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In the top of the eighth inning during the White Sox’s 8-3 loss to the Yankees, the YES Network broadcast showed Bobby Jenks warming up in the bullpen. Ozzie Guillen didn’t think Jenks was a viable option in the 10-inning game two days before, instead using Scott Linebrink and Randy Williams while preserving Jenks for [...]
Turns out it gets worse
That’s the headline from the most recent Comics Curmudgeon post, which I happened to read shortly before the White Sox took a big ol’ dog dump against the Yankees on Saturday. It works here, too. Anyway, I’m just going to do a few quick hits and save the breakdown of the Mount St. Guillen eruption [...]
No rest for the rookie
Gordon Beckham was the only guy in the White Sox lineup without a hit on Thursday, going 0-for-5 with a pair of strikeouts during a 14-hit attack. I don’t know if he ever looked worse than he did in the second inning. Scott Podsednik stole second on a 1-0 pitch, then took third because Victor [...]
Abandon hope when he enters
One of the great nicknames in baseball history belonged to Hugh Mulcahy, who pitched for the Philadelphia Phillies from 1935-1940, and then rejoined them for brief stints after the war. He went 45-89 over that first six-year stretch, including a four-year period in which he averaged 19 defeats a season. Twice, he led the league [...]
White Sox waste, want
One Hawk Harrelson saying that actually makes sense to me is, “You’re never as bad as you look when you’re losing, and you’re never as good as you look when you’re winning.” There’s just one problem with this White Sox team: It’s never looked nearly as good at its best as it does bad at [...]
Jose Contreras: Fall guy
Barack Obama took the week off from the health care debate to vacation with the First Family on Martha’s Vineyard, so it’s entirely possible that he got to watch Ozzie Guillen pull the plug on grandpa. Guillen, the one-man death panel, sent Jose Contreras to the bullpen after his catastrophic outing on Monday night. Words [...]
Bloody Sundays
If the Sox have been consistent at anything this year, they’ve been great at keeping the Sabbath Day holy. The rubber match loss to Baltimore (the worst team in the league) and Jason Berken (the guy with the 2-11 record) means the Sox have now lost on seven of the last eight Sundays. Although it [...]
History repeating with Podsednik
Since Saturday night’s game was on WGN, Extra Innings treated me with the Baltimore Orioles’ feed on MASN. On one hand, it was immensely satisfying to hear Jim Palmer say, “Do you think Hawk is talking about Pierzynski being the smartest guy in the American League now?” after Pierzynski’s run-removing baserunning error. From what I [...]
Pierzynski providing quantity *and* quality
Back in March, The Hardball Times asked five questions about the White Sox. Question No. 3: 3. Does A. J. Pierzynski go bowling with Dorian Gray or something? Chris Jaffe noted that Pierzynski was one of the most consistent players in baseball, saying, “It’s like he’s a cyborg sent from the future to draw 22 [...]
Right team, right time, so what?
What was Jose Contreras’ secret in defeating a leading AL Cy Young Candidate on Wednesday afternoon? His pants. Upon counsel from Orlando Hernandez, Contreras showed off his socks and rode the throwback look to seven strong innings in a 4-2 win over the Kansas City Royals. Usually, there would be a reason to suggest Contreras [...]
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