My give-a-crap meter on this team is broken right now. Maybe it’s the Blackhawks, maybe it’s finals week, maybe it’s because my expectations were about 81 wins at best, but this team has yet to really capture my attention.

The Barons, on the other hand…I’m at the point where I’d rather see them play on WGN superstation Saturday games than the actual MLB team right now.

Gavin is sucking more, Colon is sucking less, and the pen is about right… None of the hitters are really far off from what I might expect besides Alexei and recently Q! (oh for the not first pitch outing, especially to end the best rally in weeks).

Besides BA coming back, which seems like a way bigger boost than it ever should be, what can we hope for? marginal improvements with the bats across the board, BHB finding his BHB, and Richard not sucking?

grumble

So you are forgiven, at least by me, for just writing from the gut instead (makes for good copy anyway)

I’m eating a taco but it’s a chicken taco

Pavano started Lillibridge with a ball, but Chris Getz was thrown out at second trying to steal on that pitch. When the at-bat restarted the next inning, Pavano threw strike one.

If you don’t count the aborted AB, then it’s 17 hitters.

is he doing anything different mechanically? i’m sure coop is watching tape…

and i’m not sure of what floyd’s contract status before he signed in the offseason, but if this WAS his contract year, might have it been a mistake (in retrospect of course) to sign him in advance. i.e., as poorly as floyd pitched, will he still be equal to the dollars we signed him?

first place for the barons, baby!

I believe the lack of movement in the offseason has come back to bite. We could have signed Coco and that would have taken care of LOH and CF. Maybe found one more starting pitcher.

I want to believe in Kenny because of ’05, but this year so far, there really has not been much to believe in.

Anyone want to talk me off the ledge here?

His velocity on every pitch is up

We’ve got 2/5ths of a rotation, and we’re seeing way to much Masset out there due to short outings from the starters. It’s not even a case of the bullpen blowing leads because you have to have a lead to blow. Q is discombobulated. Alexei isn’t adjusting. We need a name like Masset to describe the replacelement-level drek we’ve been putting in the lineup.

I miss when we were" over-reliant" on the home run. At least then you knew we had a chance when we were down a couple runs to tie it up in one swing.

I hate the years when PECOTA is right about our team.

Once it warms up, the ball will be jumping off of their bats. I saw someone complaining that the balls Q! hits are not going as far as last year and “last year that would have been out of here”. These guys have been playing in 30-50F degree weather. I don’t know if any of you have ever played (except Kenwo), but it is no fun hitting in cold damp weather. I am not saying it is impossible to hit in cold weather, but it does make it more difficult. Plus, this has been a warm weather team for as long as I can remember. Once the temp rises so will the wins.

I like that Cheat, very poetic. Rail, rail, against the dying of the Sox!

bullpen and lineup were full of garbage. Our bullpen is still solid.

One thing saddened me last night, on the last or next to last at bat for Thome. So the fans are booing and whatever, and then you could hear really clearly on TV “YOU WILL NEVER WIN A WORLD SERIES” yelled by a fan. It was really. And then Thome gets called out on strike out with a bullshit call. Not cool… get your revenge today Thome.

I mustve gotten up from the barcalounger to get my 11th tall boy. Funny thing is I dont remember the 6 before that either…

THE WORST DRIVE-THRU MEAL IN AMERICA
Carl’s Jr. Double Six Dollar Burger
with Medium Natural cut Fries and 32 oz Coke
2,618 Calories
144 g fat (51.5 g saturated fat)
2892 mg sodium

Of all the gut-growing, heart-stopping, life-threatening burgers in the fast food world, there is none whose damage to your general well-being is as catastrophic as this. Consider these heart-stopping comparisons: This meal has the caloric equivalent of 13 Krispy Kreme Original Glazed Donuts; the saturated fat equivalent of 52 strips of bacon; and the salt equivalent of seven and a half large orders of McDonald’s French fries!

But our defense is comparably shitty, in my opinion. And CF isn’t even what’s hurting us the most!

Alexei is doing alright at SS (sorry OCab haters, but he is no OCab….not yet, at least), but it seems like we’re not turning DPs very well this year and missing every single ground ball that is not within 2 feet of our infielders. How many times have you seen one of our infielders half-heartedly dive on the ground and come up with nothing? Are opposing batters really that good at hitting to the gaps, are we consistently that out of position?

Same with the blaringly obvious issue with not being able to throw down a runner on the paths. Every opponent of ours can almost guarantee themselves a RISP if they can just get to 1st. Pathetic.

Not ending innings when they should be ended is killing us.
Especially when you’ve got pitchers on the mound who allow runners to get in their heads so g-d much.

We need runs, yes…but we need defensive OUTS just as badly.

A couple of weeks ago I noted that per UZR/150, Chris Getz was the worst defensive 2nd baseman in MLB. After a healthy 20% of games played and 181 innings of action, he remains the worst (-28.9). Not only that, but the Sox now have the worst team UZR in MLB. At the time, I suggested that Nix should take over 2nd base and was laughed at. Given that Lillibridge has been worse than Owens was at CF (and offensively, I might add), I think it makes a lot of sense to move Getz to CF and make Nix the full-time 2nd/backup short.

1- Getz CF
2- Nix 2nd
3- Q!
4- Dye
5- Thome
6- PK
7- AJ
8- Fields
9- Che

No-brainer

and did anyone cringe at Getz’s jump-throw plays last night? The first thing I thought was: is that Jeter ant 2nd? Not good.

but did anyone notice that Gavin looks like Skeletor in that picture?

Focus on the important things, people, and we’ll all make it through the season okay.

Richard will have a good game and we will win by about 4 or 5 runs

Nick Swisher hit a homer and a double, drew five walks, but struck out 12 times in 23 at bats and ended up with a meek .130/.276/.304 line.

bitch tits in the club house…do you think he has twice as fun killin as he has more erogenous zones

sounds weird

Can someone explain to me why the fuck does Ozzie bat Killibridge 2nd?????