*Kenny Williams appeared on Baseball Tonight's phone call segment. Karl Ravech asked him about
Crede's haircut and
Buehrle's tarp-slide ban and insisted that Sox management laughs more than any other team's front office, but they're trying to maintain a successful organization that wins in a dignified manner.
He's the second Sox I've seen appear in that segment -- Jim Thome was on before, and Thome prefaced all his answers with "Well..." and spoke with a drawn-out Midwestern accent. It's supposed to be a quick segment, but like his at-bats, Thome extended it.
*Ed Farmer needs to lay off Barry Bonds. Not that Bonds deserves it; I just hate when he's brought up in a game that has nothing to do with him. We had to deal with it with the
Sunday Night Baseball crew, but since The Score doesn't have "Bonds on Bonds" to promote there's really no point in it. Seemingly whenever the Giants are brought up, Farmer rails on the perjury-defendant-to-be, mainly calling him the worst teammate ever in various forms.
He tries to drag Chris Singleton into the equation by asking him how his reading of "Game of Shadows" is coming along; Singleton said that his progress has stalled the last couple of days. I think I deserve to not have to know that fact. People who make a conscious decision to avoid Bonds whenever possible shouldn't be hit with it when they're listening to the White Sox. This would never have happened if John Rooney were still alive.
*Singleton needs to speed it up. It's frustrating to know what happens before Singleton says it -- you can basically go by the reaction of the crowd. Not only does he call it late, but he leaves the most essential piece of information for the very end. It's tough to describe textually, but it's something like:
[crack of the bat]
[crowd cheers]
And Jermaine Dye...
[crowd continues to cheer]
hits a liner...
[more cheering]
that drops in for a single.
Sometimes it takes a good five seconds for him to get out what we must know, and it's even tougher to get a mental picture on developing plays.
I realize that he's not going to be a
good broadcaster for a long time, but I'd rather him focus on getting the thing we need to know out first, even if it comes at the expense of complete sentences. "Single, Dye," would be preferable at this point.