A.C. cranks up, Freese comes through 2/4

06/14/2012

White Sox 3 Cardinals 5

Dear Redbirds,

We are .500 for the week! Yes!

I love those times when...

• Allen Craig (that is A.C.) gets a  hit and David Freese comes through and picks up an RBI. Tonight this happened twice.
• Starters have quality starts.  Westbrook pitch well tonight.  It was a little upsetting that his stuff went to crap in the  sixth inning with only 67 pitches thrown, but he did throw six complete innings and allowed 3 runs-- which is the definition of  "quality start." It's just if a starter has 67 pitches through six innings, one would expect him to still be throwing well and going deeper into ball games. Luckily...
• The bullpen comes through and allowed no runs.
• I am not hyperventilating because the opposition has the bases loaded with no outs in the ninth inning of a close game, because the closer throws only 7 pitches and retires the first three batters in the ninth inning.
• The game ends before 10 pm, because I have to be at work at six  in the morning the next day and I can write this post before I head to bed.

Good night... but since I'm setting this to post in the morning... good morning!

Love ya'll.

Til Later

Yea! 1 for 3

 06/03/2012

White Sox 0 Cardinals 1

Dear 'birds,

Great win last night! You know, I always enjoy good pitching (if we're on the inning side of it-- Santana's no-hitter a few weeks ago was painful). 

Lance Lynn-- Dude, you were amazing when you pitched around that lead off triple in the fifth inning, reaching down and firing your power pitches to strike out the side.  You currently are tied for the lead in wins... it's funny how no one saw this coming.  From what I've gathered, you were a control pitcher who had high strikeout totals in the minors, and then this past year you discovered that you could throw your fastball pretty hard, morphing from Lance Lynn the The Lance Lynn.  Very curious.

Jason Motte-- Loved your reaction when you got that double play to end the game. Priceless!

Carlos Beltran-- I read you were hurting last night, but you still managed to score the only run of the game, and you had three of the Cardinals four hits (Freese had one).

Love you all.

Til Later.

PS. I went to the zoo today and saw quite a few Chicago White Sox fans enjoying the animals.

Keeping the Faith. 0/2 for the week

Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe, It is not enough that a thing be possible for it to be believed. 

Voltaire

You have to understand that life and baseball is littered with all kinds of obstacles and problems along the way. You have to learn how to overcome them to be successful in life.

Dave Winfield

06/12/2012

White Sox 6 Cardinals 1

Dear 'birds,

I can't get over how poorly you all have been playing. I can't get over how little you all have been winning.

What is going on!?

After a botched double play last night lead to the Sox scoring the first two runs of the game, Mike Shannon said this: If you play the game properly, good things will happen to you.

So true.

Love ya still, but know  that you're officially an embarrassment.

Til Later