Alex Rios' road to 50 stolen bases and three home runs, aka 2010 White Sox

Ozzie said he had a good talk with Rios and told his outfielder to "give me 50 stolen bases and three home runs."

http://twitter.com/scottmerkin/status/8046168279

From Ozzie today: "We are not a home run team anymore."

http://twitter.com/scottmerkin/status/8046143121

This is Ozzie at his best: "Betemit make errors while he was DHing" from his appearance on Chicago Tribune Live. Definition of LOL

http://twitter.com/scottmerkin/status/8046566154

prediction: Rios steals 3 bases.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FptB8IZrb2k

zmg

Ozzie at his best: "Betemit make errors while he was DHing"

ICE COLD

haha

#Whitesox front office to be featured in "The Club". @MLBNetwork reality series to follow Jerry Reinsdorf, Kenny Williams & Ozzie Guillen

http://twitter.com/VictorRojas29/status/9338573792

"The Club", an original series done by MLB Productions, will premier on July 4th. This should be fun tv

http://twitter.com/VictorRojas29/status/9338643406

Buster_ESPN
Best line of the spring so far: Andrew Jones showed up in great shape, about 25 pounds lighter than last year. And he proclaimed to (cont).

Buster_ESPN
others, "I am the best CFer you guys have in camp." To which Joey Cora replied, "You should be. Only pitchers and catchers have reported."

(Didn't Andruw report to Rangers camp last year "in great shape"?)

someone get ozzie on twitter plz

Heard this: by the time Buster Olney finally got around to "confirming" Andruw Jones had lost 25 pounds, Jones had already gained it all back.

Water weight, etc.

http://chicago.whitesox.mlb.com/media/video.jsp?topic_id=8685496&c_id=cws

Alex Rios 0-2: pop up and a k

WOODJOCK!?!?!?

I stopped by The Venue in Scottsdale for about an hour last night to check out the rehearsal for Thursday night's Woodjock, 2010, Jake Peavy's charity concert, presented by mycontent.com.

As soon as I arrived, I noticed an interesting looking band on the stage working tirelessly on an Eric Clapton song. There was Bronson Arroyo on vocals, Brandon Medders on lead guitar and Bernie Williams on backup lead guitar. Oh, yes, I can't forget Barry Zito on the drums.

And they basically rocked, for lack of a better word. I was told that overall rehearsal session ran about four hours.

"I think people are going to be surprised by this show," said Peavy, who was overseeing the rehearsal at the time I was there, sort of hinting how fans might not expect these players to be accomplished musicians.

Actually, I don't think people will be surprised. These players taking part in the concert have the same sort of passion for music as they do for baseball, and they are pretty darn good baseball players. I expect a highly entertaining show, with a raucous crowd at this venue that has a very Old West feel to it.

Focusing on the White Sox theme, aside from the obvious front man in Peavy, both Omar Vizquel and Gordon Beckham will be singing. Ben Broussard, who was in White Sox camp last year and is now a touring musician, also will be performing his music. You can bet on many White Sox players being in the audience to lend support.

Are these players as talented behind the microphone as they are on the field? Aside from Williams, the most accomplished of the group, and Broussard, probably not. From the little I witnessed last night, though, this show truly is worth checking out on Thursday. Remember, the proceeds go to Team Focus, Strikeouts for Troops, White Sox Charities and Autism Speaks, so it's good music for a good cause, or as the show bills itself, "a big league jam fest."

http://scottmerkin.mlblogs.com/archives/2010/03/rehearsing_for_woodjock.html

http://hphotos-snc3.fbcdn.net/hs365.snc3/23553_1315429296829_1563615420_31008348_5179295_n.jpg

Makes sense for Woodjock '10 to be in Scottsdale.

Man I saw Peavey's face come up pitching against the Dodgers in the game day earlier. Will not miss that dude fucking our team up on the regular. Good luck AL central.

Oney Guillen resigns from Sox

http://sports.espn.go.com/chicago/mlb/news/story?id=5011290

boring. who cares. more into http://twitter.com/GaryCarterRaw

I TROLLED JOSE CANSECO

http://www.twitvid.com/S1FNE

putz looks p. good

dayum @ that buehrle glove flip btwn his legs

The title of a popular '80s situational comedy starring Jackée Harry, as well as the current team batting average of the Chicago White Sox.

what is loooool?

^^^^

wow these guys are really having a hard time!

http://www.blogcdn.com/backporch.fanhouse.com/media/2010/05/beebz.jpg

so is Jenks done?

should i rename my fantasy team "So Long And Jenks For All The Fish"?

i think alexei ramirez has swung at 8 balls over the course of three at bats today

team needs 2 take some damn pitches imo -- in their loss to clev tonight, 0 bbs, only 106 ttl pitches thrown by indians pitchers

@robneyer
Whoa. Country Joe West just called a balk on Buehrle, then immediately ejected Buehrle. In the booth, Hawk is absolutely unloading on West.

WHITE SOX MANAGER OZZIE GUILLEN WAS EJECTED BY FIRST BASE UMPIRE JOE WEST IN THE BOTTOM OF THE SECOND INNING FOR ARGUING A BALK.
WHITE SOX STARTER MARK BUEHRLE WAS EJECTED BY FIRST BASE UMPIRE JOE WEST IN THE BOTTOM OF THE THIRD INNING FOR THROWING HIS GLOVE AFTER A BALK.

Kenny the Homer Harrison on Cowboy Joe:

“He’s a joke.”

“Well, something’s gotta be done about that … The last couple of years, he’s really had it in for the White Sox.”

"I think he's too worried about promoting his CD."

-- Buehrle on West (damn!)

http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/news?slug=jp-west052710

In response to the story titled "Peavy Would Prefer Trade To Rebuilding Effort":

You are pitching like garbage and are basically untradable. Shut the fuck up?

lol

http://www.suntimes.com/sports/baseball/whitesox/2380948,CST-SPT-sox11.article

After the White Sox' 3-0 victory over the Detroit Tigers, the Sun-Times was told by a team source that general manager Ken Williams and manager Ozzie Guillen ''almost came to blows in a heated shouting match'' on Tuesday evening because of the draft fallout of Guillen's youngest son, Ozney.

One source indicated that Williams was instructed by Reinsdorf not to travel on road trips -- which he hasn't -- to avoid any confrontation with Guillen. But a confrontation couldn't be avoided Tuesday. Guillen watched Ozney slip to the 22nd round in the draft before the Sox selected him. Guillen then commented, ''I give my kid 50 grand just to go to school (at the University of South Florida rather than sign with the Sox). I got 50 grand in my pocket to send my kid to go to Niketown or buy something.''

According to the source, that comment led to Williams questioning Guillen to his face, and the situation got heated.

Does that count as hood rich?

why is he mad? because his kid got drafted - or because he slipped to the 1,200th round?

This is utterly fucking stupid. Your kid should play baseball better if you want him to get drafted higher.

http://www.chicagobreakingsports.com/2010/06/sox-use-22nd-round-pick-on-ozney-guillen-who-appears-usf-bound.html

It was less than a consolation prize to the Guillen family when youngest son Ozney was selected in the 22nd round -- much later than the family anticipated -- by the White Sox.

"It's not a happy day for us, but in the meanwhile, we got to go through it and move on," said father and Sox manager Ozzie Guillen, who intimated that his son may enroll this summer at the University of South Florida, where he has a scholarship to play baseball.

The Guillen family anticipated that Ozney, a left-handed hitting outfielder at Monsignor Pace High in Miami Gardens, could be drafted by the 10th round. But that never materialized and made for a long day for the Guillen family as the Sox and the other 29 teams passed on Guillen through the first 21 rounds.
The round that Ozney was selected was particularly sensitive because the Sox selected Hialeah High School third baseman Rangel Ravello in the sixth round. Ravello played with the youngest Guillen on a traveling team but wasn't as highly regarded as Guillen, according to those familiar with the prospects in the area.

The sixth round also is where the Sox selected Ken Williams Jr., the son of general manager Ken Williams, in the 2008 draft. Williams received a $150,000 bonus but has been hindered by injuries and is batting only .228 in 23 games at Class-A Winston-Salem.

A source said that Major League Baseball recommends that no player drafted after the 10th round receive a signing bonus of more than $125,000.

"I give my kid 50 grand just to go to school," the elder Guillen said. "I got 50 grand in my pocket to send my kid to go to Niketown or buy something. I don't need the money. But I respect scouts. I respect the scouts' opinion with all my heart.

"I hope the 20 guys they picked before help us or help the White Sox, and everyone has different opinion, and I respect their opinion. And now I talked to (sons) Ozzie and Oney, and we might think about family, not baseball. But I'm a baseball man. And I'm a very (big) baseball man. I saw him play and I saw him compete against a lot of people out there and I think this kid, it might help him to improve himself in a lot of situation

If Ozney Guillen doesn't sign, he won't be eligible for the amateur draft until 2013 unless he leaves USF after his freshman year, enrolls at a junior college and becomes eligible for the 2012 draft.

"I think the 22nd round in high school doesn't mean anything," Ozzie Guillen said. "I think the White Sox did what I told them ... I don't need any favors or he doesn't need any favors. In the meanwhile, it's kind of hard. His expectations, not mine, were a little higher. He thought he was a little better player than what other people think."

Are we overlooking the fact that Ozzie named his kid OZNEY??!!?

ox so starting july 18, mlb network is running a hard knocks style show about this team & it obv features ozzie v prominently as well as kenny williams & jerry reinsdorf talking about ozzie - so stoked

i am always glad to see any relative of laynce nix lose his job. bye jayson nix you sob http://www.examiner.com/x-425-Chicago-White-Sox-Examiner~y2010m6d17-White-Sox-call-up-Dayan-Viciedo-DFA-Jayson-Nix

what's your beef with Nix?

they've won 9 of their last 10, have a 5-game winning streak, and are back to just a game under .500 ... things are looking up? on the other hand, most of those wins came against the cubs, pirates, and nationals, so nevermind.

now a 10-game win streak, and they swept a good team (the braves). plus they're playing the cubs again this weekend, followed by the royals.

Peavy hadn't been throwing AT ALL between starts (according to MLBN) and is now likely headed to DL. How many pitchers work through pain like that without aggravating an existing problem?

Peavy described a severe injury Wednesday, saying the muscle has apparently torn completely away from the bone. He said surgery is likely, and he could be gone for the season.

Pitching through pain is really intelligent.

Peavy is not renowned for his intelligence.

The White Sox won 25 of their last 30 games going into the All-Star break.

freddy garcia has 10 wins fyi

Puuuuuuuuuuuuutz

J.J. Putz is KILLING the Sox ... just unreal

guy wants to be a closer?? please, bro , you fucking suck. Never thought I would miss Jenks...

I'd forgotten how much Andruw likes to grin and stare at the stands after fucking up.

I take that back.

THIS fucking baseball game

don't get me started on POS Jones ... man, if Kenny could have gotten a warm body to hit homeruns before the deadline, his dead ass woulda been outta bere..

here..

HR to a bum like Peralta ... god the Sox suck right now

that fucking game yesterday

Hawk was pretty hilarious on the broadcast last night, he got really riled up by Delmon Young trying to take off AJ Pierzynski's head (what was up with that?), then when Thome hit the gamewinning home run I don't think either Hawk or Stone said a word in the minute or two before the game went to commercial.

I'm pretty worried about this team; really they've only had a bad couple of weeks but in those weeks they lost to some bad teams (Detroit and Baltimore). Plus as awesome as their June run was, it seemed really unbelievable/unsustainable given that this team is all old dudes and kinda low/mid-level guys ... no superstars, no one you can depend on to be consistent.

the chris sale kid looks real nasty btw...he hit 100 on the gun, hes at least gonna destroy lefties

This game is ovah.

hawk harrelson is my least favorite human being btw

this team really is the ultimate toothpicks and gum team

they're kind of like the AL version of the pads but their mediocre players are playing at expectation

Nonstop bellyaching, over-excited and bad reads on routine fly-ball outs, and audible sighs from Hawk and guest commentator Frank Thomas.

tom k wrote:
Today, I end my 55 year love affair with the Chicago White Sox. The Man Cancer is officially a White Sox. As the season sinks into the abyss, Kenny and Jerry waste 4 million dollars on this freaking head case and CANCER! I hope he go 0 for whatever at bats he gets. Playing for a contract, or not, this man is poison, a cancer. I don't care what the ESPNitwits and sportswriters think, HE IS CANCER!

how the hell did manny turn from 'everyone's favorite player' to 'the devil incarnate' overnight

"overnight" for me happened about five years ago iirc

I will pee my pants if the Sox ever trot out a Pierre-Manny-Jones outfield.

Fixin' to get beat a second consecutive time by the Cabrera-less Tigers, dadgummit.

DON'T START NOW, BOYS.

The Dodgers are really on fire since they finally got rid of that guy.

is Manny an official cancer now?

TYPHOID MANNY

This season is ovah.

PECOTA-adjusted playoff odds for Sox: 5%

Before the Twins pulled away with a five-run eighth inning, once-formidable slugger Manny Ramirez stranded runners in scoring position in the first, fourth and seventh innings with three strikeouts.

Ramirez hasn't driven in a run in 37 at-bats with the Sox.

"That's part of the game," Ramirez said of his inability to drive in runners in scoring position. "Sometimes they're going to put (a runner) on third base, and you're not going to bring it in. And sometimes they're going to be on first base with two outs, and you bring them in. That's part of the game."

It's a good thing Hawk wasn't calling this game. He would have jumped out of the booth.

Detroit - Top of 11th
Sergio Santos pitching for Chicago
J Peralta grounded out to third.
C Wells fouled out to first.

Two outs!

B Inge struck out swinging, B Inge reaches on wild pitch by S Santos. B Inge to third on throwing error by catcher A Pierzynski.
B Boesch intentionally walked.
G Laird singled to left, B Inge scored, B Boesch to second.
A Jackson doubled to left, B Boesch scored, G Laird to third.
W Rhymes grounded out to first.

Chicago - Bottom of 11th
Eddie Bonine pitching for Detroit
E Bonine relieved R Weinhardt.
A Ramirez singled to center.
A Rios walked, A Ramirez to second.
P Konerko struck out looking.
D Schlereth relieved E Bonine.
A Pierzynski grounded into fielder's choice to second, A Rios out at second, A Ramirez to third.
C Quentin walked, A Pierzynski to second.
M Ramirez struck out looking.