SWEEPILICIOUS!!!
Comments (1)i was oh so glad to see the sweepiliciousness of this weekend. i was kinda bummed after last week, i mean, who wants to see their team lose? and who wants to see them get swept? and really, who wants to see any of that happen from the cubs? either way, great matchups both weekends, and in the end 33-33 is fine by me.
so, like i have said i love interleague play especially the classic. i love the trash talking, high-5ing, funny shirt wearing, screaming myself dizzy, singing “Let’s go go go White Sox”… and all around electricity that goes on during Sox-Cubs games! speaking of the shirts though - 2 really stick out in my mind - there was this one guy that had a picture on one side of his shirt with a pic of the trophy with the words “Sox Parade”, and then on the other side there was a pic of 2 guys under a rainbow with the words ” Cubs Parade.” the other funny shirt I saw had a caption “Animal Cruelty” and had a beefy White Sox player beating a cub (but a bear, not a person) with a bat.
OH, and by far one of the funniest parts of the weekend was when I walked past the boys bathroom. ha! gotta love a paragraph that starts out that way. =P but there were a bunch of dudes standing around and i found out why - there was this lone voice in the boys bathroom singing, “Go Sox Go” over and over again. oh, if it wasn’t super gross and he wasn’t peeing, and in the boys bathroom i would have given that guy a hi-5!
but getting to the baseball of the weekend because it was about that after all. i was so super proud of my boyfriend Matt Thornton! and while Boone Logan, Scott Linebrink, and Bobby Jenks aren’t my boyfriends, they all turned in outstanding performances. although i would have liked to see big Adam Russell. ALSO - i was happy to see that after Aramis Ramirez decided to go yard i don’t know how many times last week that he was 0-13 this weekend! wooooo! and while the cubs had several times to score our bullpen stayed strong and in the end we served those cubbies a piece of humble pie. you can’t ever count out the WHITE SOX!
how many runs?
Comments (0)16 runs last night. wowzers. that’s how it should be. last year when the White Sox were slumping, or really began their slump - i was in Philly and PIttsburgh to watch the Phildelphia Phillies and the Pittsburgh Pirates romp on my Sox. UGH! it was so horrible. that is why i am super excited that we beat the crap out of the Pirates yesterday. i mean at some point it becomes overkill, but i think that all of those 16 runs yesterday were the Sox just blowing off some steam. and really the Pirates are a team that you just have to beat. they aren’t very good, and if we beat those kinds of teams then we should be in good shape for the rest of the season.
what we really need to STOP is the sulking after a bad inning. our pitchers really need to learn to shake off a bad inning. even if it ends up that we lose because of the bad inning we need to limit the badness to that one inning and rely on the offense to make up for it. 1/2 of the rest of the team’s job is scoring runs anyway. you can’t win if you don’t score runs. word! GO SOX!
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!
thoughts for week 1
Comments (0)so, i’m intrigued by the results of baseball’s first week of the 2008 season. i mean i am obviously most interested in the white sox and what they are up to, but really i’m thinking that this is going to be a good year for baseball! first of all, i like the fact that they keep making the season longer. i love going to sox games and also the fact that they are all in HD! WOO! what i don’t like is that work has decided to be dumb and block my usage of the gameday portion of the white sox website. therefore i have watched about 3 hours total this week of white sox baseball, and the majority of that was while my boys lost to cleveland on wednesday night. so basically i haven’t known what was happening until the games were over and sportscenter was showing me the highlights of the game. ALSO, how awesome is it that detroit hasn’t won a game and they were swept by KC?
can we also talk about bad decisions made in the off season? so everyone who knows me knows how bitter i am at ken williams for trading my jon garland. not only am i super bummed because i always wanted to me mrs. garland…BUT i think he is a really good pitcher. his first game of the season exemplified his talents perfectly. i also don’t think it was a very fair trade. i mean a solid, consistent pitcher for a shortstop? infielders we are not short on, it’s good, solid pitching that can take us through the season. i mean i don’t want to be out of the race before we even start! i know it’s way too early to tell anything, but geez.
Hello Everyone!
Comments (0)Hi-oh! so i’m janet and this is my blog. i’ll mostly talk about the white sox here, but i will probably also talk about rugby and my bruises or some big manly girl that knocked me on my ass in that week’s match. i don’t consider myself to be the white sox know-it-all by any means, but i do have wikipedia at my fingertips and i can probably tell you the marital status of 99% of the current and former white sox players off the top of my head.
additionally i am going to go ahead and apologize ahead of time for the inevitable offensive remark that will come from me. when it comes to the white sox and my dislike for the cubs i’m pretty passionate about my views. but please comment on any of my comments, that’s what this is all about!
see ya!