Votebook: Quentin leads list of write-ins
Q! getting some more attention on MLB.com as a write-in candidate.
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Of course...
the article neglects to mention how many votes he’s gotten, or whether it’s even close to enough to get him in.
I’m fine with him not making the team – one less thing for him to get hurt doing.
by The Jerry Royster Experience on May 30, 2008 12:43 PM CDT reply actions
as of tuesday, not in the top 15 al outfielders
may 1, 2008 quote of the day: "get owens on the field immediatly… swish can take quintens role…"
by Toonderstrook on May 30, 2008 12:45 PM CDT up reply actions
if his june is anything like his april & may
tito will have to take him.
may 1, 2008 quote of the day: "get owens on the field immediatly… swish can take quintens role…"
by Toonderstrook on May 30, 2008 12:47 PM CDT up reply actions
I don't think his june will be like his april & may
it will be better!
The greatest trick the White Sox ever pulled was convincing their fan base that "Ozzieball" ever existed.
an even better june from q! and a white sox draft including smoak
will make wiz a happy guy.
may 1, 2008 quote of the day: "get owens on the field immediatly… swish can take quintens role…"
by Toonderstrook on May 30, 2008 12:57 PM CDT up reply actions
He'll have a Joker-like smile plastered to his face
for the rest of the season.
I took the "under".
by winningugly on May 30, 2008 12:58 PM CDT up reply actions
the first is possible
the second seems improbable though…
The greatest trick the White Sox ever pulled was convincing their fan base that "Ozzieball" ever existed.
What's neat is he has no mean to which to regress, really
Thus, his ceiling is infinite!
I took the "under".
by winningugly on May 30, 2008 12:57 PM CDT up reply actions
Maybe the nickname should be
Q! Lightyear.
Pitching, defense and health.
is there a cash consideration for making the team?
for the right price, I can guarantee he makes it.
CAPTCHA cracker + PHP script = write in candidate
by explodingpinwheelsforfunandprofit on May 30, 2008 12:47 PM CDT reply actions
My personal "feel good" for the day...
“No one is as deserving this time around as Quentin, obviously. If you want to go head-to-head with the traditional vote-leading left fielder, his numbers (.296, 14 homers, 47 RBIs) are better across the board than those of Boston’s Manny Ramirez (.292, 9, 34). “
"We're gonna bring it all day, everyday...we're gonna keep grinding it out." - Nick Swisher (4/1/08)
really across the board...
Q!: .326 EqA, 10 win shares, 166 OPS+
R: .299 EqA, 7 win shares, 136 OPS+
may 1, 2008 quote of the day: "get owens on the field immediatly… swish can take quintens role…"
by Toonderstrook on May 30, 2008 12:58 PM CDT up reply actions
And I much prefer Q's! hair style
"We're gonna bring it all day, everyday...we're gonna keep grinding it out." - Nick Swisher (4/1/08)
once again this site has not disappointed.
always going just a little bit too far…
may 1, 2008 quote of the day: "get owens on the field immediatly… swish can take quintens role…"
by Toonderstrook on May 30, 2008 1:18 PM CDT up reply actions
Is it me...
or is this whole thing starting to get a little “creepy”?
Unicorns, hard bodies, etc.
I like a harmless mancrush as much as the next gay….uh, guy…but…
"We're gonna bring it all day, everyday...we're gonna keep grinding it out." - Nick Swisher (4/1/08)
he is our Mango
“Can you know the mighty ocean? Can you lasso a star from the sky? Can you say to a rainbow… ‘Hey, stop being a rainbow for a second’? No! Such is Q!”
blank”>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mango(Saturday_Night_Live)
Mosi Tatupu! Mosi Tatupu!
Manny gets the Lifetime Achievement Award, though
Q! is having an AS 1/3 of a year. Manny’s been doing it for years. I’d pay to see Manny.
I took the "under".
Manny also get the lifetime egomaniac jackass award
but that’s just my humble opinion.
"We're gonna bring it all day, everyday...we're gonna keep grinding it out." - Nick Swisher (4/1/08)
Aw, he's a goofball like your teenage kid is a goofball
Hard to get angry at Manny. I liked him a lot more when he was an Injun and wasn’t being shoved down everyone’s throat because he’s on the BoSox.
I took the "under".
Yes, I guess it's partly a "dislike by association" thing
"We're gonna bring it all day, everyday...we're gonna keep grinding it out." - Nick Swisher (4/1/08)
link
The former Arizona No. 1 Draft choice, boosted by a strong Spring Training, has been Chicago’s starting left fielder from day one.
wasn’t Q! on the bench in the first 2 games of the season?
The greatest trick the White Sox ever pulled was convincing their fan base that "Ozzieball" ever existed.
yup. he didn't play until april 3, the final game of the cleveland series.
may 1, 2008 quote of the day: "get owens on the field immediatly… swish can take quintens role…"
by Toonderstrook on May 30, 2008 1:30 PM CDT up reply actions
I guess the MLB.com value is going down now!
The greatest trick the White Sox ever pulled was convincing their fan base that "Ozzieball" ever existed.
ozzie on Q!
Guillen doesn’t seem worried about Quentin handling the pressures of the lineup’s third spot if he finds himself in the middle of a slump. “I don’t think Quentin even realizes what he’s doing—he just goes out there and hits,” Guillen said. “I don’t think this kid’s scared. Right now, we’re praying that his teammates come out of their slumps to help him.”http://chicago.whitesox.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20080529&content_id=2796905&vkey=news_cws&fext=.jsp&c_id=cws
The greatest trick the White Sox ever pulled was convincing their fan base that "Ozzieball" ever existed.
Not sure his teammates
are in slumps. They are playing to their abilities….unfortunately.
"Jenks, who was never afraid to say "no" to a hamburger..."
by BobbySouthSide on May 30, 2008 2:53 PM CDT up reply actions
I think...
Swisher’ll get better.
by The Jerry Royster Experience on May 30, 2008 2:54 PM CDT up reply actions
Thome's not really having a bad season.
The only thing that’s really declined for him is BABIP, so he might see a bump upwards as the season progresses.
Konerko I’m not optimistic about.
by The Jerry Royster Experience on May 30, 2008 3:15 PM CDT up reply actions
he's down 200+ points in OPS
and more than 40 in OPS+ compared to the past 2 years. so while his current production isn’t bad as measured against the rest of the leauge, it’s a significant dropoff by his standards. and though i certainly expected his production to decline with age, i didn’t expect such a steep plunge.
Slow declines with age...
are actually fairly rare.
by The Jerry Royster Experience on May 30, 2008 3:25 PM CDT up reply actions
probably depends upon what one considers slow
one could argue that PK’s “true talent” 2006 season – especially his second half – was considerably less than his actual numbers considering his BABIP. controversial, i’m sure, but one could say with a straight face that his decline began that season, actually manifested itself last year, and continues on down the slope this year.
The Rays win 80 games and will ship you your favorite 6 pack or bottle of reasonable wine -Tdogg
I would sell Rays 89 til my fucking face caved in - ballyb
He certainly wouldn't be the first...
first baseman to decline significantly once he got into his 30s.
by The Jerry Royster Experience on May 30, 2008 3:36 PM CDT up reply actions
I hope you're right!
"Jenks, who was never afraid to say "no" to a hamburger..."
by BobbySouthSide on May 30, 2008 2:56 PM CDT up reply actions
Ted Lilly = regression to the mean...
His line against the Rockies today—3.0 IP, 8 H, 7 R, 4 ER, 0 BB, 3 SO, 2 HR. However, the wind is really blowing out at Wrigley. Lilly’s ERA is now up to 5.54 on the season.
The Cubs are going to have one of the most pathetic playoffs rotations if Rich Hill doesn’t come back strong from AAA…
Zambrano - only true stud starter
Lilly - the N.L. could only make him look good for so long
Dempster - he will be the next to implode
Marquis - better hitter than pitcher
dempster
i get the feeling dempster will probably implode, too, but is there anything in his peripherals that says he’s been doing it with smoke and mirrors this year? i haven’t really looked at his number. i know he had 12 K’s recently, though, which seems like a good sign.
i haven't looked all that recently
but in the middle of this month he was amongst the lowest in babip. also, if you’re one of those who buys into the “look at runs allowed, not earned runs allowed” (which has some validity, in my opinion), he’s got quite a few unearned runs. so, yes.
The Rays win 80 games and will ship you your favorite 6 pack or bottle of reasonable wine -Tdogg
I would sell Rays 89 til my fucking face caved in - ballyb
Dempster...
He is getting by on an 85 – 90 MPH fastball and mostly breaking stuff like his slider. He has never had good control and hitters are helping him out a lot by swinging at shit from watching his starts. He also does this lame glove waggle during his delivery that must be somewhat distracting to batters. If Dempster is your second best starter in the postseason, you have problems. If the Indians fall further out of the playoff race, I could see the Cubs making a run at Captain Cheeseburger Fatbathia before the deadline.
that glove waggle is obnoxious
but, hey, whatever works.
also, i think “flabathia” would be a smoother weight-based name pun than “fatbathia,” if you’re going down that road.
He also has a significant
injury history as a starter. I could see him breaking down, especially since the is the first year he is back as a full-time starter in a few years.
I think there could be a fair amount of starters on the block come trade deadline time.
"Jenks, who was never afraid to say "no" to a hamburger..."
by BobbySouthSide on May 30, 2008 3:12 PM CDT up reply actions
cincy, SD, rox, tigers
are all liable to be shedding veterans, if they remain out of it.
The Rays win 80 games and will ship you your favorite 6 pack or bottle of reasonable wine -Tdogg
I would sell Rays 89 til my fucking face caved in - ballyb
anybody the sox might be interested in
if they’re buyers? i’d love to see dunn on the south side but i doubt they’d trade for him unless thome, dye, or PK went down for the year and they thought they could resign him to replace thome next year.
and dunn
will only invite more bitching about low batting average and not enough singles.
may 1, 2008 quote of the day: "get owens on the field immediatly… swish can take quintens role…"
by Toonderstrook on May 30, 2008 3:39 PM CDT up reply actions
I like Adam Dunn a lot.
He’s not aesthetically pleasing, but he gets the job done.
That said, I don’t think he’ll ever be on the White Sox.
by The Jerry Royster Experience on May 30, 2008 3:41 PM CDT up reply actions
probably not, but
i was doing some rough calculations the other day, and if you assume crede, ocab, uribe, ozuna, and thome are gone next year, and a reasonable (5-7%) increase in the payroll, the sox will have about $20 million to spend and only 2-3 spots on the 25-man roster. i doubt they’d throw most of it at one guy, though.
and yet oddly SSH has a thing for him
The Rays win 80 games and will ship you your favorite 6 pack or bottle of reasonable wine -Tdogg
I would sell Rays 89 til my fucking face caved in - ballyb
yeah, cute
i’m sure you would have been all lovey-lovey with him two weeks ago when he was at mendoza. you’re always so patient with players and teams through their ups and downs.
The Rays win 80 games and will ship you your favorite 6 pack or bottle of reasonable wine -Tdogg
I would sell Rays 89 til my fucking face caved in - ballyb
two weeks ago he was ops'ing less than thome.
may 1, 2008 quote of the day: "get owens on the field immediatly… swish can take quintens role…"
by Toonderstrook on May 30, 2008 4:01 PM CDT up reply actions
but, if he were on the white sox, would magically escape SSH's wrath.
yeah. right.
The Rays win 80 games and will ship you your favorite 6 pack or bottle of reasonable wine -Tdogg
I would sell Rays 89 til my fucking face caved in - ballyb
and it doesn't really make that much sense
to give dunn any more slack on a slump than thome. despite thome being old, he had a better ‘07 than dunn (150 OPS+ v. 136 OPS+, .312 EqA v. .305 EqA) and a much longer track record of sustained success as well.
may 1, 2008 quote of the day: "get owens on the field immediatly… swish can take quintens role…"
by Toonderstrook on May 30, 2008 4:10 PM CDT up reply actions
not today...
but at least on may 18 (retirement), may 16 (too many late inning whiffs), may 13 (retirement), may 5 (done?), april 28 (facing a lefty = bad).
may 1, 2008 quote of the day: "get owens on the field immediatly… swish can take quintens role…"
by Toonderstrook on May 30, 2008 4:27 PM CDT up reply actions
Thome IS nearing retirement...
he has sucked in late innings, and he is bad against lefties. All true statements.
read the comments.
they aren’t “wow, thome is getting up there, he probably only has a good year or two left in him” comments. at least two of them are closer to “stick a fork in him right now” comments.
so when dunn slumps, does he suck? is he done? or is he just going through a rough patch? and if he’s just going through a rough patch, based on his entire career, even as recently as last season, maybe thome is too?
may 1, 2008 quote of the day: "get owens on the field immediatly… swish can take quintens role…"
by Toonderstrook on May 30, 2008 4:31 PM CDT up reply actions
and thome, at 36, had a much better season than dunn, at 27,
in a year when the national league blew.
thome, at 36, matched his 17-year career OPS+ and EqA. after a bad april, you were already declaring him dead.
may 1, 2008 quote of the day: "get owens on the field immediatly… swish can take quintens role…"
by Toonderstrook on May 30, 2008 4:40 PM CDT up reply actions
And players go downhill fast in their late 30's...
I can’t believe you are even arguing this.
No team in baseball would take Thome over Dunn at this point in their respective careers.
that was never the point.
the point was that were using dunn’s numbers as of today as a “what’s not to like.” well, two weeks ago he was in the shitter. did you like him then? or do you like him only when he’s hitting well?
may 1, 2008 quote of the day: "get owens on the field immediatly… swish can take quintens role…"
by Toonderstrook on May 30, 2008 4:46 PM CDT up reply actions
when dunn is slumping...
...is it because he stopped juicing, too?
may 1, 2008 quote of the day: "get owens on the field immediatly… swish can take quintens role…"
by Toonderstrook on May 30, 2008 4:56 PM CDT up reply actions
now you're only worried about swisher?
earlier this week you declared he was a juicer based on his slump.
and thome is cold, so he must be done.
and kenny williams is a proven moron because he thought rowand would be better this year than andruw jones.
why all the absolutes?
may 1, 2008 quote of the day: "get owens on the field immediatly… swish can take quintens role…"
by Toonderstrook on May 30, 2008 5:08 PM CDT up reply actions
Swisher has been awful this season...
I will feel a lot better about this team’s offense when he starts hitting like he is supposed to. Because I don’t expect guys like Crede and Pierzynski to keep hitting as well as they have.
fun with the search function.
at least it precludes people from claiming they didn’t post something that they absolutely did or that their posts are being misremembered.
may 1, 2008 quote of the day: "get owens on the field immediatly… swish can take quintens role…"
by Toonderstrook on May 30, 2008 6:49 PM CDT up reply actions
Thome sure looked good tonight...
0 for 3 with a BB and 2 K’s. And a nice weak groundout against a lefty in late innings. He sure looks like the same hitter he was last year.
i can only imagine
what you thought of dunn on april 26 when another 0-3 day with 2 k’s left him hitting .192 with a .723 OPS.
by the way, how IS that rowand v. andruw jones battle shaping up?
may 1, 2008 quote of the day: "get owens on the field immediatly… swish can take quintens role…"
by Toonderstrook on May 31, 2008 2:50 AM CDT up reply actions
I know this is shocking but...
37 year olds don’t usually turn into better players, they decline. Meanwhile, 28 is still in a players “prime years”. But if you want to keep acting like a T-homer, go right ahead.
Both Rowand and Jones are around the same age and Rowand has put up a 108 career OPS+ while Jones has put up a 112 career OPS+. A lot of people probably thought that Jones would be better than Rowand this season. We didn’t expect him to show up to the Dodgers 30 pounds overweight. If he gets into shape, I would not be surprised if Jones outperforms Rowand next season, although park factors will probably come into play.
your resort
to cool, calm, and collected analysis re: jones and rowand is welcome.
but remember, jones had a terrible year last year and there were a lot of conditioning concerns then, too.
my question is this: is kenny williams still a complete moron b/c he thought rowand would be better this year than jones?
may 1, 2008 quote of the day: "get owens on the field immediatly… swish can take quintens role…"
by Toonderstrook on May 31, 2008 10:42 AM CDT up reply actions
that's certainly true
but i think your batting average fetish contains in it the implicit criticism of players like thome or teams heavy with slugger-types, like the sox, who are prone to having low batting average, especially during slumps.
The Rays win 80 games and will ship you your favorite 6 pack or bottle of reasonable wine -Tdogg
I would sell Rays 89 til my fucking face caved in - ballyb
yeah, and making ridiculous declarations based on small samples sizes is the SSH way
i don’t need to put words in your mouth. you’re the guy who declares about three times a gamethread that the game is ova and the other team will win. you’re the first to jump on anyone, any team, the moment some small bump in the proverbial road occurs.
The Rays win 80 games and will ship you your favorite 6 pack or bottle of reasonable wine -Tdogg
I would sell Rays 89 til my fucking face caved in - ballyb
yes, that's probably why i said you have a thing for him, don't you think
The Rays win 80 games and will ship you your favorite 6 pack or bottle of reasonable wine -Tdogg
I would sell Rays 89 til my fucking face caved in - ballyb
that's crazy
and, just my luck, i have lee, ramirez, and soto on my fantasy team and none of them are in the game for the offensive explosion.
Change "wind" to...
“Rockies pitching staff”, and remove the word “out”, and you’re right on.
by The Jerry Royster Experience on May 30, 2008 3:53 PM CDT up reply actions
STFU, Bleed Cubbie Blue
I don’t ever need to worry about figuring out the score in a Cubs game – you are right there with the news.
I took the "under".
kenny's getting some press yo
in SI, with more ozzie on Q
Nobody’s more surprised than manager Ozzie Guillen: “I didn’t even know who he was when we traded for him, but [Williams] told me, ‘If this kid’s healthy, he’s going to help win you games.’ “
i think ozzie knows who Q is now
"I got the shotgun. You got the briefcase. It's all in the game though, right? "
by onlysoxfaninboston on May 30, 2008 4:19 PM CDT reply actions
Steve Stone predicting
Sox select Gordon Beckham with eighth pick in draft ( or, at least, speculating.)
There's starting to be a consensus behind that name.
Which of course means that won’t be the guy the Sox take.
by The Jerry Royster Experience on May 30, 2008 4:33 PM CDT up reply actions
I've
never seen any of these guys…from what I read he may be the fastest to the big leagues….but this Brett Wallace the most sure-fire major league HITTER. The determining factor could be whether the Sox feel Beckham can be a competent major league shortstop….or will he have to be at another position.
When I read stuff
about Wallace, I immediately think Billy Butler.
I've heard this from stone in some past brodacast this month
The greatest trick the White Sox ever pulled was convincing their fan base that "Ozzieball" ever existed.
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