we are growing and we will not be denied.
everyday our numbers and our strength grows.

MM, furbs, WU, larry, cheat, illini

All we’re gonna talk about is his first feel? Fer Chrissakes, that alone tells me the season is pffffffffffffft, at least as applies to this site.

PALIN UP! GRAB A RIFLE AND FIGHT! FORM TESTUDO! NO ONE GETS OUT ALIVE!

Who’s in this with me? Or is this like the Garden of Gethsemane? Will no one wait with me? Toonder, larry, Cheat? (Yeah, I compared myself to Christ. What of it?)

we all have these dips from time to time, I’m not worried, back at the homeground now. We took two on the road from Las Angeles so we shouldn’t fear them.

It will be all over bar the shouting by the end of next week.

regards

This conversation came up on a phone call last night to my best friend in Chicago…a season-ticket holder who already has his play-off tickets secured in case.
we are both scurrrred.

But we also agreed that this last month of baseball is better than 2007’s (or any month of last season, for that matter) – and this stress from a tight division race against our rivals is much preferred over the alternative situation of not even competing.

So no matter what happens, these last couple months are what baseball is all about.
I’m still having fun, even when they lose.
It hurts, no Q!uestion about it….
But we’ve put on a helluva show so far, and no matter what, we’ll all be Sox fans at the end of the day/season.

Cheers to Q! Whether he comes back to dazzle us some more this season is unknown…but his performance thus far has earned him a spot in all of our hearts and memories. What a deity. And so fun to watch.

One last thing – If we don’t make the play-offs, or even if we do and can’t make it past the first round, we at least have the Cubs post-season to look forward to – I can’t wait to see how they may blow it this time.
:)

especially when pitching is so rag-tag and our hitters are prone to bouts of somnambulism. the team seems as devoid of energy as i was watching that bitch of an attack dog last night take apart BHO. We are walking down the inevitable path to 2nd place unless we show some sparks at home.

Even if the Sox had a bigger lead, I would want to check them to see if they are maintaining that lead. Today’s off-day is a good example. If the Twins lose tonight, it’s a 1.5 game lead instead of a 0.5 game lead. Please pitch well, Jesse Litsch.

I’m sure other team’s fans feel the same way we do except maybe the twins cause they’re always perfect with there prescient scouting and otherworldly timely hitting and carlos gomez.

is the Twins seem to be doing their best to out-suck the White Sox lately.

But an ineffective Danks and no Q make vince something something.

take on the Establishment on both sides last night riled me up. You guys (and gals) who are ready for a collapse, or to be disappointed, or are working to numb yourself to the “inevitability” of our demise need a swift kick in the psyche. Yeah, I’d say that actually being in 1st place in Sept. is slightly better than last September’s abortion (HSA, you are the mistress of understatement). Fer Chrissakes!!

Anyone who doesn’t want to watch, turn off the channel. The rest of us who can handle either winning or losing will be glad to keep the fires burning for when it is safe (when all is settled) to give us your rear-view mirror interpretation. And if we happen to win, please stay away in October, too, unless you have connections to get me tickets. The Sox will have plenty of fans who hop on the “playoff” bandwagon.

I hope actual Sox folks read thsi crap – it might galvanize the team (it vertainly would piss off Ozzie). When I get home tonight I’m putting up the GD ‘05 championship flag and taking down Old Glory until the season’s over. Time to get serious for serious people.

And that foot is me.

and with Q! out the sox are going to need him. since AUG 1st he is hitting .338/.470/1.028 in exactly 100 PA’s, with 19 walks and 11 strikeouts.

hopefully ozzie plays the general as little as possible. put swish in left and BA in center. 3,4,5 should be dye, thome konerko.

Carlos Quentin (7 DXL)
Joe Crede (5 DXL)
The White Sox seem to be carried by one player at a time, never slumping enough as a team to let the Twins catch up. The worry now is that some of the lingering injuries will cost them, but no team does a better job keeping players healthy. Still, even the best staff can’t stop everything. Quentin has been dealing with a forearm strain—I’m told it’s a tendon—for over a month, but it’s become worse over the past few weeks. The team has essentially shut him down, and they won’t get him back before at least the weekend. This is something that will need even more time to work itself out, though my sources seem to think that the medical staff has a pretty good handle on the situation. The problem isn’t as easy with Crede; his back is acting up again, and while the team is downplaying this, they’re also worried that Crede’s uncertain status will force them to make some changes. Sources believe that Crede will be back by the weekend, but they also note that the team has options if Crede needs an extended rest.

http://www.baseballprospectus.com/article.php?articleid=8030

Gavin Floyd, CHW
18: 111.2 IP, 87 H, 17 HR, 47 BB, 75 K, 3.63 ERA, 5.10 FIP
9: 55.1 IP, 56 H, 6 HR, 17 BB, 44 K, 3.58 ERA, 3.94 FIP

http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/index.php/regression-where-art-thou

The ELO method of calculating the odds, developed by Nate Silver, gives the Twins the best chance of taking the division, and actually makes them a slight favorite. ELO is designed to assess a team’s skill level at a given moment in time, so it may be seeing the Twins as they are at the moment, which is an improved team thanks to the sloughing off of dead weight such as Livan Hernandez, the emergence of Denard Span as an OBP guy, and a healthy Alex Casilla at second base. It may also be catching that the Sox record is still showing vestiges of a hot start driven by the low home-run rate. ELO assigns more weight to recent results, and since the end of April, both teams have identical 64-48 marks.

I tend to think ELO has it right here, not for the reasons stated above, but for this one: team performance over 24 games is largely unpredictable. The error bars on any projection for either teams’ performance down the stretch swallow up any pretense of knowing what will happen, and when you consider the three head-to-head games in there, the only conclusion that can be reached is that this is a toss-up. That the White Sox have been the better team informs the discussion, but everything we know about baseball shows us that being the better team matters less in direct proportion to the number of games we want to evaluate. The White Sox could go anything from 17-7 to 10-14 over the next few weeks, and the Twins, from 16-8 through 9-15.

http://www.baseballprospectus.com/article.php?articleid=8031