{"id":306,"date":"2007-09-14T00:38:42","date_gmt":"2007-09-14T05:38:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sox35th.com\/?p=306"},"modified":"2008-11-15T22:41:36","modified_gmt":"2008-11-16T03:41:36","slug":"thomes-homies-a-retrospective-by-the-numbers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sox35th.com\/index.php\/306\/thomes-homies-a-retrospective-by-the-numbers","title":{"rendered":"Thome&#8217;s Homies: A Retrospective by the Numbers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>1:<\/strong> The number of career home runs Thome had prior to his first anti-Sox shot &#8211; June 29, 1992 against Jack McDowell.<br \/>\n<strong>41: <\/strong>The number of Sox pitchers Thome has gone deep against.<br \/>\n<strong>334:<\/strong> Total number of pitchers homered against.<br \/>\n<strong>42: <\/strong>The number of home runs Thome has hit at U.S. Cellular Field as a member of the White Sox.<br \/>\n<strong>18: <\/strong>Number at Comiskey II\/U.S. Cellular as an opponent of the White Sox.<br \/>\n<strong>6: <\/strong>Number hit against his former employers as a member of the White Sox.<br \/>\n<strong>41:<\/strong> Number hit against his current employer.<br \/>\n<strong>69:<\/strong> Total number of home runs Thome has with the White Sox.<br \/>\n<strong>0\/9:<\/strong> Ratio of walk-off shots in Thome&#8217;s career as a percentage that happened to come against the Good Guys.<br \/>\n<strong>0:<\/strong> Number of current Sox relievers homered against.<br \/>\n<strong>3:<\/strong> Number of current White Sox starting pitchers homered against (Garland, Buehrle, Vazquez). Also the number of players requiring fewer at-bats to reach 500 home runs.<br \/>\n<strong>10:<\/strong> Jersey number of the last Sox pitcher Thome homered against &#8211; August 30, 2004 against Shingo Takatsu.<br \/>\n<strong>1:<\/strong> Number of Cleveland native friends who told me during the 2005-2006 offseason &#8220;We know what&#8217;ll happen. You guys&#8217;ll win the World Series, Thome&#8217;ll hit his 500th with you and go into the Hall in a White Sox uniform.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re not holding our breath for that Series or that Hall immortalization, but it&#8217;s nice to see the guy succeed all the same. Especially if we can laugh at Indians fans while he does it. They may have the division, but we&#8217;ve got . . . um . . . a guy they couldn&#8217;t afford any more and have managed to do just fine without. God I hate this team.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some numbers are greater than the sum of their parts. Five-hundred, for example.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[12,223,211],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sox35th.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sox35th.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sox35th.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sox35th.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sox35th.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.sox35th.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sox35th.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sox35th.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sox35th.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}