Mark Buehrle should be put in prison
Its sad when sorry individuals like Mark Buehrle are allowed to walk the streets in freedom. This piece of crap pitcher almost killed Travis Hafner of the Indians when he beaned him in the face with a fastball. Does he not know the consequences he could face? Hafner was lucky if you call getting a concussion and going on the DL lucky.
Now this past week Buehrle beaned BJ Surhoff on purpose with a thug like attitude of payback. This is not a street gang fight Mark. This is professional baseball. If you want to join a street gang and do drive by shootings go ahead. It seems like you are more suited towards that. Drive by shootings is a perfect way to describe how Buehrle throw with intentions of seriosly hurting someone or even killing them. Surhoff was lucky to move enough so Buehrle didnt drill him in the head like he did Hafner. One fraction of an inch and Hafner could have been killed by that pitch.
What makes me even more sick after Buehrle was ejected was that Junior high Ozzie went out to argue the call. The umps are smart enough to know that Buehrle is out for blood thats why they threw him out. The umps are just trying to save lives of other teams players. Junior high Ozzie doesn't care if other players get killed. He would be happy so they dont have to face them anymore.
In the mean time. Poor Travis Hafner is still on the DL and suffering from a severe concussion. It could have led to a brian anyurism or even a seizure. The police really need to investigate this matter and be on hand next time Buehrle pitches. If he beans another player they need to immediatly rush to the mound and handcuff him and put him in jail for attemted murder.
Now this past week Buehrle beaned BJ Surhoff on purpose with a thug like attitude of payback. This is not a street gang fight Mark. This is professional baseball. If you want to join a street gang and do drive by shootings go ahead. It seems like you are more suited towards that. Drive by shootings is a perfect way to describe how Buehrle throw with intentions of seriosly hurting someone or even killing them. Surhoff was lucky to move enough so Buehrle didnt drill him in the head like he did Hafner. One fraction of an inch and Hafner could have been killed by that pitch.
What makes me even more sick after Buehrle was ejected was that Junior high Ozzie went out to argue the call. The umps are smart enough to know that Buehrle is out for blood thats why they threw him out. The umps are just trying to save lives of other teams players. Junior high Ozzie doesn't care if other players get killed. He would be happy so they dont have to face them anymore.
In the mean time. Poor Travis Hafner is still on the DL and suffering from a severe concussion. It could have led to a brian anyurism or even a seizure. The police really need to investigate this matter and be on hand next time Buehrle pitches. If he beans another player they need to immediatly rush to the mound and handcuff him and put him in jail for attemted murder.
posted by Leslie Monteiro at 5:34 AM
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Maybe he can share a cell with Raffy Palmeiro....wait a sec, Palmeiro is the only one who actually did something wrong!
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Goddammit, I love this blog. I hope your buddy G-Man can contribute.
Leslie you stupid cunt. You are such a sissy fuck you keep deleting my comments.
I bet you give rim jobs to fat guys with as much expertise as your dad does.
Hey Travis, you dont have to resort to name-calling like Leslie to make him look stupid. All you have to use is a rational argument, and a few facts. Basically, all you have to say is "SCOREBOARD! White Sox have the best record in the league!"
Best record in the league dont mean nothing in the playoffs. I know for sure the Sux wont have the best record in the playoffs. Going out in first round. Read it and weep losers.
Leslie
travis bickle smells like poo cause he wont wipe his smelly but after taking a dump. What a greaseball Sux fan. Loser
Leslie
best record in the league means you get into the playoffs, unlike all of your teams that you are trying to cheer for.
Call your shot all you want leslie, you have been doing it all year to no avail.
hey, would you look at this! proof that many people are going to watch the White Sox. Check it out Leslie!
King Kaufman's Sports Daily
Baseball attendance crisis in the Heartland! The White Sox are winning but not drawing! Except that they are. Plus: Remembering hoops legend Sue Gunter.
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Aug. 5, 2005 | The Indianapolis Star had a feature this week about how major league teams in the Midwest, including the American League-leading Chicago White Sox, are lagging in attendance.
"While attendance soars for Major League Baseball teams in some parts of the country, eight of the 14 worst-drawing clubs are located in cities in the Heartland," the subhead read.
Oh, no! Not the Heartland!
My bad stats radar (Statsdar™) red-lined.
But reporter Michael Pointer does a pretty good job of quoting various team officials saying the people haven't come because their teams either haven't won (Cincinnati Reds, Pittsburgh Pirates) or play in a dump (Minnesota Twins), even wrapping the whole thing up with this line: "Maybe it's no wonder the fans haven't showed up."
Back when I worked on a newspaper copy desk, the Metro section would regularly run pieces "investigating" some trumped-up problem or scandal, with the perfectly reasonable explanation for whatever was going on buried in Paragraph 25 out of 26. I used to refer to that as "the never-mind graf."
Still, the piece points to the White Sox as one of the teams failing to draw. An accompanying chart shows attendance through Aug. 1 for the eight Midwestern teams. The Cardinals and Cubs were third and sixth in baseball, while the White Sox were 17th, averaging 27,910.
A crisis on the South Side? They're winning but not drawing!
This is how stats can betray you. I'm not sure what it is about the Chicago White Sox that makes people get sloppy with stats, but here we go again.
First, attendance is really easy to figure out. There are two ways to draw big crowds in the major leagues. A team must either:
1) Win, while not playing in a ballpark that is an absolute leaking toilet, or
2) Play in a ballpark that's about 100 years old and that people find charming.
That's it. The only stadiums that fall under the exception to Rule 1 are the Metrodome in Minneapolis and Tropicana Field in St. Petersburg. The only ones covered by Rule 2 are Wrigley Field and Fenway Park.
So if you match up Midwestern teams' rank in attendance with their rank in winning percentage, there's a whole big bunch of correlation. Here they are, with attendance rank first, then winning percentage rank, through Aug. 1:
Att. rank Win pct. rank
St.Louis 3 2
Cubs 6 16 (tie)
White Sox 17 1
Milwaukee 18 18
Minnesota 20 13
Detroit 21 22
Cincinnati 22 23 (tie)
Pittsburgh 25 27
Cleveland 28 11 (tie)
Kansas City 29 29
The anomalies are pretty easy to explain, as Pointer shows. The Chicago Cubs draw whether they're winning or losing because of Wrigley. The Twins can only draw so much because it's just downright depressing to go to the Metrodome.
The Cleveland Indians have been losing for a few years, and while they're improved this year, they're not quite in the thick of the wild-card race, so they haven't captured the attention of casual fans yet.
That leaves the White Sox.
Look at attendance figures for the whole season and the Sox are just below the middle of the league, averaging a little under 28,000, just ahead of the Milwaukee Brewers. But look closer and they're drawing more like the Boston Red Sox and New York Mets, who are in the top 10 in attendance.
Note: To be fair, Fenway Park limits the Red Sox's attendance with its capacity of 36,298. U.S. Cellular Field's capacity is 39,336, which is on the small side, but not small enough given current attendance patterns to regularly limit crowds.
Remember, winning draws. Also remember that there are only about 10,000 hardcore fans of any team, fewer in smaller markets, who'll come to the games no matter what. Everybody else is either a casual fan whose interest waxes and wanes or a non-fan who, with enough winning, will be drawn to the hot ticket.
The White Sox have been an underperforming, mediocre team for four years since 2000, when they made their only playoff appearance since 1993. They started this season red hot, but casual fans and non-fans didn't catch on until mid-May.
That's partly because the Sox compete with the Cubs, partly because it takes a few weeks for people to catch on, and partly because most people don't really buy a hot start as meaning anything until it's sustained for a month or so.
But since the Sox opened a homestand on May 12 with a 25-9 record, they've been drawing just fine, doing the Heartland proud. To that point, they'd averaged 20,044 for 14 dates. Take out the big Opening Day crowd and they'd drawn 18,652 a game. Eight of the 14 crowds had been under the Mendoza Line of 20,000.
Here's the White Sox's average attendance since then, through Thursday night:
Rest of May: 27,621
June: 29,668
July: 34,417
August: 30,768 (three dates)
Since All-Star break: 35,089
Starting May 12, only three of the nine remaining games that month drew fewer than 20,000. The last time the Sox failed to draw that many was on June 1.
Looking at that spike in July, you might think the Cubs visited. Nope. That was in June. The three games in August so far have been against the Toronto Blue Jays. The Twins and New York Yankees are coming to town in the middle of the month. That average will climb.
Want to see what winning does? Look what happens when non-marquee teams come in. The Detroit Tigers visited for a three-game weekend series at the end of April, and the average crowd was 23,121. Detroit came in again for three midweek games in mid-July. Average crowd: 35,903.
Even better: The White Sox drew an average of 13,487 for a three-game midweek series against the Kansas City Royals in early May. In late June, another midweek three-game series with K.C. drew an average of 29,032.
Winning even trumps ticket price. Monday games at U.S. Cellular Field are half-price. The first two, on April 18 and May 16, drew 27,018 and 26,889, good crowds. But starting with the next half-price night, on May 30, the Sox have never failed to draw at least 33,000.
Win, and they will come. It's that simple, unless you're the Twins.
Now, it can be argued that the Midwest is home to the game's smallest markets, and small-market teams can't win, so it's a vicious cycle. We've talked before about how market size isn't necessarily destiny -- ask the Twins and Oakland A's, once again battling for the playoffs, or the Mets and Los Angeles Dodgers, once again not, about that.
There's nothing wrong with Heartland attendance that some smart management, winning baseball and a new stadium in the Twin Cities can't fix.
I like what ESPN thinks of the Twins:
10:05: The Twins begin this road trip seven games behind in the AL wild card race, and with Oakland playing so well and the Angels also far ahead, Minnesota simply is running out of margin for error. They've got to win, or the many seamheads at ESPN who picked the Twins to go to the World Series will have to wave white flags, officially, on that choice.
Start waving your white flag Leslie, you seamhead. lol.
I dont have time to read all that garbage. All I know is that the Sux will fail and choke just like they always do. I am just going to sit back and enjoy it. The Sux WILL NOT win a world series this year and hopefully they never do in my lifetime.
Leslie
MLB should get rid of the DH. Make all pitchers hit. Then someone can throw a 100 mph fastball at his head and get even. Bheurle should be suspended as long as Hafner is.
Hafner got suspended? For what?
G-man, its no wonder they ban you over at all of the sox boards. It isnt because you are a troll. Its because you dont make the minimum IQ requirements. Should I just call you "Lenny" from now on?
Watson (kyyle23): Wrigley and the Cell can both hold roughly 40,000. When the Sox sell out, it's fans rooting for the other team, like me on August 15. I'm going to the Cell, but I ain't rooting for the Sox. The fact that the Sox play at night, and can't draw regardless, and the fact that the Cubs play during the day, and they sell out regardless just cracks me up. It must make Chico Carresquel toss in his grave.
Sherlock(G-man, and this is as sarcastic as possible because you deduction skills match that of a snail): The White Sox have sold out every home game for their past 3 homestands. How can you be this stupid and not be institutionalized? If you are going to comment on the attendance at Sox games, at least pay attention so that you arguments hold weight.
Oh yeah, thanks for paying the Sox your money, loser. LOL
Watson: I bought my tickets 2 weeks before the game, and front-row bleachers were still available. What's w/ that? I tried buying tickets to a Cubs-Cards game to played in Sept. in mid-April, and it was sold out. Explain, please.
I don't care if I give the Sox my money. What can they get w/ $12?
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