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Just curious is anyone following some other teams this year on MLBTV?

QUOTE (StrykerSox @ May 24, 2016 -> 08:04 PM) If anything, Chris Sale's CY status just went from "nobody else gets any righteous votes at all" to "no one else gets a single first place vote". No biggie. He was due to lose eventually. He got tired of beating two lineups and the pen.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ May 24, 2016 -> 07:49 PM) We really need to have coaches like other teams in the league that 100% specialize in certain aspects of teaching the game even at the big league level...refinement. Defense, baserunning, bunting, fundamentals, etc. The cronyism thing has helped in the case of Cooper being one of the best for a long time, but it often hurts just as much. And where the heck is Vince Coleman? It's consistent. They don't have that in the minors either.

QUOTE (Lip Man 1 @ May 23, 2016 -> 09:54 PM) My thoughts on the double header: Glad the team got a split. Zach Duke...not good. Eric Johnson...four A player at best, not good. His ship has sailed, he gets ZERO more chances in my book. Try some other stiff. Sox offense against a pitcher who came in with an ERA OF ALMOST SEVEN...brutal, absolutely impotent. Flat out bad. Hope Sale can keep winning tomorrow. Mark Well that guy actually did a great job. He knew the Sox couldn't get around on his fastball even if it was straight.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ May 23, 2016 -> 09:37 PM) LOL @ Green Line. No, he'd rather bring in Thome or Rowand so we can go through another "good guy" with Sox roots, someone it would be extremely hard to hate on in the beginning. Just hope we see how this team would actually respond behind Renteria either this season or next. Realistically, it's probably 2017. That's when I will start to lose interest in this team until all instances of the Reinsdorf regime is fully gutted.

QUOTE (SoCalSox @ May 23, 2016 -> 08:18 PM) Unless Anderson somehow blows this, hard to see the Sox getting 3 to win this. How if he only had our manager he'd be gone after 6 therefore increasing the chances of a no decision.

I'm still a Juan Uribe fan.

QUOTE (SouthSideSale @ May 23, 2016 -> 06:11 PM) What's it gona take for Robin to be fired? Nothing. The only option is to find another team to root for.

QUOTE (Knuckles @ May 23, 2016 -> 05:51 PM) For me it started with pulling Latos with 3 run lead in the 7th at 80ish pitches. +1

I have no idea how Jones throws so hard with that windup.

More mental midget performances.....stay tuned.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ May 22, 2016 -> 03:07 AM) They did trade Reed and Santos, fwiw. Devenski to the Astros for Myers. As far as other competitors for Frazier, the Indians were very interested, as they didn't have a solution at that position coming into the year. Right now, they're using Uribe. As far as the 2005-06 teams go, a lot of players were never the same...Iguchi, Politte, Hermanson, Contreras after he got injured in May of 2006, Pods just never got back his aggressiveness on the basepaths, Crede and Jenks eventually fell apart physically. But yeah, they calculated wrong on Anderson vs. Young in CF, Javy became more a "big" game headache, you could name about 25 things. Freddy Garcia and Garland eventually started to lose their effectiveness as well. It was a veteran team, and all those players peaked, with just a few exceptions. So many what ifs...if Borchard became the player he was projected to be, or Josh Fields, just one of those guys making it would have made a huge difference, and they never would have had to trade for Thome. Of course, we don't know how long Rowand would have lasted in a White Sox uniform before he was permanently injured with his reckless style of play. They are a testament of how inept the organization was under KW. Always drafting athletes instead of baseball players. Borchard was probably a victim of being brought up too soon. Fields is an example of terrible scouting/development. If a guy can't catch a baseball that's something you really can't improve upon at the professional level. That seems to be the problem with the minors. They have so many with hardly any baseball instinct.

QUOTE (harkness @ May 21, 2016 -> 03:30 PM) It's early... but this team looks exactly the team I recognized the last 4 years under Hahn/Ventura. Lifeless offense and a bury your head in the sand conclusion at the end. This feels way way too familiar. It's the scouting. While the Sox may have good luck finding young pitching, everything else in the scouting department is beyond terrible.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ May 19, 2016 -> 08:29 AM) Jake Peavy, the guy who was a Cy Young and 3 time all-star? The guy who came back from a historic first surgery for a pitcher to still put up some big years even as he has gotten into his mid 30's with greatly diminished stuff? Yeah, I'd say he backed it up. We got none of that. Some can fall for the hype. The only thing he was good at in a Sox uniform was being on the DL. His career is overrated.

QUOTE (Deadpool @ May 20, 2016 -> 09:32 PM) But if you follow the series over the years, the infatuation with that rivalry is over. it was novel for the first decade the games counted, but now people just care less than ever. Yeah, Sox and Cubs fans give each other a ribbing or whatever, but the excitement over that silly series has subsided locally. The national media just hasn't paid enough attention to notice. This concocted rivalry existed long before inter league play.

QUOTE (Lip Man 1 @ May 20, 2016 -> 10:08 PM) Ventura is now 28-48 in his career against the Royals. LET'S GIVE HIM A CONTRACT EXTENSION!!!!!! LOL. Mark Hopefully Hahn can see that maybe they need people outside the organization. Whether Robin deserves it or not being an outside may be the best thing. I don't really believe this organization will succeed until the Reinsdorf Regime is gone. So much needs to be gutted in this organization.

QUOTE (TheTruth05 @ May 20, 2016 -> 08:59 PM) I know you've said this a couple times and if that inning is causing this collapse then they were mental midgits to begin with anyway and it really was a fluke start. I doubt this team is this bad,just really frustrating to see after the hot start. Also it's been a long time the Sox ever had a hot start.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ May 20, 2016 -> 08:13 PM) We have played well against some good teams (like the Rangers), well, until we completely fell apart last Tuesday night. OTOH, if you take away the A's and the Twins, we're not far from being a .500ish team. Hanging curveball AGAIN from Quintana. Eaton now is playing a little bit lackadaisically out there, but has built up that reputation so nobody's bothering to challenge him on the bases for the moment. And now Cuthbert reaches. This doesn't bode well, with Putnam likely to come. Quintana coming back to earth. That's telling me the Sox are not a good team. I guess they can beat the Twins.

QUOTE (SoCalSox @ May 20, 2016 -> 07:57 PM) In past year's a game like this is an automatic loss. With Gonzalez pitching tomorrow, this is a big game tonight... Let's see what kind of team this really is. I'm already sold that it's no different. I just want to be so wrong about that. Two things emerge again. No hitting for Q and a mental midget pen.

Sox -Cubs rivalry defies logic but so many of us bought into it.

QUOTE (skooch @ May 19, 2016 -> 09:24 AM) Wow. And KW still hired him. I guess some people perform better under pressure, perhaps OG performs better when blasted. It would be interesting to get KW''s recollection of the interview. There was speculation before the series that he would retire from baseball if the Sox won.

QUOTE (SCCWS @ May 19, 2016 -> 05:54 PM) Gaston won in 92 and 93. After that his teams never challenged again in his 2 stints as manager. No one else was interested in him either.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ May 18, 2016 -> 10:18 PM) And the future best infielder in the AL Central, Francisco Lindor....just went yard. Two problems: 1) Budget constraints 2) We can't scout at the major league level nearly as well as we do the minors...and we can't even scout our own division as well as they've counter-scouted us over the last decade, with a few exceptions. I would say Reinsdorf's buddy system in the only problem. I don't by the budget constraints at all.

QUOTE (fathom @ May 18, 2016 -> 10:13 PM) Better team won tonight We may have been duped for 6 weeks. Every team is the better team. Reality may have set in. Sale has to beat a team by himself. They might decide to score more than 1 run when Q is on the mound. Then the rest of the rotation might as well be Danks, Danks, Danks. No one is lights out in the pen. Now we seeing typical mental mistakes even from the new guys. There must be something about that uniform. I would really like a manager from outside of the organization. Hopefully our fantasy season is not over and we are back to reality.

QUOTE (TheTruth05 @ May 18, 2016 -> 08:00 PM) Let's get some f***** runs Exlax and prune juice oughta do it.