One for lefties, one for righties

vs LHP

1. Swisher RF
2. Cabrera SS
3. Quentin LF
4. Thome DH
5. Fields 3B
6. Dye 1B
7. Ramirez 2B
8. Hall C
9. Anderson CF

vs RHP

1. Cabrera SS
2. AJ C
3. Quentin LF
4. Dye RF
5. Crede 3B
6. Thome DH
7. Konerko 1B
8. Swisher CF
9. Ramirez 2B

Dye’s played 1B before in spot duty but if his defense is atrocious/he puts up a hissy fit swap him and Swisher in RF.

I mean, other than tinkering with DH against lefties or maybe moving Swish to the 2-hole, or replacing Ozuna with Richar/Getz , can’t we wait to see the impact of the Cell and some baseball weather? Or even the Luck Gods looking the other way for a change?
Other than that, I’ve got nothing other than turning off talk radio and not reading the dailies.

but seriously folks.

vs RHP         vs. LHP
Thome          Swish
Cabrera        Cabrera
Pierzynski     Quentin
Quentin        Dye
Dye            Crede
Ramirez        Ramirez
Crede          Hall
Konerko        Konerko
Swish/BA       Thome

In 4-5 days time, I assess the health of Konerko and Fields. If Kong still sucks, and Fields is healthy, I bring up Fields to take his place. Even if Kong is starting to hit, I bring up a healthy Fields, ousting Ozuna, who was the third pinch running option behind Anderson and Wise last week. If he’s not even your first pinch running option, is there any single skill he holds that can’t be better covered by somebody else?. Fields doesn’t have to play every day, but find a spot for him in the rotation of losers, and let him play vs. LHP.

Aside from that, there’s not much to be done. The Sox are what they are, and rotating at least one of the slumping slow white guys out of the lineup is about their best option right now.

try to improve the bench:

• Send Brian Anderson to AAA and sign Kenny Lofton.
• DFA Pablo Ozuna and call up Josh Fields.

Recheck team after 16-20 games.

1. Fire Greg Walker
2. His replacement: Donnie Baseball. Great man. Living only 5 hrs from Chicago as we speak.
3. Start Anderson until Swish figures it out.
4. Keep Alexei Ramírez right here he is.

See #2: After two games on the bench staring into the sweet ‘stache of Don Mattingly…anyone’s gonna hit. Baseball osmosis.

stats and personal observation tell me that he’s getting supremely unlucky. Unless we start delving into some pitch by pitch stuff that I don’t think we have, I’m not sure there’s anything to do except let him hit. If my manager told me he was in need of a break, I’d let BA play a few in a row.

So the only real change to make is Ozuna for a healthy Fields and keep checking up on Konerko. If DL is necessary, then bring on Josh. I’m sure the whole purpose of keeping Joe and Fields was because this is exactly the sort of situation we’d find ourselves in. Lo and behold, that day is here. Or almost anyway.

Lofton doesn’t make sense on a team chock full of corner OF options. Hatteberg sucks and Fields is cheaper and better.

enough to take the time to do it.

who would have thought?

just kidding.

Here’s the White Sox’s lineup for Tuesday night’s game with Kansas City:

Cabrera ss

Pierzynski c

Quentin lf

Konerko 1b

Thome dh

Dye rf

Swisher cf

Crede 3b

Ramirez 2b

The only changes are that Paul Konerko returns to the fourth spot, with Jermaine Dye sliding to sixth. Nick Swisher moves up to seventh, with Joe Crede dropping to eighth.

GImme a fucking break Ozzie. If he really wanted to make some changes he’d dump Kong down to 7th or 8th.

if it would be better to separate konerko, thome, and swisher as much as possible (two batters in between each), or group them and keep the 6 decent hitters together to give the sox a better chance at not killing rallies.

1. fire greg walker
2. make ‘The Great Q!’ player/hitting coach
3. give a raise to don cooper

The two [KW & OZ) always talk after a road trip, but nothing “official.” Leave to the Chicago media to create a phantom showdown.

Headed over to Royal Review for a look. He has been surprisingly absent from SSS since the season started. I thought they were supposed to overtake the Sox this year? Anyway more of the same I hate Oz, I hate Kenny, I hate whatever and of course the “quotes” from posters.

I think Im really beginning to dig this “bad guys” or hated image.

swinging the most out of the strike zone:
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Al. Ramirez White Sox 40.69%
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Pierzynski White Sox 36.69%
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swinging the least out of the strike zone:
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Podsednik Rockies 9.84%
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Use Pablo as a laser sword dummy. Oh, and purchase speed upgrades for Kong and Thome.

http://insider.espn.go.com/espn/blog/index?name=neyer_rob

On the Score “Ozzie stated that he protected Greg Walker, and that if my name is going on be out there so is his.”

right afterwords they asked Greg about Ozzies comments.

Greg Walker “Out of respect for the owner, I have no comment”

Even if the White Sox do not win the Central Division at the end of September, he ought to claim that the pennant race is not yet over, that the White Sox are not done and that they still lead in the hearts and minds of a majority of baseball fans over the Twins. The White Sox, after all drew more fans than the Twins and beat them in home attendance, a clear measure of the fans’ preference for the Sox. Furthermore, even if the Twins won more games, they are the weaker of the two teams to take on the Angels, Rays, and Red Sox in the playoffs and that the White Sox stack up better in a hypothetical World Series against the NL winner than do the Twins. Thus, in the interest of the American League and of the unity of baseball in general, the commissioner ought to intervene and declare the White Sox the Central Division champion.

Ramirez 2b
Anderson cf
Q lf
JD rf
Crede 3b
Konerko 1b
Profundo ss
AJ c
Ozuna DH

for all the consternation on this site about the offense, this is the best people can do? make a couple lineup changes? platoon some people? call up fields? shuffle the deck chairs? at least SSH went outside the organization, if only for the bench. weak pretty much all around.

bring in alomar and everett….those two are always are go to mid season go to moves…pull the trigger kenny