Thus, I have concluded that the statement “He just needs to throw more strikes. Every time you come out of the bullpen, you have to throw strikes. You have to. If not, you’re going to get hit and everyone knows that” has a logical flaw to it.

Oh Ozzie, you really know how to get me, don’t you? Come here youuuuu and give me a hug.

and i’d wager that there are others that feel similarly.

looking through Linebrink’s 2008 pitch f/x, i don’t see any reason why he can’t be a decent reliever. and his velocity looks okay so far this year.

…but then there’s the little matter of his 2009 contact rate, which is not good and way off from his career rate. his K rate looks good, but if it’s inflated by K’s looking that’s probably unsustainable. obviously, he’s got command issues. so right now he’s a flyball pitcher nearing 4 BB/9 who can’t get a whiff when he needs it. that’s a pretty obvious recipe for disaster. Ozzie can’t treat him like a vet with a long leash if he wants this team to win games. the offense isn’t good enough. any time the Sox have a lead, he should probably treat it as a high leverage situation.

they just got hit out of the park

Dutch girl called Rachel saw how unhappy I looked when I hit a bar in Arnhem after the game. I don’t look gift horses in the mouth these days, especially ones wearing black leather knee high lace up boots and short skirts.

she’s gone now, but I’m seeing her again, ’ you crazy english man’

Linebrink was a runt dog but as soon as Lee hit that homer he should have been pulled, so I think the managers should take some blame.

 I hate Holland, I’m missing my mates.

5 games

4.2 IP, 7 H, 6 R, 2 ER, 4BB, 5K, 3 HR — 2 L (in the two tie games he entered) 2 successful outings in 3+ run games and the blown 4-run lead today, which is too large to be classified as a blown save)

Pitches required in those 5 outings: 20, 23, 18, 26, 30

NNNNNNNNIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIICCCCCCCCCCCKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK PPPPPPPPPPPPUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUNNNNNNNNNNNTTTTTTTTTTTOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

he pitches well the first half of last year.
gets injured.
does nothing down the stretch 08’.
pitches every other week 09.
talks Peavy out of coming here (thank Q!)
shits his pants every outing.
collects paycheck.

So if my bar napkin math is right… he has collected somewhere around 5-6 million dollars over the last season and 1/3 to have absolutely NO IMPACT.

Right-fielder Jermaine Dye hasn’t finished each of his last three games to protect a sore left calf and manager Ozzie Guillen is considering giving Dye a rest Friday night when the White Sox play at Cincinnati.

“Hopefully, with a day off, he’ll feel better, but we’re going by ear,” Guillen said. “We gave him back-to-back days off [Sunday and Monday], and that didn’t help him. I have to be careful with him. If Dye goes down, [ Carlos] Quentin is already down, and it will be tough on us.”

Guillen still plans to start backup Ramon Castro to catch Jose Contreras.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/baseball/whitesox/chi-19-white-sox-bits-chicago-jun19,0,84157.story

http://www.chinapost.com.tw/sports/baseball/2009/06/19/212834/White-Sox.htm

u buyin this u-god?

As pist off as I was after the game,it made me laugh.
Mahalo

or does Linebrink’s fast ball have absolutely no movement what so ever? Looks like straight gopher balls to me.

you know what else is like a slap in the face? watching the manager of the team you root for put in a crap pitcher and cost the team a game against your crosstown rivals.