Another, the Sox won't keep winning article.

[DrCrawdad]

The New Sox
by Aaron Gleeman
May 02, 2005

During the offseason, the White Sox shed sluggers Carlos Lee and Magglio Ordonez and brought in speedsters Scott Podsednik and Tadahito Iguchi with the misguided notion that the team needed to focus on playing "small ball" in 2005. The basic idea being that the White Sox had finished in second place for three straight seasons while ranking among the league leaders in home runs, so that must have been the root of the problem. It wasn't, of course, because the fact is that Chicago's offense was never really a problem at all. The White Sox, with their AL-leading 242 homers, ranked third in the league in runs scored last season with 865, producing 11% more offense (85 more runs) than the first place Twins.

The rest of the article in Baseball Times article on the Sox.

Ho, hum.

[Rocky Soprano]

[MRKARNO]

Aaron Gleeman isnt going to admit the Sox are for real until they've essentially wrapped up the division.

[na_na_na_na]

It's astounding that stat heads who try to talk about the trade of Lee and non signing of Ordonez always miss the most important number number $.

All the extra cash from not signing Ordonez and making the Lee deal sured up the bullpen and starting rotatation. I'll gladdly give up 3 runs on offense a game if I can keep 4 runs in defense.
Also it's very disengenious to compare our april 04/april 05 offense numbers and then compare our april 05 staff against itself lifetime instead of against the april 04 staff.

[mweflen]

In short, if the White Sox's "small ball" offense continues to struggle to score runs and the starting pitching comes back down to earth like their established levels of performance suggest they will, Chicago could be in some trouble

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This statement can't be argued with. It's just pretty effin' obvious. The guy's just filling random column space.

"If the [[Insert Team Name]] 's pitching declines and their offense doesn't pick up, they're in trouble."


WELL, DUH.

[Chisox003]

Weve seen this, been over it, how many times in the last 5 months?

My count is 1,304,240 1/2

Anybody else have a different, possibly higher, amount of these articles written by these so called "journalists"

The only difference is this guy has the rocks to say it a month AFTER the season started...and we are 18-7! Ha ha ha...Foolish

Edit: I sent him an email...I like seeing if guys like this will ever email me back, which they never do..Because they're wrong!!

S05X

[SOX ADDICT '73]

I wasn't aware that Jay Moronotti wrote using a pseudonym.

Seriously, what's with all the venom targeting the White Sox lately? It's one thing to be skeptical about our awesome start (heck, most of us are pretty skeptical ourselves), but some of these mediots are writing and saying (BBTN) pretty nasty things! It's like they can't stand the fact that it's the red-headed stepchild of Chicago baseball that's having all the success, instead of Big Blue.

Someone needs to tell this particular idiot that the only reason our pitching staff is better this year is because they unloaded some payroll through the Magg$ fiasco and CLee deal. They were able to pick up El Duque, bolster the bullpen, and sign AJ (who, along with Widge, deserves a lot of the credit for how they've handled the staff).

And those cumulative 2004 numbers he spouts, all the runs and homers? They mean nothing unless you break it down game-by-game. A team like the 2001-2004 White Sox that scores 14 runs in one game, 1 in the next, and gets shut out in the third game is going to average 5 runs per, and most likely go 1-2 in that series. That's a pretty sweet offense, wouldn't you say?

[fquaye149]

anytime someone says the sox offense was never a problem is someone who only looked at the lines at the end of the year.

there is nothing in the statistics for CORPSEBALL.

[MisterB]

Just a hint for you guys - I took the link to the guy's website, and on the left side of the page he has links to other sites broken down by category:

#1. Oh, The Places I Write
#2. Approved Columnists
and
#3. Minnesota Twins Stuff

That helps explain things

[Fredsox]

Originally Posted by MisterB

Just a hint for you guys - I took the link to the guy's website, and on the left side of the page he has links to other sites broken down by category:

#1. Oh, The Places I Write
#2. Approved Columnists
and
#3. Minnesota Twins Stuff

That helps explain things

I guess this is the way he gets back at the Sox for slappin' his boys around.

[OKCidiot]

Originally Posted by Fredsox

I guess this is the way he gets back at the Sox for slappin' his boys around.

It's probably his way of emulating Eric Forman running out of burns on That 70s Show ("Oh yeah? Well... uh, NICE HAIR!!!")

[tebman]

Originally Posted by SOX ADDICT '73

I wasn't aware that Jay Moronotti wrote using a pseudonym.

Seriously, what's with all the venom targeting the White Sox lately? It's one thing to be skeptical about our awesome start (heck, most of us are pretty skeptical ourselves), but some of these mediots are writing and saying (BBTN) pretty nasty things! It's like they can't stand the fact that it's the red-headed stepchild of Chicago baseball that's having all the success, instead of Big Blue.

MisterB pointed out that this guy is a Twins apologist, so that helps explain why he writes this kind of stuff. But as far as the overall venom toward the Sox, someone else pointed out that these writers/pundits/analysts/proctologists, or whatever they are, picked the Sox to finish third or fourth, and they don't want to be proved wrong. The Sox are showing them up.

A winning season can cure a lot of this.

[kevingrt]

I don't even need to look at it or read... what's new?

[batmanZoSo]

There are lies, damned lies and statistics never sounded more true.

12, 0, 2, 3, 10 does not a good offense make. I'll take our current 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 with an era under 3.

moron...

[White Sox Josh]

Who cares what a Twins Fan thinks