Chicago White Sox Weekly Rewind (Expigated Version): Week 17
Record For Week: 4-2. Record For Season: 68-35. 1st place, 15 games up, AL Central.
The Good: Taking 3 in a row in Baltimore thanks to awesome pitching from the Two-Headed Cuban monster. AJ Pierzynski is hitting everything in sight. Cub-sessed Sox fans can rejoice in the fact that Sammy Sosa struck out 6 times in the first 3 games of the series. Freddy Garcia twirls a gem on Sunday night baseball...an ESPN win is usually hard to come by.
The Bad: Buerhle pitches just rotten in the finale against the Royals, and that's only compounded by the lousy defense of Ozuna and Harris. Frank Thomas is out for the rest of the season, so we've got no one to wear pitchers down. (Yes, I don't like the guy and he wasn't hitting that well aside from his tape measure bombs, but he's still a 10 pitch per AB batter.) Shingo Takatsu gets waived and then released...but we'll always have 2004. GONG!
Ahead: 8/1 at Baltimore, 8/2-8/4 vs Toronto, 8/5-8/7 vs Seattle.
Thoughts: Kenny Williams did nothing to drastically overhaul the team ahead of the deadline, and that's not troubling me at all. There's no reason to give up a Rowand or Buehrle just for AJ Burnett. Geoff Blum can spell Crede and his aching back at 3rd, and is a defensive upgrade over Ozuna and Wee Willie.
Record For Week: 4-2. Record For Season: 68-35. 1st place, 15 games up, AL Central.
The Good: Taking 3 in a row in Baltimore thanks to awesome pitching from the Two-Headed Cuban monster. AJ Pierzynski is hitting everything in sight. Cub-sessed Sox fans can rejoice in the fact that Sammy Sosa struck out 6 times in the first 3 games of the series. Freddy Garcia twirls a gem on Sunday night baseball...an ESPN win is usually hard to come by.
The Bad: Buerhle pitches just rotten in the finale against the Royals, and that's only compounded by the lousy defense of Ozuna and Harris. Frank Thomas is out for the rest of the season, so we've got no one to wear pitchers down. (Yes, I don't like the guy and he wasn't hitting that well aside from his tape measure bombs, but he's still a 10 pitch per AB batter.) Shingo Takatsu gets waived and then released...but we'll always have 2004. GONG!
Ahead: 8/1 at Baltimore, 8/2-8/4 vs Toronto, 8/5-8/7 vs Seattle.
Thoughts: Kenny Williams did nothing to drastically overhaul the team ahead of the deadline, and that's not troubling me at all. There's no reason to give up a Rowand or Buehrle just for AJ Burnett. Geoff Blum can spell Crede and his aching back at 3rd, and is a defensive upgrade over Ozuna and Wee Willie.
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