White Sox Keep Rolling Even As Defense Fails

It’s no wonder they got so many errors

because going in to friday, we could either be .5 or 1.5 games back of the tigers and they open a 3 game set with teh twinns.

Unless his leg is broken, why isn’t he at least DH?

Injury seems pretty rare

lot to say but Ill say it later. for now all I have is

DETROIT YOUR NEXT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

We only have a little while left. Fucking Nick Swisher is leading! If you aren’t voting at least 30 times then you aren’t contributing to the cause. Vote as many times as you can to get Konerko into the All-Star Game! He really does deserve to go!

CLICK HERE TO VOTE FOR PAULIEWOOD!

Destiny. Or, simply, we are the Angels’ Daddy.

I really don’t give a horse’s arse about the ASG, but dear God we can’t let Swish beat out Paulie for Chrissakes. Start clicking immediately…you have until 3:00 p.m. Chicago time.

last night seemed electric. im sure it had something to do with the fact that listening to a scratchy barely audible score broadcast some 500 miles away, sitting in the whip in front of the house with a sixer of tallboys, but nonetheless when el capitan stepped up and was at a 3-0 count and the crowd chanting Paulie, PAulie, PAUlie, PAULie, PAULIe, PAULIE…well that was just awesome, then for him to produce was perfect…

keep em rollin boyz…

Paulie may be an asshole, but he’s OUR asshole…

Peavy had 1.8 WAR for his half season of work.

Hudson is projected at right about 1.0 WAR for 77 IP.

If Hudson performs as projected looks like the CWS lose one victory with Peavy going down, meh big deal. IMO Peavy was all hat no cattle anyways, I wasn’t overly impressed considering how much money he’s stuffing in his mattress.

The problem is if another pitcher goes down we be in big trouble. Plus you can’t trade Hudson for Dunn either, so there’s that opportunity cost.

I am even more impressed with this pitching staff!
Curious to see if Sox starters can pitch this well against nemesis teams like the Royals and Indians.

If Kong is not voted in—atleast we can witness Swish making a goofy ass out of himself on national prime-time television. I’m sure his antics have been further honed since 2008.

I still laugh at the poor bastards who wear his jersey to the games. While, I am tempted to purchase a Hudson jersey since my son’s first name is Hudson, I generally make it a rule that if you buy a jersey the player should be well past his prime or already into retirement. Hopefully I will not have to walk around in shame like Swish fan freaks.

Ozzie: unharmed
Thome: broken hand that points the bat
Swisher: head stoved in (but he’s still on his feet)

Jake Peavy (strained lat, 10/4)

Not just strained, but detached. That was the piece of info that took this from being bad news for Peavy and the White Sox to being the worst-case scenario. Peavy has pulled the muscle out at the insertion. That’s the point where it connects to the upper arm, as seen here. It’s not the best comparison, but if you’ve ever broken down a chicken, this is very similar, though obviously there’s a size (and species) difference. It’s the same kind of muscles and tendons that are pulled apart when taking the wings off before adding the delicious sauce. Peavy will in all likelihood need surgery to reattach the muscle. He’ll get a second opinion, maybe more, but doctors and therapists I spoke with said a complete detachment of this type can’t heal on its own. This detachment is what differentiates this strain (and yes, it’s still a strain; a detachment is just a specific kind of rupture, which itself is a complete strain) from the ones suffered by other pitchers, such as Brad Penny, Josh Beckett, and Ben Sheets. They had strains in the “belly” of the large muscle rather than at the thinner, weaker point nearer the arm. The cause is unknown and probably always will be. SBNation quoted me early in saying this was Don Cooper’s fault, but that’s not what I meant at all. In changing anything about a pitcher’s delivery, there can be consequences, just as if a pitcher instinctively changes something to compensate for an injury. That’s why it’s so tough to see a pitcher with terrible mechanics but good results; even a small change might change things for the worse. The pitcher has done this for such a long time that his body, even his bones, have adjusted to that specific motion. The question now becomes whether or not Peavy can come back at all. There are no comparables for this. Again, I went to my doctors and therapists, who think that he can come back. “It’s not a cuff,” said one ortho, “and putting the muscle back in place isn’t difficult. It’s an anchor. It’s not like there’s multiple structures or ways to do it really.” A physical therapist put it more succinctly: “If a nail comes out of your wall, you hammer it back in place. That’s all this is.” We’ve seen players come back from detached muscles before. The one that immediately comes to mind for me is the dreadful image of Dean Palmer’s biceps strain. The muscle retracted, visibly rolling up his arm as he screamed in pain. I’m glad that’s not on YouTube. Peavy is looking at a significant rehab and most likely his season is done. When he might be back on a mound remains to be seen.

Has on the sox chances of making the playoffs and beyond?

in the 2nd? Nice play I thought

I think I’m too pissed about the Rios snub to commit time to voting for Paulie. PK is deserving, but it’s hard to make a case for him making it over the first basemen that were selected. There’s no way Jose Bautista or Vernon Wells should have been selected over Rios. And then to put FNS on the vote-in ballot over Rios is just ridiculous. Rios must have done something to make him ineligible for this year’s game that wasn’t reported. That’s all I can figure out.

If so, who?

Word on the street is that Adam Dunn would cost you J. Danks and/or Hudson and Prince Fielder is looking for “Ryan Howard money.”

Could you imagine how many dingers either of those guys would hit at The Cell?

get Jayson Werth vs. that for Dunn? Basically the same?