Jake

Took almost 2 quarters for everyone to turn on Cutler

Just get a TD and everything will be alright. This is why your special teams can't f*** you like that. It makes the mistakes by the O and D into backbreaker.

That should have been caught.

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Sep 28, 2013 -> 10:10 PM) Since Matta was hired at OSU (2004): Matta: 5 reg season title, 4 tourney MSU 3 reg 1 tourney Wisconsin 1 reg 1 tourney Purdue 1 reg 1 tourney ILL 1 reg 1 tourney Iowa 0 reg 1 tourney Mich 1 reg 0 tourney IU 1 reg 0 tourney NU - lol

QUOTE (BigEdWalsh @ Sep 28, 2013 -> 10:19 PM) I think Holds are an even stupider stat. Holds are necessary due to the absurd blown save for middle relievers

Yeah I wonder about the reporting of this. I almost wonder if we misunderstood Hawk or Hawk misunderstood some other kind of info

before that at-bat, Conor Gillaspie had posted a wRC+ of 1 against lefties this year no, I didn't leave any numbers out of that stat

QUOTE (fathom @ Sep 28, 2013 -> 06:51 PM) He actually had impressive knowledge of the Royals' players. One of the best guests they've had in the booth in years based on him actually talking about current players. He definitely knows baseball and particularly White Sox baseball.

I know it sounds crazy, but I actually think he had done a better job than his predecessor (at least how Walker had done over his last several years as coach). He presided over Rios and Dunn returning to having value, which was incredibly important. Unfortunately, our team offenses have struggled due to PK's rapid decline, Alexei's regression, and the non-emergence of several other bats. It looked like Gordon Beckham might save his job, but Gordon has since plummeted into a position where he himself is probably losing his job. Dayan has remained inconsistent. Guys like Flowers, Phegley, Morel never broke through and Jeff Keppinger came in and had the worst year of his career. You might say Conor Gillaspie was an accomplishment, but turning a AAAA player into a slightly above replacement bat isn't something to hang one's hat on; and we really have no clue whether Manto had anything to do with Gillaspie who was acquired during ST. I don't think that a bad season means heads have to roll, but from the outside looking in it certainly seems reasonable. Bad offense, pretty much no improvement from players short of veterans returning to past form (not quite that, in Dunn's case). I'm guessing that things that are seen from within by Robin, Hahn, and the players have confirmed that we can do better. The key benefit to this timing is how little continuity we're going to have on the player side of things. The only key player who may "suffer" from the switch of hitting coaches is Dayan, who has clearly been working with Manto for quite a while. With that said, it isn't as if Manto had made Dayan into a great hitter and it may be the case that Tank didn't like working with him anyway. Beyond that, there is going to be a ton of roster turnover so this is the perfect time to get a new hitting coach into the mix. Get the coach who you want raising your young players like Avisail, Semien, etc. from Day 1. For that, it's a smart move. You let your fans know that you are serious and you put yourself in position to get a new guy to guide these young players throughout the offseason and into the starts of their careers. If Manto's the wrong guy, you get him away from the young guys ASAP and you don't waste their time working with a different philosophy of coach throughout AFL and whatever else.

I don't think springing for a big ticket outfielder made sense anyway for next year. You want Viciedo, De Aza, and Garcia out there pretty much everyday. I don't think they really want to move Dayan to 1B while his bat is still a question mark. On the other hand, pretty much every other position on the team other than SS could quite easily be upgraded.

It's awesome that our 14-year star doesn't have to flee just to get a ring. It would be wonderful if we can keep picking up those World Series victories often enough that being a White Sox legend becomes analogous with being a World Series hero. ...and yes, I spent way too much time rewatching highlights and such yesterday. Those were good times, even if Soxtalk was pulling its hair out the vast majority of the season

What a joke. What should Sweum be fired for? For not losing enough?

Another week, another decision: Vick or RG3?

Hahn pretty much revealed what needed revealing: we "owed it to the fans" to keep the team together and hope to compete this year, but soon knew it was more prudent to look to the future. I take that to mean that most parties involved didn't expect a winner this year and are probably seeing the players as the reason for this season rather than the manager.

In Mariano's defense, I'm not sure that he foresaw the craziness that would follow him around all year. It's pretty much unprecedented. Only in the 21st century, only for a Yankee

I'd be receptive to PK as a pinch hitter extraordinaire/platoon/injury reserve, especially if it is on the cheap as he has suggested. He basically said that he just doesn't want the worst season of his career (both individually and for the team) to be his last if he can help it. It seems like he realizes that his body may not hold up as a full-time player anyway. As to "why wait?" Sometimes as you are grinding mentally and physically, it is extremely easy to get very negative. Winning seems impossible, hitting seems difficult, your body feels like it'll never be the same....but then after you're away and rested for a while, you start to reevaluate. Your legs/back/wrist/whatever come back and feel a little more like normal, you start getting these competitive impulses, and you realize you're not ready to go. ...or those things don't happen and then you retire, knowing that you made the right choice.

I feel like PK really, really hates playing badly.

I love how often Aldous Huxley appears on these lists. One of my favorites.

QUOTE (witesoxfan @ Sep 27, 2013 -> 10:34 AM) I think this fits better. Kotsay was good in his prime but I don't think people will wax poetic about him 10 years from now 2-time Gold Glove DH

I feel like the thing that struck me the most was just seeing the friendship aspect of that moment.

I have a 42" Samsung LCD that is at least 6-7 years old. Works like a charm.

Let's be real, I'm probably going to cry for his last game at the Cell

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Sep 26, 2013 -> 10:08 AM) Now how much do those percentages change if you start telling people they have to pay more to get it done? Not sure, since they don't have to pay more

QUOTE (Alpha Dog @ Sep 25, 2013 -> 09:59 PM) So he did a poor job of selling it? Didn't 'get the message out'? That is always the fallback when liberal ideas get rejected. The message DID get out, and it was rejected. The way I see it is this: Americans have a very low opinion of Obamacare. Roughly 52% oppose while 39% are in favor of it. Meanwhile, 57% of Americans say they do not have enough information about the law to know if it will impact them - 67% of uninsured Americans don't know what the law does for them (this was in March this year, 3 years after the law passed). Now, opinion on many aspects of the law are totally different. 52% say they think Medicaid should be expanded to cover more low-income people (41% oppose this idea). 88% support the idea of giving tax credits to small businesses for buying healthcare for their employees. 81% support closing the "donut hole" in Medicare 80% support healthcare exchanges 76% support raising the maximum age of dependents on family insurance plans 76% support subsidies for individuals buying insurance 60% support increasing Medicare payroll tax on upper incomes The only aspect that was polled that drew less than majority support was the individual mandate, which was questionably described as a penalty by the pollsters and thus drawing criticism. Either way, this had 40% support and is essential for the law and all the other provisions to work correctly. Interestingly, despite the high unfavorability of the law in general, only 29% believed that their family would be worse off because of the law. As far as more misinformation, 59% of people say they believe that nationwide health expenditures are "going up faster than usual." It has actually been growing much slower than usual for several years - only 4% of Americans thought this was the case. Only 40% believed that more uninsured people would have insurance, lol. Anyway, the difference between how people feel about each aspect of the law and how they feel about the law on the whole tells me that the law was not well-marketed. People believing in clear un-truths like the supposed rapid inflation of healthcare costs and the idea that this law will not even cover uninsured people tells me that people have been hearing the wrong sources of information. The fact that a huge majority claim they need more information to know whether it will impact their lives in any way, including and especially uninsured people, tells me that the administration needed to have worked harder to disseminate information about the law. http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/ot..._plan-1130.html http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/20/h..._n_2915826.html http://kff.org/health-reform/poll-finding/...-tracking-poll/

QUOTE (SleepyWhiteSox @ Sep 26, 2013 -> 09:18 AM) Can't wait for the new Nexus phone Can't wait for Nexus phones to be available for ATT