geez, ya think they figured buehrle out?
Comments (0)this will be a short post. i just wanted to say i don’t hate Mark Buehrle, and i don’t think he is a bad pitcher in the least. his record speaks for him. however, i don’t know if it’s the fact that he doesn’t have the speed, or if they just figured him out. Mark Buehrle never had velocity, but he is a lefty and he has good placement.
all i have to say is that i felt bad for him last night. i did not get to see the game because i was outside being stupid riding the motorcycle in 40 degree weather, but that’s beside the point. although when i got home i did hear all about the suckiness from al because he was at my parents’ house. but from what i hear i didn’t want to see the game. a salami in the first inning?? yikes. actually the only part i watched was Buehrle walking to the dugout after being taken out of the game. i really think that some people really have buehrle figured out. and it is no surprise that his worst luck is against the Cleveland Indians. they are in our division so of course we are going to face them the most.
ah, well, that’s OK Mark, i still heart you. but i don’t heart you like Jon Garland. i just think you are a great person to have in the clubhouse and to catch ceremonial first pitches. =P
there is a little frustration.
Comments (1)i have been a little frustrated as of late with my white sox. i hate having the minnesota twins AND cleveland indians ahead of us in the standings. not to mention all of the other divisions seem to have much better records than the AL Central. people say it’s because the AL Central is tough this year, but we won’t know until we are done playing with ourselves. whoa, that didn’t come out right. well, you know we have been playing mostly AL Central teams so far. yea yea, you knew what i meant. =P
anyway, it just seems like in the case of the White Sox that things are just not clicking together. we either have good pitching and not so good hitting (or basically nonexistent) or we have tons of runs and the pitchers can’t pitch strikes. actually while we (I) are talking about pitching strikes does anyone notice that in many cases we get a reliever into the game with one purpose and one purpose only and that is to throw strikes? tell me why 9 times out of 10 we throw a first pitch ball, or walk the guy! i think that is just not what relievers are supposed to do. the worst that happens is someone hits a homerun. but really while i don’t want a homer, at least the batter earns that. when we walk people we aren’t even giving ourselves a chance!
either way we have had some unfortunate events and we haven’t been as consistent as i would like, but i know we can win games. we have the stuff! come on white sox! woooo, let’s win some games, even if we have to beat my jon garland this series.
WHEW! we needed that win!
Comments (0)aside from an almost no-hitter and all around great performance by Gavin Floyd we neeed that win yesterday! if we can sweep them we are right back in first where we belong. not that losing 6 in a row means we belong in first but our record until then says so. however i don’t think there is an excuse for not scoring a run at all in a game or being outscored 19-9 on this road trip. yea, i am sure that Toronto’s pitching was good but you can’t win if you don’t score at least a run.
i can’t really comment on specifics of the games of this last road trip because i have been out of town and therefore not able to catch a game. i can comment on yesterday’s game though. i thought Gavin Floyd did an outstanding job, obviously. there were a couple of walks that were close and could have gone a different way. but overall a 1-hitter is not to shabby. there was not much we could have done to prevent that Joe Mauer hit from dropping. it was hit hard to the gap and Nick Swisher made a nice attempt to run that ball down. at least there was no scoring, and i am glad whenever the relievers go after the hitters.
Jermaine Dye (and well the White Sox as a whole) was all kinds of aggressive in the batter’s box yesterday. i just knew when JD walked up to the plate in the 6th that there were going to be some fireworks. and what about Juan Uribe?? he seems to be standing a little more straight up in the box, and maybe the new batting stance is going to change the way he sees pitches. i mean, i hope he starts to see pitches better because he tends to swing at all the crap and let the cookies fly right by.
i can’t end this story without some reference to Nick Swisher’s facial hair. WTF is my only comment on that. i guess it is what it is and i’ll take it if it means we win!
GO SOX!