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    in Pale Hose Talk

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    we seem to be back to that place where we have great names on paper, but the production is not there from the needed guys at the right times. The amount of times AJ and Rios have come up in particular in the past two weeks with RISP and done nothing. The teams overall LOB has been catastrophic the past two weeks

     

    and to go from 1.5 up to 2 down so quickly, while playing bad times, and MN now unable to do anything wrong (winning 4-2 while being outhit 14-4 against OAK!!), doesn't look good

     

    unless they find some offensive consistency, MN will end up running away with this division, next weeks series could be a season determiner

    THAT'S A WHITE SOX WINNER

    in Pale Hose Talk

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    QUOTE (Thunderbolt @ Aug 8, 2010 -> 08:39 AM)
    Ozzie is losing a lot more games for this team then a manager ever should. A manager's job is to put his team in the best position to ball games, Ozzie isn't doing that. Instead, he's handicapping this team by being stubborn and shortsighted.

     

    I was always in the "Sox won the WS in spite of Ozzie" camp; many times arguing that the most important managerial job was to keep players focused, hungry, battling, etc etc, and just as often pointed to guys like Scosia who's consistently headed a contender in Anaheim. However, I have to give Ozzie sole credit for pulling this group from the abyss in June, especially with a number of young players who can't be expected to do so themselves.

     

    The Wave Sucks

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    the wave is for people who did not come to watch a baseball game, but attend just another get out and do something entertainment venue

     

    same people that come to hear player theme music before the bat, scrolling banners telling the fans when to cheer, teensluts shooting Chinese sweat shop t-shirts into the stands with a pneumatic gun, animated race-around-the base on the jumbotron to determine which color ticket gets 10% off a jersey with a 1000% markup at the stadium......need I go on?

     

    it's on full display here at Angels stadium and it makes me sick and defend traditional stadiums where all that family entertainment non-baseball horsesh*t is removed

    Mariners (Rowland-Smith 1-9, 6.27) @ White Sox (Floyd 5-8, 3.87)

    in 2010 Season in Review

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    I also really love Wayne Larivee. He calls such a good football game.

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    yeah, but I think baseball commands special recognition, maybe I'm biased from only having played bball, but do believe it truly is THE thinking man's sport and an art form, and the ability to dissect the game as he does is super super impressive....to me

     

    maybe guys more familiar with playing both sports can weigh in, but I've never heard any other sport given a moniker that implies intellect being such a big factor, compared to say, speed, which can make even the dumbest athletes excel in football

     

    THE CLUB - 2010

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    watched the first episode the day it aired, was really expecting a cheesy "Kenny is a wildcard, and Ozzie is crazy" deal, but it was not that AT ALL. Was very very well done, gave a true sense of how the business works, put the Sox in a refreshingly professional light, not with scripted reality show cue card directing I feared would deepen the weak image. The part with Hudson was tough, and the Torres sequence including his call to his father brought a tear to my eye.

     

    Looking forward to the rest of the series and regardless, glad to see some unique exposure for the organization, doesn't come that often to national media. When they ran that "Pen" series on the Phillies, I thought "figures", what pro baseball thing doesn't revolve around NYY, BOS, CHC, PHI, ATL....

     

    Who knows maybe soon, they'll be interviewing little leaguers in Nebraska and when asked who they're favorite team is they'll start saying White Sox instead of Red Sox :gosox3:

    NL takes home field advantage in the World Series

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    QUOTE (elgonzo4sox @ Jul 15, 2010 -> 12:54 PM)
    As is often the case with relievers, especially closers, their failings are the most visible. But there were plenty of other failings on the AL side, including some stupid mental mistakes, that hurt equally as bad:

     

    -- Elvis Andrus overrunning second base after Konerko's strike out and getting tagged out.

     

    -- Joe Girardi not having a pinch runner available when Ortiz got on base in the ninth.

     

    -- Torii Hunter made multiple mistakes: didn't charge a ball hard and misfired to third, allowing a runner to go first to third on him; and two pathetic at bats with men on base, including a strikeout against Wainwright in which he swung at a pitch that was a foot outside - Hunter was swinging for the fences trying to be the big hometown All Star Game hero, instead of patiently taking what the pitcher was giving him.

     

    -- Adrian Beltre's pathetic "swing hard at anything" strike-out in the 9th.

     

    It seemed like the AL didn't try hard, and was waiting for the 3-run homer that never came. Ozzie will whip the team into shape next year, when he's the manager.

     

    excellent breakdown, especially the last part. Hunter was uncharacteristically fooled by way outside breaking balls after being up in the count, the crowd was going crazy for him both in the opening and during that at-bat, had to be tons of pressure at home to put something in play and it showed. if anyone paid attention there were also 8 pitchers throwing above 95, most pitches around 97-98, very tough day to hit

     

    i sat next to a Cub fan couple, who looked like a typical cub fan couple, I think the guy had a "carry-all"...... they didn't say two words to me (in Sox gear of course), even after a few attempts at light hearted humor on our rivalry, when Byrd scored they acted like a couple schoolgirls

     

    NL takes home field advantage in the World Series

    in Pale Hose Talk

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    I ended up buying tickets at noon and going to the game, sat about 10yards behind first base in the forth row, picked the seats specifically to see PK, knowing I'd be in full 90F sun facing west. When Matt came on I felt supremely confident he'd get out of the mess Hughes left, but the Byrd walk was the kiss of death.

     

    Was great to see the two of them on the field together, but was crushing when McCann hit that ball. You don't see many fans with Sox gear, I saw only two others the whole time and to have the Sox guy give up the go ahead runs really hurt in person. Hope it doesn't carry over for him in the second half. He was bringing absolute gas, the guy just got good wood on it in the right situation, and it didn't help his team scoring only one run in 9 innings....

    1-0 NUGGETS FROM THURSDAY

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    QUOTE (StatManDu @ Jul 9, 2010 -> 09:22 AM)
    -0 victory since Britt Burns beat the A’s on three hits on 6-19-83 at Comiskey Park … Run scored when Baines doubled in Kittle with two outs in the fourth

     

    … first 1-0 run with run scored by Sox first batter of the game at home since 6-12-78 vs. Cleveland (Garr bunt single and to second on error; third on sac; scored on Wayne Nordhagen sac fly) … Ken Kravec pitched the first seven innings before giving way to Jim Willoughby who earned the save.

     

    good laugh, used to carry Garr's baseball card around in my wallet when I was 6yrs old....not sure why, probably the only one I owned at the time, can distinctly remember standing on a corner of Archer and St. Louis showing it to a friend, had the collared jersey possibly the shorts.....good times

     

    Peavy Done for Year; Marquez Up

    in Pale Hose Talk

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    QUOTE (Milkman delivers @ Jul 7, 2010 -> 05:31 PM)
    Stupid ledge jumpers. Just a strain.

     

     

    these posts need to be deleted as soon as possible, I can't handle the momentary glee of thinking there was a misdiagnoses, only to be sunk back down a second later by the following post.... :crying

    Peavy Done for Year; Marquez Up

    in Pale Hose Talk

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    QUOTE (hawksox13 @ Jul 7, 2010 -> 07:33 AM)
    Here's the way I'm trying to look at this: I'm assuming Jake is going to miss at least nine starts, which is about 6.5 weeks of being injured/unable to pitch. I'll also assume that the Sox would have won six of those nine starts based on how well Jake has been pitching lately. It'll come down to how many of those nine starts the Sox can win with Hudson on the mound.

     

    With the way they've been playing I think there's a chance they can still win six out of those nine starts. It'll be interesting to see the Sox record in Hudson's starts while Peavy is out. But I'm with the group that thinks this will cost the Sox less games than if Rios or Konerko were to go down for the same six or seven week period. Time will tell, but with the way this team is playing right now I think they can withstand this injury. Now if it turns out to be season ending....well that's a different story. I'll hold my breath until the MRI results come back today.

     

    Don't know how people are looking at this as if they're picking between whether it's worse to have a key offensive player out or a key starting pitcher out? This is going to be a very tight division race for the next 2.5 months, with the Sox having the most difficult schedule among the three contenders and we'll need every single win we can get, so there's nothing positive about JFP being out for multiple weeks/starts the way he's been throwing

     

    Born or not born?

    in Pale Hose Talk

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    QUOTE (JohnCangelosi @ Jun 25, 2010 -> 06:06 PM)
    I live in Eastern Europe, where it's a bit more common for an apparent old timer like me at 38 to have a 20 yr old GF. And they actually are a bit more traditional over here so they don't mind being regarded as a sex object like the women in the USA do...especially in Ukraine...

     

    So with that said, here we go, can't believe I am doing this...LOL

     

    http://www.matt-connelly.com/julia

     

    Sox fans you'll love Eastern Europe! Come on out, you can go to the clubs, get some drinks, see some beautiful women, and come home at 2AM just in time for the Sox game!!! :-)

     

     

    so now, what's the nearest airport one should fly into? :D

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