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QUOTE(SoxHawk1980 @ Sep 21, 2006 -> 08:58 PM) Does anyone else hate Uribe's bat toss every time he hits a can of corn to the OF? Because in his mind he thinks he went Profundo. Nice to see another pile of dung shutting down our team. The only thing that this corpseball hopefully will acomplish is the final nail in the coffin for our poor hitting coach.

QUOTE(whitesoxmanager @ Sep 20, 2006 -> 10:03 PM) between marte & iguchi? my lord we need help..... so if minnesota or detroits plane goes down were in? No a team made up of the Rochester team will be wearing the Twins uniforms and will be playing the Yanks in the first round.

QUOTE(whitesoxmanager @ Sep 20, 2006 -> 09:52 PM) that isnt a crayon...its your lipstick...red doesnt look good on you.... Thank you for bringing me back to 8th grade and the fond memories of demasculating ad hominem humor.

QUOTE(whitesoxmanager @ Sep 20, 2006 -> 09:43 PM) since you arent able to have a memory here we go one more time: take notes please for gods sake! YOU RESPECT YOUR WS CHAMPION PLAYERS BY KEEPING THEM! AT LEAST THE MAJOR CONTRIBUTORS! Can I borrow the Crayon you are using. Damn KW for not keeping Timo, Willie, Marte, Viz, and El Duque. If El Duque was our 5th starter he would have like 30 wins.

QUOTE(whitesoxmanager @ Sep 20, 2006 -> 09:39 PM) OK you guys all convinced me...i am a dillusioned sox fan...and AROW meant nothing but bad to the team during his career...THANK GOD WE NOW HAVE THE EVERCLUTCH JIM THOME!!!!! LOL!!!! We at soxtalk sincerly apologize for insulting your mancrush. You are right, stats be damned, he is the bestest hitter and most clutch guy in the history of baseball. If he was on this team right now, he would of had a stooge convention and we would of won 140 games. Freddy would be throwing 98 mph if he had seen Rowand in CF.

Uribe and his garbage average and garbage approach gets to hit. And Ross Gload who went 3 for 4 in his last start on Sunday sits on the bench trying to figure out what he needs to do to get playing time.

QUOTE(whitesoxmanager @ Sep 20, 2006 -> 09:35 PM) i respect Arow as a baseball player...you spit on him and bring up .230 average to support your dislike... I didnt spit on him. He was a good player, he played good defense. He however is not the demigod you make him out to be. He is not the reason that this team is not playing good. If the difference between this team making the playoffs is rowand. Then break the team up and start over, because that is retarded reason for a team to lose.

QUOTE(fathom @ Sep 20, 2006 -> 09:33 PM) Thornton needs to decide if he'll be a power hitter or a speed player. See that the reason Uribe plays ever day. He has decided to be a power hitter.

QUOTE(BearSox @ Sep 20, 2006 -> 09:32 PM) I got 5 bucks on the runner scoring from third via wild pitch. Seriously, why was Thornton taken out? Is he injured? Nope, our manager has appendagitis thought.

QUOTE(fathom @ Sep 20, 2006 -> 09:30 PM) Their execution and managing is amazing tonight. The stats also don't show the late game defensive struggles that Rowand had last year. How many balls bounced in front of Rowand when he broke back on the swing. Bobby Jenks had a few blown saves againt Cleveland that come to mind.

QUOTE(whitesoxmanager @ Sep 20, 2006 -> 09:23 PM) ok enough already Dr. LaRussa. you are killing me with these silly stats. Arow did more with those averages than Thome has done the entire last 4 months. for that ROSS GLOAD has been better for our team in his short spell in the lineup than JT! could there be a correlation between our losing late and Arows .230 average? did we win when he hit well? hmmmm.... I really dont know how to respond to this. I use stats, and measurable evidence to support my point. And you smile and giggle at your autographed Rowand poster and dream of last year and the 3 stooges.

QUOTE(BearSox @ Sep 20, 2006 -> 09:22 PM) Are you kidding me Ozzie? Do you know that Thornton is much better vs righties? Ozzie is appendage retarded.

QUOTE(fathom @ Sep 20, 2006 -> 09:20 PM) It also happens when you throw too many changeups up and over the plate. Whomever has come up with the approach to attack the hitters this year is border line dumb. I have never seen so many times that our pitchers get to 0-2 on a hitter, and then either put a changeup over the plate to be crushed, or they nibble and get the count back in the hitters favor.

QUOTE(BearSox @ Sep 20, 2006 -> 09:19 PM) It happens when you try and throw a perfect game because you have an offense that forgot how to hit... these grinder rules are starting too piss me off. Did Greg Walker make them? Because all of them are about lifting, pulling, and hitting the home run. The grinder rules apply if you have an approach like the Twins. Short quick swings, get a few men on, make things happen, and get clutch hits. Greg Walker's O is so anti-grinder rules its not even funny. He is into the lift and pull O, 2 strikes swing for the dan ryan, bases loaded, swing for the dan ryan.

QUOTE(Kalapse @ Sep 20, 2006 -> 09:15 PM) The Sox are once again getting their asses handed to them but hey they won it all last year, so you really can't complain about this disgrace of a second half. Well the Ozzeroo with another great pitching decision. 8th inning after 4 runs given up, lets keep the starter in there. Kalapse, did you see where Cooper was on the pregame and was saying that Freddy wasnt healthy for most of the year. And he is finally feeling good, and didnt want to miss a start because he is a gamer. The excuses and the pitty party for the 2006 whitesox have begun.

QUOTE(whitesoxmanager @ Sep 20, 2006 -> 09:07 PM) you didnt feel anything special about Arow when he first came to the sox? man i remember telling my wife the first time i saw him play "this is the kinda guy that will win a WS for the sox". dont you remember he didnt get to play right away under Jerry Manure? i was dying to see that guy play everday and see what he would contribute. he presented self confidence, hard work, & desire. when he didnt play well he wore it on his face & chest. i like a guy on the team that can lead thru difficult times. i could just tell that he wasnt going to be the kinda guy who wasnt going to settle for losing. look he certainly wasnt the team last year but IMO he represented what defines champions from winners... Enough of the Rowand splooging. Lets dispell some of the great Rowand couldnt let this team lose crap. If he couldnt settle for losing, why did he basically stop hitting when the going go tough. .245 BA in August with a .286OBP and a .729OPS .235 BA in September with a .313OBP and a .705OPS And Mr. Clutch for close and late batted a robust .221

QUOTE(WHarris1 @ Sep 20, 2006 -> 09:07 PM) Excuse you... I am sure that you loved when he K'd like 8 times in a row over a 2 game period. And I believe he did that like twice.

QUOTE(South Side Fireworks Man @ Sep 20, 2006 -> 08:59 PM) Way to go, Thome. Why am I not surprised? The entire reason for picking up a lefty power AB was to neutralize a righty with a good slider. Paulie now pulls a slider that started way. Who was the genius the other day that was out here telling us all that Konerko hits to all fields. Example of A on why that theory is dead wrong.

QUOTE(WHarris1 @ Sep 20, 2006 -> 08:57 PM) Or Thome... Jose the eptiome of the Greg Walker approach. Lift and Pull and swing for the fences every f***ing time you are up there. He was worthless. And people had this silly idea he was clutch based on one year and a few AB. Hitters under 240 are not clutch.

QUOTE(Kalapse @ Sep 20, 2006 -> 08:51 PM) That right there is why he gets a free pass, the occasional pointless blast into the left field stands is worth a lot in some people's minds. Its funny. He is Jose Valentin with better D. Just like Jose he swings every single time trying to hit the ball on the dan ryan. And like Jose people think he is clutch or whatever because he runs into one every so often. Jose had a similiar average and similiar mental approach at the plate. I hated Valentin when he was here, and I am not fond of his replacement that is the same guy.

I get a kick out of how people crap all over Anderson the rook, who has a .231 BA, who started out like crap, and has turned it on. Yet Captain Profundo over at SS, who has a 3 point advantage over BA, who is a vet. Whose BA has dropped year after year gets a free pass from fans and from our goofy manager. I see the lift and pull offense is in full effect, we score a bunch of runs last night, and now we are struggling to get hits again. This is so 2003/2004 of our offense.

You dont have to blow up s***. Ditch Prancer, put someone in LF who has a pulse. Ditch Uribe, get someone who has a pulse. Ditch Garcia and his 86mph fastball. Invite Cora and Walker to a conference, when they show up, its just HR with some forms for them to fill out. Hire a hitting coach that preaches OBP and line drive swings, and being a tough out. Hire a 3rd base coach that isnt a pinwheel.

QUOTE(LVSoxFan @ Sep 19, 2006 -> 12:57 PM) Yikes. A game thread with Detroit and no replies. Has it really come to this? Sheesh. Lift and Pull, that is all.

QUOTE(RockRaines @ Sep 19, 2006 -> 11:47 AM) So funny that the sox lead the league in BA with runners in scoring position, and many of you are still trying to debate that the offense is the real issue here. Heres a clue to why we wont make the playoffs Detroit 745 RS 605 RA Minn 741 RS 636 RA Sox 816 RS 722 RA How can you say the offense hasnt had anything to do with our failure, especially in the 2nd half. Great 816 runs scored, 520 of those scored in the first half. We are 13th in the majors in runs scored in the 2nd half. We are behind legendary scoring offenses like the Chicago Cubs and the Florida Marlins. In the second half we have scored a whole 296 runs while giving up 307 runs 4.68ERA. In the first half we scored 520 runs, and gave up 415. 4.44 ERA So our pitching was slightly worse in the 2nd half, but our run production dropped quite a bit.

QUOTE(Kalapse @ Sep 19, 2006 -> 12:54 AM) It's getting close to "Is Mark Buehrle an Ace?" like proportions. That sounds just oh so damn sweet, it really does and plausable at that. Alright lets just say for a second that this is all true and Ozzie/KW really don't like eachother just imagine for a second what it would have been like if the Sox had retained Frank Thomas for the '06 season. Kenny hates Ozzie Ozzie hates Kenny Kenny hates Frank Frank hates Kenny Ozzie hates Frank Frank hates Ozzie Reinsdorf loves Frank Frank loves Reinsdorf KW is so so with Reinsdorf Reinsdorf is so so with Kenny It's like a badass baseball soap oprah. And then lets toss in the not aware of whats going on. Here is Kongs quote about Harrelson stating that they lack intensity. "It's a free country," Konerko said. "Everybody's entitled to their opinions. I'm not going to say he's wrong or right. You're programmed to play. Sometimes you execute, sometimes you don't. That's the way I look at it." So that is his wrap up of his performance this year. Thank god he is our captain. Good lord.