White Sox vs. Indians -- 6/03/05

by The Cheat on Jun 3, 2005 3:01 PM CDT in White Sox News

Orlando Hernandez makes his return to the mound after coming off the DL tonight. Starting for Cleveland is Jake Westbrook.

Pre-game reading

Jim Margalus of Chicago Sports Review has a great piece up on Timo Perez. My favorite part?
Strengths: Speaks three languages.
Weaknesses: Baseball.
With the draft fast approaching, Alan Schwarz has column looking at the best and worst selections at each position. The White Sox make the list on both the good and the bad side of the ledger.
Finally, Chris De Luca writes a column on the contentious relationship between Frank Thomas, the White Sox organizatoin, and the fans.
Take it for what it's worth. It's an entirely accurate portrayal of Thomas, Ozzie Guillen and Kenny Williams, I just question the intentions of writing such an article. To me he appears to be laying the groundwork for Frank to be the fall guy should things go awry this season.

CLEVELAND CHI WHITE SOX AVG HR RBI AVG HR RBI Grady Sizemore CF .258 4 21 Scott Podsednik LF .289 0 12 Casey Blake RF .192 6 16 Tadahito Iguchi 2B .302 4 24 Travis Hafner DH .275 5 20 Aaron Rowand CF .280 4 20 Victor Martinez C .210 5 16 Paul Konerko 1B .223 13 37 Ben Broussard 1B .280 6 25 Carl Everett DH .246 7 33 Coco Crisp LF .282 4 12 Jermaine Dye RF .229 10 20 Ronnie Belliard 2B .296 7 23 A.J. Pierzynski C .255 8 19 Alex Cora SS .230 1 7 Juan Uribe SS .245 4 23 Aaron F. Boone 3B .154 4 15 Joe Crede 3B .229 6 19 Jake Westbrook RHP (2-7, 5.03) Orlando Hernandez RHP (5-1, 3.91)

Alas, No Big Hurt.

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Wow! Cheat, are you sure you didn't write that?

My favorite part, though it scares me too:

Timo may be a team player, but given the picture he should be the odd man out. He's the team's sixth-best outfielder, the 15th-best hitter and the 23rd-best first baseman, give or take a couple of spots. On a team that already has precious little firepower, there is simply no use for him, and the case for that is brutally as plain as day. Whether Sox management will put common sense above mentality is another case all together.

It should be called Bill Veeck Park!

by Chiburb on Jun 3, 2005 3:33 PM CDT reply actions

4-0 Good guys

Westbrook actually looked really good that inning, everything was a weak grounder.. They just found the right holes... I don't expect that luck to keep up.

Hopefully El Duque will make it stand up.

AIM: SouthSideCheat

by The Cheat on Jun 3, 2005 7:43 PM CDT reply actions

I see you put up your AIM

but are you ever online?

by shaftr on Jun 3, 2005 7:55 PM CDT up reply actions

Rarely

I decided to make a new account, and be online a little more often...

I'll sign on now.

AIM: SouthSideCheat

by The Cheat on Jun 3, 2005 7:56 PM CDT reply actions

4-4

El Dookie is picthing

AIM: SouthSideCheat

by The Cheat on Jun 3, 2005 8:12 PM CDT reply actions

Cotts

I thought Neal Cotts looked real good out there tonight. Best I've seen of him in awhile. He was confident with his fastball and keeping everything else pretty low. Hopefully he can keep it up.

I was maimed by rock and roll... jeff tweedy

by simplesinger on Jun 3, 2005 9:47 PM CDT reply actions