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Old friends, old friends,
Sat on their parkbench like bookends...I don't even need to tell you who the author is:His walk is still the same slow-paced strut, right out of a bad spaghetti western.
His approach to the media is still the same...
If you ignore the big three stats -- wins, losses and ERA -- Mark Buehrle is not having a bad year. Consider:
No. 1: He's striking more guys out than ever before. He's averaging 6.19 strikeouts per nine innings, and he hasn't come...
Orlando Cabrera received his Gold Glove Award from Mike Scioscia -- and then carried it with him into the field.I'm not speaking figuratively here -- I'm speaking literally. Between Cabrera and the rest of the Sox infield, they played like they...
The White Sox open up a four-game series against the Los Angeles Angels
tonight, as well as a couple of old storylines -- one that got old
quickly, and one I enjoyed more with age.
One is the return of "Torii Hunter" and "White Sox" in the same sentence. ...
Player of the Week: Carlos Quentin. I should want to send him a fan letter for a week in which he hit .400 and drove in seven, including a three-RBI game against the Mariners, but I shouldn't want to type the letter on a death certificate. ...
Gavin Floyd, meet Recession to the Mean. Recession, Gavin.That's the jist of what went down today. Floyd looked like the guy the Phillies were all too happy to deal. He struggled to find the strike zone at times, but given the way he...
I didn't exactly get my wish with regards to getting Alexei Ramirez more playing time, but at least we are starting to see some contributions from the reserves.Brian Anderson is making Safeco Field his home away from home. He launched his first...
This game felt like it should've been easier after a six-run outburst in the second inning.For one, Javier Vazquez didn't make it out of the sixth inning after cruising through the first five and using only 60 pitches. He ended up throwing 27 in...
Those fans who still long for Aaron Rowand's grinder embrace should have experienced some warm and tingly feelings from Brian Anderson's tremendous catch in the fourth inning of the White Sox's 4-2 victory over the Seattle Mariners.Here's why:To the left...
When compared to the Mariners' offense, the White Sox's offense looked downright functional.Sox hitters didn't do anything flashy, but they did take advantage of the one time they had runners in scoring position with fewer than two outs, and that was...
It was only three days ago that Juan Uribe was headed for Dumpsville. Now, he's the toast of the team.Turns out it's not that difficult to restore a reputation when everybody else on the team is sucking as much as he did over the past two weeks.Uribe...
Hats off to Octavio Dotel, who pitched the relief outing of the year and showed Sox fans what he's capable of doing.With the Sox leading 3-2, Dotel entered the game in the sixth inning and elevated the heart rates of Sox fans when Michael Cuddyer fought...
Listening to Hawk Harrelson give the "with every White Sox homer..." patter after Jermaine Dye's solo shot in the ninth inning of Wednesday night's blowout courtesy of the Twins, I had the idea that Alex Snelius should change his donation policy.After...
After Nick Punto's bases-clearing double in the sixth inning, Mark Buehrle was steaming mad. After returning to the dugout when Ozzie Guillen pulled him with two outs and the Sox down 7-0, Buehrle made the dugout feel his pain with Juan Uribe's...
Gavin Floyd's dynamite one-hitter against the Twins Tuesday night was unlike any start in his career.Gavin Floyd's dynamite one-hitter against the Twins Tuesday night was just like every start this season.
Peripherally, Floyd's performance in 2008...
Gavin Floyd flirted with a no-hitter earlier this season when he started out with 6 1/3 hitless innings against the Tigers April 12. This time, he could actually see the finish line, but a good hitter beat a good pitch.With 25 outs under his belt,...
Joe Cowley Twitters twice:Talk around the clubhouse is one, and
maybe two, players could be sent packing tomorrow. The Reaper is a
coming kids. Lock the doors. [...]This means you Juan Uribe, who may have played his last game on the South Side.If Pablo...
Javier Vazquez allowed a solo homer to Matt Stairs leading off the
seventh. It wasn't even a bad pitch -- a curveball on the outer half of the plate that Stairs managed to golf just over the right-field wall.That was all the Blue Jays needed to...
A few quick hits, since I just got back standing 3 1/2 hours at a Reverend Horton Heat concert:Hey, look at me! Crazy man on the loose! That's basically what Ozzie Guillen's rant about Chicago sports coverage boils down to. My favorite...
Player of the Week: Carlos Quentin. He's the only guy hitting right now. He hit a couple solo homers, was hit by a pitch, and should've scored the winning run in the suspended game.Player of the Weak: Jermaine Dye. He did hit the solo...
I've said before that the Sox have made excuses for Jose Contreras a
little too often. Today, it's fair to actually feel sorry for him.
Between an awful call and an awful White Sox offense, he did all he
could and ended up with a complete-game...
Joe Cowley relayed a couple of interesting and depressing notes highlighting the depths of the White Sox slump during today's loss to the Toronto Blue Jays:The Sox have hit eight straight homers with the bases empty, and 14 of the last 15.The Sox went...
When John Danks was pulled from the game after 4 2/3 innings and 107 pitches, Toronto starter Jesse Litsch was sitting on the bench with 51 pitches. And he had retired one more batter.Litsch was the latest starter to play the hot knife to the White...
Charlotte 10, Buffalo 3Charlie Haeger found middle ground, allowing three runs over eight innings on five hits and three walks. He struck out four.Brad Eldred homered twice and drove in five.Jason Bourgeois had two hits and two RBI. He was...
It seems that the White Sox and Blue Jays didn't really have to play this game since Mark Buehrle and Shaun Marcum took the mound. They could've merely extrapolated from previous events in the past when 1) Buehrle faces Toronto, 2) has to work around...