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QUOTE (Cali @ Dec 8, 2011 -> 03:05 PM) FYI World's Greatest Manager Ozzie Guillen apparently can't name anyone on the Phillies roster... GOD HE'S A f***ING MORON.

QUOTE (bmags @ Dec 8, 2011 -> 01:55 PM) We weren't in the series, we lost 4-1. Haslem completely stabilized their big problem. Rose missed a shot at the clock one game. We blew a huge lead another. We had the only true blowout of the series, the others we lost in the last minutes. We had Rose, Boozer, and Noah on one leg each. Noah and Boozer hadn't developed chemistry yet. Omer Asik had a broken leg. Our sharpshooter went ice cold. And we were still in it. On the season, we were 4-4 against the Heat. The only game where everyone was truly "healthy" was Game 1 of the ECF. Add a legit SG to this team and we are equipped to the take the Heat down.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Dec 8, 2011 -> 02:02 PM) Phil Rogers' column says it all. This is on Kenny for bringing in stiffs Rios, Dunn and the injured Peavy. I prefer to blame Oney for starting the Kenny-Ozzie s***.

Bulls are just a decent SG away. East isn't accounted for.

QUOTE (Reddy @ Dec 8, 2011 -> 10:54 AM) you really are a republican. let's get back to baseball, though, k? Typical left wing dodge move.

QUOTE (Jordan4life @ Dec 8, 2011 -> 05:37 AM) I'm in tears right now. Sorry, Q. But you must persevere. You must go on. In fact, here's something I want you to listen to whenever you think of Mark. f*** you J4L. I hate that song. But seriously, this move made me epicly sad and my Buehrle shirt, well that s*** was true. Thing is falling apart now I've worn it so damn much. Only comparison is my Paulie one, but it doesn't have holes and is slightly less tattered.

Now that I'm a bit more level headed. __________________________________________________________________ For the past eleven years, there were a few constants in my life. Seeing the same friends, coming to the same home, and Mark Buehrle taking the ball every fifth game during baseball season. Now I'm at college, but I still had Buehrle. Now that's gone. Buehrle was like a friend that you never really knew, he was reliable, a great person, and you loved him. When some friends and I were at Blockbuster, we got in the car...I was wearing my Mark Buehrle shirt (during baseball season I only wore it every day he started a game and no others) and I heard Farmio say "Mark Buehrle has retired all twelve batters he's faced." Ok, four innings of perfect ball is nothing to get excited about...but I did. I sped home to turn on the game. DeWayne Wise catching that ball released the most unbridled emotion in me that I've ever really had, including out 27 of Game 4. I watch that play now and it isn't the same. It's over in like three seconds. Not three hours. Mark was more than a baseball player to me. He was an inspiration...honestly, I kept trying at making my high school baseball team, where I knew I had no place, because Mark made it off hard work, not talent. Every day he pitched, right under my jersey was my now tattered Mark Buehrle t-shirt, because honestly, the guy is the only celebrity "hero" I ever had, him and Paulie. But Buehrle wasn't a highly touted prospect. He was kid who didn't make his HS team, pitched in JC with OK stuff, but made it to the big leagues and was a great human being. I could wax poetic about Buehrle for paragraphs, but it's pointless as he's gone to the home of the Hollywood Heat and the second running of the Oz Show. Where LeBron and Co. have a pre-season celebration, where Ozzie and Loria try to be flashy, where the 72 Dolphins b**** and moan every year...the Patron Saint of the Southside has no place in South Beach, yet there he is. I'm wearing my Buehrle shirt one last time tomorrow, then the shirt I've worn more than any other will be retired until Buehrle rejoins the Sox or retires himself. Mark

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Dec 8, 2011 -> 02:22 AM) I should have specified in a coaching/management/front office role... Buehrle definitely will not be doing that. Although I certainly wouldn't rule him coming back to a contending Sox team in 3-4 years, especially if the Marlins are willing to subidize part of the salary cost. I meant as a pitching coach.

Where is Mark Buehrle?

QUOTE (dielac @ Dec 8, 2011 -> 01:05 AM) Somewhere, Pablo Ozuna is thinking to himself "ouch, what did i do deserve that one.." Yeah, at least he could hit the ball.

Who knew 11 years later, I'd feel so sad to not see some no-name 38th round pick be on our team. Damn it Mark...damn .

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Dec 8, 2011 -> 12:54 AM) “With the team we’re putting together, we expect there to be very few empty seats at this ballpark ever,” Samson said of the team’s new, 37,000-seat ballpark. “We want to deliver to Miami its first division winner ever and it’s third World Series.” [/i] Read more: http://www.miamiherald.com/2011/12/07/2536...l#ixzz1fvKDl2xA Tell that to the Miami Heat. God, I hate the Marlins so much.

Happy Birthday!

QUOTE (Milkman delivers @ Dec 7, 2011 -> 09:47 PM) Ugh, now you're insinuating that Ozzie had something to do with the higher payroll. Ozzie Guillen is responsible for the 1917 WS win,the Go-Go White Sox, and Frank Thomas being a great hitter.

Actually, you know another thing? Remember how Ozzie upstaged Buehrle's last start as a White Sox pitcher?

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Dec 7, 2011 -> 09:15 PM) I do think the fact Buehrle is back with Ozzie does make this whole thing chap my ass a little bit more than it usually would. This. QUOTE (greg775 @ Dec 7, 2011 -> 09:17 PM) Did you read the interview with Oz in this edition of espn the magazine? I like Oz more and more after reading it. People that say I'm a sugary Sox homer won't have a problem with me this year cause I despise Kenny and definitely will not be defending Robin as he learns on the job. You'd like Ozzie more after he finished 0-162 by playing bad players everyday because he showed them they need to earn money. QUOTE (Jenksy Cat @ Dec 7, 2011 -> 09:25 PM) That logic makes perfect sense in your world QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Dec 7, 2011 -> 09:26 PM) What if he tells the media funny jokes every day? QUOTE (Jenksy Cat @ Dec 7, 2011 -> 09:30 PM) Meaningless unless people are smiling in restaurants It's OK guys. I asked people in Lawrence. They like Robin. Said Ozzie was a loud mouth piece of s***.

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Dec 7, 2011 -> 06:48 PM) So Mark Buehrle becomes a free agent, and neither of those two teams makes him an offer, so now he's a bad guy, huh? Genius. Mark can still retire in either spot. He's 16 years younger than Jamie Joyed, btw. I repeat. Neighed the White Sox nor the Cardinals offered him a contract. To keep your respect, he has to retire? Oh, yeah Steve, it's ok, I don't expect you to know what emotion is after you s*** on Santos for crying on TV.

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Dec 7, 2011 -> 06:20 PM) Which one of those teams made him an offer? It pretty easy: NONE The White Sox had every chance to extend the guy even before he hit the market. They didnt think it was a priority apparently. Then he should never have said it. Over and over. And over. And over. And over. Look, I pretty much hate the team now, despise Ozzie, and I'm not rooting for Mark as long as he is a Miami Marlin. The Nats, the Rangers, the Red Sox, etc. all the teams but Cubs, Twins, and Marlins I could have still rooted for him. Let me be a vindictive, scorned girlfriend. I hope he enjoys the circus down there.

Mark, I love you. Go pitch your ass into the Hall of Fame. Retire #56 right now. Don't win another ring. But I can't root for him while he wears that jersey.

Just woke up. Had a text message. f*** Buehrle and f*** the Marlins. "I want to retire a Cardinal or a White Sock and play close to home." My ass. I love him, but man...screw you Mark. I won't ever believe another player again when they "aren't in it for the money." Except Paul Konerko. That man means it.

I f***ing loved this guy. I remember talking to him before his first outing in the BP. He was shocked anyone knew his name. f*** this trade. I'm OK with getting Molina back and it makes sense due to Reed, but man, Sergio, he's awesome.

QUOTE (kwolf68 @ Dec 7, 2011 -> 11:54 AM) The fact I misspelled their names? The fact that Kenny wanted an Emperor's Ransom.

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Dec 7, 2011 -> 12:20 PM) They offered him 1 year 14 million or whatever the number was. I think it became clear as of yesterday that he's out of their plans, so no offers. Personally I was hoping St Louis would jump in with any offer so he could go there and retire happy instead of being forced to move somewhere else. This is the most depressing post I've ever seen because it'sfrom Rock. QUOTE (Milkman delivers @ Dec 7, 2011 -> 12:33 PM) Then he can retire, which is something he so craves, instead of having to play so far away from home, which seems to have been the bane of his existence. This. I'll always love Mark Buehrle, but I will despise the sight of him for a few years.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Dec 7, 2011 -> 02:20 AM) Good column by Rogers. False.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Dec 7, 2011 -> 01:43 AM) If the Sox try to make Mark out to be the bad guy, that would be utter bulls***. He's total class. I will effectively dislike both parties (as much as I can) if he signs elsewhere. Mark for lying about close to home and retiring soon. Sox for not resigning him.