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NVM. Don't think about it too much. I'm already joking around too much with you today. That's probably enough.

Yeah, I know SINCE, lol. 3 month long vacations will do that to a person. Six weeks, fine. But this is too long. That's why I went to the library and checked out about 30 books today...can't wait for my teaching job to start at the end of the month (in Shanghai) and to forget about this year's White Sox until the offseason at least.

Greg, you're scaring me a little bit...

this almost surreal lauren teahen thing just fits 100% with the way the entire season has gone and the last 4 days of pathetic, season-ending baseball. except we still have the bataan death march through minneapolis...all of us will be inured and apathetic to the lossses by that point

This feels completely legit. Nobody has the time to write a disengenuous post of that length... Mark Teahen has struggled to fulfill the expectations placed on him in Oakland and then with the Royals....no doubt. He had one really great 3-4 month stretch when I lived in Kansas City where I (and the entire city) thought he was going to just take off and be close to an All-Star caliber player at a position once occupied by George Brett (lots of pressure!). It just hasn't happened. With all that said, from listening to Mark dealing with the media in Kansas City, he was always one of the best personalities on that team. KC is a great place to live and raise a family, and Mark's sense of humor worked perfectly in a market where people needed to have a sense of humor about an abysmal, but once proud franchise. He was always a breath of fresh air in a sea of Zack Greinke's to me. From reading in the past couple of days, I've been even more impressed by a lot of the off-field/charitable work he has been involved with. When your husband has the salary he does, it makes it possible to do a world of good, and I'm sure that makes you feel grateful....to be in that position to help so many others, especially kids who just glow at the chance to meet any major league player (like Make A Wish Foundation). You are better than any member of the Guillen family. It's incredibly unfortunate that you were bothered to the degree that you felt you had to respond. It's sad that many more posts the last 2-3 days have been devoted to childish sniping back and forth on the internet INSTEAD OF what looked like when the season began to be one of the most important series of the season, with the Red Sox/Yankees at USCF. You have no reason to apologize for your appearance or height or skin complexion. I'm sure Mark loves you for all the right reasons, and nothing a little punk like Oney Guillen can ever say should cause you to question yourself like that (assuming it really is you). It was a classy move to at least try to clarify your own side (and Mark's) of the whole situation, but it's really none of our business. But that's the nature of the media/social network world we live in today that these things end up happening over and over again with an organization I was once proud to support. There are many many great White Sox fans out there (you would have seen that if you were in Chicago in 2005-2006), and don't let the pathetic acts of an immature, spoiled brat who's never been held accountable by anyone with the Sox to throw you off your game.

Stewart and Sale definitely need to be given some opportunities to show what they can do in extended outings. Maybe Santiago. Perhaps they start Bruney, if for no other reason than our AAA rotation is a joke and we don't have a single legit starting prospect north of Winston-Salem. I doubt they will look at the likes of Leesman or Shirek or AAAA pitcher like that. If Sale shows ANY signs or duress or tiring, you shut him down and start building again. AFL. Winter ball....spring training. Figure it out, Cooper.

Michael Young's 863 OPS was never going to be available for Rios.

Who's getting more boos tonight, Dunn or Rios? Ozzie when he goes to the mound? Pretty soon there will be no boos because fans will have lost the incentive to even muster up the energy to show that emotion.

The biggest highlight of this entire game is Larry SOUP NAZI Thomas throwing out the 1st pitch before the game. Otherwise...ZERO. This might be worse than Sucker Punch or Piranha 3-D. I guess Shark NIGHT might eventually be worse.

Valverde time again in DET. Hopefully someone drills that smile off his face.

Doesn't Beckham have a hit tonight too? How many line drives (fair/foul) has he hit this year? 25 - 30? Can't even recognize the player from 2009. You would have to laugh if the attendance was under 20,000 for any of these games....with school still out. That would be the ultimate wake-up call to JR and the marketing department.

6-5 tigers boesch homer off expensive NL acquisition Adams (the next Linebrink) 5 1/2 games back...have lost 3 games now in less than a week collapse comes one week too late yes, let's pay john danks $90 million for an extension and double the ticket prices please great idea! i'm already adjusting to the indians being the only chance to beat the Tigers or Twins The Tigers are just too good offensively now...and Kipnis and Chisenhall are leading the Indians against Beckett....and yet we have Viciedo rotting away.

This is starting to remind me of the same exact things you hear on talk radio about a certain occupant at 1600 Pennsylvania. It's just that usually they are a bit more circumspect.

Avila continues to be AL Central difference maker...3-1 Tiggers Rain delay on its way there as well.

Viciedo K's in his first at-back back. Milledge, who very well could be starter or platoon guy next year all the way back up to .300 finally.

Tiggers already battering around Colby Lewis. Lucky to only have given up a couple of runs so far, in all honesty.

Huff vs. Beckett, Advantage Red Sox Tigers at Rangers Twins at Angels (Santana coming off no-hitter) Daniel Hudson vs. Tim Lincecum (wonder who Hudson would rather face, our AAA line-up tonight or the Giants?)

Maybe we could reacquire Jon Garland to attempt it?

Actually pondering that I'd rather have Beckham hitting 2nd instead of 9th. Ugh. That line-up is just ugly ugly ugly.

Lillibridge doesn't hit righties well and hasn't hit period for more than a month. I don't know, but Pierre/Lillibridge/DeAza sounds even more like a AAA line-up than what we put out there last night. Rios at least had a couple of hits in the past 2 games. If he was going to be benched, it should have been 3 games ago. I mean...we're really legitimately thinking we can beat the Yankees without Konerko and with that starting outfield?

Sort of. He's choosing Rios over Lillibridge. That's it. If Konerko was able to play, we'd know the actual answer to this, because DeAza's also playing in the outfield tonight.

This is sad. We've reached the point where the best chance of regime change is taunting Ozzie's son in order to set off a string of events with his father that leads to him losing his job. It's just not the right way for him to leave the Sox, but I guess there's no other ending to this story than ugliness and recriminations. You know KW will never be able to stay quiet or take the high road. It's not in his DNA.

QUOTE (ptatc @ Aug 2, 2011 -> 12:56 PM) Enjoying watching a baseball game with my son. Teaching him to keep score. My enjoyment of baseball isn't tied to winning. Granted it's more fun if they win that day but that isn't the only reason. A day at the ballpark is better than a day almost anywhere else. Then I would take him to a minor league game. You can get to know most (well, not the first round draft picks, they've already developed an attitude) of the players personally....get autographs, catch a foul ball...the promotions and contests are fun for the kids. It's a much purer and more enjoyable form of baseball in many ways, because you see all these kids chasing the dream and even though only 3-4% are going to make it, the feeling is just completely different.

Peavy doesn't belong in the same conversation as Dunn/Rios. He's doing the best he possibly can...he could just shut it down completely and collect a salary, but he's always pushed himself harder than anyone on the Sox could push him and unfortunately that's caused him more setbacks than if they'd just taken the conservative approach from the very moment he was acquired. Zero reason he should have been pitching in 2009, that team was toast and nothing was going to turn it around...especially the way Rios was playing, and Dye fading as well.

Let's see....Konerko, Humber, Jeff Gray and probably Sergio Santos did better than expected. Maybe Crain. You can argue either way about about Alexei (his defense has definitely taken a step backwards, and hitting with RISP), AJ, Quentin and Sale. The rest of the roster has underachieved dramatically. Anyone watching or following this team all season wouldn't argue that Ozzie's done a good job. The last 3 games offer about 50 examples of poor fundamentals alone. And Ozzie wonders why they are so poor? JESUS.