Game 24: Gamethread #2
by The Wizard on Apr 27, 2008 3:45 PM CDT
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another K!
The greatest trick the White Sox ever pulled was convincing their fan base that "Ozzieball" ever existed.
Good to see...
Jose has his third straight good outing. I’m happy for him, and I hope he can continue it.
box score is frozen
what’s happening in the 8th?
"I got the shotgun. You got the briefcase. It's all in the game though, right? "
by onlysoxfaninboston on Apr 27, 2008 3:54 PM CDT reply actions
That's who I would have been pulling for.
At least a five run lead going in, give him a chance to shake off the some of yesterday’s shitty outing.
"I'll bring the awesome." -The 'Swish'
LOL!
The greatest trick the White Sox ever pulled was convincing their fan base that "Ozzieball" ever existed.
Seriously. I liked the signing a lot...
but Dotel’s conditioning must have gone into the shitter. I have never seen him look this fat and old before. He used to always be in decent shape.
The OrCa ends it!
The greatest trick the White Sox ever pulled was convincing their fan base that "Ozzieball" ever existed.
Oh c'mon wu, try and keep up.
Today, he’s the greatest player in white sox history. Just like he was yesterday and will be tomorrow. The Party tells me so, it must be true.
"I'll bring the awesome." -The 'Swish'
I know, small sample size.
But I could have gotten LARGE ODDS that after 24 games our starters’ ERAs would have looked like this.
G Floyd 2.84
J Danks 3.00
J Contreras 3.98
J Vazquez 4.40
M Buehrle 5.65
Pitching and defense.
Yep.
And the A’s and LAAAAA Angels are the only teams in the league with a better record than us, with the O’s and Rays 1/2 game behind us.
I’m sure all of these trends will extrapolate exactly the same until the end of the season.
I took the "under".
yes, they will
the sox will continue to be top 5 in rbis while staying in the bottom 5 in ba and last in hits.
It won't keep up...
I love the high OBP over AVG like everyone should but at some point you have to rack up hits to knock in those runners on base. We have failed quite a bit recently with runners on. A lot of putrid double plays to kill a scoring opportunity. The AVG’s need to come up a bit. You can’t expect them to keep coming through with the big hit with such low AVG’s.
Really?????
You mean Swish, Konerko and Thome won’t hit above .240? An avg is still just an avg. Things will even out over time assuming the players are healthy and on the field. And if the players are talking walks and stay reasonably patient then OBP wont become avg dependent. If the OBP is in the middle and the teams slg percentage is in the top half. Sorry that equals runs. I understand your point. But I don’t give a damn how they get on base as long as they do. Sure I would prefer a team avg of .300 but the reality over the past 6 years the team has rarely ranked high in team ba and still scored runs because they hit the long ball.
Focus on whether they can continue to pitch and field decently that is the key to the season…...
That's my point... I expect the AVG's to go up...
but it better happen soon or else we will start losing games.
Team BABIP is .258
Which is the lowest in the league. But if I understand that stat correctly, doesn’t that stat being below .300 just mean we’re making contact and getting unlucky?
well, it's a bit more nuanced than that
not every player/team averages .300 – we’ve got two starters at least in uribe and crede who are pretty far below that. but .258 is really low – unsustainably low. so, yeah, you’re basically correct.
free jason bourgeois
Dude
Carlos Quentin is flirting with a 4 digit OPS after today’s game. He’s not going to keep this up but damn: this guy can hit, run, field and throw!
HBP!! HBP!! HBP!!
In a remote desert somewhere, Luis Terrero is smiling.
dude, that was totally not swish you saw on rush street last night. swish was at home playing xbox.
All aboard South Side Sox Ship Carlos Quentin!
No doubt Admiral Cheat’s flagship.
dude, that was totally not swish you saw on rush street last night. swish was at home playing xbox.
The #20 jerseys will soon be donned by 1/2 of the females entering the park.
They ought to offer an “amnesty period” where a woman can turn in her #22 for a discount on a #20.
Pitching and defense.
Anyone that CQ fails to corral
Johnny Danks will swoop in on.
dude, that was totally not swish you saw on rush street last night. swish was at home playing xbox.
I would be pissed if I was a Diamondbacks fan...
I know they have young studs all over the place but I’d rather have Quentin than an aging Eric Byrnes.
i went to the DBacks - Dodgers game
on Thursday and it was really heartwarming to see the Dbacks run out an Upton-Young-Salazar outfield when it feasibly could have been Quentin. Also Upton and Young make for one hell of an outfield defense. If anyone should be signing Bonds, the DBacks have room and it would probably put them into contention with the AL titans.
dude, that was totally not swish you saw on rush street last night. swish was at home playing xbox.
Am I missing something with Salazar?
he’s 27 and in 170 bats in the majors (2006 Rockies, 2007 Dbacks, 2008 Dbacks) with an OPS of .804, which is helped by the .602 slugging this year. Just glancing at his statistics, admittedly I’ve never seen him play and haven’t heard any hype, he looks to me like a .750 OPS kind of guy in the majors when his slugging falls back to where it seems like he should be ~ .400.
I thought that those numbers were more like 4th OF numbers, not taking into account his defense. Does he play a stellar CF?
Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos.
I was wondering the same thing...
His minor league numbers don’t indicate that he would be such a stud in the majors… but he looks like it. I guess it still may be a small sample size?
Notes
I missed much of the game today. I didn’t see count throw a single pitch-though I did see Q! drive in a run like a man-so no recap tonight.
Don’t look for much from me the next couple of days. I’m headed out of town for a funeral, so I probably won’t be around much and might miss both of the next two games.
On a lighter note, I bought Mario Kart Wii today… Friend code is (4382-2378-3212)... I’m not very good, but I’ll be playing that one a bunch (though not in the next couple days)
AIM: SouthSideCheat
I like that
From here on out, I propose Carlos Quentin simply be referred to as “Q!” every time.
Q! with the base hit.
Man, Q! made a great throw from the track.
You know, if two men could procreate, I WOULD have Q!’s offspring.
Any backers?
"I'll bring the awesome." -The 'Swish'
see i like that he has many nicknames
the myth becomes more diverse that way
dude, that was totally not swish you saw on rush street last night. swish was at home playing xbox.
agreed
i like to think of him as Q, ManQrush, CQ, and CanseQuito, depending on my mood.
i’m also eagerly anticipating the next time i’m on a gamethread and he hits a homer at the cell so i can unleash “Q the fireworks!”
Q the dancing girls!
I took the "under".
by winningugly on Apr 28, 2008 10:32 AM CDT up reply actions
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