kitekrazy

base running and White Sox are two of the greatest opposites

After seeing this inning, I'm glad I'm not in the viewing area. Their sucktitude is easier to take from reading this forum than being an eye witness.

QUOTE (fathom @ Aug 2, 2014 -> 08:33 PM) Wow, just wow....this defense is freaking awful. That should be an error.

QUOTE (fathom @ Aug 2, 2014 -> 08:28 PM) Belisario getting booed off the field. That's because no one can run on the field and punch him in the nuts.

This is the 1st time I've seen Blowsario. (lucky me) It seems the Twins know he's going for the outside corner. What's up with that?

I thought some team would go for Danks and it would be a team you didn't expect. It didn't bother me at all nothing happened. Salary dumps are boring. You may get a lousy minor league player out of it, like the Sox aren't short on those. GMS see the same thing we do. We hope they see some mysterious upside if player we want gone. It rarely happens.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jul 31, 2014 -> 02:55 PM) And it was bad to start with. They also are bad at fundamentals.

QUOTE (The Ginger Kid @ Jul 29, 2014 -> 08:42 PM) Robin wasn't handed a team ready to win a WS or even compete for a division title, but he did accomplish the latter in his first year. I always figured that he would be given a chance to learn, to take his lumps, and from everything I've read he's a very bright guy and a student of the game. All of his former managers said so and some of them were pretty good (like Joe Torre). Plus I was always struck by this quote by KW in 2011... I do not believe the quality of the bullpen = the quality of the manager. Is RV perfect? Far from it. But is he the "worst ever?" That's simply one of the more assinine statements around. I don't trust psychologists. Throwing someone into major league managing is a big disservice. There's managers in farm systems who get to make those mistakes without someone calling for their head. Even the god Tony LaRussa would look bad with a crap-shoot bullpen. Remember the Sox fired LaRussa.

I started to use Chrome for some things but since I use it more regularly, I get the occasional malware. I had a strange oddity on one system with Firefox. When I use yahoo mail in the browser, I click the message and it closes and takes me back to the beginning of my emails. I don't use Internet Destroyer because you get the MS pop up to disable things. The MS pop up would be the first thing to I'd disable. Chrome is so featureless. You can't use it to email links without some add on to download. I hated when they removed google discussion from the search engine. The Mozilla stuff is great when it works but I've had some issues even with Thunderbird where I have to close it and open it again to delete emails. I thought about switching to Opera. Does anyone use this?

QUOTE (GreenSox @ Jul 27, 2014 -> 03:43 PM) Ventura's really bad strategically. He would have been a lot, lot better had he spent 5 years on a ML bench, managing in the minors, or something. +1 I would probably label it as the "the most WTF front office decision of all time post Harrelson era" I wonder how many retired MLB players would have taken the job with no managerial experience.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Jul 25, 2014 -> 09:43 PM) Sometimes you can't "see the forest for the trees" when you become too familiar with a player on your own team. Dunn is what he is. But he still has value to another contending team, in a clearly defined role, either DHing against RHP, occasional 1B fill-in or PHer/power threat off the bench. We all watched Rios go through the motions in 2009 and 2011, and you would have sworn we would eat that entire contract. Three years later, we ended up just a bit disappointed in the return for him. How long have we been saying that? I don't think you can compare Rios to Dunn. Rios at least could play outfield, has some speed.

QUOTE (StRoostifer @ Jul 26, 2014 -> 03:27 PM) I think regardless of who they call up I'm sure you and I as well as others will be happy to see some young blood in the lineup. I certainly won't complain if it were Semien. or depressed by what's on the farm

My ass should be over there now. It's free to watch despite 100+ out there.

The weaker hitters are always easier to pick when the rest of the lineup isn't doing anything. Today's game is just another example of the Royals owning the Sox. Taking a series just wasn't meant to be.

QUOTE (Jake @ Jul 23, 2014 -> 11:01 AM) If you did this with Sox fans, they'd be b****ing about how the fake players weren't any good Probably because they got tired of the ones they know aren't very good. I admire fans who know their team's farm system.

As S. Rosenbloom would say, "can't run the bases, sounds like the perfect White Sox".

QUOTE (lord chas @ Jul 8, 2014 -> 08:41 PM) If the Sox make some deadline moves I hope we can get another catcher in the system I wonder if there is a MLB team who is strong at catcher in their farm system. I think finding quality at this position is rare in modern day baseball. There's more Steve Yeagers than Thurman Munsons. If they are talented at the plate, most organizations would prefer to move them to a different position. It's not a desired or glamorous position among kids.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Jul 5, 2014 -> 06:55 AM) It is funny when the Sox acquire a prospect rated in the 70-95 range it is awesome, but when the Cubs get a top 15 guy, it is just dumb. Theo is a dope, but could you imagine what a genius Hahn would be if he had 3 of the top 15 and 6 of the top 41 in the Sox minor league system? Samardz has never finished a season as a starter with an ERA lower than 3.81. He is 29. He wants more than $100 million. I would hate it. Outside of pitching I don't trust the Sox farm system with developing players. This is a great deal for the Cubs. It's sad in a city that has two bad teams, this is treated like a world series. Prospects are prospects.

QUOTE (scs787 @ Jul 3, 2014 -> 10:56 AM) "But this pitch count thing, we’re in the American League," Cooper said. "We’re not in Little League. But nevertheless, people that bring up pitch counts are people who have nothing else to really know. And it just blows me away. They’re doing that to say, ‘God forbid if someone goes down, I told you so.’ And these are people that are not in the arena and never really played, so what kind of validity does any of that hold? This is Coop's way of saying the bullpen sucks.

This thread has gotten weird real fast.

I haven't watched a Sox game the whole year but by looking at things on paper my guess is that the bullpen totally sucks.

QUOTE (Vance Law @ Apr 22, 2014 -> 05:53 PM) It happened again http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2014/04/...-of-a-baseball/ That's 3 times in this short season. Does anyone remember this ever happening before? Someone replyyyyy!!!!! I bet they are made in China.

QUOTE (fathom @ May 17, 2014 -> 05:58 PM) If Rick Porcello has actually turned into an above average starter, the Tigers might win 100 games this season. It's either a fluke or they have a really good pitching coach.

Watching this on Game Day. There's a lot of pink on it. I feel like I entered a Hello Kitty video game.

QUOTE (Feeky Magee @ Apr 1, 2014 -> 10:41 PM) Was just watching Addison Reed closing for the Diamondbacks and it got me thinking about watching players the Sox traded away. Do you: a) Hope they do as badly as possible so the Sox win the trade b) Hope they do ok: because if you keep trading away guys who do terribly it'll make GMs wary of trading with the Sox (and also I guess it's not nice to see someone sad or whatever), but if he does too well you'll be annoyed at losing him c) Hope they do as well as possible, presuming you liked them as a White Sox d) do not give one solitary s*** Probably b) for me. I would not be surprised if Reed does well. Most of the better hitters are in the AL. It's the second year that will be revealing.