What about TAEG? It’d be nice to see an aggregate of “you meant ’09, right?” comments.

http://www.southsidesox.com/fanposts

The old view — the one I like, as it encourages more thoughtful posts — is still available by clicking full view. I think the new view and functionality was to make more of the college fans, those who’ve grown used to the message board communities of Scout and Rivals, feel more at home. I won’t be using the new view, but it’s an option for you guys to try out

I wrote a brief preview for Sports Weekly Monday, and I prefaced it by saying, “I hope this doesn’t end up in the land of Buffalo Bills Super Bowl Champions t-shirts.”

I hope whatever you write is more insightful than the listing of a bunch of stats to prove the obvious, as the Tampa writer did. He basically showed that the Sox don’t walk (sans Thome), swing at bad pitches, and like mashing taters. In-depth!

White Sox/Rays

Having had to use Danks just to get here leaves the Sox at a disadvantage heading into this series, as the southpaw would have been valuable against a Rays team that is the anti-Brewers: dangerous against righties (.267/.344/.434), tame against lefties (.246/.330/.396). The Sox will get just two starts from lefties in the series, and just one in the first three games.

That’s not the only factor working against the Sox. They’ll play three of the five games on the road, where they were a poor team this season. They’ll have just one day of rest going into the series, having played three elimination games in three days, and the first game begins about 40 hours after their celebration at US Cellular Field on Tuesday night.

It’s hard to know what to expect here. The White Sox rely so heavily on the long ball for their offense that the Rays’ greatest strength, their team defense, is almost a non-factor. The White Sox get less on balls in play than any team in baseball, so a team that is designed to cut down on offense on balls in pay doesn’t affect them much. (A Twins/Rays matchup would have been much more interesting in that regard.) In fact, this entire series may come down to the single factor of White Sox home runs. If they hit enough of them, they might win. If they don’t, they won’t come close. A team that scores nearly half its runs on long balls may be even more reliant on them this week.

The Rays are a middle of the pack team at preventing homers, maybe a bit better than that if you just consider the pitchers they’ll use in this series. It’s not a particular strength or weakness for them, so it’s hard to predict whether they can neutralize this one strength.

Looking at it from the other direction, the Rays were second in the league in walks drawn, the White Sox fourth-best in walks allowed. This is a particular strength of the Sox frontline relievers, who do an excellent job of pounding the strike zone. When the Rays get on base, they will run; first in attempts and steals in the AL. A.J. Pierzynski allowed 96 steals at an 82 percent clip, and Toby Hall was much worse than that, despite two lefties in the rotation—including Mark Buehrle, a running game-stopper the 1985 Bears would envy—and a righty, Javier Vazquez, who holds runners well. The Rays can definitely steal on these catchers.

This may be something of a nondescript series. The White Sox should get good starting pitching and hope to run into a few balls along the way. The Rays need to draw some walks and keep the ball in the park. Look for fairly quick games and low scores. Rays in five.

http://www.baseballprospectus.com/article.php?articleid=8145

It’s a developer-led landscape of mind numbing sprawl. People who live there are either too stupid to move or ready to check out.

are you able to watch live games? and how is the picture? choppy?

This is an oldie but a goodie from THT in 2004, I’ve bookmarked it for years. So, Billy, What Does Work In the Playoffs?

I’ve never seen this updated for the postseason series since then, so take it with a grain of salt. But based on these parameters the Sox don’t match up too well with TB.

stick his right leg out like that when Hamels delivers? it looks very awkward

many thanks

How am I supposed to get any work today knowing the Cubs will be playing this afternoon?
And yes, the White Sox suck. As do the Phillies, Brewers, Dodgers, Red Sox, and Angels. I really dig the Tampa Bay Rays, but I’ll have no problem seeing them crushed if they reach the World Series with the Cubs.

Time for his first blown save of the year

Those were the days

 DS% Lg% WS%
Boston
 .553 .314 .175
Tampa Bay
 .630 .323 .171
Chicago (A)
 .370 .139 .054
Los Angeles (A)
 .447 .224 .107

  
Philadelphia
 .543 .272 .139
Chicago (N)
 .520 .284 .147
Milwaukee
 .457 .200 .092
Los Angeles
 .480 .245 .116

http://playoffodds.blogspot.com/

Josh Fields, Clayton Richard and Adam Russell appear to be on the White Sox’s postseason roster, according to the lineup card posted in here.

Mike MacDouigal, Horacio Ramirez and Ehren Wasserman are not listed.

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Saying how much more Sox fans were into it compared to these idiot Cubbie Bear fans

Awesome day but my car crapped out