Home Opener: Gamethread #3

Hooray for Jermaine, this doesn't stop my wanting to see you in left-field but continue your hitting and I will be happy.

Boy he has won many games for us. Konerko though is still a poor baserunner, poor being different than slow.

for pop-ups but when he concentrates he is a different hitter. Late-inning Joe, as Hawk says.

A walk, a looper and one off the pitcher= 1 run.

that could have been a lot worse.

White Sox will play the Cubs in the World Series!

Good to start with strikes each batter and end with a double-play. Nice game guys!

Early in the game Hawk gave a long treatise on why it’s OK to bunt to break up a no-hitter in a close game, but against the unwritten laws of baseball to do so in a blowout. He recalled a game pitched by Moe Drabowsky of the Kansas City A’s where a "little second baseman from Washington" (he couldn’t recall the name) did so in the late innings.

One of the things I like to do is to match memory against facts. Turns out Hawk had SOME of the details right. Drabowsky did lose a no-hitter on August 20, 1963, when Don Blasingame bunted for a hit, and it was the Senators’ only hit of the game. But it was not a late-inning effort to break up the no-hitter. In fact, Blasingame bunted to lead off the fourth inning, with the Senators down 5-0. I don’t have an updated copy of the unwritten laws of baseball, but I don’t think no-hitters qualify for bunt immunity until at least the seventh inning.

do much with men in scoring position. I know that having Dye struggle last year, probably forced him to try to do too much. Resulting in ground ball DP'S to third. He draws alot of walks and hits for avg. usually. And solo HR"s add to his OPS. i think having Dye hitting might take the pressure off of him now. And he'll try to hit too all fields and let the HR's come in due time. I think stats are deceiving, I watch games alot, and he just has'nt come up with many big hits since he faced Rivera and hit the opposite field HR. Dropping him to 5th or 6th might be another option. Maybe I'm wrong I don't know!

He should be playing, not sitting!