earlier we don’t get 3 hits in the same inning very much. So I hate to see a rally killed by giving the struggling pitcher an out.

But this blog isn’t about bitching and second guessing. This blog is going to be about exchanging ideas before this or that happens. Anyone can second guess and have 20/20 vision after the fact. Its what you do and say before that matters. Ozzie and Kenny don’t get second chances. So why should I when I blog about something.

So I say this hoping it never happens but it frightens me to death when I see Beckham turning a double play at second. He seems to not know how to get out of the way of a sliding base runner. Please I hope Joey Cora and Ozzie are working


with him. If not then there will be hell to pay from us White Sox fans. Plus lets give shout outs to the players that we love. Paul Konerko. His defensive play has been outstanding the last two years. Which brings me to this tough question. Do we sign Paulie to a 3 year contract? Or trade him now and get something for him? If we fall out by 10 games in July I say its time to trade and cut. My favorite player is Mark Buehrle. But if the Sox our out of it in July its time to trade him. He has thrown so many innings its only a matter of time before that shoulder is deader then a ASIAN carp in the Cal-Sac.

If we let Konerko go then we have to see what is on the farm. That means bringing Dayan Viciedo up and giving him a shot at first base. Lets see if this kid can hit in the bigs.

Well lets not jump ahead of ourselves. We have 5 home games coming up against LAA and FLA so lets sweep the Angles and get two of three from the Marlins and take it hard to Cleveland. While we are in Cleveland lets sign Lebron James too!
Go White Sox.

Danks for nuttin

Danks for nothing pitcher tells teamates. John Danks pitched a great game tonight at U.S. Cellular Field only to be stuck with the lost. The one bright spot Paul Konerko hit his 14th home run of the year.