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Unlike most pitchers making their debuts against us, I hope this guy can't get any breaking stuff over. A=

QUOTE (southsidepride15 @ Jun 9, 2011 -> 10:08 PM) Yeah, you're right. Example: Crede being shafted by Eric Chavez like 3 straight years. Did Eric Chavez pump gallons of steroids into his body? He had short-lived monsterism.

Paul Goldschmidty for the Mobile Bears looks like a monster. Dude already has 20 HRs in AA, more walks than strikeouts and a nice OBP just shy of .500. Monster.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jun 7, 2011 -> 09:28 PM) Why is he an an asshole? awesome! asshole would be a great nickname for Humber

QUOTE (bigruss22 @ Jun 7, 2011 -> 03:43 PM) The way you talk down to people Im surprised if you ever had any of those experiences either. Wasn't he being facetious?

Snodgress? I can't even picture Hawk saying this. I think baseball is the only sport where a solid name has some importance. Sorry Snodgress, ya never had a chance.

QUOTE (maggsmaggs @ Jun 7, 2011 -> 10:10 AM) How can an owner say he is satisfied with his GM/Manager when his $125-million team is under .500? LOL. Methinks you've never been part of a team, led a group of people, had a kid, had a wife, or just about had a relationship with any human being on this Earth. Good stuff man, keep it comin.

Wait wait wait. We gotta remember we don't typically draft guys to develop them fully, but to trade them instead. Hopefully this guy slaps up a .330 in WS and Kanny next year with 60 SBs and we ship him off for some ready talent. Can't wait.

QUOTE (The Baconator @ Jun 6, 2011 -> 10:46 PM) Missed the game, watching the highlights on BBTN right now- holy awesome catch, Brent Lillibridge! Just when I thought John Danks had totally ruined my first fantasy league experience..

Well the good news is that we are just fans of the game and none of this really matters anyway. What's wrong with a guy trying to earn his money again? At least we gave up nothing for him.

Cuz when he's on the bench we lose.

QUOTE (The Ginger Kid @ Jun 3, 2011 -> 11:30 AM) I still think of that quote you had from Buddy Bell: "Remenowsky could hit a gnat in the ass on both sides of the plates to go along with some deception..." I'd like to see that in Chicago! I love gnat quotes: tighter than a gnat's ass stretched over a rain barrel.

QUOTE (DirtySox @ Jun 2, 2011 -> 11:43 PM) Nor do I. I also don't think most people are aware of how bad a catcher Phegley is. I was unaware. That sucks.

QUOTE (The Ginger Kid @ Jun 2, 2011 -> 11:54 AM) I don't mind it after a sweep like that. These guys will be champing at the bit to get back in the park, warm weather (FINALLY) and home cooking. Good stuff. The worm has turned. I will say that sweeping maybe the best team in our league is the biggest argument for KW to hold off for a bit. I hope it's not another tease before another lay-down fest. And nice use of champing..SOOOO many people screw that one up and I love it when journalists do.

Anybody else like how Bridge controls that batter's box? It's his box every time.

I enjoyed every second of this. Thank you.

QUOTE (The Ginger Kid @ May 30, 2011 -> 05:44 PM) sweep these overpaid p*****s. Wait, which side are you rooting for?

This team should fear the wrath of KW. It's in the air. The man is upset. Accountability is coming. 6/2/2011. Fires will burn. I envision this line being used often: "Yea so I signed you to be good, but you aren't, so now I'm trading that ass."

QUOTE (bigruss22 @ May 26, 2011 -> 02:34 PM) A) You did indeed say you were down on sluggers, and if your down on Thome's style, then yes you are down on sluggers. You may have to trade some K's for HRs and walks, nothing wrong with that. Not everyone is going to hit .300, just try and find a team that is built with career .300 hitters up and down the line up, you just won't. B) Thome's ghost!? I still can't believe someone with half a brain is using that as an excuse, fact is the team has some garbage hitters and some guys playing like garbage, so when you put both together only 1/3 of your lineup is really being productive. You just won't win games like that, no matter what team. To A: Sluggers should have been in quotes. We really have just one guy in Dunn who fits the Thome mold. And yes, I'll always be down on that type of player but I understand the trade-off you're mentioning. It's the other 6 or so guys taking slugger-approaches at the plate that bothers me. To B: The Thome's Ghost comment is a facetious explanation of the same problem we've had for years and years. Only 1/3 of our lineup is ever productive, it sucks, and I'm sick of it. Maybe my wagons are finally circling in the "Fire Greg Walker" camp. I feel like Paulie is the only guy not listening to him.

QUOTE (bigruss22 @ May 26, 2011 -> 02:23 PM) Every team will have sluggers, the biggest problem with the Sox offense is that they rely on guys like Pierre, AJ, Lillibridge, Teahen, etc for significant ABs, and we have some vastly underperforming players that really expose these weaknesses. And look at the lineup, Dunn, Konerko, and Quentin are sluggers, that's it. 3 batters, two of them have been your most productive, the other one is slumping big time. So how exactly are these guys hurting the team compared to guys like JP who has been dreadful? And agreed, it's not new in 2011, we've had some crap ballplayers, many of them slap guys. We've had decent sluggers on the team for years, it's the supporting cast taht we can't seem to figure out. I'm not down on sluggers. I'm down on everyone trying to be sluggers. Swinging hard as f*** at every pitch is what bad sluggers do, and I see a whole bunch of that up n down the lineup. I don't think the supporting cast is full of bad players, but moreso bad approaches. It's Thome's ghost, there's really no other explanation.

Demolished my eye. I think Thome epitomizes the all-or-nothing approach. That'll just have to remain my opinion. I hated every one of his at bats. Y'all loved him, good for you. In my eyes he fooled you. To each his own. Edit: I'm just not amazed with 120 hits per season. I don't care if he hit some to left or center. it's still a pathetic amount of hits from your hitting position, but whatever. And Sweet Fancy Moses with the "you'd rather have less offense" comment. Where do you get your material? Do you scrape it off the walls of yer septic tank with yer fingers? I'm clearly talking about guys who work counts, but that's cool, go ahead and continue to think there is only one type of good offensive player. Go ahead, you'll fit right in here. Meanwhile the Sox are under .500 with your sluggers, and all I want is for our players to stop swinging hard as f*** at 3 outa the first 4 pitches every time. Paulie gets it, Morel does to an extent, Carlos has flashes of it, Beckham used to and Pierre is just too weak for it to matter. Why do we put so much pressure on our pitchers to be perfect, and simultaneously let other pitchers do cartwheels through our lineup...well except once, or maybe twice a week? This isn't new for 2011.

QUOTE (chw42 @ May 26, 2011 -> 11:10 AM) Oh how quickly people forget about game 163 when they're still riding the coat tails of 2005. Na, just another reason people grasp to turn a blind-eye to his overall uselessness. I don't care if it was one of the greatest hits this team has ever seen. It's still bad baseball, and in this newly formed pitcher's era, it ain't gonna fly.

QUOTE (Jordan4life @ May 25, 2011 -> 08:05 PM) The ghost of Jim Thome? That's a new one. lol. All Jim Thome did was sport a wOBA of .393 and provide 11 WAR in his time in Chicago. Which is pretty good considering he obviously didn't play the field. This offense doesn't suck because a HOF was great at what he was supposed to do. Probably cost us a playoff appearance last year in not having him. All true. But those stats don't paint the whole picture...and the whole picture sucks. Allow me to throw the other paint on our masterpiece: All the 0-fer nights All the ground balls Basically anything that wasn't a HR or a laserbeam double was an out 3 hits to knock in his glorious, stat-padding walks All those f***ing Ks Useless against lefties A great stat-padding night once a week to make you forget all the previous failure. Any parallels to this year's DH? I mean we all knew Dunn was gonna be the same all or nothing hitter that Thome was, but now it seems everybody but Paulie suffers from Thomeitis, pullitis, longswingitis, uselessitis...whatever you wanna call it. It only wins ball games some of the time, but in no way is it a model for grinding down pitchers each night. Been goin on for way too long now so I'm all in favor of moving the fences back at least 100 ft in every direction til we pull our heads outa our asses and rid ourselves of this awful ghost.

Anybody on this team that also played on a Sox team with Thome should be traded immediately. I'm so sick of watching all these guys do the Thome: You know, close your eyes and swing hard as f*** at everything. We've been all or nothing for so long I can't even remember what team baseball looks like. Thanks Jim. Your poison still remains, potent as ever...sucking the soul out of once line-drive hitters. Even poor young Beckham has a BS pull swing now. It's too bad Ozzie is gonna take the blame for all the long swings.

Same old White Sox offense: can't foul pitches off, gotta take huge cuts at everything even with 2 strikes. That, ladies and gentlemen, is why the running mistakes get so magnified on here.