White Sox Can't Get Out of Own Way. Guillen, Team Face Tough Decisions

you’re saying there’s a chance

however, much like my pecker, is much ado about nothing.

…A winning team is the best marketing effort. BUT – the White Sox commercials for this year are downright awful. It’s every fricking baseball cliche slammed into 30 seconds. It’s bad. Like “South Side Board of Tourism” bad. After Juan Pierre ends a rally with a weak grounder to the second baseman, there’s nothing worse than seeing a commercial that tells you to buy 30-40 dollar tickets to baseball games because Juan Pierre RUNS TO FIRST BASE REALLY FAST!!!

Thanks to my place of employment, I get to hear the Cubs radio ads at least 10 times a day. They do a very good job of capturing the enjoyment, excitement, and anticipation of going to a baseball game.

Isn’t that what we talk about all winter long? Why not run a bunch of ads that talk about the experience of going to USCF. The ride up the escalator, the smell of grilled onions, the opening riff to Thunderstruck. That would make me more likely to shell out money for tickets, than the fact that Jake Peavy plays catch with Mark Buehrle.

Watching this flameout for the past five weeks has been a disheartening fucking situation, to quote a famous baseball manager. I don’t want to pay to attend games anymore (but if someone offers, I wont’ say no).

Opening Day was a blast and was followed by a string of fan murdering games that I watched intently. The offense is just so bad that when the opposing team takes a lead, I normally go do something else. The worst part is when it’s a tie game late and you can feel pretty confident that you are in for an extra-inning loss.

ask A-rod.

is the shitty fucking camera angle that i constantly see on the highlights. its too high/far away. don’t like it.

damper the buehrle one last year? maybe damper isn’t the best word…. but i am kind of disappointed someone got another one that quick after buehrle.

is that the young offensive core – Beckham, Quentin & Ramirez – has been absolutely horrible. You can’t have these guys just disappear for 6 weeks of the season. You’ve got to build around something. You can cry for KW to clean house and get rid of Jenks & AJ, and then…?

Not only does the present suck, but the future looks pretty bleak too. Quentin in particular looks like he’s completely lost whatever he had in ‘08, and you can’t use his health as an excuse.

I say the Sox do away with the term “closer”. They’ve already proved this year with the rotating DH situation that they are willing to get inventive. I’m not suggesting a rotating “closer-role”, but I think the Sox should use Thorton and Santos as needed against they’re left – righty counterparts. Jenks should be moved out of the ninth inning for good, I have seen enough in the past 2 days to convince me of this.

and neither should Ozzie. Combine that with a team that appears just as an anecdote, to leave an enormous number of base-runners stranded equal a season of total disaster.

I hope they’re happy.

http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/index.php/2010-team-little-things-five-weeks-in/

White Sox have a Little Things of -0.18. Worst is Red Sox at -2.98, and best is Braves at 2.15. So, pretty average.

…the Indians and Royals have managed to be even suckier. Amazing.

Meanwhile, on the South Side, Rios is leading a trio of resurgent sluggers that also includes Andruw Jones and Paul Konerko. If the rest of the roster (outside of Danks) didn’t totally suck so far, this team would actually be looking pretty good. After a big day yesterday (4-for-4 with a walk, a double and a home run), Rios’ line is up to .324/.361/.604 on the year. Like with Byrd, he’s posting easily the best contact rates of his career, and he’s maintained a walk rate near his 6% career mark. But his power is back (6 HR, 1 3B, 11 2B in 29 games) and he appears to have made some legitimate adjustments at the plate. He’s swinging and missing significantly less even though he’s swinging more often than before, reflecting a distinctly different approach than the one we saw last fall. He’s taking very few first-pitch strikes, his 46% mark is the third-lowest in the majors. He’s hitting the ball into the air more often again after hitting the ball on the ground 43% of the time last season, that mark is down to 35% of the time this year. Oh, and he’s already stolen 9 bases this season, which makes him one of game’s more interesting power-speed players. ZiPS now projects Rios to finish the year with a .364 wOBA, about 18 runs above average per 600 plate appearances. And like with Byrd, his limited defensive numbers have been quite good this year, with +4 marks in both UZR and DRS. He’s been good for 1.8 fWAR, easily the best on the team.

http://www.beyondtheboxscore.com/2010/5/10/1465725/the-resurgent-center-fielders-of

Griffey headed for the pasture?

He could lose his job as the left-handed designated hitter within the week. He might lose his position on the 25-man roster nearly as soon. If you want to see Griffey in a Seattle uniform again, watch him on television this week.

It could be your last chance.

Hottest hitters in May:

Alex Rios, Juan Pierre, AJ, Andruw Jones

Most walks:

Carlos Quentin, Gordon Beckham, Paul Konerko

Looks like my post in December to get Fred Lewis from SF insted of Pierre was right on. He would look ten times better in LF and lead-off than the weakling who can’t hit a ball out of the infield. Why didn’t KW listen to me ?? My other suggestion in the post was dump AJ and pick up Doumit from Pittsburgh. This could still happen if we throw in Torres or R. Williams w/AJ. Come on Kenny – Let’s make some deals and give us some hope and something to watch the rest of the summer.

Naming one of there new baby goats “Cubby.”

Super cute video

http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=5178137

That is goddamn hysterical.

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/multimedia/photo_gallery/1005/pop.culture.hot.list.0510/content.7.html

She’s cute.

He had 23 Ks and no BB. Not a bad start for the fire baller.

he has pitched quite well from the pen, imagine him in replace of williams, or maybe he stops sergio from comming up but we all know ozzie would at least use him in high leverage situations. Having Jose would help us, no matter what. That’s a good way to spend 1.5 mil (his contract) for 1 year. Better than Thome, and better than Kotsay.